Oxford is also just over an hour from London by train so mid-morning on a sunny Tuesday, I departed from Marylebone Station to arrive just in time for lunch. After something to eat and a little aimless meandering, it was time to get stuck in so I made my way to Broad Street to join...
29 lives were lost and 58 hospitalized in Wharnecliffe Gardens, Marylebone in south-east London. The anti-aircraft battery in Dover had their best day, shooting down over 36 bombs over the sea and beaches. [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | London, England | HM]...
Joe Strummer, has been unveiled in North Paddington.The stone was installed in the newly refurbished Maida Hill Market on the corner of Walterton Road, a location where Strummer, who died in 2002, squatted during the 1970s ( in fact, his address of 101 Walterton Road ...
A detail of the Marylebone Lane elevation of Debenhams’ car park (© Historic England Archive). Responsibility for providing parking on such a scale must be recognised as one of the main factors that drove department stores into the arms of the developers who were creating new shopping precinc...
the story goes that Frank built it because he got a tip off that the new terminus of the Great Central Railway was to be built very close by. In fact it was built half a mile away at Marylebone station. Having sunk his life savings into The Crown, Frank’s fortunes were dashed. The...
Selfridges (Accessories Hall, Duke Street entrance (off Oxford Street), Marylebone, W1A 1AB. Nearest stations: Bond Street or Marble Arch. For more information, visit the Salad Days website. 15 – 17 November 2024 : Sparkle Festive Fair Arts centre hosts its annual festive fair, featuring ...
Baron Holland was the title given in 1763 to Henry Fox, an influential English politician of his time. Holland House and Holland Park in Kensington, London take their name from him. Meanwhile Jools Holland’s ancestry has been traced back to delivery men and hawkers in the Marylebone area of...
A deep trench was excavated by the ‘cut and cover’ method along what are now the Marylebone Road and the Euston Road and turning south-east beside Farringdon Road. Brick walls were built along the sides, the railway tracks were laid at the bottom and then the trench was roofed over with...
In his final chapter he takes the old man on an imagined tour around the great stations, as they now are, with London Bridge the most recently transformed. He is happiest showing the bard of Metroland the spruced up Marylebone Station, with its enduring look of ‘a branch library in a ...
Lord’s Cricket Ground, known as the “home of cricket,” is the headquarters and home ground of the iconic Marylebone Cricket Club and the scene of Test matches between England and visiting national teams and of matches of the Middlesex County Cricket C