St. James Infirmary Blues London's St. James Hospital, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. His references list an article by Kenneth Lodewick. That article states, giving no reference or source for the idea, that the phrase "St. James Hospital" refers to a hospital of that name in London. There is some difficulty in this because the hospital in question closed in 1532 when Henry VIII acquired the land to build St James's Palace. Another possibility suggested by Higginbotham on the basis of his claim that the song "St. James Infirmary" dates at least from the early nineteenth century, is the Infirmary section
Crystal Palace, London 23 February 1898, a direct consequence of the publication of his open letter "J'Accuse…!". Francis Pettit Smith, one of the inventors of the screw propeller and a contributor to the construction of the SS "Archimedes", lived in the area between 1864 and 1870. British rapper Speech Debelle was born in Crystal Palace. She left the area because of "traffic and parking problems". Camille Pissarro, Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter, stayed in Crystal Palace between 1870 and 1871. Crystal Palace, London Crystal Palace is an area in South London, England, named after the Crystal Palace Exhibition building which stood in the