Whiteley Village is a retirement village, much of it designed by the Arts and Crafts movement-influenced architect Reginald Blomfield.
March 2021 archive
Macfarlane Place, W12
Macfarlane Place – a road with two lifetimes.
Prince’s Square, E1W
Prince’s Square was part of an eighteenth century Swedish community.
Cockpit Steps, SW1H
Cockpit Steps leads from Birdcage Walk to Old Queen Street.
Some street name derivations: T-V
A lot of the street information research on this website is academic in nature – from university research, the Survey of London, British History Online, borough conservation areas and more. Occasionally, the Hive Mind comes up trumps – these derivations come from discoveries on the Wikipedia made during 2019 which is feeding into the project. …
Blake Hall
Blake Hall station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1 April 1865 and closed on 2 November 1981.
Church Row, N16
Church Row was nine houses in a terrace on Church Street.
Gibson Gardens, N16
Gibson Gardens is a historic block of flats in Stoke Newington
Raphael Street, SW7
Raphael Street was laid out by Lewis Raphael who bought it from former owner Durs Egg’s heirs in 1838.
Hendon Central
Hendon Central, like all stations north from Golders Green, is a surface station – the tracks enter twin tunnels a short distance further north on the way to Colindale. When it was built it stood in ‘lonely glory amid fields’, as one writer puts it, south of the old village of Hendon. Hendon Central station …