Place Name It may be hard to imagine now but Holborn was once a fertile area. It is mentioned specifically…
Place name Originally called Spencer Road it was renamed sometime around 1938 after the poet Caedmon (AD657 – AD684) who is…
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Place name Named after St Bride’s Wharf, in Whitefriars, which was owned by John Thomas Pocock, coal merchant, who bought…
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Place Name Originally called Chalk Road on account of the local soil it was changed to its present name to…
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Place name Albert Nickles Bryett (died 1878) was a local developer, who lived at 50a Isledon Road. 13 total views
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Place name William and Robert Pakeman were well known tailors, who lived and worked in Islington. William working at 2 Esther…
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Place name One of a number of streets in the area associated with the county of Wiltshire. Biddestone is a parish…
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Place Name Edward Cardwell (July 24, 1813 – February 15, 1886) was a leading Victorian politician. Working in the Colonial…
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Place name James Bunstone Bunning (October 6, 1802 – November 2, 1863) was the City Architect probably best known for…
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Place Name Thought to be named after an archery range that stood near here in Elizabethan times, when facilities for…
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