Mackennal Street, NW8
St Johns Wood tube station

One of the oft-repeated London underground memes is that St John’s Wood shares no letters in common with mackerel. To be fair, Hoxton on the London Overground also doesn’t...

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Mackennal Street received its name since Bertram Mackennal, a sculptor, lived nearby.

Originally it was Frederick Street, unimaginatively named in the 1820s.

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