What do not one but two Nobel Prize winners, a valiant soldier awarded a VC in WWI, and a woman many considered to be the greatest British soul singer, have in common? The answer is they all lived in the area covered in the first of two books in the CHS Streets series looking at West Hampstead and Kilburn, Streets and Characters of West Hampstead and Cricklewood, by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms. The authors will tell us about some of these luminaries. The second book, Streets and Characters of Kilburn and South Hampstead, will be published in 2022.

This talk was recorded and is available to watch on https://youtu.be/GKXZ9m1-TAU