• Turn back down Frognal past the entrance to Mount Vernon…

Look up for a plaque on the side of 108 Frognal remembering the famous ballerina Tamara Karsavina who lived here. Karsavina was the leading ballerina of Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from its beginning in 1909 until 1922 (and was paired with Nijinsky until 1913). After marrying the English diplomat Henry James Bruce, Karsavina went to London in 1918, where she helped found the Royal Academy of Dancing and organised the Teachers' Training Course. She also coached Margot Fonteyn.   ///visit.firm.laser

• As you continue to walk down Frognal look across the road…

On the wall of the block of red-brick flats you will see another plaque, this time commemorating the contralto Kathleen Ferrier who died from breast cancer when tragically young. She was one of the world’s great singers. The composer Benjamin Britten wrote his second opera, The Rape of Lucretia, with Kathleen in mind for the title role. ‘She is still remembered and her voice is still heard and loved by millions around the world’.  ///card.prop.healthier

A little further on your left and your wills some pretty cottages set back from the road. One of these, number 106, has a private blue plaque to Sir Walter Besant - a novelist and historian who has a descriptive URL link at another site on this walk…