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Category: History

local history, family history, research, streets, surveys, archaeology

Oxford Street – from Winsley Street to Great Portland Street

by Helene Parry 7:26 am, Monday, 1 March 202112:15 pm, Friday, 5 February 2021

In this final instalment of my four-part review of The Survey of London volume devoted to Oxford Street, I focus on numbers 164 to 212 — the area between Winsley Street and Great Portland Street. Survey of London, Oxford Street. 164–182 Oxford Street, former Waring & Gillow store, in 2019. R. Frank Atkinson, architect, 1904–6. […]

New film features the experience of African air-raid warden during Blitz

by Editors 7:50 am, Friday, 19 February 20219:27 am, Friday, 19 February 2021

The Oxford Music Hall reflected the changing fortunes of entertainment in Fitzrovia and the West End

by Nick Bailey 7:51 am, Tuesday, 12 January 20219:29 am, Tuesday, 12 January 2021

‘Spy Waiters’ in 21st Century US and 20th Century Britain: Nightmares of Nationalism

by Ann Basu 7:55 am, Tuesday, 29 December 20201:17 pm, Sunday, 3 January 2021

Oxford Street – from Wells Street to Winsley Street

by Helene Parry 7:53 am, Tuesday, 15 December 20201:18 pm, Sunday, 3 January 2021

A history of London’s West End from a place of aristocratic consumption to a centre of popular entertainment and expression

by Ann Basu 6:58 am, Tuesday, 1 December 20204:49 pm, Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Memorials to WW2 firefighters unveiled at site of former fire station at Rathbone Street

by Linus Rees 7:05 am, Wednesday, 11 November 20209:48 am, Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Former home of Olaudah Equiano marked with memorial plaque

by Editors 5:20 pm, Monday, 2 November 20202:05 pm, Thursday, 5 November 2020

Green plaque commemorates medical pioneers at site of Middlesex Hospital Medical School

by Linus Rees 3:36 pm, Monday, 2 November 20203:57 pm, Monday, 2 November 2020

How diplomats saved Georgian buildings on Grafton Way from demolition

by Editors 7:27 am, Tuesday, 6 October 20208:50 am, Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Firefighters and police commemorate Auxiliary Fire Service personnel at Rathbone Street

by Linus Rees 11:51 am, Monday, 21 September 20204:07 pm, Tuesday, 10 November 2020

The forgotten history of Mortimer Street and its artistic community

by Clive Jennings 10:34 am, Thursday, 17 September 20202:16 pm, Thursday, 17 September 2020

Oxford Street – from Perry’s Place to Wells Street

by Helene Parry 10:03 am, Monday, 14 September 202012:56 pm, Saturday, 5 September 2020

The 200-year-old cosmopolitan and architectural allure of Oxford Street

by Helene Parry 9:40 am, Sunday, 21 June 202010:01 am, Saturday, 20 June 2020

The artist Harry Jonas – ‘Last of the Fitzrovians’

by Contributor 8:53 am, Saturday, 20 June 20209:45 am, Saturday, 20 June 2020

Soho’s lost post-war living room of badly behaved bohemians

by Ann Basu 10:36 am, Saturday, 13 June 20205:44 pm, Thursday, 4 June 2020

The barbarous treatment of slaves was for the benefit of local gentry

by Mike Pentelow 10:19 pm, Thursday, 11 June 2020

Artist Harry Jonas was helped by actor Oliver Reed in a campaign to save buildings on Maple Street

by Linus Rees 11:23 am, Tuesday, 7 April 202011:37 pm, Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Investigation of former hospital and workhouse site reveals intact human burial remains

by Editors 11:17 am, Friday, 6 September 20191:33 pm, Friday, 6 September 2019

A new history of Fitzrovia shows a rich mixture of workers, migrants, intellectuals and villains

by Editors 6:35 am, Monday, 10 June 20197:19 pm, Monday, 3 June 2019

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