Exploring history in London & abroad with my camera
In this post Mr Bradshaw and I complete our wanderings around Islington! The London Fever Hospital was established on the site of King's Cross Station in 1815, moving to Liverpool Road from 1849 where it remained in use until the 1970s when the new Royal Free Hospital opened in Hampstead. V0013546 London…
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Mr Bradshaw says '..Pentonville ...Of late years it has extended rapidly, Barnsbury Road and Barnsbury Park, a new and daily improving district, derive their names from Lady Juliana Berners, Abbess of St Albans, who had a large manor is this neighbourhood..'. However, The London Encyclopaedia says the name derives from Bernersbury Manor which was held by Ralph…
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Thornhill Square was the centre and showpiece of the Thornhill Estate, but 86 acres was a lot of land and other roads associated with the family include Matilda Street, Richmond Avenue, Thornhill Road, Belitha Villas. This is just a brief glimpse into some of the sights. Richmond Avenue was the first part of the Thornhill Estate to be developed,…
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The Thornhill Estate in London was laid out between 1810-49 by Joseph Kay on land owned by the Thornhill family. The family originated in Yorkshire, moving to Diddington Manor in 1730. Their property portfolio was extensive, and included 86 acres in Islington - most of Barnsbury. The London estate was let out for dairy farming but the…
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I think this is liriodendron tulipifera, or more simply, the tulip tree
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