October 2018 archive

Carpenders Park

Carpenders Park station lies in the Hertfordshire commuter suburb of South Oxhey.

Market Court, W8

An early photograph of Gardeners Buildings and Market Court on the south side of Kensington High Street, three years before the site was demolished. The inhabitants pose for the camera. The second half of the eighteenth century saw the completion of continuous building along the High Street frontage between Colby House and King Street, and …

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St John’s Wood

St John’s Wood was once part of the Great Forest of Middlesex with the name deriving from its mediaeval owners, the Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers), an Augustinian order. The order took over the land from the Knights Templar in 1323. After the Reformation and the Dissolution of monastic …

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