Place Name Barnes and Mortlake had a number of malthouses. C Marshall Rose in Nineteenth Century Mortlake and East Sheen…
Place Name Originally Malthouse Alley and before that Back Lane, the current name was in use by the 1890s. Having…
Place name Henry John Temple (October 20, 1784 – October 18 1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was a towering figure in…
Place Name Originally Palmers Lane. Dr Henry Smith Palmer (died 1892) was a local pathologist and surgeon, who came to…
Place Name Takes its name from the seaside town of Eastbourne (meaning the Eastern brook or stream). Like the adjacent…
Place Name Takes its name from Bexhill-on-Sea (the name comes from the Saxon, Bexelei, which means the place where the box…
Place Name Reverend Doctor William Pearson, originally from Parson’s Green, bought the Temple Grove estate from Sir Thomas Barnard in…
Place Name Named after one or possibly two former Deans and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral. Peter de Newport, Archdeacon…
Place Name Named in honour of the Dutch Monarchy, the House of Orange-Nassau. In 1858 Professor Henry Attwell opened Nassau House School,…
Place Name The Reverend Horace Granville Monroe (1872 – 1933) was vicar of Mortlake between 1909 and 1918. From here…