Highgate

Oh, and there was a Camden Borough by-election in Highgate on Thursday.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

Both pics are, of course, but I read Arthur Ransome's 'Coot Club' last year, having picked up a copy for 50p at a book sale in Highgate Village.

Fifty Not Out Peter Ashley 2008

Marx's tomb is located in Highgate Cemetery, London.

Background information for George Orwell's Animal Farm 1950

The piano-tuner was a great catch – he lived in Highgate; and the electric-bell man was Lambeth.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

Guy Savage, a married father-of-two and a former pupil at the exclusive £5,000-a-term Highgate School attended by Michael Mansfield, QC, and the former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, is now facing extradition to the US over allegations that some of his work selling weapons there fell foul of the law.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

If I had given any thought to his character and antecedents, what attracted my attention was the fact that his father was a noted (by those whose inclination is to note such things) Marxist theoretician, whose passion for his ghastly hero was so great that he had himself interred close by Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery.

Archive 2007-10-14 2007

If I had given any thought to his character and antecedents, what attracted my attention was the fact that his father was a noted (by those whose inclination is to note such things) Marxist theoretician, whose passion for his ghastly hero was so great that he had himself interred close by Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery.

Wearing Religion As A Shield 2007

STEWART: In North London, a place called Highgate ...

CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2005 2005

GILBERT: I went to school at Highgate, which is a private school in London.

Churchill: A Life 1991

It must be remembered that King Street formerly ran right up to the Abbey precincts, from which it was separated by a gate-house, called Highgate, built by Richard II.; but the street was subsequently shorn of a third of its length, over which now grows green grass in smooth lawns.

Westminster The Fascination of London A. Murray Smith 1868