![]() 20 Albert Street, where there is a blue plaque commemorating the writer George MacDonald | |
Location | Camden Town, London NW1, England, United Kingdom |
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Postal code | NW1 7LU, NW1 7LX, NW1 7LY, NW1 7NA, NW1 7NB, NW1 7NE, NW1 7NR, NW1 7NU and NW1 7NZ |
Nearest London Underground station | Camden Town station (Northern line) |
Coordinates | 51°32′09″N0°08′35″W / 51.5359°N 0.1430°W |
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Known for | many Grade II listed buildings and several notable residents and former residents |
Albert Street, London NW1, is a street in Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, England, near Camden Town station. It includes several listed Grade II listed 19th-century buildings. Some of the houses have had notable former residents and two of them have blue plaques. Although the street is mainly residential, it also includes some offices, a pub, and a museum.
The street leads, at its north-west end, to Parkway (the A2401 road) and, at the south-east end, to Delancey Street (the A503 road). Arlington Road runs parallel to the east with Mornington Terrace to the west. The nearest station is Camden Town on London Underground's Northern line.
The writer, journalist and Labour MP Dick Leonard (1930–2021), his wife Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, Professor of German Literature, their son Mark Leonard (born 1974), political scientist and author, and their daughter Miriam Leonard (born 1976), Professor of Greek Literature, have all lived at No. 18. [1] Dick Leonard died there in 2021. [2]
No. 20, known as Tudor Lodge, which has been listed Grade II by Historic England, was built in the 1840s as a house and studios for the artist Charles Lucy (1814–1873). The poet and novelist George MacDonald (1824–1905), who lived there from 1860 to 1863, described the house in his 1871 novel The Vicar's Daughter. [3] It now has a blue plaque, commemorating MacDonald, that was erected by English Heritage in 2005. [4]
The Liverpool-born writer, theatre critic and artist Beryl Bainbridge (1932−2010) lived at No. 42 for 45 years. [5] [6] [7] In 1967 she painted Napoleon Dancing at 42 Albert St, Camden Town, to the Strains of the Gramophone. [8] [9]
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), the Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology, lived and died at No. 44. In 2001 English Heritage placed a blue plaque there to commemorate him.
The writer and broadcaster Robert Elms (born 1959) lives at No. 74. [10] [11]
A terrace of 27 houses (Nos. 45 to 97) was built in 1845 and is Grade II listed. [12] The Yorkshire-born architect William Henry Crossland (1835–1908), who designed Rochdale Town Hall, Holloway Sanatorium and Royal Holloway College, died at No. 57 on 14 November 1908. [13] [14]
A terrace of nine houses (Nos. 123 to 139) was built in about 1845 and is Grade II listed. [15] Nos. 129 to 131 are now called Raymond Burton House, which is the location of Jewish Museum London.
No. 141, on the corner of Albert Street and Parkway, is a pub, The Spread Eagle. [16] It is Grade II listed. [17]
At the other end of the street, a Grade II-listed house, No. 38 Delancey Street, has an entrance on Albert Street. [18] [19]
London's first mosque was opened in 1895 at a house in Albert Street. [20]
Albert Street North Residents’ Association represents the interests of local residents who live at the street's north end. [21]
Primrose Hill is a Grade II listed public park located north of Regent's Park in London, England, first opened to the public in 1842. It was named after the 64 metres (210 ft) natural hill in the centre of the park, the second highest natural point in the London Borough of Camden. The hill summit has a clear view of central London, as well as Hampstead and Belsize Park to the north and is adorned by an engraved quotation from William Blake. Based on the popularity of the park, the surrounding district and electoral ward were named Primrose Hill. The Primrose Hill district is in the London Borough of Camden, England.
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Richmond Green is a recreation area near the centre of Richmond, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants situated in south-west London. Owned by the Crown Estate, it is leased to the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The Green, which has been described as "one of the most beautiful urban greens surviving anywhere in England", is roughly square in shape and its open grassland, framed with broadleaf trees, extends to roughly twelve acres. On the north-east side there is also a smaller open space called Little Green. Richmond Green and Little Green are overlooked by a mixture of period townhouses, historic buildings and municipal and commercial establishments including the Richmond Lending Library and Richmond Theatre.
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As of February 2001, there were 1,124 listed buildings with Grade II status in the English city of Brighton and Hove. The total at 2009 was similar. The city, on the English Channel coast approximately 52 miles (84 km) south of London, was formed as a unitary authority in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton and Hove. Queen Elizabeth II granted city status in 2000.
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