Drayton Gardens

[2] Scientist Rosalind Franklin, who discovered the structure of DNA, lived at number 107 (Donovan Court) until her death, and in 1992, English Heritage placed a commemorative blue plaque.

After closure and conversion, the building was reopened in 1955 by James Quinn as the Paris Pullman Cinema, which showed art-house films.

His widow Maeve Gilmore, artist and memoirist, continued to live there until her death, having decorated the house with murals.

St John Philby, the orientalist and explorer, lived in Grove Court in a flat belonging to his wife Dora.

It was there that his son Kim Philby, the notorious NKVD/KGB agent, betrayed Erich Vermehren to the Russians after his defection from the German Abwehr to MI6 in 1944; and where ten years later he organised a press conference at which he temporarily convinced the public that he was not the "Fourth Man".