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![]() ![]() Roy Batham Added: 7 Jan 2022 05:50 GMT | Batham Family (1851 - 1921) I start with William Batham 1786-1852 born in St.Martins Middlesex. From various sources I have found snippets of information concerning his early life. A soldier in 1814 he married Mary Champelovier of Huguenot descent By 1819 they were in Kensington where they raised 10 children. Apart from soldier his other occupations include whitesmith, bell hanger and pig breeder. I find my first record in the 1851 English sensus. No street address is given, just ’The Potteries’. He died 1853. Only one child at home then George Batham 1839-1923, my great grandfather. By 1861 he is living in Thomas St. Kensington with his mother. A bricklayer by trade 1871, married and still in Thomas St. 1881 finds him in 5,Martin St. Kensington. 1891 10,Manchester St. 1911, 44 Hunt St Hammersmith. Lastly 1921 Census 7, Mersey St. which has since been demolished. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply |
![]() ![]() Richard Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:36 GMT | Elgin Crescent, W11 Richard Laitner (1955-1983), a barrister training to be a doctor at UCL, lived here in 1983. He was murdered aged 28 with both his parents after attending his sister’s wedding in Sheffield in 1983. The Richard Laitner Memorial Fund maintains bursaries in his memory at UCL Medical School Source: Ancestry Library Edition Reply |
![]() ![]() Richard Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:39 GMT | Elgin Crescent, W11 Richard Laitner lived at 24 Elgin Crescent Source: Ancestry Library Edition Reply |
![]() ![]() Added: 19 Jun 2022 16:58 GMT | Runcorn Place, W11 Runcorn place Reply |
![]() ![]() Ken Herlingshaw Added: 17 Jun 2023 18:34 GMT | St John the Evangelist - Spire The top of the church spire fell off during WW2 (presumably during a bombing raid ?) and for many years after that the spire had a flat top. I don’t know when it was restored. Definitely not in the early fifties when I went to Sunday School there. Reply |
![]() ![]() Ken Herlingshaw Added: 17 Jun 2023 18:35 GMT | Clarendon Road - post WW2 I used to live at 62 Clarendon Road, from about 1947 to 1956. It was one of four prefabs on the site, numbers 60, 60A, 62 and 62A. The original building there (on the corner with Lansdowne Rise) was bombed during WW2. Prefabs weren’t very popular with the up-market Kensington Borough councillors, however, and at the earliest opportunity they were demolished and we were moved to Henry Dickens Court. We inherited a telephone line from the original occupier, a band leader, when we moved into the prefab and the phone number was BAYswater 0050. But we didn’t know anybody else with a phone to call. Reply |
![]() ![]() mh Added: 21 Jun 2023 12:15 GMT | Clarendon Road, W11 Interesting.... Reply |
![]() ![]() Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT | Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply |
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![]() ![]() Roy Mathieson Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT | St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply |
![]() ![]() Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT | Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply |
![]() ![]() Mike Dowling Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT | Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply |
![]() ![]() Evie Helen Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT | Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply |
![]() ![]() Paul Harris Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT | Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply |
![]() ![]() Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT | Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply |
![]() ![]() Charles Black Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT | Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply |
![]() ![]() Tony Whipple Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT | Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply |
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