At the southern end of Kenilworth Road, and now numbered no. 98, is a former chapel, very obvious as one descends the road from the north. Formerly its activities were carried out upstairs at its neighbour, 18 Gensing Road, which is on the corner. The Primitive Methodists were a working class breakaway from the Methodist […]
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In 1903 Mrs Meiklejon opened a school for blind children at 48 Kenilworth Road. She was born Mary Jane Noonan in Ireland in about 1858, and was elder sister to Robert Noonan (1870-1911), who as Robert Tressell lived in the area from late 1901 on his return from South Africa, and wrote the famous The […]