Pictured: Inside the three-bed London apartment where US chat show legend Jerry Springer lived for five years following his birth in an underground station in 1944
- Flat in north London where US chat show star Jerry Springer lived was revealed
- Springer was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer months before he died aged 79
This is the unassuming flat in north London where US chat show star Jerry Springer lived for the first five years of his life.
The legendary talk show host died peacefully at his Chicago home at age 79 just months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his family revealed on Thursday.
The three-bedroomed fourth-floor apartment was the last property to sell in the block where baby Jerry was brought home in 1944.
It sold for £562,500 in March last year after changing hands repeatedly since the chat show host’s parents Margot and Richard lived there during the Second World War.
Jerry’s family were German Jewish refugees who escaped the Nazis and were housed in Belvedere Court, a large block built specifically for Jewish families escaping from Europe.
This is the unassuming flat in north London where US chat show star Jerry Springer lived for the first five years of his life
The legendary talk show host died peacefully at his Chicago home at age 79 just months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer , his family revealed on Thursday
The three-bedroomed fourth-floor apartment was the last property to sell in the block where baby Jerry was brought home in 1944
It sold for £562,500 in March last year after changing hands repeatedly since the chat show host’s parents Margot and Richard lived there during the Second World War
Jerry’s family were German Jewish refugees who escaped the Nazis and were housed in Belvedere Court, a large block built specifically for Jewish families escaping from Europe
The Springers lived at Number 48 from 1944 until January 1949 – a month off Jerry turning five – when they emigrated to Queens, New York
Jerry returned to Belvedere Court for a BBC interview in 2012 when he chatted about his early memories of London
The Springers lived at Number 48 from 1944 until January 1949 – a month off Jerry turning five – when they emigrated to Queens, New York.
Jerry returned to Belvedere Court for a BBC interview in 2012 when he chatted about his early memories of London.
He said he remembered fondly watching buses go past from his bedroom window, saying he was ‘obsessed’ with them.
He said: ‘This is where I lived the first five years of my life. I remember looking out of my window every day because I was obsessed with buses.’
He also said he was born at nearby Highgate Tube Station because his mum sheltered there in the ninth month of her pregnancy as it was wartime.
He said he remembered fondly watching buses go past from his bedroom window, saying he was ‘obsessed’ with them
He chatted to a resident of the block, which lies in Hampstead, north London, and even walked upstairs to the front door of his former home, but said he wouldn’t knock
The flat where Jerry lived was the last one to sell for £562,500 in March 2022. Pictured: A bedroom in the flat
At the time he said: ‘I’m not going to knock on the door though. I don’t want to invade their privacy, but this is it, this is where we lived. I totally remember this’
He admitted his birth was ‘unusual’, adding: ‘The reason my mum told me I was born at the subway station is that this was during the war and during the war women who were in their ninth month would often spend the nights in the subway station because those were the bomb shelters.’
He chatted to a resident of the block, which lies in Hampstead, north London, and even walked upstairs to the front door of his former home, but said he wouldn’t knock.
‘Wow this is it, 48,’ he said, standing outside.
‘I’m not going to knock on the door though. I don’t want to invade their privacy, but this is it, this is where we lived. I totally remember this. Wow.’
The flat where Jerry lived was the last one to sell for £562,500 in March 2022.
It is almost 1,000 sq ft and has three bedrooms – Jerry’s is still a children’s room – a balcony and bathroom
Belvedere Court contains 56 flats and was designed by the architect Ernst Freud, fourth child of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
And asked in the BBC interview what he would say to his five-year-old self, he said: ‘You can look at a five-year-old boy and have no idea what he’s going to wind up being.’ Pictured: Springer at an early age
He also said he was born at nearby Highgate Tube Station because his mum sheltered there in the ninth month of her pregnancy as it was wartime
He added: ‘The correlation between what you are at birth and what you wind up being, there are so many influences. But if you have good parents, that’s the strongest one’
It is almost 1,000 sq ft and has three bedrooms – Jerry’s is still a children’s room – a balcony and bathroom.
Belvedere Court contains 56 flats and was designed by the architect Ernst Freud, fourth child of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
It was built by H Meckhonik, a London-based contractor, in 1937/38 on land previously owned by the Church Estate Commissioners.
The flats were initially built for rental only and principally let to Jewish families from Europe, moving to Britain to escape the Nazi occupation.
At the time the flats incorporated many modern facilities, including waste disposal chutes, fully fitted kitchens and central heating – the height of luxury in the 1930s.
Many of Jerry’s family – including both his grandmothers – died in concentration camps.
He said in interviews that he took his Jewish roots with him throughout life.
And asked in the BBC interview what he would say to his five-year-old self, he said: ‘You can look at a five-year-old boy and have no idea what he’s going to wind up being.
‘The correlation between what you are at birth and what you wind up being, there are so many influences. But if you have good parents, that’s the strongest one.’
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