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The Romantic poets flocked to visit poet Joanna Baillie at Bolton House in Hampstead. Picture: Nigel

Meet the neighbours: A walking tour of Hampstead’s blue plaques

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Willie Rushton

Heritage: Comic, cartoonist and Private Eye founder Willie Rushton - the...

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Hampstead Highgate Express

Heritage: The life of Henry Willis - Hampstead Parish Church organist...

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Kate Greenaway, 1880. Portrait of the children's book author at her desk in 1901. Picture: Lebrecht

Heritage: Idyllic images of childhood made illustrator Kate Greenaway a...

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Sir Edward Elgar

Heritage: Sir Edward Elgar DIY enthusiast - portrait of the composer at...

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Heavyweight boxing champion Tom Sayers

Heritage: Victioran bricklayer Tom Sayers became world’s first...

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Documentary maker Humphrey Jennings

Heritage: Literary opus by pioneering film maker Humphrey Jennings...

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Activist Ruth First and others at an anti-apartheid meeting in Trafalgar Square

Heritage: Journalist and apartheid activist Ruth First ‘remains a beacon...

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Nelson Mandela unveiled the blue plaque at 13 Lime Street, Camden Town, where Joe Slovo and his wife

Heritage: Freedom fighter Joe Slovo helped bring democracy to South...

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Dr Kwame Nkrumah, prime minister of Ghana, with Queen Elizabeth II, and Princess Anne, at Balmoral C

Heritage: Kwame Nkrumah, the visionary who took Ghana to independence

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