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3 days ago · A FORMER special branch police officer has told how he assumed the identity of a grieving husband and used a codename stolen from a dead child to spy on a group campaigning against nuclear weapons.
1 day ago · But I also took time to see three of the many former churches found throughout Hampstead: Saint Stephen’s Church, considered the masterpiece of SS Teulon; the former Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church with its unusual hexagonal shape and now one of the world’s largest recording rooms; and the former Trinity Presbyterian Church, now a ...
2 days ago · The Hampstead Junction Railway, built by 1857, ran along the southern boundary of West End House. The Revd. William Dunbar, who lived in Scotland, sold the estate to a speculator, Charles Bischoff, the owner in 1863 when the second railway line, the Midland, was proposed.
5 days ago · In 1833 Hampstead had two infants' schools, one being at Kilburn, with a total of 159 pupils, and three weekday schools for the poor: the two Hampstead Parochial schools, with 150 boys and 112 girls, and the Roman Catholic school for 25 girls.
3 days ago · Parts of Hampstead were covered from 1868 by the Kilburn Times, still published from Kilburn Lane, Willesden, in 1986, and from 1880 by the South Hampstead Advertiser, which continued under different titles, including St. John's Wood, Kilburn, and Hampstead Advertiser and Hampstead News, until its incorporation with the Camden Journal in 1971.
2 days ago · Inside No 99: New plans to restore listed de Gaulle house in Hampstead. Where the war-time leader of the Free French Forces looked across a skyline lit up by searchlights and bomb blasts. Tuesday, 5th March — By Dan Carrier
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6 days ago · The Hampstead Observatory, lovingly refurbished by the dedicated and enthusiastic astronomers from the Hampstead Scientific Society and re-opened in September 2019 is home to a stunning 6″ Cooke refracting telescope which offers stunning views of the skies above London.
