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Best known for his leading role in the establishment of the NHS, Labour politician Aneurin Bevan was born and raised in Monmouthshire, Wales. Census records show his coal-mining family living at no. 7 and no. 32, Charles Street, Tredegar. The row of miners' cottages has now been replaced by a housing complex but a plaque marks the site of his birthplace. Did this gritty, working-class environment inspire Bevan to strive for better?

After emigrating from Jamaica, Dr Harold Moody lived in Islington, London and later settled at 164 Queens Road, Peckham, where our probate indexes show he died in 1947. On his arrival in England, Moody experienced cruel racism, even being denied access to housing several times. This motivated him to campaign against racial prejudices and in 1931 he founded the League of Coloured Peoples. The house Moody lived in still stands but has been split into flats. The last one was sold in 2017 for £393,000.

The pioneering physician who discovered penicillin, Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield farm, Loudoun, Ayrshire, Scotland. Today, you can walk in his footsteps as the farm’s current owners have made it into holiday cottages. In later years, Fleming lived at a suitably grand address: L7 Hyde Park Mansions, St Marylebone, London. The 1911 Census of England & Wales lists him as a co-head of the household with his fellow physician Edwin Beaton. The pair employed an Irish housekeeper named Katherine. Hyde Park Mansions still operates as an apartment complex on Cabbell Street in London today.