Sicilian Avenue, WC1V

Road in/near Holborn, existing between the 1910s and now.

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Sicilian Avenue is a shopping parade that diagonally runs in between Southampton Row and Bloomsbury Way.

The street was designed by architect Robert Worley in 1906 and completed in 1910 in a monumental Edwardian style, using Italian marble, colonnades and turrets.

Ionic columns on plinths, carrying the street name in gold characters, have been placed at both the eastern and western entrances of the avenue.

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Wendy    
Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT   

Polygon Buildings
Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings.

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Bow Street on the Monopoly board
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In the neighbourhood...

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The Royal Opera House, Bow Street frontage, with the statue of Dame Ninette de Valois in the foreground
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British Museum station
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Vere Street around the turn of the twentieth century. In 1904, F. Steward - the cheap funeral man - vacated the premises he had been renting for 50 years as did all of the other residents of the street. Vere Street (Clare Market to Duke Street) was then demolished as part of the Aldwych/Kingsway “improvement scheme”
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William Davenant had Lisle
Credit: Henry Herringman, London, 1673
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Bow Street on the Monopoly board
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Doughty Street is a broad tree lined street in the Holborn district.
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Muffin Man (1910) Probably this location is not ’Drury Lane’, but it is at least somewhere in London
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View of Seven Dials, looking up Little Earl Street - now part of Earlham Street - in 1896
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Endell Street towards Long Acre, 2015
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Decorators and Pencil Works, Great Queen Street, c.1910
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