Post to the west Abbots Langley

Post to the east M25 Waterdale


East Lane
Cemetery– this was the burial ground for Leavesden Hospital. It is totally derelict and overgrown – although there you can see that there were specimen trees planted here. There is also a semi derelict wooden entrance. There were two hospital cemeteries here and one is accessible. The other has been left to become wooded and a condition of the transfer of the land to Three Rivers District Council required it remain in that way.
Gas works. This was present in the 1870s and was later this was joined or replaced by a sewage pumping station. This was at the back of Leavesden asylum and the works served the buildings. There is also said have been a the waterworks here and a square green patch to the northis said to have been a reservoir. The hospital water supply joined the local system in 1980 and this  site was used by various tradesmen.

M25

Stowes Wood

Woodside Road
Fortunes Farm
Coles Farm,. In use by a haulage firm.


Sources
Dark Destiny. Web site
Three Rivers Council. sWeb site
Urban Exploration. Web site

Post to the west East Lane Abbots Langley
Post to the north Chiswell Junction


Chequers Lane
Chequers. This was once a pub. It is a 16th house with a timber frame, and rendered brick casing, part weatherboarded.

M1
This section of the road opened in 1959 and was then two lanes only in both directions and was widened in the early 1980s to three lanes in both directiosn..
Junction 6. This is Waterdale Interchange. It connects the M1 to the A405 North Orbital Road with an original bridge by Owen Williams. It opened in 1959 and remains basically the same except that originally both carriageways of the M1 crossed the North Orbital Road using the western bridge. When the M1 was widened a new bridge to the east which carries the southbound carriageway, while the western bridge now carrying the widened northbound carriageway.

North Orbital Road Waterdale
This is the A405 which was originally planned as part of a London orbital road. It was built in the 1930s and this is part of the original section.
Junction with M1. The road becomes a trunk road northeast of the junction and runs on link to the

M25

Winch Hill Wood
Woodland cut in two by the M1

Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
GLIAS newsletter
SABRE, Web site

Post to the south Waterdale
Post to the east Noke Lane


Blunts Lane
Hanrox Meadows. This is a farm rearing free range turkeys. Established in the early 2000s.

Holt Wood
Woodland

M1
Junction 6A. This is the  Chiswell Interchange which is a junction between the M1 and M15. It was opened in 1986 abd the M1 continues through the junction. There is no link off the A1 other than onto the M25.

M25
Junction 21, This is the Chiswell Interchange  between the M1 and M25. It was opened in 1986 as part of the last section of the M25.

Plaistowes Wood

Searches Lane
Searches Farm
Granary. This has a barn extension. It is 18th and incorporates red brick 18th wall
Barn Long weatherboarded 18th range.

Whitehouse Lane
Whitehouse Farm


Sources
Hanrox  Meadows. Web site
Historic England. Web site
SABRE. Web site

Post to the west Chiswell Junction


M25

Noke Lane
Miriam Lane and Entrance to the Gardens of the Rose. (the gardens are in the square to the north)
Noke Lane Business Centre. 
Holt Farm. Livery stables. The house may have origins from 1311 and there are stories of links with Jane Seymour and Henry VIII. There is a large barn, a granary and a moat which is now part of the gardens.
Holt Farmhouse. 15th house altered later and made up of two units. It has a timber frame with weatherboarded extensions..
Noke Farm Equestrian Centre.

North Orbital Road

Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
St. Alban’s City Council. Web site

Post to the north Noke Lane
Post to the west Waterdale


M25

North Orbital Road

Oakwood Road
Five Acres Country Club. Nudist club. In 1945 the site was bought by Gerald Gardner who wanted to found a coven there.
Witches' Cottage,  This 16th house was re-erected by Gardner in the club grounds. It was decorated with magical signs on the inside. He had bought it from the Freemason John S.M. Ward who had found it near Ledbury.

Old Watford Road
This was the turnpike St.Albans Road.
Black Boy. The pub dates from the 18th and was by a tollgate on what was then the St. Albans Road. It then catered for drovers. The name probably relates to Charles II.
Roman tile kiln. This was discovered during excavations at the back of the Black Boy pub.

Mount Pleasant Lane
Mount Pleasant Junior Mixed and Infants School. This dates from the 1930s

West Riding
Bricket Wood United Reform Church. Two 1960s buildings at right angles to each other, the current hall was the church and the current church was added as a hall. It was originally a mission church for the Spicer Street Chapel in St.Albans but in the 1920s it became part of Trinity Congregational Church. In 1972 it became United Reform.

Sources
Archaeological database. Web site
Black Boy. Web site
Five Acres Country Club. Website
Hertfordshire Churches, Website
Mount Pleasant Land School. Web site

Post to the west Bricket Wood
Post to the east Smug Oak Lane
Post to the south Bricket Wood


Blackboy Wood
Scouts Hall. This is round behind the shops near the pylon.  It is the 4th North Watford Scouts. (1st Bricket Wood)

Blackgreen Wood
There is now just a remnant of Blackgreen Wood which once stretched from Old Watford Road to Station Road. It is now a public open space in the ownership of the Parish Council. The original wood once covered the area of the village of Bricket Wood as is to be seen in the number of mature trees, primarily oak, within and around the village. In the 1930's the wood was sold and people from Watford and St. Albans bought five acre plots with no sanitation or lighting to built holiday chalets. Water came from wells.

Hunters Ride
Choristers Court. This was Victor Smith Court. Sheltered housing.

Lye Lane
Bricket Wood Sport and Country Club. This appears to be operating as a club hosting weddings and conferences. There are a number of buildings, many apparently built without planning consent. This is on what was a large sports ground attached to the club which appeared also to consist of a large cricket pitch dating from the 1920s.
Bricket Wood golf course. This site to the west of the road was given planning permission in 1995 but never built. Initially the developers were allowed to import waste to build a bank to shield the site from the M25 – but more and more waste kept coming in. Then the topsoil was a sold.
Bricket Wood Paintball Centre. This is on what was part of the sports club
Lye House, the sports grounds appear to have originally been the grounds of Lye House.
Caravan site, Travellers' site
Woodside Retreat.  In 1889 brothers Henry and William Gray bought up land and built Woodside Retreat Fairground. This attracted hordes of visitors to the area and a small village developed around the station. In 1929 Lady Yule bought it up and closed it down.
Horseshoe Business Park, This may or may not be on the site of Woodside Retreat
Recreation Ground
Bakery. Now an undertaker

M25

North Riding
Built by speculator R.Christmas

Oak Avenue  
Built by speculator R Christmas

Smug Oak Green
Site of Joyland fair built by R. Christmas and closed down by Lady Yule in 1929

South Riding
Built by speculator R.Christmas
St Luke’s Church. Built by speculator R.Christmas in the 1930s as a Village Hall and church. At first built it was a daughter church of Holy Trinity Frogmore but in 1981 became a Parish in its own right. The village hall has now expanded and hosts many events.

Station Road
The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Centre  This is in the buildings of what was Smug Oak Farmhouse and opened in 1982 to provide an autism specific day service. The Centre is run by Dimensions supporting people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health problems.
Fox and Hounds. This pub closed in 2010 and is now a house
St Stephen Parish Centre is the old Smug Oak Farm dairy
Railway Cottages
The Gate Pub. This pub has recently reopened.
Congregational Church, Built in 1895 and in use until the 1960s when it was replaced by the United Reformed Church in West Riding. It is now a lawnmower shop.
Bricketwood Station. This opened in 1858 and lies between How Wood and Garston on London Overground Line to Euston via Watford Junction. London, Midland, and Scottish Railway, from Watford to St. Albans. Two funfairs situated nearby meant that hundreds of people passed through the station in the summer months. The station then had a crossing loop and a second platform that could accommodate long excursion trains.  However, the funfairs closed in 1929 and the traffic fell.
Bricket Wood Railway District Control Building. This is at the north-east end of the Bricket Wood Station car park, in the trees between the station and Railway Cottages. It is a protected railway control room for BR London Midland Region built in 1954 and was intended as the dispersed location for the London Euston control room. Built of reinforced concrete construction, it would appear to be the sole surviving example of this type in England

Sources
Bricket Wood Parish Council. Web site
Bricket Wood Residents Association. Web site
Historic England. Web site
St. Albans City Council. Web site
St.Luke's Church Bricket Wood. Web site
Wikipedia. As appropriate
4th North Watford Scouts.  Web site

Acacia Road
Acacia Club tennis courts. This was present on the north side of the road until the 1950s. There is now housing on the site – more modern than the rest of the road.

Acton Park
Acton Park.  This was created in 1888. In the middle ages this had partly been a common field, Church Field. In 1886-88 land was purchased by Acton Local Board from various owners, including the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's, a market garden, and the Perryn Charity but mainly from the Goldsmiths' Company.  Lane in the south of the park had been used in part for brick-earth extraction in the 1870s and the ground remains uneven. It was opened to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The northern boundary changed in the Second World War and became allotments and in 1945 prefabs were built here. A bank along the northern edge was removed when these prefabs were removed. At the same time an entrance was created as a result of a flying bomb demolishing houses in East Churchfields Road.
The Layout.  This includes mature trees some of which may predate the formation of the park and may be hedgerow trees. Some plane trees may have been planted to provide a view from the Goldsmiths' Almshouses. The municipal layout has radiating avenues of mature trees with large grassed open spaces, and there are views to the east. There are planted clumps and lined walks of beech, hornbeam, horse chestnuts and lime. There is a sunken garden laid out with rhododendrons and other shrubs.
Twilight Tree. This is a tree which died of Dutch Elm Disease near the main entrance carved into a 28-foot statue.
Wildlife site. In the south of the park is a hedge, a pond and wildflower meadow area. This was developed in .2001 by Ealing's Parks Service with the Friends of Acton Park.
Obelisk.  This is a memorial to James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater who was one of the leaders of the 1715 Rebellion, imprisoned after the Battle of Preston, and beheaded on Tower Hill in 1716. It was originally in the grounds of Derwentwater House, Horn Lane and was given to Acton Council by the owners of the house in 1904.
Bandstand. This staged popular concerts in the early 20th. The site of it is now a circular bed with ornamental planting.
Pavilion and cafe. These were installed in the 1930s
Acton Park Lodge. It is now the East Ranger Base

Alfred Road
C.J. Jordan Monumental Masons were at Zero from the early 20th until around 2014. The site is now being developed for housing and Jordans are elsewhere in the Borough

Baldwyn Gardens
There is said to be a manhole cover here for Acton Council Electricity Supply

Berrymead Gardens
2 United Services Club. This was Liberty Hall an Evangelistic Mission, set up by undesignated Christians in 1908. The United Services Club were using the building by 1933 and remain as a Clubs and Institutes Union Working Men’s club.,
5 Presbytery for Our Lady of Lourdes which is round the corner in the High Road.

Birkbeck Road
4 Probation Service Office. The site was previously a nursery – and there may have been other nurseries opposite.

Chaucer Road
Roman Pottery found here by Pitt Rivers, 1869when the houses were built
Railings - early 18th railings, gate piers, and garden walls remain in back gardens in the street as relics of the grant houses which once stood in the area.


Church Road
16 Ruskin Hall. Ealing Labour Party
Hope Centre Baptist church. The Baptist church in Acton originated in 1856, and a church was established here in 1864. In 1894 the church split and some members built a rival chapel. In 1977 this church rejoined the Church Road Baptists. It was designed by in 1864 by W Mumford with a classical frontage and stained glass windows with idiosyncratic lamp brackets along the frontage


Churchfield Road
This is on the line of an ancient track across the Church Field from Acton to East Acton Lane, and it remained unpaved until 1860. Between Churchfield and East Churchfield Roads.
Level Crossing for the railway
2 Albion Pub. This closed 2008 and is now a beauty shop. It dated from the 1880s.
11-13 The Rocket. Originally this was The Station Hotel and was built in 1871
Darton Court. This is the site of Acton Congregational Chapel. This opened in 1871 and eventually became United Reform in 1972. It closed in 1976 and there is now a block of sheltered housing flats on site. Churchfield Hall was attached to the church and used by various religious and other groups for meetings, including use by local schools.
89 This was taken over in 1941 by the laundry operating at the rear in Grove Place. It was demolished in 1991 and replaced with flats.
115 The Mechanics Arms. This was later known as Foleys and then Lynch’s Inn. It closed in 2011. It dated from the 1880s
St Mary’s Burial Ground. This was opened in 1863 on land purchased by the Acton Vestry. It had been part of Conduit Close where springs, providing the village with water. By 1929 it was almost full. In 1979 it was turned into a public garden with a paved area, planters and headstones were set against the perimeter walls. It is bounded by iron railings with an iron entrance gate from Churchfield Road


Cromwell Close
This is on the site of what was Acton Technical College and itself on the site of Grove House. There are now flats on the site of the house and the college.
Grove House. This was built in the 19th as a gentleman’s country house and then demolished in the 1920s. It had previously been Acton Commercial College, a boys' boarding school from 1896, run by a trustee of Acton Methodist church. It provided preparatory classes for young boys and courses for careers in business, the civil service, and engineering. It moved to Ealing in 1925 and House was sold to Acton Urban District Council.
Acton Technical College. This was built on the site of Grove House and opened in 1928 with access via Locarno Road. Some sectors of the College moved out to eventually become Brunel University. The original College also moved and this building was demolished.


East Churchfield Road
Goldsmiths' Company almshouses. Overlooking the park this was built in 1811 by Charles Beazley. In 1808 a scheme was developed to build almshouses on Goldsmiths' Company property here. The freehold land had been left to the Goldsmiths by John Perryn. Twelve almshouses were built in 1811 and another eight added in 1838. Almspeople were chosen from the Settled Pension List. Rules were stringent and it was compulsory to attend church twice on Sundays. It is a yellow brick building with two wings. At the ends and the centre are stuccoed feature buildings. The forecourt gardens are laid out with a lawn and, originally, two Lebanon cedars. It is surrounded by railings on a low brick wall with central gates. Behind the buildings is a walled garden and allotment garden with service yard, with two old water pumps and a chapel. In 2011 they were converted into 20 homes by Charterhouse Standard Holdings.
Maples Children’s Centre and Nursery School.
Acton Central Station.  Opened in 1853 this now lies between Willesden Junction and South Acton on the North London Line. Originally North and South West Junction Railway were authorised to build a line between two other railway junctions to join the London North West Railway from near Kensal Green to the London South West Railway’s line near Kew. Passenger services over it were run by the North London on what was a single track with no stops.  In 1853 this station was opened and called ‘Acton’ and said to the result of action by the Goldsmiths’ Company. It was then called ‘Acton Churchfield Road’ until 1925 when it became ‘Acton Central’.  The Italianate station was very grand in pale brick with yellow London stock detail and is now partly a pub.  Between 1875 and 1902 it was connected with St.Pancras via the Dudding Hill Line.In 2011, the platforms were lengthened to allow longer trains. This is where trains change power supply from overhead line equipment to third rail
The Station House Pub. This is in the part of the station building which was the postal sorting office.
Manor Farmhouse. This was on the corner with East Acton Lane. There are now flats on the site.


Friars Place Lane
St Dunstan. This church was built in 1879 following a request from the Goldsmith’s Company who endowed it.  . It was designed by the architect R Hesketh with red brickwork and a 140 foot high landmark tower

Goldsmiths Close
A development by John Grey and Partners for Peabody1956

Grove Place
2 -2a this was a laundry before 1871. In 1887 it was the Sussex Laundry and in 1941 extended to a shop front in Churchfield Road


High Street
1 Railway Tavern. This pub has had a series of name changes – on 2006 it was the Captain Cook, and later Libertaire. Euphoriom, Frankie's; Hollywood Greats. It dates from the 1860s
Dominion Cinema. This opened in 1937. It was belonged to the Bacal & Lee Circuit, and was designed by Frank Ernest Bromige in streamlined Art Deco. Inside the circle was cafe in a sunken floor area. It was taken over by the Granada Circuit in 1946 and re-named Granada Theatre. It closed in 1972 and was became the Gala Bingo Club which closed in 2014. It was then sold to the Destiny Christian Centre who have now left it.
Town Hall. The original Town Hall building fronts onto Winchester Street. This is the 1938 extension. It continues along Winchester Street but faces onto the High Street.
Inside it is dominated by the main marble staircase. There is an Assembly hall, with a stage and dressing rooms a reception room, panelled in sycamore and called the Sycamore Room. Committee rooms on the first floor later used as offices. It was by Robert Atkinson who used good materials in a, Scandinavian-inspired fashion.
Acton Baths. These have now been rebuilt with an entrance from the High Street which opened in 2014.
50 Windmill Pub, Late 19th corner building with a tower and some pargetting.
Acton Library. This is in red-brick with an ornate façade. It was designed by Maurice Bingham Adams and constructed in 1898-1900. It is no longer in use as a library. It was originally funded by Passmore Edwards
Our Lady of Lourdes. This is an Italian Romanesque church built in 2002 from designs by Edward Goldie including some use of concrete. The interior marble furnishings date from the 1950s. In the early 19th there was a small base of local Catholic activity and in 1882 a corrugated iron church was opened in South Acton and in 1902 the current church was built. Various extensions and fittings have been added since.
191 Crown Cinema. This opened in 1911 it built by. Field and Son. From 1913 it was named the Crown Kinema and closed around 1946. By then the auditorium was a snooker club. Part of the building was demolished in 2003 and flats built on the site. The original facade and foyer is a Chinese take-a-way and a dentist in above.
145 Elephant and Castle now called Foleys. Pub, also called The Clare Inn. This dates from the 1880s and may, or may not, still be open.
183  George and the Dragon. An 18th building with an Edwardian pub front. Inside is a list of landlords since 1759. There is also attached a micro brewery called the Dragonfly. There are also two large statues of nymphs.
Barclays Bank. Originally built for the London and South West Bank  in 1884
The Old Fire Station. The Acton Local Board bought a manual fire engine and escape following fires in the 1860s. A volunteer Fire Brigade was also formed and equipment was housed in a shed behind the church. A new Fire Station was opened in 1899 designed by D J Ebbetts, the Acton Surveyor. It included a tower to dry hose and act as a lookout. There was a flat for the engineer and a panelled room for drill. There was also a mortuary and an ambulance. It remained in use until 1939 and then became a civil defence post. It is now a church.
St.Mary's Church. This is the parish church. A church dedicated to St Mary of the Visitation’ has been on this site since at least 1231. In 1642 it was damaged by Roundhead soldiers. Under the present floor are the remains of the church rebuilt in 1834 and demolished except for the tower, in 1865. The tower was replaced in 1876. The church contains art works and monuments – including a wooden font carved by Maoris for the Wembley Exhibition of 1924-1925. The clock in the tower dates from 1876 and there are eight bells, two dated 1637.
Graveyard. This was replaced for burials by the Churchfield Road Burial Ground.
Pump. The Acton Pump is by the north-west door of St. Mary's. It was originally in the High Street replacing an earlier conduit. It was restored by Dorothea and placed here. It is inscribed "1819 t. Freethy, maker, Acton, erected by the Rev Wm. Antrobus"
Mile post. This is opposite the pump but originally stood in the High Street. As a turnpike that was the Uxbridge Road and distances were measured from Tyburn.

Hoopers Mews
Acton Poultry Club. Club House and offices in the 1940s and 1950s.

Horn Lane
This is an old lane now cut in two with part as a main road and part as a small scale shopping street. It was once called Stone Lane.
Stream called the Warple ran, or runs, from here to Ravenscourt Park. It flowed down along the road
10 Rex Cinema. This opened as the Acton Cinematograph Theatre in 1909. It had two projectors, a small orchestra, a piano and an organ. Seating was on a single floor. By 1913 it was the Acton Kinema Theatre, and then Kinema until 1930 when it was wired for sound and re-named Carlton Cinema. In 1937 it was re-named Rex Cinema and was closed in around 1943. The building was used as offices for Barrett Maintenance Services Ltd until it was demolished in 2007, and replaced with housing.
Man hole cover. This is said to represent St Helen's Cable Co. for Acton Urban District Council.
Artillery House Territorial Army. In 1938, RHQ, 154 and 155 Batteries had moved from Chelsea to here After the Second World War it was used by one of the City of London Field Regiments. The site is no longer in use by the TA. Engineer House was demolished in 2001 and there are now flats on site.
35 Hawkco House. Offices for tool hire company and training establishments. The building is named for F.Hawkins and Co. who moved the offices for their grocery business here in 1932. They went out of business in 1977
Springfield Gardens. The site was part of the estate of Springfields House, named for a spring here, part of the land was bought by Acton Urban District Council in 1920 in order to deposit excavated material from sewage works construction. In 1933 it was decided to turn it into ornamental public gardens. It opened in 1935 when it had 'trim lawns, flower-beds, rockeries, meandering gravel paths and summer houses' .Tennis courts, putting greens and bowling greens and a children's playground were provided and the park had a path 'in the form of a loop for gentle exercise'. An open-air theatre was later demolished.
Baptist chapel. This was on the corner of Faraday Road. It had originated in Hope Baptist church which moved here in 1904. It closed in 1934 and was renamed Faraday Hall and was subsequently used by Acton Liberal Association and later by the Labour Party.  The site is now flats.
Springfield Works. Described as ‘hearing aid works’ in the 1950s this seems to be a branch of Ardente Acoustics founded by a Mr. Dent. They had a head office in Oxford Street and a factory in Guildford and elsewhere, including Park Royal, and specialised in acoustic equipment of many sorts. Springfield Works itself was built on the site of an old gravel pit, one of several in the area
Derwentwater House. Built by historian Nicholas Selby in 1804 after the Earl of Derwentwater. Demolished 1909.
Rectory. This was built here in 1725 and demolished in 1925

Market Place
This was part of Horn Lane, renamed in the mid 19th when shops were built here. There are also market stalls in other parts of the adjacent area. There has been a market in Acton since the middle ages.
Sheepwalk Tavern. This pub closed in 2012 it may, or may not, be open. It’s a 19th pub originally called William IV.

Oldham Road
2-5 Acton Mosque and Muslim Welfare Association. Acton Mosque is the town's main mosque: daily prayers, Friday prayers, Islamic talks and children’s' classes.

Salisbury Street
Acton Baths – the public baths have now been replaced on the same site but with an entrance from the High Street
Public baths Acton Baths, opened in 1904, with changing rooms are located around the outside of the pool. There were two Swimming Baths and slipper baths supplemented in 1926 by the King's Rooms fronting the High Street. This meant there was a Grand Entrance Hall when the baths were floored over for a dance or concert. On the first floor was a restaurant with elaborate plaster of ship's prows. Restored in 1989-1990 and since demolished and replaced
King George V Garden. This was opened on Coronation Day 1911 and was eventually covered by extensions to the baths and the 1930s Town Hall. It was taken over for Army offices during the Great War and later used as offices by the Council.

Shaa Road
Road built up on Goldsmiths’ Company land in the late 19th

Shakespeare Road
This was built up in the 1860s and named for Shakespeare House which it replaced.
89- 91 Acton Conservative Club and Headquarters. In 1871 this was Acton’s first baths – a private baths, double fronted with imposing stairs. In 1903 it became a laundry, and in 1927 became a billiard saloon. It is said there is an underground stream and artesian well beneath it, and also a ghost. This has now been demolished and replaced with housing.
Derwentwater Primary school. This was built in 1905 as the Acton Central Schools, on part of the grounds of Derwentwater House.  It was a classic "three decker", with Infant, Junior and Senior schools in the three separate levels of the building. It was the first building in Acton to be lit by electric light from the Council's works in Wales Farm Road. The school had a commercial bias with French, typing and science included. It had a Manual Centre, and a Cookery School. It is now a Primary School and nursery

St.Dunstan's Avenue
There are several green spaces down the west side of the road. Many sadly fenced off.

Steyne Road
51-53 London Star Hotel
86 Duke of York Public House. Early 20th corner pub of three storeys in red brick with pepper pot turret with copper cladding.

The Vale
195 Kiss Gyms
272-282 Bryant Court Sheltered Housing
Access Storage Solutions. This is what was the Wallis Gilbert building of Napier’s engineering works as modified in the 1970s. David Napier came to Soho later moving to Lambeth, D Napier & Sons was set up in 1848 and was taken over by grandson M. S. Napier in 1895 working on internal combustion engines and motor carriages. They moved to Acton Vale in 1903, and by 1906 were making 200 cars a year plus motor boat engines. In the Great War they made aircraft engines under government contract including the “Lion”. This led to the construction of the extant building. During the Second World War, production of aircraft engines was increased. The company was taken over by English Electric Company in 1942, and became part of the GEC group. The Acton sites continued to develop products, but closed in 1965.
Park Lodge
Horse trough outside the Lodge
220 Seaton House and Grafton House. Marked from 1950s as ‘nurses homes’
St John's Ambulance. First Aid Dressing Station. Present in the 1950s
273 art deco garage building.
St Barnabas church. Built in 1890 as an iron mission church. Closed and the site sold by 1919 when the building became a club.

Vyner Road
Named after another goldsmith, Thomas Vyner

Winchester Street
Acton Town Hall and Municipal Buildings. Acton Public office and Town Hall were built in 1909-10 on a site then already crowded by public baths, a police court and a public library. They were designed by Raffles & Gridley who came second in a competition assessed by. Norman Shaw. The building is modest because of finance but embodied a degree of civic pride. Inside is a staircase leading to the council chamber, committee room and councillors' retiring-room on the first floor and expansion of office space was allowed for. In 1939 a new town hall was built for the Borough of Acton which fronts onto the High Street.
Magistrates Court. Now housing

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Post to the south Acton Centrall



Acorn Gardens
Built by Acton District Council in 1932 on what was known as the Friars Estate. ACOrn was the name of the Acton Telephone Exchange

Allison Road
Laid out by the Birkbeck Land Society
Rear entrance to property in Emmanuel Road with urns and lions

Canada Crescent
Built by Acton District Council in 1932

Cloister Road
Cloister Road Clinic. This was built in 1935 and was later the Gunnersbury Day Hospital, a mental health facility. It was replaced by the Cloister Road Surgery which was built in 2006 and designed for Ealing Primary Care Trust by Penoyre & Prasad LL.

Cotton Avenue
The present housing on the site appears to be relatively recent and to replace a depot on part of the site.  A previous version of Cotton Avenue ran from Western Avenue (originally Friars Place Lane) and to continue parallel to the railway. Along this road and one side road were a number of small isolated units – maybe prefabs, or some sort of huts.
Road Transport Depot. This is shown as preceding the current housing and to have fronted and entered on Western Avenue/Friars Place Lane.  It appears to date from the 1930s and to have been a large dark featureless building.  It was preceded on the site by sports grounds.

Friars Place Green
This small triangular green is the remains of Friars Place Waste and is now registered common land.

Friary Road
Friars Place. This house stood south of both Friars Place Farm and The Friars and was south of the Great Western Railway line. It had a number of owners and appears to have dated from the 18th when this area was a visitor destination.. In 1850 the house was described as a beautiful with a balustraded terrace looking south over pleasure grounds. It was demolished in 1902.
Walls Ice Cream. T. Wall and Son of Aldgate who as early as 1913  considered manufacturing ice cream during the seasonal summer downturn in sales of meat pies and sausages. By 1922 they were a subsidiary of Macfisheries itself part of Lever Brothers. They bought the site of Friars Place house and grounds in 1919 and built a factory there to make sausages, pies, and brawn. From 1956 the Friary factory concentrated on ice cream, the meat business moving to Atlas Road. Walls were by then the biggest ice cream maker in the world. The factory closed in the late 1980s
Friary Park Estate was built on the Walls site in the late 1980s. It had 240 social housing units in a mix of bedsits, one bed and larger units. They have been managed by the Ealing Family Housing Association, later called Catalyst. In 2014 Catalyst decided to demolish and replace some units with tower blocks.
Harry’s Bar – eccentric corner cafe, with some outdoor seating. Harry’s Café is about proper ‘man food’   Everything fried, no grease spared?

Horn Lane
The section of the road north of the station is marked as “Willesden Lane” before 1900.
Acton Main Line Station. This was opened in 1868 and now lies between Ealing Broadway and Paddington on Great Western Railway by the Great Western Railway.  It is on the Great Western Main line between London and Bristol but was built 30 years after it first opened and originally named just ‘Acton’ and renamed ‘Acton Main Line’ in 1948 The station had a goods shed and cattle pens with sidings to the north.  At nationalisation in 1947 the station had four platforms, all with wooden canopies along their length –now all gone.. There was also a siding next to platform – both of which were demolished in the late 1960s. Modernisation in the 1960s led to the demolition of the 19th station building and replacement with a small booking office. All eastbound trains from the station terminate at Paddington.  It has a very limited service, most trains pass straight through without stopping on the line which once used Platform 1. Some of the Beatles film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ was filmed there. A new station building was provided in 1996 and it is intended that the station is part of Crossrail.
Western Region Goods Yard. A large coal depot stood to the south east of the station. By the 1950s this is marked as ‘Metal Store’ and is served by a siding from the main line. Currently Network Rail own the site and is responsible for the access road and it is used for a number of industrial and commercial operations. As part of the freight railway infrastructure trains are loaded/unloaded and loads stored and sorted here, Freight trains deliver aggregates and used ballast from London Underground for recycling. D B Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd, operates the rail freight yard. Other users include: J. Simpson Waste Management Ltd with a a waste transfer station for construction and demolition waste;   Hanson who have a concrete batching plant, Horn Lane Metals who deal with non-ferrous metals,  Aggregate Industries who handle sand and gravel, aggregates and recycling of used London Underground ballast, Day Aggregates, which packages aggregates for retail and Mixamate, a mobile concrete batching operation.
222 Leamington Hotel. This Charrington’s pub closed in 2013. It is now a Polish grocer.
307a The Shamrock Sports and Social Club. This is down an apparently unnamed lane on the west side of the road. In front of the club are large sports playing fields used regularly by local Gaelic Football, Hurling and Soccer teams which include - Greenford Celtic Football Club, Greenford Celtic Men’s Football Club, Murphy’s Ladies Camogie and Gaelic Football Club and  Father Murphy’s Hurling Club. The club also hosts Irish Music nights
367 Friars Place Farm. This stood at the north end of Horn Lane and was an early farm in the area. The moated farmhouse in Horn Lane  is thought to have belonged to St. Bartholomew's, and called Friars Place Farm from 1664 and later as Hamilton House, Narroway's Farm, or Snell's Farm. The last farmhouse, in 1818, was in yellow brick and an elaborate cast-iron balcony. Two older cottages lay behind a paved courtyard. The land was gradually sold off from the early 20th mainly to the local authority. It was a rest home for 200 horses in 1901 and in the 1920s the land was laid out for 100 tennis courts. In 1929 the house became the a vicarage for St. Gabriel's church and the moat was filled, in 1975 it was badly damaged by fire and by 1980 it had been demolished.


Jenner Avenue
This road is on part of the site used by the Leamington Park Hospital which fronted onto Wales Farm Road. Like some other roads on the estate it is named after an important past medical personality.
12 Big Yellow Self Storage. This was built on a neglected site at Gypsy Corner in 2008.
Playground, very small.

Kathleen Avenue
Vacant site – This was originally left vacant for part of a road widening scheme planned for the A40 which was abandoned in 1997. The site has derelict residential properties and an electrical substation extant.

Leamington Park
Vacant site – there have been various proposals for this site which results from the abandoned road widening scheme
Willesden & Acton Brick Co. operated from here by 1905. They had an agreement locally with the Great Western Railway over work on sidings extensions.
Electric Sub Station. This was built by the Metropolitan Electricity Supply Company in the 1930s when local conversion to AC supply was taking place. It is a large and impressive art deco building.

Lowfield Road
The Victory Construction Co. built bungalows for Gordon Selfridge here in 1919 and 1920, Acton residents receiving the first option to buy them.

Noel Road
The road runs along the edge of the playing fields and was formerly an approach road to Acton aerodrome before the Great War. The name commemorates the commandant.          |
Garden village houses for Great Western Railway employees. Designed by T.Alwyn Lloyd in 1923-25.
St Gabriel’s Church. When he was Bishop of London Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram wanted the Church of England to expand into the suburbs. Forty mission huts were built and the clergy were called the London Diocesan Home Missionary.  Forty new churches resulted.  St Gabriel's mission was launched in 1923 and the church was opened in 1931. It was designed by Ernest Charles Shearman and parts  are unfinished. A very small part of a proposed hall complex was built with two small meeting rooms and a later wooden hall which is now rented to a nursery school

North Acton Playing Fields
This is a large open space for recreational sport with facilities for cricket and tennis. It opened in 1903 on land which had been part of Friars Farm.
Pavilion. This is in the park and hosts a number of activities. The moated site lies in the part of the park in the square to the west.


Park Royal Road
This was originally called Willesden Lane
Imperial College. Woodward Building. This is a hall of residence for Imperial College. It is 19 storeys and a student village with cluster apartments and communal space for students to enjoy. It is named for Professor Joan Woodward, an academic in Organisation Theory.
1 Brett Villas. Robertson Memorials. Alexander Robertson set up a stone cutter business in 1876, with Mr Gray. In 1936 the family were still on the same Aberdeen site. In 1951 they began to take over other businesses in 1960 as far away as Buckie.
North Acton Cemetery. (the northern part of the cemetery is in the site to the north  - this includes the railway line and crossing)  It is built on the land of the Lower Place Farm which the council bought 13 acres of in 1893.  It opened in 1895, set up by the Acton Burial Board two chapels were built and an area was consecrated and laid out for the cemetery.  The Early English Gothic style stone chapels for Anglicans and Non-Conformists were designed by Borough Surveyor, Daniel Ebbetts  There is some planting of lime, holly, yew, horse chestnut, Leylandia. It is bounded by utilitarian 20th railings to Park Royal Road. A Cross of Sacrifice was erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission to honour those who lost their lives in two World Wars.. The cemetery is now closed to new burials, and only used for burials in re-opened family owned graves.


Portal Way
This is a road built through the centre of an industrial area Victoria Road and Wales Farm Road. It is full of large units, mainly for businesses but residential towers are planned.
1 Dixons Car Phone Warehouse. This was their head office until a merger with Dixons.
3 Shurgard. Self Storage company building.
4 Holiday Inn. Chain hotel. This was previously a Ramada Encore hotel.
Lyra Court. Ground floor community space;
Portal West Business Centre
Delphna Group. This dates from 1972 and deals with commercial kitchens and refrigerated cold rooms to the food and drink manufacturing industry.


Rosenbank Way
Road built in the inter war years on the site of a house called Rosebank
Rosebank Works.. In the 1930s it was used by W,Hall, engineers and brassfounders and in the 1950s  the occupant was Jencons (Scientific) – laboratory supplies, and glass blowers. Oaktree House is a block on site. Now being developed for housing


Seacole Close
Leamington Park Community Centre. This is one of a group of such centres run by Catalyst Housing;


The Drive
Road on the line of the entrance into the Friar’s Place Estate

Victoria Road
Originally called Edward Road
1 NEC building. European headquarters building for this international telecoms company. This was on the site now used by Imperial College and demolished in 2009
Elgee Works.Landris and Gyr. They had a factory near the station.They are a Swiss firm, dating from the 1890s and specialising in electric meters. They set up a base in England in 1912, building the works in Acton in 1927.  in 1985 they produced a commemorative phone card and were still in production in 1996.. They are now part of Toshiba .
Ducon Works. The company was founded in New York in 1920, by William Dubilier, who was responsible for many early developments in the field of electronics and radio, including the use of mica in capacitors. They appear to have been in Acton from 1925 and to have exhibited at British trade fairs from 1929.
Victoria Instruments, Ltd., Midland Terrace.Scientific instrument company  belonging to a Mr. Quilter
Victoria Paper Mills. Owned by Albert E.Mallandain from south London who had begun as a draftsman and became a lithographer.. They made corrugated papers and laminated board. The works dated from the 1920s and later moved to a site in Park Royal.
North Acton Station.  There had been an earlier Great Western Railway North Acton Station adjacent to the present Central Line Station 1923-1947. This opened as a halt in 1904 on a service between Westbourne Park and Southall. It had a short timber platform, corrugated iron pagoda hut, oil lamps, name board and no staff.
North Acton Station. This is a tube station opened in 1923 which lies between Hangar Lane and East Acton Stations and between West Acton and East Acton Stations, all on the Central Line and run by London Underground.  Although it is a Central Line Station it originated with a New North Main Line which had been built by the Great Central and Great Western railways. The Great Western had built the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway to connect their Ealing Broadway station to the Central London Railway. Trains began to run on this route in 1920 and a station at North Acton was built and owned by the Great Western. The New North Line ran on two tracks north of the Central line tracks along with two freight lines which were removed in the 1960s.  Platforms which served the New North Line closed in 1947 when the Central Line was extended to Greenford.  By 2008, only freight trains and a Chiltern Railway one a day passenger service used it. Thus the Central Line Underground station had only two platforms until 1992 when a third platform was added in space previously used by the freight line. Plaforms are reached by stairs from the booking hall and there are two exits in Victoria Road. About half the trains stopping here go to West Ruislip and about half to Ealing Broadway.
140 Castle Public House.. Built after 1913 on the site of Wales Farm A large, pub and prominent local landmark. It is a late example of the application of a Victorian ‘free style’ to a public house


Wales Farm Road,
St.Leonard’s Farm – this was also called Wales Farm and stood on the corner of Wales Farm Road and what would become Victoria Road. A footpath ran north of the farm on the line of the current road
The Friars. This was a house built in 1785 of the Goldsmiths Estate. It was sold to the Council in 1902 for the isolation hospital and became the administration block of Leamington Park hospital. It was demolished in 1989
Leamington Park Hospital. In 1902 Acton Urban District Council purchased land from the Goldsmith Estate for an isolation hospital Included in the sale was The Friars, an 18th house. The hospital opened in 1905 with The Friars as the administrative building. In 1929 the London County Council took the hospital over. In 1946 it became an annexe to the Central Middlesex Hospital before joining the National Health Service. It was renamed Leamington Park Hospital after a nearby street to avoid confusion with other hospitals. In 1953 it was linked with Acton Hospital converted for the Group Geriatric Service. In 1983 it was closed and patients transferred to Willesden General Hospital. Part of the site has been redeveloped with housing with new roads named after various medical personalities - Garrett, Jenner, Lister and Seacole.
Acton Council Electricity Works. This was on the site of The Friars and resulted from pressure from the Board of Trade. The Council arranged for the Metropolitan Electric Supply Co. to provide current to the council from their works at Acton Lane. The Councils bulding at Wales Farm Road was built in 1904 and comprised static transformers and motor generators to provide a direct current The building was designed by the Council’s Surveyor, Mr. Ebbetts.  Service began in 1905 and cables were laid in 36 streets. By 1911 the costs were such that the whole system was transferred over to the Supply Company and they bought the Wales Farm Road works in 1913.
Acton Council dust destructor. This was built here 1909 and all rubbish was burnt here by 1928.
140 Elizabeth Arden Perfume Factory. This was built by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners in 1939. This American cosmetic company  moved its London factory from Westminster to this site in 1939. The Acton factory continued to make and distribute cosmetic products in the U.K. despite changing ownership. It has now been converted to offices and flats
Telegraph Condenser Works. Their factory was also by Wallis Gilbert., In 1906 Sidney George Brown, electrical engineer and inventor, formed the Telegraph Condenser Co. to manufacture and market his inventions By 1914 the businesses had expanded to employ over a thousand people. Many thousands of his headphones were manufactured for use during the Great War.  As radio broadcasting took hold the company manufactured crystal and, valve receivers. The company also manufactured loudspeakers and compasses. They moved here in 1915  into a building designed by Wallis Gilbert.  Brown's companies provided components for both power and radio, as well as for telegraph and telephone businesses.The Browns retired in the 1940s. The company was acquired by Racal in the 1980s
Actona Biscuit Works. Owned by Gunn & Co.,
Strachan and Brown. They moved to Wales Farm Road in 1921 and were later renamed Strachans. During the Second World War they built the utilit' bus body, to government design, intended to  minimise on skilled labour and unnecessary frills. In the 1950s, they built van and lorry bodies - notably for the Post Office. The factory later moved to Hamble, on Southampton Water


Western Avenue
Major road – the A40 – built through the area in the 1930s
Gypsy Corner. This junction was formed with the construction of Western Avenue. There have been various plans for widening and improvements but none have actually taken place, In the 1990s houses were bought and demolished but work stopped in 1996 and the vacant land remained undeveloped for another decade.
Rail Bridges. This scheme is managed byTransport for London to replace the two Western Avenue bridges over the railway lines at Wales Farm Road and Perryn Road. The bridges were built in the late 1920s and were not designed to cope with the volume of traffic.
Big Yellow Storage Company. This has been built on a site which had been left derelict having been kept for a road widening scheme which was abandoned in 1996.  It is a self-storage warehouse.
S G Brown Radio Relay Products Ltd, This firm was in a property on the corner with Park Royal Road. They claimed to have been the first to use the term "loudspeaker".  In 1910 Sydney George Brown formed the company to make telephone equipment. In  1906 he formed the Telegraph Condenser Co to manufacture and market his inventions. By 1914 he was employinf  over a thousand people.Many thousands of type-A headphones were made being for use during in the Great War.Later they made crystal receivers and, later, valve receivers. They moved here in 1915. Brown also made compasses. Through the 1930s The Telegraph Condenser Co expanded; the business was turned into a public company the Browns retaining control but they were replaced by the Admitality in the Second World War. In the 1980s Racal Electronics acquired S. G. Brown

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Avenue Crescent
Part of estate laid out by William Willatt in the 1880s.
11 Blue plaque to 19th lawyer, Richard White, co-founder of the Law Society, and creator of the Mill Hill Park estate. The house is the east wing of White’s Mill Hill House.
Mill Hill or Acton Hill House. Richard White bought part of the Lethieullier estate in 1809 and built Mill Hill House. His widow in 1859 sold the estate to the British Land Co, for building. The house remained as a private home until 1885.  Most of the house was pulled down, but the east wing remains

Avenue Gardens
Part of estate laid out by William Willatt in the 1880s said to be “Too near the piggeries for much success”.
Bronze Age crematorium.  This was found in 1883 while excavation work was done for the foundations of houses. Cinerary urns are now in the British Museum. Later there were finds of Roman material.


Bollo Bridge Road
South Acton Methodist Chapel. This was the United Methodist Free church built before 1880. Initially this was an iron church and a new church was built alongside in brick.  It was demolished after 1955.
157 Acton Model Laundry. Present in the 1930s ‘soft water and best soap only’.
Elite Laundry. Dating from the 1890s with frontages in both Osborne and Bollo Bridge roads.
170 The Anchor Pub. Dated from the 1870s. Now demolished.
204 Victory Pub. This dated from the 1870s. Now demolished.

Bollo Lane,
Bollo Lane is along the line of Bollo Brook. The Brook rises near Ealing Common tube station and follows the District Line to Acton Town Station and from there follows Bollo Lane. The Brook, and thus the Lane, marks the boundary between the boroughs of Ealing & Hounslow.
Railway- Bollo Lane runs parallel with the District and Piccadilly Lines for about half a mile,
229 Royal Mail Acton Delivery Office. Large square building with a chimney. Looks 1960s
Frank Pick House. This  is a very large bright blue building now in use by Tube Lines. It is named after Frank Pick, the London Passenger Transport Board's chief executive and is used by engineering and scientific departments for London Underground. Also Escalator services and Mechanical Services
130 Acton Works.  In 1921 a central overhaul work was opened on a site south of Acton Town Station and later the overhaul of all London Underground’s fleet was undertaken here. It became the central overhaul and engineering works for the London Underground. Experimental work was also done here and test trains were run on adjacent Piccadilly Line tracks.  In the Second World War tanks and other vehicles were prepared for landings in the invasion of Europe. In 2002 the engineering works were sold off to TubeLines.
Acton Works - Canteen from 1921,  now used as offices and originally featured a plaque of a pie and knife and fork by Eric Aumonier
Acton Works Office block - a brick modern movement office block by Holden built in 1932. Signal House is the Main Office Block which was used by the  Chief Mechanical Engineer (Rail) until 1994; and then the Signalling & Engineering Contractors 1995-to the  present. It was empty from late 1994 to early 1995 when it became known as Signal House and a refreshment/mess area was created in it soon after.  
Acton Works Railway Engineering Workshop and loading bay opened 1988 as the Engineering Overhaul Workshop built on the site of a previous Overhauls Workshop, the Lifting Shop and Trimming Shop all dating  from 1921. The Signal Overhaul Shop amalgamated with it in 1993 to become, the Railway Engineering Workshop. Flammable Material Store – this opened in 1921 and remains.
Acton Works. Other buildings dating from  1921 include the Motor Shop and Secure Vending Store which became the Motor Shop and  Taping Room in 1987 and the Signal Training School since 1999;  the Emergency & Custody Stores which has been the Experimental & Plant Shop since 1946 and the Plant Store since 1987; the Seat Trim Shop which has been a Store since 1946; the Emergency Response Unit and Seat Trim Shop was the Reconstruction Shop in the 1940's and  Experimental & Plant Shops in 1987;  the Nursery (Vegetation Control Section) ; the Ex Truck Shop Workshop & Store and Train Modification Unit which was the Wheel, Truck Smith Shops; Carbody Shops A&B; Paint Shop in 1987; the Spaceway Building, Plant Technical Office ; the Ex-Wood Store, barn & Vending Store which was the Timber & Pattern Stores in 1987; the Ex-Heavy Repair Shop which was the Heavy Repair Shop & Woodmill in 1987; the Signal & Electrical Main Training Building; London Underground Ltd Facilities Furniture Store  which was the Toolroom,Machine Shop & Escalator Chain overhaul area in 1987 and then the Signals & Engineering Training from 1993 until 1999;. 1921 buildings also include Old Office Block, Prestco Building - S&E Work Training, Ex-Boiler House, Ex- Surgery & Oil Store, Distribution Services Manager, Quality Hut, Clothing Unit, Rolling Stock Maintenance, Training Hut -Greenwich Building,  Stonecraft Building, Electronic Development, Inspector's Cabins, Railway Engineering, Workshop Oil Store,Garages. Later buildings include the 1960s Signal & Electrical Safety Training Centre which has been the Electronics Shop since 1987 and the original Apprentice Training Centre, dating from 1958
270 Bollo House which is the Piccadilly Line West End Operating Centre opened in 1996. It is partly on the site of the Signal Engineering  Offices built in 1965 and closed because of presence of asbestos.
Branch line to South Acton. The branch crossed over the lane in an easterly direction by the entrance to the old London Transport Acton Works, on a girder bridge. This collapsed during demolition in 1946.  The abutments of the bridge are apparently still there on the west side of the road. This was the District Railway’s South Acton Branch which in originated in 1878 and was built in 1898 from Bollo Lane Junction to South Acton Station. It appears to have been used for coal and building materials  but a passenger service started in 1905. Originally single track it was doubled in 1905 and provided with a signal box – from which tickets were later sold. Freight traffic ceased in 1914 and the passenger service became a shuttle . By 1932 it was back to a single track and the signal box was demolished in 1934. It was said that the staff could start to make a cup of tea leaving South Acton, and drink finish it when they returned. It closed in 1959.
Level Crossing of the Public Highway with Manned Barriers and CCTV Monitored

Boddington Gardens
Previously called Gunnersbury Gardens
Liverpool Victoria Sports Ground . This sports ground which once belonged to the insurance company  has a full 11 a side astroturf pitch. This was locked up for several years by Taylor Wimpey  but was recently reopened back up to the public. A number of clubs use the site including Old Actonians and some youth teams
Pavilion. Recent new pavilion with extensive changing facilities together wth a social room and kitchen and for the Old Actonians Sports Club.

Castle Road
South Acton Children’s Centre
Berrymead Infant School

Colville Road
The road is entirely industrial units but up until the 1980s it was residential.
Berendsen. This was previously The Davis Group and is a a European textile service business. Sophus Berendsen had textile service operations in Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Germany and Poland. These were combined with the UK Sunlight and Spring Grove brands.
Stoneworks. Bespoke natural stone contractor
18 Pai Skincare – they make skin care products and were started by Sarah who understands sensitive skin.
Boss Printers. Described as Printsmiths – doing brochures, etc
18 Cumberland and King. Regent joinery works
Chris James. Colour filter works. Specialising in colour correction
Rivermeade Signs. A works founded in the 1980s with another factory in Newcastle. They make high quality sign products with a range of digital signs
PJ print. Greeting card printer founded in the 1980s
The Sofa and Chair Company. Furniture manufacturers
Brunner Machine Tools. Supply Swiss and German machine tools.
Film and Photo Ltd. One-Stop Laboratory'for motion picture film printing and processing services
Mcdonald Roofing Centre. Roofing contractors founded in 1973

Enfield Road
Albion Works, Townend & Co. Laundry Engineers in 1913. Colour Sprayers in 1919. The works is on the corner with Bollo Lane and later known as Enfield Works
Direct Mineral Water Supply, 1920s
Henderson Engineering. 1959

Greenock Road
3 Paragon Business Solutions. They date from the early 1990s and sell proprietary in-house scorecard development tools
6 Bell Percussion, musical instrument hire company
6 Bell West Studios – studio space for hire
Durable House. Construction Company
Trust Towers. Studios
7 Treats. Snack/sandwich bar chain in London established in 197

Gunnersbury Avenue
This is a stretch of the North Circular Road, the A406. Originally this was part of the North Orbital road of 1922, A405  now changed to be part of the Noh Circular

Gunnersbury Lane
Acton Hospital. In 1897 an Appeal was launched to establish a hospital in Acton to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. John Passmore Edwards, the philanthropists  promised money if to someone gave the land – and this was given by the Rothschilds.The Passmore Edward Cottage Hospital opened in 1898 by Mrs Creighton, first President of the National Union of Women Workers, plus her husband, the Bishop of London. The Hospital was supported by voluntary subscriptions and donations and local GPs gave their services free.There were also two Queen's Nurses who provided care for patients in their homes, and an Invalid Kitchen which would deliver to out patients. Later there was an outpatients, a Committee Room and a telephone line to the doctors – and in 1909 and operating theatre and children’s ward. In 1915 it was renamed Acton Hospital and the Committee Room became a ward for servicemen. After the Great War an appeal raised money for a War Memorial wing, opened in 1923. It was renamed the Acton War Memorial Hospital and continued to expand. In the Second World War it became part of the Emergency Medical Scheme and a Decontamination Unut was built which later became the Casualty Department. It joined the NHS in 1948. In 1979, it became a geriatric hospital and the operating theatre was converted into a Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Department. In 1980 the Casualty Department became the Gunnersbury Unit, for the elderly mentally ill. The Hospital finally closed in 2001. The central building is  a multi-faith centre, with signage and the foundation stone still in place. The rest has been replaced by the Acton Care Centre, which in 2003 for care of the elderly. A Passmore Edwards Memorial Garden was created in 2011 where stonework from the War Memorial Wing is preserved
61 Mill Hill Hotel. Also called Mill Hill Tavern. This pub was closed in 2013. It dated from at least the mid-1860s
Acton High School. The school first opened as Acton County School in 1906 in Woodlands Park. The school was rebuilt in 1939, presumably in Gunnersbury Lane  In the 1940s 80 girls were admitted, it later became a comprehensive school and was named Reynolds High School. Falling rolls led to closure in 1984 and a merger with Faraday High School to reopen as Acton High School. The current building opened in 2006, and Sixth Form buildings in 2012.
Reynolds Sports Centre. This sports centre is part of the school site and open to the public after school hours.
Heathfield Gardens Open Space. This area which as a public park is now included in the school site in front of the sports centre
Heathfield Lodge. Built around 1800 and later owned by the Rothschilds.
123 London Underground Apprentice Training Centre  which opened in 1975 . By the 1990's that had become the Engineering Training Centre; and Safety & Engineering Training Centre. Piccadilly line trains were kept here until 1964. At the same time, the District line ceased stabling at Northfields. There is a separate yard to the north-east corner of the depot which is now used by the London Transport Museum Depot.
Bollo Bridge. The bridge itself would have been to the immediate north of the station and can be seen on 19th maps with a series of fish ponds along the line of the brook on both sides of Bollo Bridge Road.
Railway Automatic Electric Light works . Present in the 1890s on the corner with Bollo Lane
Acton Town Station. This opened in 1879 and lies between Turnham Green and South Ealing Stations  and also Ealing Common Station on the Piccadilly Line. It is also between Chiswick Park and Ealing Common Stations on the District Line. It was built by the Hounslow and  Metropolitan District Railway and originally called ‘Mill Hill Park’.  Like other stations on this line it was in grey stock brick by J.Wolfe Barry . There was also a stationmaster’s house. In 1910 the name was changed to ‘Acton Town’ and the station was rebuilt  by H.W.Ford with a building over the line and shops either side of the e entrance.  In the 1930s the station was rebuilt again, this time by Heaps working with Charles Holden in a modern style using brick, reinforced concrete and glass. Reinforced concrete platform canopies replaced the original timber.  The entrance hall was lined with quarry tiles and gangways designed to separate passengers who were entering or leaving. However the old branch platform and stairways remain.
Gunnersbury Lodge. This was originally a farm from the 18th which became a gentleman’s house with some illustrious residents. 19th maps show a  lake adjacent to the hosue with a boat house. More ponds are shown to the north
The Old Manor House

Gunnersbury Park
Gunnersbury Park. (this square covers only a portion of the park in its north east corner)  The name comes from Gunylda, the niece of King Canute who lived there until 1044. The manor was later owned by the Bishop of London and occupied by a series of prominent family, many state legal officers. Sir John Maynard built a Palladian mansion here in the mid 17th. The park became an 18th formal garden, altered mid 18th with some involvement from William Kent.  In 1760 George II’s daughter Amelia bought Gunnersbury House as a country summer retreat. She landscaped the park in the 18th landscape style. After her death the estate passed through a number of owners until 1801 when  John Morley, a manufacturer of floor coverings, demolish the old house and sold the land off as thirteen separate plots for development. Twelve plots were bought by Alexander Copland who built the Large Mansion, with its grounds, as Gunnersbury Park. One plot was sold separately and the Small Mansion was built nearby Stephen Cossor and it was known as Gunnersbury House. In 1835 Nathan Mayer Rothschild purchased the Large Mansion and park. The Small Mansion and its grounds were also acquired in 1889 by the Leopold Rothschild. In 1925, following Leopold’s death, the estate was sold to Brentford. Ealing and Acton Councils and was opened as a park..
The Large Mansion. This was built as a  country house 1801-28 built for Alexander Copland and remodelled in 1836 by Sydney Smirke for Nathan Rothschild. The building houses the local history museum for the boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing. Repairs were carried out in 2012 and the building is now weathertight.. The Museum is temporarily closed in 2017. It opened in 1929 and uses the grand staterooms for displays.
The Small Mansion.  This was there around 1806-9. It is a long, rectangular building in the neo-classical style, with a ow of cast iron bells decorating the South front. In 1899 it was bought by Leopold de Rothschild, who knocked down the dividing wall – although a line of trees still marks the division.. The Rothschilds then used the Small Mansion as spare rooms for their guests, including Edward Vll. It has been used as an art gallery and is now under consideration for renovation as a private school.
East Lodge. Entrance lodge built 1837. All that remains are small sections of south west elevations but these have been stabilized. It was built by William Fuller Pocock for Thomas Farmer in 1837 for the Small Mansion after the estate was divided.
Archway to East Entrance. This is a stucco pedimented archway built around 1837.  In disrepair
Princess Amelia's Bath House. This is part of an early 19th arcade with other late 18th gothic outbuildings. It has four arches and a battlemented top. The outbuildings include a grotto shelter, and a room known as Princess Amelia's Bath House - - or is it a diary, or a cottage or a chapel.  This is at the east end of the small mansion. There are is imitation rock surfaces and a semi-octagonal shelter with a central doorway and side windows. It was damaged by a Second World War fire.
Stables built by Rothschild. 19th stables  possibly incorporating earlier structure. Over the centre parapet are the carved Portland stone Rothschild arms. There are East and West blocks.
Horseshoe Pond.  A depression in the lawn marks the site of the pond. This was directly below the original mansion. When the estate was divided the lake was split in two but was remained in water until the late 20th when it dried out. At what was the east end is a brick sham bridge, and at what was the west end is a 20th rock garden.
Orangery. Architect: Sydney Smirke, 1836.  This was built to overlook the Horseshoe Pond. It is glazed with a central semicircular bay.
Gothic ruins.  These the brick-built ruins were made for the Rothschild family in the mid 19th.
Boundary wall along Gunnersbury Lane. This is listed.
Garden screen. Erected by Thomas Farmer with with niches and drain pipes to hide Rothschild's stables
Lampposts. Six lamp standards for 19th gas lamps. These are on the curving approach road to the mansions from the West Lodge (the lodge is in the square to the west).
Japanese Garden. This was created in 1901 designed by James Hudson, gardener to Leopold Rothschild after Japanese models
Archway. This is 18th and south west of the house near the terrace. .It is made from cement-rendered brickwork

Hanbury Road
7 Bollo Bridge Tavern. Dating from the 1890s this has since been demolished.  In the 1940s it was a house for the ‘Pioneer Catering Co.’ which was a subsidiary of Ind Coope.

Museum Way
This private road goes to what is now the London Transport Museum Depot.
118-120 London Transport Museum. . This is the reserve collection of historic rail and road vehicles. It opened in 1999 and has the majority of collections which are not on display in the main museum in Covent Garden and for items too large to be accommodated there.
Acton Miniature Railway. 
Site of miniature rifle range

Osborne Road
Oak Tree Community Centre, Catering for a wide range of organisations
Berrymede Schools. Berrymede school is on a number of sites in the immediate vicinity. The Junior School is in a building which has been here since the early 1900s; South Acton School was the first school to be opened by Acton School Board in 1880 on the south side Osborne Road. The original building was enlarged in 1897 and 1898 and after 1905 it was renamed South Acton Girls and Infants. On the north side of the road South Acton School opened in 1904  taking pupils and staff from All Saints' School. A manual centre stood in the grounds. The schools were reorganised in 1931 as Berrymede Junior School and later Berrymede Junior Boys and later amalgamated with Berrymede Junior Girls. Berrymede Middle School opened here in 1931 in the upper floor of the building. In 1961 they became part of Berrymede Junior Mixed and as the Middle School occupied both buildings in Osborne Road from 1974.
83 Crown Pub. This later became the Osborne Hotel, and a B&B. It dated from the 1890s.
30 George Forrest and Son, Ltd., electrical engineers and contractors; 1950s
Mission church from All Saints. 1890s

Roslin Road
This road was residential until the 1960s, it is now trading and light industrial units
Learning Curve. This is (or was) a centre for disabled people teaching essential skills, from maths to cooking, five days a week and provides paid work experience. It dates from the 1980s,
Blissets. Bookbinding firm and Royal Warrant holders/ printers. The company was established in 1920 by Frederick Blissett and now run by his son and grandson. They are the largest specialist bookbinder in the south of England.

Stirling Road
This road was residential until the 1960s, it is now trading and light industrial units
Stirling Road Centre. This provides activities, training and a meeting place for those with severe learning disabilities.  It dates from the 1980s.
Mayfair Laundry. The company moved there in 1970s. It has since been dissolved
London Fan Company. This is owned by the Webber family and was set up in 1928. They made industrial propeller fans and electric motors as ‘Breeza Fans’ and were based in central London. In the Second World War the company made hand-driven ventilators for tanks and air-raid shelters but were bombed out in 1943. The machines were dug out of the rubble and moved in order to maintain production for the Air Ministry. They moved to Stirling Road in 1965. They then made a wide range of ventilating equipment and industrial fans and the name changed to The London Fan Company Ltd. The company is now managed by the grandson of the original Mr. Webber.
N & P Thermo Plastic Moulders. This firm dates from the 1980s and have a wide range of modern micro-processor controlled Injection Moulding Machines specialising in domestic appliances, lighting and motor industry,
The Stone and Ceramic Warehouse. This dates from the 1960s as an importer, distributor and retailer of sophisticated natural and ceramic wall and floor coverings. They once sold 40% stone and 60% porcelain, now it's 20% stone, 75% porcelain and 5% mosaics.
Acton Waste and Recycling Centre. This is operated by Ealing Council.
Creative Staging. Rental company for audio visual equipment.
Science Projects. A non-profit organisation bringing science to the public

Triangle Way
A roadway round the back of suburban houses enclosing a tennis club - Gunnersbury Triangle Club. Baron Rothschild owned, and occupied Gunnersbury Park until 1926 when passed to a Joint Committee of the Acton, Brentford and Chiswick and Ealing Borough Councils. At the same time Baron Rothschild also sold George Cooper, to a builder an area of land adjoining the Park.  Cooper built 400 houses here. The shape of this land was triangular and the houses estate followed. This left a piece of land at the centre which Mr Cooper gave to the residents of the estate for leisure purposes. So in 1928 the Club was set up.
Gunnersbury Triangle Club 

Sources
Acton High School Web site
Barker and Robbins. A History of London Transport
Barton. Lost Rivers of London
Bell Percussion. Web site
Berendsen. Web site
Berrymede Schools. Web site.
Boss Printers. Web site
British History Online. Acton. Web site.
Brunner Machine Tools. Web site.
Chris James. Web site
Clunn. The Face of London
Day. London Underground
Diamond Geezer. Blog
Ealing Hammersmith and West London College. Web site
Film and Photo Ltd. Web site
Gunnersbury Lodge. The lost house of west London. Web site
Gunnersbury Triangle Club. Web site
Harper Smith. Soapsud Island 
Historic England. Web site
Horne. The Piccadilly tube
Howson. London Underground
Jackson. London’s Local Railways
Kingston Zodiac 
Knights. History of Electricity in Acton 
London Borough of Ealing. Web site
London Borough of Hounslow. Web site
London Encyclopedia
London Fan Company. Web site
Lost Pubs Project. Web site
London Railway Record
Lost Hospitals of London. Web site
Mcdonald Roofing Centre. Web site
Middlesex Parish Churches
N & P. Moulders. Web site
Oates. Acton in History
Paragon Business Solutions. Web site
Pai Skincare. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. North West London
PJ Print. Web site
Pub History. Web site
Rivermeade Signs. Web site
SABRE. Web site
Stevenson. Middlesex
Stoneworks. Web site
The Sofa and Chair Company. Web site
The Stone and Ceramic Warehouse. Web site
Transport for London. Web site
Walford. Village London
Wheatley and Meulenkamp. Follies
Wikipedia.Web site. As appropriate

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Addington Village Road
War Memorial.  This is at the junction with Lodge Lane and is a square base surmounted tapering plinth, shaft and silver grey granite cross crusader’s sword on the face of the cross. The inscription says: Lest we forget. In memory of the men from Addington who fought in the Great War 1914 – 1918.  117 served: the 22 names are here recorded gave their lives for King and Country. It was unveiled in 1922. In  1990 the Memorial was moved a short distance to enable road widening
Addington Village Police Station.

Dunley Drive
Scout Hut
Church of the Good Shepherd. Roman Catholic. In 1945 Father Howley began he started celebrating Mass at the back of the New Addington Community Centre.  In 1950 he arranged for a Mission led by the Redemptorist Father Eugene. By 1955 Mass was said in a school hall. Father Nevin and the parishioners helped to build the church, and the first Mass was on Christmas Day 1960.  The Church of the Good Shepherd was dedicated in 1962.

Field Way
Applegarth Infants School. This is now part of “Applegarth Academy”
The Timebridge Centre. Youth and Community Centre

Kent Gate
This is part of the A2022 which goes around the south of London from West Wickham to Epsom. Kent Gate is where Bromley and Croydon – Kent and Surrey – meet. It dates from the 1970s.

Lodge Lane
Addington Interchange. This is also known as Addington Village tram stop but also serves a bus station with 8 bus routes, including tramlink feeder routes
197-199 Addington Fire Station, London Fire Brigade. This was built in 1960

Rowdown Fields
In 1936 Croydon Corporation bought this land for public open space while a new village grew up around it. It was known as Kent Fields because they were adjacent to the Kent border/  Rowdown Fields were developed as a public open space because of the Fieldway Estate. Ground, fronting Lodge Lane is laid out for football with a pavilion and car park beside the road.

Sources
Church of the Good Shepherd. Web site
Fire Stations. Web site
Imperial War Museum. Web site
London Borough of Croydon. Web site
SABRE. Web site
Tramlink. Web site
Wikipedia. Addington Interchange. Web site

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Alexandra Road
Perfect Detail – family firm established in the 1950s for Car Detailing Products.
Bridge over the Bourne

Bois Hall Road
This is part of the Bois Hall Estate
Bois Hall. This ‘big’ house appears to have been built in the 1880s or early 1890s. It had ten bedrooms, and an associated small farm. It appears to have been demolished around 1936 and the current estate of houses built on the site.

Bourneside Road
This road runs from near the Bourne to the banks of the Mill Pond and eventually to Coxes Lock Mill (which is in the square to the east)

Brighton Road
A318. A short stretch of main road running parallel to the M25
Duke’s Head Pub. This was built at the new crossroads at what is now Station Road and Brighton Road after enclosure of Chertsey Beomonds manor. It was built in 1815 by John Drewett, Inn keeper of Chertsey and named for the Duke of York – the first licensee had been a groom to Frederick, Duke of York.  It included a billiard room which opened onto a bowling green.   It became the main residential hotel in the town. It has now been demolished and replaced by flats.

Crouch Oak Lane
This road was once  longer and extended to join Chertsey Road.
The Crouch Oak. This is one of Britain's oldest trees and may have been an indication of the Windsor Forest boundarys. It is a  gnarled and hollow tree more than 24 ft round, to which various ages have been given. It was once called Wycliffe's Oak - after the medieval scholar reputed to have preached here – and Spurgeon preached here in 1872.  Analysis of a branch indicated a formation date for the branch as 1670. It is said that the bark boiled down was a love potion.
Millennium Oak. In 2000 a young oak was planted near the Crouch Oak.
Princess Mary’s Village  Homes for Little Girls. These  were on the east side of the road. Only the iron gates cast by Herring & Son of Chertsey are left as a reminder of this "refuge for daughters of convict mothers, girls from destitute families or otherwise in need of protection".  It was named after Queen Mary's mother, the Duchess of Teck. It was founded  by two philanthropists - Susanna Meredith and Caroline Cavendish, They were first concerned with the welfare of female prisoners, but decided to offer care for the children of prisoners. These were some of the first cottage homes to be set up- a small village of cottages each looked after by a house mother.  There were at first six cottages and later a schoolhouse, the Shaftesbury Wing, the infants' schoolroom, an infirmary, a chapel and staff accommodation. Training was provided for girls being sent out into service and they also worked in the laundry. There was also a holiday home for girls who wanted to return after they had left. It was initially an industrial school but in 1933, became an approved school. It  closed in 1980.
Baptist Church. The first Baptist church was built here in 1840 to replace an earlier one in Prairie Road from 1812. This building dates from 1872 with a foundation stone laid by Spurgeon.


Corrie Road
Old Fire station. Red brick building with a plaque dated to 1890. It was apparently for Surrey Fire Brigade and said to be open until 1962. It is said to have had a chimney and a bell tower but these are not now apparent, and it is in office use..
Trading estate – there is a small trading estate behind the Old Fire Station building.
BRIMIC Engineering., This is a father and son team, established in 1973 undertaking a range of metal fabrications, largely architectural ironwork.
P & J Metal Works. Sheet metal contractors.

Dashwood Lang Road
Dashwood Lang. Arthur Dashwood Lang developed propellers which were made locally in Weybridge.
Bourne Business Park. New trading area on site of earlier industry. There are new large buildings on site plus parking landscaping. This includes Ocean House.
Addlestone Linoleum Company. They made linoleum of various sorts but seem to be mainly famous for the legal precedents engendered when they closed.
Sunbury Leather Company. They used buildings erected by the Addlestone Linoleum Company in the late 1870s.  In 1904, they made fancy leather goods and are listed as ‘manufacturers of hides, Moroccos, roans, pigskins, skivers etc’. They closed in 1946. They may have made parts for Vickers during the Second World War.
Darts factory – described as a shed that had mass-produced darts for the N.A.A.F.I.
Taylor and Penton, This is a subsidiary of the John Lewis Partnership. They took over the site in 1946 and began to make bedding; one man and two boys were employed in making wooden divan frames. This expanded to other sites and specially designed modern workshops were erected making Jonelle furniture for John Lewis, in the 1960s more factories were built which were part of the complex of works erected by Taylor and Penton for John Lewis Partnership making Jonelle furniture.


Garfield Road
Addlestone Community Centre. The Addlestone Community Association was formed in 1948 and the Community Centre in Station Road was opened in 1968, it was replaced by the current Centre in Garfield Road in 2005.
Police Divisional HQ by the County Architects. This has now been demolished and replaced with housing.
Darley Dene Primary Schools . This was a County School opened in 1966. It was an infant school but has recently become a primary school. There is a nursery class, a reception class and an infant Specialist Centre for children with speech and communication difficulties.
Darley Dene Court. Care home, built 1987
Darley Dene House. The house was on site before the school
Surrey Towers. Built 1962-8 for Chertsey Urban District Council. 17 stories, likely to be demolished.


New Haw Road
Crockford Bridge. This bridge crosses The Bourne, and was renewed in 1925 by Surrey County Council.. This involved demolition of the older bridge and straightening the approaches. The current bridge is in reinforced concrete with brick facing and brick parapet walls.
Crockford Bridge Farm. the farm includes 400-year-old buildings and the Granary. A 17th Dutch gable here was demolished during the Second World War II.  There is an 18th granary in red brick. Until 1900 it was known as Pyle's Farm.  Big farm shop and garden centre now on site.
86 Black Horse. This pub closed in 2015.


Station Road
21 Churchill House. This now stands on the site of The Railway Arms pub which opened in the 1850's , It was locally called The Magnet  by 1870. the pub sign was a horseshoe shaped magnet which was replaced by a picture of Billy Bunter from The Magnet comic. In the 1990's the name changed to The Station House, with a sign which showed a steam train. This closed and the building was demolished. The site is now flats.
54 Railway Inn Pub. This has now been demolished..
63 Pandrol. This is the head office of the multi-national dealing with railway track systems.
111 Woburn Park Hotel. This pub was demolished in 1993 and replaced by flats.
The Eileen Tozer Day Centre. For older people.
138 Crouch Oak pub. This is actually a hotel with bedrooms and restaurant.
Village Hall. This was built in 1887 by the Village Hall Company. Films were shown here from 1910. It closed in 1918.
Plaza Cinema. This opened as the  Cinema Royal in 191 7 apparently on the site of the Village Hall. In the mid-1920’s it was re-named Arcadia Cinema. Later, doperated by Southern Cinemas Ltd. it was re-named Plaza in 1933. It closed in the mid-1950s.
Addlestone Methodists Church. The current church was opened in 1899 by Rev C H Keely, and replaced one built in 1885 in Simplemarsh Road.By 1906 a corrugated iron building was built for the Sunday School but which remained as the Church Hall until 1982. In the early 1970s the pipe organ was removed and replaced by an electronic one amd other internal arrangements were changed.
Rose Coffee Tavern. This dated from around  1882 and was also called Addlestone Coffee Tavern and the Temperance Hotel.
Gleeson Mews. This is the site of the Addlestone Bus Station. In 1930, London Transport Green Line coaches had parked at Weymann's coachworks in and in 1932 moved to a shed in Hamm Lane. Addlestone was the centre of a number of routes which had been taken over from the Woking and District Co, in 1931  A new Country Bus garage was erected in 1936 to ~Wallis Gilbert designs with single storey office blocks on each side of the road to the running shed which was set back from the road. Facing the road the wall had a curved and glazed elevation surmounted by the bullseye motif on poles above them, . The shed could house 43 vehicles. The garage operated until 1997. The Cobham Bus Museum collected the LONDON COUNTRY lettering from the side of the building. Part of the boundary wall by the Crouch Oak Pub car park.
Civic Centre. The offices of what was then Chertsey Council were built in 1962. The back part was on stilts and there was a landscaped garden. This has been replaced with a building which combunbes a range of services under one roof - the local council, police and a public library.
Community Centre 1967. This has now been replaced by the centre in Garfield Street
Tesco – the site was previously used by the Co-op. A large bakery shown to the rear may perhaps have been theirs.l
Level Crossing, Public Highway Manned Barriers CCTV Monitored
Addlestone Station. This was built in 1848 and lies between Weybridge and also Byfleet and New Haw and Chertsey on South Western Trains. There was once a number of sidings on the down side with cattle pens, coal yards and so on


The Bourne
Also called Windle Brook and Hale Bourne. It partly defines the area in which Woking lies.  It runs north south through this area to the east of the main part of the town.

Sources
Addlestone Community Association. Web site.
Addlestone Historical Society. Web site
Chertsey Museum. Web site
Cinema Treasures. Web site
Crouch Oak Pub. Web site
Exploring Surrey’s Past. Web site.
Glazier. London Transport Garages
Orphanages, Web site
Pandrol. Web site
Parker. North Surrey 
Penguin. Surrey 
Perfect Detail. Web site
Pevsner. Surrey
Pub History. Web site
Runneymede Council. Web site
SABRE. Web site
Surrey’s Industrial Archaeology
The Addlestonian.

Post to the north Blendon
Post to the east North Cray
Post to the south Foots Cray


Albany Park
Albany Park is a name purely made up by the developers of the area who used the land from two farms - Tanyard and Hurst Farms -  to build this area up. New Ideal Homesteads were the busiest housing developers – volume builders - in London in the 1930s. They had been founded in 1929 by Leo Meyer, who had been a surveyor for Erith Urban District Council..  They built large estates at low prices and this is not an upmarket suburb, Building here was at double the density recommended by the local council and the advertised pretty countryside disappeared under it..

Bexley Lane
Cleeve Park School. This was formed in 1986 by merging  Parklands School for Boys and Sidcup School for Girls. The new school moved to the site of Parklands School which dates from the 1950s. The building has been extended over the years with a new wing added in 1990 and a further section in 1995.  In 2012 the school became an ‘academy’ and joined The Kemnal Academies Trust.

Footscray Lane
Sidcup Cemetery. This  opened in 1912. The railway runs alongside in a deep cutting to the south. There is no chapel but there is a  lodge decorated with burnt brick fragments. The planting is not profuse but includes Cedars and Araucaria as well as yew, and a hawthorn walk.
Rutland Shaw. Small wood

Maylands Drive
St.Andrew. In 1944, the vicar of All Saints in Footscray started holding communion services in a room over shops and by 1946 a hall in Wren Road was being used officially for St Andrew’s congregation. Eventually plans were approved to build a church and services were held on the empty site before the building work started. The resulting building is  octagonal with the church occupying the roof. It was built on a slope in 1964 and the parish hall is under the church . The entrance is along a glazed bridge. It was by Braddock, Martin-Smith & Lipley.

St.Andrews Road
North Cray Woods.  This old coppice once belonged to the Prior of St Mary Overy at Southwark but the wood is now much smaller because of local housing built post Second World War. It is a mixed woodland dominated by oak with an understorey of sweet chestnut and hazel.

Steyton Avenue
The station stands in a small area of local shops and the pub.
The Albany Hotel. Pub in Brewer’s Tudor built by the developer with the estate.
Albany Park Station.  Opened in 1935. It lies between Sidcup and Bexley on South Eastern Trains.  It is on the Dartford Loop which had been built by the South Eastern Railway in 1866. In 1926 the line was electrified and the area had been developed by New Ideal Homesteads. New Ideal Homesteads donated the land and paid the Southern Railway to build the station. The name Albany Park was made up by the developer who also considered calling it Claremont Park.  The station was and is purely functional . The original brick building is in ‘modern’ style and there is another entrance from Longmead Drive. The building is single storied with a raised central area to form the booking hall. The station building is at street level with steps down to the platforms as the line is in a cutting, The original platform canopies have survived.  There never was a goods yard but there was a very small single storey signal box at the Dartford end of the up platform which closed in 1970..

Sources
Barr-Hamilton & Reilly. From Country to Suburb, Bexley
Cleeve Park School. Web site
London Borough of Bexley. Web site
Parks and Gardens UK. Web site
Pevsner and Cherry. South London, 
Pevsner. West Kent 
Spurgeon. Discover Bexley and Sidcup
St. Andrew’s Church. Web site

Post to the south Hornsey
Post to the east Wood Green
Post to the north Bowes Park
Post to the west Alexandra Park


Alexandra Park
The park is on the site of Tottenham Wood Farm which had belonged to Thomas Rhodes. (The majority of the park is in squares to the south and west - the racecourse and sports areas below are mainly in the square to the south)
Alexandra Park Racecourse.This opened in 1868. The land has now been incorporated into the park. Extensive new car parks 1985 opened on the site of the race track paddocks.
Swimming pool. This open air pool probably opened in 1867 or 1875. It lay between the racecourse and the reservoir and was 200 yards long. Now just reeds are left but edging kerbs are still visible. It seems to have closed in the 1920s

Avenue Gardens
This is part of what was Wood Green Common. This now lies bounded by Station Road, St. Michael's Terrace and Park Avenue - and the line of what was the Palace Gates Railway is between here and Nightingale Gardens. The New River runs beneath it.
Markers - there are three metal New River company markers on its route under the park.


Barratt Avenue
Houses. Terraced housing here is an 1894 development by Barratts, the local confectionary manufacturer. There are terracotta date plaques and other decorative features


Bedford Road
Wood Green Station. This was the downside buildings of what is now Alexandra Palace Station and stood in the bend of Bedford Road where there is a small pull in behind an island. There was a footbridge linking the two sides. It served the oldracecourse, and faced Alexandra Palace. It was called 'The Palace Office' and was indicated on tickets by the initials 'PO'. This entrance closed in 1967, and the buildings still stood in 1973.


Bounds Green Road
Previously this was Bounds Lane which is known to have existed in the 14th
 3-5 Marom House. This was built for an undertaker in the 1930s and used to have Egyptian statues outside.
3-5 Tottenham and District Gas Company office. This closed in the 1930s.
St.Michael and All Angels. This is the Parish church which replaced an earlier Chapel of Ease. It is a stone- faced crossroads landmark designed in 1844 by G. G. Scott & W.B. Moffatt and reconstructed in 1865 by H. Curzon, The tower was built in 1874, with a spire added in 1887 and a golden cockerel weather vane. The bells were the gift of Samuel Page of Chitts Hill. The reredos is a Great War memorial.
St. Michael's Schools. This originally stood on the site next to the church used as a car park and by travellers. In 1859 this was opened as a Sunday School. It was later enlarged with Mrs.Pearson of Nightingale Hall as a major donor
Trinity Primary Academy. This is what was Nightingale Primary School turned into an "academy" run by Academies Enterprise Trust" It was built as Wood Green Higher Grade School for boys and girls in 1889 and in 1921 became the boys' department of Trinity County Mixed Grammar School. Later it was part of St.Thomas More School until 1992 when it became a primary school named for the local estate. The buildings date from 1889 by Mitchell & Butler. It has towers with
two cupolas and a weather vane.
Trinity Gardens. Triangular strip of what was common land running alongside the north Side of the road
Obelisk. This stands at the northern end of Trinity Gardens and includes a drinking fountain. Until 1904 it stood in the road on the corner of Park Avenue, but was moved to prevent it becoming an obstruction. It was put up in 1879 as a memorial to Mrs.Srnithies who founded the Band of Mercy.
St.Michael's Church of England Primary School. This is on the site of an extension to the original school opened in 1872 as Senior Schools with money donated by Mrs. Pearson of Nightingale Hall, who also gave the site. It was replaced in 1972
St.Michael's Church Hall. This dates from 1911. Designed by H.S.Alder
St.Michael's Rectory. Mrs.Pearson of Nightingale Hall was a major donor as it says on the foundation stone
15 W.Nodes. They have been undertakers here since 1846 but are now part of a larger national company
Nightingale Hall. This house fronted the south side of the road with grounds covering Northcott and Cornwall Gardens. The site previously had been a farm recorded in the 14th and known as Nightingale Hall Farm from around 1770. The house was thought to be 'at least Elizabethan 'and was a gentleman's residence by the mid 19th. By then it had a gothic casing and a conservatory. It was demolished in 1894.
Nightingale Hall Estate. The estate - which had been the farm lands of Nightingale Hall, had also been called Woodreddings or Woodridings stretched to what is now Nightingale Gardens but was cut in two by the Great Northern Railway. By the 1890s this was laid out with roads, and some parkland.
Muswell Stream runs in a culvert under the road. Can be seen by a dip. Runs from Muswell Hill to join Pymmes Brook at Palmers Green.
Bounds Green Ambulance Station. This was built as Wood Green Urban District Council Fire Station in 1913. Firemen's flats were built to the rear in 1914. The fire station was redundant in 1963 and there are now flats to the rear. There was once a small lake alongside it on the line of the Muswell Stream.
Ventilation shaft for the Piccadilly Line. This is on the corner of Nightingale Road partly hidden behind trees. Built in 1932 in modern style it replaced houses. The Muswell Stream runs somewhere beneath the site.
Avenue Lodge. This dates from 1880 and includes a meeting hall of 1907. It was the Wood Green Liberal Club 1910-1930s. It is now Co-operative Child Care Nursery,


Bradley Road
St. Paul's Roman Catholic Infants and Junior School. This was founded in 1885 and rebuilt in the 1960s.

Brabant Road
Wood Green Hall. Cheap hostel accommodation.
2a Mirror Laundry, they had a works here from around 1910. By the 1970s the building was Haringey Trade Union Centre, which included a music club and rooms available for meetings. This seems to be closed and become a community cafe and by 2000 it was a children's play centre. It appears to have been demolished around 2005.


Braemar Avenue
The road was built in 1904 on the site of North London Cycling and Athletic grounds- the residual 10 acres of Nightingale Hall's northern grounds.
Wood Green Baptist Church. This was built in 1907 in an art nouveau style by George Baines & Son with lots of flint with brick dressings. There are four foundation stones. The church began with meetings at private houses. Eventually land was bought and a church was opened in Finsbury Road in 1876. In 1907 together with another church they moved to Braemar Avenue and the new church
was opened. A hall at the back was extended in the 1950s.
Michael's Terrace. This is mixed sheltered and other housing. It was built in 1983-7  by Haringey's David Hayhow on the site of Palace Gates Station.
Palace Gates Station. This was on a footpath between Braemar and Cornwall Road. It has a redbrick station building which was demolished in the 1970s. It had  two platforms, and a glazed footbridge, supported by brick towers. Both platforms were covered by awnings. The station closed in 1963 but remained open for another year for goods traffic.  The covered footbridge spanning the tracks went around 1967, and the canopies and platform buildings followed a couple of years later. The platforms themselves lasted into the 1980s, although heavily overgrown.
Signal box. This was at the London end of the down platform
Watering and coaling facilities, and a turntable. Sidings here were provided by London Underground as compensation for Wellington Sidings at Highgate.


Bridge Road
1-15 Railway workers cottages. These date from 1907
Bounds Green Service Delivery Depot 
Bounds Green Traction Maintenance Depot. In 1987 under British Rail the depot also maintained main line diesel locomotives. It is now operated by Virgin Trains East Coast and supplies traction for long distance services on the East Coast Main Line
Depot entrance – by the entrance to the depot is a small building which appears older and to have no apparent function – except maybe as some sort of gatekeeper’s office.
Coverite, waterproofing specialist - for model makers and others


Brook Road
Moselle. The stream ran or runs at the back of the buildings to the south.
St.John’s Church. This was sold in 1979 the proceeds of the sale going to St. Michael's Wood Green to install new gas boilers and build new parish rooms. St. Johns was a mission church opened in 1898. In the first ten years it was very active and also held Children's Services, open-air Gospel Meetings and much else.  In the Second World War it was used for Midnight Mass because of the black-out regulations and was joined by the bombed out Salvationists and their band. Two halls at the rear of the church were utilised as a Church Army social centre.
Davis and Timmins Screw factory.  This company was also based in Walthamstow, and King’s Cross. Their works here in Wood Green had an address in Brook Road, although the works entrance seems to have been in Clarendon Road. The company dated from 1876 and by 1961 made screws, nuts and bolts, wireless terminals, lubricator nipples, steel ball joint, carburettor components, cycle tyres, valves and safety razor frames.  They were then taken over by Delta Metal.


Buckingham Road
Royal Mail sorting office. This has the original sorting office site behind in Terrick Road as the loading bay. There is a date plaque of ‘1952’.
The Gate. This pub opened in 1875 as the Palace Cafe.  In the 1890s it became the Alexandra Palace Hotel and was then refitted in 1899 by Richard Dickenson. Later it was the Railway Hotel and then the Starting Gate, because of the local horse racing connections. It became known as a pub where there were folk and jazz gigs.


Caxton Road
It is tempting to relate the road name to the Caxton Chocolate Co.  who were couverture manufacturers and whose works and plant were part of the Barratt site. However Caxton did not come to Wood Green until 1935 and this street name dates from before 1914.
6-10 Asian Centre. The Council of Asian People was formed in 1981 and the centre was set up as a place for social get together for the elderly and others. It now offers a range of activities in welfare, education and training.

Clarendon Road
This old industrial area has now been renamed part of the Cultural Quarter.  On maps of the 1960s- 70s buildings here, as far as they are marked as anything, are all ‘confectionary works’ with the implication that the entire area was u by Barratts.
Guillemot Place. Trading and industrial units in old industrial buildings. This includes clothing manufacturers and recording studios. Briefly Livingstone Studios was here.
The Chocolate Factory. Arts centre Also known as The Business Centre at Wood Green.  This was a building for Barratts confectionary works. It covers a large structure of several parts, the older sections dating to 1904, 1907 and 1933-35. The 1904 section is in painted brick with cambered window heads with a date stone for ‘AD1904’ and other brick lettering ‘Barratt’s confectionary’ inside. The 1907 section has large steel columns internally. The modernist block was built by 1935-55 with pressed concrete panels and balconies and enclosing a courtyard. Mountview Theatre School have some accommodation here including rehearsal rooms, singing studios and the Sir John Mills Scenery Workshop.
Parma House.  This is accommodation for creative industries – from artists to graphic designers.
1-2 Mount View. Academy of Theatre Art.   This includes rehearsal rooms and the Ralph Richardson Rehearsal Studios.

Coburg Road
In the 19th this was a residential area and called Myddleton Road.
Haringey Heartiands. Regeneration in an area where buildings were used by the Barratt Confectionary factory
Barratt's building including a curved frontage to this road by P. J. Westwood in partnership with Joseph Emberton 1922-1926.
John Aldis House. Care Home
Trading Estate - six industrial units six around a courtyard by the Terry Farrell Partnership, 1978-9
Bittern Place. Up to the 1960s this was Lawton Road.
Olympia Trading Estate. Made up of   industrial/warehouse units of steel portal frame construction with a lot of darkened glass
Mallard Place – trading estate and workplace units
John Raphael House. Faith Miracle Centre.  This dates from 1999.


Commerce Road.
Built up originally in the 1860s with middle-class villas.
LCC- type mixed development planned from 1959 under A. J. Rebbeck, Wood Green Borough Engineer. This replaced the villas with point blocks and a low terrace with shops.
33 Alexandra Pub. This was built in 1868 and was an original building in the road. It was also eventually called Motts and was an Allied Breweries house. It had closed by 2003 and since been demolished.


Cornwall Avenue
Villas built in 1908 on the site of North London Cycling and Athletic grounds- the residual 10 acres of Nightingale Hail northern grounds.


Cumberland Road
Originally Warlborough Road
The demolished Palace Gates line ran at the back of the houses on the south side of the road.
Primitive Methodist Chapel.  This opened between 1872 and 1900 near the corner with Station Road.

Dorset Road
Originally Ellesborough Road
Railway workers cottages of 1907 in pale brick. 12 of them
Alexandra Palace Station. The old station forecourt would have stood roughly on the site of the passage way at the end of modern housing.


Finsbury Road
Houses. Low-rise terraces of the 1970s.
Greek Orthodox Church of St.Barnabas. This was built in 1875 as Wood Green Baptist Chapel, and replaced in 1907 by Braemar Avenue Baptist Church. It was then used by the Catholic Apostolic Church until 1965 and then became Greek Orthodox and the St.Barnabas Community,
43-51 original houses and shops including an archway which went through to premises at the rear
Trinity Primary ‘Academy’. This was previously Nightingale Primary School . This is an extension of the school in Bounds Green Road and is built across the line of Finsbury Roads, cutting it off from its northern line.

Footpath
Between St.Michael's Terrace and Nightingale Road. Partly follows the line of a subway under the railway from 1878 to 1980.

High Road
This is part of an old drovers road much of which is still called Green Lanes, the section through Wood Green now called High Road
276 Canning Crescent Centre. Haringey Healthcare NHS Trust building.  It was designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, 1994 as a combination of mental health centre linked to a small acute day hospital. It had a series of chimney-like projections rising from cross-walls which are ventilation flues operated by solar warmth.
St.James' Presbyterian Church, This was built in 1878 and ‘noted for its grandeur’ replacing a Church of Scotland iron chapel.   A Sunday school building added later.  In the 1950s it united with the Bowes Park Congregational church and the building became a warehouse. It was demolished in the 1970s
287 Police front counter building. This was the Fishmongers Arms a public house which closed after 2000 at which time it was known as O'Rafferty's. It is now used by the Metropolitan Police.  It had an assembly room used a nightclubs and retains its original iron columns in what was a stable yard
242 The Grand Palace. This was the Kings Pub previously the Kings Arms Hotel built in the 1870s. It is now a Polish night club and banqueting suite
Fishmongers and Poulterer's Almshouses. This was a long Tudor style range by William Webb built in 1849. It consisted of. 12 cottages as an Asylum for aged fishmongers and poulterers. The Fishmongers  and Poulterers Institution was established in 1835 and provides  pensions and assistance to people connected with the processing, wholesale and retail onshore fish and poultry trades, The almshouses at Wood Green remained until after the Second World War.
Cattle trough and drinking fountain constructed for the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association in 1901. It is in Portland stone with a head on a grey granite plinth
Civic Centre.  This was opened in 1965 on the site of the Fishmongers and Poulterer's Almshouses as the Wood Green Civic Centre. It built by Sir John Brown, A. E. Henson & Partners who won a competition held by Wood Green Borough Council in 1938 for a different site. It originally was to include offices, council chamber public hall and a library around a courtyard but only the offices and council chamber were built. They are in reinforced concrete with a steel frame clad in brick and stone. The council chamber has a curved ceiling and a public gallery carried on two hollow columns which are the boiler flues. The furniture was removed in 1965 when the London Borough of Haringey was set up. A civil defence unit was installed in the basement, with two foot thick concrete walls to withstand nuclear attack, and includes escape tunnels.
War memorial Civic War Memorial. This is opposite the civic centre and contains 928 names. There is an ornate stone wall with six bronze plaques bearing inscription and names. This stands on curve fronted steps. The inscription says: “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. To the undying memory of the men of Wood Green who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918 1939 – 1945. Erected by public subscription by the inhabitants of Wood Green 1920”
Crescent Gardens. Public gardens laid out on what was common land before 1894. By 1910 it was laid out with curving paths, trees, shrubs and formal bedding.
King George VI Memorial Garden. This was opened on in 1953, laid out with planting behind stone walls, seating and a circular rose bed. There is a plaque which says “Borough of Wood Green. King George VI Memorial Garden. This garden was provided by public subscription as a memorial to his late Majesty, King George VI. 1952
Printers Almshouses. The Printers’ Almshouse Society bought a site here and almshouse was built in 1856 in Tudor style by William Webb. It was round three sides of a courtyard. Designed in 1856 for 12 couples and extended in 1871 and 1891. In 1969 it moved to Southwood Court in Basildon. In the 1950s it is shown as The Lord Southwood Homes of Rest – Lord Southwood being the owner of Odhams Press.
245 Greenridings House.  British Telecom North Sector Switching Centre.  This is a telecommunications switching centre built with several floors below ground. It is on the site of the printers’ almshouse.
Electric substation. Large substation for London Underground.
Seat outside the substation apparently dedicated to ‘The Late Dolly Pope’.
239 Ashley House. Office block, built 1960.
Monaghan's Tavern. This is in the ground floor corner of Ashley House. It was built to replace the Three Jolly Butchers. It was initially called Jolly Butchers but then renamed The Rat and Carrot in the 1990s and then Ganleys in 1998
Three Jolly Butchers Hotel. This was on the corner of Watson’s Road and was replaced with a corner of Ashley House. It was an old former coaching and drovers’ inn dating from 1781 was given a makeover around 1900.
Jolly Butchers Hill. This is the name for the stretch of High Road between the Civic Centre and the tube station. It was previously called Clay Bush Hill.
Wood Green Bus Garage. Built as a horse tram depot by North Metropolitan Tramways as in 1895 and bought and converted in 1904 for overhead electric trams by Metropolitan Electric Tramways and then for trolleybuses in 1938.  Until 1910 had was the repair works and paint shop for all the Metropolitan Tramways vehicles in the northern area. It was used for motor buses in 1961 and then has became a depot for Leaside Bus Co. Ltd.  In 2004 it became a main depot for Arriva buses and their registered office.
232 Lord Nelson Pub. Small local pub
225 River Park House. Council Offices. This is an 11 floor building on the site of what was Wood Green Library
Wood Green Library.  The central library was built with a donation from Andrew Carnegie in 1907 and replaced a small library in the Town Hall. It was in dark red brick with a cupola and clock. It was demolished in 1973.

Imperial Road
Built 1901-2 on the site of North London Cycling and Athletic grounds- the residual 10 acres of Nightingale Hall northern grounds.
Muswell Stream crosses this to the north running between the railway and Bounds Green Road
New housing built at the south end on the site of railway sidings and engine shed.

Mayes Road
The Moselle Stream crosses the road by an archway in Umola Court having run parallel to Brook Road. This section remained open until the 1890s and was an estate boundary
Government offices. Behind the Barratt offices
Granta House.  Job Centre Plus designed by Dixon Del Pozzi  in1983-5. It replaces parts of Barratts sweet factory
109 Cambridge House. Metropolitan Housing Trust. Offices of  Barratt's sweet factory. With 'Labor et Probitas' in terracotta and clock dated 1897.   Barrett’s occupied a site of over 5 acres in Wood Green and no other manufacturing confectioner in the country offered such a wide variety of sweets with 200 lines in production in 1950 —'lollipops to sherbet fountains, liquorice allsorts to brandy balls, sweet cigarettes to dolly mixtures, boiled sweets and toffees of all kinds, jelly babies and pastilles and nougat to love hearts lozenges” .In the 19th Barratts were 19th law bookbinders near the Strand, until George Osborne Barratt started a sugar confectionery business employing in Hoxton, In 1880 they moved to this site in Wood Green. Expansion was rapid with major extensions in the 1880s and 1890s and six buildings in use by 1904. Transport of goods was by horse, replaced by lorries in the 1920s. On site were stables, wheelwrights, etc..  Factory conditions remains unmechanised – for instance trays of lollies were carried up four flights of stairs by young women, and were then wrapped and brought down again.  It was not until the late 1930s that the factory was modernised and made safer.  In the 1960s the departments were: Pan Room, Toffee, Lozenges, Sweet Cigarettes, Fondant and Pastework, Starch, Sherbet, Boilings and Nougat.  In 1966 they were taken over by Bassetts of Sheffield. In 1980 the factory closed and plant was moved to Sheffield.
Allsopp & Co., Piano factory owned by a Mr. Ivory in 1872. This was bought by Barratts and became the site of their works
Wood Green Cottage. 18th house the site of which was used for Barratts works.
105 Safestore, Self Storage building.
The Woodlands. 18th house the  site of which was used for Barratts works.
Market Hall. An area which goes back into Shopping City.
83 Duke of Edinburgh, Shishka and Turkish food


Neville Place
Vitality Bulbs. This was a manufacturer of specialist miniature light bulbs. They were taken over in the 1960s and moved to Bury St.Edmonds. “The Sanatogen of incandescent bulbs”.

New River
The river passes through this area almost entirely in a tunnel. This was dug by
Docwra in 1852 and allows the River to bypass Devonshire Hill to the east.  Between Bounds Green and Wood Green the tube line passes 25ft below the bed of the New River

Nightingale Gardens
Nightingale Gardens. These were laid out on former rural open space known as Bakersfield between 1894 and 1913, linking the earlier public gardens of Avenue Gardens and Trinity Gardens.  It was enlarged in 1956 and a formal rose garden created. It is named from the Nightingale Hall Estate. Wood Green Council began to create parks and open spaces from the 1990s. This is more or less rectangular bisected by a single tarmac path and surrounded by iron railings. Planting consists of scattered trees and a shrubs, mature horse chestnuts and two large conifers. The Gardens in effect create part of a pathway which follows the line of the New River in its Tunnel below.

Northcott Avenue
Built 1907-8 on the site of North London Cycling and Athletic grounds- the residual
10 acres of Nightingale Hall northern grounds.
Palace Gates Station entrance to the left of the footpath to Cornwall Avenue with a
covered bridge to another entrance
Wood Green Community Seventh Day Adventist Church. This dates from the late 1950s and replaced an iron mission built for the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church of 1906.


Palace Gates Road
12 The Park Inn. Irish pub


Park Avenue
Palace Gates rail line. A short stretch of overgrown formation from the Palace Gates
line lies between Palace Gates and Park Avenues.  Wooden steps are said to remain in the undergrowth. The old railway used to cross Park Avenue and the abutments to the bridge remain either side of the road.
Houses. Development by local sweet makers Barratts. Terracotta date plaques show ‘1994’
New River. A short open section of the New River emerges from the yellow stock brick tunnel entrance behind the southern side of Park Avenue.
The Old Course of the New River. The old course of the New River followed the 100 ft contour and the tunnel was built to very much shorten the length of the stream.  This stream joined the new course here having run roughly down the line of Station Road.


Parkland Road
This was originally called Caxton Road and it runs parallel to what was the Palace Gates railway line
Sheltered and other housing on the site of Palace Gates Station which won an environmental award in 1987.  It includes sheltered housing, and was designed by Haringey's David Hayhow as the last of the housing groups built  along the redundant railway line.

Railway
Palace Gates Line. The line was built by the Great Eastern Railway and opened in 1878 at first to Noel Park and then extended to Palace Gates a few months later. It was intended to provide passenger services from Liverpool Street station to the recently opened Alexandra Palace and a developing suburban area. In 1929, a connection to Bowes Park enabled a link on the Great Northern' Hertford Loop Line. However the Great Northern's stations at Alexandra Palace and Hornsey provided a
more direct route to central London. Passenger numbers declined even further from 1932 when the new Piccadilly Line extension provided stations at Wood Green and Turnpike Lane removing much potential traffic. The line closed in 1963.
Muswell Stream –this flows in an open course between the Hertford Loop and main line tracks.


Ringslade Road
3-5 Ringslade Brethren Hall from 1928. Now housing.
Northampton works. This stood at the northern end of the road and was a Printers and type founders' engineers and machinists, printers' furnishers.

River Park Road
5 Tulip House. This has been in most recent use by the Tulip MentaL Health Group. It has otherwise been known as Stuart House and has had many past users - in 1952, for instance, it was used by a Spiritualist Church.
Interlock Metal Hose Co. This was on the north side of the road in the 1930s. The company made flexible metal tubing and appear to also have had a foundry at Ampthill in Bedfordshire.


Station Road
13-27 Green Rooms Arts Hotel. This is a social enterprise hotel and restaurant in what was the Wood Green Area Housing Office who vacated it in 2009.  It is a not for profit venture and will encourage new restaurateurs and artists.  This was the offices of the North Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Designed in 1925 as the Head Quarters of the North Met electricity company, which powered electric trams across North London. The company became part of the Eastern Electricity Board on nationalisation of the industry in 1948. There is Art Deco original detailing and tiling, and a boardroom on the top floor. On the site of Elm Cottages
29-31 Greenwood Student House was built as council offices in the 1960s. They were on the site of a primitive Methodist Chapel of 1900 as well as a sheet metal works and the Grosvenor Engineering Works.
48 Palais De Luxe. It opened in 1912 by River Park Cinemas Ltd. the original entrance was via a terrace house on Station Road through a narrow foyer to the auditorium on River Park Road running parallel to Station Road behind terraced houses. It was modernised in 1931 to designs by Leslie H. Kemp. It was then operated by Gaywood Cinemas Ltd. By 1944 it was named Rex Cinema and in the 1950’s it was taken over by Southan Morris who were then taken over by Essoldo Theatres chain. It closed in 1964 and then became a bingo club shown as Legalise Casino Club until the mid-1970’s. It was then demolished, and replaced by Alexandra House. The site of the auditorium is their car park,
38-46 Building used by Haringey Council and the Tulip Mental Health charity. It previously a printers – probably part of Royal Sovereign Stationery Group.
48 offices. Wood Green Customer Service Centre and Homes for Haringey. Office block which once housed Haringey Council Education Department. On the site of Tudor House and Tudor Chambers
Tudor House. This was used by the Inland Revenue and had been built 1924-25.  It was said to mainly consist of a converted barn’.
33 Jolly Anglers.  The building is 1905. It replaces an early 19th building and the name probably reflects activity in the New River.
35 council offices on the site of Central Cinema theatre 1915. It was closed in 1934 and latterly used as a warehouse
Greenside House.  This was the site of Mentmore Manufacturing which was on the corner with Bradley Road. The Platignum Pen Co. were inventors of the cartridge pen, the retractable ballpoint pen, and the felt tip. They also had works in Hackney. 1919 Platignum Pen Co started life as the Mentmore Manufacturing Company. The company's first product was a self- filling fountain pen with a gold plated nib which sold for 6d and in 1925 they invented  the replacement nib unit. They were the first company to use injection moulding in the production of their pens. In the Second World War they made 'spy' pens which could contain maps and compasses or a poisoned dart which could kill at 20 ft. In 1950 they made their own version of the ballpoint pen as well as the retractable ball pen and invented ink cartridges. In 1957 they moved to Stevenage.
Mirror Laundry. This stood next to the bridge in 1930s with an address in Brabant Road
Site of the bridge for the Great Eastern Railway Palace Gates line can be seen from a dip in the road to allow double decker buses to go underneath although single deckers were normally used. There is a raised pavement alongside. The bridge was demolished in 1960
Middlesex Polytechnic Halls of Residence on the site of the removed railway line
1970s.
Excelsior Dairies. Their milk bottling plant was on part of the Halls of Residence site.
They were later United Dairies – who had 80 horses in their stable here. Part of their metal gates is in the railings. Abbott Brothers Model Dairy was also earlier in Station Road.
Houses. Terraced development by Barratts. 1896 with terracotta date plaques
Caxton Gardens. A bit of what was Wood Green Common at the end of Caxton Road
140 coach house, back from the road, outbuilding of one of the demolished big
houses.
St. Paul Roman Catholic Church.  This was originally a simple structure of 1882 which was replaced in 1904 by a Romanesque church.  The present building dates from 1971 and is by John Rochford of Shenfield. The single storey frontage consists of narrow concrete panels with arched windows incorporating stained glass from the former church some by George Farmiloe & Sons. There is a recessed entrance flanked by a narrow tower surmounted by a cross.
New River Crossing. The mouth of the long tunnel from Myddleton Road can be seen near Alexandra Palace BR Station.  By the mouth of the tunnel is a 1993 brick building which is a pumping station for the North London Artificial Recharge Scheme building.
Alexandra Palace Station. This was opened by the Great Northern Railway 1859. It now lies between Hornsey and Bowes Park.  It was originally called Wood Green, being renamed to Wood Green (Alexandra Park) in 1864. Under British Rail the station reverted to Wood Green in 1971, but was renamed as Alexandra Palace in 1982.    The station was enlarged in 1868 and modified in 1889, when a new platform for Enfield trains was added.  In 1897it was planned, and then cancelled, for the station to be the northern terminus for the Great Northern and Strand Railway (GN&SR), which would have been a tube beneath the existing tracks. In 1975 the entire station was rebuilt leaving two island platforms and tithe buildings on the northbound island were removed in 1973/74. The station was gas lit until this rebuilding .It is however now planned to be a terminus on Crossrail. The remaining buildings on the Station Road/Buckingham Road were built by Great Northern and have been renovated.  They house a refreshment kiosk and ticket machines, with a modern footbridge connection to the platforms and across the tracks to Bedford Road.
Engine Shed. On the down side was stood a small two-road engine shed, which functioned from 1866 was where an American locomotive. named Lovatt Farnes, was kept.

Trinity Road
Called this because of Trinity Chapel. It was previously Southgate Road.
Prince of Wales pub. Built 1870 with decorative tiles by Millingdon, Wisdom and Co. with the Prince of Wales' feathers
Trinity church. Arose from Methodist open-air services from 1864. In 1869 they acquired a site on the north side of what was then Southgate Trinity  Road, where Trinity chapel  built in 1872. It was designed by the Revd. J. N. Johnson in grey brick with stone dressings.  In 1900 three halls were opened. The church was sold to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1970
St.Mary's Cathedral. Kimisis Panayias. The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God.  Built as Trinity Methodist Church 1871


Weston Road
Alexandra Primary School, originally Alexandra Board School buiklt with an Infant and junior  school from 1894.  A terracotta plaque says of 'S.T.B.W.G' and '1900-1905'. It was on the site of Woodlands House, previously a site taken over by Barratts. As a London Board School it was designed by G.E.T Lawrence, and comprises of two brick main buildings overlooking a central playground. The façade includes terracotta copings to the gables and there is a . tall central cupola and surmounted by ball finials and two storey towers with spires.
The Decorium. This was Public Baths of1911 which has since been turned into a conferece and exhibition centre .  The Baths were built on the site of an 18th house called Moat  Cottage and they were  designed by Harold Burgess. They were heated by waste heat from the rubbish destructor.
Waste and recycling centre  for Haringey
Quicksilver place.. This is on the site of the Council’s Refuse incinerator, itself on the site of Moat Place.  It is a police patrol base.

Wood Green Common
Cherson House. 17th hiuse which had grounds to the New River. It was on the site of the Barratts housing and St. Paul's Church
The Grange. 17th house which had grounds to the New River. It was on the site of the Barratts housing and St. Paul's Church
The Common is a large expanse of grassed open parkland lined on the north by London Plane trees. To the south and west is a tall red brick wall that follows the New River Path. There is a play area and to the east a landscaped and planted public garden. This garden is surrounded by a Hawthorn hedgerow and cast iron railings and is lined by London plane trees. In the centre is a granite fountain, with an inscription ‘In the memory of C.W. Barratt Esq., Chairman of Barratt & Co Ltd. There is also a pergola

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Ampere Way
This is a spine road leading from Purley Way up into the IKEA store, or beyond. It follows the tram line and hence it follows the line of the preceding railway line.
Named for Andre Marie Ampere born 1775 at Lyon, France, after whom the unit of electrical current is named, and reflecting the electrical past of the site.
Ampere Way tram stop.  Opened in 1998. This is basically a tram stop on the old power station site. It was renamed ‘IKEA Ampere Way; under a sponsorship deal in 2006, to promote the stop's location near the store.  By 2008, it had reverted to its former name. It is served by tram link 3 (Wimbledon-New Addington) and tram link 4 (Therpia Lane-Elmers End).
Chimneys. These 300 ft chimneys are now a landmark and known to many as the IKEA Towers. They were designed in the 1930s as part of the Croydon B power station. The plans for this power station, designed by Robert Atkinson and commissioned by the then-Croydon Borough Council, were halted with the outbreak of the Second World War. Construction continued in 1946 but to scaled back plans.  In 1985 the six concrete chimneys of the old 19th Croydon A station were demolished it was decided that the chimneys of Croydon B would remain as a landmark. Pressure was put on the government to get rid of them in the early 90s as the whole area around them was regenerated. IKEA was initially unhappy by having them above their site but were then allowed to paint their colours on the old advertisement boards at the top. But their future has been the subject of speculation but proposed alterations were abandoned through local opposition.


Bathhouse Road
This is on the site of the old Beddington Sewage Works and named for a Roman bath house discovered on the site.
Beddington Trading Park. Industrial and trading units.
Superdrug. The company dates to 1964 as a toiletry retailing business.  In 1979 after fifteen years of trading they acquired the eight acre site here for a distribution centre and head offices. Since then Superdrug has expanded to become a major force in toiletry and pharmaceutical retailing with international links and over 1000 stores.


Beddington Cross
This is a private road with industrial and trading units.  It is in an area which was open fields until the time of the Great War. It was a path alongside a drain along which depots and industrial units were built.

Beddington Farm Road
The road seems have developed after the Second World War running from the Ministry of Works site at the top end to the sewage works to the south. Earlier there is no path except slightly to the east running down the western edge of Primrose Wood.  Beddington Farm itself is over on the western side of Beddington Lane. When the Croydon power station was in operation the road passed through its area at the southern end, with the cooling towers on the west side.
Transport Repair Depot for the Ministry of Works. This was extant in the 1950s and was north of the Beddington Cross path with an entrance in Beddington Farm Road
Valley Point Industrial Estate.  Speculative freehold industrial/warehouse scheme by Quintain. Now a trading area
DPD Parcel Delivery Company
Croydon Mail Centre. This is basically a mail sorting office.
Pioneers Industrial Park
CCF. CCF is basically a building insulation products distributor.
Kuehne Nagel. Depot for this ‘international logistics operator’.
Cambrian Chemical works. This was on the corner with Beddington Cross


Beddington Lane
Entrance to Beddington Trading Estate at Bathhouse Road

Beddington Sewage farm
The modern sewage works lies to the west of this square and is in the square to the west. The northern part of the older works is in the south of this square and the square to the south. Sewage disposal at Beddington Farmlands began in 1860 in the form of land irrigation and fertilisation and was leased to a variety of operators, the Wandle having been culverted. It was later taken over by the local authority Proper treatment plant was installed between 1902 and 1912 and in 1932 was extended to provide for the novel system of using the treated sewage as cooling water in a power station. Methane produced by the digestion of the sewage sludge was used to drive corporation vehicles. In 1966-69 the works were completely rebuilt. This has since closed and the site is now used for industrial units.


Brazil Close
The name might refer to the filming here of parts of Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil
This is a small trading and light industrial area with mainly packaging manufacturers present.

Canterbury Road
Weights and Measures Office. 1930s – 1970s

Coomber Way
Roundabout with Blue Pillar which says “Beddington Industrial Park”

Dacre  Road
Therapia Lane Tram Stop. This is a stop on the Croydon Tramlink. The stop is in the London Borough of Sutton close to the boundary with Croydon.


Daniell Way
This road in the middle of the trading estate area consists mainly of a massive car park for IKEA. It is on the site of Croydon Power Station. It is named for John Frederic Daniell 1790-1845 – the inventor of the Daniell cell

Endeavour Way
Trading and industrial units.
Brett Concrete. With on site silos and plant

Franklin Way
Benjamin Franklin is the USA the man who tapped electricity from a thundercloud. Although this road has an electrical name from the power station it is actually on the site of the hospital.
Peppermint Healthy Living Centre. Health Centre


Gurney Crescent
Waddon Marsh tram stop. This is a Tramlink stop close to the commercial areas of the Purley Way. There was previously a railway station about 100 metres north of this site called Waddon Marsh.

Kelvin Gardens
William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs after whom the unit of thermodynamic temperature is named. Although this road has an electrical name from the power station it is actually on the site of the hospital.

Lathams Way
Travellers’ site.


Mitcham Road
Mitcham Road Baths and Wash-houses. These were opened in 1931. There were twenty slipper baths and twenty washing stalls.


Purley Way
This main road, A23, This road opened in 1925.  It was designed as a bypass for Croydon and was formed from improvements to pre-existing local roads. In 1932 it became the first road in the United Kingdom to be lit with sodium lights.
20 Veeder-Root Limited Dickinson Works. Makers of counting machines
66 Croydon Foundry Ltd. This was established here in 1920. The company manufactured iron engineering castings, up to 6 tons in weight. It went into voluntary liquidation in December 1972.
72 Standard Steel Co. Structural steel and steel stockholders. Set up in Croydon in 1929
74 Metal Propellers Ltd. This was established by Henry Leitner and Dr Henry Watts, who had designed a hollow steel aircraft propeller and set up the Metal Airscrew Co Ltd in the Great War.  It became a manufacturing company and moved to Purley Way in 1925.  They also made stainless steel items for domestic and industrial uses; and eventually specialised in this. In 1960 they took over the Standard Steel Co, and closed in 1973.
National Loose Leaf. Works
Huffler and Smith, New Era Works. Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemicals.
Waddon Marsh Station.  This opened 1930 and has been replaced by the Croydon Tramlink.  It was opened by the Southern Railway as new housing and industries moved into this area. It opened when the line was electrified and a freight line installed. At first the island platform was built of wood, but was later replaced by concrete. It was equipped with a small timber waiting shelter, and public access was via a pathway and footbridge leading from Purley Way. T was originally named Waddon Marsh Halt, and renamed Waddon Marsh in 1969. Nothing of the original station remains.  By 1997 the passing loop had gone, and all that remained was a modern shelter. There were no name boards facing the trains, although one looked out onto Purley Way. Abandoned sections of track lay beneath undergrowth. In 1998 it became part of Tramlink. All that remains of it is an access path still lined with streetlamps painted BR red.
A signal box stood at the west end, close to the footbridge, and doubled as a booking office until closure on 1982.


Power Station
Croydon A power station. This opened in 1896 by Croydon Corporation and sited near the gas works. The generating equipment at the station was replaced in 1924, when low pressure equipment of 21 megawatts (MW) and high pressure equipment of 29 MW was installed, giving the station a generating capacity of 50 MW. At the same time locomotive using an overhead wire electric system, was used for shunting coal it was later replaced by a steam locomotive, In 1970, Croydon A still used wooden cooling towers. It operated until 1973.[3]
Croydon B Power Station. After the Second World War, began on a much larger power station, which adjoined the railway line, north of Purley Way. It was constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons but never completed because of the Second World War. It was opened in the 1940s with a generating capacity of 198 MW, but in the 1960s, a 140 MW gas turbine was installed at for peak use, bringing the generating capacity up to 338 MW.  It had an internal railway system. It was a large, red, and imposing building designed by Robert Atkinson. Steel-framed, faced with brick-work of high standard with deliberately dramatic interiors. Coal-handling equipment was concealed by a curtain wall on the side and the coal came from Betteshanger in Kent or by lorry having been shipped from Kingsnorth. It was decommissioned in 1984 and demolished.
IKEA is now on the site.


Railway Line
The line running though this area was the West Croydon to Wimbledon Line built by the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway and engineered by George Parker Bidder over part of the track bed of the Surrey Iron Railway. It opened in 1855 thus connecting the London and South Western Railway to the London Brighton and South Coast Railway – who later purchased it. It was electrified in 1930. It was shut down in 1997 and is the line of it is now part of the Croydon Tramlink
Sidings ran south from the Croydon-Wimbledon Line for about a mile to the Waddon Flour Mills. This was the Waddon Marsh New Sidings and probably built in the 1880s. By the 1950s this no longer served the mills but was accessing the Trojan Works and the Jablo works and possibly a large number of other works which lay alongside it – including the Science Museum Depository.  By the 1960s a vast number of other sidings ran off this both to the north and the south in the main running to various parts of the power station
Sidings ran south from the Croydon-Wimbledon west bound  line to a number of gravel pits and were later adapted for the British Portland Cement Works and are shown on pre Great War Maps. By the 1950s a line here also accessed the Transport Repair Depot.
Sidings rang north from the west bound line before the Great War. These evolved into a complex of tracks in the 1920s, one of which accessed a cable works to the north. By the 1950s lines also accessed a rubber works and a plant store and one line ran as far as Red House Road
Sidings for a brewery
Sidings to the Croydon Gas Works initially to the west but after 1920 there was another set to the east also later evolving into a complex of tracks. The main line ran alongside the gas works running southwards
Sidings rang northwards to works in Factory Road and possibly accessing the Corporation destructor. These had gone by the 1950s
Sidings after 1920 ran, north of the station, to the east to two separate metal works.  By the 1950s these had expanded to access a Parcel Depot, Croydon Iron foundry and the Standard Steel Co.


Stirling Way
Trading Estate

Surrey Iron  Railway
The Surrey Iron Railway was a horse-drawn plateway that linked Wandsworth and Croydon via Mitcham, all then in Surrey. It was established by Act of Parliament in 1801. It was a toll railway for goods. It was commercially successful only briefly, and closed in 1846. The Wimbledon and Croydon Railway ran along the path of its trackbed in the Waddon area and this has now been replaced by the Croydon Tramlink on more or less the same line.

Valley Retail Park
IKEA. The IKEA in Croydon is a branch of the multinational furniture store which opened in 1992, on the site of Croydon 'B' Power Station.  It was revamped during 2006, to make it the largest IKEA in Britain and it is now the fifth biggest single employer in Croydon. It designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture and other items.  It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008


Waddon Marsh Way
This road has now vanished under Purley Way and ensuing works,
Brickfields. They were already in use here by the mid-18th and remained in the -19th, but were closed by 1870.
Waddon Hospital. In 1893 the Croydon Corporation decided to build an isolation hospital and a plot of land was purchased at Waddon. Temporary hutted wards were built in 1894 for the isolation and treatment of infectious disease patients.  The Croydon Borough Hospital for Infectious Diseases opened in 1886 and consisted of pavilion blocks containing the wards.  It was extended in 1911 with two isolation pavilions and a Nurses' Home and an operating theatre was installed in 1930.In 1948 under the NHS It was renamed the Waddon Hospital. In 1954 the number of fever and TB cases had declined and many wards were treating the elderly. The Hospital was very inaccessible reached by a long private road from Purley Way with no public transport available. By 1976 it had ceased to deal with infectious disease patients.and al closed in 1984. Nothing remains of the Hospital and its site is now part of Valley Park

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Post to the north Archway


This posting is only the north west corner of a larger square. The other three sections are:
Upper Holloway to the north east
Upper Holloway to the south east
Tufnel Park to the south west


Archway Close
This is the old line of the A1 going up Highgate Hill as Archway Road – but it has now been marooned as the central part of the block which the traffic goes round in a sort of roundabout  created in 1967
2 Archway Tavern. The address was originally 2 Highgate Hill. It was first built in 1813and rebuilt in 1886 by Watney’s architect J. G. Ensor at the tramway terminus. Large, stucco-trimmed pub with French mansard and a clock.  It has more recently been known as Dusk 'til Dawn and since 2014, the Intrepid Fox. At the back is a separate section used as a club.
Archway Central Hall. Built in 1934 6. This was the last Central Methodist Church Hall to be built in London and it has a huge cinema style auditorium.   There are halls, offices and class-rooms on three floors. It replaced the Archway Road Wesleyan Chapel of 1864.

Archway Road
Archway Park. This is a small sloping park with a multi-use game area plus a woodland area, laid hedgerow, herbaceous planting, grass meadow, play ground equipment and a ball court.

Bickerton Road
25-27 St,Pelagia’s home for Destitute Girls. This was founded in 1889 by the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters Servants of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It provided accommodation for unmarried mothers and their first-born babies, who could enter the Home when the child was a fortnight old. They were admitted free of charge on condition that they worked in the laundry. In 1934 it moved to Highgate West Hill. The original Home, built in 1889 is now Bickerton House with studio space and offices. This includes some charities involved in health and child care.

Bredgar Road
This was once called Langdon Road before 1937
Hargrave Park Primary School. This is an old board school dating from 1878. It became a primary school in 1947 and had a special unit for children with hearing difficulties from 1977.

Girdlestone Walk
This was to be part of a joint scheme with Camden but the relationship broke down and Islington want ahead here independently in 1975. It is in brown brick with low-rise, high-density, outside space and terraces around a green space.

Hargrave Park
Named for a family who leased the land here from the Sons of the Clergy, Charity.
42-45 Lorimer & Co. This works opened in 1878 when John Lorimer’s partnership with a Mr. Fletcher broke down.  He built up a large works here in a building said to have been erected for use as a public house. They specialised in cordials and syrups – Lorimar’s Syrup Hydrophosp – some of which were medicinal and with a quinine element.  They sold these internationally.

Hargrave Road
Hargrave Hall. This dates from the 1900s was called the Assembly Hall from 1910 and used by the Plymouth Brethren. From 1943, it was renamed Hargrave Hall and later used by a religious publishing house. Since 1978 Hargrave Hall has been in use as a community centre plus, currently a Montessori School.

Highgate Hill
Whittington Stone.  Highgate Hill is the traditional spot where Dick heard the City bells inviting him to: 'Turn again, 'Whittington; thrice Lord Mayor of London.’  The stone faces the road and carved on it and on a brass plate is: “Whittington Stone. Richard Whittington. Thrice Lord Mayor of London. 1397 - Richard II .1406 - Henry IV .1420 - Henry V Sheriff - in 1393. This stone was restored by W. Hillier 1935”. On a brass plate it says “1964 Whittington's Cat presented by Mr  & Mrs Paul Crosfield, Donald Bisset and Friends”. The stone was first installed in 1821 and may have been on the site of a medieval cross itself a road side mark stone. The cat, added in 1964, was sculpted by Jonathan Kenworthy.  In Irish limestone and its head turns to London listening to the bells. Whittingon’s success has been attributed to his car
Whittington Stone pub. This is a rebuilt of a pub originating in the early 1860s. Claims to be a sports pub,
17 The Electric Theatre opened in 1909 with seating on one floor. At the front was a large arch with a half domed entrance. It was taken over by Union Cinemas in 1935 and then by Associated British Cinemas in 1937. It was -named the Palace Cinema from 1954 and closed in 1958. It was later demolished.
Hill House. This is a 1960s office block originally Blue Star House. In the 1870s it was the Victoria Nursery owned by Benjamin Williams with  glasshouses for his orchids. By 1917 a motor works had replaced it. This was probably the Daimler works, a specialist repair depot opened in 1908. In the 1950s it was Chivers jam distribution depot.
Hamlyn House library first building with strip lighting
Whittington Hospital. The Holborn Union Infirmary opened here in 1879. In 1921 it was renamed the Holborn and Finsbury Hospital. In 1930, following the abolition of the Boards of Guardians, the Hospital came under the administrative control of the London County Council, who renamed it the Archway Hospital. By 1948 under the NHS, it merged with St Mary's Hospital, and the Highgate Hospital as the Whittington Hospital. Of which this was the Archway Wing. In the 1970s the Furnival Building was added to the site, in the 1980s, the Ely Building. In 1998 the Archway Wing of the Whittington Hospital it was sold to University College London and Middlesex University to become their Archway Campus, for health-related professionals, opening in 1999, This closed in 2013 and the site was been sold to Peabody for redevelopment. The Archway Wing is in yellow brick with a central tower and spire designed by Henry Saxon Snell & Sons. It was one of the most striking workhouse infirmaries and a landmark.  It is on a narrow site, hence the towering brick wings with tall water towers and high dormers.
St Mary's Hospital. In 1848 the Metropolitan Asylums Board opened the Highgate Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital. Intended for paying patients, it was supported by voluntary contributions, but admitted paupers if beds were available.  In 1896 it was replaced by Clare Hall Hospital at South Mimms and was sold to Islington Guardians for a workhouse infirmary which they built next to the old hospital and opened in 1900 by the Duke of York. In 1914 it was renamed Islington Infirmary and by 1920 five more blocks had been added as well as various facilities buildings. In 1930 it was taken over by the London County Council and became St Mary's Hospital and the most modern in the Archway Group. In 1948 under the National Health Service it was part of Whittington Hospital and more new blocks were added in 1977 and 1980. In 1992 the Great Northern building opened with lecture rooms and facilities. It is now the Whittington Hospital with a new main entrance in Magdala Avenue opened recently.

Junction Road
Constructed in 1813 as a feeder road to Archway. Developed with cheap housing and is very down market.
1 The Lion. Also known as Sweeneys, OMara's, and the Red Lion. Dates from the 1860s. Now a gastro pub
2 Vantage Point – ex- Archway tower. 17 story tower block 1963.  It was originally a government building but sold, and rented back and used by Social Security. It was then empty but in 2001 was used by the Public Guardianship Office – later the Court of Protection and the Office of the Public Guardian. It was sold in 2007 and the Court left in 2011. It was then bought by Essential Living purchased Archway Tower in 2013 for conversion to flats completed in 2016.
Archway Station. Opened in 1907 this station lies between Highgate and Tufnel Park on the Northern Line.  When this was first built the name ‘Archway’ was not used and the station was called Highgate and was the terminus of one of the northern terminals of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway. They had planned a line to Hampstead before they were taken over by Yerkes in 1900 and so the line terminated at Archway Tavern. The station was designed by Leslie Green in his standard ox-blood glazed brick and with a dark brown distinguishing colour.  . In 1930 it got escalators and one entrance was replaced with one by Charles Holden which was replaced in the 1970s. Holden also used cream tiles for platform walls with the station name band formed of letter shaped tiles but replaced later. In 1939 as part of the New Works programme the line here was extended to the Great Northern Railway station at Highgate and to East Finchley. It was then renamed Highgate (Archway) and later then Archway (Highgate), and then Archway. The ticket hall was rebuilt again completely in 1975 and is now at the bottom of Vantage Point/Archway
30 Church of Pentecost, This is what was/is the Salvation Army Citadel which now seems to be a modernish building over Poundworld – previously Nat West Bank
32 Coffee Republic in the Royal London Friendly Society building of 1903. By Holman & Goodham, with a asymmetrical Baroque front.
91St Johns Tavern. Large pub dating to the 1860s.  Is now a very arty gastro pub with restored heritage featured and a studio commissioned interior.

Macdonald Road
This was previously Brunswick Road until 1938.
Leisure Centre. Islington facility run by Greenwich Leisure Ltd. and recently refurbished.
Bus Station
44-46 Brunswick Pub. This dates from the 1860s. Closed and demolished.

Magdala Avenue
Whittington Health Centre. Medical services have been delivered on the Whittington site since 1473, when a leper hospital was founded. In the 19th a trio of hospitals were opened here on the Highgate site in 1866; the Archway site in 1877 and in 1900 the Highgate Hill Infirmary. With the coming of the National Health Service in 1948, they jointly became The Whittington Hospital and began to modernise. The hospital is now on the central St Mary's site. They provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey and other areas, services include accident and emergency maternity, diagnostic, therapy and elderly care. They have 30 community locations and teach undergraduate medical students as part of UCL Medical School and nurses and therapists

Salisbury Walk
Girdlestone Estate Community Centre

Sandridge Street
Part of a new configuration of what was the Archway Gyratory System. It includes a triangle of green space and trees.

Vorley Road
Archway Childress Centre
Archway Community Care Centre
Girdlestone Park. This is a green space with a modern children’s playground, tarmac ball court and a community food growing project

Windermere Road
Woodstock Joinery

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Post to the north Finsbury Park



Avenell Road
Highbury Stadium. This is on the high ground in what were the grounds of Highbury House.   Arsenal Football Club was originally founded in 1886 by Scottish workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich and the club moved to Highbury in 1913. The ground which was leased to the club had belonged to the Church of England College and was laid out for football by Archibald Leitch in 1913. The main building was in the International Fascist style with an Art Deco curtain walled front.  There were grandstands on the east and west sides. This was developed in the 1930s, when Herbert Chapman was manager he recognised the entertainment value of football.  After 2010 the Stadium was redeveloped into flats. The North Bank and Clock End stands were demolished. The exteriors of the listed Art Deco East Stand and the matching West Stand became part of the new developments and the pitch became a communal garden.
West Stand. Designed and built in 1931-2 by Claude Waterlow Ferrier with seats for 4,000 and standing room for 1,700.  There were also three flats and a restaurant.
East Stand. Built in 1936 by William Binnie. It had five storeys, with seating for 8,000 in two tiers and seats for another 5,500 were added in 1969 by A. D. Consultants with more bars and restaurants. Inside the marble hall has a bust of Herbert Chapman by Epstein and a stylish staircase leading to a panelled boardroom.
North Stand. This was built in 1992-3 by the Lobb Partnership project. It had a brick street front with curved ends which, echoes the earlier Art Deco styling. It seats 12,830.


Biggerstaff Street
This was previously Paddington Street and renamed for the Vestry Clerk in 1938


Blackstock Road
This is on tine of Ermine Street. Part of the road used to be known as Highbury Vale and also part was Dane bottom Lane. It is an ancient public right which was the subject of an 18th-court action. The northern section is now the border between the London Boroughs of Islington and Hackney.
Alexandra Buildings.  This is on the corner with Seven Sisters Road.  It is ‘expensively built’ in fissured sandstone and brick  -some recently covered in stucco  - with an oriental theme and a structure on the corner roof called a Chatri – a sort of Indian pavilion. It is said a large metal pipe in the basement is on the line of the New River and contains one of their mains.  It was Lockwood and Bradley Ltd, They were tailors in the 1920s-30s.  Their sign said 'London's Leading Tailors – Direct from the Mills to the Millions'. They were Leeds based and their last shop closed in 1939. They usually took over defunct chain stores.
School building. The Centre for Life Long Learning is built on the site of a 19th school. This was built in 1888 by the London School Board.  It was originally Blackstock Road Board School for Boys and Girls. In 1932 it was reorganised as Finsbury Park Secondary Boys and Girls School and in 1947 Finsbury Park Secondary Modern School while the primary school closed in 1960 and joined Ambler primary. The Secondary School closed in 1964 and it became Edward Seguin Special School. Seguin was a 19th French physician who worked with children with cognitive impairment. In 1975 the school became the Jack Ashley School for the Deaf and Islington Adult Education Institute. Ashley was a Member of Parliament with total hearing loss. In 1981 it became Isledon Teachers' Centre and Islington Adult Education Institute and from 1992 the City and Islington College: Finsbury Park Centre
Islington College. Centre for Life Long Learning. The origins the college are in the London County Council and the Inner London Education Authority where schools, further education colleges and adult education were separate which could cause problems. There was demand for further education for young people and thus new colleges were created. In Islington a new type of sixth form centre was pioneered and after the abolition of ILEA a tertial college was created called Islington Federal College made up of existing facilities including adult education. These were consolidated into a small number of sites and a new building erected in Blackstock Road. Islington Library is included in the college buildings.
41 Mural of a skeleton looking at a mobile phone on the side wall. This is by Sao Paulo based Street Artist Mauro Golin, aka Muretz. Another mural on an adjacent wall shows a human cup and saucer
51 H J Bloom's ironmongers shop which dates from the 1950s. The front decorated with numerous drawings of keys and other items for sale.
48 this was Park Hall used by Brethren from 1885 until 1901. It was used by Christadelphians from 1932.
52 Richard Peace, pianoforte manufacturer. 1882-1909.   later it was Fairfield Factory occupied by Willmott, Son and Phillips Ltd machinists, overlookers and pressers. Since demolished.
102 Islington and Shoreditch housing association. The site at the back of here and the Mews was a branch of Pickford Removal and Furniture Depository Business,
New Times Bus. Private bus company running on London routes, including 29, in the early 1930s. Their sole bus was garaged by Mellhuish next door to the Pickford's Company. They also had a filling station and taxi business
Blackstock Mews. Flats built in 2007 in what was an industrial site.
126 Kings Head Pub. Dates from the 1880s.
131 This is a wine bar and restaurant previously called the Halfway House. It opened in 2011
132 This is now a bar to which they have kept the shop frontage. T Bird's 1930s style shop was for elderly ladies to drop in for a chat and not buy anything. It was founded in the 1880s and one of the reasons for its closure was a large increase in rent
Ambler Primary School. This opened in 1898 as Ambler Road Board School. In 1900 it had a centre for handicapped children.  In the 1930s a nursery block was added.
175 Arsenal Tavern. This is now a back packers’ hostel.  It is said to be the 'old sluice house' and the rear is where the New River actually crossed the Hackney Brook. There is no evidence of this. It was renamed as the Arsenal Tavern before 1944. It was originally a Courage House but has since been run by Enterprise Inns and by Unique Inns
Primitive Methodist Mission Hall corner of Hurlock Street 1870,
204 The Gunners. The pub is apparently full of Arsenal football memorabilia.  The name relates to the club’s nickname which was relevant when it was in Woolwich and was something to do with guns. The building dates from the 1870s.
211 Police Station. Built 1903 by John Dixon Butler in brick and stone. This has now closed and has been sold.
Police Station – the site is part of a terrace which until the late 19th stood in front of a curved road running parallel to the east of it.  It seems likely that this followed the line of the Hackney Brook
Methodist Chapel. This is also shown on 19th maps as fronting Blackstock Road (then Highbury Vale) but within this curve.
215 Woodbine pub. This probably dates to the 1890s.
218-224 This stretch of road was Highbury Vale, also called Dane Bottom. It had been a separate road but became part of the Blackstock Road when the shopping parade was built in the 1880s. It is said to be the scene of a battle and a Danish settlement – more recently it was the fields of Cream Hall Farm.
219 H. & G Hopton ‘The oldest established firm of Press Tool Makers in London. Plants fitted complete for tin box making for all trades. Precision Work of all description”. This site is now redeveloped as flats.
226 Bank of Friendship pub. This pub had this name in 1852. It has been claimed this is because people used to wave to each other across the Hackney Brook.

Clifton Terrace
11 The Park Theatre. This is a conversion of a former office building by David Hughes Architects. The idea for The Theatre came from Jez and Melli Bond. It opened in 2013 has two theatre spaces and includes a bar and cafe. Flats on the upper floors will provide some funding.


Conewood Street
14 Conewood Street Children’s Centre. This offers full and part-time childcare as well as the full range of children's centre services including stay and play sessions, health and family support services. This is in a building which was once a local authority children’s home and later used as Martineau Community Nursery,
St.John's Highbury Vale Church of England School. Rebuilt national school of 1864. Stock brick with stripe polychrome heads to the windows. This opened in 1836 as Highbury Vale School with a Parliamentary grant, by the ladies who had founded the chapel. The school was enlarged and rebuilt in 1864. It then took boys, girls and infants and became Christ Church National School. It was financed by voluntary contributions, and grants. It was handed to the new church of St. John's in 1883. The London County Council required thorough repairs in 1908. A playground was added in 1934 and in 1947 it was reorganised as a voluntary aided Church of England Primary School.
St. John’s Highbury Parish Hall. This is now part of the school
22 E.R. Duke. They made Duke’s Nut Food in the 1930s
19-21 Bell Brush Co. They were present in the 1950s. It seems likely that they made artists brushes – there is now a Bell Brush Co. in Enfield but they provide janitorial supplies.
Ace Works. Aluminium Equipment Co. This was a sheet metal plant which closed in 1973. They had been there since at least the 1930s


Elphinstone Street
Named after James Elphinstone who was the uncle of George Strachan, Vicar of Islington. Elphinstone lived in Islington, was a friend of Dr.Johnson and his dates are 1721-1809.


Finsbury Park
This square covers only a tiny end portion of this large urban park,
Finsbury Gate. Designed by Frederick Manable, Superintending Architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Gymnasium. This was an original feature of the park and lay to the west just inside the Finsbury Gate entrance.
Furtherfield Art Gallery. This is on the site where the original gymnasium in the park was sited. They hope to exhibit contemporary work in art, technology and social change for local residents and users of the park.


Finsbury Park Road
This residential side street actually goes up to meet the gates of Finsbury Park at Seven Sisters Road. Hence the name.
New River Co. a plate showing the course of the main laid on the wayleave created by the course of the New River was recorded on the east side of the road.


Finsbury Park Station,
Finsbury Park Station. The station originally opened in 1867 and is now on several lines – both rail and underground - and also on others which are now disused.  It lies in a hollow at what was the Seven Sisters Road/Stroud Green Road crossroads and thus the railway itself is on an embankment above the road. There are also two bus stations. It was preceded by Seven Sisters Halt built in 1861 by the Great Northern Railway. This was on the corner of Stroud Green Road and part of the line to Edgware. In 1867 it was given a waiting shed and a bridge and in 1869 it was renamed ‘Finsbury Park’. By 1874 it was a major interchange with platform buildings. In 1955 there was intended to build a new booking hall and an imposing façade. Under the station were girders to support this. 1972 the facade was demolished and these girders removed. Spaces for shops were provided and a temporary booking office which was there until 1983, There was also  a stairway to nowhere with designs of duelling pistols and balloons – said to be because designers had confused Finsbury Park with Finsbury Fields on the City borders, where such activities took place. – Or maybe to remind us of nearby Hornsey Wood.  Currently the station is managed by the Great Northern; there are separate ticket offices for the Rail services and the Underground station. There are currently six platforms but only five tracks. The two underground lines, although 'deep-level' tube, are only 6 metres below street level and there are now no lifts or escalators. However the last hydraulically-operated lifts on London Transport were here. In 2015 ticket barriers were installed and operated on all the entrances to the station.
Great Northern Railway.  This opened in 1861 on the East Coast Main Line from King's Cross to the north of England and Scotland. Tracks were laid through Finsbury Park in 1850 and a halt opened in 1861 here.
Edgware Branch. This was built in 1867 by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway and operated by the Great Northern Railway. Northern Heights. In 1935 London Underground planned a New Works Programme. This included plans to take over the lines from Finsbury Park to Edgware. This programme was cancelled due to the Second World War and never completed. The line to Alexandra Palace was closed to passengers in 1954 but continued to carry freight to Edgware and access Highgate Depot until 1971 when the  tracks and platforms were removed and replaced by a pedestrian access on the east side.  The line itself is now a footpath – the Parkland Walk.
Great Northern & City Railway. This opened in 1904 as underground railway to Moorgate in the City. The tunnels were built to take main line trains but were not connected to the Great Northern platforms. The service operated as a shuttle between to Moorgate. The service ended when the installation of the Victoria Line removed the platforms but in 1976 the unfinished surface connection from Drayton Park, which had been part of the never finished Northern Heights scheme, was completed so trains could be run to Moorgate and to the north.
Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway. This opened in 1906 and is now the Piccadilly Line. From 1901 this was operated by a consortium led by Charles Yerkes who cancelled plans to go north of Finsbury Park. It was built with the small diameter tube tunnels and platforms were constructed beneath the main line station. When opened, with services to Hammersmith, it was then the longest tube railway. In 1932 the line was extended to Arnos Grove and then Cockfosters with financial support from the government.
Victoria Line. This was planned in the early 1960s to provide the maximum number of interchanges with other Underground and rail lines as possible. The station was changed so that both Piccadilly and Victoria lines used to then disused Moorgate line platforms and connecting tunnels were built. The first section of the Victoria line  Walthamstow Central and Highbury and Islington opened in 1968.
Bus Stations. There are two bus stations with a total of six bus stands. At Wells Terrace to the north and Station Place, to the east


Fonthill Road
This is a mid 19th road now dominated since the 1960s by wholesale garment outlets
Saturday market. The wholesale garment district here opens its doors to the public every Saturday. The rest of the week it is professional buyers
20 William Butler Yeats. This was originally called the Duke of Edinburgh and has also since been known as Fonthill and Red Rita. It opened in 1871 and is owned by Rosgoff Taverns but was previously Ind Coope and then Taylor Walker
111 George Hotel. This dated from 1874 and seems to have closed before the Great War. Later it was the Finsbury Park Railway Working Men's Club and Institute. It is now a clothing shop.
99 Taylor.  Laundry engineers and sundries suppliers, early 20th
127 St James Tavern this is now closed and was originally the Fonthill Tavern opened in 1874. It closed in 1986 and is now a dress shop.
133 Hunnings Printers. Ltd. They had on site a hand printing machine by J.Smith of Soho called ‘Improved Hercules Press’
143 Whitton and Whitton. Piano factory and showroom. The company was here from the 1880s and had previously been at a number of addresses in the Islington area


Gillespie Park
Gillespie Park. This is a Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. It includes the Islington Ecology Centre, which provides environmental education for schools and organises walks and talks for adults. It is owned and managed by Islington Council. It has meadow and woodland areas with several ponds, and there are 244 species of plants, 94 of birds and 24 of butterflies. It has a number of plants which are rare in Central London, including the narrow-leaved bird's-foot-trefoil, grass vetchling and pyramidal orchid. In 1990 it was the site of the first recorded breeding of the long-tailed blue butterfly. Clinker forms a substrata from the sidings there are herbs, pond, etc.
Gillespie Park.   It is on the site of a British Rail depot - East Goods Yard. . The original agricultural land was purchased in 1866 by the Great Northern Railway and developed into goods and marshalling yards. The Yard was operational from 1877 until 1960.  (see below) In 1981 some of the site was leased to London Borough of Islington for ten years for an Ecological Park. In 1986 British Rail announced sale of the land for housing but a local campaign led to Department of the Environment funding for an Ecology Centre which opened in 1993.  A wall of Stephens Ink factory forms the entrance to the park.


Gillespie Road
93 Mayfield Sanitary Laundry. This dated from the 1880s and employed about 200 people. The building lay right behind the north side of the Arsenal Football Pitch. In 1941 it was bombed and canvas camp beds stored there were set on fire – it was back in use eventually but shut down in 1966.
Kay’s Photographic Laboratories. This replaced the laundry in the 1960s -1980s. This was the laboratory for the, then Soho based, film processing company which dates from at least 1917.   Metrocolor, which was a name associated with Kay’s took over the factory in the 1980s but closed down in 2001.
117-119 Stadium Mews. Football ground gate. This was formed by the demolition of two houses in Gillespie Road to allow access to the ground.
Arsenal Station.  This opened in 1906 and lies between Finsbury Park and Holloway Road stations on the Piccadilly Line. The station is in a narrow residential street and so was squeezed between houses on each side. In 1913 the football stadium was built and the station was renamed Arsenal (Highbury Hill) in 1932 and the front of the station was altered to look more modern – this is a concrete panel stuck on the original front with nothing behind it but struts keeping it upright.. The name ‘Arsenal’ dates from the 1960s.  The station was designed by Leslie Green and had one of his standard tiled frontages. The platform walls have ‘Gillespie Road’ spelt out in large tiled letters and there is decorative tiling by Wolliscroft & Sons although much was in poor condition and has been replaced. A wooden clock has survived on the platform. The platforms are accessed by a sloping passageway and there are measures to control football crowds. There is a tunnel to platform level from the main access passage and a "tidal" system with a section divided from the main passageway by a full-height fence.
5a Gillespie Road Wesleyan Mission. This is said to have been built above the Hackney Brook as a branch of the Wilberforce Road Mission. The Hall was in use from 1878-1932 and is now housing.
Gillespie Road primary school. This started in the Wesleyan hall in 1878, and was officially opened as a school by the Rev J Rodgers in 1879.  This is an E.R. Robson building for the London School Board. It is three-storey in yellow stock brick and with a fifteen bay frontage. The main entrance, - for staff and visitors - has a frieze and date stone 'Ao Di 1878' with floral decoration. There are ornamental iron railings and gates and stone entrance lintels read 'BOYS' and 'GIRLS' with sunflower heads. In the playground is a 19th open-sided play shed with an iron roof and there were separate boys and girls playgrounds. Inside staircases were also separated into boys and girls. Classrooms can be divided or opened up and have original partitions and glazing. There are also original grades with the School Board for London monogram.
Caretaker’s house, Designed by Robson for the London School Board.
The Gillespie Picture Hall, this is thought to have been a shop conversion used as a cinema in 1910-1911.
Stephens ink factory.  Henry Stephens was the inventor in 1832 of an indelible "blue-black writing fluid" which became as Stephens' Ink and to form the foundation of a successful worldwide company for over 150 years. He was based in Finchley where there is a small museum to his memory and achievement. He inherited management of the family staining and ink factory in Aldersgate. In 1872 the factory and offices were moved to Holloway Road and in 1892 the factory moved to Gillespie Road, The Stephens' Ink Company was innovative and profitable and Henry Stephens was a very wealthy man. The Gillespie Road factory was designed by his son, Michael, and built in the form of a Venetian palazzo and had an illuminated chimney.  It produced ink, office utensils, carbon papers and gum - the raw materials being delivered by rail from London Docks. It was closed in the 1960’s and a council estate built on the site in 1972. By which time only one wall of this factory was left standing which form an entrance to the ecology park


Gloucester Drive
2a this is the current vicarage for St.John’s Church. The original vicarage is assumed to be now the site of new housing
Housing adjacent to the church, was presumably built on the site of the original church
St. Johns Church Hall. Finsbury Park Housing Project drop in centre


Goodwin Street
4 -5 Postal Sorting office. This is early 20th and designed by Jasper Wenger with an elaborate single storey façade fronting a utilitarian shed.  It is no longer in use.
Food depot at the end facing Goodwin Street. This is a concrete framed building originally constructed as a distribution depot
Railway Mission Hall. This was on the site now taken by the depot at the end of the street. The mission was part of a national organisation founded in 1881 as a successor to the Railway Boys Mission and aimed to provided meetings and services for Railwaymen who could not attend Church Services because of their unsocial hours.  Their declared aims were: 1.Evangalistic and Temperance Works, 2.Circulation of pure literature. 3. Care of the injured
11 House and offices used by Campaign Against the Arms Trade. The building is owned by Peace News Trustees, and has been used in the past by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, support organisations for Palestinians, Oromos and Kurds, local neighbourhood groups and an organisation to aid street drinkers. In the hallway was an ingenious system of pulleys and hangers that allowed bikes to be hauled upwards above the tallest visitors.


Hackney Brook
Hackney Brook is detailed in many works once it has reached Hackney but its upper reaches in the Blackstock Road area are much vaguer. .One branch comes from the north and rises somewhere to the west of Finsbury Par Station and then flows south in the direction of the Holloway and Hornsey Roads.  The stream appears to cross the complex of railways and ex-railway sidings west of Gillespie Road flows north of the road and the tube station and through the ecology park. Arsenal’s old stadium sits on a meadow called Long Mead which lay south of the stream. The stream crossed the Blackstock Road at the dogleg where the Arsenal Tavern stands which is obviously at the foot of a valley slope. And then along Mountgrove Road and into Clissold Park.


Highbury Stadium Square
Flats built within the grounds of the former Highbury Stadium, including the preserved facades of the East & West Stands.  The pitch has become landscaped gardens and the Concierge is situated in the
Marble Hall.

Hurlock Street
This was previously Myrtle Street
2 A Congregational mission opened in Myrtle Street as Highbury Vale mission in 1937. It was used by other Christians from 1948.  It is now Elizabeth House, a Community Centre for children and young people. They run After School Clubs and a youth club. They also do fitness classes, and a garden project. They also provide spaces for other groups


Isledon Road
A suburban back road paralleling the railway lines between Seven Sisters Road and Hornsey Road. The name relates to one of the early names for Islington. It is crossed by Hackney Brook which is running underground, it was originally called Clarence Road – hence the Clarence Goods Yard in this area.
76-89 Iseldon Resource Centre. Mental health and other NHS support for Islington residents.
185 Travellodge London Finsbury Park Hotel. Built in 2016 on the site of an earlier hotel – the Maryland Hotel in a conversion from housing
Airshaft. This stands back from the road in a storage yard for Tubelines and is for the Victoria Line
201 Pure Highbury Student Housing. Huge corner block on the site of a trading estate itself on the site of terraced housing.
Isledon Village Housing is a housing development by Benjamin Derbyshire of Hunt Thompson, 1991-4; it fills former industrial space between the railway and the roads.
Gardens. The sloping ground is laid out as compact little park with a sports area, a couple of slides for smaller children and a formal walled area with benches, flower beds and a complex of steps and balconies.


Lennox Road
27-29 Lennox Hall.   This is an old Congregational mission hall made up of two terrace houses and with a hall behind. They were built in 1884 to designs by Searle and Hayes for the New Court Congregational Church. They were used by Elim Pentecostalists in 1951-77 and are now flats and offices.
6-10 New Life Church. Seventh Day Adventist Church and church centre. This appears to the same building as the YMCA Club, shown on maps from the late 1960s and now part of the City YMCA and housing a youth arts project.

Medina Road
52-53 Employment Exchange. It is Neo-Georgian with 'Employers’ originally written over the central door.  It was built in 1933 replacing shop premises nearby used by the Islington Exchange which was one of the earliest ever set up.


Monsell Road
This was originally called Kings Road and laid out in the 1840s.
St. Thomas’s Church. In 1888 there was a church of England Mission Church where first in a small brick building, then in a large temporary iron church. When St Matthew, Friday Street was demolished the proceeds of the site sale were used to fund a new permanent church here designed by Ewan Christian. It was in the then new Anglo-Catholic tradition with social work staff, protests at social conditions, many clubs, and in particular no pew rents. There are three memorials in the church to the dead of the Great War – there are red poppies on a screen, and 95 names listed on a brass plaque and one individual memorial. The church is now well looked after and has had support and grant funding.

Morris Place
The Arts Place. John Jones, picture frame maker. This was established in the 1960s, and is family-owned and run. Frames and artist surfaces are hand-made at premises in Hertfordshire, which includes a mill, welding studio, special finishes and gilding department.


Mountgrove Road
This was once a bridle way called Gipsy Lane
New River. This is the where between 1619 and 1870 the Boarded River crossed the valley of the Hackney Brook, and then crossed the brook itself at the back of the Arsenal Tavern, from whence it ran due south
Hackney Brook. The brook here ran west/east parallel and probably north of the road.


Myddleton Avenue
This is modern housing built on the site of filter beds for the New River Company’s Stoke Newington Water Works. These were built between 1855 and 1883 and used the Lancashire process of slow filtration. After the Great War a fast filtration process was introduced

New River
New River. The New River provided fresh water to London from springs near Hertford and was opened in 1613.  Originally it was built along the 100 ft contour so that it gradually flowed onward but this necessitated long circuitous loops.  The first such loop to be bypassed was as early as 1619 when a 17 ft high timber lead-lined wooden trough was built to carry the stream over the Hackney Brook here, on the junction of today’s Mountgrove and Blackstock Roads. This was known as the ‘Boarded River’. The line of the original river is and that in squares to the east, west and south.  The river itself was cut short in 1870 at the pumping station in Green Lanes (in the square to the east)
The Boarded River. In 1618 -19  the long westward loop to Ring Cross and back was shortened by an embankment built across the valley of the Hackney Brook., 462 feet long and 6 feet wide. This ran from today’s Princess Crescent area parallel to today’s Blackstock Road until it reached what is now the Arsenal Tavern, where it met and crossed the Hackney Brook and then turned due east to reach the original course near today’s Green Lanes. Leaks were frequent and expensive and in 1776 Robert Mylne replaced it with a clay-lined embankment called Highbury Bank, through which the Hackney Brook ran under a brick arch.  This whole stretch went out of use in 1870.


Playford Road
Until 1911 this was Palmerston Road. The road is now in two halves divided by the council owned area which includes Clifton Court.
Clifton Court.  This is an Islington Council 20 storey block built in 1966 as part of Haden Court.

Plimsoll Road
In the 1950s some bus routes terminated here and a canteen was provided for staff, initially on a truck but later in a permanent building,


Pooles Park
St Anne’s Church. This was set up with an Iron church in Durham Road from 1866 – 1870 which included a National School. A church was built in 1870 of multicoloured brick designed by A. D. Gough after the Second World War it beamed derelict and was used as a hall.  It was demolished in 1965.
Church. This was next to St Anne and was by Romilly Craze and consecrated in 1960. It was demolished before 1970.
Pooles Park Tavern. Closed and demolished in 1961. It was a Charrington House opened in 1874
YMCA Red Triangle Club. Put there to tame the youths of Campbell Bunk. This was on the corner of Bickerstaff Road.


Prah Road
Conservative Club. The property, said to have a ‘sober, 1950s interior’ opened as a members’ club in 1886.  It was sold in 2015


Princess Crescent
New River. In the car park of St. John’s House cast iron posts were placed to mark the line of the pumping main to the west part of Islington on the New River.  On either side of gate onto the grass a pair of iron posts was recorded which were 15' apart with 'Track MBW' on them'.
New River.  In the path of St, John’s flats near the Crescent a metal plate was recorded with 'T MWB' on it.
Finsbury Park Synagogue. This was founded as an independent synagogue in 1884 and was initially affiliated with the Federation of Synagogues, before becoming a District Synagogue of the United Synagogue in 1934. It was first on Portland Road, then Princess Crescent, before moving to Green Lanes about 1962. There are now flats on the Princess Crescent site.


Queen's Drive.
St. John the Evangelist. The original building resulted from popular requests for a church and was consecrated in 1874. It had been built to design by F. Wallen and delayed by the builder's bankruptcy. Extensive repairs were needed in 1920 and under-pinning from 1928 and this was followed by severe war damage. Some of the original churchyard wall remains. The church was rebuilt in 1995 to a design by Tom Hornby recently described as a semi circular “flying saucer” and now features  a Kids Cafe and a Soup Kitchen
Housing adjacent to the church, and presumably built on the site of the original church bears a plaque saying  "This stone unveiled by David Curry M P Minister for Housing 5 December 1994 St John’s Housing Project”
Parkwood Primary and Nursery School. The school dates from 1969 and was opened by the London County Council in what was then part of Stoke Newington.
New River. On the line of the water  main laid along the wayleave created by the course of the New River a row of metal studs was recorded across the corner of the school playground.


Quill Street
Newish housing built alongside the railway and on old railway lands.
Gillespie Park entrance gate.

Railway
The area covered by this square is bisected by a complicated network of rail lines mainly heading for Kings Cross Station in one direction, and northern England in the other. There was an associated network of goods yards here. Finsbury Park Station (above) dates from the 1860s and the line to Edgware (above) from 1867.  The railways were accelerated here by the introduction of a line up from the North London Line – described as the Canonbury Curve. This fed into the lines going into Finsbury Park Station at the southernmost edge of this square from 1874.
East Goods Yard. This is the current site of Gillespie Park (see above). It opened around 1875 and was a marshalling yard for up traffic.
Clarence Yard. This was a marshalling yard for down traffic and opened in 1875.
Clarence Yard Goods. This was for public goods traffic and coal. Opened in 1875. A western section originally used for coal was used for diesel after 1960.
Western Carriage sidings. These lay between the East Goods Yard and Clarence Yard and included a long cleaning shed built in 1885.
Finsbury Park Goods Yard. This was in two sections either side of Wells Terrace. The older section to the south of the road. The northern dating from 1879. Coal Depot area to the north of Wells Terrace Railway sidings. The earliest four sidings here were to the west of the station and shown on 1864 maps as the original goods depot.
Highbury Vale Yard. Now the site of Gillespie Park.


Riversdale Road
New River. The 'boarded river' flowed to meet the this road probably around the area of Digby Road and then turned eastwards


Rixon Road
Housing on the site of what was Clarence Yard.

Rock Street
This was once called Grange Road.  In the 1920s it was used as a bus stand to ease congestion in Station Place
Belisha. A pair of combined Belisha beacons have been set up outside no 23. In the dark the white portions are seen as illuminated columns and they are more visible.

Seven Sisters Road
This was a main turnpike road. The road was authorised in 1829 and constructed in 1833 by the Metropolitan Turnpike Trust. In 1841 the toll gate was moved to what was then called ‘Strand Green Lane” junction with what was then called Hem Lane and Sluice House Lane.   Hem or Heame Lane ran from Hornsey Road to Stroud Green Road and became part of Seven Sisters Road.
New River. The original line probably crossed Seven Sisters Road near where Finsbury Park Station is now – but on a generally east/west line. This was abandoned when the Boarded River was built in 1619
330 Alexandra National Hotel. This was a ten storey block opened in 1966 by Lord Geddes. Chair of the British Travel Association.  It later became studio flats and bedsits with some offices including a small community centre, and a community launderette,  It was demolished around 2008 to be replaced by a housing scheme called Finsbury Park Place.
326-328 Pembury Hotel
324 Queens Hotel.. In the 1950s this was the Greater London Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service.
314 Finsbury Park Wesleyan Methodist church. This opened in 1871 in an iron building on land bought by Sir Francis Lycett. A permanent church was built in 1875. It was probably demolished in the early 1970's, there is now a BP garage on the site.
296 High up on the east side of the building overlooking Finsbury Park Road is a cement sign. This had letters recessed into the concrete which now appear to have been painted over or erased. It said 'Marshall, importer of Segars, wholesale & retail and at Islington'. Below and to the rear of the building are what appear to be the remains of stables.
284 The Blackstock. Originally this was The Blackstock Hotel but was also called at one time The Park Hotel. This dates from at least the 1860s.
Stroud Green Farm. This once stood on the corner with Stroud Green Lane, and in the late 19th also operated a Tea Garden.
269 Pyke’s Cinematograph Theatre. This was opened by Montague Pyke in 1909. It had originally been the entrance to a horse drawn tram depot \n it was then decorated with an auditorium behind. It closed as a cinema in 1915. In 1920 it was incorporated into the Rink Cinema round the corner and became the foyer of what was then called the Finsbury Park Cinema. It later became the Rink Cinema again was operated by Associated Picture Houses, The new foyer then became a large cafe/restaurant and the cinema continued. After the cinema, which was by then a bingo club closed in 1984. The original Cinematograph Theatre was demolished in 1999. In 2006 it a supermarket was built on the site.
North Metropolitan Tramways. Finsbury Park Depot. This was opened in 1885 by the North London Tramways and from 1891 was the North Metropolitan. They added stables here in 1898. Latterly it belonged to the London County Council.
263 The Twelve Pins - this current name refers to a range of Irish mountains. It was originally called the Finsbury Park Tavern. It dates from at least the 1890s.
Railway bridges – seven rail lines cross the road accessing Finsbury Park Station.  In 2016 artwork placards devised with artists and local people were put on walls beneath the bridges saying “Finsbury Park” and “Together” as a way of lightening a gloomy space and branding the area.
Rail bridge. The earliest signal box in this area was built in 1855 and lay south of the bridge. It controlled the line going to the then new Holloway Coal Depot to the south.
Cattle sheds. The frontage east of Fonthill Road on the north side of the road was, when the station and goods sheds were first built, a cattle shed and what appears to be a tree lined field.
240 The Clarence, This pub dated from at least the 1860s and has now been demolished. The name was changed to The Sir George Robey in the 1960s and it became a popular music venue in the 1980s but was empty from 2004. It was hoped it would become a local arts venue and efforts were made to prevent demolition. Sir George Robey was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre and considered one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th.
238 The Astoria Theatre. This opened in 1930 as the fourth of the Astoria Theatres built by Arthur Segal for Paramount on what had been the site of a postal sorting office. The outside by Edward A. Stone is in plain faience. Inside it was decorated in a Spanish Moorish/Atmospheric style by Marc-Henri and G. Laverdet as Art Deco with a Moorish foyer and auditorium like an Andalucian village at night. It had a twin console Compton 3manual/13Rank theatre organ. It has a 35 feet deep stage, 12 dressing rooms, a cafe and a fountain containing goldfish. It was Taken over by Paramount Pictures in 1930, and hen by Odeon Theatres Ltd. in 1939. In the 1960s it became a site for pop music gigs. It was re-named Odeon in 1970, it was closed by the Rank Organisation n 1971 and then It was converted into the Rainbow Theatre. It became a music venue for pop and rock and some relevant films. It closed in 1981 and was then unused until 1995 when the Brazilian based United Church of the Kingdom of God restored it and now use it as their main base in the UK
233 Muslin Welfare House. Halal House. Social, educational and community centre seeking to support local communities. 228 Electric Vaudeville Theatre, This opened in 1909 as a shop conversion, designed by Lovegrove & Papworth. Robert Hawkins, the operator, sold the cinema to Selig & Isaacs in 1915 and it closed in 1916. It became a shop and having been derelict it now a sauna and a restaurant.
201 The Seven Sisters Road Congregational Church. This was founded in 1864 and was replaced in 1885 by the Finsbury Park Congregational church at the corner with Playford Roads. There was a lecture hall behind the church. The church closed in 1939 but is still shown as extant in the 1960s.  It now appears to be a small private car park for businesses in Playford Road.
165 The Durham Castle, This pub dated from at least the 1860s. It is now closed and is a Turkish delicatessen shop.

Somerfield Road
New River.  Originally the New River crossed the valley on an embankment some 600 yards long, its north end approximately just west of the junction with Queens Drive.  The water company retains the wayleaves created by the line of the river and the New River Company marked the line of its main along it with cast iron plates. One here was marked by a cast iron plate marked ‘NRC pipe track’ on the wall on the corner with Queens Drive.  The line of the main is said to run diagonally from here north west between gaps in buildings as far as Seven Sisters Road.  On the site of the road there is a patch of granite setts which might indicate some previous use by the New River Company.

St.Thomas's Road
Vaudeville Court. Flats on the site of Finsbury Park Empire.
2 Finsbury Park Empire. This was designed Frank Matcham in a similar style to his Shepherd’s Bush theatre and built for Moss Empires Ltd. It opened in 1910 with a variety show. Moss considered it their No2 theatre and shows came here after the London Palladium and before going nationwide. Films were shown as part of the show and included a newsreel. It closed in 1960. It then became a scenery store for Moss Empire Theatres and also used as a rehearsal space. It was compulsorily purchased by London Borough of Islington in 1964, and was soon after.
St Thomas' Church. This was built in 1888 By Ewan Christian; additions 1901 and 1904, by Edward Street. Red brick inside and outside. Chancel with its brickwork painted is screened by a low wall iron screen by Wippells, 1920; a similar one to the apsidal isle.  The Chancel rood is by Burnes & is dated 1922. Original Font and cover. Stained glass window by C.E. Kempe; six in the chapel and five in the baptistery by Clayton & Bell.
Vicarage.  Hall and Vestry 1901
15 Moslem Welfare Centre. North London Central Mosque. The main building was opened in 1994 in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles.
52 The Auld Triangle. This was previously called the Plimsoll Arms dating from 1890 and an Ind Coope House.

Station Place
This has also been called Station Road and Station Street.  It is now largely a bus station but buses have used this as a stand from the start. The road opened in 1874 when the railway layouts here were changed in order to take in trains from the North London line. The road was part of the rebuilding of the station.
5 Zelman Drinks. Also called The Silver Bullet.  Muldoons, Gaslight, etc.

Stroud Green Road
The road formed the boundary between Hornsey and Islington.  .
10 this was a horse drawn tram depot which was converted into a roller skating rink but never opened. In 1909 it became the Rink Cinema converted by Fair, Mayer & Marshall.  An organ was installed in 1915. In 1920 it took over the Cinematograph Theatre round the corner and it became the main entrance, foyer and restaurant for the larger cinema. The Rink Cinema’s entrance became a secondary entrance for the front stall. It became known as the Finsbury Park Cinema and rhea went back to being the Rink Cinema and was operated by Associated Picture Houses, later Provincial Cinematograph Theatres. In 1923 it was the first cinema in Britain to have the De Forest Phonofilms ‘sound on film’ system, later Fox ‘Movietone’. In 1926 a Model ‘F’ Wurlitzer theatre organ with 2Manuals/8Ranks was installed and removed during the Second World War. In 1929 it was taken over by Gaumont British Theatres and named Gaumont in 1950. In 1958 and was converted into the Majestic Ballroom. In the early-1960’s it became a Top Rank Bingo Club which closed in 1984. The original Rink Cinema became a snooker club and later a Ten Pin Bowl known as Rowan’s.
9-15 Scala Cinema. This opened in 1914 with the entrance to the north and the auditorium parallel to Stroud Green Road – the rake of the seating followed the fall of the land. It was designed by H.W.Horsley and built as part of a parade of shops with the railway coal depot behind.  In 1920 it was taken over in 1920 by Alahamson and Landan who renamed it New Scala Cinema. It closed in 1924 and became a billiard hall. It was later “Park Whist Hall’, then Irish dancing and then Peter Phillips clothing factory. It was demolished in 2007 and by 2014 there were flats and a supermarket had been built on site
Entrance to the park which includes a store where bicycles can be kept locked while owners are on the train
Railway bridge.   The bridge carries the East Coast main line towards Yorkshire, North East England and Scotland. There are measures here to deal with vehicles which are too high to pass beneath the bridge . The bus stations handling traffic to Finsbury Park Station are arranged to prevent double deckers passing under the bridge

Wells Terrace
British Transport Police. They have a police station by the Wells Terrace entrance.
11 Railway Hotel. This opened in 1874 and was a Taylor Walker House, later owned by Punch Taverns. It closed in 2013 and is now a cafe.
Finsbury Park Goods Yard (see above).   The section south of the road is the original and that to the north dates from 1879.The sidings are now the. City North redevelopment site.  This lies between this road and the railway in a rough triangle with a spur reaching Fonthill Road and another along the end of Goodwin Street. Buildings were constructed from the 1950s onwards on land previously occupied by railway sidings and were used by Mac Fisheries, a large fish distributor. There was also some oil storage. From the 1970s the site was used as a shop fitters warehouse and production facility, including metalworking and joinery and converted into mixed use units in 2005


Whadcoat Street
This was previously called Campbell Road – “Campbell Bunk. Worst street in London”.



Wilberforce Road
1 Finsbury Park Methodist Church. This replaced the larger building which was adjacent to it but fronting onto Seven Sisters Road.
New River. This is the approximate site of the Highbury Sluice House which stood north of the New River at the point at which it turned south to become the Boarded River. Drawings show the house as a pub alongside a bridge crossing the stream,
New River. The line of the wayleave on the old course of the New River passes a house which was once Luesleys Hotel on the east side. A cast iron plate was recorded here with 'New River Co. Pipe Track' plus arrows on the wall which marked the limits of New River Co. land.  The Central Park Hotel is on the west side opposite what was Luesleys. The line of the wayleave as having been marked with two cast iron plates with 'New River Co. Pipe Track'.  There are also said to be two MWB pipes in the car park

Woodfall Road
Woodfall Park, small park with attached playground.


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Barnett Wood Lane
Ashtead Recreation Ground. This is the only public recreation ground in Ashtead and is surrounded by houses. It is an area of open amenity grassland with two full size football pitches, skate park, Multi Use Games Area, tennis courts, pavilions and a play area. There is a wind-up shelter with Bluetooth that allows users to play music from their phones through speakers in the roof.
Ashstead Football Club.  This dates from 1898 when they played on the cricket club ground. They now play on a variety of pitches including Ashtead Recreation Ground.
Village Pond

Cradddocks Avenue
The parade of shops on the south corner of the road are on the site of Woodfield Farm with the farmhouse on the site of the garage.  The farmer was John Craddock.  This was the last working farm in Ashtead surviving into the 1920s.

Dene Road
St.Giles Church of England Infants School. This church school dates from 1852  when it was called Ashtead Schools and presumably took pupils of all ages.
Sydney Simmons Homes. They provide homes for elderly people in need.

Epsom Road
A24 This is the main road through the village and was the turnpike road between Leatherhead and Epsom.
Memorial fountain. This dates from 1880 and commemorates the Mary Greville Howard. It is in the form of a medieval cross. The inscription says:  “This cross & fountain are erected in memory of the Honourable  Mrs Mary Greville Howard by the Parishioners of  Ashtead and many of her relations and friends. She was beloved and honoured during a long life spent in doing good and mourned by all when taken to rest on Oct. 19 1877 at Ashtead Park aged 92. Her works do follow her.”
Pound and stocks. These stood immediately behind the current site of the memorial and were still there in the late 19th.

Greville Park Road
Peto and Radford. In the 1890s this company developed their accumulator business here. They were responsible for many of the advances in accumulators from the earliest days and exhibited at every show of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.   One accumulator was named ‘Ashstead’. By 1919 they had amalgamated with Pritchett and Gold Electric Power Storage Co

Grove Road
Ashtead Centreless Grinding. These worked for the aircraft industry in the 1970s.  The site is now a motor repair business.

Purcell Close
Built in 1926-7 as workers’ housing for Sir Lawrence Weaver and his wife Lady Kathleen Purcell who founded Ashtead Potters to employ disabled war veterans. Some bomb damage here destroyed records and mementos of the company.
Commemorative lamp standard on the green

Stonnycroft
Greville Primary School. This opened in 1958 and was extended in 1996, 2004 and 2005. There are twenty-two classrooms, and a large hall. There are also extensive grounds including a Woodland Walk.

The Street
Lime Tree Court.  Sheltered housing block. This was previously the Victoria Works.
Victoria Works. This is on the site of the works of W. Galloway who was a Tyneside based screw manufacturer. He had a licence to build American Stanley Steam cars here and set this up as his overhaul workshop. The business closed in 1916 as wartime conditions and the demise of steam road vehicles coincided. Later this was Ashstead Potters
Crawshay Williams,Ltd. The Ashtead Motor works, which was either here or further along the Street. In 1907 they exhibited at the motor show the chassis of a Valveless motor car and are said to have made two models.
Ashstead Potters. Founded by Lady Kathleen Purcell to employ disabled war veterans. Sir Lawrence Purcell was president of the Design and Industries Association in the 1920s and he inspired Ashtead designers to produce progressive pieces. It had support from Clough Williams-Ellis and Stafford Cripps. The company began with four untrained workers with no moulds or designs. It closed following the death of Sir Laurence. The pottery produced art deco items and figures such as Winnie the Pooh milk jugs. They also specialised in advertising wares for Genozo toothpaste and Guinness,
9 Ashcroft House. This building has also been known as Herriot House. It appears to date from the 1970s – and a previous building on site is described as ‘Research Laboratories’.  The present building was used soon after by Sunbeam Electric which is assumed to be a subsidiary of the US Sunbeam company producing both pharmaceuticals and small electrical items.  It later became Rowenta UK described as a ‘the newly formed division of Sunbeam Electric Ltd’ – although Rowenta were originally a German small electrical manufacturer – now French. Rowenta remained in the building but by the 1990s it was used solely by a construction company, bankrupted in 2008. It has now been converted into flats.
13 Royal Mail Sorting and delivery office. This is now a osteopathy clinic.
Telephone Exchange. This remains to the rear of the old sorting office
15 Brewery Inn. In 1839 there was a beer shop on the site of what is now The Brewery which started brewing its own beer in 1871.
Ashtead Brewery. This was owned by George Sayer and is said to have been at the bottom of Woodfield Lane. It is not really clear if this was separate from the pub of the same name.
Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower. The earliest reference to this pub is apparently 1769.
104 Ashstead Village Club. This is a members club affiliated to the Clubs and Institutes Union.
Almshouses. Feilding House, These were founded by a legacy from Lady Diana Feilding in 1733 for six needy widows.  More almshouses were added to the rear in 1975


Woodfield Lane
Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall. This is a local community hall and centre. It was set up after a committee was formed in 1919 at the end of the Great War to build a village hall as a permanent memorial to the Armistice. The land was donated and funds raised, the new facility was finally opened in 1924.
Ashstead Cricket Club. In 1875 Ashtead had no cricket club, but games were played on the Common. A club became established, with the Dene field as its headquarters. In 1886 Mr Lucas leand east of Woodfield Lane  and in 1887 the club was set up.
Library . This dates from 1967 and shares its building with the clinic
St.Michael’s Roman Catholic Church. Up until the Second World War there was no Catholic Church here and people had to go to Leatherhead.  St Michael's Church started in a large garage of a private house, Mawmead Shaw which had been bought by them in 1944. It was pulled down and the current building opened in 1967. A house, called Rushmere to the rear was demolished to make the church hall
Ashtead Station.  This dates from 1859 and lies between Epsom and Leatherhead on Southern Rail and South Western Rail. It was originally a joint station between the London and South Western Railway and the London Brighton and Chatham Railway. The current buildings date from 1967/8 and there is a ticket office, and a shelter and waiting room. There is a level crossing whch was once controlled from a signal box which was closed in 1978 and demolished in 1979. There were goods sidings were on the down side which are now the car park.

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Ashtead and Leatherhead Local. Web site
Ashstead Cricket Club. Web site
Ashtead Football Club. Web site
Ashtead Potters. Web site
Ashtead Village Club. Web site
Fields in Trust. Web site
Grace’s Guide. Web site
Greville Primary School. Web site
Historic England. Web site
Knowles. Surrey and the Motor
Pevsner. Surrey.
St.Giles School Ashtead. Web site
St.Michael’s Church. Web site

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Arrol Road
Allotments. These are on the site of the Crystal Palace Brickworks, extant in the 1870s

Ash Grove
Houses on the south east side of the road were called Boundary Terrace in the 1870s when this was the Parliamentary Boundary for the Camberwell Constituency.

Avenue Road
3 Cator Masonic hall. Founded 1922
Pool River. The River crosses the road slightly to the north of the Ravenscroft Road junction. It is completely underground but one end of an old bridge exists between nose 68 and 66,
86-90 Aldous and Stamp, water treatment engineers. Plus Aldous Court, housing. In 1910 this was a Fire Station for this part of Beckenham
Avenue Baptist Church. The building was extant in the 1870s shown as a mission hall. The Baptist Church is still extant here.
127-129 Dixon Glass. Dealer in laboratory glass.
Avenue Road tram stop. This opened in 1998 between Beckenham Road and Birkbeck on Croydon Tramlink. The tram here connects central Croydon with Beckenham and the line is built alongside the main line Southern Railway between Beckenham and Crystal Palace.  The tram stop is therefore on a passing loop within the otherwise single track.  There are platforms on each side of the two tracks of the loop and the main line trains pass to the north.

Birkbeck Road
The Birkbeck Estate dates from 1870-1910. The Birkbeck Freehold land Society was so called to commemorate the work of Dr George Birkbeck, physician, philanthropist, and pioneer in adult education, who was co-founder of Birkbeck College, University of London, in 1823.

Carlys Close
On the site of Churchfields School

Churchfields
This was previously called Arthur Road.
Churchfields School. In 1889 the Churchfields Charity sold some of Bellrope Field to Beckenham School Board. The resulting school was called Arthur Road School – later changed to Churchfields. Eventually the children moved out and it became an adult art centre and later demolished and the site developed for housing.
Churchfields Primary School. This was built in 1989 by the allotments and the refuse tip.
St.Augustine’s Court. St.Augustine’s was built as a mission church in 1886 and a church and hall in 1910 and consecrated in 1946. The building has now been converted to housing.
Council Depot. This is now the Bromley Council recycling centre operated by Veolia
Churchfields Recreation Ground. The land belonged to the Churchfields Charity and the condition of sale was that it kept the name. It opened in 1907. In 1900 Beckenham Borough had opened a power station on this site fuelled by rubbish and cooled with water from the Chaffinch Brook.

Croydon Road
Holy Trinity Anglican Church stood on the corner with Anerley Roads and opened in 1872. It was destroyed by wartime bombing and replaced by flats. Services were transferred to nearby Christ Church and later a church hall was built on the site. The site is now housing.
Christ church. This was on the corner with Franklin Road and had been built in the 1880s. When Holy Trinity Church was bombed the church became Christ Church with Holy Trinity. Later it was demolished and replaced by housing for old people. There is a new church in Anerley Road on the corner with Maple Road.
59 Conservative Club. Drinking club with some sports facilities – bowling green, etc.
59-61 Nissan dealer in a multi-story garage and office block that includes a Travelodge.  This was built about 1970 at and opened in 1971.
59-61 Dashwood Engineering Ltd, Empire WorKS.. Agricultural machinery factory. This was extant in the 1950s and made lawnmowers among other items for agriculturalists
101 Robin Hood. Pub which closed in 2002 and now demolished. It dated from the 1860s


Elmers End Road
Dexter Works. Roller Skate factory.  This was here in the 1950s

Franklin Road
Site of Penge UDC Depot before the Great War and their fire engine station
Miracle Mills.  This company made heavy milling and pulverising machinery and moved to Penge in 1972 from Chelsea. In 1986 it was taken over by Christy Turner and moved to Ipswich.
Royston School. This primary school was based here but in the 1980s moved to the Kentmere School site in the High Street/Kent House Road
Royston Field.  Recreation Ground. This is now to the rear of Sainsburys supermarket and is a site for community events including Penge Day.

Garden Road
Penge Green Gym - Winsford Gardens. These were once the gardens of Winsford House and include a rose garden and other features from that time. It has more recently become Penge Green Gym, originally set up by the Friends of Winsford Gardens.  They have installed a children’s playground as well as a wildflower meadows, a ring of seating, a sensory garden, insect and stag beetle hotels and turned a derelict pond into a Bog Garden.

Genoa Road
St Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church. This is a church of 1925-27 by F. A. Walters, whose son was the parish priest at the time. It predecessor was built in 1898 is still standing beside it, and had the school and chapel. Originally, after fundraising by Canon Bethell, a small iron church was built on a site near the Maple Road corner in 1878. In the 1890s Fr Miller bought another site and built a two storey school with a chapel on the upper floor. In 1925 work began by James Smith & Sons on another building and this is now the present church.

Hartfield Grove
Although this small close has modern housing, it can be found on maps from the mid 19th.

Hawthorne Grove
The Anchor. This pub dated from before 1866 and was on the corner of Hartfield Grove. It was probably part of the Anerley estate development of 1851. For many years it was an off licence and eventually converted to flats. It does not appear to be there any longer, but a rectangle of grass is railed off on the requisite corner.

High Street
162 Odeon Cinema.  This was built for Odeon Theatres Ltd. and opened in 1937. It was designed by architect Andrew Mather with a glass fronted facade and illuminated glass towers either side of the entrance. It closed in 1976 and became a bingo club which closed in 1990 and the building was demolished in 1994.
164 - 166 The Moon and Stars. This is a purpose built Wetherspoon's pub which opened in 1994.
Penge Congregational Church. This was built in 1912 to designs by P. Morley Harder under its minister, Barson of Penge, and is a landmark on Penge High Street. Barson, from Hackney was “theological liberalism’s South London Congregational standard bearer”.
The Kings Hall Electric Theatre. This opened as a cinema by 1910, in what had been a public hall. It was taken over by the Hyams Brother’s circuit in 1920 and rebuilt by Cecil Masey for them. It had a 1Manual Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ from 1925. It was taken over by Denman/Gaumont British Theatres in 1929 and re-named Kings Hall.  It was eventually named the Gaumont in 1955, and closed in 1958. It was demolished and the site is now flats and shops.
Pool River. The road crosses Pool River although there is not much sign of it.  It appears to flow under Tesco’s car park and then down a widened side alley to houses. It is the boundary between Penge High Street and Beckenham Road.

Howard Road
Although the road had been laid out by the 1870s a large site on the north side was a brick field. Later laid out with houses it remained residential until after the Second World War.
Londex Electrical Engineering works. The main Londex site was in Anerley, and this Howard Road site was eventually moved to a site in Oakfield Road. Londex of 207 Anerley Road, London. Dating from the early 1960s they made c specialized electrical control equipment; and were taken over by Elliott Automation and then GEX.  In 1974 they designed, and installed a continuous counting machine to monitor printing presses for the Daily Mirror

Kent House Road
Harris Primary Academy. This opened in 2013. The site was that of Beckenham and Penge Grammar School. This had evolved from Beckenham Technical Institute of 1901 and had moved to new buildings here in 1931. In 1969 it moved away and became Langley Park School. Meanwhile what had been Oakfield Road Boys' School moved into the former Grammar School buildings and was renamed Kentwood School. This closed in 1987.  It then became Royston Primary School which had previously been in Croydon Road and this has now become the commercial ‘Harris Academy’. It had also previously been an Adult Education College.

Maple Road
54 Maple Tree.  Has previously been called the William IV and the Crown. It is a privately-owned free house, but normally only serves Wells & Young’s beers.
Button Factory. This was started in 1931 by Italian Mr Belometti and Mr Speroni using buildings which had been a van delivery business.  They brought ten Italians to teach workers here. In the Second World War the founders were interned and later died. There was a fire in the derelict buildings in 1969. There is now housing on the site.
61 Golden Lion.  The Golden Lion was the badge of the Lion of Flanders. The pub dates from the 1870
101 Pizza restaurant with picture of pizza man over the door. This was previously the Lord Palmerston pub

Melvin Road
Melvin Hall. This was a hall for to Holy Trinity C hurch. When the church was destroyed the hall was bought by Penge Council. It became a centre which provided a hot meal and a meals on wheels service as well as social contacts for elderly people and others. In 2016 Bromley Council said it was surplus to requirements so and residents applied for it to be an Asset of Community Value. It re-opened as a Community Hall later that year.
Melvin Road National School. Dated from 1870. It later became Penge Secondary School for Girls.

Oak Grove Road
Depot for the South Metropolitan Electric Tramways behind the houses in the area now called Tramway Close. Built in 1906 and closed 1936.  It could house 15 vehicles. Tram tracks still in road surface and buildings were still extant in the 1980s

Pool River
The Stream, also known as the River Wilmore or the Shire Ditch, marked the boundary not only between Beckenham and Penge, but also between Kent and Surrey or London, whichever county Penge was in at the time. Its source is believed to be in South Norwood Lake. The stream winds across this area, largely underground and crossing roads unseen

Ravenscroft Road
St.Michael & All Angels. Neo-Byzantine ‘of all things’. 1955-6. by W. H. Hobday & F. J. Maynard. St.Michael and All Angels begun in 1899, but it was not opened until 1906. After being destroyed by a Second World War fire a new church was built facing Ravenscroft Road, and was consecrated in 1956.

Royston Road
85 The Royston Halls. Penge and District Trade Union and Social Club – club with Ballroom and other facilities.
Frank and Peggy Spencer. This was the home of the ballroom dancing school of Frank and Peggy Spencer. They ran this for many years and Peggy was also a regular TV dance commentator as well as a leading coach for competitive Latin dancers, and was influential in both Ballroom and Latin American work. For 40 years, her teams appeared in the Come Dancing TV programme,

Snowdown Close
The Hub. This building was a Citizens Advice Bureau and later used as a community hall operated by Christ Church.


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National Archives. Web site
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Wikipedia as appropriate

Barnehurst Road
The Red Barn. This red brick pub of 1936 is the home of British jazz. It provided the inspiration for the British postwar revival of New Orleans jazz.  This was largely due to the enthusiasm of pianist George Webb considered by many as the father of the traditional jazz movement in Britain. Aided by Owen Bryce, George Webb's Dixielanders, played regularly here from the early 1940s. Among the musicians who played with them were Humphrey Lyttelton and Wally Fawkes the clarinettist and cartoonist. This is commemorated by a plaque unveiled in 1985 which is on an outside balcony overlooking the garden.

Bexley Road
322 The Duke. This was once called the Duke of Northumberland.

Colyers Lane
Woodside School. This is a special needs school set up in 2012 on what had been the site of Colyers Primary School.
Colyers’ Lane Clay Pit. Small pit worked by Furner.

Hornbeam Lane
Car Park. This is on the old station goods area. The goods yard had been extended in 1932. siding. There was a single siding with an end loading dock which was on a gradient and closed in 1964.

Merewood Road
Denehole. This was found at the rear of a property in the road which had been used to take surface water from the road. It was a basic double trefoil denehole which had been extended and probably dated from the 18th.

Northall Road
Denehole. This was identified because the owner of the house had built a soak away and heavy rains had caused a dene hole to collapse. The chamber went under the next-door garden and there had been a collapse some 50 years earlier following which the whole house had been underpinned.

Old Manor Way
This road was once a path leading from May Place up into woods and fields.

Station Approach
When the station was built the road was called ‘Hills and Holes’.
Barnehurst Station. This opened in 1895 and lies between Dartford and Bexleyheath on South Eastern Trains. It was built on the Bexleyheath Railway Line between Dartford and London Bridge at the point at which line starts its descent to a marshy area, the Cray, the Darent and Dartford. The site of the station was a wood called Court Lees Bottom which was owned by Colonel Frederick Barne, Chairman of the Bexleyheath Railway and he had insisted it was built. He was a local landowner with family links over 150 years to the May Place Estate to the south.  When the station was built there were only 15 people lived within a half mile radius and it was thirty years before the numerous housing estates were built. It was ten years before a first class ticket was sold here. The station is in a cutting and at first there were wooden buildings at right angles to the tracks and some parts of these remain in ancilliary buildings. There is an original iron footbridge but the main booking office area and frontage have been rebuilt.
Signal box, This was east of the station and closed in 1970.
Railway Electricity Sub Station. This is east of the station on the south side of the line. It is a tall brick building with three arched windows on each side wall. It was built to house two rotary converters driven by 3,300V ac power from Deptford Power Station supplying 660V dc power to the conductor rail. It was built here by the Southern Railway when the line was electrified in 1926.

Three Corners
Close named after a a local wood. This was developed in 1933

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Carr. The spot that is called Crayford
Chelsea Speleological Society. Newsletter
Dover Kent. Web site
Field. London Place Names,  
Spurgeon. Discover Erith and Crayford

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Barnes Common
Barnes Common. This is common land - one of the largest such areas in London , It has been owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral since 925 and today they act through the Church Commissioners, while the Common is managed by the London Borough of Richmond. There is also a local Friends of Barnes Common organisation.  Sometimes called 'The Waste' it has been common land for over than a thousand years and was traditionally used for rough grazing and providing 'furze' which Commoners could cut for firewood. The boundary was fixed in the 1590’s following disputes with Putney residents over grazing rights. There have been enclosures of common land over the centuries – that at Mill Hill, and more for the workhouse in 1778, and later for the Barnes Old Cemetery. It is now bisected by the railway, as well as by several road
Nature Reserve. The Common is designated as Metropolitan Open Land and as a Conservation Area as well as a Local Nature Reserve and Site of Nature Conservation Importance. It is sandy with hawthorn scrub and lots of birds.  Its importance is due to the acid grassland close to Mill Hill which has survived draining and the planting of rows of standard trees.  Without management it would be invaded by bracken, bramble, gorse and tree saplings and revert to poor quality woodland. It is now managed by the Friends of Barnes Common who have got the funding for a reed bed and two new ponds as well as plans for a new wildflower meadow and another scheme to restore an old pond. Non-native trees are replaced by natives like oak and ash and creating glades for butterflies and birds. Standing dead wood is left as a refuge for beetles and other invertebrates. The cover provided by bramble and bracken are the basis of a mixed habitat away from the sports pitches. The Common is the only known site in Greater London for the burnet rose.
Thames Aqueducts.  The Thames Water Ring main passes under the Common,

Dover House Road
Dover House Estate. London County Council estate. This was built in the 1920s and inspired by the garden city movement and built under the 'Homes fit for heroes' policies. It was planned with houses in short terraces with vistas over green space. The first tenants were civil servants, teachers and bus drivers. And until the 1950w no changes were allowed to the outside of the property. Gradually change crept in and private ownership damaged the integrity of the design. In 1978 a management strategy put in place and Conservation area status inaugurated,

Dyers Lane
Dyers Lane forms the boundary between Barnes and Putney
Railway Bridge. A footbridge crosses the railway from the north end of the road to Beauchamp Terrace on the other side. Historically this was Dyers Lane on both sides of the railway and the bridge marks the line of the old right of way.
Until the 1970s the road ended at the railway, and at the end on the west side was a large furniture depository. In 1978 the road was extended onto this site and houses built here, and on the west side of the road, for Richmond Council
Garage. In 1901 this was the Eclectic Manufacturing Company which appears to have been bankrupt in the same year. They were probably involved in an electro plating process.  In succeeding years this garage, at the southern end of the road specialised in expensive sports cars.


Fairdale Gardens
On site of Putney Squash and Tennis Club. This was replaced by houses in the 1960s.

Halcyon Close
Blocks of posh flats with ‘Royal’ names gated off from the rest of the world. They appear to have been built on an old coal yard area connected to an extensive area of railway sidings.

Lower Richmond Road
Putney Lower Common Cemetery.  In 1855 land was bought by the local Burial Board from Earl Spencer, Lord of the Manor, for a cemetery. It has ornate railings and gates on Lower Richmond Road, and is bounded by brick wall, with some other railings. The ragstone chapels and lodge were designed by Barnett and Birch in 1855. The cemetery is closed for burials. There are a variety of trees including yew and has been designated as a site of ecological importance. The cemetery is wooded where the boundary wall meets Barnes Common.
Putney Cricket Club. This was founded in 1870. It was then called St John’s and had been set up by the church choir. Initially they had a site on the Lower Common, close their present site. As other clubs failed they changed their name to Putney Cricket Club. Their pavilion dates from 1959.

Mill Hill Road
Tollhouse at the Putney/Barnes Common boundary. It is a single-storey early 19th building. This was not actually a toll house but a house for the gatekeeper at a boundary gate used to control straying livestock.
Mediaeval ditch. This runs across Common between the Parish boundaries and kept grazing animals from straying. It is overgrown, but still marks the eastern boundary.

Newnes Path
This was development was built in the 1970s over the northern allotments of the Dover House Estate. It was the first major change to the estate layout and challenge to its integrity.

Putney Park Lane
This lane was laid out by the early 18th as a formal tree-lined drive and became the access to a number of grand houses built here. It also connects as a through route to Gypsy Lane to the north. It now runs south as far as Putney Heath and remains a footpath for most of its length

Queen's Ride
Tree where rock star Mark Bolan was killed in a car crash. the site is a place of pilgrimage to Bolan fans. In1997, the Performing Rights Society set up a bronze bust memorial facing Gipsy Lane.  In 1999 the T-Rex Action Group were granted an in perpetuity lease on the site and built steps up to the tree and the Memorial. In 2005, memorial plaques were fitted to the steps to other members of T-Rex who have since died.
Barnes Workhouse. This was built in 1778 on the triangle of land which now lies at the apex of the junction of Queen’s Ride and the Upper Richmond Road. It closed in 1836 and the site became a market garden and housing and later the Manor House Hotel., The site is now Roehampton Court flats on the footprint of the Manor House Hotel. The money raised by the sale of the site is still managed by the Barnes Workhouse Trust.
Cattle trough.  The inscription says “METROPOLITAN DRINKING FOUNTAIN & CATTLE TROUGH ASSOCIATION”  It is a trough in granolithic apparently given by the Misses Hughes of Leytonstone in 1934.

Railway Line
Barnes Junction. The original line through Barnes from Waterloo opened in 27 1846 as part of the line to Richmond. the first section of the Hounslow Loop Line  opened in 1849 with the division of line slightly to the west of Barnes Station. It thus became a junction station. On the London side of the station there are four tracks; one pair of which is for the Loop Line.

Rocks Lane
This was a cart track until the late 19th.

Roehampton Lane
This square covers the east side only where in the 19th and early 20th a number of grand houses stood. They are now replaced, mainly, by up market housing.
Roehampton Lodge
Ellenborough House
Subiaco Lodge

Station Road
Barnes Station.  This opened in 1846 and now lies between Putney and Mortlake on one line and Bridge on the other, - both on South Western Trains. It has very tall chimneys. It is surrounded by woodland and apparently little changed since it was built. It is believed to have been designed by Sir William Tite.
Goods yard. There was an extensive goods yard with a coal yard and several sidings to the east of the station and south of the line. Much of this remains and appears to be semi derlict, although the coal yard is now posh flats.
Cricket Ground. Barnes Common cricket ground is next to the station. It is the oldest cricket pitch in Barnes, dating from 1893.

The Pleasaunce
Open space in the Dover House Estate – with trees, grass and seats, It is on the site of a green area which had been part of mediaeval and later estates here and it retains its woodland appearance.  It is now an open green which supports trees and birdlife.  There is a small ‘natural’ play area is at one end.
St Margaret’s Court. Care home area in The Pleasaunce

Upper Richmond road
This is now the South Circular Road A205.  This stretch goes in a ‘reasonably straight line.’ It is tree lined and almost entirely lined with up market blocks of flats.
408 Northumberland Arms. This is now a small supermarket. It closed on Christmas Eve 2013. It had also been called the West Putney Tavern and also Jim Thompson's and Captain Cook.
Presbyterian Church. This stood on the corner with Briar Walk  and replaced an earlier church in Putney Park Lane in 1897. It was bombed and rebuilt in 1946. The last service to be held took place in February 1996 and it has now been replaced with flats.
Lodge. This is at the entrance to Putney Park Lane
Milestone. This is an 18th Portland stone milestone which previously stood in Rocks Lane, The inscription says that Hyde Park Corner is less than 6 miles distant,
Red Rover, This pub was originally called The Railway Arms or The Railway Tavern and also The Market Gardener,  the Corner Pin and Cafe More. It had closed by 2008 and is now flats.

Woodborough Road
Falcons School for Girls. This fee paying private ‘preparatory’ school moved here from Ealing in 2014. It is part of a commercial schools group.

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