North London Railway
The railway continues south westwards

Post to the east Canonbury


Assata Mews
This appears to be on the site of the North Metropolitan Tramway Horse Depot built in
1896 and entered from Corsica Street.  This corner however was destroyed by the V1 in June 1944.

Calabria Road
The building of Calabria Road was approved in 1887, as part of a small estate laid out by a builder, H. Baylis.  It had a Roman name because of the supposed Roman camp at Highbury.  It cut through Highbury Place, thus destroying the symmetry of the original scheme, and allowing for the demolition of two villas. 
1 1890 house is attached to 13 Highbury Place

Canonbury Place
In 1767 Spencer Compton, the 8th Earl, leased Canonbury House, outbuildings, and adjoining grounds plus a the large pond to John Dawes, He demolished the south range of the house and on its site built five houses forming Canonbury Place, which in 1771 he leased from Lord Northampton,
Canonbury Tower.  A brick structure over sixty feet high, said to have been built by Prior Bolton of St Bartholomew's about 1520. It was at the corner of Canonbury House, a manor house belonging to the St. Bartholomew. The tower was originally in its garden, but is now separate.   At the reformation in 1539 Prior Robert Fuller, surrendered the manor and it was given to Thomas Cromwell, but later reverted to the Crown. After 1570 it was leased to John Spencer, later Lord Mayor who rebuilt it. There is some story about his daughter, Elizabeth, lowered in a basket from the tower window disguised as a boy to run off with Lord Crompton. He became the first Earl of Northampton and they inherited this property and it remains in their family. In 1616 it was leased by Sir Francis Bacon and it continued to be let out. From the 18th it has been tenanted by important figures in the world of literature, politics and the press, including dramatist Oliver Goldsmith. In 1907 it became a social centre for the Northampton Estate. In the 1960s Canonbury Tower was leased to the Tower Theatre, part of the Tavistock Repertory Company, but when the lease expired in 2003 the company moved.  The Canonbury Tower Charitable Trust was established in 1985. It is now a centre for Masonic research.
The garden of the Tower has an old mulberry tree, said to be planted in when Francis Bacon's lived there,
Canonbury House was built in the 1790s by John Dawes on the west side of the older manor house. It was later used as St.Stephen’s Vicarage
1-5 villas on the site of the demolished southern range of the original Canonbury House built 1770 – 80.
1 this was the home of architect Basil Spence
5 this was the home of Gilbert and Sullivan star George Grossmith who also wrote Diary of a Nobody.
King Edward Hall community hall was built in the garden of Canonbury House in 1907.  Used by the Tower The4atre for a while.
6-9 this is the gabled east range of Canonbury House and most recently used as a conference centre, the Canonbury Academy. Currently planned to turn it into a private school.
6 was a private girls' school and latterly Highbury and Islington High School for Girl’s. It later became the Head Quarters of the North London District Nursing Association, and then Harcourt House Medical Missionary Association.
8-9 was at one time Canonbury Children’s Centre
10-14 terraced houses which are now shops built in the mid 19th with some art nouveau features.
22-26 terrace built in 1963 by Raymond Erith,
27-30 said to include at the western end a portico from Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill  


Canonbury Road
Built as part of New North Road, in 1812  as an early through-route which by- passed Islington village to link the foot of Holloway Road at Highbury Corner with Shoreditch, Hoxton and the eastern parts of the City.
Canonbury Community Primary School. This originated as the Union Chapel British School; opened for girls in 1807, and extended for boys in 1814.  A new school was built in Compton Mews in 1836 and the school also used a room under the vestry behind the chapel from 1868. This British School building was slightly to the north of the current school. In 1871 the building in Compton Mews was transferred to the School Board for London and in 1875 the school moved to an iron bldg. in Canonbury Road in 1876. The present Board School building was opened 1877 and there have been many additions and eventual transfer to London Borough of Islington,
School keeper’s cottage. Arts and crafts style house. Built in 1910 and demolished 2012.
85 Gymboree. Branch of American child care group.  The site was until the 1950s terraced housing. It has more recently been a car showroom and car wash plus a warehouse, and a furniture showroom, with a college for students of business and accounting above.
124 Inca C-Gil.  This is the Italian Trade Union and Advice Centre.  The house was once called Compton Cottage
Dixon Clark Court, built 1964 as the Goldsmiths Place Project
Canonbury Square
Built on part of old manor of Canons Burh which came from St.Bartholomew's in the City. In 1803 it was leased to Leroux who developed it bit was bankrupt by 1809. This stretch was disposed of in 1811 after New North Road had cut through the site.  Laycock then proceeded with development. It became a poverty stricken area from the 1920s and In the Second World War some of the area was destroyed by bombing. The estate was sold in 1951 and the purchasers. Western Ground Rents, allowed gaps caused by bombing to be rebuilt, the north side of the Square by their architect-surveyor Nash. From then it has became a middle class area,
39 Northampton Lodge. The house was built before 1811 and is a gentleman's villa with a large garden, and wings containing conservatories. Converted for the Estorick Collection of Modem Italian Art, 1988.


Colebeck Mews
Terraced housing built by Dry, Halass, Dixon Partnership in 1977.  It is set around a garden and stepped back along footpaths.


Compton Avenue
Mews to Compton Terrace. The Union Chapel’s actual address is here.

Compton Terrace
A long, four-storey at the end, three-storey at the other and set back from Upper Street.  Planned in 18th by Henry Leroux, who wanted a row of linked villas like The Paragon in Blackheath flanking a smaller Union Chapel.  After building two pairs he went bankrupt in 1809 and it was finished in 1819 by Henry Flower, builder, and Samuel Kell, carpenter. The V2 in August 1944 meant that the terrace now ends at 25 – it landed on the house next to the top at the north end.
7 Dr. Ballard lived – Islington Medical Officer of Health who inspected and reported on industrial nuisances in 1871. Cast-iron Victorian porch;
Union Chapel.  The original small chapel of 1806 was replaced in 1876 by this 'Gothic tornado’. An evangelical group of Anglican and Non-conformist worshippers had had a chapel in Highbury Grove, and adopted the Union Chapel to symbolise catholicity of services and preachers for the Congregational movement.  From 1804 successful ministers expanded the congregation and the chapel became so famous that it was enlarged, and by the 1870s a new building was necessary.   The new building was by James Cubitt with the tower completed in 1889. The red brick tower contrasts with the Georgian restraint of the terrace.  The interior is outstanding, red brick and stone decorated with marble and tile and seating for 1,650. There are Art Nouveau lights with 19th gasoliers turned upside down, there is a rose window with musical angels by Frederick Drake of Exeter. There is a large hot-air heating system.  It was built by L. H. & R. Roberts, cost £50,000, and formally opened in 1877, with Gladstone in the congregation. In its first fortnight of existence Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached to a congregation of 3,365. The then Minister was a music-lover, and built up a performance reputation while organists visited from far away to play here. After the Second World War and bomb damage it was threatened with demolition, but, in 1982 a group of Friends of Union chapel became a registered charity and alternative uses discussed. It is let to recording companies, and music festivals and small theatre companies for its excellent acoustics. Above the vestry door, is a fragment of the 'Plymouth rock' on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed in Massachusetts in December, 1620. The great organ by Father Willis was installed behind the triple ironwork screen. It still has the two hydraulic pumps by which it was originally worked, though since 1926 it has had an electric motor. Apart from one stop replaced in 1909, it is as Henry Willis left it. 
Hall and Sunday School.  The school has wooden partitions within its gallery to divide individual classes.  Library bay with rolling shutter to the bookshelves.
Plaque. This is at the north end of the terrace and says:’In memory of the 26 people who lost their lives, the 150 injured, and the many bereaved when a Vergeltungswaffe Eins V1 Flying Bomb destroyed Highbury Corner at 12.46pm, 27th June, 1944’,
Public gardens.  The Terrace is cut off from the main street by a strip of garden. An engraving of 1819 shows a low wall with railings and planting behind - clothes drying was not permitted nor was storage of 'timber, stone, bricks, lime or any other material whatsoever'. ' By 1928 there were two long narrow enclosures enclosed by a low wall with railings above and lawns, flower beds and trees' but railings were removed in 1939/40 for the war effort. By 1962 a line of young trees had been planted and an island flowerbed cut into the grass. Now a privet hedge lines the path and there are two anchor-shaped flowerbeds planted seasonally with bedding plants. They were possibly the creation of Peter Bonsall, former Head of Islington's Parks and Gardens, who liked floral displays. The gardens are now surrounded by reproduction railings.
Highbury Gardens, This is at the north end of Compton Terrace and was created in 2008/09 and is administered separately.

Corsica Street
1-7 Circle 33 Housing Trust HQ. Designed by Jestico & Whiles with, executive architects Pollard Thomas & Edwards in 1993-4.
2a The Junction. Pub and bar in what claims to be the old tram depot. Called the junction – after Canonbury Junction to the rear of it,
10 St Mary's Islington Relief Station and Dispensary.  This building appears to have been used by a variety of charities and voluntary sector bodies but has now been replaced by flats.
Garden and Site of Nature Conservation Importance leased and maintained by the Highbury Railway Gardens and Allotments Society from Network Rail.
Islington Electricity Department. Built in 1934 this is a brick art deco building with the lettering and decorative features. Islington Borough generated their own electricity from1896 until nationalisation in the late 1940s
Channel Tunnel Ventilation shaft. Large circular structure. One of five ventilation shafts for the London Tunnels of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Constructed between 2001 and 2005, the shaft is 17m wide and 35m deep with an access road onto the street

Highbury Corner
The Old Road north, and the Great North Road. Now the A1 here. It reaches Highbury Corner from Upper Street and turns left into Holloway Road. It also meets St.Pauls Road from Hackney and in the 19th the New North Road to the City was added.  There are other major through routes in the area some historic and some modern which can be accessed from this point.  The corner thus acts not just as a roundabout but as a distributor for traffic coming and going northwards and to various parts of east London and the City.  The current roundabout however, is shaped as a result of the V1 attack in 1944 - making space around the corner.
Highbury Island – this is the park space in the centre of the roundabout and almost totally inaccessible.


Highbury Crescent
Designed in the 1840s by James Wagstaffe as a row of villas forming the boundary of the fields.  In 1844 Wagstaffe had secured 99-year building leases from the freeholder, Henry Dawes the shape of the road dictated by the site. Covenants had previously restricted building.
2 Wagstaffe built this for himself but the house was demolished in 1906 for extensions to Highbury Station.
3 London Training and Employment Network. The building includes a Sandemanian/Glassite meeting house which moved here in 1901 and was possibly the last remaining Sandemanian church in England. It closed in 1984. To create the chapel a large meeting room was created by turning the top floor into one room, and raising the ceiling to replace it with one of vaulted timber.  The building also at one time housed the Invalid Children’s Aid Association. It was later owned by Murphy & Sons, builders who allowed it to become in a run-down state.
5 Highbury House. Islington social services were in this building but have now moved. This is a 20th brick office block with ‘insistent verticals’.
4 Council office blocks. The site was taken up previously with the rear extension of the Highbury Imperial Picture Theatre built in Holloway Road


Highbury Fields
Acquired in 1885 by Met Board of Works and Islington Vestry and opened the same year.
Angel of Peace. South African War Memorial unveiled in 1905.  Bronze figure of Glory by Bertrand McKennal and the model for the figure was his wife. The inscription says "HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE WHO SINK TO REST BY ALL THEIR COUNTRY'S WISHES BLESS'D." IN HONOUR OF NINETY-EIGHT ISLINGTONIANS WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899 – 1903 ERECTED BY THEIR FELLOW-TOWNSMEN JULY 1905.  The memorial is flanked by two cast-iron cannon which may not form part of the original memorial
Highbury Pool. From 1921 there was an open air swimming pool with a paddling pool added after the Great War. This was one of several early 1920s LCC lidos designed by C A Smith. In 1984 a new £1.5m swimming pool was opened here. This is now Highbury Pool & Fitness Centre run by Aquaterra with two swimming pools, a gym and two exercise studios

Highbury Grove
1-3 Canonbury Telephone Exchange. This dates from 1930, and serves Canonbury and Highbury – this was CANonbury and DICkens until the late 1960s, and is now has 0207-226, 288, 354 and 359 codes. Garden in the front planted in memory of “BT colleagues whom are no longer with us”

Highbury Place
The building here was initiated by John Dawes, who owned the land in Highbury fields and designed by John Spiller as a ‘rural suburb’ with the close involvement of his sons.  It was built from 1774. Originally the south end had a gated entrance and Dawes guaranteed that the space opposite the terrace would remain open land.
1 a large house with front extension. From 1927-31 it was home of artist Walter Sickert, and adapted as a studio and artists' school including the porch and an extension beyond.  There is a plaque to Sickert on the building.
9/10 Coach House.  The coach-houses originally separated the terraces and remain in varying states.  Some were converted into workshops.
11a a replacement for villas lost to railway building. This is a workshop style building from around 1890.  Other villas adjacent were lost to the railway. The successor to the central pair is simply an open space hidden behind hoardings
12/13, these are replacement buildings for villas destroyed by the building of Calabria Road
14 was the home of John Nichols, 1826, author of a History of Highbury in 1788, and co-editor of The Gentleman's Magazine. An arched conduit head covered a spring in front this house, in Conduit Field, designed to send water to the City at Cripplegate having been built by local people on 1483.  In 1858 the cistern was surrounded with brick and available for cattle going to Smithfield.
16a Highbury Evangelical Fellowship. This was the Evangelical Brotherhood church.

Holloway Road
Since the Middle Ages the main road out of London to the north followed St John Street and Upper Street to veer left at Highbury Corner into Holloway Road. 
Highbury and Islington Station. Built in 1849 by the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway. It now lies between Canonbury and Caledonian Road and Barnsbury on the London Overground, which was Silverlink, on the North and the East London Lines. It is also between Drayton Park and Essex Road on the Great Northern Railway, now first Capital Connect, and between Finsbury Park and Kings Cross on the Victoria Line. The current station is an amalgamation of two older stations and was built by the North London Railway.  The second station was on the opposite side of the road and built by the Great Northern and City Railway on the line between Finsbury Park and Moorgate.
North London Line: In 1849 the first wooden station was erected at Highbury Corner and in 1850 the first commuter train to the City ran from this station on a new link into Fenchurch Street.   The line was extended to Kew.   In 1865 a branch from Dalston Junction allowed trains to go a new City terminus at Broad Street.  In 1870 it was renamed Islington.  And in 1872 the old wooden structure was rebuilt as a high Victorian hotel-cum-station with a steep roof with gables, chimneys, etc. It had a drive-in forecourt. The name changed to Highbury and Islington. In 1944 this station was badly damaged by the V1 attack here and was demolished in the 1960s. The original platform buildings on the westbound platform remains and there are some small remnants of the original entrance building to the left of the current station entrance.
Victoria Line. In 1968 the Victoria Line was opened here.  The current single-storey building was for its opening and provides a combined entrance for all of the lines now serving the station.
Great Northern and City Station.  This station was on the opposite side of the road and opened in 1904 by the Great Northern and City Railway on its underground line, between Finsbury Park and Moorgate. The line was operated by the Metropolitan Railway from 1913 until 1975 when the line, called the Northern City Line, was transferred to British Rail. It is now First Capital Connect.  The station’s glazed tile entrance is now whitewashed and abandoned, and it too was damaged by the V1 in 1944. When the deep level platforms for the Victoria Line were opened this building was closed and in   refurbished externally. It houses upgraded signalling equipment for the Victoria Line.
Hopping Lane
This is a small side street of post war housing, but the name is that of St.Paul’s Road.

John Spencer Square
This area was rebuilt after the Second World War, by Western Ground Rents. It is named after John Spencer who was Lord Mayor and had a retreat here in the 17th. The square has linked brick blocks of flat-roofed flats approached by staircase bridges. It is round a communal garden with trees. The architect was Western Ground Rents' surveyor,  Nash.

Keen's Yard
Was once the yard of Henry’s Keen’s building business.

Liberia Road
Roman colonial street-names presumably chosen by the Metropolitan Board of Works to commemorate the supposed Roman camp popularly supposed to have existed at Highbury

Prior Bolton Street
Prior Bolton was the last prior of St.Bartholomew and has a country house in this area.  Like the surrounding streets this is post war housing.

Railway
Canonbury Junction. This is where the goods only line leaves the North London line approaching +. A signal box here was burnt down in the early 1970s, however some of the levers from it remain alongside the line,
Canonbury Curve. This is a line from the North London line which in 1873 tunnelled under Highbury Fields between Drayton Park and Canonbury stations, connecting the Great Northern Railway suburban system with Broad Street. This gave the Great Northern direct access to the City for the first time and relieved pressure on King's Cross. 

St.Paul's Road
Was Hopping Lane, renamed in 1862.
83 Alwyne Castle Pub. At times known solely as The Alwyne, and has a beer garden in the front by the road.
85 Police Station
109 Hen and Chickens. Pub with a theatre and stand up comedy bar,.`

Upper Street
235 The Library – it has previous names of The Cedar Room, Lush Bar, Independence, Angel and Crown
253-254 Clubs and Institute Union Headquarters and offices. Providing a focus for working men's clubs around the country.
251 White Swan. Wetherspoons pub
259 Cock Tavern. Now The Famous  Cock


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North London Railway
The railway from Broad Street here runs south westwards

Post to the east Highbury Corner


Arundel Square
The last 10th square built in Islington. It has a public garden in the centre which was bought by the council in 1957 and there is a playground funded by Frederick William Vanstone. It was built on Pocock's Fields – Richard Pocock bought land here which was later developed. Building began in 1850; row-by-row and apparently the money ran out before the south side was built.  The north side has been developed with flats in 2013
1-17 these are the uses on the east side of the square, completed by 1852,
18-37 these houses on the north side were completed in 1855. Following a dispute on ownership in the 1950s they were taken over by Circle 33 Housing Trist and modernised
16-17 the original houses here were demolished for the deep railway cutting of the North London Railway which truncated the square
Gardens. These were originally managed by the Pocock's Trustees and from 1863 by a residents' committee. In 1936 playground equipment was provided through the National Air Raid Distress Fund and plaques remain on the gate piers to record those as well as a contribution by the King George's Fields Foundation. By the 1950s the garden was semi derelict and in 1957 Islington Borough Council converted it into a public park with a playground. The gardens had rose beds, but in the 1990s became overgrown ad shaded by large plane trees. It has since had a makeover from developers and has been extended with decking over the railway line and has a children's playground, table tennis, ball court with football goals and basketball hoops, a woodland walk, shrubbery.

Bride Street
Named after the Pocock family’s coal wharf in the City. 

Court Gardens
Housing on the site of the Highbury Coal Depot and sidings. The East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway to Highbury were originally to transfer coal, which had come by ship from North East England to Poplar Docks, around North London. The railway was not, at first, intended to take passengers, only to distribute coal.  To this end a large coal yard was erected at Highbury and leased to the Northumberland and Durham Coal Company, a consortium of coal owners. It was an extraordinary site, with coal handling equipment more reminiscent of the coal staithes typical of North East ports.

Crane Grove
Built up from the 1850s.
16 British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. This began as the ‘British Union’ founded at a public meeting in Bristol in 1898 by Frances Power Cobbe who had come into contact with the suffering of animals during scientific experiments in 1863. She died in 1904 and was by Dr Walter Hadwen. Since 1949, the organisation has been known as the– the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, to avoid confusion

Furlong Road
Laid out in 1839 with stuccoed terraces and paired villas. 
8 Albion Lodge built in 1884, detached and different to surrounding houses and with an openwork parapet.
18-20 Leeson Hall. Used as a Tory Social Club and centre. Although both the Islington South and Islington North Tories claimed ownership. The Club was ‘complete with vivid red velvet banquettes covered in cigarette burns, sixties bar, and permanent smell of stale beer and old men’. It had been built for the Sandemanian Church in 1886 by T. S. Archer
23-37 typical of the early 1970s. Stock-brick infill by L. R. Isaacson

Highbury Corner
The Garage – club and dance venue. This appears to have been built as a temperance billiard hall, which was briefly The Electric Cinema in 1910. It is also said to have been a tram shed.  It was a bingo hall in 1970 and, then an Irish dance hall called the Town and Country Club.

Highbury Station Road
2 Centre for Recent Drawing. Part of the Saatchi Gallery. The buildings appear to be part of the original station structures.
1-3 Circle Housing GroupLaycock Centre– this was previously Laycock Junior School but since 1982 this older part of the building has been a teachers' professional development centre.  It was originally Station Road School opened in 1885 by the School Board for London in a new building for boys, girls and infants. The school closed in 1927 and the building was used by Laycock School to the south and became their secondary department. In 1947 with other schools it moved to become part of Highbury Grove School and this building was used as the Isledon Teachers' Centre and media resources building for local schools.
Liverpool Buildings. These were model buildings from 1883 and demolished in 1971,
Albert Square. This was to the south of the road and appears to have become the site of the school.   One writer says it was taken over by the railway in 1867 – and this could account for the lack of a north side on later maps.
Cattle lairs – these were at the Liverpool Road corner and were areas where cattle, on route for Smithfield and death, could be rested overnight.

Holloway Road
The hollow way of the old north road.
2 The Highbury Imperial Picture Theatre. This opened in 1912 Built for gold miner Richard Harris and designed built by H. Courtney Constantine. The facade was brick and stone with five Ionic pillars at the entrance. It included flats on the top floor.   It was taken over by the General Theatres Ltd. in 1928, and soon after they were taken over by the Gaumont British Theatres chain. In 1933, it was re-named Imperial Picture Theatre and in the mid-1950’s re-named The Picture House. It was closed by the Rank Organisation in 1959 and demolished and a Regent Lion Service Station built on the site. This has also been demolished and a Majestic Wine Warehouse built.
6-40 School of Architecture and Interior Design, buildings by Brae & Mallalieu, 1996.
40-44 Spring House. Metropolitan University Department of Architecture and Spatial Design. This has concrete columns on the ground floor to display student models and drawings.
51 Highbury Corner Magistrates Court. Opened in 1975 with six court rooms to relieve the pressure on Old Street Magistrates Court.
52 W. H. Hayden, wholesale stationers, founded in 1829 in Paternoster Row, moved here in 1971. In 1972 they built Digby House and employed c. 70. Demolished
53/4 Highbury Brewery Founded in 1740 by William Willoughby and became Ufford and Oldershaw in 1840. The buildings were accessed via an archway off Holloway Road to allow access to rear stables. An archway is a feature of the development now on site. The brewery was taken over by Taylor Walker in 1912, when it had about 40 pubs and closed in 1914.
Highbury Gardens development on the site of the brewery and surrounding buildings,
54 The Lamb. This was the Highbury Brewery Tap and has also been recently called: Barcosa. The Tank, the Beer House, Hedgehog & Hogshead and, the Flounder & Firkin. As the Brewery Tap it has been rebuilt in the 19th for the Highbury Barn Brewery.  In 1840 this was Uffold and Oldhaw.  The pub had a well, and had to keep boring as water table fell.
Hopkins Engineering works 1950s-1960s
81 The Bailey. Pub previously called The Castle
97-99 The Wig and Gown. Pub which was previously called ‘Li’l Red’ Closed (lost their licence). Before the Second World War the premises had been used by electrical engineers and asbestos manufacturers. In the 1970s this was the ‘Black Centre’ run by black activist Michael X. 
St. Mary Magdalene. This is the parish church of Lower Holloway built in 1814, as a chapel of ease to St Mary, Islington and as an evangelical bias. It is a tall, gaunt bay box with stone porches, and a tower with a vestry below to a design by William Wickings. The bell tower has eight bells, cast by John Warner and Son at Spitalfields in 1875. They are a “maiden” ring and have never been re-tuned. There is an organ of 1814 by George Pike England, with a mahogany case; altered by Willis, 1867, and N.P. Mander, 1947. There is a War Memorial of 1918 from Offord Road Drill Hall with a bronze relief and   a   painting by the churchwarden, William Wickings, who was also the Middlesex County Surveyor.
Gardens. This is the churchyard which is very large and was provided to cater for big increase in population. It was opened to the public at the end of the 19th.
Islington coroner’s court and mortuary. These have been adapted to provide a school for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and two houses. They have previously been used by the Council’s Parks Department for the storage of vehicles and goods,

Laycock Street
Named for Richard Laycock, 18th dairy farmer and developer who also had cattle lairs here to rest cattle en route to deaths at Smithfield.
28 Central Islington Medical Centre. Part of a larger development by Brady Mallalieu Architects with One Housing Group.
Transenna Works of Tidmarsh and Sons, Window and Sun Blind manufacturer, since 1843.This building is now flats
London General Omnibus Company factory. This lay on both sides of the road by the 1880s and had closed by at least 1915 when the site was in other use.  LGOC had other works in the area including a large coach building establishment in Caledonian Road and it is assumed that this works was complimentary and eventually superseded by it.
Laycock Street Council School opened in 1915 for boys, girls and infants.   In 1927-32 it was used reorganised and by 1939 had juniors in the Laycock Street building. In 2012 a modernisation programme has seen the school greatly extended including accommodation for hearing impaired children. The outside of the school is decorated with mosaic panels.
Laycock Green.   Green space and playground including an area to encourage sparrows.
Laycock Mansions. Inscriptions over the windows state that this was built in 1910, financed by a trust set up in the will of Samuel Lewis. Born in Birmingham, Lewis began by selling steel pens, opened a jeweller’s shop and became a financier and, philanthropist. This was the first building.

Liverpool Road
Old back lane to Upper Street, named in 1822.  An attractive stretch of similar two- or three-storey terraces and pairs of villas of the 1830s and 40s, extending to the large leafy churchyard beyond.  Built up between 1820 and 1840.  Some superior houses part of the development of Barnsbury.  East side was always more miscellaneous and has been much rebuilt.
489 Adam and Eve. In Paradise Terrace and first noted in 1851. It was a Watney Coombe Reid house and later Whitbread. Converted to a restaurant.
St.Mary Magdalene School. This all ages Church of England school opened in 2007 in a flashy new building and has a web site totally devoid of content . This is on the site of St.Mary Magdalene Church of England Primary School which was originally the church school of the parish church St.Mary in Upper Street founded in 1710. They moved here in 1815 as the Chapel of Ease School on the Madras System. This school was destroyed by a bomb in  1940.  A new school was opened in 1953 on the same site by Norman and Dowbarn. 
441 Duchess of Kent. First noted 1843 – and presumably named for Victoria’s mother,
Samuel Lewis Buildings. This is a philanthropic tenanted block with art nouveau lettering and five rows of trees. This is the earliest of eight schemes for this housing trust, all designed by C. S. Joseph & Smithem.  There are five rows of flats with trees between.  They were built on the site of Laycock's cattle lairs

Madras Place
Named for the Madras system of education used at St Mary Magdalene Church of England School. The Madras, or Monitorial system was where a schoolmaster would teach a small group of brighter or older pupils basic lessons, and each of them would then relate the lesson to another group of children. It was developed in Madras by Rev. Andrew Bell
Site of public toilets where in 1963, Joe Meek was arrested for importuning.  The playwright Joe Orton also frequented it.

Orleston Mews
This was once Union Mews

Orleston Street
This was once Union Street

Sheringham Road
Freightliners Farm. The Farm was founded on wasteland behind Kings Cross station in 1973 where the animals were housed in railway goods vans, hence the name. It moved here in 1978 and new farm buildings erected in 1988.  There is an ornamental garden, with flowers and a kitchen garden with herbs, fruit trees and bushes. The Farm has rare breed pigs and goats, lambs and chicks, Dexter cows, and sheep or goats.  There are 5 beehives, producing honey as well as beeswax

Westbourne Road
Metzo. This takeaway was once the Arundel Arms
St.Clements Church. Built in 1864 and designed by Gilbert Scott.  The building is mow flats. War Memorial, this is on the street facing wall and above the lists of names is a cross, a small shield.  Below the names, on a frieze:” Greater love hath no man than this” and below that “Rest eternal, grant them, O Lord. Let light perpetual shine upon them”.

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Nature Conservation in Islington
Pevsner and Cherry.  London North
Robbins. North London Railway
Willatts. Streets with a Story

North London Railway
The Railway from Dalston Junction runs south westwards


Barnsbury Terrace
Historians of the 18th and 19th claimed this was the site of a ‘The pretorium of a Roman camp’, this is now thought to have been a moated medieval farm. The street was built up from the 1820s
The Courtyard. This is a group of five houses built in the 1970s using London stock brick. They were designed by Tim Tomlinson Associates, and developed by the construction firm Dove Brothers
17 2020 Archery.  Indoor archery range.


Barnsbury Wood
This is a space of about 0.86 acre behind the houses of Hemingford Road, Huntingdon Street, Crescent Street and Thornhill Crescent. It was originally a garden belonging to developer George Thornhill and then an area for the Vicarage at 7 Huntington Street but the area gradually reverted to woodland and by the 1960s had mature trees. The Council bought the site for housing but access problems meant it was left in a semi-natural state. In 1981 a co-operative was formed by local residents to buy and manage the site. It had then 74 trees, with ducks, jays, kestrels and wood pigeons. It was then set up as an ecological park.

Belitha Villas
Belitha was the landowners name and the street dates from the 1840s.

Bridgeman Road
Rev. Bridgeman was a vicar of St.Andrews Church
West Branch Library. A replacement for two terraced houses built in 1905-7 designed by Beresford Pite. It was also the fourth library funded in Islington by Andrew Carnegie.  It is in a classical style with acanthus motifs and capitals based on the Temple of Epicurus at Bassae plus Art Nouveau features. The inside was planned through the progressive librarianship of James Duff Brown. 

Bemerton Estate
The rest of the area west of Caledonian Road was rebuilt from 1947 by the London County Council

Caledonian Road
This was a turnpike road built on the line of an old lane – until 1853 it was called The Chalk Road. It was built privately in 1826 by the The Battle Bridge and Holloway Road Co. and was a toll road by to link New Road with the Great North Road.
Caledonian Road Station. The station opened in 1852 to deal with traffic from the cattle market on the North London Line on the west side of Caledonian Road. It was renamed in 1870 as Barnsbury and was soon after relocated to the east side of Roman Road.
Caledonian Road and Barnsbury Station.  A subway connected the platforms to Caledonian Road. In 1968 an entrance was opened here south of the line with a path to the platforms linked by a footbridge. Following upgrading work in 2012 there is a footpath, with Oyster readers, from Caledonian Road to the entrance of the station
Signal Boxes – the original box was replaced by one o the other side of the line. And was closed in 1970
297 Kennedy’s Bar. This was previously called the Edinburgh Castle Pub
325 Variety Picture Palace. For a few years, 1909 until 1915 this building, now a solicitor’s office, operated as a cinema
342 The Prince. This pub was originally the Prince of Wales and had also been called The Islington Bar.
379 Doyle's Tavern. This was called the Prince Arthur from 1869 but has also been called the Pride of the West and the Tirconail Bar.
North London Railway Bridge. Until 2013 this had an advertisement on it for Ferodo brake linings. This has now been replaced
Coal shoots along the south east side of the railway in the 1870s
Kings Court. Posh housing in a gated development at the back of what was Arthur Terrace –linked to the Prince Arthur pub. The site was Arthur Mews.
388 Islington Glass. This shop was the Offord Arms Pub on site in 1851

Carnoustie Drive
1a Coatbridge House. Bemerton Children's Centre. Services include early learning and childcare

Crescent Street
1 and 2 were demolished to facilitate access to Barnsbury Wood

Frederica Street
Before redevelopment in the 1970a it featured in 'The Ladykillers’ with a house specially built for the film. The road has however been realigned.

Freeling Street
Graffiti dog with earphones.

Hemmingford Road
115 Huntingdon Arms. This was later know as The Cuckoo but since 2011 has been a restaurant.
158 Hemingford Arms. Pub with flowers outside

Huntingdon Street
7 this was originally a Vicarage. Behind it was a large garden which is now Barnsbury Wood. This is the biggest house in the row and backs directly on to it. It later became a private school, and then divided into flats.

Offord Road
One of Thornhill’s sons was rector of Offord D'Arcy.  Plain terraces.
38 Bath Sorts. This was a pub called the Prince Alfred
Offord Road Congregational Church. Built by Sanders and Bedells in 1857 and closed in 1918. It has been in industrial use since.

Offord Street
This back road was small houses but is now Roman Way Trading Estate.
Caledonian Road and Barnsbury Station. The original station opened din 1852 on the East and West India Dock and Birmingham Junction Railway. In 1870 the North London Railway moved the station and renamed it ‘Barnsbury’ with an entrance on Roman Road and then on Caledonian Road. It was later renamed ‘Caledonian Road plus Barnsbury’ and Caledonian Road and Barnsbury from 1893. The area around the line was designed for the transport of cattle.  Upgrading work in 2012 has led to more changes and the station entrance on Offord Street leads to the old westbound platform from which a footbridge gives access to the new island platforms, numbered 2 and 3. Probably to distinguish from the old platform 1.
Carriage sidings. There were two carriage siding south of the tracks with coal sidings to the west – some of which must be covered by the buildings of Roman Way Trading Estate

Roman Way
Until 1938 this was Roman Road
114 This was the City of Rome Pub.  Built by Charles Thompson and William Crosswell in 1853
Caledonian Road and Barnsbury Station. Station building designed by Edwin Henry Horne was built on the west side of the road as Barnsbury Station. In 1893 this was renamed ‘Caledonian Road and Barnsbury’.  In 1920 this entrance closed and in 1968 Horne’s building was demolished.

Suttereton Street
Local Authority housing built 1972

Thornhill Crescent
Built by Samuel Pocock, from a family of local dairy farmers in 1852 - 44 years after the first talk of the project. The houses were built with conservatories at the rear, many of which remain.
St. Andrew's Church. Named to go with the Scottish named workmen’s dwellings in the area built after the construction of the prison. The decision to build had been taken at two parish meetings because of the overcrowding and rising, population. It was one of the largest churches in the suburbs built in. 1852-4 with a design chosen by competition, won by Francis Newman and John Johnson, and built by Dove Brother in ‘fashionable’ Kentish rag.  It cost much more than the original stipulated price. Initially the congregation sometimes crowded it out but the population began to fall in the mid-20th and In the 1960s pews and pulpit were removed to allow more community space. The interior was partitioned for a school-room, kitchen and coffee room, quiet room and offices.

Thornhill Estate
The estate was laid out by surveyor Joseph Kaye. The Thornhill family came from Yorkshire with Islington property let as a dairy farm but it was a very poor area.  George Thornhill saw it as appropriate for development in the late 18th and commissioned a surveyor, Henry Richardson to draw up a building lease but the plan failed following quarrels.  In 1812 the Regent's Canal, of which Thornhill was a proprietors, was built increasing the estates’ value. His son was also involved in local development companies and Joseph Kay continued as manager of the development.

Thornhill Square
This is Islington's largest square, and has a Public garden in the centre. Building started in 1847 by G. S. S. Williams. It is not a square, but two crescents bounding a 'square' with two built sides. Yet after the Second World War it was run down, and after the death of Noel Thornhill, in 1955 its future was uncertain. There were rumours of a break-up followed; but in 1970 99 per cent, was still owned by the Trustees of the Thornhill Estate although many of the freeholds were purchased by occupants,
33 this was the Buffalo Club –a workingmen’s club
Gardens.  This was Islington's largest though private recreational space until the 1880s. In 1946 they handed the gardens over to the Council for public use, and opened by the Mayor in 1947. In 1953 they were newly laid out as part of Coronation Year improvements.


Wheelwright Street
This was originally called Market Street and was named after the Commanding Officer of the local militia.  The north side is entirely taken up with the prison wall. There were at one time cottages here for prison staff.

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The North London Line
The North London line continues to travel south westwards from Dalston Junction, it crosses the East Coast Mainlines into King Cross and there are junctions with lines going south

Post to the east Barnsbury

Bemerton Estate
The area was rebuilt from 1947 by the London County Council
Blundell Street
Robert Blair Primary School. This began as a temporary school in 1872 opened by the School Board of London in Blundell Street mission rooms and some girls in a Primitive Methodist Chapel. Blundell Street Board School opened in 1873 for all children. It was renamed the Robert Blair school in 1936. Robert Blair was Chief Education Officer for the London County Council.
107 Carnevale. Italian delicatessen produce. In 1966 brothers, Carmine and Giovanni Carnevale, from Capracotta began manufacturing and selling mozzarella and ricotta in London. Some of their range is made here at their purpose built site.
Acorn Production Centre. Factory converted into trading units in 1985
Parish Hall on the Acorn centre site in 1916
102 The Albion Pub. This is now closed and become flats.
55-83 Russell Hume. Meat and Poultry dealers
53 Lawson’s, builders merchant


Brandon Road
In the 19th and area of soap works, skin dressers, manure works, costers, etc.  They included a firm who moved here from Cow Cross Street received condemned meat from City markets. Its owners were summoned before the magistrates three times in one year. There was also a slaughterhouse for diseased cattle, this was refused a licence and forced to close.
2 Prior Burners Ltd, manufacturers of furnaces and boilers were here in the 1940s
34 Merry & Co. made buses here in the 1920s
North London Soap Works here in 1896

Brewery Road
Called after Gordon’s Brewery which was at the end of the road not in this square
Belle Isle Mission. Baptist Chapel. This was a mission from Camden Road Baptist Church. A Sunday school was held in a loft over a cowshed and a hall built in 1870. The Belle Isle mission chapel dated from1878. This was bombed and destroyed in 1941


Bunning Way
Modern housing on the site of part of the Caledonian Road Goods and Coal Depot on sidings from the Great Northern Line although alongside the North London Line.
Caledonian Road Goods and Coal Depot . The Great Northern railway built a sharply graded branch from lines around the Camden Goods Depot on the down side of the main line going north. It ran under the North London Line and then ran up onto the top of the retaining wall over the Copenhagen Tunnel to a siding from which it could reverse. It then ran down again on the other side of the main line to this goods depot with five sidings parallel to the North London line, although there was no connection to it. It had opened in 1878 and closed in 1967.

Gifford Street
The southwards turn of the road was once called East Street and led down to join Randalls Road. In the 1870s this was the only exit to the street and Gifford Road’s eastward end did not exist.
Railway embankment – land at the back of the northern terrace of Gifford Street was acquired by compulsory purchase for the Channel Tunnel High Speed rail link; the line now runs beneath it.  Much of the site is now one for Nature Conservation.
64 Christ Apostolic Church. Outside is a plaque to The Keskidee which between 1971 and 1992 was Britain's first arts and cultural centre for the Black community. It was opened originally in 1861 as the Gifford Mission Hall. The church was partly burnt down in 2012
St.Andrew's Mission Hall. This is shown on the 1914 map as being in the elbow bend at the east end of Gifford Road and the south bound road then known as East Street. The building is now let as a warehouse to Italian food importer Foodhouse Ltd.
Beaconsfield Buildings. Blocks built by the Victoria Dwellings Association, originally the Metropolitan Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Association which had started work in Battersea.  They were named for Prime Minister Disraeli in 1887 ad designed by Charles Barry, intended to emulate the philanthropic work of Peabody. Built on what was the called Stroud Vale. Known locally as ‘The Crumbles’ It was taken over by the GLC in 1967 and later demolished There is now modern housing on the site.
Board School. This was on the east side of what was at one time East Street.  This had originally opened in 1872 as Gifford Street Board School initially in a local mission hall. The new building opened in 1877 and it was later enlarged in the 1890s following re-use of the mission. It was reorganised in 1947-51 as Gifford Secondary School and Closed in 1960. The Site was used for Bishop Gifford Roman Catholic Secondary School which closed in 1967. It was later used by St. William of York for their Upper School.  The school was demolished very suddenly in 2000 by a developer and there is now housing on the site.
Coach house. Flats but also used as an art gallery and offices.

Pembroke Street
Crumbles Castle. Adventure Playground.
Spark Plug. A project working with young people on bicycles and motor cycles

Railway
East Coast Main Line. The Great Northern Railway line from Maiden Lane to Peterborough was opened in 1850 and designed by engineer Thomas Brassey. The final mile into London was built by Pearce and Smith and John Jay including the Copenhagen Tunnel. 
Copenhagen Tunnel. On 27 March 1849 the first brick for the tunnel was laid by Edward Purser. The current middle bore is the original tunnel and from 1886 took down trains both Fast and Slow.  The western bore was built in 1877 for Up and Down Goods lines. The eastern bore was built in 1886 taking up trains, both Fast and Slow.
Copenhagen Junction. This is marked on maps near the mouth of the Copenhagen Tunnel.   This was originally a simple junction between the lines into Kings Cross and those into the Goods Yard.  As lines were added and the bores added to the tunnel so the junction became more complex.  It is now the point at which the Channel Tunnel Rail Link crosses the East Coast Main Line.
Copenhagen Junction Signal Box
Belle Isle Signal Box. This was opened in 1886 when the third tunnel bore was opened and it closed in 1968
Goods and Mineral Junction Signal box which was opened in 1877 and closed in 1975
Lines diverged to the east to a variety of destinations within the Kings Cross Goods Yard and railway infrastructure. These destinations included – from east to west – Potato Warehouse, Midland Shed, Goods Arrival and Departure Sheds, Canal Basin, Eastern, Western and Plimsoll Coal Drops, Sidings and Engine Sheds.
Channel Tunnel Rail Link High Speed Line. This runs between London and the entrance to of the Channel Tunnel. A complex junction has been built north of St Pancras which connects to both the East Coast Main Line and the North London Lone. It runs from St.Pancras across the northern area of the old goods yards following the routes of the vast complex of lines which were once there.  It passes over the East Coast Main Line and turning east to parallel the North London Lone and then goes underground before reaching the Caledonian Road.
North London Line. This crosses the lines out of Kings Cross and the old goods complex on a viaduct south of Copenhagen Tunnel entrance. This collapsed during the construction of the Copenhagen Tunnel


Rufford Street
Part of this was previously James Street.
Necropolis Station. The Kings Cross funeral station was promoted by the Great Northern London Cemetery Company in 1858. This site was the second choice for them and agreed with the Great Northern Railway Company in 1859.   This was to take bodies out of London to be buried in a new cemetery at Colney Hatch.  It is thought the buildings were designed by Edward Alexander Spurr. It was a two storey building build into the side of the cutting with a tower and wedge shaped spire. It included several waiting rooms and a mortuary which had hydraulic lifts to the platforms. Two railway tracks ran into the station through a covered train shed. There were stained glass windows, a ventilation system and gas lighting which was permanently on. It was not a success and the service closed down in 1863. GNR took the buildings over in the 1870s and demolished the train shed to widen their lines. The spire was removed in the 1950s and the building was known by local children as ‘the old bombed church’. It was demolished in 1962 and the site was used for industry
RMC Concrete factory. The factory built in 1963-4 replacing the mortuary complex. The brick retaining wall is apparently the original wall of the mortuary.

Stroud Vale
Stroud Vale was the name applied, roughly to the area to the south of the North London Railway Line. Hence Beaconsfield Buildings, in Gifford Street, noted above, are described as being in Stroud Vale.

Tileyard Road
The area was generally known as Belle Isle – an area of piggeries and smelly kilns.
Called Tileyard Road from 1897 replacing Lows Lairs.  In the late 18th there were tile kilns here and a track was called Tile Kilns Road, later Tile Yard Road. Adams had kilns here and their site was taken over by Tylors. Adams made chimney pots and garden pots. In 1829 they had a large kiln and a smaller one used as a storehouse, and sheds and cottages.
20 Sands sandwich makers. In the 1920s this was a feather merchant, The British Feather Co.
18 Tileyard House. At one time this was a printworks
Tylors Water testing tower. Tylors were set up in 1797 and made water metering and testing equipment.   A hundred foot high tower containing three water tanks at different heights was built here to calibrate the meters. The tanks were connected to test beds in the factory.  The tower was built in 1870 and demolished in 1983
Ebonite–By 1967 the factory had been taken over by Ebonite Container Co. Tylors tower remained in their works and had their name on it. They used the tower as a boiler flue in making plastic accumulator boxes. Ebonite and Bakelite manufacturers. "Ebcon" Hard Rubber Mallets
Belle Isle Works (Engineering and brass)
St.Pancras Iron Works. This firm is said to have been founded by Henry Bessemer at his Baxter House works in Pancras Road. It later operated as a general iron founding company making street furniture and other items from a works at Belle Isle.

Vale Royal
This appears to be on the line of a road once called Pleasant Grove and known for its horse slaughterers.  In 1804 it was Belfield which become in time Belle Isle. Once the centre of slaughterhouses and obnoxious trades.  In the 13th it had been attached to Vale Royal Abbey in Cheshire. By 1806 it was owned by a Samuel Brandon who had a hartshorn and pottery factory there. There were many others - Tin burning ‘a miserable trade’ as well as varnish and lead works, manure works and others connected the processing of dead cattle and horses. . The area was one of many bad neighbour trades – inspected and described by Dr. Ballard during his time as Medical Officer of Health in Islington in the 1870s.
Jenson and Nicholson had a white lead and paint factory here from Bethnal Green. In 1870 their works was burnt down and the Great Northern Railway wanted their site.
40 Henson Foods. Salt beef specialists

York Way
The road is the old boundary between Islington and St Pancras, It winds its way between railway land and warehouses.
Maiden Lane station. This was east of the road and north of the North London Line. It was used 1887-1917, closed as a war time measure it never reopened. The building was demolished in the 1970s but some pieces of wall of the street level buildings survive alongside the road.
The Fitzpatrick Building. The headquarters of  Mark Fitzpatrick for the building firm by Chassay Architects, 1988-91.  It is ‘Extravagantly Postmodern’ with green granite and terracotta, and a glazed comer tower..
17 New Market Ale House. This is a B&B once called The New Market Inn.
200 Egg. Nightclub
202-208 Fayers. Old established plumbing supplies company
230 Just Add Water. Bathroom supply company
244 Rosie Mccanns. This was once called The New Copenhagen
256 Butchers Arms Pub. Now closed and used as flats.
North Western Commercial Centre. Industrial estate
North London Line bridge
CTRL bridge. York Way was lowered in 2004 to run under the new viaduct,

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North London Railway
The Railway continues to run westwards from Dalston Junction

Post to the east The Ladykillers


Agar Grove
This was once St.Paul’s Road. The name recalls Agar Town which lay to the south of here on land later occupied by Midlands Railway warehouses. William Agar was a lawyer who had leased the land in the early 19th
9-11 Housing Association flats by Levia Bernstein built in the 1980s. six brick flats on receding storeys, echo the 19th neighbours.
Agar Grove Estate.  London Borough of Camden housing built 1965. Made up of 249 homes arranged in a series of low-rise blocks clustered around Lulworth Tower.
Lulworth. 18 storey tower block of local authority housing
25 Murray Arms Pub. Closed 2011 and now flats
K2 Telephone kiosk at the junction with Murray Street
Railway. In 1868 railway building of cut and cover tunnels passed under the road
St. Paul’s Road Goods Junction Signal Box was alongside the road ridge at what is now Agar Grove.  It was between the goods lines and the fast line and controlled the traffic in and out of the goods yard.
St Pauls Road Passenger Junction Signal Box was on the north side of the bridge over what is now Agar Grove and controlled the fast and slow lines out of St.Pancras Station.


Agar Town
This was the area of Agar Town named after William Agar, a lawyer who lived locally at Elm Lodge. Agar Town was low-quality housing for poor people and was generally considered a slum. In 1841 Agar's widow leased out small plots on the north side of the canal. Ownership passed to the Church Commissioners, who sold it to Midland Railway. From 1866 the company demolished most of the housing to make way for warehouses.


Barker Drive
This is part of the area of Elm Village
Elm Lodge. This was the home of William Agar and is said to have been in the Barker Drive area. He had who purchased the lease of the manor house of St. Pancras belonging to the Prebend of St.Paul’s cathedral, from the executors of Henry Newcombe, in 1810. It then had a coach house, stable, yard garden, grounds, and fields. He is however said to have built Elm Lodge.


Bergholt Mews
This is part of the area of Elm Village


Blakeney close
This is part of the area of Elm Village

Camden Square
This was developed slowly from the late 1840s and was intended as the centrepiece of the Marquis of Camden's New Town development. In 1860 there were still no houses but it was built up by 1871.
Railway. In 1868 railway building of cut and cover tunnels affected the development of the square. The line was the first out of St Pancras and Two tunnels pass diagonally beneath Camden Square
Gardens. The central gardens were for the private use of the square's inhabitants, and remain overlooked by the surviving terraces. It was maintained by a Committee of inhabitants out of rates levied on the occupiers. There were gravelled pathways, lawns, trees, flowers and shrub borders. It is now enclosed by modern railings – the originals going for metal collections in the Second Wrold War - and the original layout of serpentine walks survives with some mature trees, Camden Council took over management in the 1950s
An adventure playground was developed by the Council on the site of tennis courts in the 1960s and remodelled in the 1980s.   The tennis court hut has been used by ARP wardens and fire watchers during the Second World War.  The site is now a play centre facing onto Murray Road
First weather station is commemorated, but is not visible to the general public. It was established by G.J.Symons around 1860. He lived and worked in the square and produced each month Symons's Meteorological Magazine and annual volumes of British Rainfall. He died in 1900 and his work was continued until 1920 when the British Rainfall Organisation became part of the Meteorological Office, and British Rainfall was published until 1960 and the Meteorological Magazine until 1993.  In 1957 the station moved from his house, 62, a short distance to the gardens in Camden Square where it continued until 1969. It was the only long-standing inner-London climatological station in a thoroughly urban environment. It therefore provides us with an idea of the inner-city climate.
Hillier House Housing Association. Built over the railway tunnel. The original houses 47-48 were demolished for the railway in the 19th.
50-52 London Irish Centre. founded in 1955 by two Catholic priests, as a hostel for Irish immigrants It has since been extended with banqueting suites, a glazed way and other facilities. Founded to support the needs of thousands of newly-arrived Irish emigrants it has developed into the largest Irish welfare and community organisation in Britain.  In the 1950s, the house had been the West London Methodist Mission’s hostel for young offenders, and later for unmarried mothers and their babies, called Henry Carter House
62 This was the house of George Symons and His weather vane still stands in the garden.  The house was owned by the Royal Meteorological Society from 1922 and residents undertook observations. The West Africa Students Union was here 1938-1952.
66 at the rear of the house is another house which lies alongside Murray Street at its junction with Camden Mews. This is by Rodger Davis, Peter Bell & Partners and built in 1984-5. It is constructed in timber over a brick plinth.


Camley Street
Camley Street on its current (2014) route is essentially a new road extended from what was Cambridge Street to the south and running northwards through the defunct Midland Railway goods yards. In this present section it passes under the North London Railway and appears to pick up the route of what was Lomax Street, later Wrotham Road, and then comes to a dead end.  It also appears to follow the same route as Wharf Road which appears to have been to the east. It passes through a trading and light industrial area.
Railway Bridge.  The road passes under the North London Railway viaduct through a brick passage with raised pavement on either sides and with bricked up arches appearing to go into other parts of the viaduct.  No maps show Camley Street passing under the railway until after 2000.
Camley Street Link. The raised pavement continues from the underpass and provides a pedestrian/cycle route beyond the blocked end of Camley Street to Agar Grove. There is also a link to the Maiden Lane Estate


Cobham Mews
1 Gustafson Porter architects office in David Chipperfield's former Agar Studios, defined by an exposed concrete spine wall and courtyard spaces. It is a two storey office with shared formal entrance Built on a former scrapyard


Elm Village
This consists of the housing association properties in Barker Drive, Bergholt Mews, Blakeney Close and Rossendale Way.  The current Village is a London Borough of Camden development on some of the Midland Railway Goods Yard site – in particular on the site of a coal depot and marshalling yard. Some of the land as used for an industrial estate and the housing was bordering the canal. It was built in 1983 but Instead of the council housing proposed in the 1970s, it was a mixture of low-rent low-cost housing for sale and completed 1984-5 by Peter Afud Associates


Freight Lane
The north London Railway goods depot south of the line and the Maiden Lane depot were used 1854-1866.
1 Metroline Depot. Bus depot for Metroline, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore based ComfortDelGro Corporation


Maiden Lane Estate
The Maiden Lane Estate is a London Borough of Camden housing estate designed by Scottish Corbusian architects George Benson and Alan Forsyth, and built between 1979 and 1982. It was built on the site of the Maiden Lane Goods Depot. This was one of the last of Camden's grand schemes, planned from 1973.  Phase one, by Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth, was begun then and phase two, running up to York Way, added in 1978-83.  It has a ruthlessly diagrammatic grid of terrace steps up above garages, with living rooms on the upper floors and the general effect is of a 'chilly uniformity' all white walls and stained timber. 
Maiden Lane Goods Depot. This goods yard for North London Railway included cattle pens for stock unloaded here for the meat market and also facilities for the distribution of coal.   At one time the yard included a special parcel service jointly staffed by railway and GPO personnel.  In the Second World War this was used as a depot for distributing air raid shelters around London. From 1965 it was the York Way Freightliner terminal.


Murray Mews
This was originally Camden Mews South and was a 17th type mews pattern: intended for stables and coach houses to service the townhouses in Camden Square. It was laid out with mains drainage and granite setts.
Railways - In 1868 railway building of cut and cover tunnels passed under the road and thus development curtailed because of pollution from the railway
12 Built in 1988 by Sean Madigan and Stephen Donald:  it has been seen as a return to formality. 
15-19 built 1964-5 by Team 4 which included Foster and Rogers.  Each house has a different plan.
20 Built 1965-9, for Richard Gibson. It has an L-shaped front in brick behind tall matching garden walls. Inside is a large open-plan galleried living room on the first floor. .
22 by Team 21, an original mews house

Railway
The Midland Railway opened its line into St.Pancras Station in 1868. On nationalisation in 1948 it became the Midand Region of British Railways.  Lines fanned out southwards to not only into the passenger station itself and onto its City line but also to a wide complex of coal drops, a goods shed and other goods facilities.
North London Incline. This line was used only for freight traffic from 1887 to 1975. 


Rossendale Road
Part of Elm Village

St. Paul’s Mews
Select town houses by CZWG 1987.  Behind entrance gates, a single gatehouse-like block

St.Paul's Crescent
This 19th street leads to the blocks and courts of Maiden Lane Estate.

Wrotham Road
Site of St.Thomas church. Built 1864, bombed and demolished


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North London Railway
The railway from Dalston Junction continues westwards

On this page some buildings appear more than once - since they front onto more than one street as well as having canal frontages

Post to the east Camden Town


River Fleet
The River Fleet, deep below the streets and the canal in pipes, flows in a south easterly direction.

Barker Drive
Camden Garden Centre. The centre is on some of the old Midland Railway goods yard. It was founded in 1983 and also acts as a charity and a training centre for disabled people.
Elm Village open space. Small park and children’s playground built on old Midland Railway Goods Yard land and up against the North London Line embankment.
Baynes Street
Previously called Prebend Street. Later named after Sydney Baynes, Chief Electrical Engineer to Camden Borough.  He set up the local electrical generating system having already done so in Bradford.
Baynes Street garden, canal side open space and green gym
Bruges Place. This is on what was on a bomb site, originally zoned by planners for industrial use.  Architects, Jestico and Wiles, apparently insisted on four storeys of mixed use development and this is what the buildings are.
15-20 The Helen Bamber Foundation. This is a human rights charity founded in 2005. It provides medical consultation, legal protection and support to survivors of human rights violations.
Bonny Street
Previously called Brecknock Street it was, named Bonny Street from 1871
13-23 Camden Road Station.  Opened in 1870 it now lies between Caledonian Road and Barnsbury Station and Kentish Town West on Silverlink North London Line - North London Railway. The original 1850 station was to the east of the current site. This Station was built in 1870 By EH Horne for the North London Railway and was called Camden Town. It was in stock brick with stone dressings and had a single entrance front between Camden Road and Bonny Street.  There were arched opening with circular tracery above. The Bonny Street elevation had 4 arched windows per floor, with herringbone brick infills and a parapet panel inscribed in sunken letters NORTH LONDON RAILWAY. The station complex continues with offices and former waiting rooms above goods stores at nose 13-19. Inside the triangular booking hall has a central cast-iron column. A Booking office was installed here in 1984. The stairs are original with cast-iron rails leading up to the platforms. The west-bound platform had a canopy supported on cast-iron columns with ornamental spandrels. It is the only survivor of the Italianate brick station buildings erected in the 1870s on the North London Railway. It was renamed Camden Road in 1950 and was refurbished in 1984 by British Railways and the Greater London Council.
Goods department offices were to the west.
1c Robur distillery. This appears to have been some sort of alcoholic tonic drink. There have been a number of other beverages with this name since which seem to have connections to tea or to oak.
Gilbeys stables for 72 horses here before the Great War. In 1893 part of Gilbey’s No. 5 Bond, which was under the railway arches of Camden Road station, was converted into stables. These could accommodate 104 horses which it is assumed worked in the Goods Depot where Gilbeys had its main operation.
Twyman House. 1960s office block and home to a number of good causes. It has now been demolished.


Camden Gardens
Camden Gardens is a social housing development for Community Housing Association by Jestico and Whiles. There are 27 affordable, houses and flats, some designed for special needs. Some of the units face the canal.

Camden Road
This was a turnpike road on the line of an old lane connecting Camden Town with Holloway. It was intended to take it to Tottenham, cutting across the new estate in Camden Town. It was laid out 1820s and finished in 1826 by the newly formed Metropolitan Turnpike Trust.  The Camden end was quickly built up early
St.Michael. A church by Bodley & Garner, their first London church, built between 1880 and 1994. With a tall front rising from the street. It looks, urban, but like a 14th Friary church but the tower was never built. There is a brass to the first vicar. Rev. E.B. Penfold, 1907.
The congregation was begun in 1881 at a building nearby where a betting shop now stands; a service was held in the shop to begin the celebrations for the church's 125th anniversary in 2002.
Sainsbury’s. This metallic building is on the site of the ABC Bread Co. building and was designed in 1985 by Nicholas Grimshaw. London Borough of Camden wanted a mixed-use development here.  The scheme is on top of an underground car park and the ground floor sales areas a column-free space with an arched roof. All the support and areas are on the first floor level to allow for a yard space. There are columns around the edge of the sales area with brackets above them and supporting the arches of the sales area roof. It is a High-Tech solution.
17-21 the Aerated Bread Company building had its own wharfs and cranes for unloading barges on the canal. ABC had a tiled 1920s façade on Camden Road. The Company was incorporated in 1862 as bakers and confectioners. The first bakery was in Islington and then moved to Soho. The Camden Road factory was built before 1930 when the firm had 150 branched in London and 250 tea rooms. They were taken over by Allied Bakeries Ltd in 1955 and are thought to have closed down in the early 1980's. What records exist of their past were found in this derelict factor.
21 British Automobile Traction Co.Ltd were at this, now demolished, address in the 1920s. They ran a private bus service.
25 British Transport Police. Shirley House. The force moved there in 2002 from a previous headquarters in Tavistock Square. It is thought that the Fleet River runs beneath this,
Bridge over the Grand Union Canal. This is also known as North Road Bridge. Built 1816-20 in brick and stone with later alterations.  It has a single arch and a solid parapet with piers and stone coping. The road itself has been strengthened in the late 19th with cast-iron girders and there is a 20th steel staircase on the west parapet.  Masonic stone or bench mark without the arrow set in it
43-45 Station Hotel. This is now offices. It was the Bar Zaar for a while.
79 Office block being converted to housing. Used by London Borough of Camden for a variety of uses – Social Services, Parking, etc.  The block was originally built for the trade union Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff (ASTMS) as their headquarters in the early 1970s.  It was previously part of the Hilger and Watts Scientific Instrument site – the entrance and premises remain to the rear in St.Pancras Way.

Camden Street
River Fleet – the Fleet runs underground probably on the line of a pedestrian crossing
Canal bridge called Camden Bridge. There are concrete extensions for the car park at the rear of Shirley House. This was once the site of a Banksey, now removed
The North London Railway bridge crosses the road on a bridge which is part of a viaduct across this area.  Does this reflect the crossing of the Fleet valley?
146 Factory building used by a variety of publishing and light engineering organisations
166-168 Hat Factory.  Used by a variety of arts and associated organisations.  This building appears to have been Camden Lecture Hall in the 1870s and to later have been used as a school.
Camden Gardens. This is a triangular garden crossed by the North London Railway Line on brick arches, with roads on all sides. It was owned by the Marquis of Camden and laid out in the 19th for the people in the neighbourhood and it is still managed by a local committee. Building on it was prohibited under the London Squares and Enclosures (Preservation) Act of 1906.

Canal
This is part of the Paddington Branch of the Grand Junction Canal first suggested in 1801. After John Nash, then designing Regent’s Park took an interest and a canal company was founded in 1811 and the Prince Regent agreed it should be “The Regent’s Canal”. Work began in 1812.  Following disputes and financial irregularities the canal was finally finished in 1820.  After the Second World War canal business went into decline. The canal generally has a the surface width of between 40 and 50 feet It originally had earth banks but was lined with rag stone in 1832. Under the towpath run 400,000 volt electrical cables installed in the 1970’s which are water cooled. At the side of the canal at regular intervals are ramps, which were used to get horses out of the canal if they had fallen in.  
Fleet River. In this section of the canal the Fleet River runs alongside it deep underground and passes underneath the canal somewhere at the rear of the Sainsbury store.  It has been suggested that this is the reason that the canal is built in an S bend here, and that a sump was built underneath the canal at the crossing point.
Flats Sainsburys. Row of ‘Space capsule flats’ by Nicholas Grimshaw built at the back of the Sainsbury’s building on the old Aerated Bread Co. site.  Homes were part of the planning agreement here and manipulation of lorry turning circles in the loading bay of the supermarket allowed a ten-metre strip along the canal.  Thus there are ten three-bedroom houses, a one-bed and a bedsit. They are built from concrete block work and white and natural beech is used.
Aerated Bread Company’s wharf was here and a steam pipe ran across the canal from their boiler house.
Camden Gardens. Some of this estate by Jestico and Whiles faces onto the canal.
Camden Street Bridge. This is on a bend in the tow path. There are iron guards to protect brickwork on the corners of the bridge and ropes have worn deep grooves here. The bridge has been extended to provide a forecourt for a garage above the canal. The structure beneath it suggests that there were once two brick bridges here later joined with iron joists.
Shirley House. The British Transport Police building constructed with little regard to its interface with the canal.
Camden Road Bridge North Road Bridge built in 1825. The bridge was modified and flattened to allow tram services to cross it.
Lyme Terrace lies above the above the canal on a raised walk. Its Basements are on the canal side.
Lawford Wharf. New development of housing, offices and gallery on what was Devonshire Wharf previously occupied by Lawford and Sons, builders supply merchants.  Development by John Thompson and Partners with Berkeley Homes. Lawford's dated from 1860 and originally dealt solely with slate. The wharf was occupied by them for more than a century. John Eeles Lawford had started in Euston Road in 1840, as a slate merchant, and moved here to what was then called Devonshire Wharf a few years later where they were in buisimness as a general builder’s merchant.
Lawford's Cottages. 2 cottages later used as builder's premises, situated on the wharf. They are 19th or earlier and double-fronted with 3 windows. There is a brick veranda at the east end of the ground floor. It is suggested that the Fleet River runs between the cottages and the canal and that the land here represents the best indications of its route.
Royal College Street Bridge. The bridge was originally built of brick, and was fifteen feet wide, enough for a horse and cart, and has since been widened.
Eagle Wharf.  There are some buildings numbered for Royal College Street on this wharf.  In the 1950s this was Gorta Engineering.  The building nearest the road is now offices for a number of, largely arts based, companies with a canal side extension to staff amenity areas.  The second building is said to be a renovated piano factory and is also used as office accommodation.  Beyond them are the remnants of a former basin now covered by decking. A crane mounting on the wall of one building installed to lift goods from boats is said to remain on one building.
Bangor Wharf. This was the St Pancras refuse depot, including stables, the site taken over by the Vestry in the early 1890s but which went out of use by the early 1930s. It had previously been a wharf used by plaster of Paris manufacturers, Stringfield and Blyth. There are granite setts in the road to the bridge from St.Pancras Way. It is now used by EDF
Grays Inn Bridge. Foundation stone in east wall. It commemorates the rebuilding of the bridge in 1897. Since then a cast iron structure on the bridge has also been removed. The canal here is built on a slope thus it is cut into the hill side with a retaining embankment on the down hill slope.

Ivor Street
Previously Priory Street

Jeffries Street
Judge Jeffries' family owned the manor of Cantelowes for a time before it became Camden Fields.  The street was laid out about 1800.

Lyme Street
31 Brooks factory. Henry Brooks was famous for their piano actions, but also made keyboards for many different instruments. Until 1998 as Herrburger Brooks they were the world's oldest established maker of piano actions, hammer heads and keyboards. Brooks of London and Herrburger had amalgamated in the 1920s and moved to Nottingham
Lawson’s Wharf, entrance with painted wall sign
13 blue plaque to Ruth First and Joe Slovo, anti apartheid activists, unveiled by Nelson Mandela

Prowse Place
Named after Captain Sir William Prowse, one of Nelson's captains, who died a rear-admiral in 1826 and lived locally.
Rear of what was the Camden Lecture Hall
Railway arch slightly skewed, under the North London Railway line and the station above.
3 ex-premises of Hewitt, bookbinders and bookbinder’ suppliers

Randolph Street
1 The Colonel Fawcett. This was previously the Camden Arms and dated from around 1800. The story is that Col. David Fawcett died in an upstairs room here. He was a gin enthusiast and the pub now has a list of many gins, some very unusual. Fawcett had been shot by his brother in law in one of the last duels in Britain which took place locally in 1843.
Rail Bridge

Reeds Place
This is a small paved space between rows of plain Victorian cottages of painted stucco with railed front gardens
12 Willow in the front garden.

Rochester Mews
7/9 this was the Clarendon Garage owned by Henry Merry pre-Great War. It later was a repair depot owned by Carmo (Holdings) involved with lorry and car sales until the 1970s.  The site is now flats, the buildings once on that site having been grouped round Clarendon Yard.
Housing on the east side of the road adjacent to Rochester Place was previously part of the Hilger and Watts works.

Rochester Place
42- 44 Built 1980-5 by David Wild at the end of Reed Place as his own home accompanied by an adjacent house for a neighbour. Draws inspiration from Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
67- 71 Rotunda. This was behind the site of the school and built around 1824 to house a panoramic painting based around Thomas Horner’s sketches of London. The site was taken over by Henry Willis to use as his organ factory. He was a revolutionary who made many changes to organs and built thousands worldwide. Willis had to leave the works in 1908. Willis present day organ factory in Liverpool is still called Rotunda Works.

Rochester Square
Mid-19th square the centre of which has been built over.
Spiritualist Church.  Arts and Crafts style. The foundation stone was laid in 1926 by Arthur Conan Doyle. Other stones were laid by Earnest Beard from the building society. Hannan Swaffer and his wife, Mr & Mrs Ellis and Mr. Yorke the architect. “The Temple has remained open ever since and we are aiming to keep it open until the end of the world”. Sadly it is in severe need of building repairs.

Rousden Street
13-16 Greenwood Almshouses. Originally built in 1840 as twelve dwellings in a terrace of four three-storey stucco houses. They are now six sheltered flats by Peter Mishcon & Partners, 1984-6, with lift and stair-tower added behind.

Royal College Street
Was Great College Street because of the Royal Veterinary College in the street to the south of this square
Camden Station. The original station was to the east of the current Camden Road station. It was opened in 1850 on the line from Islington and Bow and named Camden Road.  From 1853 it was called Camden Town Station and then Camden Road until 1870 when the new station was built
223 Camden Road Station. The Royal College Street elevation has a projecting arched entrance with a pair of four-panel doors below a fanlight.
School Buildings. It appears that the Kentish Town and Camden Town National School were opened here in 1815 through the efforts of Thomas Cartwright Slack.  It was supported by collections and subscriptions and had a library attached.  This moved in 1849 and it is said that the buildings became a laundry.  A board school opened here in 1860s. It was rebuilt in 1908 as the Royal College Street School – and was extended over the site of the organ works and rotunda. It later became the Richard of Chichester Roman Catholic Secondary School closed in 1997 as a failing school.  Considered the finest school in London when it was built by the London County Council, it now appears to be housing.
163 Prince Albert Pub. Dates from 1843 with a green tiled exterior with contemporary leaded windows. On the fascia in dark green lettering on a cream background: is 'OFF LICENSE (sic) ... "PRINCE ALBERT" ... PALE ... CHARRINGTONS ... ALES ... "PRINCE ALBERT" ... PALE ... CHARRINGTONS ... ALES'. At the back is a tiled panel with lettering 'CHARRINGTON'S ALES & STOUT' plus an anchor. The windows have red lettering: 'CHARRINGTON'S' and 'TOBY ALE'
102-104 Grand Union Pub. This was previously Mac Bar
251 Old Eagle. This appears to have been rebuilt in the 19th,
313 Black Horse. Pub closed in 2008 and now flats.
Camden Place. Short term lets in industrial building facing onto Kentish Town Road.

St Pancras Way
This was called Longwich Lane and then King's Road and was another Alternative route to the north. The route reflects a pack horse path alongside the River Fleet.
42 The Constitution pub. There is a Courage cockerel in gold above the pub sign. There is also a mural – which may change apparently – which reflects the use of part of the pub as a jazz club.
Canal bridge. Called Grays Inn Bridge or Constitution Bridge
Midland Railway Goods Yard. This lay to the east of the road
Rail bridge for the North London Railway
109 tiny house which appears to be in part of an ornamental end of terrace extension to the adjacent property
College Gardens has a triangular lawn surrounded by a path and a row of lime trees, enclosed by iron railings. There is a K2 telephone kiosk here and a granite drinking fountain commemorating Joseph Salter, prominent in local affairs and who died in 1876.
Hilger and Watts Factory building fronting onto St Pancras Way with th4e rear to Rochester Place mews. There is a front facade in red brick with a large forecourt. It has had alterations for use as council offices. It was a purpose-built factory in the 1920s for high-quality Hilger instruments. Adam and Otto Hilger, precision optical instrument technicians, were religious refugees from Darmstadt who founded the company in Tottenham Court Road. They had a reputation as one of the foremost optical and precision instrument manufacturers in the world. They developed synthetic crystals, and post-war developments included emission and atomic absorption spectroscopy. In 1968, they moved to Margate, and continues as Hilger Crystals Ltd
St Pancras Way Estate. Flats by Norman & Dawbawm for the Borough of St Pancras built 1946-8. They were the borough's first post-war flats. They are laid-out, in rows instead of around courtyards, which was seen as an innovation. The council's policy was to name new blocks after notable people connected with the former borough – Henry Bessemer, John Soane, the Inwoods, William Hogarth, and William Wollett

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North London Line
The line from Dalston Junction continues westwards but then bifurcates, one going westwards to Primrose Hill and one turning North West to Kentish Town West.
Fleet River
The Fleet River and a tributary to it, meet and flow southwards deep underground in pipes.

Post to the east Camden Town


Buck Street
Buck Street Market – 200 or so stalls in an open space to the south of the street and stalls sell mainly clothes.  It stands on the site of properties destroyed in the Second World War.  It is said to have a nickname, 'The Cages', from the metal grilles that make up the grids tightly packed stalls in a uniform layout
Brick structure - this contains a ventilation shaft and entrance that is the visible part of a deep air-raid shelter built for the Ministry of Works by London Underground between 1940 and 1942. It consists of two long, deep tunnels, running either side or parallel to Camden High Street, joined by cross-tunnels and with a main entrance in Stanmore Place. These tunnels are now used for storage.
Trinity United Reform Church. There has been an Ebenezer chapel on this site since 1835 started by a Thomas Gittens.  In 1869 William Ewart from Regent Square Presbyterian Church set up a church for railway builders in railway arches and began to use the chapel.  By 1908 the building was in disrepair and George Lethbridge, architect, and was asked to draw up plans for a new church. Thereafter the building was used for many purposes and the congregation were active in local social and community work and this continues. The building is neo-Gothic with a red brick front. The inside has been changed with subdivision of larger spaces into individual smaller areas.
Hawley Infants School. The current school building dates from the Late 19th. The current building is the remaining part of a formerly larger complex of buildings between Buck Street and Hawley Crescent fronting Kentish Town Road.

Camden Gardens
Flats. This is a group of affordable rented homes made up of flats and maisonettes and a canal side terrace of houses and flats. The architects were Jestico and Whiles who were commissioned by Community Housing.
Camden Gardens. This is a triangular garden crossed by the North London Railway Line on brick arches. It was and laid out in the 19th for the people in the neighbourhood and it is still managed by a local committee. Building on it is prohibited by Act of Parliament.


Camden High Street
This is part of the Hampstead Road, an ancient thoroughfare which led the road from London through the Duke of Bedford's and Lord Southampton’s estates. After the construction of the Regent’s Canal here from 1816, businesses were established in along the Hampstead Road, immediately above and below the Lock. Today this stretch of the street is a market related area with shops decorated with endless lurid signs and protuberances and selling vulgar tat to provincial teenagers and innocent tourists.
202 Buck's Head pub. Mid 19th pub. Stone frontage with pilasters with brackets in the shape of bucks’ heads. The 19th street numbering remains above the former corner entrance. There is a large tiled sign on the end wall with lettering and a Truman 'eagle' saying 'TRADE MARK ... TRUMAN ... HANBURY ... BUXTON ... & Co Ltd ... LONDON & BURTON'. All
224 Elephant's Head pub. Mid 19th century pub with tiled shop front. At a high-level is a sign: 'TAKE COURAGE'. The Elephant name was the trademark of the nearby Camden Brewery
265 Oxford Arms. Late 19th pub. There are pictorial tiles in the entrance with the motto Virtute et Fide printed on them.  The Etcetera Theatre is in the upstairs area
Hampstead Road Canal Bridge. Marks the junction between this and Chalk Farm Road.


Camden Lock Place
This dates from 1990 when the market was reconfigured but has replaced Commercial Place.
Gilgamesh Building. On the site of Bottle Stores built for Giblet in 1878.  It has four storeys for washing, crating and packing. It later became a furniture store and was burnt down in 1980
Depot. The London and North West Railway bought Semple’s Wharf for a transhipment depot in 1847
Hawley Basin. Enlarged by London and North West Railway in 1847. It was then connected by rail and arrangements made to bring wagons down to its level and later into the interchange warehouse. In 1854-6the railway was extended to beyond the east side of the Interchange Basin.
Interchange Basin. Dock built London and North West Railway 60 ft long.  The inlet to it goes under the interchange warehouse. It was rebuilt in 1854 on a different alignment and increased in size.  There war warehouses on the west bank and rail sidings on the west.   This is the basin which remains.
Alsopps Warehouse. This was on the west side of the interchange basin and built in the 1850s. The site had previously been coke ovens.
Interchange Warehouse. This was built on the site of an earlier warehouse and has the canal inlet running under the building from under the towpath bridge and Rail way also entered the warehouse from sidings. The current building was completed by 1905. Underneath it the dock was bridged over with girders supporting railway track while barges were accessed through trapdoors. The Warehouse was converted to offices and refurbished in the late 1980s and connected to Camden Lock Place by the creation of steps through the retaining wall. In 2007 it was further restored. It is a rectangular four storey block, plus the basement dock, in multi-coloured stock brick with blue engineering brick dressings. On the canal front are arches which would have enclosed the ends of railway tracks and platforms.  Inside is of brick fireproof construction and in the basement cast-iron columns are set in the water supporting beams. Under the forecourt was a gin store with steel doors.  It was once used by 'Worldwide Television News' and on the door was said to be a notice warning of Weil's disease
Tunnel. From the corner of the interchange warehouse a ventilated tunnel for the movement of horses connected it to the railway at Primrose Hill and the stabling at Chalk Farm Road which is now blocked. It is in brick with cast-iron ventilation grilles in the roof.  The branch from 'Fashion Flow' to the ‘Transfer Warehouse’ goes under a Housing Association development and has been sealed and back-filled. That from the 'Transfer Warehouse' to ‘Camden Lock’ market has had a blocking wall inserted.


Camden Market
In 1971 some of the unused industrial buildings and land, including T.E.Dingwall's timber yard, were leased from British Waterways Board by three young men and in 1972 were sub- as craft workshops, and a weekend market was started on open yards nearby. Sunday trading was also allowed on this private site. In 1990 many of the old buildings at the Lock were renovated and a new three storey Market Hall was next to the main road. The East, Middle and West Yards and Camden Lock Place remained open air areas.
Market Hall. The design was based on a 19th trading hall with wrought iron railings and tiled floors so visitors would think it was old.


Camden Town Goods Depot
Camden Goods Depot was established in 1839 on Lord Southampton’s land as the terminus for goods trains, hoping for the railway to the docks via the North London Line.  As it was the line didn’t come through to Chalk Farm until 1851 beginning with coal and general goods a month or so later. This square covers only a part the south eastern quarter of the huge railway yard – the Primrose Hill layout - and about half of the canal side area. The area of lines going into a covered area to the north west of the Interchange building was laid out as the Depot opened and reconfigured with electrification in 1922. The area was sandwiched between lines out of Euston on the west, by the North London Line on the east and the canal on the west. The area is now a supermarket with a vast car park plus some housing.
Morrison’s Car park. Below the Camden Town railway goods yard was a labyrinth of brick vaults, allowing direct goods interchange between road and canal. The horses used to move wagons and for shunting, were stabled on both sides of the yard.


Canal
Canal. Four men were killed during the building of this stretch when the embankment collapsed at Chalk Farm.  It cost as much to build it as the original money raised for the whole canal.
Pirate castle. This was the conversion of a lock cottage built in 1977 to the design of Sir Richard Seifert as a mock fortress to be the headquarters of the Pirate Club, founded by Lord St. David’s. It is open to young people as a canoeing and rowing centre. It also includes a youth theatre and other facilities.
Pumping station.  This was built on the south bank in 1980 by the Central Electricity Generating Board. It circulates water around the cables which run under the towpath to keep them cool. The building is in the same style of the Pirate Castle opposite. Electricity cables have been laid under the towpath to bring power to central London from generating stations on the Thames Estuary and pumping stations like this one circulate water round the cables to keep them cool.
Ice Well Wharf. This was adjacent to a basin let off the south bank which is now filled in. The building fronted onto 34/36 Jamestown Road. There were two ice wells here – the larger built in 1839 when the basin was occupied by William Leftwich. It was deepened in 1846 to 100 feet to hold about 2,400 tons of ice. In the 1820s Leftwich had began to import ice from Norway, bringing it by sea to Limehouse and along the Canal.
Bewley Cliff Wharf. This was adjacent to a basin let off the south bank which is now filled in. it appears to have been used in the mid 19th by a company bringing in lime for building purposes from works at Wouldham in Kent via the Medway,
North Western Stone wharf. This also was adjacent to a basin letting out from the south side of the canal which is now filled in.  It was later part of a bigger Suffolk wharf
Bridge over the entrance to the basin which lies under the Interchange Warehouse - this was built by the London and North West Railway in 1846. The Towpath this crosses it. It is said that locally is called Dead Dog Hole.
Vent openings in the wall of the Interchange Warehouse alongside the towpath to ventilate the underground vaults built in 1854-6.
Grooves – in brickwork made by tow ropes, etc wearing onto the bricks
Dingwalls. Dingwall's Market is sited on a filled in basin. A collection of 19th commercial buildings are grouped round two yards with granite setts. These buildings were used as warehousing and stables for canal boat horses. One building has been demolished following a fire in 1980.  This was Walkers Wharf. The buildings were leased after the Second World War to a firm of packing-case manufacturers, T. E. Dingwall Ltd. The site includes a 500 capacity venue which hosts music gigs and other events. It is claimed that this has been used for this purpose since 1972.
London Waterbus. This runs between here and Little Venice, with three historic boats
Roving or diagonal bridge. This footbridge built in 1846 with a span of eighty feet to take the towing path across to the right-hand side of the locks. It has setts in order to give the horses a good grip underfoot and under it are grooves where ropes have worn the brickwork. A plaque under the bridge explains the details of its construction
Winch. The winch alongside the basin dates from 1870-71.  It was moved here from Limehouse Barge lock where it was used for opening the lock gates and abandoned in 1968. It is said it was brought here at the instigation of a number of GLIAS members.
Stables. These were for horses used to tow barges. Now demolished
Hampstead Road top lock.  The locks were constructed between 1818 and 1820 by James Morgan with John Nash as supervising engineer. It is the first of twelve locks on the Regent's Canal which drop the level some eighty-six feet down to Limehouse Basin - the exact drop depends on the height of the tide at Limehouse. Like other locks on this Canal, it was built as a double lock, but this is the only one remaining now as a pair. A column carries a rack and pinion on the centre island between the locks, was used to operate the paddle, which allowed water to flow from one lock to the other in order to conserve water. The paddle gear for the locks themselves is the conventional Grand Junction Canal type. These locks replaced an innovative, but unsuccessful, hydropneumatic lock designed by William Congreve in an attempt to conserve water.
Sculpture - a large cut-steel sculpture by English artist Edward Dutkiewicz in the square beside the lock
Camden Lock Cottage. The Lock Keepers Cottage for Hampstead Road Locks. Originally built in 1815 and enlarged in 1972, it was converted in 1985/6 as a Regent's Canal Information Centre. It has since been taken over by a large coffee shop chain and a dispute has arisen as the information centre work.   Camden was the middle of three horse-changing stages between Limehouse and Paddington and thus facilities were provided.
Bridge wharf and basin. This was used transfer of bricks, etc. In the early 20th it was owned by the London and Provincial Ballast Co. Ltd.
Chalk Farm Road Bridge. This was built in brick in 1815 but the current iron bridge dates from 1876. The Keystone of the original bridge is in the brickwork near the bottom of the slope. At the corner of the bridge next to the towpath is a vertical iron roller, which prevented the ropes from cutting grooves in the stonework. Under the bridge are cut the names of Parish Officers who dealt with roads and bridges.
Jenny Wren cruises. Canal boat company running cruises down to Little Venice and back. Based at what was Walkers Purfleet Wharf which had opened in 1816. The facility was opened in 1969 by Sir Alan Herbert.
Canal side walls of the MTV building plus TV AM’s egg cups, fronting on to Hawley Crescent.
Hawley Lock.  Like the other locks between here and Limehouse, the second chamber has been converted into a weir.  
River Fleet. The two branches of the Upper Fleet are said to join north of the lock and the canal then follows the route of the river until it reaches Camden Road.
Kentish Town Lock. Beside it on the left was once a pumping station which pumped water back past the "Hampstead Road 3", as they were called by boatmen, to above Hampstead Road Top Lock
Kentish Town Road Bridge. This is a white bridge and there is access to the canal by steps.


Castlehaven Road
The road was renamed around the time of the Second World War. From Chalk Farm Road to Hawley Road was once Grange Road, and the rest Victoria Road
Candida Court.  Monumental local authority flats by Hamilton and Chalmers in 1947.
21 Castlehaven Community Association. This was established in 1985 by concerned residents and opened for business in 1986. It is now the lessees of a 4 acre community campus
23 Haven Youth Cafe.  This was the Old Piano Warehouse where the Castlehaven Community Centre began.
Castlehaven Open Space.  Ball courts and strip of open land
20 Scar. The premises include arches 12 to 14 and have hosted a creative industry incubator since the 1990s.
Rail bridge. There are two rail bridges taking the two lines which diverge at Kentish Town Junction. To the south is the 1851 line to what was Hampstead Road and to the north the 1860 line to Old Oak Junction.
Hawley Arms. 19th pub once a hells angel hangs out but more recently full of left field show biz people. Burnt down inn 2008 and rebuilt sharpish.


Chalk Farm Road
Pancras Vale was an older name of this area. There are lots of claims for the site of the original Chalk Farm.
Railway bridge painted with a 'trompe l'oeil' image which has since become an icon for Camden Lock.  In 2007 25 arches were changed as part of developments in Stables Yard. At the same time they were shortened from the south and the cross arches were closed to create linear retail outlets.
7-8 Caernarvon Castle Pub. Demolished.
36 -37 are the premises of pawnbrokers, who were established here in 1837
35 Camden Lock Tavern. 19th pub tarted up as a music venue.
Brick wall on the west side –developments here were gradually removed after the railway arrived to be replaced by the stables behind this blank wall. It was built in 1854-6 to retain the fill deposited to raise the level of the Camden Goods Depot. There were houses here until the 1850s in what was called Pancras Vale. R.B. Dockray, who designed the Round House, lived in one of them.
Four blocks of brick stabling, built 1855-1870 as part of the London and North-Western Railway Company's Camden Goods Yard with later additions. A tunnel south of the railway connects the complex with other railway buildings and the Canal.  19th railway goods depots required large numbers of horses for the transfer of goods and shunting of wagons and, around 700-800 horses were used at the here. Stabling for 50 horses was in the vaults below the sidings. Only a small part of the first phase of 1839 survives under the North London Railway at what is now the Horse Tunnel Market. Some of the vaults built under the original goods sidings can be seen at the far end of the easternmost  arches and in the shops on the west side of the bridge under the railway which that connects Horse Tunnel and Stables Markets. Part of the buttress walls can be seen in the northern part of Horse Tunnel Market. By 1849 427 horses were employed here. In 1846-7 four stable blocks for 168 horses, were built and others were stabled below the Construction Shop and Pickford’s warehouse. In 1854-6 the original stables were demolished and the present buildings erected. The four blocks stabled 162 horses and was linked to the rest of the depot by the Eastern Horse Tunnel.
Block on Chalk Farm Road built 1855 and 1895. There was stabling on the ground floor and there is an open balcony on the first floor with concrete horse troughs and a bridge going to the next block.
Block north of the North London railway. The ground floor built 1868 was the provender store. There is a bridge to the other block
Blocks between the others, built 1868 and also a provender store. There is a horse ramp on the north side connecting to another block.
Block to the west of the others. Built 1868, upper with brick chimneys. Inside is timber benching and some harness hooks and said to have been the Tack Room. It used to be connected by a bridge to the others.
Horse Hospital. This is built to the north-west of the stables in 1882-3. It held 92 horses with 40 more later. It is now shops with a music venue on the upper floor.
Bonded Warehouse. Remains of a four-storey building built on the 1880s for Gilbey's. This was their No.2. bond and was mostly demolished in 1985 apart from a small section called The Gin House.


Clarence Way
Built on part of the grounds of the Castle Pub. The east end has some massive post war council blocks which replacing 19th streets. This was built 1947 by Hamilton & Chalmers. To the west are terraces which are pre 1849.  The street lighting is gas standards converted to electricity.
Most Holy Trinity Church. The design for was exhibited in the Royal Academy, by Thomas Henry Wyatt & David Brandon. It was built 1849-50 of Kentish ragstone and had a west tower with spire. It largely funded by Rev David Laing. The spire was destroyed during World War II.
Holy Trinity and St Silas Primary School. The origins of the school lie with the local church with which it is still associated.
41 Victory 19th public house. Closed in 1993 and now flats.
Ellen Terry Court 
Lorraine Court 
Torbay Court


Collard Place
Posh, gated, housing on the site of Chalk Farm bus depot.

Farrier Street
Clusters of brick houses and flats; built 1980-1 by Michael Brown Partnership.

Gilbeys Yard
Site of Gilbey's Gin Bottling plant and Warehouse which extended from the edge of the canal basin and then along the main canal.  Now flats and houses.


Harmood Grove
Modern innovative office complex with sculpture of windblown person on the wall. Gates and fence by Alex Relph
Carville. Harmood Grove Works. The firm who are, specialists in Perspex and acrylic applications had a factory here from 1928-1966 when they moved to Dorking.


Harmood Street
Called after the family which owned the field it was built in.
1-2 Mohawk Garage.  In 1922 this was the base of the Mohawk Motor Cab Co.  and then, in 1923, a private bus company.  Originally it had been a coach building works for C.Dodson and then a garage. Demolished.
59 Harmood Arms. Now closed and converted to housing.
Chalk Farm bus garage. This opened in 1916 a previous site in Albany Street having been requisitioned by the War Department. Closed in 1993. The site is now housing – gated housing behind a terrace with ‘AJ 1995’ on the gable.
Chalcot School. The buildings date from 1896 and has been extended since. It was originally Harmood Street School, then Harmood Street Boys Secondary.  It was renamed as Chalcot School in the 1960s and is currently school a special school for secondary boys. The original stone ‘Girls’ entrance remains.


Hartland Road
Camden Plants Centre
57 Royal Exchange Pub, Renamed as "Fake Club" in 2007, and as "1949 Bar" in c2012.
The Arches. Network Rail industrial units in railway arches


Haven Street
Camden Canal Market. Offices manage about 150 stalls and shop units selling fashion accessories, etc
Passage under the railway to canal side markets
Murals and street art by Dale Grimshaw
Lion – bronze lion in the street, surrounded by lion designs in street art
Car – street art car.


Hawley Crescent
TV-am Breakfast Television Centre. This was designed by Terry Farrell in 1981 on the site of 1920s Henley Garage, itself on the site of much of Camden Brewery. It had large “T. V. A. M” lettering and a large archway. Inside the atrium was said to match the sun’s travels from East to West i.e. a Japanese Pavilion which was TV-AM’s Green Room represented the East and  the staircase was the Middle East. The journey was said to continue through temple like forms. There were also two studios and the Good Morning Britain set. 12 enormous eggcups were on the roof and could be seen from the canal. In 1993 the TV-am building was sold to MTV Europe who have made some radical changes and major rebuilding.
Elephant House. These are the buildings of Camden Brewery Co Ltd. Founded in 1859. In 1889 they acquired Whitaker, Grimwood & Co with 84 public houses. It was acquired by Courage & Co Ltd in 1923 with 78 tied houses and Brewing ended in 1925. Over an entrance door is a large stone panel with a central roundel and an elephant's head - the brewery's trademark. There is a similar image, in Kentish Town Road.
Walls from the brewery alongside the canal were retained
Henley's Garage warehouse. This large building was reconfigured for TV AM.


Hawley Road.
1-11 Open University – this is their London base.
Hawley Crescent Primary School  - this was the junior department of Hawley Infant School. The building was damaged in Second World War bombing and became unsafe and so was demolished.


Hawley Road
Fleet River. Until the 19th this area was covered by the pleasure grounds of the Castle Inn, alongside the Fleet River. The confluence of the two bits of the Fleet from Highgate and from Hampstead was at the junction with Kentish Town Road.  The river here was 65' wide.
New Harmood Estate of 1978-81, arranged around landscaped courts
4-6 St.Paul’s church and lecture room. This had been a meeting house of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connection opened in 1842 which had fallen into disuse and was taken over in 1851 by a charismatic Congregationalist, Edward White, under whom it became successful. In 1918 it joined the Kelly Street Congregational Church and is later shown on mid 20th maps as ‘Holy Trinity Memorial Hall’. A block of flats now stands on the site
35 Stags's Head pub this is now flats – Stag Apartments
Railway arches – used for businesses including Victory Motorcycle and classic Citroen car specialist
Clarence Way Tenants and Residents Hall. This is behind other buildings at the north eastern end of the road,  It is used for meetings, etc.  It is on the site of a building shown as a Unitarian Church in the 1870s.   A Free Christian Church is also shown here and a Gospel Hall and Milton Hall, used by the 19th temperance movement is also in this area.  These may be separate buildings, or indeed this one. Milton Hall was said to stand on the site of an old cricket ground.


Jamestown Road
Was Upper James Street and later called James Street
Gilbey House. The distillery opened in 1879 is now part of Gilbey House, formerly the Bottle Warehouse built by William Hucks in 1896. It also includes the W. &A. Gilbey Stores which is now flats.


Kentish Town Road
The River Fleet crossed the road north of the junction with Camden Road. Thus the lower end of the road was once called Water Lane and liable to flood.  The River here could spread to 65 feet wide at flood, as in 1826. It now runs deep below the road in pipes.
Hobgoblin. This was previously the Devonshire Arms
Bridge over the Regents Canal
Sainsburys – entrance to the store in Camden Road
41 Camden Brewery offices, with an elephant's head above the door.
Bridge Wharf Garage, used as a garage for private buses in the 1920s
Railway bridge and Viaduct. The North London Line divides slightly to the west of the road.
65 Quins. Irish pub which was previously called The Moreton Arms
99 Police, base for the Cantelowes Safer Neighbourhood Team.  This was once the Clarence Arms, but now most of the building is flats.


Leybourne Road
Light industry and motor trade businesses in railway arches


Oval Road
Southampton Bridge 
Gilbey site. This was the site of Gilbey’s distillery.  It replaced buildings of Camden Flour Mills and the Stanhope Arms. The firm of W&A Gilbey Ltd, was set up in 1857 to import wine from South Africa was a major employer in the area as well as the largest drinks firm in the world. Its premises here had a floor area of 20 acres with the bottle and bonded warehouses capable of storing 800,000 gallons. Daily a train - the Gilbeys Special -  left for the docks for export. They set up a a gin distillery in 1879 opposite on the Flour Mills site and In 1895 built three tunnels under Oval Road to connect to“A” Shed.
30 The Henson Building. This is on the site of the former railway offices. Some of their façades have been retained and modified in this development. Ventilation grilles from the vaults have been replaced by brickwork.
Eastern Horse Tunnel an entrance has been incorporated into the social housing entrance of the Henson House development.
35 Lock House. This block of flats was built in 2008 and replaced a building of 1977.  That replace Gilbey’s A Shed used for storing and processing wines
Academic House.  On the site of the Stanhope Arms bought by Gilbeys in 1890s. In 1937 rebuilt as Gilbey’s Head office by Serge Chermayeff.
Vaults and tunnels. These were built around 1855-6 on the west side of the Interchange Basin for Allsopp’s Ales, under the forecourt of the present Interchange Warehouse and under 30 Oval Road. They were later taken over by Gilbeys as their No. 1 Bonded Stores. Until the redevelopment of the former railway offices at 30 Oval Road they had survived, but now only some remain,
Pavement – there are a number of goods yard remains, including granite setts, rail lines, granite bollards, ventilation grilles to the horse tunnel below, a turntable and the frames of two


Railway
Kentish Town Junction. At the west end the North London Railway's four tracks come together and branch out to the Chalk Farm and Hampstead Junction
The reversing spur to the interchange basin is marked today by a skew arch under the North London Railway viaduct.
Signal Box. This was a North London Railway design and was between the bridges over Kentish Town Road and Camden Street. It was opened in 1896 and replaced an earlier box. It was renamed Camden Road when the station to the east was renamed and to avoid confusion with a box on the main line out of Euston. It closed in 2011 when signalling was transferred to Upminster.


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North London Railway
The line from Kentish Town Junction to Willesden goes north eastwards

Post to the south Camden Market


Fleet River
The Fleet flows southwards through this area deep underground in pipes

Alma Street
The street was laid out in 1855-56, commemorating the Battle of The River Alma, the first indecisive victory for the Allies in the Crimean War
8 owners who dug out their cellar are said to have discovered the River Fleet beneath their house

Anglers Lane,
Supposed to have been very beautiful where the Fleet River crossed and when there was still the Jolly Anglers there
5-6a Mineral Teeth Manufacturers, Claudius Ash & Sons Ltd. former false-teeth factory. This is a brick three storey factory built in 1864s with some later additions. It has fifteen bays and a decorative gable.Ash had begun work as a goldsmith in 1820, in 1834 at Broad Street, Soho. He was making "mineral" teeth by 1840. Broad Street remained as offices and showroom and by 1914 the firm had branches in Moscow, Cairo, Toronto, New York and elsewhere. It later became The Dental Manufacturing Co Ltd. The factory had a chimney and a kiln which were since demolished. The building is now used for offices and light industry.

Athlone Street
Flats. Slums were demolished by St.Pancras Housing Society in 1937 and they built flats. They were opened by Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and blocks were named after Lady Portland Mrs.J.B.Priestly and Leonard Day, and some society members.  They are now managed by Origin Housing – this is St.Pancras Housing Society plus some other similar organisations with which it has merged.
Athlone Hall. Tenants meeting rooms.

Azania Mews
Housing managed by Arhag Housing Association set up to house African refugees.
Housing on the site of a Royal Mail Yard. 

Castle Mews
Trading units

Castle Place
Once a footpath going round the Castle pub, it is now a gated pathway into the Council estate.

Castle Road,
Part of grounds of the Castle Pub the road is now mainly post war council housing. Some built in 1970, and some in 1958 by Max Lock & Partners.
77 Tapping the Admiral. This was previously the Trafalgar, and also Tavern Inn the Town.  The new name refers to the unsavoury habit of drinking brandy from Nelson’s coffin.

Castlehaven Road,
Part of grounds of Castle Pub. Post war council housing some on a ‘forbidding’ scale 1958
83 Nelson Pub. Demolished and under housing block.

Cathcart Street
20 This was a bus depot originally owned by Birch Bros. John Manley Birch was involved in the Camden Town Omnibus Association and opened premises in Cathcart Street. In 1887, he started a Royal Mail service between London and Brighton on contract to the Post Office. This resulted in the premises being called Royal Mail Yard. The Birch service was between Kings Cross and Rushden. They ran a regular service to the Wellingborough-Rushden boot and shoe area from here, using double-deckers in cream and green livery.  Birch later built bus and coach bodies here.  The business continued eventually as a coach hire firm. The coaching side of the business was retained, operating from the Kentish Town garage until 1971 when it was sold to the George Ewer Group.
33 huge entrance of a size to take a large bus.  There is a London and General Omnibus Co. depot marked on some maps here. It is assumed they were linked with the Birch operation next door.

Church Avenue
Gated passageway running to the Congregational Church at the rear

Crown Place
Four hidden mews houses, each arranged around a small courtyard by the Crawford Partnership.

Dalby Street
Talacre Sports Centre. The adjacent land was a cleared bomb site which was designated as pleasure grouds in 1962. In 1971 it was used by Inter Action and was later declared as open space. It was cleared of houses in 1974 and an adventure playground was opened there. Later the InterChange Studios was built and used for sport, arts and a club why a park was laid out round it. Camden Gymnastics Club began in the late 1980s and became successful in competitions and increasingly well known. The park meanwhile was improved with compensation money for power cable tunnel and renamed Talacre Gardens.  The Sports Council then part paid for a new Sports centre with modern farcifies. It is now run by Greenwich Leisure Ltd.

Grafton Road
55 Building in office use said to be a chapel built 1867 by Primitive Methodists. In the 1950s it appears to have been used as an electrical substation, but by whom isn’t clear. It has also been used as an engineering works.
73 The Carlton Pub. This is now flats
104-108 Star House. Industrial units and offices
110-114 Ann Roy. Art gallery
Brinsmead Piano Factory. Ryland House is now on part of the Factory site. John Brinsmead had begun piano manufacture in 1836 and became a leading maker. The firm closed in 1919 following a strike

Harmood Street
Called after family which owned the field it was built in. Some simple terraces remain.  Early development around Chalk Farm Road.
Forge Place
Mutton Place. Low, brick clusters of separate three- and four-storey houses and flats; 1980-1, with landscaping by Michael Brown Partnership.

Inkerman Road
The Crimea Pub. Built between 1855-1868. Closed, and it is now flats

Kelly Street
Part of grounds of Castle Pub in Kentish Town Road. 
Congregational church. The original church dared from 1807 and was in Kentish Town Road but by the 1840s this was too small. The foundation stone of a new building on our present site. In 1927, the first chapel was sold and new halls were built at the rear of the new chapel but the church declined and by the 1950s the attendance was just twenty one people. The old chapel had been bombed and was demolished, and services were held in the church hall. In 1960 a prefabricated building was erected and services were held in this until 1990. In 1990 the site was redeveloped in co-operation with a local housing association and new premises were opened in June 1991


Kentish Town Road
119-131 Providence Place – in the early 19th this was the name of the houses  between what was then Clarence Road (now Clarence Way) to Castle Road. 119-128 are early 19th or earlier. 129-133 are probably 18th and 133 has a bricked up window.
St.Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church. Previously St.Barnabas Church of England church built 1884-5 by Ewan Christian in brick. Since becoming Greek Orthodox, the building has been refurbished to reflect the Greek Orthodox Church. All internal walls and ceilings have been decorated by a master iconographer from Athens, with biblical scenes and representations of prophets, saints and martyrs in the traditional Byzantine style. These works began under the supervision of Archimandrite Chrysostomos Mavroyannopoulos
124 Abbey Tavern. The Abbey Tavern dates from the 1860s. They have a beer garden which was once a yard for horses
126- 150. This row of shops includes the site of Bartholomew Place and Belle Vue House.  The land was owned by St.Bartholomew’s Priory.  18th Antiquarian William Stukeley's house was here and he had piped water and a Druid Walk.  He had bought a 'hermitage' in Kentish Town.  It is also where Mary Shelley lives after Percy Shelley’s death.
141-145 South Kentish Town Station now in use as a shop. Opened in 1907 on Yerkes’ Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. Yerkes. It was originally going to be called Castle Road Station. It is in the Leslie Green house style with ox-blood glazed tiles and bold arches incorporating a mezzanine office floor.  The ground floor originally housed the booking office and upper lift landing whilst a mezzanine floor contained the lift winding gear. The façade is still intact but in bad condition.  The station was closed during a labour strike at the Underground Group's Lots Road power station in 1924 and was never reopened. The platforms were used during World War II as air-raid shelters and are now removed.
147 The Castle – also called the Flowerpot, the Bullet Bar, and the Verge and more recently Heroes.  It was built in 1849 as replacement for the original Castle dating at least to the 17th century, and possibly the 16th as a hunting lodge. It is said to have has a tiled mural in one an entrance showing jousting knights. This was captioned 'Beneath the castle walls the lists/names are set where Knighthood Chivalry and Beauty met’.  The gardens of the old Castle Inn stretched around the area as far as the River Fleet.   There is a story that after the death of Admiral Nelson, Emma Hamilton lived locally and came here Nelson’s uncle had lived near here and he is said to visited to ‘keep an eye on the Fleet’.
177 Telephone Exchange.  This is also the site of the Post Office and sorting office. The building currently used as a coffee shown was built by Archibald Scott in 1929 and closed as a post office in 1959
187 Pizza Express. This was one of the buildings of the educational institution, latterly the North London Polytechnic, the main part of which is in Prince of Wales Road.  It is said to have housed the library and the student union bar and/or the assembly hall/gym. The polytechnic specialised in library studies and this library was said to be ‘magnificent’.  It was designed in 1929 by Riley and Glanfield but was however built separately from the rest. Now closed pending redevelopment.
197 Gaumont Cinema. This was originally The Palace Cinema designed by John Stanley Beard. It opened in 1913. It has decorative front entrance, with terra-cotta detail and in the auditorium was with columns topped by naked female figures. It was operated by Palatial Cinemas Ltd, and taken over by Provincial Cinematograph Theatres (PCT) in 1920. In 1929 PCT were taken over by Gaumont British Cinemas and it was re-named Gaumont in 1948. It closed in April 1959 and has been part demolished with a warehouse on the site. The remaining building is used by as offices
277 Vicarage Farm Dairy Ltd. this is now the site of Old Dairy Mews. This included bottling plant and a distribution yard. They were later taken over by Express dairies
281 Dawson and Briant. Pawnbroker. Shop with flat above built 1840 in brick. On the ground floor is a 19th shop front having large gilded lettering. Projecting cast-iron clock and pawnbroker's sign. Inside are display cabinets with glazed wall-mounted cupboards and a Lincrusta ceiling
289 -291 O’Reilly. This was The Old Farm House of 1869 rebuilt in 1885 and at one time also called the Star and Garter owned by Hoare and Co of the Red Lion Brewery, East Smithfield.  On the fascia is 'TOBY ALE' in raised lettering. High on the wall is a carved head and some information

Perren Street
Imperial works – a five storey indsrrial building used by a variety of light industties and offices – as it appears to have done since the 1920s. These have included in the past an organ reed manufacturer and lighting engineers.

Prince of Wales Road
Main west east route. As part of the Southampton Estate it retains some of its 19th character.
The North Western Polytechnic was opened by The Prince of Wales in 1929 and taught social sciences, humanities and arts. It was used as Headquarters for Group 7 of Local Authorities in the Second World War.  The H.G. Wells Society worked with the Polytechnic to establish an H.G. Wells Centre here. By 1967, it was the largest Polytechnic in London. It combined with the Northern Polytechnic to form the Polytechnic of North London. It later became the London Metropolitan University, and was sold off.
Hope Chapel, dated 1871. This is now the Church of Christ.
K2 telephone kiosk.
Baths.  The foundation stone was laid in May On the façade are, Saint Pancras and Saint George- when the baths were built, the area was part of the Vestry of St Pancras.  It was designed by J. Aldwinckle and it originally had separate first and second class men's baths and a women's baths, along with a public hall.It has now been updated as Kentish Town Sports Centre and run by Greenwich Leisure Ltd.
River Fleet the Fleet crossed the road
Kentish Town West Station.  Opened in 1867 it lies between Camden Road and Gospel Oak on the North London Line now part of London Overground. It opened as 'Kentish Town’ and in 1924 was renamed ‘Kentish Town West’. In 1971 it was burnt down and closed in 1976 but reopened in 1981
7 Garden Cinema this was almost opposite St. Pancras Baths and Public Hall. It was an ‘open air’ cinema, operating during July and August each year until 1913. The Polytechnic was built on the site,
20 Grafton Arms
40 Asylum for Aged Governesses built in 1849 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon. Altered and enlarged 1877-9 for Camden School for Girls, by EC Robins. There are wrought iron gates which have come from elsewhere. In 1870 they were driven out by the railway and became part of Miss Buss's North London Collegiate School.  Then the site became Camden School for Girls and the St.Richard of Chichester's RC School.
75 Prince of Wales Pub. Closed and turned into flats

Raglan Road
Raglan House.  Camden NHS centre for elderly with mental problems.

Royal College Street
Dunns hat factory at the junction with Kentish Town Road. The ground floor had detailed 1930s windows with stained glass.This is now an estate agents.

Ryland Road
Ryland House. Brick warehouse on the site of the piano factory, now refurbished for mixed use,
Portland House DMC. Linen wholesalers

Wilkin Street
Piano factory - In 1967, Delbanco Meyer & Company Ltd moved in. they dated from 1936 and became the largest bristle merchants in the world. The company has since expanded into household textiles
Old chapel. The old chapel and school for the Methodist chapel.

Willes Road
17 rear extension demolished to create light space.  Glass doors, zinc roof and concrete work tops added to Victorian house.
26 George IV. Foliage covered pub

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North London Railway
The North London Railway runs north from Kentish Town Junction

Post to the south Kentish Town West

Arctic Street
Used to be Franklin Street, named after 19th builder
Carlton Chapel House, flats built 1983 designed by Christopher Dean Associates for the Tenants' Association.

Brown’s Lane
Where the cows from Brown’s Dairy in Camden grazed.

Carkers Lane
Highgate Studios. Studio spaces for a collection of arts and other organizations.
Read Brothers. In 1883 acquired an acre of land here and built an export bottling premises plus a laboratory. This was a crenallated building with a Gothic tower and a spire. They produced 50,000 bottles per week and in 1906 were the largest buyers and bottlers of Bass Ale in the world, all sold for export. By 1913 they had increased their land, and had stacking space for 10 million bottles, the largest bottling facility in London. They sold widely in Australia as ‘DOG’S HEAD ALE and STOUT’. There was a large advertisement for this on the roof line of the bottling store facing the railway along with "Read Brothers ....  Bottling Stores' in raised lettering. A siding ran into the works from the Midland Railway.
Shand Kyd Wallpaper factory moved here in 1906. Shand Kydd had been set up in 1891 making wallpaper with bold lino block designs and matching friezes. They were taken over in 1960 and moved to Christchurch.
International Orient Carpet Factory

Fortess Walk
Previously called Willow Walk.  It was a crescent  enclosing a paddock for horses

Fortess Road
Public toilets – now turned into a bar
9 Tally Ho Pub. Closed 2006 and replaced with flats.

Greenwood Place
This road was built in the 18th as Prospect Row.
Highgate Business Centre. Called Evandore house and one of Maples, the furniture company’s, works.  An imposing warehouse built 1880. This provides space for offices, light industry etc.
19 Lenshan House. This was originally Maples, furniture stores, timber yard and sawmill and then became their Exhibition works.  It was later the offices of the Family Policy studies Centre until 2001.
37 The Camden Society. This is a London wide organisation providing volunteering opportunities and support for people with disabilities
Centre for Independent Living. This is planned for the area for services including: Mental Health, Dementia, Learning Difficulty, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and Autism. In addition, a “Centre for Independent Living”
Greenwood Centre, currently providing space for a number of charities and similar organisations as well as a Camden Council day centre. It opened in 1973.
Deane House on the site of the Read Brothers bottling store. The store was built in 1885 and had turrets and battlements and its own railway siding.

Highgate Road
Very old road, until 1870 called Green Street and which follows the course of the Fleet. Very bad area for highwaymen in the 18th with lots of local vigilantes.  The High level interceptory sewer crosses near Kentish Town
1-7 a tall urban group of altered houses built 1786 by Thomas Greenwood and called Upper Craven Place.
7 until 1860 this was Craven House Girls School and then Foresters Hall for the Ancient Order of Foresters.
3 This was once the local Tory HQ. Carved face above the door.
9-17 Forum Cinema. Opened in 1934, the Kentish Town Forum Theatre’s architect was J. Stanley Beard and the interior design was by W.R. Bennett.  This consists of a series of Roman battle scenes said to be paid for by Mussolini so that Moseley and the British Union of Fascists could use it.  It was taken over in 1935 by Associated British Cinemas and re-named ABC in 1963.  It was closed in 1970 and became a bingo hall, then a ballroom and then a concert hall/theatre. It became called Forum again in 1993. It has Art Deco detailing by Beard & Bennett in cream faience, with black columns and lotus capitals and the auditorium has a coffered dome. There was a cafe in the space over the foyer.
19-37 Highgate Day Centre. This provides a service of psychodynamic and creative groups, individual keywork and social support for people with mental health issues. The houses here previously were by John Greenwood and on the north side ran the River Fleet.
20 Kentish Town Fire station. The Old Engine House stood south of here and a successor was built in Fortess Walk. The present station and practice tower replaced that. On this site was also a Methodist chapel dating from 1778. 
30a Piano Workshop in alley north of the Fire Station.  This was once an organ builder and piano key maker and was one of the few piano works left in the area. The business has now moved to Willesden from here in 2012 and the site is being redeveloped as housing.
Maple’s Steam Cabinet works were in the west side of the road. This was for Maple’s Furniture store in Tottenham Court Road.
39-51 Linton House. Early 20th industrial building built as Maple’s bed factory.  Post Second World War it was used by Canadian based, Dominion Rubber Co, Currently light industry and offices.
Christ Apostolic Church. This was the church of St John built on the site of the Kentish Town Chapel by James Wyatt in 1783 but only some nave walls remain. It was rebuilt and extended in 1843-5 by J.H. Hakewill. In 1449 a chapel of ease had been built alongside the road to St Albans, now Highgate Road. This lasted for over 300 years but in 1784 it was demolished and replaced with the first version of the current church which was later rebuilt and dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In 1993 it was declared redundant and was squatted.  It is now a Nigerian evangelistic church.
Elsfield. Camden Council Housing designed by Bill Forrest in 1972. It replaced 1860s housing called Burghley Terrace. In this area Handeford Bridge crossed the Fleet River which also formed a pond.
54-56 Irish Centre Housing built in 1989 on the site of Bridge House.


Holmes Road
This was originally called Mansfield Place which was laid out by local landowner and industrialist Richard Holmes from 1790
5 This was the Petit Prince restaurant and the remains of murals of French cartoons are on the first floor wall. They used to project films onto the wall opposite
12a Kentish Town Police Station. Built in the 1890s designed by Norman Shaw. It was to be the Headquarters of Y Division.  The arch way took prisoners in to an area now redesigned as a control centre.
Section House for police accommodation built in the 1960s as an 8 storey slab block.
14 this was a factory for the London Piano Company who made self playing pianos and reed organ. Later, in the 1950s, it was the Camden Cardboard Box works who made wire stitched boxes. Now part of the police station.
Holmes Road School. This is currently the Lycee Francais de Londres. Which includes a nursery, as well as primary, and secondary school for 700 pupils. Holmes Road School was an early Board School built 1872 – 74 to the designs of E.R. Robson. In 1923 the school began to open for evening classes as a Community Centre for Education and also used for local clubs. By 1927 it includes the Junior Men's Institute for metalwork, boxing, hygiene and first aid. The school closed in 1931 and it became the Kentish Town Men's Institute, later the Kentish Town & East Hampstead Institute. In the Second World War it was used by Civil Defence, the RAF Volunteer Reserve and A.R. Training, as well as Home Guard Training and as a Rest Centre. Some of the building was used by Camden School for Girls who were still there in 1949. In the mid 1950s it became the Kentish Town & East Hampstead Institute and eventually the Kingsway College for Adult Education which closed in 2008.
Holmes Road Depot. Built in 1972 as the Council Depot on the site of the Midland Railway Coal Depot
Midland Railway bought land from Holmes in 1873 as their coal depot. Trains came from the north over a viaduct and stopped over the arch of a coal merchant, where coal could be dropped from wagons into his transport. The site included 40 stables and coal company offices. The original coaling stage was replaced by mechanical plant in 1939.   The depot closed in 1953 and became a British Road Services Depot.
Brick arches – part of the coal drops viaduct from the Midland Railway site remained here, used for storage and industry, until the 1980s
65-67 Magnet Kitchen Co. Offices. Previously site of their joinery
Arches – bricked up arches next to Magnet. These were part of a garage area used by the Birch bus company. The site was earlier a bronze powder factory.
57-59 housing and offices on site of Birch Bros. bus body building plant. Also used by W.Parkyn wheelwrights and carriage builders. It was also a service station for Beardmore Motors and a taxi depot
54-74 Charles Pugh windscreen manufactures.  This is their third site in the area, having started in Spring Place in the 1930s.
48-52 Maison Bertrand dealing in theatrical fabrics.
45 Entrance plus granite setts and a weighbridge. This was Grape Place in the 19h going to Paradise Row.  The buildings on site were used Bird and Davies, artists’ materials and previously Camden Council’s Sheltered Workshops and part of the hostel next door.  The site is now being developed for housing.
41-47 St Pancras hostel built 1895 as a casual ward by St Pancras Guardians. Inmates had to break rocks to be allowed to stay. – which is what the weighbridge at 45 was for.  It later became a London County Council working men’s hostel and is now run by Camden Council.
Bower Cottage was the superintendent’s house and in the 1930s used as St. Pancras North Relief Station and Dispensary by the London County Council.
24-26 Acquisitions - selling fireplaces and stuff
22 This was at one time a monumental mason
St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Primary School.  St. Patrick’s is one of the oldest Catholic schools in London.  It was founded in Soho in 1803 by Irish merchants in Frith Street as St. Patrick’s Charity School. By 1962 the school roll had fallen to 89 and a new Catholic primary school was needed in Kentish Town. So St. Patrick’s transferred here in 1967.  The school is a single storey building for two junior classes. A Nursery building was added in 2000, on the site of William Caldercourt’s cricket bat factory, subsequently Primrose Laundry, and a Music Room / Library in 2011. There are three spacious playgrounds, a school car park and quiet garden. Some of the site was originally a rag doll store, and 33 had been the Excelsior Welding Works.


Kentish Town Road
Junction of Kentish Town Road and Fortess Road is the centre of the old village, small-scale relics lie alongside late 19th suburban building.
305-315 site of developer Richard Holmes paddock and barn.  The housing was to front his development and called Mansfield Place
301-305 Iceland. On the site of the Alhambra cinema. The current shop was built in 1932 as Marks and Spencer and used by them until 1981. Part of the site was an 18th house and which was of Holmes estate
The Electric Alhambra Cinematograph Theatre opened in 1911. It included a tea-room with a separate entrance in Holmes Road. The architecture and interior were by M.Marsland. It in 1918 and became a billiard hall.  317-347 modern shop frontin what was once terraced housing called York Place.  Shop conversions took place from the 1890s.
299 MacDonald’s. From 1923 to 1942 this was a Lyons Teashop. It was built in 1900 as a drapers shop by Herbert Beddell but has been refronted.
383-387 remains of New Chapel Place built in the 1790.
389 Bull and Gate, 18th pub.  Rebuilt 1871. Rebuilt in 1871, with marble pilastered ground floor and a bull and gate high on the frontage. Closed. It is said that the original name was Boulogne Gate and it relates to the capture of the town by Henry VIII in 1544. It is first noted in 1715. A cobbled yard once went to the LGOC stables and horse buses started here,
Jacques Samuels’s pianos store in old LGOC Stables.

Railway
North London Line – the line, as the Hampstead Junction Railway, ran north from Kentish Town West Station crossing the Midland Main Line north of what is now Regis Road.  There was a siding into the area now covered by the Regis Road industrial area.
The Midland Main Line goes westward through the area coming from Kentish Town Station.  Began to fan out into many sidings.  The main line itself continues on to the west.  Other lines continued from it as the Tottenham South Curve, the Tottenham North Curve, going to Highgate Road Station, to Tottenham and beyond.  Other sidings to the east of the rail complex went to a locomotive shed and a carriage and wagon repair shop.  Lines from both the main line and the Tottenham Lines also ran into sidings which serviced the coal depot and the Kentish Town Cattle Dock which stood alongside the main line, for cattle in transit waiting to be killed.
Tottenham South Curve opened in 1870 and was also known as the Highgate Incline. It left the Down Line at Kentish Town Junction, crossed the main line  and climbed to a gradient of 1:48 - some trains needing an additional engine to reach the summit
Tottenham North Curve linked Carlton Road and Junction Road for freight traffic and opened in 1883.
Kentish Town Curve opened in 1900 and ran from Engine Shed Junction and served a station then in Highgate Road. It was less steep than the Tottenham South Curve.
Sidings ran into Read's Bottling Stores
Engine Shed Junction Signal Box. This was between the main line and the Kentish Town Curve. Opened 1889 and closed 1981.
Cattle Dock Junction Signal Box. This controlled access to various sidings.  This opened in 1903 and was replaced in 1936 and closed in 1964.


Regis Road
This road covers the area of the extensive Midland Railway sidings and is largely Kentish Town Business Park.  This consists of many industrial and office locations.
Royal Mail Kentish Town Delivery office
United Parcels Services office built in 1984 as a depot for Whitbread’s Brewers.
Camden Recycling Centre
Camden Car Pound
Howdens Joinery
Alpha House built for Alpha Jewels Ltd.
Fairfax Meadow butchers
Asphaltic Ltd. Distribution centre.

Spring Place
Holmes family owned a brickworks and ropewalk here. They later sold the land to the Midland Railway who built arches here for the local coal depot
2 Autograph Sound Studio in part of Windsor and Newton’s Colour Works. They moved here in 1844 having got a royal warrant and having invented Chinese White. Colour her were ground by hand and spread out on stone slabs to dry. It later became a warehouse for an Italian grocery chain, Walton, Hassall and Port.
3-5 London Lorries were here pre-Second World War as motor body builders.  They were bombed and later General Roadways, lorry haulage took over the site,
8-9 Wall to Wall TV in what was Elliott Optical Co.
Spring House. Winsor and Newton’s steam powered works where they stayed until 1938. Now in other use.

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The North London Line (ex Hampstead Junction Railway) curves north west from Kentish Town West and runs westward from Gospel Oak Station

Post to the west South End and Gospel Oak

Elaine Grove
The road contains some of the survivors of the 19th Lismore Circus estate scheme. It was then called Arthur Grove.
Estelle Road
This is built on land which was passed to the trustees of St Pancras Church Lands in 1876 by Earl Mansfield. House by 1889 the road was built up
Glenhurst Avenue
Arts and Crafts dwellings in two-storey terraces built 1911-15
Ravenswood is part of the 1960s Haddo House redevelopment.

Gordon House Road
Created on the line of a footpath to Hampstead. It is named after Gordon House Academy which stood at the junction with Highgate Road in the 18th.  It was widened and named only in the 1880s
Clanfield. Flats built in 1971with a sloping façade and raked balconies
32-34 Spectrum House. Large factory building.  In 2004 this was occupied by Hawkshead Retail and some others. It was built in the 1920s as the Heath Works for paper merchants D.O.Evans and Sons. It was later used by Southall based wallpaper manufacturers. John Line and Sons who in this period introduced flock wallpapers = as well as their famous ‘Hampstead’ designs. . Then in 1965 Soho based guitar and drum manufacturers, Rose-Morris.  At the entrance to the yard are two bollards and one has on it ‘George IV’.  There is a yard which goes to other works behind. The building is on site of Julius Barko’s nursery followed by William Thompson who was there until 1927.
Heathview.  Housing Co-operative in flats built in 1937 with green pantiled roof designed by Taperell and Haase.
14 Mark Fitzpatrick or Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve. Managed by the London Wildlife Trust.  This is on what was a buffer zone between the Midland Railway coal depot and Gordon House Road, with a covenant on it to that end. Mark Fitzpatrick was a previous landowner. The site has varied habitats such as mini meadows and woodland. There is a pond with dipping platform and a rain catcher built by a local architecture students as part of their course and BCTV Green Gym work on the site
Gospel Oak entrance to Parliament Hill Fields. Plus car park entrance.
41 Shack Café. In the park entrance with interesting drawings on the walls
Railway bridges, Two brick skew arch bridges/, The most westerly is for the North London Line, built as the Hampstead Junction Line between Kentish Town West and Gospel Oak stations in 1867.  The eastern bridge is for the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway opened in 1888.  Graffiti by Mr. P and His art crew, known as Ahead of The Game 2003 by creating a piece across the railway bridge which said “ATG Welcomes You To Gospel Oak”
Gospel Oak Station. The station lies between Hampstead Heath and Kentish Town West on the North London Line and is the terminus for trains from Upper Holloway. The station opened in 1860 as Kentish Town on the Hampstead Junction Railway from Camden Road running to what was then Old Oak Common Junction. It was renamed Gospel Oak in 1867 when a different station to the south was named Kentish Town - now Kentish Town West. A different station with its own buildings existed for the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway  but this was not added until 1888, and then without a link to the North London Line due to opposition from other railway companies. The lines were joined for wartime reasons in 1916 and the link severed in 1922 and from 1926 to 1981, passengers could not change lines at this station - trains left the Barking line to go south to Kentish Town station. The buildings for the Barking line remained open until 1926, occasionally used by football special trains but were demolished by the 1980s when a spotters train called there. In 1981 the Barking trains were diverted to Gospel Oak with a terminal platform rebuilt on the north side and slightly higher than the existing station. The North London Line here was electrified in 1916 by the London and North West Railway changing to third rail in the 1970s.  The line is said to have been used by Midlands’s clerks on a day out to Epping.  The station was rebuilt in 1953.
Signal Box. A box on the line from Barking was burnt down in 1985 but replaced. A box on the North London line was opened by the London and North West railway in 1916 and closed in 1957.
Hemingway Close
Housing Association properties, Origin Housing, on the site of sidings and works.  The housing appears to be on the site of Gospel Oak Works, latterly in use by G.A.Shankland, metallic sign producers who left the site in the mid-1990s.
Highgate Road
Highgate enclosures. This consists of three landscaped areas which once formed part of a more extensive village green of Kentish Town. This was an area of common land gradually enclosed. It is shown as 'Green Street' on the Rocque map of 1746. When the Lissenden Gardens Estate was built the developer, Arthur William Armstrong, built a road and landscaped and planted the most northerly of the Enclosures. In the Second World War this area was the site of an air raid shelter consisting of a roofed over trench.
Parliament Hill Girls School. Built as a girls’ secondary school under the 1902 Education Act, a three storey building in red brick. It was developed on land previously occupied by detached 19th houses on the west side of Highgate Road known as The Grove.  It moved to this site in 1914 as a County Secondary School but had been founded elsewhere in 1900. It then had an entrance examination and a high reputation for arts and science; all girls were expected to get School Certificate. In 1956 an extension was opened by Edith Evans and a glazed front was added in 200


Hodes Row
Tiny backland development containing one house, built by Mr. Hodes

Julia Street
Along with other surrounding streets this is the remains of part of the street scape planned around Lismore Circus in the 1850s.

Lamble Street
Kiln Place Tenants Hall
Elizabeth II pillar box with ‘E ll R’ on the door plus a crown.

Lissenden Gardens
Built on the site of Clevedon House a 19th house which was next to the remains of Kentish Town’s village green. Lissenden is a made up estate agents name. Built from 1900 by the Armstrong family as fashionable living. Most of the road consists of mansion-block development of 1900-06 by Bohemer and Gibbs Arts and Crafts designs. There are three blocks of five-stories in orange-red brick, with corner towers. Railings of wrought iron and Doulton tiled lobbies and Terracotta details in the design. Running hot and cold water was laid on, electroliers supplied rather than gas lighting, a coals hoist to kitchen service balcony, and caretakers for communal stair-halls. There are plane trees in all of the estate’s roads. The Armstrong family continued to own and manage the estate until 1972, London Borough of Camden is now the freeholder.
Parliament Mansions. These overlook Parliament Hill Fields. There is a plaque to Richard Tawney ‘economic historian, Christian Socialist, and founding father of the welfare state’.  This was erected in 2003 by the Lissenden Garden Tenants Association.
Clevedon. Mansions . There is a plaque to composer Martin Shaw
Lissenden Mansions. Plaque to painter Anthony Green
Garden. This was laid out in 1899 and enclosed by railings to be gardeners employed by the Trustees of the Estate. Tennis courts may have been laid out as early as 1906.
Salcombe Lodge by Ted Levy and Partners built in  1974 a five storey block in red brick with concrete bands. This is on the site of a nursery which was replaced by Defoe Garage, and later replaced by Lissenden Motors. It was subsequently a factory for British Vacuum Flask Co. On the side is a plaque with a hand pointing to 'Church Lands' which is part of Parliament Hill Fields.
The British Vacuum Flask Co. Had been set up in 1947 by Rothermel, a Kilburn based electrical importer, with factories ere and in Liverpool. They were  able to use newly developer plastics and coatings for flasks of varying sizes and uses.
Chester Court. A five storey red brick block. This was built following bomb damage in the Second World War and as a result the south part of Parliament Hill Mansions were replaced in 1949
The cottage. This was the estate office and members of the Armstrong family lived there.
2 Nordorff Robbins Music Therapy Centre in a converted electricity substation.  Terracotta sculpture of a boy playing a drum.  The centre was founded by Paul Nordoff, an American composer and pianist and Clive Robbins, a special education teacher. Their first work was at Goldie Leigh Hospital in Plumstead set up in 1970 and the first centre was set up in 1982. In 1991the London Centre at Lissenden Gardens was setup  funded by a rock concert at Knebworth Park. The centre is validated by City University and award degrees in Music Therapy
6 Gordon House, Now a  business centre.

Mansfield Road
Created on the line of a footpath to Hampstead. The land was owned by the Earl Mansfield and was passed to the trustees of St Pancras Church Lands in 1876. House building started in 1879 and by 1882 the whole of the north side of Mansfield Road, including 10 shops completed..  The builder for the majority of the ‘Mansfield Road Estate’ was William Turner,
1 The Old Oak. A 1950s rebuilding of an original corner-sited building called the Old Oak Hotel which had been built as an integral part of the Oak Village estate in the 1850s. Closed
Gospel Oak Primary School. As the Mansfield Road Estate was developed by the St Pancras Church Lands trustees a school was seen as needed and in 1898 the School Board for London opened a temporary school on the site of the allotments next to Gospel Oak station. In 1900 they built a permanent school here, as Mansfield Road School’  Mansfield Road School became ‘Fleet Central School’ in 1933. In the Second World War the school was acting as a fire station and was completely destroyed by a flying bomb in 1944. Gospel Oak School was built in 1953 on the site, and a
17-79 long white range of houses, by former Camden architects Benson and Forsyth. With roof gardens. This is a mixture of public and private spaces, but have  not worn well. Built on the site of houses bombed in the Second World War ad subsequently demolished to be replaced by prefabs
Meru Close
Local authority housing on the site of Gospel Oak Brick works

Oak Village
Part of a mid 19th townscape centered on Lismore Circus later demolished for post war housing.  Houses here in were built by 1853. They are two story cottages with large timber framed sliding sash windows and wit small front gardens.

Parliament Hill Fields
The Southampton Estate wanted to put housing here in the 1840s but a big public campaign prevented that.  In 1889 Parliament Hill Fields were taken over by the Metropolitan Board of Works
Parliament Hill Lido. The baths were opened in 1938  by the London County Council designed by Harry Rowbotham and TL Smithson, There was a diving stage, shutes and a café, with areas for sunbathing and spectators and fountains at either end. This was the most expensive of LCC lidos built in the inter war period. Following an accident in 1976 the diving facilities were removed. In 1980s hot showers, cycle racks, paddling pool and CCTV were installed and in 1989 it was taken over by the Corporation of London. In 2005 a stainless steel pool lining was installed, the first of its kind for an outdoor pool in Britain. One of the few open-air swimming baths built by the LCC still in use.
Cricket ground
Adventure playground
Rona Road
On land was passed to the trustees of St Pancras Church Lands in 1876  by Earl Mansfield.. House by 1889 the road was built up
Savernake Road
On land was passed to the trustees of St Pancras Church Lands in 1876  by Earl Mansfield.. House by 1889 the road was built up
1-11 nursery school added in 1985 to Gospel Oak Primary School.

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North London Line
The North London Line (ex Hampstead Junction Railway) continues in a westward direction from Gospel Oak Station

Post to the east Gospel Oak


Agincourt Road
In 1880 Thomas E. Gibb, a developer from Kentish Town bought some of South End farm and leased the rest. He wanted to build 120 small houses at 'the lower end of middle-class respectability'. He also agreed to construct a sewer. Gibb laid out this road and began brick making on the Salter estate. The first house here was completed in 1888, and by 1891 50 more had been built. By 1894 75 houses had been built by Robert Thorne, who lived at ‘Sunnyside’.
Agincourt House School. The Fleet Road site was purchased in 1877 by the London School Board for an elementary school which opened in 1879.  The adjacent Agincourt Road site was bought in 1882 and opened as a junior mixed school in 1884.  The infants building was opened in 1890 and one chimney of this remains.   In 1953 Robert Matthew, of Camden Architects’ Department altered Agincourt to become a House Craft Centre. It was later used as Fleet Educational Centre, a cookery school and a manual training centre.  Now used as a Pupil Referral Unit
Sunnyside. Home of builder Robert Thorne,
VR Pillar Box



Constantine Road
Developer Gibb planned Constantine Road as a direct route from Gospel Oak and Kentish Town to South End Green and the Heath.  Building began in 1887. The road was fully built up by 1900 by Robert Thorne.

Courthope road
2a studio and workshop in premises which was a dairy in the 1950s.  There are granite setts in the dairy entrance.
All Hallows Church. The East End of the Church faces this road. It was begun by William Turner and completed in 1892.
Vicarage.   This is opposite the east end of the church and was also designed by James Brooks and built in 1889-91.   In 1891 the Vicar was the Rev Charles Mackeson.
Church Hall. This has been used Hampstead Hill Pre-preparatory School since the undercroft of the church was converted for the parish. In 2009 Camden Council leased it for ‘Educational purposes’ – to make good the shortfall in primary school places.

Cressy Road
Laid out by developer Gibb.
Camden Ambulance Station.  Built in 1971 on the site of the paper factory.
3-5 Roy Shaw Centre. Camden Council call centre and computer HQ named after long serving Camden politician.
Public Cleansing Depot, 1981. Functional metal box with exposed steel frame and corrugated cladding by John Winter
Mansell, Hunt and Catty - founded in 1891 their ‘paper mill’ was on the east side of the road on the site now covered by the ambulance station. They made a wide range of fancy and functional goods - table stationery, cardboard boxes for confectionery, Christmas crackers, confectioners’ sundries and many other items. They become major employers, finally closing in 1969.  They are said to have had a subway under Cressy Road to reach an extension on the west side.
Hampstead Model Steam Laundry lay to the east of the paper goods factory, who eventually took their site over.
London Street Tramways depot. This was originally a horse tram depot built near the tram terminus. The L.C.C took them over. The depot was opened in 1914 for electric trams and had 16 roads connected to a transverse. It could hold 157 vehicles but was generally used under capacity. It was used by the military in the Great War and returned to public use in 1920.  It is said that in the 1930s its use was similar to the post-war use of the Charlton ‘tramatorium’ scrap yard. It remained in use as a tram store until the final days of the London-wide system in 1949. The depot included a skating rink.
BRS depot. British Road Services used the old tramway site as a lorry storage depot from 1954.

Ella Mews
Housing development on the tramway depot site.
L.C.C Tramway Cover. At the entrance to the Mews. These were used for to cover operating points at depot entrances and at ram ‘pinches’ and crossing places. 
Tram depot buildings. The perimeter walls, entrance and offices all still stand, some in use as offices. . 
Lisburne Road
Laid out by developer, Gibb. By 1894 houses had been built by Robert Thorne, and by John Sanders who lived in Lisburne Road
The boundary of the Kenwood estate coming from the Heath and the railway line goes along the end of back gardens between Lisburne and Roderick Roads.
Methodist Church and hall. There have been a number of buildings here. Some members of the Prince of Wales Road Chapel formed a society in 1875 and by 1880 decided to build a chapel at Gospel Oak. They bought a site in Agincourt Road, which was then being developed as a building estate. A chapel was built in 1882, and this building is now the used as the hall. In 1900 a new octagonal church was opened to the design of Beresford Pite. This was the last building to be made of the red brick from the Gospel Oak brickworks. This was replaced by the present chapel in 1971.  There are several inscribed foundation stones on the original building.


Mackeson Road
Developer Gibb died in 1894 and the estate was finished by F.T. Binnington. Mackeson Roads is named after the first vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Mansfield Road
VR Post Box



Nassington Road
The Kenwood estate boundary eventually reaches the railway line here
L.C.C. iron boundary posts at the corner of the Road and by the railway fence.

Parliament Hill
Running Track. This is a base for the Highgate Harriers and the London Heathside clubs. This was originally a 6 lane cinder track opened in 1939. It was the headquarters of Shaftesbury Harriers. It was upgraded to a synthetic track in the late 1970s and was resurfaced in 1987. In 2001 various improvements were made.

Roderick Road
The area bounded by Roderick, Savernake and Mansfield roads was part of the Manor of Tottenhall which lay between Camden Town and Kenwood, and belonged to St Paul’s Cathedral. In 1803, it was the site of Dairyman’s farm and belonged to Earl Mansfield. The southern boundary was the footpath from Kentish Town to Hampstead along the banks of the Fleet River.   The Kenwood estate boundary now runs along the end of back gardens between Lisburne and Roderick Roads. In 1854 the Hampstead Junction Railway was built which bisected the farm land. The first houses to be built on the Earl of Mansfield’s estates included Roderick Road.
33/35 includes some original pre-Second World War railings.

Savernake Road
Savernake Road completed in 1899.
VR Post box
Footbridge access to the over the railway heath paid for in 1895 by the London County Council

Shirlock Street
All Hallows Church was originally called the Church of the Good Shepherd, and was designed by James Brooks, and said to be his masterpiece. The east end faces Courthope Road. The church was the result of work by Charles Makeson who was a civil servant and lay evangelist at a mission hall locally.  He was ordained and designated as Vicar of All Hallows when the district was set up. The original church was in Mansfield Road and land for the new church wad bought from the Earl of Mansfield in 1888 – fundraising took a long time.   The foundation stone of the new church was laid by the Duchess of Teck in 1892, and Charles Mackeson died in 1899 and Brooks too died in 1901. The Chancel was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and completed in 1914.  A four-manual organ was installed a year later and the last new organ made by the Hill company, it is still in its original condition.   Bells from St Stephen’s Church in Hampstead have been recast and installed here. A donation was promised from the sale of Wren Church of All Hallows the Great in 1894 but the amount received was not enough yet there was a condition that the name of the new Church should be changed to All Hallows – and there are some parts of that church incorporated. Inside near the south west corner are stones which formed the first course of one of the columns of that church from before the fire of 1666. The Pulpit comes from St.Peter, the Stations of the Cross from St.Alban,  Holborn. A brick porch from 17th was installed by William Butterfield. Table and base of pillar, Jacobean, from All Hallows the Great, Thames Street. 
War Memorial. Outside the church on the corner of Shirlock Road and Savernake Roads in the form of a Calvary.  Stone with inscription “Pray for the souls of the servers and members of this choir and congregation of this church who died in the Great War and in whose memory this cross was dedicated Easter A.D. MCMXVIII. R.I.P.”
Tanza Road
Lord Mansfield developed this area in the 1890s. The road joined up two pre-existing streets
VR Post Box

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Walford.  Highgate and Hampstead to the Lea,

The North London Railway (ex Hampstead Junction) runs west from Gospel Oak Station but begins to turn south west after Hampstead Heath Station.

Post to the east South End and Gospel Oak

Byron Mews
Housing built in 1995 by developer, St.George’s, on the western end of the LCC Tramway Depot which fronted on to Cressy Street (in square to the east). The entrance is through a break in the terrace which appears to date from the Second World War or shortly after. Byron Mews is curved in form and is said to be ‘situated in a basin below the level of Fleet Road’.  This basin is not visible on older maps showing the tram depot and earlier.

Constantine Road
18 Clock Mosaic in the front paving showing the time at 12.20, the exact moment when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953.

Downshire Hill
Developed by William Coleman from 1812 on copyhold land owned by the Maryon Wilson family. The site had previously possibly been brickfields
32 Freemasons Arms. Large pub built in 1936 replaced a succession of previous pubs. The previous building was found to be unsafe during work to extend it and had to be demolished but dated to before 1819. The pub is said to be the only place where London Skittles is played with nine pins and with a lignum vitae cheese, which is thrown and not rolled at the pins. The skittle alley is in the pub cellar and put in when the pub was rebuilt. There is a Hampstead Lawn Billiard and Skittle Club
14a former school of St. Johns Church founded in 1830 had become St Stephen's National School by 1885. During the Great War it was used as a studio by the Carline family and meeting place for people called the Hampstead Set or the Downshire Hill Group.
St John's Chapel. Opened in 23 as a Proprietary chapel.    In 1813, the land for the building was bought by a builder William Woods, lawyer Edward Carlisle and James Curry, a Christian minister who financed it. St John’s was thus privately financed and not a parish church – called a proprietary chapel. It was founded within an Evangelical tradition. The copyhold of the chapel was bought by John Wilcox in order to carry on Whitefield’s legacy of preaching and some disputes ensued. In 1872, Henry Wright became minister and was associated with the Church Missionary Society and this used missionaries as his curates. The church may have been designed by Cockerell. . It is a stuccoed building which may once have had more ornament.  Inside is light with three galleries between columns. It was restored by Horace Field in 1896 and by Edward Cullinan in 1964-71, when the glass screens at the end were added.   The Bevington & Sons organ was built in 1873 and installed in 1880. There are wooden box pews lining the walls – some proprietary chapels replied on pew rents for income. Outside, below the bellcote is a black and gold clock made by John Moore and Son of Clerkenwell in 1823.

Fleet Road
154 White Horse pub.  Late 19th red brick public house. Rebuilt by J. T. Davies in 1904 with Albert E. Pridmore as Architect and C. Gray Hill Contractor.  It has decorative stone columns windows with leaded upper lights. Ironwork at ground floor level, full height stone pilasters, decorative stucco broken pediment with clock and surrounding balustrade at roof level.

Hampstead Hill Gardens
14-20 and 25-33. Development began in the 1870s with these stuccoed semi- detached villas.
The Hampstead tunnel on the Hampstead Junction Railway was built between Hampstead Heath Station and Finchley Road and Frognal Station in 1860 and lies unseen beneath Hampstead Hill Gardens. The tunnel is 1166 yards and has recently been refurbished and upgraded

Hampstead Ponds
This square covers Ponds 1 and 2 in Pryors Field.  The pond chains were originally formed from tributaries of the River Fleet which still flow through them. They were dammed 300 years ago and are thus “historic earth filled dams” and do not have engineered spillways. As reservoirs they provided drinking water until taken over by the Hampstead Water Company in 1692.  This was formed by William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England to exploit statutory powers belonging to the City Corporation since 1543.  The company was eventually taken over by the New River Company in 1856 for a perpetual rent of £3,500, and the water stopped being piped for domestic use. The Metropolitan Water Board eventually took over the New River Co and continued to leas the ponds until 1936, when it was not renewed.  They are now managed directly by the City Corporation. There are now some concerns about future possibilities of flooding and proposed work by the Corporation.  A lively protest movement has ensued.
Hampstead No.1 Pond. This is classified as a reservoir and inspected as such.
Hampstead No2 Pond There are 20 oak trees near. Fishing is allowed in this pond for pike, carp and roach


Heath Hurst Road
Originally called Heathhurst Road. 29 houses were built between 1897 and 1899. It was built on the site of a field behind Keats Grove, where cottages had to be developed to put the new road school.

Keats Grove
Was originally called Albion Grove and then John Street, developed from 1812 by William Coleman smart villas.
10 Keats House Built as one of a semi-detached pair called Wentworth Place. Built in 1814 by William Woods, a local builder. The larger side of the property was first occupied by Charles Wentworth Dilke while the smaller, eastern side was occupied by Charles Brown which is where John Keats lived in 1818, staying here for just 17 months before travelling to Italy. The other house was taken by Mrs. Brawne and her two daughters, and Keats fell in love with Fanny.  In the summer of 1820, he was advised, for the sake of his rapidly declining health, to go to live in Italy and he died In Rome. Fanny became curator of a museum opened to honour him, but then at last married. In 1838 the house was bought by Eliza Jane Chester who knocked through the walls to create a single house. In 1920, it was threatened with demolition the Keats Memorial Committee was set up to fund raise and the house was opened in 1924 by Quiller Couch with a Memorial Library next door opened by the Council. There is a Royal Society of Arts plaque from 1896 which says 'poet, lived in this house'
Library.  A discreetly designed branch 1931 by Sydney Trent.  It is now Keats Community Library which opened in 2012 taking over the building previously known as the Heath Library which was run by Camden Council. So it is one of these libraries run by unpaid staff.

Park End
Built on the site of the stagnant heath pond which filled in by developer Joseph Pickett

Parliament Hill
Originally called South Hill Park Road. Parliament Hill, the street, along with the South Hill Park area was built by Joseph Pickett from 1878 on land bought from the ecclesiastical commissioners which had been the northern part of South End Farm.  The railway had foaled to provide crossings to access this area. The road itself was intended to go north but was cut off by the development of Parliament Hill Fields as parkland.  The original houses are Ruskinesque Gothic
Parliament Court. A long block of 1930s art deco houses going up the hillside

Pond Street (East end of north side only)
So called because it led to a pond at South End Green, filled in 1835. South End Green, was later transformed by the London Street Tramways Co.'s extension to a terminus there. In 1886 the street was widened and run across the green
23 until recently used as offices. Recent archaeology has found the foundations of earlier buildings beneath them.
35 -35a terraced houses from the 18th with a studio extension- built in 1946 for graphic designer Frederick Henrion plus later rear extension by Richard Rogers. The houses themselves re in red brick
Drill Hall. This hall, built probably in the 1890s, is now a commercial fitness centre. It is also known as the Harben Armoury - part of charity run by the Cordwainers Company in association with the Royal Fusiliers.
Royal Free Staff Day Nursery – at one time Hampstead and North St Pancras Day Nursery

South End Green
Pond where two springs going into the Fleet.  Long-since filled-in Old pond at the end of South End Grove source of the river Fleet. The pond site was later used as the terminus for trams from the London Tramway Co.whose depot was just round the corner. It is now a bus route terminus.
Drinking fountain, erected in 1880 it is in granite Gothic style by J.H. Evin. The inscription says “This fountain was erected by Miss Crump of Hereford House in memory of her cousin Wm. Warburton Pearce Esqre. Who died March 1st 1872 also of her uncle James Bradley Chamberlain Esqre. Who died May 5th 1880. Every one come to the waters.  1880”. ”. Hereford House was in South end Green and Ann was housekeeper to James Bradley Chamberlain who was an Optician and his step-son William Warburton Pearce, an art dealer.
Toilets. These are classic, underground Edwardian lavatories, with wooden cubicles and in the gents two rows of urinals, with elaborate green and cream tiling, and lots of dark wood panelling
Tramway mens' shelter. This dark green timber building with shingled roof topped by a square louvred cupola is a purpose built tramwaymens' shelter from about 1893. The London Tramway Company had extended its trams to South End Green by 1886 and this shelter was provided for them – said to have been by a local resident, or by the London County Council
South End Close.  Built on the site of Pickett's Farm in 1920 by the local authority, as a large block containing 140 flats

South End Road
Holylands, or South End Farm, belonged to Westminster Abbey. When the Hampstead Junction Railway bought some of the farm it was divided into two and in 1881 the southern part went to T.E. Gibb, a Kentish Town developer.
1 bakers shop on the site of Booklovers Corner. Where George Orwell worked and based Keep the Aspidistra flying on it. A plaque and portrait bust of Orwell on the shop may no longer be there.
14 Garden Gate pub. This 19th pub used to be called The Railway.
Hampstead Heath Station. Opened in 1869 and it now lies between Gospel Oak Station and Finchley Road and Frognal Station on the North London Line, ex Hampstead Junction Railway. In 1890 there was a garden but on Easter Monday 1892 six people were killed in a crush at the station. It was bombed in the 1940s and has since been rebuilt in the 1990s in pseudo antique style. The station canopies are in concrete and installed in 1953.
Tower built over a well by the Hampstead Water Co. in 1835 with a steam pumping engine. This was eventually closed after 1870 by the New River Company. The building became a private house and was demolished in 1907 because of subsidence. It was on the east side of the road roughly where the road bends towards Willow Road.
71 Russell House, this is  one of a pair of 19th houses, with visible alterations by Voysey done in 1890 and  his earliest surviving work in London

South Hill Park
This is a 19th encroachment into the corner of the Heath. Only built because the Hampstead Heath Extension Act was not passed soon enough to stop it.
2a Magdala Tavern. Where Ruth Ellis shot her lover in 1955, allegedly the bullet holes are still there.  She was the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

St Crispin’s Close
Housing on the site of the Hampstead Heath station goods yard

Willow Road
2 part of a terrace of three houses designed by Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1939. It has been managed by the National Trust since 1995. It was built as a family home to considerable public opposition


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The North London Line. Continues from Hampstead Heath station south westwards, running though this area in a tunnel

Post to the west Frognal


Akenside Road
Mark Akenside poet and doctor lived at Golders Hill

Belsize Court Gardens
Mews area named for the gardens of 18th Belsize Court, previously known as the White House, which lay slightly to the north of here in Belsize Lane
1 modernist house

Belsize Crescent
The Belsize area was developed from the 1840s by Daniel Tidey. He sublet an area to the north to William Willett who built this crescent of villas 1868-1875

Belsize Lane
32 St.Christopher’s School. On the site of Belsize Court School, which used Belsize Court. It was founded in the 1880s.  This is yet another fee payer ‘preparatory’ school for girls.

Belsize Place
A footpath follows and old route through the area and links through to Lyndhust Road crossing the line of the Midland Railway which is underground here.
Belsize Court Garages. Red brick range built by Willett as livery stables

Copper Beech Close
Modern housing on an infill site which appears to be built over the twin tunnels of the Midland Main Line out of Euston.


Daleham Gardens
The earliest houses here date from the 1880s
Air vent – an air vent to the Midland Main Line tunnels below are marked on maps for the north end of the road, east side.
33 Gloucester House. NHS Day Unit

Daleham Mews
Stable buildings tarted up by posh architects. Built up from the 1880s.

Fitzjohn’s Avenue
The road was built as a link between Swiss Cottage and central Hampstead on land sold by the Maryon Wilsons to developers in 1875 and named after an estate of theirs in Essex.
Source of the Tyburn.  This is marked by a  disused drinking fountain at the junction with Lyndhurst Road said to be near the site of Shepherd's Well.. This is marked as 'Conduit' on a map of 1814. The well when closed was 24 feet wide and lay about halfway between the fountain and the opposite corner of Akenside Road. The water is said to have clean and pure.
Air vent for the tunnel of the North London Line which runs under the road is marked on maps to the north of the Lyndhurst Road junction.
47 St Mary’s School. Fee paying private Roman Catholic School. Established here in 1926 founded by the Congregation of Jesus. The house dates from 1880 designed by George Lethbridge for L.M. Casella plus a 20th chapel. The house is in orange brick with decoration in high quality gauged and rubbed brickwork. There is a brick boundary wall in stepped sections with cast-iron railings and wrought-iron gates. This was an extremely expensive house to build and its quality is apparent. Casella was the inventor of the clinical thermometer.
66 Havelock Hall, a Baptist Training College.  In the 1930s used as an annexe to Westminster Hospital
66 Marie Curie Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases had been founded at 2 Fitzjohn's Avenue in 1929. These buildings, except for the new wing and the shelter, were totally destroyed by a high explosive bomb in 1944. And they moved to the Westminster hospital annexe for temporary relocation. Following repairs and improvement, the 50-bedded Hospital was opened by Queen Mary in 1946.  In 1965 it was decided to move the Hospital in its entirety to a ward at Mount Vernon Hospital, where the equipment of a modern radiotherapy department would be available and The Marie Curie Hospital closed in 1967. The Hospital buildings were demolished in 1969.  The site has been redeveloped and now contains an apartment block fronting Akenside Road. , was replaced in 1969 by flats built for the Medical Research Council.
69 Devonshire House ‘Preparatory’ school, plus nursery. The house was built in 1877 for C. Kemp Wild.
73 alterations of 1901-3 by Voysey for P. A. Barendt
75 Uplands. This is a Gothic style house built in the 19th by T.K. Green for P.F. Poole, RA. It is in purple brick with black and white bands plus a carved monogram "PFP RA". Outside are stepped brick walls with timber gates.
77 Field Court. Housing for the local authority by Pollard Thomas & Edwards built 1977. This is made up of nine houses and twelve flats in a tall, block with pitched roofs intended to echo its 19th  neighbours.


Lyndhurst Gardens
17 The Hoo. This is a large house designed by Horace Field from 1888-90, and altered in 1987-88. It is built of red brick with tile-hanging on the upper storey. The house is now occupied by the Belsize, Gospel Oak and West Hampstead Community Health Teams. The archives of the Royal Free Hospital are also held here. Fleet Counselling, who offer affordable one-on-one counselling services are based here
26 Maria Montessori Children’s House Nursery. It is one of William Willett's developments, designed by H. B. Measures: tall detached gabled house
Marie Curie Hospice. In 1948 Not long before the Hampstead-based Marie Curie Hospital was transferred to the NHS, a group of committee members decided to preserve the name of Marie Curie in the charitable medical field and thus fund raised and set up the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation − a charity dedicated to alleviating suffering from cancer today − today known as Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Lyndhurst road
This was part of the Rosslyn Park Estate, which belonged to Westminster Abbey.  Streets here were developed slowly from 1853, covering the grounds of Rosslyn House.
Tower Close. Built in 1982 by Pollard Thomas & Edwards, with a comer tower. Built on the site of Eldon House
Rosslyn House, this was one of four houses here built in the late 18th and named Rosslyn Lodge when it was the home of the Earl of Rosslyn in the early 19th.  It later became The Royal Soldiers' Daughters' Home, founded in 1855 to relieve the families of soldiers in the Crimea.
Olave Centre. HQ of the World Association of Girl Guides has a core of Rosslyn Lodge a small stuccoed villa built c. 1800, with ogee-topped turret and shallow bow. Extensions, tactfully white-rendered but dwarfing the original house, by John Dangerfield, 1980-91. The centre serves the ten million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from 145 countries across the world. It is the largest voluntary movement dedicated to girls and young women in the world. Olave of course was the first Chief Guide.
Rosslyn Grove. Late 18th brick house, standing behind the church
Congregational Church building now the AIR Recording Studio. The church originated in services held in an iron building in 1876 and was formed in 1880. Members of the church bought land on the Rosslyn Grove estate, selling part to finance the construction of the church. The new church was opened in 1884 and a lecture hall and school were added later. In 1972 the church became part of the United Reformed churches and closed in 1978. The building is by Waterhouse and centrally planned. It is in purple brick and coloured terracotta decoration; it was changed inside and subdivided as a concert hall and recording studios in 1991-2 by Bernard Parker of Heber-Percy & Parker. 
AIR Studios. The studio began in 1969 when George Martin left EMI to establish an independent recording complex. A sister studio, in Montserrat, opened in mid 1970′s but was forced to close after a hurricane.  In 1991 a new AIR Studios moved into Lyndhurst Hall. Sir George Martin opened it in 1992 with a gala performance of “Under Milk Wood” in the presence of The Prince of Wales.
19-21 Group of 3 houses, plus the old lodge to Rosslyn House attached at the corner. The houses were designed in 1897-8 by Horace Field; and the former lodge was built 1865 attributed to S.S. Teulon.
1-3 Lyndhurst Terrace. Gothic houses designed im 1864-5 by and for Alfred Bell, the stained-glass designer, and his father-in-law John Burlison, assistant to Gilbert Scott.

Shepherd's Walk,
Path to the Shepherd's Well, named for a Mr. Shepherd
Royal Mail Delivery Office

Waterhouse Close
Waterhouse Close. Housing for the elderly by Camden Architect's Department, 1980-2.

Wedderburn Road
Another road named after Alexander Wedderburn, future Earl Rosslyn – Scottish lawyer and Lord Chancellor.
Wedderburn House. Small mansion block of 1884

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North London Railway
The North London Railway from Hampstead Heath Station continues south westwards mainly through a tunnel in this section.


Post to the east Hampstead

Arkwright Road
Camden Arts Centre.  Camden Arts Centre was built as Hampstead Central Library and designed by the Arnold Taylor and extended in 1926.  It was opened in 1897 by its funder Henry Harben, Deputy Chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company. The structure survived bombs and a V2 in the Second World War while used as an ARP post. In 1964 a new the Swiss Cottage library opened as part of a modern library service. Hampstead Arts Centre was opened here in 1965 with classes in painting, life drawing, pottery, printing and design. Refurbished 2004 by Tony Fretton. There is also a garden, bookshop, and café.
1 Senior House of St.Anthony’s School (fee paying, Catholic ‘preparatory’)
2 house used by Devonshire House School. (fee paying, ‘preparatory’)
4 built for the artist F.W. Topham and there is a plaque to him on it.  Used by Devonshire House School (fee paying, ‘preparatory’)
6 built for writer Henry Arthur Jones Used by Devonshire House School (fee paying, ‘preparatory’)
13b modernist house by Godfrey Samuel and Valentine Harding, a member of Tecton. Brick with concrete floors and glass bricks at the front. Built for Cecil Walton headmaster of University College School.  Inside is a fireplace in flints.
21 home of Tobias Matthay 1858-1945. Matthay was a radical teacher of the piano. A plaque on the house was installed in 1979.


Ellerdale Road
Belonged to the Greenhill estate and built up early 1870s with grand gothic villas, many of them by T.K. Green
24 King Alfred's school opened in 1898 here to practise modern theories of education. The school had no religious or political affiliations; discipline depended on the pupils' co-operation and competition was discouraged. It moved to Hendon in 1919.


Finchley Road
Finchley Road and Frognal Station. This opened in 1860 and now lies between Hampstead Heath and West Hampstead Stations on the North London Line. It was originally called Finchley Road Station on the Hampstead Junction Railway and the entrance was very humble. Tunnel from Hampstead Heath on North London Railway 1879s
Arkwright Mansions. These flats were part of a housing development for J.E. and E. A. Cave, in 1896. The building was opened in 1900. There were lead covered spires on two of the dormers, besides a dome over the corner tower, which have survived.  Work started at the Arkwright Road end and the building quality reduces down the length of the building, so cost must have been a factor.


Frognal
First recorded in the 15th as a ‘customary tenement’. There were three ponds full of frogs – hence the name. It became a village in the 17th from a single house and as other houses were built it took on the ‘Frognal’ name which had been used from the 14th.
39 this was the home of illustrator Kate Greenaway 1886-1901. It is a building by Norman Shaw and there is a plaque to Kate.
41 house, in the International Modern style by Alexander Flinders, 1966-8.
University College School.  The School was founded in Gower Street in 1830 as part of University College, and here in 1907.  UCS was founded with a liberal philosophy. It has three separate schools: the Phoenix School takes boys and girls aged 3-7. The school opened in 2002.  The Junior Branch educated education for boys aged 7-11. The Senior School caters for boys aged from 11-18.  Sixth form. The school took girls from 2008.  The buildings are from 1905-7 by Arnold Mitchell and originally planned for 500 pupils.  It is brick with a stone frontispiece and cupola.  There is a great hall restored by Michael Foster after a fire in 1978.  There are additions from the 1059s.1970s and subsequently.


Frognal Close
Houses in international modern style designed by Ernst Freud, son of Sigmund.
Site of Frognal Priory. In 1815 until 1817 Manor Lodge in Frognal was occupied by John Thompson (a retired auctioneer. he kept some of the land and in 1818 built a house later called Frognal Priory plus a lodge. The house had Gothic crenellations, Renaissance windows, Dutch gables, turrets, and a cupola. Thompson filled it with furniture he said had belonged to Cardinal Wolsey and Elizabeth I. It was demolished in 1876.


Netherhall Gardens
Built up with posh houses from the 1870s.
50 built at part of 61 Fitzjohn's Avenue in 1878 for the artist Edwin Long by Norman Shaw – who lived just round the corner in Ellerdale Road
42  Kelston a second house designed for Edwin Long by Richard Norman Shaw in 1888. Later Edward Elgar lived here.
18 Netherhall House. This was the first house used by Opus Dei in 1952 and the start of the complex owned by them in the area.  The house was opened as an international intercollegiate hall of residence for students of all faiths from all countries, this eventually included seminar rooms, an auditorium and an oratory.  By the 1960s this had expanded to other sites in the area and elsewhere. In 1964, Netherhall Educational Association was formed to take over the work of the original Trust. In each centre is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature. Netherhall House developed structural problems and the Netherhall 2000 project was set up to be completed in time for the fiftieth anniversary. Victorian buildings were replaced with modern houses in the same style and by digging created a lower ground floor and by building a central area between the new houses and the 1960s block.
16 this was the second house bought by Opus Dei as a student residence. From 1995 it included a branch of the Southbank International School


Railway – North London Line
The North London Line is in a tunnel here – as it has been in the two squares to the east. This was opened in 1860. Excavations for it were cut in two depth stages- the first about half of the depth needed but three times as wide in order to make a working area for men and machinery. The centre of the trench was to be the final tunnel area.  The tunnel was narrower than most other tunnels although the reason is not known. The width of the line crossing Finchley Road is also narrow and it could be guessed that the reason was financial. It is also likely that constant pumping was needed because of underground water.  The tunnel was the subject of major works in 1995 to install overhead electric wiring for Eurostar.

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The North London Line continues in a south westerly direction from Finchley Road and Frognal Station


Billy Fury Way
In 2010 Camden Council, London, named a small formerly nameless road Billy Fury Way in honour of the 1950s rock and roller. He had recorded at the nearby Decca Studios. The alleyway was decorated with a large mural of his face, which was unveiled and blessed in, 2011.

Blackburn Road.
1869. Named after Mr. Blackburn, the builder and planned by 1885.
3 F. R. Napier, had opened a plating shop behind West Hampstead fire station in 1919, took the site for his Hampstead Plating Works, which was founded in 1940 and survived with four employees in 1986.
Cadbury Bros depot from 1933
14 Builder Depot
Canadian Building- this building, has included a number of Canadian business organisations since the 1930s led by the Canadian government's exhibition commission
Tower Royal Works, engineering company owned by L.Sloper present in the 1950s. This was to the north of Blackburn Lane – which was their address – on what is now Billy Fury Way. They made perforating machinery and some other applications. They were there in from 1871 to 1991, when the works was sold and closed down.
Independent Student Living is purpose built 2012, student accommodation with 39 cluster flats and shared facilities

Broadhurst Gardens
165 English National Opera. Lillian Bayliss house -building has crest of open book at the gable. This building, originally erected as the an engineering company’s ‘Falcon Works’, was converted in 1886 to house the West Hampstead Town Hall by HG Randall.  For most of 20th century the building was used as a recording studio - Decca Studios. From 1929, British Decca's earliest recordings were in Chelsea and later Lower Thames Street and by opening these studios they could compete with HMV. Many famous albums were recorded here,
Broadwell Parade

Dresden Mews
Local authority housing in roads called after famous types of china. On the site of Hampstead Council Yard.


Lithos Road
Lithos Road Estate run by the estate's  consortium of housing associations. It was built 1991 with and high and low rise blocks bordered on each side by railway tracks. Designed by Pollard Thomas and Edwards with curved brick elevations to cut down on railway noise
Lithos Road orchard with 11 fruit trees, including apples, pears, quince and medlar.
Stone Yard power station. Hampstead borough power station for electricity supply. The supply of electricity had been managed initially by the Council's predecessor the Hampstead Vestry through its Electric Lighting Committee.   Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council Electricity Undertaking was authorised under the Hampstead (London) Electric Lighting Order 1892.  The foundation stone of which was laid in 1892 and a Central Supply Station and Head Offices were built in 1893 at the Vestry's Stoneyard, Supply began in 1894 of single-phase high-tension alternating current. From 1921 the bulk supply of electricity was taken from Saint Marylebone Borough Council, and Lithos Road ceased to generate in 1922.
Transformer Station. The bays on this building date back to the 40s or 50s. A new facade has been added to harmonise with the recent housing development
Hampstead Cleansing Station. Before 1920s this was in the Electricity Department Yard here.
Borough Council Bathing Station closed in 1960

Lymington Road
Low-rise housing for Camden by Sheppard Robson & Partners, 1980, tightly packed pantiled-roofed terraces Apart from the taller pair on a deck above garages, a decided departure from the style of Camden's own grand schemes
Corporation yard 1950s 

Potteries Path
This name dates from 2010 and is the result of a popular poll to find suitable names for a number of unnamed footpaths in the area

Railway
North London Line. Leaving Finchley and Frognal Station at Finchley Road the line runs generally south west. It ran north of the Hampstead Electricity Station and there were sidings into it.  It then crosses the old Midland Main Line on a bridge rebuilt when the line below was electrified. It then runs into West End Lane Station.
The Midland Railway line from St.Pancras is now largely used by Thameslink trains and from here runs westwards. It has sidings to the south on land which now houses superstores and their car parks. It passes under the North London (Hampstead Junction Railway) heading for West Hampstead Thameslink Station
The Metropolitan Line. This is part of London Underground but was initially built as a potentially main line railway and now runs a fast non-stopping service through this section.  It runs generally westward from Finchley Road station going to its west Hampstead station.  There were once interchange lines between it and the Midland lines.  The Jubilee line runs alongside using lines built for stopping trains by the Metropolitan Railway in 1913 and stopping at what were originally Metropolitan Railway stations.  The Jubilee Line took over this service from the Bakerloo Line in 1979; Bakerloo had run it since 1939.

West End Lane.
In 1879 this was still a semi-rural road. This square covers the east side only
86 Acol Bridge Club. Acol is local road named for a village in Kent. The club was founded in the early 1930’s at No.15 Acol Road and involved players who had developed a new bidding system that brought which they called Acol. In the early 1950s the club moved to this address.
The Railway. 19th pub.
West Hampstead Station. Built by the Metropolitan Railway in 1879. It now lies between Kilburn and Finchley Road on the Jubilee Line. Metropolitan District Railway’s St John’s Wood line was opened to here from Swiss Cottage here in 1879 by Watkin as part of his vision for extending the Met.  Great Central trains ran through the station were not allowed to stop here and there was no platform although the two existing platforms became an island so that the down platform could be demolished. The fast lines still go straight through. The station was rebuilt by the London Transport Passenger Board in 1938 and in 1939 it became a station on the Bakerloo Line and in 1979 it became part of the Jubilee Line.


West Hampstead mews
Built in 1886 –includes a building with a shield and the date on the gable.


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Acol Bridge Club. Web site
Day. London Underground
Field, London Place Names,
Hillman. London Under London
London Borough of Camden. Web site
London Encyclopaedia
London Railway Record
National Archives Web site
Pevsner and Cherry.  London North
Robins.  North London Railway
Willesden History Society, Newsletter

The North London Railway (Hampstead Junction Railway) leaves West Hampstead Station and runs south westwards.

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Iverson Road
The part of the road from West End Lane to Maygrove Road was built by Midland Railway. The rest was built by the British Land Company
202-220 These are probably Heysham Cottages built in the site of West End House for railway workers.
West End House. The big house around which the hamlet of West End grew. In the 1ate 18th it was owned by the Beckford family - although it is not thought that either Alderman Beckford or his scandalous son William lived there.  The house was bought by the Midland Railway in 1866 and let to the railway contractors, it was later used as accommodation for railway workers. Some of it - called the Old Mansion - became the station master's house for what was then West End Station. The rest was bought by the British Land Company and demolished.
West Hampstead power signal box.  1977. An early example of a new type by. S. Wyatt, British Rail Regional Architect.  Very large; red brick and steel cladding.
190 Innisfree Housing Association
Garden Centre alongside the railway, now closed
128 Mural– abstract on the wall facing the park


Liddell Road
Trading and light industrial units on the site of part of the West End railway sidings. This was a large area – mainly to the west of Liddell Road used by the Midland Railway for marshalling goods traffic and distribution – mainly dealing in coal.

Linstead Street
Harben School. This was opened in 1881 by the School Board for London as Netherwood Street Board School. A Cookery centre was added by 1895. In the 1920s it was reorganised as The Harben School and in 1951 became Harben Secondary Modern and Harben Primary Junior and Infants – which closed in 1955. The Secondary school closed in 1961, and it became the lower school of St. George’s Roman Catholic Secondary school.  It is now flats.
Kilburn Grange Children’s Centre.  tange of children’s spaces -Outdoor play areas, etc. Designed by Meadowcroft Griffin 2006.

Pandora Road
21 plaque to Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe 1865-1922. 'Journalist and newspaper proprietor, lived here'. Harmsworth lived here, from 1888, for three years, published "Comic Cuts" and "Answers to Correspondents" and planned his future newspaper empire. The plaque was erected in 1979.


Railways
The three railway noted in the previous square continue across this area.
The Midland, Thameslink line continues westwards turning towards the north. It had a large marshalling yard and distribution centre to the south of the line, noted above.
The North London Line, Hampstead Junction Railway, continues in a south westerly direction
The Metropolitan Line, now London Underground and including the Jubilee Line continues westward, crossing the North London Line

Sherriff Road
Alexander Sherriff was a director of the Metropolitan Railway and of the London Permanent Building Society.
St.James. Built in 1885-8 by A. W. Blomfield. In red brick inside and out.
West Hampstead Studios. Artists’ accommodation built in 1884 by Messrs Pincham and Owers with an imposing frontage.

West End Lane.
It was a pleasant country drive for Queen Victoria. . In 1879 was still a semi-rural place
West Hampstead Station. This opened in 1888 and now lies between Finchley Road and Frognal and Brondesbury on the North London Line. It was originally West End Lane Station on the line from Hampstead to Willesden. The name was changed in 1975. The station received a major refurbishment towards the end of 2007 as part of the London Overground takeover.
West Hampstead Thameslink Station. Built in 1871 it now lies between Kentish Town and Cricklewood on the Thameslink Line. Initially in 1871 this was just a halt in the area at the end of what was a stretch of cobbles running from Iverson Road. For a short period from 1878 the station formed part of the Super Outer Circle in which Midland trains ran from St.Pancras to Earls Court via Acton and Turnham Green. The Midland Railway originally opened it as ‘West End’ with long platforms to allow main line trains to stop and some trains ran to Kings Cross rather than St. Pancras.
In 1904 it was renamed ‘West End and Brondesbury’. In 1905 it became just ‘West Hampstead’.  By 1945 it was on the London Midland and Scottish Railway and built as a prototype with wall panels clipped to prefabricated sections and designed by L. Martin and R. Llewellyn-Davies under W.H. Hamlyn. Rebuilt 2012 by Landolt and Brown with special measures over a line of lime trees

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Hillman. London Under London
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Robins.  North London Railway
St. James. Web site
Willesden History Society, Newsletter

The North London Line
The North London Line from West Hampstead Station turns south westwards

Post to the east West Hampstead


Barlow Road
Built on the site of the Midland Railway’s West End Sidings – a marshalling yard and goods distribution centre. William Barlow was the Midland Railway’s engineer who built much of St.Pancras Station.
Lauriston Lodge, sheltered housing

Brassey Road
Built on the site of the Midland Railway’s West End Sidings – a marshalling yard and goods distribution centre. Thomas Brassey was the civil engineer and contractor for the Midland Railway London extension into St Pancras in 1860 and was responsible for 1 in 3 miles of all railway track that was laid during his lifetime.
Sidings Community Centre. Opened in 1983 and named for the Wrest End Sidings and it stands on a small part of the siding site.

Christchurch Avenue
Railway Bridge carrying the Chiltern Line from St, Marylebone
Metropolitan Railway bridge. This was built in 1914 – the date is shown on the bridge - and carries the Metropolitan and Jubilee line tracks over the A5.   It still carries Metropolitan Railway insignia and signage.
Murals– under the railway bridge and relates to the building of the railway.
The Bijou Cinema in the film the Smallest Show on Earth was constructed as a set between the two railways bridges


Fordwych Road
St. Cuthbert. The parish was formed in 1888 and met in an iron church originally founded by Holy Trinity, Finchley Road which had been replaced in 1882 by a brick mission church designed by W. C. Street. A church was later built at right angles to the mission church in red brick style by Street in 1886. The mission church became the church hall but was demolished in 1902 by the Midland Railway who rebuilt it nearer to the church in 1903. In 1979 it was to sell the site of the church for housing. A new church was built in 1987-8 by Jeremy A. Allen. As a low, polygonal brick building set back. In front of the church is a bell of 1906 from Street's church whose site is occupied by a block of flats

Garlinge Road
Chevington Estate. Housing project built by the London Borough of Camden when Sydney Cook was borough architect 1965-73.

Iverson Road
9-11 Brondesbury Christian Centre. This was built in 1989 to replace the Baptist church on the corner with Shoot Up Hill and on the site of the church Sunday School and hall.  Brondesbury hall dated from 1884 and used as a mission chord and Sunday School.
Railway Bridge

Kilburn High Road
This is the A5, a Roman Road and still a major road out of London north. It is a section of the ancient Watling Street and the western boundary of the London borough of Camden.
Brondesbury Baptist Church,., was built on site given by Jas. Harvey and opened in 1878 on the Corner with Iverson Road. It was an ornate building by W. A. Dixon with a church hall. It closed in 1980, demolished and was replaced by flats.
375 North London Tavern Pub
The Envoy Cinema opened in 1937 as a news and cartoon cinema decorated in an Art Deco style.  The Entrance was via a long corridor along the side of the auditorium and patrons entered from the rear with the screen behind the front facade. Seating was on one level only.  It was taken over by the Classic Repertory Cinemas chain and re-named Classic Cinema from 1955. It closed in 1984. The building lay empty and derelict but the site is now housing. The premier of the first West Indian made film was shown here.
Kilburn Station.  Opened in 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway it now lies between Willesden Green and West Hampstead on the Jubilee Line.  It was first called as ‘Kilburn and Brondesbury’ as part of the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway. In 1939 it became part of the Bakerloo Line and at which time the station was extensively rebuilt and in 1950 name was changed to ‘Kilburn’.  In 1979 it became art of the Jubilee Line and in 2005, underwent major refurbishing which involved the station being repainted, receiving a new CCTV system, better lighting, new toilets, and new train indicator boards


Kingscroft Street
In 1911 work began on this road on the site of Shoot Up Hill Farm and the Elms; 7 houses were built there before 1914


Loveridge Road
Built by British Land Company 1879


Maygrove Road
The Kilburn stream is said to have run between this and Iverson Road. The road was built up mainly by the British Land Company from 1879.  
Maygrove Peace Park is situated on the site of part of je former West End railway sidings. In 1983, Camden Council agreed to designate Maygrove a peace park as a reminder of the council’s commitment to peace.  The opening of the park was on the 39th Nagasaki Day and a telegram from the Mayor of Nagasaki, Hitoshi Motoshima, said "We hope your Peace Park will be remembered long as a symbol of Peace”’. There are various works of art relevant to peace in the park -The Peace Crane by Hamish Black represents the Japanese origami peace crane made by children all over the world. On the plinth a plaque tells the story of the little girl called Sadako and the origin of the crane as the Japanese symbol of peace. along Peace Walk are 7 stones inscribed with messages of peace, one of which is from the Mayor of Hiroshima, Takeshi Araki  “We the citizens of Hiroshima ever mindful of the cruel experience clearly foresee the extinction of mankind and an end to civilisation should the world drift into nuclear war. Therefore we have vowed to set aside our griefs and grudges and continuously pleaded before the peoples of the world to abolish weapons and renounce war so that we may never again repeat the tragedy of Hiroshima” - Antony Gormley’s “untitled (listening)” statue, with a granite block symbolising “part of the old deep history of the planet… sculpted by time – a cherry tree marking the cherry tree which continued to bloom throughout the holocaust of Hiroshima.
128 Done Our Bit Club. A private club for veterans, working men and ex-army men. There is a lounge and a bar.
67 Maygrove House offices and other uses in refurbished building
65 conversion to flats of site used by Dexion, metal shelving and construction specialists as their west London headquarters
59 Garage Maygrove Motors
Mission Hall
Railway Bridge

Netherwood Street
Netherwood Day Centre. This was set up for dementia sufferers and was opened in 1988 by Jonathan Miller whose mother, the writer Betty Miller, suffered early onset Alzheimer’s. 


Railway
The Midland Railway which connects West Hampstead Thames link station to St Pancras and Europe through the Eurostar International line. The first train to use this line left St Pancras en route to Manchester at in 1868.


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GLIAS Newsletter
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Stevenson, Middlesex
Walford. Village London
Willesden History Society. Newsletter

North London Line.
The North London Line, coming from West Hampstead Station runs south westwards

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Dyne Road
Willesden Town Hall. The offices of the Willesden local board were established here in 1891amd later were enlarged as Willesden Town Hall. When the area became part of the London Borough of Brent, all administration was transferred to Wimble, and the town hall was demolished in 1972. There are now flats on the site.  There were also a number of works departments and yards associated with the local authority – opposite and adjacent to the town hall. All these are now the site of flats and offices.
1a Foundation House. Institute of Contemporary Musical Performance. Founded in the mid 1980s and provides courses relevant to modern music
Kingdom Hall. Jehovah’s Witnesses rear of 1a
1b Hamilton House. Offices of Brent Mind, Mencap, etc.

Kilburn High Road
Brondesbury Station.  Opened in 1860 it now lies between West Hampstead and Brondesbury Park on the North London Line. It was built on the Hampstead Junction Railway line from old Oak Common to Camden Road and originally called Edgeware Road (Kilburn). It was rebuilt by the London North West Railway and the booking office remains. It has been renamed several times: Edgware Road in 1865, Edgware Road and Brondesbury in 1872 Brondesbury (Edgware Road) in 1873 Brondesbury in 1883. The station was still gas lit in the 1960s.  The station was refurbished and new platform buildings erected in 1996, as part of the ungrading for Eurostar.
234 Kilburn Grange Cinema. This on the site of The Grange with public park behind. It opened in 1914 and was cited as ‘the largest purpose built cinema in Great Britain owned by the North Metropolitan Circuit. It takes up a whole block and the cinema’s name and date are on the facade. It has a corner entrance with a copper dome. Inside a galleried oval area leads to what were the tea room and the circle. It had a Nicholson & Lord 3Manual/38 speaking stops straight organ, replaced by a Wurlitzer 2Manual/8Ranks model ‘F’ theatre organ in 1927. In 1929 it was taken over by Gaumont British Theatres who became part of the Rank Organisation. It closed in 1975 and was converted into Butty’s Nightclub which later became the National Ballroom, and then the National Club for the local Irish community. The Club closed in 1999 and the building was left empty. It is now used by the Brazilian based ‘United Church of the Kingdom of God’.
The Grange. The cinema was on the site of The Grange a large house built in 1831, and the home of a successful coach builder, Peters.
236 Speedy Noodles. This was the Biograph Theatre converted from shops which opened in 1910 for Biograph Theatres Ltd. chain. It closed in 1917, and went back to being a shop.
244-266 Sir Colin Campbell Pub. Pub with Irish music and Guinness
269 The Tricycle Theatre. Converted from a converted Forester's Hall, the Tricycle opened in 1980 as the home of the Wakefield Tricycle Company – a touring theatre company which never played Wakefield.  The theatre used the hall while the Foresters themselves maintain a decorative street frontage and shop. The Theatre was almost burnt down in 1987 from a fire started in an adjacent timber yard. It was rebuilt and expanded. In 1998 the Cinema was added and there is now also a Visual Arts Studio called the Paintbox, the James Baldwin Studio Theatre, an Art Gallery, Cafe, and rehearsal rooms.
The Tricycle Cinema shares an entrance with the Theatre. It also has an entrance in Buckley Road. It is designed by Tim Foster with an auditorium basement level. There is also a street level private box next to the projection box. The design on the screen curtain is in the form of a tricycle which is made up of names of sponsors, and patrons. It opened in 1998
274 Black Lion. Guest house and pub. Built 1898 By RA Lewcock with interior carved panels by F.T .Callcott. It is in red brick with a Pink & grey granite frontage.  Etched glass in the windows and doors. There is a projecting cornice with an arcaded balustrade with decoration, cupola and weathervane finial and a lion mask and plaque inscribed "The Black Lion rebuilt 1898".  Inside plasterwork, and gilded plaques by Callcott.
289 The Good Ship. Music pub which opened in 2005.
289-291 Mitchell and Phillips, Kilburn Brewery. This was run in the mid 19th by William Verey, a Hampstead resident.  It was taken over by Truemans in 1920.
307-311 The Kings Head.  This was previously called McGovern's and as the Kings Head had Elvis's head as their sign. Upstairs was the Luminaire, a music venue, and downstairs a 'dive bar' with a mirrored bar back from its days as an Irish pub., both venues closed at the end of 2010. The building may have been offices for the local gas company in the 1930s – and Drakes Courtyard behind was the gas works depot.
308 Nandos. Was the Lord Palmerston Pub and later called Roman Way.
332 Powers Bar Pub. May be closed

Palmerston Road
The road now intersects the Web Heath Estate

Railway
A signal box was in use at Brondesbury Station until 1962.

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Pevsner and Cherry...  North West London
Stevenson, Middlesex
Tricycle Theatre. Web site
Walford. Village London
Willesden History Society. Newsletter

The North London line from Brondesbury Station runs south westwards


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Brondesbury Park
Brondesbury College. This is an Independent (private fee paying) Secondary School for boys. It has a traditional English curriculum with selected Islamic subjects. The main building was originally a house and was used to set up Islamia Primary School as a kindergarden in 1983. This then relocated and the College opened here in 1996.
Mission House. The house was originally called Restormel. In the early 1900s this was the home of Solomon Barnett, a Polish born lead and glass merchant, who became a local developer and political activist. It was later renamed The Mission House and belonged to Revd Dr Herbert Vaughan and was the Headquarters of the Catholic Missionary Society. It had a large entrance hall and an oak staircase plus a large conservatory at the back. It was lent it to the War Office in the Great War and became the Brondesbury Park Military Hospital 1915 – 1919. The garden was over 2 acres with tennis, croquet and a kitchen garden.  A Recreation Hut was built with sofas, billiards and bagatelle. It has a stage for performances.  There was a Hospital's magazine ‘With the Wounded’. In 1917 took over neighbouring - Beversbrook to make a total of 120 beds. The hospital closed in 1919 and the house has since been demolished long ago, but gate posts and boundary wall remain. The site is part of what was Avenue Primary School grounds

Christchurch Avenue
Malorees School.  Malorees Primary – Junior School and Infant School. , Opened in 1953 as a council school to cope with ‘the bulge’. 
Lady Adelaide  Home. This was one of several institutions belonging to the Community of the Sisters of the Church which began as the Church Extension Association, a missionary society begun in 1863 by Miss Emily Ayckbowm.  Much of their work had been in the parish of  St. Augustine, Kilburn.  The Lady Adelaide Home for Boys was built and presented to the Community by the Rev. Henry Law, in memory of his wife as a home for destitute boys.
Beversbrook. This was a big house on the corner with Brondesbury Park. In the Great War it was lent to the War Office by its owner, Mr Stanley Gibbs, and became an annexe to hospital in The Mission House across the road. It has 4 acres of grounds, could provide 50 beds and opened in July 1917.  The site is now Moatfield, block of flats

The Avenue
Primary School.. The site was a demonstration kindergarten for the Maria Grey College – the teacher training institution which had a main site slightly to the south of here until the 1940s although the school remained here. From 1970 it housed the Manor Primary school for educationally sub-moved to this site in 1970 from Kingsbury. It subsequently became The Avenue Primary School. This closed in 2007 and it has since housed a relocated school from Swiss Cottage.

Willesden Lane
Christ Church. This was a first daughter church of St.Mary, Willesden. It was consecrated in 1866. It was combined with the Parish of St Laurence in the early 1970s and in the 1980s, most of the of the church was converted into flats. The church now meets in what were the transept, choir and sanctuary.
163 Trojan Court Flats.  The site was that of Vernon House.  IN 1960s this was Willesden Education Department and then a special school.
180 North West London Jewish Primary School. This originally opened in 1945 in Hampstead and moved here in 1958.


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Stevenson, Middlesex
Walford. Village London
Willesden History Society. Newsletter

North London Line
The North London Line from Brondesbury Station runs south westwards

Post to the north Brondesbury


Brondesbury Park Road
This is still marked as parkland on the Ordnance Survey map of 1904. The road is said to have been built as a spine road through the area but on some older maps it is called ‘Brand’s Causeway’
Brondesbury Park Station. Opened in 1908 as the ‘youngest’ station on the line it now lies between Brondesbury and Kensal Rise stations on the North London Railway.  The platforms were rebuilt in 1996.


Chevening Road
The road was built by the Church Commissioners in the mid 1880s as one of the approach roads to Queens Park
Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Centre.  This was previously Brondesbury Synagogue. It is now the Iman Al-Khoei Foundation, the premier Shia mosque in London. The centre serves a sizable community of Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani Shias, with the emphasis on Ahl al-Bayt (Ahlul Bayt) doctrine, which holds Muhammad’s immediate household members to be ‘infallible Imams’. They also use old school buildings to the north.
Brondesbury Synagogue.  This building dates from 1904-5 the land having been sold cheaply to the congregation by Solomon Barnett who became its first warden. It was destroyed by arson in 1965 and rebuilt. It was sold in 1974 with most of its members joining either the Willesden or the Cricklewood Synagogue.  It was Ashkenazi Orthodox Ritual and a constituent synagogue of the United Synagogue from 1905 until its closure.
Winkworth Hall. This was built as a hall of residence for students at the Maria Grey Teacher Training College. There is a plaque on the building – Emma Winkworth was the first woman to climb the Jungfrau and was also known as a women’s suffrage supporter. The building is now owned by London Borough of Brent and occupied by the Islamia School and by Hopscotch nursery. It was also used by Brondesbury and Kilburn School

Kimberley Road
Welbeck Works – this may originally have been a cutlery works but it was taken on by early motor enthusiast and inventor Frederick Sims who moved his Simms Manufacturing Co from Bermondsey to here in 1902. Here they made Simms-Welbeck cars, lorries and marine engines, fire engines, agricultural vehicles, military vehicles and guns, and aeronautical devices. The works was burnt down in 1920. In 1908 he works was taken over by Grosvenor, Rolls Royce and Daimler agents.  Hooper’s moved their Rolls and Daimler servicing unit to what was then called the Claborn Works in 1959.  Hoopers were long established coachbuilders working at the extreme top end of the market and based in Westminster and Park Royal.  In 1991 Hooper bought Metrocab out of receivership and repaired taxis on the site, but by 2002, when Metrocab moved out, were no longer involved.  The site is now flats named after Hoopers.
Magneto Works – shown on a map as a different site to Welbeck Works, the magneto was another of Simms’ enterprises
Albion Works. Various companies making specialist art papers.
Legion Works. Marwick and Pauling paper board
Kingswood Avenue
One of the roads around the park which was built up with houses as part of the deal when Queen’s Park was opened.
Queens Park
This square includes only the extreme north east corner of the park and the area adjacent to Chevening Road.  The park opened in 1887. It was initially called Kilburn Recreation Ground, and has been known as Queen’s Park since the Jubilee year of 1887. It comprises 30 acres of the site of the Royal Agricultural Show held in 1879 and was acquired in 1886 by the Corporation of London from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In 1940 a bomb fell in the middle of the north field and another by temporary wooden fencing along Chevening Road.
Bandstand, The Bandstand was erected in 1889. It is in cast iron by Macfarlane and Co. of Glasgow. It remains in the park despite some wartime alterations.
A line of trees running north west from the bandstand are likely to be remnants from a field boundary
Woodland walk
Petanique rink
Trim trail

Salusbury Road
Built as an extension to Brondesbury Park as a spine road.
St Anne. The church began as a mission church established by the London Diocesan Home Mission in 1899. A parish was formed in 1905 and Bishop of London was patron. The church building, by the Cutts Brothers was in brick with stone dressings, was completed in 1905.  It was rebuilt in 1998 and is linked with St. Andrew’s United Reform Church
Queens Studios
Brondesbury and Kilburn High School for Girlsopened in 1892 and was a private school until the county council took it over in 1938. It merged with Kilburn Grammar in 1972 and closed in 1987. The school was damaged in 1944 by a flying bomb. It also served as a Synagogue for a time, during the construction of the Synagogue in Chevening Road. It was later sold to the Islamia Trust.
Islamia Primary School was founded by Yusuf Islam, singer/songwriter, 'Cat Stevens'. The School opened in 1983 in Brondesbury Park bur has since moved to what was the Kilburn & Brondesbury Secondary School. In 1998, the government granted it state funding.
Maria Grey Training College for Women Teachers.  Came here in 1892 and shared premises with the girls grammar school but later moved to Twickenham
Kilburn Grammar School founded by Dr.Bonavia Hunt in 1898 as a choir school. At first it was on Willesden Lane but moved in 1900 to Salusbury Road, opposite the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School for Girls as a became a grammar school for boys. It was taken over by Middlesex County Council in 1908 and enlarged in 1927. It was damaged in the Second World War and rebuilt in 1951-1952. It amalgamated with Brondesbury and Kilburn High School for Girls in 1967 as Brondesbury and Kilburn High. It is now used by the Islamia School.
131 Willesden Borough Electricity Offices. The council had their own generating station in Taylors Lane and this was the payment office. The showroom was next door on the two storey single gabled building and there was a depot beyond that in the building now used by the Yoga Centre.


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