Margaret Fairchild
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Margaret Mary Fairchild, also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, was a British homeless woman. Earlier in life, she had been a concert pianist and nun.
Fairchild in 1989
The former Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue where Fairchild was a novice in 1936, now the North Bridge House School
23 Gloucester Crescent in 2019
For 15 years Fairchild lived in her van where the car is in this image
Gloucester Crescent, Camden
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Gloucester Crescent is an 1840s Victorian residential crescent in Camden Town in London which from the early 1960s gained a bohemian reputation as “the trendiest street in London” and "Britain's cleve
Margaret Fairchild
…the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue in Regent's Park (later the Japanese School in London and now the North Bridge House School), a short distance from Gloucester Crescent where she famously returned decades later. Later in 1936 she was at St Joseph's Priory on Harrow Road West in Dorking. In 1939, Fairchild was a religious…
Photograph of the crescent in 2016
School of Sound Recording London in The Rotunda at 42 Gloucester Crescent