Schantieman

Thread creep, but... Handel and Chandos had the same geographical connections because Handel stayed and played at Canons and at St Lawrence Whitchurch) a couple of centuries before it got turned into the North London Collegiate School. Gilbert's local connection was living at Grim's Dyke. Stanburn was so overcrowded that I ended up at Aylward (just over the road from NLCS). The houses were Brockley, Glebe, Canons and Bentley. On the phones 907 corresponded to the letters WOR on the dial - HARrow became 427 and HATch End became 428.

Kitty

PS- so were you at school with Michael Portillo?