Place Name Charles Alexandre de Calonne (January 20, 1734 – October 30, 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was…
Place Name While the hamlet or village of Tooting stretches back to Saxon times, first recorded in AD675, the addition…
Place Name Number 7 Barnsbury Grove is where, in 1866, a Sandemanian Chapel (Pococks Fields) stood, so there may have…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Today, there isn’t much of a park to see and yet, there were several references to…
Place Name Originally Mount Pleasant, changed during one of the regular clean ups of London’s street names to avoid confusion…
Place Name This square began to be laid out on the site of the former Reed Moat Field, a medieval…
Place Name This was originally Batters Lane, sometime around 1735. Until 1791 this was only a narrow passage leading from…
Place Name Like so many big landowners of the medieval period, first and surnames have been passed down the ages…
Place Name Name change originally Broughton Road. Anna Letitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743 – March 9, 1825) was prominent member of…
Place Name Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (July 1, 1872 – August 1, 1936), the brilliant French inventor and aviator, who…