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The northern half (1-39 and 4-56) formed part of the Day Estate, and was a three-acre field known as Rosehall or Rose Hawe, which the Day family acquired by the marriage in 1743 of Benjamin Day, the son of a wealthy Norwich weaver, to Ann Dodemead, daughter and co-heir of Walter Dodemead of
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to MI6 in 1944; and where ten years later he organised a press conference at which he temporarily convinced the public that he was not the "Fourth Man".
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and country houses, until more suburban villas began to be built in the early 1800s. Later, some of the older houses were demolished, and
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appeared, including Drayton Court in 1902, and Onslow Court in 1935.
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Bolton's Picture Playhouse, which opened in 1911, gave way to
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and Lady Frittie Arbuthnot Lane lived next door at no 72.
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Drayton Gardens was once a "rustic lane" in the hamlet of
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From 1960 until his death in 1968, the author and artist
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Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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to the Russians after his defection from the German
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Mervyn Peake
Chelsea
South Kensington
Old Brompton Road
Fulham Road

Brompton
market gardens
mansion blocks
Covent Garden
Rosalind Franklin
English Heritage
blue plaque
Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon
Elsa Maxwell
Margery Blackie
homeopath
Elizabeth II
Bolton's Theatre Club
Theatres Act 1968
West End
James Quinn
Paris Pullman Cinema
Mervyn Peake
Maeve Gilmore
Adelaide Hall
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet
St John Philby
Kim Philby

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