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    Canonbury Square is a garden square in Canonbury, North London. It is bounded by terraces of mostly Georgian houses, many of which are listed buildings...
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    Canonbury is an area in London, forming part of the London Borough of Islington. It is located within the area between Essex Road, Upper Street and Cross...
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    listed building, located 100 metres (330 ft) east of Canonbury Square. Canonbury House and Canonbury Tower have been owned or occupied by many noted historical...
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    Retrieved 1 April 2020. "George Orwell's son Richard unveils plaque in Canonbury Square". Islington Gazette. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2021. "The Orwell...
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  •  400. 27b Canonbury Square, Islington, London N1, 18 August 1945 [as return address in correspondence] Jura, Jackie (14 July 2003). "Canonbury Photos"....
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    in January 1947. Orwell listened to the production at his home in Canonbury Square, London, with Hugh Gordon Porteous, amongst others. Orwell later wrote...
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    Blair. By September 1944 they had set up home in Islington, at 27b Canonbury Square. Baby Richard joined them there, and Eileen gave up her work at the...
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    Pansy Pakenham present. The couple made their home in a small flat in Canonbury Square, Islington. The first months of the marriage were overshadowed by a...
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  • John Spencer Square is a neo-Georgian residential garden square in the heart of the Canonbury conservation area in Islington, London. It is named after...
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    Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury, and Canonesbury (Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury – names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries). "Islington" came...
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    plaques were brown in colour. London County Council bronze plaque in Canonbury Square, commemorating Samuel Phelps (erected 1901) London County Council plaque...
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    finding him somewhere to live. In February 1944, Kopp moved to a flat in Canonbury Square and the following month, he married Doreen, witnessed by his friend...
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    itself a reference to George Orwell's address – Apartment 6, 27B Canonbury Square, Islington, London. The website went from receiving a hundred hits...
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  • August, 1599. Spencer left nothing to public purposes. In Canonbury, a residential square was laid out in 1963 and is named after Sir John Spencer. He...
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  • Square Canonbury Square Charterhouse Square Claremont Square Cloudesley Square Edward Square Finsbury Square Gibson Square Granville Square King Square Lloyd...
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  • of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London. Modern Italian Art Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Centre Square, Middlesbrough Modern Art...
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  • poetic vein. He was befriended by Browning and Rossetti. He was born in Canonbury Square, Islington on 20 January 1820. His father was of Welsh background;...
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    Islington also contains many well-kept public squares and greens, such as Canonbury Square and Thornhill Square. Because of the perceived open space deficit...
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    10000 The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a museum in Canonbury Square in the district of Islington on the northern fringes of central London...
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  • Retrieved 3 June 2022. Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Northampton Square area: Northampton Square and adjacent streets". South and East Clerkenwell. Survey of...
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  • London, N1 1JS 2022 Samuel Phelps (1804–1878) "Tragedian lived here" 8 Canonbury Square Islington N1 2AU 1911 Richard Price (1723–1791) "In this terrace of...
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  • Junior School, located in Islington between the gentrified area of Canonbury Square and several large council estates. He and deputy head Brian Haddow...
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  • Surrendering most of his assets, including the lease of his house in Canonbury Square, he retired in 1826 to the then village of Stoke Newington, a notable...
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  • Portman Square, London, with only Harold Acton, Alec Waugh (the author's brother) and Pansy Pakenham present. They move into a flat in Canonbury Square, Islington...
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    Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more...
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    Edmund Ronalds (category People from Canonbury)
    research into a manufacturing firm. He was born on 18 June 1819 at 48 Canonbury Square in Islington. His father Edmund Sr was a London cheesemonger and the...
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  • Senior was killed in a German air raid while at home in her flat at 17b Canonbury Square in London in the early hours of 11 May 1941. This was the same air...
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  • Files, Nigel West reports that the Peppins' flat in Islington (at 9b Canonbury Square) was a centre for clandestine communist activity during the war and...
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    Essex Road is a National Rail station in Canonbury in Greater London, England, and is on the Northern City Line between Old Street and Highbury & Islington...
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    Warwickshire. The family also owns land and property, including the 16th-century Canonbury Tower in Islington, north London, where many streets are named after names...
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