The first reference to Lillie Langtry and Leighton House seems to have been made by the HAMPSTEAD NEWS in an article published on the 25th May 1950. There could have been others before then (...)
Excerpts:
Down Your Street: Meet the Folk in Alexandra Road
"...before leaving Alexandra Road I came across the interesting fact that at
one time, the street (Alexandra Road) could boast (that) it housed no less a
personage than Lillie Langtry. She lived at Leighton House, which had a
covered canopy leading from the gate up the marble steps to the front door..."
"Another and perhaps more intimate personality (...) who lived on this road was
(...) Frederick Scarsbrook co-founder of the Hampstead News - died in 1948
at the age of 93 years... A previous occupier of the house,
incidentally, was Miss L. Streetly-Smith, at the one-time editor of this
newspaper..."
Full transcript (print-out):
Source: The British Newspaper Archive
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