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Clevedon Mansions is one of 3 Edwardian mansions blocks that make up the Lissenden Gardens Estate, built between 1898 and 1906 to the designs of architects Boehmer and Gibbs. More at this http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=CAM068a. Surprisingly the Estate is not covered in the North London volume of the Buildings of England series.

The three Edwardian apartment blocks that comprise Lissenden Gardens celebrated their centenary in 2006. Exemplary of modern town planning, they aimed to attract the middle-classes to what was then an unpopular area, by offering state-of-the art buildings and unusual architectural features which drew on the ideas of William Morris. The residents have included many notable people: the blue plaque seen here commemorates the historian R.H.Tawney, while directly above there is another for the composer Haydn Wood.

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"Highgate Enclosures consists of three landscaped areas on the south-west side of Highgate Road that formed part of the old village green of Kentish Town, a once extensive area of commonland that was gradually enclosed. The railed gardens have grass, shrubs and some flower beds, with paths and seating." - quotation from this http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/8764.

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The plaque describes her as a pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage (1855-1939). She was also translator from Greek and German.Apparently she praised the design of the Lissenden Gardens flats for lightening the load of the average housewife by including modern labour-saving devices.

The mansion blocks, built in 1906, incorporated many radical new features. 'Drawing heavily on the superior workmanship promoted by the William Morris school of arts and crafts, it boasted red brick with hand carved designs above windows, stained glass and hand-made tiles in the stairwells, decorative wrought iron railings and a clever design where sky lights brought in fresh air to counter smells from down pipes. A hand-pulled lift attached to a balcony by the scullery saved the need to trudge up and down with buckets of coal and a tube that residents on the upper floors could use to attract passing tradesmen by blowing through it with a whistle. A communal rubbish chute also saved labour while a caretaker was given responsibility for scrubbing stairs and doorsteps.' (Information from Camden New Journal http://www.thecnj.com/review/021507/feature021507_01.htm )