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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

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Richard   
Added: 12 Jul 2022 21:39 GMT   

Elgin Crescent, W11
Richard Laitner lived at 24 Elgin Crescent

Source: Ancestry Library Edition

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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.

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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.

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mh   
Added: 21 Jun 2023 12:15 GMT   

Clarendon Road, W11
Interesting....

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Christian   
Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT   

Cornwall Road, W11
Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road.

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Christine Smith   
Added: 7 Jan 2025 18:02 GMT   

East Row, W10
The bombed out church was St. Thomas’. It was later rebuilt. I went to the primary school in East Row, St. Mary’s from 1960 and we used their old church hall for our dinners. I had a large number of relatives living in the area.


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Donald Daniel   
Added: 6 Jan 2025 09:41 GMT   

East Row, W10
Daniel family lived at 6 East Row until 1960 when we moved to St Pauls Cray Kent...remember the bombed out church opposite...cannot remember other people living there three families i think...we had the upstairs flat Dad was Thomas mum was Elizabeth (Betty)...i was only 9.with my twin Kenneth.....

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Lindsay Trott   
Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT   

Lockside not on 1939 Register
I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register.

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Janelle Robbins   
Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT   

Harriet Robbins
Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins


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Dave Hinves   
Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT   

he was a School Teacher
Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT   

St Georges Square
This is rather lovely and well worth a visit!

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Simon Chapman   
Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT   

Blossom Place
My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square.

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Mark G   
Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT   

Skidmore Street, E1
Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street.

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