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Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870–1958) was an early 20th-century British photographer who specialised in society and celebrity studio portraits, often used for postcards. She was associated with the Women's Suffrage movement and photographed many suffragettes including Flora Drummond, Millicent Fawcett and Christabel Pankhurst. [1]
In the early 1970s the mission relocated to 6 Upper Belgrave Street, London. [2] [3] [4] Barbados' High Commission remained at that location until the mid 1980s when it moved to its present location at the corner of 1 Great Russell Street in London 's Bloomsbury neighbourhood (within the Borough of Camden ).
Topham Beauclerk was born on 22 December 1739 in Pall Mall, London. He was the only son of Lord Sidney Beauclerk and a great-grandson of King Charles II. He was christened on 19 January 1740 in St James's Church, Piccadilly, in Westminster. [3] In 1744, his father died and the four-year-old Topham, and his widowed mother, Mary Beauclerk, moved ...
The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre and former cinema on Tottenham Court Road, close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point, in the London Borough of Camden. Planned as primarily a musical theatre, it opened in 1929, but the following year became a cinema—it hosted the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin 's City Lights with Chaplin in ...
David Aberdeen. David William du Roi Aberdeen (13 August 1913 – 15 January 1987) [1] [2] [3] was an English architect. In 1948, Aberdeen won an architectural competition to design the new TUC headquarters building in Great Russell Street, London. [4] Staff began to move into the offices in 1956 and the building was officially opened in 1958.
4 days ago · Thanet House Great Russell Street. Condition of repair. The premises are in good repair. Biographical notes. Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, was born in 1644, and died in 1729. Parton mentions that the autograph of the Earl, as a vestryman of St. Giles, occurs in the parish books between the years 1684 and 1690. The death of his eldest son ...
Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum. The first house on the site was destroyed by fire in 1686. The rebuilt house was sold to the British Museum in 1759, and demolished in the 1840s to make way ...
