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ROSIE MITCHELL's avatar

Great read. Thanks for the history. We are going to spend two nights there on our return to the UK in early September. All the best.

Rosie

Christopher Goddard's avatar

Here's the FamilySearch 1851 parish maps I mentioned on YouTube. You need an account, but it's well worth it:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/mapp/

Rod Hirsch's avatar

Meaty stuff, Scott (sorry). I worked in Marylebone in the early 1980s, and it had a very ‘villagey’ feel back then. And I love how Marylebone Station pops up in period TV dramas purporting to be quite a lot of other places.

ScottH's avatar

Certainly ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ made Marylebone station look chaotic rather than the quietness of real life

Nicholas Craddy's avatar

“It doesn’t run all over the place, like some stuff you purchase”

(In a Scottish accent)

ScottH's avatar

It’s the Marylebone Jelly that helps Chum avoid that sloppiness