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Clapham Common Northside is a road in South West London. One part of it is the A3 which leads to Portsmouth.
The 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg stayed in a hotel there while performing in London. The architect Charles Barry, who designed the Houses of Parliament, lived and died in the building which is now known as Graham Greene, uneasy Catholic - TLS Highlights - Times Online
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Clapham Common Northside is a road in South West London. One part of it is the A3 which leads to Portsmouth.
The 19th-century composer Edvard Grieg stayed in a hotel there while performing in London. The architect Charles Barry, who designed the Houses of Parliament, lived and died in the building which is now known as Trinity Hospice
Royal Trinity Hospice is the oldest hospice in the United Kingdom, founded in 1891 by a member of the Hoare banking family. It is located in Clapham Common, London, England, and provides specialist palliative care. In 2019 Royal Trinity Hos ...
. Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no mariti ...
spent the last years of his life in a house on this road. Graham Greene, the novelist, lived at 14 North Side. In 1940, a bomb destroyed Greene's Clapham house, and Greene described similar scenes in his 1943 novel of London during the Blitz, ''The Ministry of Fear
''The Ministry of Fear'' is a 1943 novel written by Graham Greene. It was first published in Britain by William Heinemann. It was made into the 1944 film '' Ministry of Fear'', directed by Fritz Lang and starring Ray Milland.
The title is expl ...
'', and later in '' The End of the Affair''./ref> Opposite Northside, on Clapham Common, is
Holy Trinity Church Holy Trinity Church may refer to:
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* Holy Trinity Church, Yerevan
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, the place of worship that was home to 'The Clapham Sect' the abolitionist group, one of whose members was William Wilberforce. The Clapham Sect was popularised in the 2006 film ' Amazing Grace'.
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