Aaron Kosminski was a Polish barber and hairdresser, and suspect in the Jack the Ripper case.
Colney Hatch is the historical name for a small district within the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. Colney Hatch refers to a loosely defined area centred on the northern end of Colney Hatch Lane (B550), which connects Friern Barnet with Muswell Hill, crossing the North Circular Road. The area is predominantly residential with a mixture of Victorian and Edwardian houses and much more recent development.
New Southgate is a residential suburb straddling three Outer London Boroughs: a small part of the east of Barnet, a south-west corner of Enfield and in loosest definitions, based on nearest railway stations, a small northern corner of Haringey in North London, England where estates merge into Bounds Green.
Friern Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in the parish of Friern Barnet close to a crossroads which had a hamlet known as Colney Hatch. In 1965, it became part of the London Borough of Barnet and in the early 21st century was converted to residential housing as Princess Park Manor and Friern Village. The hospital was built as the Second Middlesex County Asylum and was in operation from 1851 to 1993. After the County of London was created in 1889 it continued to serve much of Middlesex and of the newer county, London. During much of this time its smaller prototype Hanwell Asylum also operated.
Friern Barnet is a suburban area within the London Borough of Barnet, 7.4 miles (11.9 km) north of Charing Cross. Its centre is formed by the busy intersection of Colney Hatch Lane, Woodhouse Road and Friern Barnet Road.
Friern Barnet Urban District was a local government area in Middlesex, England created in 1883 from the civil parish Friern Barnet. It was succeeded by the London Borough of Barnet in 1965 as one of the smaller of its contributory predecessor districts. It was at the local level governed for nine years by the local board, then by Friern Barnet Urban District Council which operated primarily with separate functions from the County Council, operating occasionally for major planning decisions and major projects together with that body, Middlesex County Council.
George Thomas Hine FRIBA was an English architect. His prolific output included new county asylums for Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Surrey, East Sussex and Worcestershire, as well as extensive additions to many others.
The Commissioners in Lunacy or Lunacy Commission were a public body established by the Lunacy Act 1845 to oversee asylums and the welfare of mentally ill people in England and Wales. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy.
Frederick Norton Manning, was a medical practitioner, military surgeon, Inspector General of the Insane for the Colony of New South Wales, and was an Australian Lunatic Asylum Superintendent. He was a leading figure in the establishment of a number of lunatic asylums in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria, and participated in inquests and reviews of asylums throughout the colonies.
Leavesden Mental Hospital was a mental health facility at Leavesden on the outskirts of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire.
Napsbury Park is a residential development in Hertfordshire, England. It is located to the north of London, at Junction 22 of the M25 motorway and Junction 6 of the M1 motorway.
Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe, was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City.
William Edward Vincent was a New Zealand printer, publisher and publican. He was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1823. His father was gold and silversmith, Thomas Vincent of Holborn, Middlesex. His mother, Anna Muddle Canney, was from Deal, Kent. He was one of five siblings, most notably the second younger brother of Henry "the Chartist" Vincent, William was baptised almost six years after his birth, at Holy Trinity, in Hull, Yorkshire.
Napsbury Hospital was a mental health facility near London Colney in Hertfordshire. It had two sister institutions, Harperbury Hospital and Shenley Hospital, within a few miles of its location.
There appear to be two Roffe families of engravers in London, England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Leavesden Hospital Football Club was a football club based in Leavesden, England.
Thomas Wyatt was an East Indies merchant from Willenhall in the English Midlands. He commissioned Willenhall House from John Buonarotti Papworth in 1829 which was built on an estate that he purchased in north London and which he named Willenhall.
Joseph Warren Zambra (1822-1897) was an Anglo-Italian photographer and maker of scientific instruments who with Henry Negretti (1818–1879) founded the firm Negretti and Zambra.
George Baden Crawley (1833–1879) was a successful railway contractor responsible for the construction of railways in Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Georgia, Romania and Hungary.
Henry White (1819-1903) was a London lawyer who was also recognized as one of Britain's most gifted landscape photographers.
