Charles Dickens was visiting Holland House when he was writing his Gordon riots novel ‘Barnaby Rudge’. In the Earl of Ilchester’s ‘Holland House Chronicles’, he is described as ‘unobtrusive yet not shy, intelligent in countenance, and altogether prepossessing.’ He made a good impression on Caroline Fox, apart from ‘the intolerable dandyism of his dress’, but …
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St Ann’s Road, N15
St Ann’s Road was originally called Hangers Lane.
The Hippodrome Racecourse
‘This is not the thing of today, but the foundation-stone of an undying ornament to our country, its proximity to the metropolis rendering it a boon of magnitude to Londoners never before contemplated; the working and poorer classes, particularly, are benefited by its establishment; it makes them even with the aristocratic and wealthy; from the …
Brill Row, NW1
Brill Row was one of many small streets which became the basis for a Somers Town market.