Nunhead became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell in 1900. These days, it’s described by Foxtons real estate agency as “a quiet suburb with pretty roads and period appeal”. The Angel Hotel, built in 1903. PICTURE: Des Blenkinsopp (licensed underCC BY-SA 2.0) Located just n...
When Mary Wollstonecraft first set up a school on this Green in 1784, Stoke Newington was a small country suburb near London. There were tall Georgian houses and trees in the Green and this is where Mary first got involved with dissenting religions. If she looked out of the window of her ...
Frank C Bostock is not a name you’d probably immediately recognise but his grave monument gives a big clue to his profession. Born in 1866 into a family that ran a travelling menagerie (his grandfather was the famous George Wombwell who is buried at Highgate Cemetery), Frank, who became ...