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Update: 10/01/2006
Eileen Reid sent me the following by email:
Re all the Devon connections in Rosebery Avenue, etc. They're there because the developer James Hartnoll was of Devonian extraction. Born in poverty in Southwark, he died worth more than £400,000.. not very psychogeographical, I'm afraid. But true. There was an article in the Camden History journal in 1980 all about him.
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Tell me, my man, are you the John Rodgers who penned the 1947 Batsford book "The English Woodland"?
If so, please explain how forest energy systems remain steady. we all know life resists entropy, but are you seriously claiming that energy flows within a woodland habitat actually cancels out the laws of thermodynamics?
Despite spending much of my childhood mucking around in Chiltern's beech woods I've yet to write about it. But on behalf of my near namesake I'll say yes, the law of thermodynamics goes right down the first rabbit hole.
John can you give more details about the article on James Hartnoll?
jonathan,
I would love to know more myself. The comment i posted was the entire contents of the email I received. However, I'll try getting in touch with Eilleen and post something on the blog.
Thanks
Aileen has very helpfully given me some more info on Hartnoll, hope this helps and thanks very much Aileen.
The main article is this one: Isobel Watson, ‘The Buildings of James Hartnoll’, in Newsletter of the Camden History Society, No.58, March 1980, unpaginated, and then there is also: Isobel Watson, ‘Five Per Cent Philanthropy: Model Houses for the Working Classes in Victorian Camden’, in Camden History Review, no.9, 1981, pp.4–9, and Alan Cox, ‘An Example to others’: Public Housing in London 1840–1914’, in Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol.46, 1995, pp.145–65
There are Hartnoll blocks of flats all over central and south London, most of them with Devon-associated names. But very little is known about him personally - Isobel Watson is the authority on him.
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