How the country came to spend Christmas 1814 waiting anxiously on the impending arrival of the Second Coming at a house on Manchester Street
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The creative and slightly ignoble history of the London Sketch Club, whose members drew and drank their way around several Marylebone premises
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The strange story of John Elwes, whose vast wealth funded the building of much of Marylebone but whose miserliness trapped him in a life of dressing in rags and eating roadkill
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How the Maskelyne family’s unique brand of magic turned a Marylebone theatre into one of London’s most compelling attractions
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The remarkable story of how the opinions of drinkers at a Marylebone pub came to influence British military strategy in the second world war
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The remarkable life of Frederick Marryat, seaman, novelist and Marylebone resident
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In 1873, the children of a Marylebone doctor were struck down by illness, leading to a tense showdown with a milk corporation
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The life and times of cookbook writer Isabella Beeton (1836-1865)
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The life and times of pioneering physician Mary Scharlieb (1845-1930)
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