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2 unusual facts about Herne Hill


Ethel Rolt Wheeler

In 1915 she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill.

William Locke Brockman

He named his grant Herne Hill, and this name survives today as the name of the Perth suburb of Herne Hill.


Alexander Brogden

The Gazette entry gives many addresses: Queen Anne’s Gate and Victoria Chambers, Westminster; Aberdare; Tondu; Meathop, Westmorland; Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire; The Hague; Cross Street, Manchester; 46 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill; Ulverstone; Grange-over-Sands; and Wellington, New Zealand.

Cyril Peacock

In 1952, by then a member of the Tooting Bicycle Club in south London, he won the £1,000 International Champion of Champions sprint at Herne Hill velodrome, also in south London, on Good Friday 1953.

Hugh Porter

Porter began with 12 successive road race victories, and won a pursuit match in the Good Friday meeting at Herne Hill.

London Buses route 31

On 15 May 1916, the 31 was extended to run daily from Swiss Cottage to Tulse Hill (Tulse Hill Tavern) via Adelaide Road, Camden Town, Eversholt Street, Russell Square, Southampton Row, Kingsway, Aldwych, Waterloo Bridge, Elephant & Castle, Camberwell Green, Denmark Hill and Herne Hill, replacing route 68, which was withdrawn on the same day.


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