The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists (History of British Intelligence)

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The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists (History of British Intelligence)

The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists (History of British Intelligence)

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This book tells the story of a remarkable Modernist building and its even more extraordinary cast of characters. The Pritchards lived in a one-bedroom penthouse flat at the top with their two sons Jeremy and Jonathan next door in a studio flat.

As a country with a diverse population, the UK is home to other sizable ethnic groups, with mixed ethnicity (2.The building originally included 24 studio flats, eight one-bedroom flats, staff quarters, a kitchen and a large garage. The postcode is within the Gospel Oak ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. The flats and particularly the Isobar became renowned as a centre for socialist intellectual and artistic life in Hampstead. Completed in 1934 this was a determined attempt to re-cast architecture in the light of the new realities of domestic life and urban living that had emerged since the Great War, and that had, until then, not been given satisfying form. Broadband data is based on information provided by the major fixed internet service providers in the UK, including Virgin Media and BT.

The Isokon’s ground-floor bar became a well-known hangout for the local and émigré intelligentsia of the time. A number of Isokon residents were later identified as Soviet agents and in the 1930s and Cold War period the building was subject to surveillance by the British security services [3] In the mid-1930s Flat 7 was occupied by Dr Arnold Deutsch, [4] the NKVD agent who recruited the Cambridge Five. It has easy access to huge amounts of green space, with Hampstead Heath to the north, and Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park to the south. Celebrated residents included: Bauhaus émigrés Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy; architects Egon Riss and Arthur Korn; Agatha Christie (between 1941 and 1947) and her husband Max Mallowan, art historian Adrian Stokes, the author Nicholas Monsarrat, the archaeologist V. A stunning top-floor 3 bedroom apartment boasting stylish interiors throughout, including a fabulous roof terrace with a unique sun room.

Civil partnerships are now included within the figures for the other categories (Married, Divorced and so forth). The Isokon building boasted its own restaurant and dining club, where many of the Flats' most famous residents rubbed shoulders with some of the most dangerous communist spies ever to operate in Britain. Countrywide Estate Agents Limited is an appointed representative of Countrywide Principal Services Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN 301684. A well proportioned 3 double Bedroom, 2 Bathroom duplex apartment situated in this converted period building, well located on a prime road in the heart of Belsize Park, NW3.

The area containing Lawn Road, Camden, London contains a higher-than-average level of social housing - 57% of household spaces. On the other side of Lawn Road, the southern half is more informal with some native shrub planting and seating with unhindered views of Thomas Lewis Way and the industrial estate beyond.Capital Private Finance is an Appointed Representative of Mortgage Intelligence which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under number 305330 in respect of mortgage, insurance and consumer credit mediation activities only. Originally a late 19C coachman's living quarters and stable, this mews house combines an award-winning architect's studio and spacious light-filled maisonette after a 2-phase carbon-reducing retrofit. Richards, the architectural critic, wrote that it was “more like the machine a habiter than anything Le Corbusier ever designed”. In this area (Lawn Road, Camden, London), 58% of the residents were born in the United Kingdom, which is significantly below the UK average. It is noteable that the amount of residents reporting Very Good or Good health increased in 2021 compared to the previous census, despite an aging UK population.

Located on the ever popular Staple Hill Road, a stones throw from both Staple Hill and Fishponds, sits this two bedroom period property. Plywood was used extensively in the fittings of the apartments; Jack Pritchard was marketing manager for the Estonian plywood company Venesta between 1926 and 1936, while he also operated the Isokon Furniture Company, originally in partnership with Wells Coates. The postcode is within the Gospel Oak ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn. Three years later it was acquired by Camden Borough Council, and it gradually deteriorated until the 1990s, when it was abandoned completely. Hunters are delighted to offer for sale this modern 3 bedroom semi detached home located in a position within close proximity to Vassalls park and Fishponds high street.A superb recently fully refurbished two double bedroom duplex apartment arranged over the first and second floors and situated in a small exclusive building in the heart of Belsize Park, with . On the ground floor there is an elegant living/dining room with windows front and back giving a beautifully light and . Health in the UK is strongly tied to age as you would expect, but the affluence of a neighbourhood also has strong influence, with deprived areas often showing poorer standards of health.



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