He was only 19 years old. He had been a sales assistant selling trunks and luggage at the John Pound store in the Brompton Road,
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Chelsea’s World War Two casualties in RAF, Army, Royal Navy and Merchant Navy services
On the basis of many years of research it has become clear that on the Home Front around 500 to 600 people were killed in
Frederick Marriott- the first headmaster of Goldsmiths’ Art School from 1891 to 1925
It is not widely known that the teaching of Art at Goldsmiths predates the beginning of the life of the College as part of the
The ‘Big Bomb’ in Shawfield Street- Friday 1st November 1940.
Contemporary images of Shawfield Street in 2022 by Tim Crook. Shawfield is a rather unassuming street running south for about a quarter of a mile
Turk’s Row and Sloane Court East V1 doodlebug disaster
The slideshow above offers two views of the plaque unveiled in 1998 in memory of the V1 casualties as well as one view of the
Sloane Square Underground Station
Sloane Square was one of London’s first underground stations constructed for the Metropolitan and District Line in 1868. When the trains were powered by steam