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Adelaide Road
Named after Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV. 
4a Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre. This is now managed by Better. The current centre dates from 2006 by Farrell’s. It was a Public Private Partnership between the Council, Barratt Homes and Dawnay Day. It has a fitness suite, a four-court sports hall; two squash courts; a climbing wall; two exercise studios and a café. There is a competition swimming pool and a teaching pool. A landscaped park was designed by Gustafson Porter with an all-weather football pitch and a doctors’ surgery. The previous centre was built 1963-4 by Basil Spence and intended as the part of a new Civic Centre.  It was built on the site of a previous congregational church. 
The UCL Academy. This is a secondary school, which opened in 2012 and sponsored by University College London .It is in a new purpose-built structure with rooms for cross-curricular general learning called Superstudios; science laboratories, and a science demonstration theatre, an engineering science suite, including workshops and labs.

Avenue Road
Swiss Cottage station.  The current station lies between Finchley Road and St.John’s Wood stations on the Jubilee Line. There were two stations here, the original opened in 1868 and Built by the Metropolitan and St.John's Wood Railway. It opened between Baker Street and Swiss Cottage and was thus the northern terminus, extended to West Hampstead in 1879.  In the 1920s the Metropolitan Railway demolished the street-level station building on the west side of Finchley Road, and replaced it with a shopping arcade. By the mid-1930s to ease this congestion, a new deep-level tunnel was built between Finchley Road station and the Bakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street and from 1939 some trains then transferred to the Bakerloo line. A new Bakerloo line station was then opened here, In 1940 Metropolitan line station closed. The station building was demolished in the 1960s and the current station is effectively the one built fir the Bakerloo trains now running as the Jubilee Line
School for the Blind. This was the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read and for Training Them in Industrial Occupations. 1876-1930. it was on the corner with Eton Avenue, It originated in 1838 with Thomas Lucas established whose Lucas Type was a form of embossed text. In 1847 a purpose-built school in Swiss Cottage was completed. In the Second World War the evacuated to Buckinghamshire and in 1954 moved to Seal.
Sunnyside.  Large mansion which became St. Columba’s Hospital. The house was later demolished and it became the site of the Hampstead Theatre. The site is now an open space next to Swiss Cottage Library. 
St Columba's Hospital. This was Friedensheim Islington, in 1885.  It was to provide for dying men. In 1892 they moved to Sunnyside at a large mansion house and it was turned into a Home Hospital. In 1915its name was changed to St Columba's Hospital (Home of Peace for the Dying).  Terminally ill women were also admitted. In the Second World War the Hospital reserved a ward for casualties. It joined the NHS in 1948 and in 1954 moved to Spaniards Road.
Ye Olde Swiss Cottage. This is a chalet-style building, painted French mustard colour, with balconies, shutters and an Alpine look. There's a beer garden outside. It was built in 1840, known as the Swiss Tavern and was a coaching inn. When Finchley and Avenue Roads were built in 1926 they went around the pub. It’s a Sam Smiths house.  It is said to have originated as a toll keeper’s cottage for toll-gate which to nearby
88 Swiss Cottage Library. This had been remodelled by John McAslan & Partner on the basis of the Grade II building originally designed by Sir Basil Spence in 1962-64
Congregational church. This was on the site of the library and called New College chapel. It was Founded 1853 and designed by J. T. Emmett, it had stained glass, by Alfred East.  It closed in 1941 and its stained glass is in a church at Hendon.
80 Swiss Cottage School. This is a maintained special school for learners with complex layered needs - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties, Severe Learning Difficulties, Moderate Learning Difficulties, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Communication Disorders, Sensory Needs, Physical Needs, and/or Social, Emotional Mental Health Needs. It is also a Teaching School and a research centre. Current building opened in 2012 is by Penoyre & Prasad.
Hampstead Theatre Club. This was a small studio used as a theatre from 1963 to 2002 when it became the Hampstead Theatre in Eton Avenue.
John Keats and Franklin D. Roosevelt Schools.  Built 1959 and 1955-7 by the LCC job architects A. J. Lynne and W. Kretchmer for handicapped and delicate children, The Roosevelt School closed in 1993. And seems to have been replaced by Swiss Cottage School.
The Hampstead Figure by F.E. McWilliam, 1964. Abstract sculpture commissioned by Basil Spence for the green space near the library.  May since have been moved.
St Paul’s church. This was a parish church standing opposite Swiss Cottage School and dating from 1860 It. was closed and united with the parish of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill in 1956.  The site is now housing.

Baynes Mews
Grand street with garages behind. 1871, also by Willett, street front of three storeys with arched windows, coloured brickwork, and a still genuine cobbled area

Belsize Avenue
This was the carriage way leading to Belsize House from the Great Road to Hampstead – now Haverstock Hill.

Belsize Lane
Winding character indicates that it is an earlier road than the surrounding 19th developments.
Belsize Farm. This was in the area of Belsize Place and fronted Belsize Lane from the 18th. As the lane here was on private land the farm maintained a toll gate to charge those passing through.
London Parcels Delivery Co 1890s, near Belsize Place
Air shafts. Behind houses at the entrance to Belsize Lane are two airshafts for the Belsize Tunnel below
120 Tavistock Clinic Centre. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust. It was originally the Tavistock institute of medical psychology founded in 1920 by Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller. Its original location was in Tavistock Square. From the start in order to offer free treatment the clinic needed to generate income by providing training to clinical professionals.  In 1948 it became a leading clinic within the newly created NHS and remains extremely influential. In 1994 it joined with the Portman Clinic to become the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
The Tavistock Centre is on the site of the Marie Curie Hospital which fronted onto Fitzjohns Avenue. This replaced a temporary wooden church which was replaced by Holy Trinity in Finchley Road.
Statue of Sigmund Freud. This is on the corner with Fitzjohns Avenue but was originally outside the Basil Spence Leisure Centre where it was unveiled 1970 by five of Freud’s grandchildren.  It was cast in plaster in Vienna by Oscar Nemon and through an international appeal to psycho analysts the money was raised for a bronze.

Belsize Park
Belsize House. Belsize was a sub manor recorded in the early 14th and Belsize House is mentioned in 1496. Means Be-assis beautifully sited The House stood at a point somewhere between the present day St Peters church and the junction of Belsize Park and Belsize Park Gardens. As an Elizabethan mansion it was owned by the Waad family who held various Crown offices, and were implicated in the Overbury scandal.  In the Civil War they were Royalists and the house was occupied by Cromwell's men.  The house was rebuilt in 1663 in the restoration style. From 1720 it became pleasure garden.  With concerts, dancing, fishing, hunting and racing but in 1722 the magistrates tried to prevent unlawful gaming and rioting.  The house was rebuilt again in 1746 and 1812. It was demolished in 1853.
69 Woodcote. The Hill Junior School. This is an upmarket ‘prep’ school. The school has been on various sites in the area but has had this building since 1916.
St.Peter’s Church. Built 1858-9 by W. Mumford in ragstone with chancel and tower-porch added by J.P. St Aubyn around 1875. It stands in a garden area and the church today runs an active musical arts programme.

Belsize Square
Belsize Square Synagogue. Built in 1958 by H. W. Reifenberg, incorporating the 1915 vicarage of the neighbouring St Peter's Church, It is an independent synagogue – neither orthodox nor reform. It derives from continental Liberal Judaism, and was founded in 1939 by refugees mainly from Germany. Services are mainly conducted in Hebrew, and its music and which are live streamed.

Belsize Terrace
This is an open space with shops surrounding tree and seating. When the estate was built developer, Willett, gave up some land to form a village green here.

Broadhurst Gardens
This area was heavily bombed in the Second World War and replacement housing, including Broadhurst Close, must reflect this.
Broadhurst Gardens Play Area. This was once called Broadhurst Copse. It appears to be a Camden Council playground on old railway land alongside the Great Central Railway line and its temporary terminus at Canfield Place.

Buckland Crescent
18 The Hall School. This upmarket ‘prep’ school originated as Belsize School, founded here in 1881.
Canfield Gardens
10a Hampstead Shtiebel. Part of the South Hampstead Synagogue
Canfield/Greencroft Open Space. This lies between Canfield and Greencroft Gardens and is an open space with trees and wildlife habitat. It includes a community allotment for vegetables and herbs.

Canfield Place
Terminus. This was the original terminus of the Great Central railway. From 1894 the Great Central Railway, originally the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Railway, ran on Metropolitan tracks from Quainton Road to Canfield Road which became the terminus.
Tunnel. The railway ran through tunnels from Canfield Place in the ‘Hampstead Tunnel’ to Marylebone from 1899. This had two double track tunnels side by side, but only one was ever used. The portal of the second tunnel exists at Canfield Road but after a few yards it narrows and the end is bricked up.
Warehouses. Eleven stables were built in Canfield Place, backing on Finchley Road station, in 1884-5 by Ernest Estcourt and James Dixon,
Electric substation, this is at the end of the road on railway property
Canfield Place Signal box. This stood beyond the sub-station.

College Crescent
North court. This house had been built in 1880 for the businessman Samuel Palmer, of Huntley & Palmer Biscuits. He died in 1903, having given the house to a hospital charity.
20, Children's Hospital. The Home for Incurable Children opened in 1875 in Maida Vale. In 1904 it moved to Northcourt.  In 1919 the name changed to the Northcourt Hospital for Sick Children because more conditions were treatable. In 1928 it became the Hampstead Hospital for Children and then the Children's Hospital, Hampstead. It closed at the beginning of the Second World War and the building was requisitioned. After the War it was used as the Royal Free Hospital's Preliminary Training School for nurses and later used as a Nurses' Home. It was sold in 1995.  In 2004, it was converted into a budget hotel for back packers called Palmers Lodge
Palmer Memorial Drinking Fountain. Presented in memory of Samuel Palmer of North Court, Hampstead by his widow and family through the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. 1904 This is Palmer of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits,
New College of Independent Dissenters. this institution trained ministers and opened in 1851 in a Tudor style building designed by J. T. Emmett, It was an amalgamation of three dissenting academies., It had a distinguished staff and students could study for London University degrees. It eventually became part of the theology department of London University and moved to a building in Finchley Road
Northways. For five years during the Second World War Northway’s, flats at the junction with Finchley Road, was requisitioned by the Government, and became the headquarters of Britain's submarine service.  I 1940 the Navy headed by Admiral Sir Max Horton, planned the offensive off the Norwegian coast and in the Mediterranean.  The basement was converted into an emergency operations centre, but tenants of the flats above remained. In 1945, the submarine service returned to Gosport

Compayne Gardens
Compayne Open Space, this lies between Compayne and Canfield Gardens. There is a hard surfaced tennis court area, an open grassed area with a few trees and a community garden. A number of trees and shrubs have been planted along with climbing species on trellises.

Crossfield Road
The Hall School. Posh ‘prep’school.  They are on three sites around the area and moved to this one before 1909.

Eton Avenue
54 Hampstead Chest Clinic. In the 1950s-60 this was a tuberculosis clinic.
Hampstead Theatre.  Glass building with environmentally ok auditorium. Built by Bennett Associates 2003. It began as the Hampstead Theatre Club’ in Holly Bush Vale. In 1962 they moved to a studio in Swiss Cottage and in 2003, the new 325-seat Hampstead Theatre was built. As well as the main auditorium there is a studio theatre
64 Embassy Theatre, The Embassy Theatre was opened as a repertory company in 1928 in what had been the Hampstead Conservatoire of Music. The theatre was sold to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 1956 that remain there. It is now a branch of London University. There has been a new build project in the early 21st for rehearsal and performance spaces.
Hampstead Conservatoire of Music. This was a private college for music and the arts. The building had been the Eton Avenue Hall, rebuilt in 1890 with a large Willis pipe organ – this organ was transferred to St Peter's Church in Brighton in 1910.   In 1928 the building was converted into the Embassy Theatre.

Fairfax Place
Fairfax Yard. Fairfax National Gauge Factory. This was opened: in 1917 by the Ministry of Munitions. It was managed by the Wolsey Motor Co. and operated by German Prisoners of War
44 Stereoscopic Displays. Registered as luminising works using radium.

Fairfax Road
Britannia Pub. Dated from the 1860s but rebuilt on a slightly different site in the 1960s.  Now a supermarket.

Fairhazel Gardens
Fairhazel Open Space is between Fairhazel and Compayne Gardens. It is open space with perimeter trees.
8 Camden’s Hub for mental health well being. This is an old school building, also once used as a Civil Defence centre
All Souls Church of England School. This was founded in 1860 in a hay loft in Victoria Mews. It provided instruction for the poor and children of omnibus drivers and similar.   The site in Fairhazel Gardens was turned into a new school in 1871 but lack of space prevented expansion. It was closed by 1951 as part of London County Council’s post-war plans

Finchley Road 
This was built as an additional by-pass to the old road north through Hampstead. Built through the demesne of Frognal this was laid out as a turnpike road by Colonel Eyre, owner of the Eyre Estate. It is crossed by the Westbourne, and the Kilburn streams - Excavations prove that this was the furthest point south which ice age glaciers reached.  ..
Rail tunnel for the Midland Railway runs underneath the road, built by W.H. Barlow, 1865-7 and duplicated in the 1880s. It is a mile long.
Finchley Road Station. This opened in 1868, Built by the Midland Railway.  It was called ‘Finchley Road and St.John’s Wood’.  It closed in 1927 closed.
263 Micnora Leather goods factory. This was here in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Finchley Road Station.  Opened in 1879 it lies between Wembley Park and Baker Street on the Metropolitan Line and between West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage on the Jubilee Line. It was originally built by the Metropolitan District Railway and stands on the corner of Finchley Road and Canfield Gardens. In 1884 the name was changed to ‘Finchley Road (South Hampstead)’ and in 1914 it was rebuilt with the entrance part of a parade of shops. In 1939 the Bakerloo Line was extended here from Baker Street. The station was rebuilt with two island platforms - Metropolitan trains using outer tracks and Bakerloo trains the inner.   In 1979 the Bakerloo line trains became Jubilee Line
Car Park. In 1964 an automatic barrier - the first ever - was installed in the car park here.
158 The Frognal Bijou Picture Palace. This opened in 1910 as a purpose built cinema. G is in white stone, with two bay windows on the first floor level. By 1914, it had been re-named Frognal Picture Palace. In 1920/1921, it was re-named Odette’s Picture House, then later Arcadia Cinema and by 1924, it was the Casino Picture Theatre. Around 1930 it was converted to ‘talkies’, and renamed New Frognal Kinema.  It was closed in 1931. The building is new in use as a shop.
The Lighthouse. This was Holy Trinity Church.  It was originally built in 1871, to replace a temporary wooden church in Belsize Lane and the foundation stone as laid by the philanthropist Earl of Shaftesbury. It was expensive, designed by Henry Legg with deep concrete foundations under the steeple because of the Metropolitan Railway below.  In 1968 a private parliamentary bill allowed demolition of the church and a smaller one built in its place. This was built 1978 by Biscoe & St Lon in brick. There are now plans to rebuild again as part of the Lighthouse project.
Hampstead Ice skating rink. This opened in 1880 and was refused a music and dancing licence. In 1882 it was rebuilt as a clubhouse with a rink behind and it also provided lawn tennis, since it was replaced in 1887 by the municipal baths.
199 Waitrose. This was the John Barnes department store which opened in 1900. The present building was built in the 1930s by T.P.Bennett and Son and was purchased by the John Lewis partnership in 1940.
Hampstead Baths. These replaced the skating rink. The Hampstead vestry opened its own baths in Finchley Road, opposite the North Star, in 1888 in a building designed by A. W. S. Cooper and Henry Spalding. There were two swimming baths for men, one for women, and 24 private baths; washhouses were not required in that neighbourhood.  A second bath for women was added in 1891. In 1910 a Roller Skating Pavilion was opened. After the Swiss Cottage Leisure centre was opened in 1963 The Finchley Road building was used as a warehouse was burnt down in 1972 and replaced by a new building for Woolworths. It is now an Iceland supermarket
104 The North Star. This was built in 1850 as one of the first buildings to grace the new Finchley Road. It was purpose built as a pub, with embossed stars on the pillar supports. Originally there was a stone balustrade and arch at roof level which were removed as unsafe. A cast-iron balcony remains. It was a tram terminus in the 1920's. In the 1930 the Bakerloo Line (now the Jubilee) was built and the Metropolitan line was diverted, lies three feet below the cellar floor.
New College Parade. This parade of shops lies on and to the north of the site of New College and behind the site of the Children’s Hospital. In the early 19th it was the site of Abbey Farm lodge, an ‘Elizabethan residence’, built in the 1840s.
96 Odeon Cinema. This was one of the original cinemas in the Oscar Deutsch chain of Odeon Theatres Ltd which opened in 1937. It was the only original Odeon to be equipped with a theatre organ, a Compton 3Manual/8Ranks (with Melotone & Grand Piano) and illuminated console. The exterior was plain with a series of seven tall windows. This interior was ‘modernised’ in 1960 and from 1973 the Odeon it was a triple screen cinema. It was closed in 2011, for a complete modernisation with an IMAX auditorium, new seats and screens. It now has 5 screens, 4 f these are Odeon Luxe cinemas and the IMAX screen has recliner seats.

Fitzjohns Avenue
Built through the lands of the Maryon Wilsons following what was originally a track from St. John’s Wood to Hampstead via the Shepherd’s Well.  Spencer Maryon Wilson commissioned an estate plan and named roads after their estate in Great Canfield.
1 Edinburgh House. Army Reserve Centre. Two intelligence corps are currently based here.
2 Marie Curie Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. Founded for the "radiological treatment of women suffering from cancer and allied diseases", the hospital opened in 1929.  Funds had been raised through a public appeal to buy 2 Fitzjohn's Avenue.  The 30-bed hospital was staffed entirely by women.  Marie Curie was of course the scientist who discovered radium. An Out-Patients Department was opened and soon after bought the adjoining building, No. 4 in 1933.  In 937 a new building for research laboratories - the Helen Chambers Laboratories - and a Nurses' Home were opened here. In 1938 it was renamed the Marie Curie Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. At the outbreak of Second World War the radium was stored in the vaults of the Middlesex Hospital and the patients were transferred to country hospitals. In 1944 the buildings, except for the new wing and the shelter, were totally destroyed by a high explosive bomb, fortunately with no casualties. Radium, stored in steel cylinders, was buried beneath the building and not recovered for almost three weeks.  The hospital had an annexe at no 66 and the hospital continued there.  In 1965 it moved to Mount Vernon and it closed in 1967.  The site is now largely taken up with the Tavistock Centre fronting onto Belsize Lane.
3 Hyme House. This was the home of society portrait painter Philip de László.  The house was built in 1886; and de Laszlo and his wife, Lucy Guinness lived there 1921 - 1937.  In 1938 the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross, took over this house and also 5-7 and turned it into a girls' school, which was here until 1985. It has since been a hotel and a private house, de Lazlo House
8 Portman Clinic. This is adjacent to the Tavistock Centre. The Portman Clinic was founded in 1931 with clinical services for people with problems from delinquent, criminal, or violent behaviour. Its early vice-presidents included Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Havelock Ellis and HG Wells. The Portman and Tavistock Clinics joined forces in 1994 to become the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

Goldhurst Terrace
Maryon Wilson Green Triangle and Goldhurst Open Space lie to the rear of Fairhazel Gardens and Goldhurst Terrace. It is a community garden with sycamore woodland and ivy ground cover. There is an amenity area, an herb garden beds and a shrubbery. There is a pond has and the hedging uses native species.

Harben Road
Playground. On the north east side of the road on the estate
Air shaft. This is for the railway below and is sited on the edge of the play area.  The railway is the line into Marylebone from Canfield Place.
Hampstead School of Golf, had a sports ground on the north east side of the road in the 1930s.

Hillgrove Road
St John's Wood Fire Station. This was on part of the site of Regency Lodge. 1890s-1900s.

Loudon Road
South Hampstead Station. Opened in 1879 this lies Between Kilburn High Road and Euston on the London Overground Line to Euston . It was built by the London North West Railway and called Loudon Road station" the name changing in 1922. The original LNWR street building was replaced by one in the 1960s and a new station footbridge was constructed.

Maresfield Gardens
St. Thomas More, Roman Catholic Church built 1968-9 by Gerard Goalen. It has an elliptical plan. It is the third church on this site since 1938 when a temporary church was installed here. This was replaced in 1953 and again in 1968
20 Freud Museum.  Plaque to Sigmund Freud.  Freud only lived here a short while having fled from Vienna in 1938, his daughter Anna stay here until her death in 1982. It was her wish that the house be converted to a museum. It was opened in 1986.
South Hampstead Girls High School. The school was founded in 1876, the ninth school established by the Girls' Public Day School Trust, as the St John's Wood School. In 1887 the name changed to South Hampstead High School; and moved to a purpose-built site in Maresfield Gardens. Since the the school has expanded and new buildings added.
Holy Trinity school. This was built for Trinity Church on a site donated by the Maryon Wilsons. The school continues as a local primary school

Netherhall Gardens
4 this was once the Vicarage for Holy Trinity Church
6 British College of Osteopathic Medicine. This was founded as the British College of Naturopathy in 1936 by Stanley Leif. It has been here since 1953. It is named after Hector Frazer, who gave it to the British Naturopathic & Osteopathic Association. It housed lecture rooms, accommodation and a Clinic with treatment rooms. The House dated from 1883, designed by Batterbury and Huxley and commissioned by Thomas Davidson, whose paintings are in the Greenwich Maritime Museum. Since 1954 there have been three extensions.
8 North Bridge House. Private nursery.
10 Beatrice & Sydney Webb - home of the social scientists and political reformers with blue plaques.
5 & 12 South Hampstead High School.  Junior Department.

Winchester Road
21 The Winchester hotel. Dating from the 1890s it closed around 1970 to become the Winchester Project, for local youth.
St. Paul Church of England. Primary School, They moved to a purpose build school on a sire leased by Eton Coll. It became voluntary aided Church of England primary school in 1951. The building closed in 1972 and the school moved elsewhere.
St. John's Wood High School was opened by Girls' Public Day School Trust in 1876 in a house here, in 1882, they moved to a new building in Maresfield Gardens.

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Alpha Road
Alpha Road Gardens. A former allotment site now with shrubs, trees and a play area. It is possible that this was a bomb site resulting from destruction by a landmine in November 1940.
6 Currently a garage and MOT Centre, in the 1960s this was Electronic Ades making compact control equipment

Angel Close
Hampton Hill Spiritualist Church - "New Church" .  In the late 1990s, the Church negotiated with a developer and the current church was built in 2000 on land to the rear of the Old Church. It opened in 2000.

Bayleaf Close
Sheltered housing
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Blandford Road
Built on the site of gravel pits

Branksome Close
Housing on area of a gravel pit. This includes units for disabled people leased to Richmond upon Thames Churches Housing Trust

Burtons Road
This is on the line of an ancient track. The ditch it runs along beside the road used to mark the dividing line between Hounslow Heath and the Common – which is known as Hampton Hill.
Gibbet – this was said to stand at the end of the road.

Bushy Park Gardens
Oval estate of 1896 built around a garden which was originally a tennis court.

East Bank Road
The bank is that of the railway

Fulwell Road
81 this was Fulwell Evangelical Free church, built on the site of a gravel pit, possibly in the mid-1880s.it is now the Building Blocks Nursery
128 Epic House. Serviced offices, now closed
129 site of The Northcote Photo Works Ltd., which closed in 1971

Hampton Road
This was previously called Teddington Lane
117 Care home. Laurel Dene, NHS Care Home. The original house, called The Laurels, was the family home of the Norton Motorcycle manufacturers’. It was the home of Downes Elland Norton who patented a gearig system in 1902. He died in 1934 the house was sold to Middlesex County Council in 1943 who converted it into a Care Home. Since then modern specialist housing has been built on the site. The showplace gardens remain,
72 Roebuck.  Pub, inside includes transport-related memorabilia. The pub is in Teddington but adjacent to the border with Hampton Hill and probably dates from 1867. It was bombed in the Second World War.

High Street
80 This was the Jenny Lind Pub, built in 1839 and named after the singer.
York Laundry which later became the West End Cleaners.
90 Hampton Hill Theatre. Teddington Theatre Club was founded in 1927, it moved to its own premises, Hampton Hill Theatre, in 1998.
99 La Familia Restaurant. This was the Crown & Anchor which dated from before 1850 but was rebuilt in 1908 when the road was widened for double tram tracks. It was later renamed The Valiant Knight, then Joe’s Restaurant
110 Templeton Lodge. This dates from the 1820s with a battlemented pediment. Originally owed by John Templeton, “a finest tenor but the house was then known as Temple Lodge.
124 Central House, this has housed a number of industrial and other units.  It appears to be on the site of a 19th Methodist Church.
161 West Products (Metals) Ltd set up an Investment Castings Plant here in the 1950s.
163 a variety of industrial firms were at this address from the 1930s.  Walton Photographic in 1935. In 1939 Carmac Laboratories (1938), Ltd. making pharmaceuticals.  In 1971 Surrey, Autelco and Startronic Move Surrey Printed Circuits Ltd. and Autelco Ltd. were there.
165 site of Hampton Press printing works. Up to 1835 this was the Post Office building and then part became a printing works owned by Edwin Makepeace. Later this was owned by. W. Austin, as Hampton Press” until the 1970s.
165-187 Clarence House. Private ‘preparatory’ school for girls aged 7-11 school. Opened 2016 on the site of a previous bank.

Kings Road
Kings Works. This was the X Factory Studios Ltd before 2013

Princes Close
Area of gravel pit

South Road
Twickenham Fire Station. Built in 1958 that was a Middlesex station enlarged in 1989. It replaced an older Twickenham station prior to GLC taking over Middlesex Fire Brigadge in 1965

St James Avenue
Hampton Hill Junior School. In 1928 a mixed senior school was opened on the site of the present school with entrances in Windmill Road and St. James’s Avenue. There was an air raid shelter and school allotment. It later became a primary school.  The flat roofed parts of the school were added in the mid-1970’s to give a new staffroom, hall, kitchen and storage and in the 1980’s a library, computer suite, cookery room, music rooms, art centre and inclusion rooms. They are now federated with Carlisle Infant School when we federated in 2014.

St.James Road
St James's. This was built in 1864 by Wigginton  to try and serve the riotous labourers working in the area and  serve the scattered village on the hill above Hampton. The parish of St Mary’s gave some glebe land and a simple church, with a nave, a chancel and a small vestry room, was built and consecrated in 1863. By 1873 the population had grown and more space was needed. There were many alterations and extensions to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, the tower and spire were planned. In 2004-5 the west porch was rebuilt as a new parish office and small store room.
Church hall. This was opened in 1964. a new garage was built for the vicarage, and the old garage given to the Nursery School.

Stanley Road
Twickenham Depot – Fulwell Garage. The bus depot is currently operated by Abellio London and London United. The site was originally part of the Freake Fulwell Park Estate and was purchased by London United Tramways for a new tram depot in 1902. The garage had an entrance at Stanley Road and Wellington Road with 20 tracks under cover. In 1931 early trolleybuses moved in, in 1933 In 1933 London United Tramways were taken over by LPTB and the last trams left in 1935. Fulwell became London Transport’s main trolleybus works.and was of the last depots to convert to motor buses in 1962. In 1986/87 it was rebuilt and split across its width with the sports ground between the garage and South Road. The northern half of the garage, together with the front yard at the Wellington Road end, and a small rear yard were used for bus operation and initially used for the sale of withdrawn buses. Now both halves of the garage are in use.  The Stanley Road end is occupied by Abellio London as its Twickenham garage.  The Wellington Road end is occupied by London United as its Fulwell garage and head office

Wellington Gardens
Fulwell Station. This lines between Teddington and Shepperton Stations and opened on the Shepperton Line in 1864. It was named after the Deputy Chairman of the Thames Valley Railway Co, who lived nearby at Fulwell Park and named also for the farm which is was built on the site of. It is now operated by South West Trains. The station building is a yellow brick house with gables and round arched windows.  It was originally called Fulwell and New Hampton but changed through a resident petition in the 1860s from Fulwell and Hampton Hill.

Wellington Road:
1 Duke of Wellington Pub. This is now housing. Closed 1989 but apparently in existence before 1816
St.Frances de Sales.  Roman Catholic Church It was founded in 1920 and the original church was built in 1928. The new church was built in 1966 and consecrated on 1976.  Designed by Buries, Newton & Partners as a Large brick rectangle with slit windows with coloured glass and Campanile. Church hall to the rear.
Fulwell Golf Course. This is built on the land of Blackmoor Farm and some of Slade Farm. Slade Lodge, built as the farmhouse in 1830 is now the course manager's house. The agricultural heritage of the site is still visible as drainage ditches and mature tree lines still reflect 19th century field boundaries. Recently non-native trees have been removed. The site became an estate built in 1871 by property developer, Charles James Freake, called Fulwell Park. In 1904 the club was set up local enthusiasts with a course designed by John Henry Taylor and professionals were employed. In the Second World War the inner area was used for growing wheat and the remaining course was opened to the public. After the war Middlesex County Council reinstated the whole course. In 1981 the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames bought the freehold from the Greater London Council and in 1983 they sold some of it to Squires Garden Centre who then leased it back to the Golf Club. In 1975 it became a 9-hole public golf course, known as Twickenham Golf Course. Part of the site was used by Thamesians Rugby Football club which was transferred to David Lloyd Leisure. The 'Amida' sports facility dates from 2002 and a swimming pool added in 2011 

Wilcox Road
St.Michael and St.George built in 1913 and designed by JS Adkins. Its design stands between Gothic Revival and the Perpendicular manners in stock brick. Pulpit and lectern from St.Thomas Bethnal Green and there is a wooden reredos which is said to have come from Bavaria. It was closed for worship in 2000 and few records concerning the building of the church appear to survive.  In late 2014 at the invitation of the Bishop of Kensington and with the support of local churches, a small group from St Peter's Fulham were asked to re-establish a church community here,

Windmill Road
Wolsey House. This is on the corner with of Wolsey Road and is reputed to have been part of a farm owned by Cardinal Wolsey, and interior walls are thought to have been part of the original farm. Also maybe an underground passage from the basement to Hampton Court. Unlikely
12 Spiritualist church moved here between 1921 and 1928, and it became known as the Old Church. It had been a congregational chapel 1838 -1870, after later was a glove factory. It was formally registered as a spiritualist church in 1937 but had been used since the mid 1920s. The building and land were bought in 1957 by the church. In 2000 a new church was built at the rear. 
School. A boy’s school was built here in 1867 called Windmill School and later the Hampton Hill Junior School. The Vicar of St. James’s made a grant of land in Mill Lane for this. The Girls ‘School was in School Road
Teacher’s houses. Built at the junction with School Road in 1886.
Caretaker’s house, adjacent to the school in Windmill Road was converted into a community centre in 2009 as the Children’s Centre for Hampton Hill. It was renamed after Norman Jackson VC, a former parent of the school.


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Walford. Village London

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Ashurst Drive
Baptist Church .Church building and rear hall opened in 1929. . The name chosen for the church was 'Eastern Avenue Baptist Church' and this was changed in 1929.  Halls and kitchens were added in the 1950s and 1960s.

Beehive Lane
Ilford Synagogue. This was founded in 1936 and moved to this site in the 1970s. It serves a varied membership. It is a member of the United Synagogues.

Cranbrook Road 
Valentines High School. This school opened in 1901 as Park Higher Grade School, a coeducational secondary school, on a different site.  In 1929, a building on Cranbrook Road was opened as Ilford County High School for Girls. In 1977, the school became coeducational as Valentines High School. Since then a new sixth-form building and sports centre have been added/
509-511 London School of Management Education. Private business school.
490 Gants Hill Library. This dates from 1937-8 designed by L.E.J. Reynolds, Borough Surveyor, with H.B. Nixon, Architectural Assistant.  There is a separate entrance to the children's library at the end.
Parish hall.  This was the first church here designed by T.H.B. Scott, 1928 and later replaced.
645 King George V pub. This was built in 1953

Eastern Avenue
Eastern Avenue opened 1925 and built as a bypass arterial road.
347 Eastwood Snooker Club, hidden away round the back among the bins. This was previously Gants Hill Billiards Club behind houses
Gant’s Hill Station. Opened in it lies 14th between Redbridge and Newbury Park on the Central Line and  As part of the 1935–40 New Works Scheme the Central line was to connect to the London & North Eastern Railway's line to Epping . For this a new underground section between Leytonstome and Newbury Park was built running under Eastern Avenue. Gants Hill was one of three new stations on it.  The original station arrangements were one of the sights of London - a vast pillared hall submerged beneath and reached by subways.  It was designed by Charles Holden in 1937-8, although not built until 1940s.  The recently completed Moscow metro reputedly inspired its planning. In 1994 refurbishment by the Rogers Partnership reinstated panelled ceilings, modelled on the originals. The ticket hall is beneath the roundabout and is accessed via subways and has no street level buildings. The station also features miniature roundels on the tiles at platform level as well.
Plessey. Between Gants Hill and Leytonstone there are 5 miles of underground railway tunnels, which had just been built when the war started.  They were converted into an underground factory for the Plessey Company to make aircraft components.  Plessey were radio and television component manufacturers, and had a production line, with 2,000 workers, mostly young women, in the tunnel. In 1944 the firm had 11,000 employees. Transport inside the tunnels by electric rail motors.
Odeon Cinema. Built as the art deco Savoy and now demolished. In 1934, this was George Coles ‘first cinema for Kessex Cinemas, on a prominent corner site. There was a large stage, with five dressing rooms. A restaurant was also provided. It was taken over in 1936 by General Cinema Finance Corporation founded by J. Arthur Rank a company later to be part of Eastern Cinemas and then taken over by the Oscar Deutsch Odeon Theatres Ltd. in 1943. It was then re-named Odeon in 1949. I 1967 it was converted into a 3 screen cinema. It closed in 2002 and by was demolished by 2003. Flats and a supermarket were built on the site. There is a pavement mosaic outside one of the shops.

Gant’s Hill Crescent
Methodist church built 1928. It was opened at the expense of Joseph Rank. 
Church hall. Opened in 1935.

Gayshams Road
Named for the ancient manor of Gayshams.  In 1927 it was broken up for development. 
Gearies Primary School.  Gearies council school was opened in 1929. In 1945 it was re-organized, the seniors being formed into secondary (modern) schools. The boys’ school, originally Boys Upper School, appears to have closed in 1978.  Only the primary school remains with the Redbridge Adult Education Institute in the rest of this impressive inter war complex. A new building appears to have been constructed. The school has a garden area in which there is a monument.

Loudon Avenue
St Augustine of Canterbury (R.C.), 1953-4 by D.R. Buries; red brick and Reordered 1980 by Austin Winkley with stone furnishings.
St.Augustine’s Catholic Primary School

Martley Drive
Martley Drive Play Area. Small green space with play equipment designed for children under 8 years.

Middleton Gardens
Air shaft for the underground railway

Perth Road
This long road is one of a group of Empire names and connects the others with Eastern Avenue.
23-27 The Valentine. Closed  2017 and derelict. This was Olde Valentine. Built 1934 and half timbered.

Waremead Road
Gearies Infants School. This is part of the complex lying between this road, Gayshams Road and Gants Hill Crescent
Gearies Children’s Centre

Woodford Avenue
Joins Eastern Avenue and provided an additional link with the North Circular Road round London.
United Reformed Church formerly Congregational, designed in 1931 by Percy Brand.  Light-brown brick.  A plaque on display in the vestibule in Gants Hill United Reformed Church commemorates those who died in both world wars. Unveiled on 2nd December 1965, the memorial takes the form of a metal plaque with the dedication in white lettering.
Hall.  Adjacent to the church.
Gants Hill Majid. Muslim Centre
St.George. Built in 1931-2 in mottled brick with square tower and spire rising in two tiers intended as one of the low belfries of old Essex churches.

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Clunn.  The face of London
Day. London's Underground
Hillman and Trench. Underground London
London Borough of Redbridge, Web site
London Railway Record
Pevsner and Cherry.  East London
Pevsner.  Essex
Victoria County History

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Apple Tree Walk
Stanborough Primary School. This is a coeducational independent day and boarding school. It stands in 40 acres of parkland, was founded by the Seventh-day Adventist church and remains under the governance of the church. It was founded in 1919 and originally catered primarily to the children of overseas missionaries. The Primary section moved to a new facility in 1974

Cow Lane
Lea Farm. The farm stood on what is now the north side of Cow Lane.
Lea Farm Cottages
Sun Chemical Ltd. The factory which manufactured Inks for the print trade opened in 1952 and closed down in 2006. Sun is a multi-national chemical company originating with American and French firms in the mid-19th. The factory had originally been built here for Ault and Wiborg, an American printing ink firm which had become wholly British. It was designed by Wallis Gilbert and sited opposite the Odhams Print Works who they supplied with ink.  There were special fire safety measures and storage tanks built underground.  The site was eventually sold to Barratts for some more crappy housing.

Edward Amey Close
Edward Amey was a local politician and mayor of Watford
Built on the site of Garston Infants School. The school closed in 2005.

First Avenue
Lea Farm Recreation Ground Children's playground, Outdoor gym, two tarmac tennis courts
Telephone Exchange. This Situated has the code LWGAR. It is fronted by the original redbrick building with modern extensions behind. It provides services to Bricket Wood, Leavesden Green, Meriden, Kingswood and Woodside.
Garston Spiritualist Church. The Garston Brotherhood of Spiritualists was founded in 1944 by Mr and Mrs Jack Gray. With help of friends, and a mortgage on they bought a plot of land in First Avenue and fun raised for a new building which opened in 1948. The church continues.

Fourth Avenue
The Grove ‘Academy’. This was Berrygrove Primary School. This was opened in 2005 and replaced Meriden Primary, Garston Infants and Lea Farm Junior (formerly Garston Junior) Schools.
Berrygrove Children’s Centre

Garsmouth Way
Meriden Park. This has a childrens' playground designed by children, for children and a community centre with a broad range of public activities

Garston Lane
Garston Station. Opened in 1966 it lies between Bricket Wood and Watford North on London Overground Line to Euston via Watford Junction. It consists of one unstaffed platform but in 2010 it got new signage and artwork by children from Berry Grove Primary School [

North Western Avenue
ASDA. This supermarket is in the site and building of Odhams Press. The founder of Odhams was William Odhams, born 1812 in Sherborne. He was a compositor who began his own printing business. The firm gradually moved into bulk print of periodicals. Odhams (Watford) Ltd. was established in 1935, to-do high-speed colour photogravure printing.  Building began in 1935 in a site dominated by a gas holder. One vast building was put erected plus wells, power plant, new roads, and a canteen for the workers and a car park. During the Second World War, they printed leaflets, for the Government as well as repairing aeroplanes. In 1954, work started on a massive new multi-storey building and began the use of colour in newsprint.  In 1961 they were taken over by Fleetway and the Mirror Group and n 1963 this became the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). In the mid 1960s, a modernisation programme made it possible to print colour on both sides of the paper, In the 1970s, Odhams (Watford) was still the largest gravure printing plant in the UK but new technology meant many job losses at the plant. NT. IN 1982, Robert Maxwell bought Odhams from Reed International for £1.5 million.  This included not only the factory, land, and machines, and the works was closed down, many workers transferred to Sun Printers. The remaining buildings date from 1954 built to the designs of Yates, Cook & Derbyshire. The massive clock tower it houses a tank for holding water during the printing process.
Brookside Metal Co Watford Foundry, Owned by Metal Traders.1968 Queen's Award to Industry for Export Achievement

Railway Line from Garston
The north/south railway line on which Garston Station is sited is the Abbey Line opened by the London & Birmingham Railway, from London Euston to Boxmoor in 1837.  In the area south of the station was a large complex of sidings. These were between Cow Lane and North Western Avenue. Colne Way

St.Albans Road
609 Seventh day Adventist church. The Church was part of a complex of Seventh Day Adventist buildings based in Stanborough Park mainly in the square to the west. They originally had set up a church in the town of Watford but the need for an on-site church became apparent. The church opened in 1928. An extension and galleries were added to the building in 1962. In 2015 a project to extend and refurbish was completed with an official opening ceremony performed by the Mayor of Watford
Stanborough Park, the 75-acre Cottrell estate, was purchased in 1906 by the British Union Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventists. The majority of this complex stands in the square to the west.
Stanborough Centre. Opened in 2001, this adds 4 more halls to the original church. It is mainly used as a centre for community events and health and family related issues as well as a centre for local amenity organisations.
Headquarters building of the British Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. This was, erected in 1961 and is now the Adventist Discovery Centre - previously called the Voice of Prophecy. H. M. S. Richards, a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist, ran a radio programme known as the Voice of Prophecy which was the start of the Adventist Bible Correspondence Schools internationally.  The Adventist Discovery Centre continues this tradition.
Peace garden. A memorial garden, on the grounds of Stanborough Park, Watford, was officially opened on the International Day of Peace, Wednesday 21 September, in remembrance of those who took a stand for their pacifist and Sabbatarian beliefs.
Stanborough Park College of Music. This is part of the facilities of the Stanborough Centre.
Langley House. NHS rehabilitation centre.
The Dome roundabout. This is on the A41 Watford Bypass, built in the 1920s, where it intersects with the A412 St Albans Road. The St Albans Road was one of the first locally to be remodelled as a bus priority route in the early 1990s. At the roundabout, supermarket are on both sides of the road
530 Garston Fire station.  Full time fire station.  It includes the Thorpe Room used for community events.
524 Lemarie Centre for Charities.  Accommodation for charities events and offices
501 Well Being Centre.  Mental health support centre
Library. Opened in 1937 s and designed by the Borough Architect W. W. Newman, L.R.I.B.A.
Odeon Cinema. This was to be called the Ritz but was bought during construction by Odeon and opened in 1937. It had a plain brick facade in brick and a cafe in the front upstairs.  The auditorium was designed by J. Owen Bond, with honeycombe plasterwork. Lighting was indirect, with coloured variations. However it never had access to first release films and was put up for sale in 1959 and closed .It became a garage and a Little Waitrose but was demolished in 1989. A block of flats was built on the site.


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Cinema Treasures. Web site
Hertfordshire churches
Hertfordshire County Council. Web site
SABRE. Web site
Seventh Day Adventist Web ire
Skinner. Form and Fancy.
Sun Chemicals. Web site
Watford Council. Web site

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Amersham Road
Edith is somewhat confused by the name ‘Amersham Road” being shown on various maps as a name for a variety of roads in the area.  It seems however to be recognised manly as a section of the A413 also called ‘Chalfont St.Peter bypass’.  Presumably before the road was upgraded to a bypass it was called ‘Amersham Road’.  The bypass dates from the 1960s.
Oak End Mill. This is a complex of buildings which once stood at the end of Oak End Lane.  A saw mill is shown here on the Misbourne on maps before the Second World War, together with an unidentified rectangular body of water. Oak End Farm is also sometimes shown. A medieval mill here was Noke Mill owned by Henry Gould in 1680.

Bulstrode Way
Laid out 1907 by developers Hampton and Sons.

East Common Road
3 Hartley Court. Built as the Aged Pilgrim’s Home.  Built in 1874 by the Aged Pilgrim’s Friend Society Erected in memory of Sir William Alexander, Bart, 1874.  Took 15 old people and was endowed by Sir John Wallis Alexander. Designed by Habershon and Pite in a Tudor style. Plaques in each of the gables reading "Born again made new creatures in Christ Jesus", "Glory to God on high" and "Even to hoar hairs will I carry you". Garden wall and shelter are listed. This is now divided into five units which appear to be private houses.
Church of England School. Built on the common before 1906. It was extended on several occasions and moved to a different site in 1968. Head master was Charles Colston father of Eric who was MD of Hoover.
Colston Hall. Head of GXCA. This was originally Watercroft House and is now part of the Memorial Centre. It is used as a wedding and conference venue.
Memorial centre.  This is a local community centre providing events and meeting space. Built by John Chantry as Walters Croft House.  He was an enthusiastic hunter and had extensive stables.  Later known as Watercroft and then Gerard’s Cross Vicarage.  The croft was an encroachment on the Heath and is first referred to in 1691 when a cottage was built.  In 1723 this was sold to John Wilkins of Chalfont House and by 1830 it was owned by John Chantry.  The Old Berkeley Hunt met in front of the house.  By 1876 it was owned by Lousia Reid and she gave it to the Vicar swapping it for the Old Vicarage by Latchmoor Pond.  In 1922 the then vicar gave the stables for conversion into a village hall and a war memorial for the First World War.  In 1945 someone bought the house and it was converted into a community centre – that someone turned out to be Eric Colston, Managing Director of Hoover.  As a war memorial there is an inscription: “In loyalty to the memory of those who gave their lives in the war of 1939-45 this centre is dedicated to the fostering and furtherance in good fellowship of all arts and exercises healthful and enriching to body and mind, to the end that by the grace of Almighty God we the living may together cultivate in a spirit of true community the national heritage preserved for us and our children at so great and sacred a cost".

Elthorpe Crescent
Laid out in the gardens of Elthorpe House when it was converted into a hotel
Elthorpe Hotel. This was an early 19th house called Fernacre Cottage. It was converted into a hotel in 1923 when it was altered and extended in the Arts & Crafts style by architect Robert Muir. The grounds had gardens and orchards and a holly hedge 12 or 15 feet high. These were used as a sit for the construction of shops,
Everyman Cinema. This opened as the Picture Playhouse in 1925.  Its corner entrance has an octagonal tower, with three entrance arches. Inside were boxes along the rear wall and Grecian pillars along the side walls. There were dressing rooms and a stage as well as a cafe, a dancehall and a car park. In 1931 it described itself as a ‘Theatre de Luxe’.  In 1947 it was taken over by Southan Morris and in June 1950 it was altered. It was taken over by the Essoldo chain and renamed Essoldo in 1969 and was again renovated. Taken over by the Classic chain it was re-named Classic Cinema in 1972 and again changed with a second screen. It was later taken over by the Cannon Group, then ABC in but since 2000 it has been operated by Odeon Theatres, taken over by Everyman Cinemas in 2015 with more renovations.

Fulmer Way
Originally called Quakers Way built on the land of Marsham Farm

Gerrards Cross
Said to be named after a coach pick up point and a coachman called Gerrard.  The name is recorded in 1448 and after.  Gerrard may be the name of a local landowner.  The actual cross was probably to the west and referred to Bull Lane. The town is largely built on the site of Latchmoor Field.  This had been a common field of Chalfont St.Peter and was enclosed in 1846, the new owners being the occupants of the surrounding big houses.  It then went for development.

Gerrards Cross Common
Area of waste land known previously as Chalfont Heath.  As a common it was shared by the surrounding parishes. It extends over some 32 and is as it is now as the result of a fire which burned for three months in 1921. The first vegetation to return was heather and gorse, replaced by four areas of open grassland, woodland, mainly silver birch and oak. It is common land of the Manor of Chalfont St Peter over which owners of adjoining properties were entitled to graze animals. It is owned by the Lord of the Manor and was managed by the Manor Court until 1920. The Court rolls run from 1308 until 1936.

Lower Road
Until the 1970s Lower Road was the main A413 road to Amersham.  This had been a turnpike road.
Chalfont Pottery north of Marsham Lane junction Chalfont Pottery at Marsham Farm.  This made bricks and tiles and is thought to have originated in the late 19th although there are records of an 18th pottery and dene hole. Closed with construction of Diss Park house– site of brick kiln and pottery until about 1907
Toll House. This was built at Oak End in 1828 by the Turnpike Trust. It is not identified as being present now.
Lodge to Chalfont Park built in the 17th at the end of Marsham Lane but demolished when the by pass was built in the 1960s

Marsham Lane
An old lane which became part of a parcel of development land c.1912 of which this was the eastern boundary. 
Marsham Manor was Marsham Farm. There are some indications that this was used as a brick and tile making site.   It was bought by developer Hampton Gilks and Moon and in 1907 sold to Tibbs & Co. builders and rebuilt to the design of Stanley Hamp.  Arts and Crafts

Marsham Way
Laid out 1907 by Hampton and Sons on land from Marsham Farm. 

Mill Lane
Previously called Hollow Lane

Oak End Way
The road was a footpath until c.1912 when it was the northern boundary of a parcel of development land.  Laid out by Legender Myers in 1905 and originally called Pottery Road.
Methodist church. In 1907, a plot of land was purchased for £200 and` the first Trustees were appointed. A corrugated iron chapel was built and belonged to the High Wycombe Free Methodist Circuit, affiliated to the Wesleyan Reform Union. In 1930 the Church was purchased by the Uxbridge & Southall Wesleyan Circuit and more recently has moved to the Amersham Circuit. In 1954, the “tin” building was modernised, in 1958 the foundation stone of a new Church was laid in front of the site. The original Church building was initially retained but eventually demolished and replaced by Wesley Hall and New Fellowship Room, in 1964.
Oak End Hall and Assembly Rooms built by Percy Hopkins in 1913. This later became a furnishing showroom. It had a hall for 250 seated and a sprung dance floor.  The site now appears to be vacant.
Park Creamery and cafe on the corner of South Park designed by Percy Hopkins. Thatched building. This is now an empty plot

Packhorse Road
Cottages which once stood alongside the pub had a date stone ‘Huntman’s Hall 1796’. This was the home of the huntsman of the Old Berkeley Hunt and the kennels were also there
12 St Andrew's church. United Reform church by H. Ascroft which replaced a Congregational church built in 1922.  It is now part of a large block of shops and offices called Pilgrim House dating from the 1980s
Lloyds Bank. Corner with Bulstrode Way. Beyond this were six Railway Cottages and Stationmaster's House built in 1902. Demolished 1957/9 and replaced with shops in 1960. 
Masonic Hall, designed by Stanley Beard in 1924 . Commandeered by the RAF in the Second World War
Original boundary stones to the new parish of Gerrards Cross marked GV 1860

Station Approach
Steps to were there were once public toilets
Gerrards Cross Station. Opened in 1906 it now lies between Seer Green and Denham Golf Club stations on 1Chiltern Railways into Marylebone. It was built by the Great Western Railway and Great Central Railway Joint line and opened as Gerrards Cross for the Chalfonts.  It is in a deep cutting to allow or a very shallow maximum gradient. It was originally four-track, with two through roads and two platforms but the through roads were removed in 1989. There was a small goods yard north of the line and two signal boxes. The east box closed in 1923 and the west box was located on the Down line and remained in use until 1990 when signalling was passed to the new Marylebone Integrated Control Centre. There was also a line to Uxbridge which closed in 1939 but this was only a shuttle using rail cars going back and forward all day. In 1997 the station tunnel fell down because of Tesco. The station had its centenary in 2006 celebrated with two steam locomotives, hauling trains between Marylebone and High Wycombe.
Tunnel. A 30m section of the 300m Gerrards Cross railway tunnel collapsed in 1997 interrupting Chiltern train services to Banbury, Birmingham and elsewhere and depositing broken tunnel segment fragments and many tonnes of infill material on the track. It appears some of the concrete arches were overloaded before the space around them had been correctly infilled. This new work was being carried out to cover over the railway so as to provide a central site for the construction of a Tesco supermarket above,
The bronze 'Railway Navvy' sculpture behind the Up platform by Anthony Stones who was commissioned in 1992 by the Colne Valley Park Groundwork Trust

Station Road
Joseph Nutt's coal yard, present in the 1920s.
16 Marsham Chambers built 1933 began as a Public Hall built 1906 by William Weston. It later became a roller skating rink, then part of the County Garage but later became a garage belonging to Bailey Changed name to Gerrards Cross Car Services Ltd.    And after the Second World War became Lewis’s Garage.
19 Girl Guide headquarters. This was built in the 1960s on the site of an older Guide hut on land donated to 1st Gerrards Cross guides by Phyllis Stewart-Brown
38 Gerrards Cross Community Library
Telephone Exchange. The old exchange and system from 1935. It also uses code THGX and provides telephone and broadband services to premises in Gerrards Cross and Chalfont St. Peter,
Goring Kerr. Works here from 1956 making Metlokate an electric control device

The Woodlands
Laid out by Legender  Myers in 1905 for the Circle Lane Company on land bought from the Gurneys in 1906.

Vicarage Way`
Laid out by Hampton Gilks and Moon on the land of Marsham Farm.
St.Michaels Convent. Community of the Sisters of the Church. Convent and Retreat House.  The house was built in 1909 in the Arts and Crafts style, and was extended in the 1960s.   It was the first plot taken and built as Dinthill by E.H.Ernest Hill for John Weston.

West Common
1 Wildwood Resrtaurant. This was the Packhorse Pub. After being closed in 2008, the building reopened as a Wildwood restaurant and bar. The interior has not been changed much.  The Packhorse was built in 1707 on Great Heath Field by Thomas Pyner, a brickmaker.   In 1826 it was acquired by Wellers Brewery of Amersham and 1929 by Beskins, of Watford.  Beskins rebuilt it in 1931 to designs of J.C.E.James.
Office block built on part of the Packhorse's car park.

West Common Close
Car park – this was the site of a bowling green post Second World War

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Cinema Treasures. Web site
Colne Valley Park. Web site
Gerrards Cross Methodist Church. Web sit
Historic England. Web site
Hunt & Thorpe, Gerrards Cross
Meadway Park. Web site
Pevsner. Buckinghamshire
Sabre. Web site
South Bucks District Council. Web site

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Addison Gardens
Addison Primary School. This was Addison Gardens School built by the School Board for London in the 1890s and expanded in the 1920s.  It pioneered the use of films in education, had a school orchestra, and was the site for the Ministerial inauguration of the Milk in Schools Scheme.
Railway Bridge. The bridge carries the road over the Network Rail railway line between Kensington Olympia and Shepherd's Bush. There is an OS benchmark on the brick pier at the far end of the parapet. It is a cut mark sprayed with white paint. The bridge is too long for the current lines which it crosses. It would also have crossed the Kensington and Richmond line, which veered to the west slightly north of the bridge.

Adie Road
Grove Studios. This was The Laboratory. Sculptor Henry Moore worked here 1924-1928. Plaque on the building inaugurated by his daughter.

Aldine Street
Aldine House. Office and print location which connects buildings in Aldine Place to the rear.

Batoum Gardens
Entrance to the Loris Road garden with mural of the Cork and Kerry Mountains painted by Russell Barrett

Berghem Mews
This is now a ‘stylish office village’.
London Co-op Laundry buildings. The laundry was here from the 1880s. It was replaced by an exhibition joinery business.

Blythe Road
Blythe Road was previously called Blinde Lane
Blythe House. This was an ancient mansion and in the early 19th had been the home of an émigré French royalist.  Following a period as a school for young ladies in 1867 it beaame a boys' reformatory. To the rear was a school building and a playground. This was the first Roman Catholic boys' reformatory to be set up in 1855. It was run by the Congregation of the Brothers of Mercy with some Belgian staff. They taught shoemaking and bread baking. The school moved away in 1870.  It was replaced by St Stephens School also a Roman Catholic boys' reformatory. There were many problems and it was returned to the Brothers of Mercy and eventually closed in 1887. Shepherds Bush road now runs through the western most part of the house site.
79-81 Swan Laundry. Built on the site of the reformatory playground. They appear to have taken over Blythe House and replaced it with their works.  There are now modern firms in the building,
188 Modern cylindrical properties The Round House by Michaelis Boyd Associates. Built 2016 house with eight bedrooms, slides to hidden areas and a fireman’s pole connecting the ground and first floor.
120 Old Parr’s Head. Originally this was the Duke of Edinburgh in the mid 19th. Closed in 2014 and now housing.
43 Jameson. This pub is now a ‘steak and Thai’.  It was previously called The Fox & Hounds; Freemasons Arms; and Ringmaster and ‘the Trump Arms’ sometimes and more recently.

Brook Green
This square covers the northern section only. The brook here, referred to c.1420 as ‘le Brooke’, is now covered over. The eastern mouth of Stamford Brook is said to be Parr's Ditch or Black Bull Ditch. It ran due east through Hammersmith into a natural trough which is now the park area of Brook Green. It was converted to sewer in 1876/
Brook Green Common. This was formerly manorial waste along the course of Parr’s Ditch, and the boundary between Hammersmith and Fulham from 1834. It was bought by the Metropolitan Board of Works from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in 1881.

Caithness Road
24 Crofton Lodge. Folly with a tower

Charecroft Way
The road is on the route of the Kensington and Richmond Railway.
The Shepherds Building. This was Miford House, Inland Revenue Offices now business units. It housed the Estate Duty Office of the Inland Revenue until the early 1990s when it moved to Nottingham.  It exactly follows the line of the railway which it was built on. It and the road date from the late 1960s.

Coal Warf Road
Ran north alongside the west of the railway line, to a coal wharf considerably to the north

Coverdale Road
The Miles Coverdale Primary School, This opened in 1916, it is a three storey red brick building.  The school was initially called Thornfield Road School and then Coverdale Road School. It was built by the London County Council. There is a row of mature trees in the back garden adjacent to the school boundary.

Faroe Road
Faroe Road Studios. This was built in 1908 for the London School Board for ‘physically defective’ children.  Post Second World War it is shown on maps as “Central Kitchen”.

Gainsborough Court
New housing on the site of Lime Grove Studios.  Named Gainsborough after the sister studios in Islington

Girdlers Road
12 In 1921 Leon Underwood Brook Green School of Art here. It offered full-time and some evening classes and included etching and printmaking. The School closed in 1938.

Goldhawk Road
The road runs west from Shepherd’s Bush Green to  Stamford Brook, becoming increasingly upmarket as it goes. It is part of the Roman road to the west but the name is from a 15th family. The trams turned it into a more urban road in the early 20th.   In the 17th plots against Cromwell's life were attempted here.
Actarc Works. Applied High Frequency Makers of induction heating equipment 1950s. This works was at the bottom of Pennard Road on an ex-laundry site.
2 The Sindercombe Social. This was once the Bush Hotel. The name is said to be that of a Leveller conspirator in the 1650s who was involved in a plot to assassinate Oliver Cromwell near here. Until 1890 an ancient thatched cottage stood nearby which had been hired and inhabited by Syndercombe in 1657. . Syndercombe arrested, tried, and condemned to death. He was sentenced to death but committed suicide. Renamed as the "White Horse" upon rebuilding in 1890, as the "Bush" in 1899, as the "Fringe and Firkin" in 1997, as "O'Neill's" in c1999, and as the "Sindercombe Social" in 2014. The Bush Theatre was originally in an upstairs room here.
43a tram depot – this was a short lived horse tram depot with a cobbled entrance through which trams left the main line in Goldhawk Road.
49 Goldhawk House built 1906. This is offices where many companies in entertainment are based. In 1914 it was headquarters of Frank Mayle and Sons building supplies merchants but also specialists in plate, sheet and safety glass. Manufacturers and processers of constructional glass products; stained glass; leaded lights; behind workshops are known as The Glasshouse.
52 Railway Arms. Built in 1922, it is now a shop.
55 The Railway Tavern. This was later known as The Bushranger and then in 2004 became a Young's pub called The Stinging Nettle. It opened in 1864 when the Metropolitan Line opened and closed in 2012, it is now a Costa Coffee.
Goldhawk Road Station. Opened in 1914 by the Metropolitan Railway on a line originally opened in 1863. It now lies between Shepherd’s Bush Market and Hammersmith, on theHammersmith and City Line and the Circle Line.
77 British Prince pub. Closed 2003
84 Shepherd and Flock Pub.  Built in 1869.

Holland Park Avenue
The road crosses Counters Creek on the edge of the roundabout and junction with Holland Road.
203 Duke of Clarence. Closed in 2001, it was eventually demolished in 2003.Venue for folk music

Holland Road
193 Holland Arms. 1866 This was an old pub on what was the Hammersmith road which was known successively as the Horse and Groom and in 1716 the White Horse Inn, Demolished for the Shepherd’s Bush roundabout.

Kensington and Richmond Railway
This ran through the area of this square. It ran north to the west of the Hammersmith and City line running out of Hammersmith Station paralleling it and Hammersmith Grove. It passed under the Hammersmith and City south of the present Goldhawk Road Station and continued north of Sulgrave Road following its curve. It continued eastwards along what is now Charecroft Way and then curved to follow north of Sinclair Rad. It joined what was the West London Extension Railway north of the present Kensington Olympia Station. The line dated from the 1860s and following agreements with other railways ran trains from Richmond to Kensington. A station on Shepherds Bush Road was opened in 1874 and closed in 1916.  It was also used by other rail companies. This declined and by 1926 this stretch had been disused for ten years. The line was thus removed and the land sold.

Lakeside Road
Previously called Wharton Road and then Rayleigh Road
108 Shepherds Bush Road Methodist Church. This building was the original church hall with the church fronting onto Shepherds Bush Road and which has since been demolished. War memorial plaque in the church

Lena Gardens
Lena Gardens Primary School. The school beaame an academy in 2014 and has now closed.  It originally opened in 1929
37 London Regional Transport Hammersmith Rolling Stock Depot. It was built by the Great Western Railway in 1905. It is now only used for general maintenance and storage of the trains which operate on the Hammersmith & City line. It was built by the Great Western Railway to be operated by the Metropolitan Railway when the joint railway was electrified in the early 20th century. Recently 13 manually-operated sets of points have been replaced and a control box that is the first of its kind on the Underground. The Maintenance Sheds have been turned into a fully automated siding with 8 tracks. A concrete slab track bed has been installed.
The Osram siding to the east of the depot building was built for the Ford Motor Co. in the Great World War for delivering road vehicles, and was later acquired for Osram by the Air Ministry during the Second World War
Back entrance to the Osram Works

Lime Grove
South end of the road was once Brooklyn Grove
Gravel pit. This covered the north end of the road on the west side until the 1890s.
Urania Cottage. This was on the east side of the road, about halfway down the current road but stood between what was once Lime over to the north and Brooklyn Grove to the south.  This was founded by Charles Dickens in the late 1840s following an approach by Angela Burdett Coutts as an alternative to existing institutions for ‘fallen’ women and wanted to provide an environment where they could learn skills. All women who spent time there were apparently required to emigrate. Dickens became heavily involved in management of the home. Closed in the 1860s.
Trunk and Portmanteau works 1890s, this appears to be in what had been Urania House –also on the site ‘The Last House” and “The Old House”
Lime Grove Studios was a film, and TV studio. It was built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915. Many Gainsborough Pictures films were made here from the early 1930s. In 1949, it was purchased by the BBC for television broadcasts until 1991. It was demolished in 1993.
Shepherds Bush Station. This opened in 1864 on the Hammersmith and City Line. This ran then between Hammersmith and Ladbroke Grove through an area with clay pits and brickworks. It was operated by the Great Western Railway, with a broad gauge train service - the wider space between tracks can still be seen today. An 1885 fire in an arch under Shepherd’s Bush station destroyed much of the wooden station structure, which had to be rebuilt. In 1914 it was closed and demolished.  Much of the site was taken over by Gaumont for their Lime Grove Studios.
Lime Grove Baths. These were opened by the Mayor of Hammersmith E.C. Rawlings in the 1907. With a gala and aquatic display. there was both a first class and second class bath the site als0 included a Boxing Hall as well as a laundry and public Washhouse. Private baths had granolithic flooring and enamelled oak cubicles, with divisions of enamelled slate. In the 1960s Saturday afternoon TV wrestling programmes came from here.  The main bath was closed in 1980 because the roof’s inner skin was breaking away, but the second class pool remained open until the opening of a new swimming complex. The Baths were later converted to flats
London College of Fashion. The Hammersmith College of Art and Building had been founded in 1891 by Francis Hawke, as evening classes and in 1904 it was taken over by London County Council and moved to a new building in Lime Grove. The .Hammersmith School of Building and Arts and Crafts was originally he Hammersmith School of Building, later becoming the Hammersmith School of Trades. It was built by the London County Council in 1913, by the Council’s Architects Department. The rear block was the Technical Institute or School of Arts and Crafts designed also by L C C Architects Department in 1905-6. There is an original boundary wall with arched entrances. A trade school for girls was erected on the same site in 1914. A new building was opened in 1930. Hammersmith College merged with Chelsea College of Art in 1975. 1986 it became a constituent college of the London Institute, formed by the Inner London Education Authority for its art schools and specialist colleges of printing, fashion and distributive trades. In 1989 the School was renamed Chelsea College of Art & Design. I later became part of the London College of Fashion.
Mulberry. This is in the rear courtyard of the college and probably planted in 1904.

Loris Road
The community garden started in 1983. There is small woodland and a paved central area with a mosaic and a Time Capsule. There is a play area for children bad a simple eco-shed, with kitchen/office, toilet and tool storage designed by Studio E Architects and constructed by Ecolibrium Solutions.

Masbro Road,
37 Willson’s Radiator Works. They manufactured silencers. There are now flats on the site.
40 St Mary's RC Primary School. The school was established in 1850 by the Catholic Poor Committee as a teacher training school under the Brothers of Christian Instruction. The teacher training element moved to Strawberry Hill in 1925. In the 1970’s the school was moved to its Masbro Road following a fire. However, it remains in the parish of Holy Trinity, Brook Green.
42 This was the Lord Nelson pub. Closed 1997, now housing.
57 Havelock Tavern. Now a gastro pub. Built in 1869 it has a blue tiled frontage with stripped- feel inside.
87 Masbro Centre.  This is the hub of Hammersmith’s community centres run by the Urban Partnership Group. Set up in the 1990s it is now a community freehold asset and now covers five sites across Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush.  It is built in what was the Council Central Kitchen.
88 Bird in Hand, this pub is now a posh restaurant. Dating originally from the 1870s   it was rebuilt in red brick in 1929 as a large plaque tells us.  Brown tiles and decorative cement plaques.
100 Saint Matthew. Built in 1870-71 designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, in 1870-1871. It was funded by ‘pew rents,’ and the majority of the churchgoers came from Sinclair Road where they had live-in servants. There are various art works in the church including an important altar piece. After the Great War the parish changed with the building of the Springvale Estate. In the Second Would War the church was damaged and closed. The Lady Chapel has plaques in memory of those men of the parish who gave their lives in the Great War and a plaque on the back row of the choir records the men who died in the Second World War. It has since been used as a location for TV and films.

Milson Road
The western end of the road was once Alexandra Road.
Central Kitchen. This is the buildings now in use by the Masbro Centre
Milson Road Health Centre

Minford Gardens
Originally this road ran parallel to the Kensington and Richmond railway line and houses on the north side of the road backed onto it,
St Simon. The church with its attached hall dates from 1879 designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It has a spire, clock tower and a small garden.  It has an organ of 1865 from Dunblane cathedral "Rebuilt by Eustace Ingram, London 1893".

Netherwood Road
17a Netherwood Autos. This garage site at the backs of houses has been home to a number of small; industrial units, including a boot maker in 1926 and a plumber at another time. Print works are shown on maps of the 1960s.

Norland Road
49 Queens Arms Pub. Demolished for the roundabout to be built.

Norland Yard
A.F,Ferguson timber stockists onsite here from the Great War until the 1940s

Pennards Road
Sunlight Laundry this became Spring Grove Laundry and closed in 2009
Actarc works Applied High Frequency Makers of induction heating equipment 1950s

Poplar Grove
1a Kingdom Hall Jehovah’s Witnesses.
1a this was built as Shepherds Bush, Fulham and District Synagogue. Ashkenazi Orthodox opened in 1924, rebuilt 1938/9, refurbished 1963, and closed 1989.

Redan Street
45 Addison Youth club Youth club offering indoor football, pool, table tennis, basketball and IT facilities. It has also been used as a nursery school ad a dance studio it originated as a mission church
Saint Matthew’s Mission Church. It was for the lower orders – servants and the poor

Richford Street
Richford Gate Primary Care Centre
85 Quantex Arc Ltd they produce single-use disposable pump technology.
87 PDD Innovation.  Established in 1980 this firm specialises in engineering and industrial design. Previous occupiers have been film and entertainment companies.
87 Walton House. Walton Sound & Film Services. They were present here in the 1970s
89 Dulux Decorator Centre. Dulux are an international paint firm, originally Australian. This is one of a chain of stores in the UK associated with Azo Nobel

Richmond Way
The Kensington and Richmond Railway crossed the road slightly north of the roundabout with new buildings on the roadsides.  There is a slight hump in the road here.  The line diverted from the west London line slightly south of the K West hotel – and this can be seen from the Addison road bridge.
Cycle Docking Station. This at the end of the road where the junction with Shepherd Bush Green is now blocked. With a walk way through to Shepherds Bush Station.  There is also the base of a very large advertising sign
1 Duke of Edinburgh. This pub closed in 2012 and has now been converted to residential use.

Rockley Road
The line of the Richmond and Kensington Railway is now under housing.

Shepherd’s Bush Common
Green. This is a triangular open space originally Fulham Manor waste and acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1872.  It was once called Gagglegoose Green.  . It is shown with this name on OS map of 1822 and there are references in the 17th to the name. It could refer to a family called Shepherd or to actual shepherds. There were farms in this area until the late 19th. The marshy land was drained in 1871and this has needed to be done again recently#
The Green was originally laid out with paths, provided with a drinking fountain at its west end, with plane trees planted around the perimeter.  Toilets at one time were included on Uxbridge Road corner, and opposite the Shepherds Bush Hotel. There was also a drinking fountain near the War Memorial opposite the cinemas.  In 1985 the perimeter was planted with evergreen shrubs and tracks laid out to provide cycle paths around the Green.
Winged Victory, War Memorial from 1922 by H. C. Fehr. It is on a stone mausoleum shaft with bronze Roll of Honour plaques on a three tiered plinth set in a railed grass and paved enclosure.
Underground toilets. Decorative railings surround a former underground lavatory with ceramic work from the early 20th, later used as a snooker hall and/or a nightclub and now closed. They stand in a railed enclosure which includes a lamp standard.
Playground. The very young have a slide, swings and sand pit with diggers. Older children have a challenging climbing frame, tyre swing, tunnel side and outdoor climbing walls as well as musical instruments to turn and press.

Shepherds Bush Green.
Roundabout – This was on a minor crossroads on Holland Park Avenue, with Holland Road and Shepherds Bush Green. The A3220 Holland Road was upgraded in the 1950s. Later the West Cross Route linked into it and in 1970 the current roundabout was opened. It was meant to be grade-separated, but the route to the south had some difficulties and was never built.
13-15 The Telegraph. This pub is now a restaurant. The original pub was 20 yards to the east and replaced was by the current building
West 12 Shopping and Leisure Centre, this originally opened in 1971 as the Shepherd’s Bush Centre as a new single storey shopping centre
Vue Cinema. This is in the shopping centre. It was then the Warner Village Shepherd’s Bush and was opened in 2001.  It was re-branded Vue in 2004.
Galaxy Cinema. This was in the new shopping centre and operated by Lew & Leslie Grade as the first in a new chain. Only this one opened. It closed in 1975 and converted into a shop.
58 The Pavilion Cinema. This opened in 1923 was designed by Frank T. Verity for Israel Davis, and made Verity’s reputation. Inside was Italian renaissance decoration. It had the second Compton 4Manual/17Rank organ built.  The organ had percussions added in 1924, and in 1931 was rebuilt with the first modern console of the Gaumont-British type on a lift.., There was a stage and four dressing rooms. There is a brick and stone frontage which won a RIBA London Street Architecture Award.  It was badly damaged in 1944 bombing and closed until 1955 having been restored by Samuel Beverley and reopened as the Gaumont Theatre.  In 1962 it became the Odeon, and in 1969, closed for reconstruction. The stalls became a Top Rank Bingo Club and the cinema itself became Odeon 1
Odeon 2.  This lies between the Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theatre and the Pavilion/Gaumont/Odeon. It was the Shepherd’s Bush Cinematograph Theatre opened in 1910. Along the side of the building was a long stone panel which had ‘Cinematograph Theatre – Continuous Performance – Seats 1/– 6d 3d’.It was partially rebuilt by John Stanley Beard and reopened in 1923 and renamed Essoldo in 1955. It closed for modernisation in 1968. It was the Classic from 1972 and finally Odeon 2 from 1973 to its closure in October 1981.  The interior was then gutted and it was converted into a large pub with an Australian theme know as ‘Walkabout’, this closed in 2013. It was the used as a site office for building workers and demolished in 2019, although the facade remained to be used as an entrance to a hotel.
56 Shepherds Bush Empire.  It opened in 1903 designed by Frank Matcham for Oswald Stoll. The frontage is Art Nouveau, plus a tower with a Baroque copula on top, which once contained a lantern and a circular metal ‘Empire’ sign... The upper circle and gallery have their own separate entrances. Inside is ornate and here are boxes at dress circle level. There are also boxes in the upper circle level topped by a semi-circular feature. All the great music hall artists appeared here in the first few weeks. American Bioscope was part of the variety programme and in 1909, a Chronomegaphone was added. Eventually it was equipped with a Western Electric sound system and Sunday film shows ran until the late 1940s. With the coming of Television the Empire closed in 1953. Soon after the BBC Television took it over and converted it. The upper parts of the building were obscured by lighting gantries, which hid Matcham’s decorations. TV cameras roamed around this area where once an audience sat. Many big hit shows were to be broadcast from here, but after 40-years, the BBC moved to White City Television Studios at Shepherd’s Bush, and the Empire Theatre was sold in 1992. New owners restored close-to its original 1903 opening and set up a programme of pop/rock concerts opening in 1994.

Shepherd's Bush Market
The market is sited on what was Railway Approach, intended as access road to station. During the war these railways arches where the market is now were used for billeting troops and stabling horses. The market dates to the early part of the 20th and opened for business in around 1914, with shops lining the railway viaduct

Shepherd's Bush Road
Once known as Brook Green Lane.
Little Brook Green. Separate part of the common west of Shepherd’s Bush Road.
186 this was Brook Green School. It has been extended for use as offices and studios in 2005.  The school was for children with physical disabilities and dated from probably 1885 and closed in 1947.
184 Former motor service depot and showroom. This was built in 1916 by H Heathcote and Sons of Manchester for the   Motor Company (England) Ltd. It had a complete reinforced concrete frame; brick clad with painted cement dressings. There is a vehicle entrances on ground floor. At either end of the building are large lifts (still operational) to take vehicles to upper floors that on the left rising onto the flat roof where vehicles were test driven. This was Ford's first industrial building in the London area and the quality of materials and design reflects the status of the motor car at this period. The depot was taken over by Citroen in 1926. It has later been used as a storage depot and has since been converted to office use by a data science company.
Standard with lantern. This is in cast iron open-work with Greek key pattern cast iron railings.  It is north of 184 and includes a rectangular brick gatehouse. They were part of the security gate to the Ford building.
Police Station. This was replaced by the Osram Building. It had been designed by Farquharson & McMorran
180 Osram Works. Osram is a German company. The Brook Green works was one of the earliest lamp factories in Britain set up in 1881 to manufacture the Lane-Fox type of carbon lamps. Fluorescent and various electronic tubes became its main product. The works survived over 100 years, with production ending in 1988. Work went n here from 1893, although it is not clear whether or not this was an entirely new factory, or if it had been the site of earlier carbon arc operations. The building was extended later, but most o t was demolished in 1988.  The factory range of 1915-16 survives. The landmark seven storey Osram Tower is topped by an octagon with a little copper dome; by John S. Quitter & Son, 1920-1. , a metal sculpture on the copper cupola depicts the movement of the atom and with "OSRAM" lettering that was once illuminated, now a Tesco supermarket and Peabody housing
Osram Court. War memorial plaque saying G.E.C. in grateful memory of the employees of this company who fell in the service of their company in the Great War 1914-18.
170-2 Brook Green Hotel. This is on the site of the Barley Mow, rebuilt in 1886 by Young's. Modernised 'gin palace', retaining features, this is a spacious pub and restaurant with a ceiling. It has a hard floor but comfortably provided with padded seats and a few sofas. The basement houses a comedy club and the    hotel provides accommodation.
Carpet Cleaning works 1890s. The works had a big chimney and caused lots of pollution, thus was on or near the Osram works
Poplar House Laundry 1890s. This was on or near the Osram works
Shepherds Bush Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel stood on the gcorner with Netherwood Street in the late 19th and early 20th. It was later demolished and the site used for flats. All that remains is the perimeter wall of uncoursed masonry blocks. The church hall to the rear is now used as the church.
55 The Richmond. Local pub dating from the early 20th.
Grampions. Grampians flats stand on the line of the Richmond and Kensington Railway and the block’s basement facilities are in the railway cutting.  It was designed by Maurice Webb in as an Art Deco block built between 1935 and 1937. The designs for the block were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1935.  It is ten-stories with curving shops flanking the entrance, 1935 by Collcutt & Hamp.
Kensington and Richmond Line crossed under the road. There is still a slight ‘hump’ in the road.  There are commercial premises under the bridge.
Shepherds Bush station. This stood on the west side of the road and dated from 1874. It was built by the London and South West Railway as the Richmond and Kensington Railway closed in 1916. There were two platforms with steps down to them from the road with the booking office between; there was a signal box at the end of the up platform. Most of this remained into the1950s.
Shepherds Bush Baptist Tabernacle, founded in 1907 and designed by P.W.Hawkins. It closed in 2008.

Spring Vale Terrace
Clear Cut. This is on the site of the Cranford Works Stationery which was previously the Argyle Steam Laundry. In 1867 Springvale Works carried out bleaching and dyeing with an 80 foot chimney which towered over McCullock’s bleaching grounds in Spring Vale where calico and muslins were whitened and starched
Springvale Engineering Works.  Motor works

Sulgrave Gardens
This stands on the site of the former Shepherds Bush station which fronted on Shepherds Bush Road. The entrance to the tunnel under the road is clearly visible at the back of the estate.

Sulgrave Road
Railway cottages. 18th houses on the south side of the formation Richmond and Kensington Railway.
Iron viaduct this is said to be behind the cottages and that it has been bricked up

Trussley Road
This is the site of brick bridge foundations and embankment on the Richmond and Kensington railway junction with the Metropolitan Railway.  There are few surviving relics.
Caswell Grove Works Cranes and Erections Ltd. 1950s Grove Metals

Uxbridge Road
General Auto Services garage. This was east of the Central Line Station and was one of the largest private bus companies in the 1930s.
Uxbridge Road Station. This was on the West London Railway 1869-1940. It was opened served by the London & North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway. In 1905 it passed to the Metropolitan Railway, and later London Underground's Metropolitan line. It was at the east end of Uxbridge Road on the site of what is now the Holland Park roundabout and closed because of Second World War bombing. It remained reasonably intact for some years after closure, but eventually all that remained were the street level building, bits of stairway, and grassy platform mounds. These were swept away around 1971 for road widening schemes
Shepherds Bush Underground Station. This was on the site of the present Shepherds Bush Station.  Previously a station existed almost on the same site as the present Shepherd's Bush station. It opened in 1900 and was the original western terminus of the Central London Railway with a ticket hall designed by Harry Bell Measures. The station was renamed Shepherds Bush Green in 2008
Shepherd's Bush station this opened in 2008 and lies between Willesden Junction and Kensington Olympia on London Overground, Wembley Central and Kensington Olympia on Southern Rail and White City and Holland Park on the Central Line. It is on the same site as the Uxbridge Road Station which closed in the 1940s.   Development in the area means that a new station was possible...
28 The Mail Coach Pub. This was an Inter-war red brick pub. Since demolished in 2003 for the underground station. Was previously called London.
96- 102 The Wellington Arms.  The landlord was Butty Sugruet, who was a strong man who pulled busses with his teeth.  This pub dated from the 1870s and was a Slug & Lettuce when it closed in 2006. It is now used as a takeaway chicken shop and a gaming arcade.
164 Star Cinema. This was in a Pereira Mansions which dates from 1905. The Electric Cinema opened in 26th 1907 and in 1910 alterations were carried out by Melville S. Ward for Electric Theatre Ltd. By 1918, it had been re-named Star Cinema. It closed in 1923 and became a shop.
170 Defectors Weld.  Young’s pub named for a local spy one of the "Cambridge five" Cold War spies worked nearby at the BBC and 'weld' is a joint/joining.   Previously called Edwards and was the Beaumont Arms
172-4 The Green  Pub. Opened as a Wetherspoon in 1990 having been converted from a shop.
5 Fire Station. Designed by Frank van der Weerden  1900 and in - in use from 1901-1920
7 Passmore Edwards Library.  This was designed by Maurice Bingham Adams as Passmore Edwards Free Library Hammersmith. It was built in 1895, and a foundation stone, in the wall was laid by Passmore Edwards.  In 2008 a new library was built in the Westfield London development. In 2011 the library re-opened as the new home of the Bush Theatre
Bush Theatre. This was established in 1972 as a showcase for the work of new writers.  It was initially in the Bush Hotel.
31 White Horse pub. The pub s through the small archway to the rear, but the building as a whole is a Tesco.
Silver cinema . The Silver Cinematograph Theatre was built on the site of the Albion Brewery and opened in 1914. It had a stone facade, with the name ‘Silver’ over the entrance. It was badly damaged by German bombs in 1940. It never reopened and it was demolished.
11-13 Griggs Brothers, Albion Brewery,
The Church of St Stephen and St Thomas built 1849–50, designed by architect Anthony Salvini. Rev Wilfred Wood became curate to St Stephen's, later becoming the Church of England’s first black bishop. In 1966 the vicar set up the Shepherds Bush Housing Association to help solve the problems of homelessness and poverty in the area. Today St Stephen's serves a hot meal to up to 100 homeless people every Monday.
St Stephen’s Primary School. This was part of the original village of Shepherd’s Bush and built at the same time as the Church

Wells Road
Shepherd's Bush Bus Garage. LT London Transport garage on site of old railway line. It has originally been a London Motor Omnibus Garage called Vanguard and was transferred from Vanguard Motorbus Company to LGOC in 1908.  It closed on the Great War but reopened in 1923 although previously used as a terminal stand. A new garage was built there in 1954.  Still in operation.


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Post to the South Salmons Brook Windmill Hill
Post to the west Hog Hill
Post to the north Turkey Brook Chase Farm


Bycullah Road
Bycullah House. Named after an area of Bombay the house and estate were sold for building land for an up market estate with the entrance to the south in Windmill Hill. Steeple chasing took place here on a course between here and Windmill Hill.1860s and 1870s. Very popular.

Chase Green Avenue
Built by the owner and developer of the Chase Green Estate

Holtwhites Hill
Reservoir of Enfield UDC Waterworks. Pumping station and reservoir from the 1870s.  Water tower in 1885. In 1904 sold to the Metropolitan Water Board and since demolished. Only the reservoir remains.
185 Our Lady of Walsingham and the English Martyrs. This is on the site of St Joseph's Home which was opened by the Westminster Diocesan Children’s Society 1890. In 1964 the parish of Our Lady of Walsingham was established there until the home closed in 1980 the new church was built in 1987, The Syro-Malabar Church also uses the building.

Kirkland Drive
Holtwhites Sports and Social Club  was originally a railway club owned by London North East Railway which later becoming Great Northern Athletic Association and then British Rail Sports Association. In the Second World War the main pavilion was used as war offices until 1948. In the war twenty foot square wheeled chicken coops were kept on the cricket field and moved around. Until 1952 the club was four clerical railway staff and their families only but later drivers and porters were admitted. However it was heavily subsidised by the railway and no outsiders were allowed to join the club after 1965. British Rail eventually withdrew financial support in 1994 and the club was renamed Holtwhites Sports and Social Club. In 1997 the land was bought by developer Fairview who agreed to re-site the sports facilities while they built on the land. They did restore the bowling green but not to proper standards

Lavender Hill
Gordon Hill Station. Built in 1910 it now lies between Enfield Chase and Crews Hill Stations on the Hertford Loop Line, of the Great Northern Railway. It is built in a wide cutting spanned at the north end by a five arch road bridge. When built in 1910, it was a substantial red brick station with a full canopy and bays on either side. The up platform buildings remain, with red lampposts and seating and there is a waiting shelter by the base of the footbridge. Only three platforms are now in use.Hertford-bound trains use platform 3, London-bound trains use platform 2; and platform 1 is a terminus. This fourth platform was used by North London Railway services to/from Broad Street and became heavily overgrown and lost its track
Signal box. This closed in 1976, and was subsequently demolished. It was at the London end of the up platform
Great Northern Railway sports ground was opened at the south of the station. This was sold and built on by Fairview Homes.

The Ridgeway
Once called Potters Bar Road
Buildings of Chase Farm School.  These are now part of Chase Farm Hospital which is included in the site to the north.  What remains by the roadside in this square is the Lodge House was once the Receiving Ward for the children being admitted to the Schools, The former Probationary Ward Block, which is now the Postgraduate Medical Centre.
76 Ridgeway House pub. The original pub still stands behind a new front used as a restaurant.
71 Enfield Lawn Tennis Club. Established 1907

Rowantree Road
Bycullah Estate water works.  The cul de sac end is the site of the Bycullah Estate water works. Set up in 1879 and closed in the 1920s when it became part of the Met. Water Board

Uplands Park Road
Cavell Hospital. Private fee paying hospital.

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Pam.  A Desirable Neighbourhood
Pam. A Parish Near London
Pam. A Victorian Suburb
Pevsner and Cherry. London North
Walford. Village London

Post to the east Addington Interchange


Addington Village Road
Addington Police Station. This appear to have been built on the 1970s on the site of a garage
Electrical Sub station. A 33kV substation operated by South Eastern Power Network

Farnborough Avenue
Gilbert Scott School infant and primary. This became an academy in 2018. The school dates from 1950 when the Addington Village School (later also called St. Mary's) closed and staff and pupils moved here. In 2007 infants and juniors were combined.
Red Gates School.  Special community school for boys and girls with severe learning difficulties and autism

Gravel Hill
Gravel Hill Tram Stop. 1998. Between Addington Village and Coombe Lane on Croydon Tramlink. His includes a road crossing
Addington Palace. This is based around Addington Place, a 16th manor house owned by the Leigh family until the early 18th century. It was sold in 1737 to an American, Barlow Trecothick who built a new Palladian style house, designed by Robert Mylne.  His heir James Trecothick had the grounds and gardens landscaped by Lancelot Capability Brown but he had to sell in lots in 1803.  In 1807 it was sold by .Act of Parliament and bought by the Archbishops of Canterbury and was called Addington Farm. It became the official summer residence of six archbishops, later, in the Great War it became Red Cross fever hospital. In 1930, it passed to Croydon Council.  In 1953, it was leased to the Royal School of Church Music and used as their publishing company, residential college and choir school. In 1996, it was taken over by a private concern as a wedding, conference and banqueting venue, health farm and country club.
Cedar of Lebanon, The terrace of the building is dominated by a cedar of Lebanon thought to be a specimen trees associated with the period of Brown's work. The lower branches spread across the width of the terrace and are propped up with wooden stakes.
Addington Palace Golf Club. The course was laid out in 1931 by J.H.Taylor and Fred Hawtree.  The clubhouse was originally the stables to Addington Palace and The original beamed ceilings of the stables and hayloft have been retained.

Holmbury Grove
Forrestdale Centre, shops

Huntingfield Road
Addington Methodist Church

Kent Gate Way
By pass road built in 1973.
Addington Park. This land was acquired in 1930 from the owners of the Addington Palace Estate. The Park area and the Lodge formed the southern part of the park which surrounds Addington Palace, It has historic landscape and a children's playground. Tennis courts were purchased after the Second World War
South Lodge, this dates from the time of Archbishop Howley in the early 19th.

Selsdon Park Road
Forestdale Arms. Pub
John Ruskin College. This was a former school in Croydon opened in 1920 as the John Ruskin Selective Central School. In 1935 it moved to Tamworth Road, and became a grammar school. It moved to Shirley in 1955, as the John Ruskin High School but was demolished in 1991.The upper forms transferred to Selsdon using the premises of the John Newnham Secondary Selective School
John Newnham School was in Selsdon Park Road opened in 1951 as a Secondary Selective. It became a comprehensive in 1971 and was closed in 1987. The building was used for training and offices but later reopened as the John Ruskin College. John Montague Newnham who was the first chairman of the Borough's Education Committee

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Post to the south Greenford

Allington Close
Built on the site of sidings. These sidings ran west and then turned to factories to the south including the British Bath Company and led eventually to the Aladdin factory in Western Avenue. They closed in the 1990s.

Birkbeck Avenue
West London Marathon playing fields. This was Birkbeck College Sports Ground and included Birkbeck College Cricket Ground. , Middlesex Second XI Trophy Matches played here. Built on farmland in 1925 it was also once Queens Park Rangers' training ground, 1970s - 1980s.
Greenford Park Trotting Track. This was a pioneer speedway venue 1928–1930. On the south side of Birkbeck Avenue

Community Road
Site of Coston House. Coston House was the home of O.Mosley. Later was a film processing laboratory.

Courthope Road
Area of Greenford Farm until the late 1930s
Conservative Club. This is on the site of Greenford Farm and some of the buildings remain with a weather boarded stable block although the main part of the club is recent

Ferrymead Gardens
Holy Cross Church.  This old church was rebuilt in the 15th or 16th although it dates originally from around 1157 and is one of the three oldest buildings in the borough. It is said that relic of the true cross was placed in the building when it was first consecrated. The porch is from around 1500, the wooden tower is 16th but the outside walls are faced in 19th flint. It has medieval bells, an 18th font, and heraldic glass.  Glass with Royal Arms of Mary and Philip of Spain and some from King's College, Cambridge. It escaped demolition in 1951 and was re-opened in 1956 having been restored but is not now in regular use.
Holy Cross new church.  “One of London’s finest, austere inside”. It dates from the early 1940s and stands at right angles to the old building on land formerly used for burials. It is, a largely timber building designed by Sir Albert Richardson.
Churchyard. This has headstones dating from the early 16th.  One commemorates Edward Betham, rector 1769-83 who founded the local school. There are also ornamental trees including a monkey puzzle and an ash tree, as well as yew, conifers, oak and ivy. There is an area for cremated remains and a garden of rest with seating flower beds and an avenue of lime trees.
Rectory. This is next to the churchyard to the north and dates from 1875. On the site of a previous 16th building.

Greenford Road
This is a main road that covers four miles connecting Southall to Greenford and Sudbury. It was built as part of the Arterial Roads Programme and opened in 1928.  This is shown by its consistent width of 60 feet with broad pavements and it is capable of carrying four lanes of traffic.
485 Redwood College. The building is for the tuition of vocational courses in carpentry, plumbing, bicycle maintenance and repair, IT skills and hair and beauty. It is on the same site as current temporary buildings the college was using. It has a steel frame construction clad in Durable Board, and a Euroclad metal vaulted roof. The college also includes courses for pupils from Springhallow School.;
Roundabout. The road passes under the A40 Western Avenue with a grade separated roundabout.
Bridge Hotel. Opened originally in 1937 as a smart roadhouse one of two pubs built by the same developer. It was bought by Young’s in 1959 and a 68 bedroom hotel was added in 1989. The bar retains much of its Tudor style 1930s ambiance. The former off licence is now a function room. There are ceramic rams on the exterior of the building.
Railway bridges. Where the Central Line crosses the road, the arched viaduct is newer than the road. There is a bench mark on the bridge

Jeymer Avenue
On the site of the site of the Greenford Park trotting track, opened in 1919 by the London Trotting Club. It closed in 1935.

Leaver Gardens
John Leaver was a solicitor who managed land sales to developers here.

Legion Road
William Perkin Centre for Youth Sports Development. This is part of William Perkin School and was part of the planning agreement following consent for the school to be built on the former Glaxo sports ground

Oldfield Farm Gardens
Site of Oldfield Farm. This was the sole remaining farm here in 1938 and cultivated over 150 acres but by 1959 it had disappeared.

Oldfield Lane North
Greenford Station opened 1st October 1904.  Between Northolt and Perivale on the Central Line. Terminus of First Great Western Line from South Greenford. Originally opened by the Great Western Railway in 1904 on the joint "New North Main Line". The District Railway came here in 1888 as part of the Richmond Extension Railway which meant they could run to Barnes without building another line. The Loop line from West Ealing joined here came in 1903 and was used for the Royal Agricultural Show and for rural type' services from 1908. The Central Line opened here in June 1947 as part of the New Works programme with a new station designed by Brian Lewis and completed by Frederick Curtis.  It had platforms high above street level and an Escalator was provided to take people up the 33ft to the platforms – it was the first ‘up’ escalator on the underground – and remained as the lat wooden treaded escalator until 2014.  Subsequently use of the original main-line station was reduced and it was closed in 1963. The site of the old station for the New North Main Line is said to b visible from Central line trains. A bay platform serves the line to Great Western Line.
Signal Box. One of the few remaining semaphore signalling installations in London is on the New North Main Line controlled by Greenford East signal box controls.
North Greenford Shopping Parade. This has a central passage leading to an inner courtyard.
Telephone exchange
Oldfield Recreation Ground. Small area of green open space for informal recreation. Formerly used farmland
William Perkin Church of England High School. This is an ‘academy ‘’belonging’ to the ‘Twyford Academies Trust’.  Opened in 2013 on the site of the GLAXO playing fields. He school uniform was been designed with William Perkin's Mauveine dye in mind. Ada Lovelace Church of England High School shares some of the space
Glaxo Smith Kline Sports ground. Now the site of a school. This comprised a brick building and a small area for car parking. There was a cricket pavilion, playing fields, cricket pitch and cricket square,  two football pitches, two five a side football pitches, Four tennis courts; a bowling green, and a one netball court
Oldfield Primary School.

Oldfield Lane South
Royal British Legion Club. The Royal British Legion Greenford Branch was formed in 1935.They meet in club premises.

Western Avenue
Begun in 1921 it brought a whole impetus to the area. The road was first proposed in 1912 as a bypass road. Construction continued throughout the 1920s and 30s. It was completed to Denham in 1943 A flyover was built at the Greenford Roundabout to take Western Avenue over Greenford Road the A4127

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Amblecote Meadow
Gated housing development on the site of railway sidings.

Amblecote Road
Entrance to Chinbrook Meadows
Chinbrook Meadows. The majority of this park is in the square to the east and south east. London Borough of Lewisham Park opened in 1929. It has a wide open grassy area. There is a new sports pavilion, tennis courts, a multi-use pitch for 5 a side football and basketball and a new children's playground. Grass playing fields are also on offer for football and cricket. There are also tennis courts. The site was part of the land of Chinbrook Farm.

Balder Rise
Marvels Lane Boys Club.  This appears to have been used by an amateur boxing club since the 1950s.  They may or may not still be there – the site may have been sold by the owners, London Youth.

Ballymore Road
72 Knights Templar Grove. Knights Haberdashers Aske’s Academy. This is a primary school, now an ‘academy’, administered under the Haberdashers Company, Haberdashers Aske group of schools. This was previously Ballamore Primary School, later Merlin Primary School.   This was a London County Council school opened in 1927.
The Green. Patch of open hillside between Ballamore Road and Downham Way. Maps of the 1960s show a ‘hall’ alongside the road here.

Baring Road,
Called after family of Earl of Northbrook, biggest local landowners. Was previously Bromley Road. It was built at the end of the 18th century by Sir Francis Baring, who decided to improve an old farm track.  It become Baring Road in 1902
269 Ringway Community Centre. The Ringway Centre is on the site of ‘The Three Gables’ where Edith Nesbit lived for five-years in the1890s.  The site was later designated for the proposed Ringway 2 motorway box and the local wide verges result from this.  In 1983 the Grove Park Community Group opened the Ringway Community Centre here, named as such to remind the community of the victory over the Ringway 2 development that would have drastically changed the area in the 1970. The centre hosts and organises community activities and events. It publishes a newsletter and works closely with local organisations
Green space behind the Ringway Centre. This includes a Community Garden, Cox’s Wood, Camp Nesbit and a footpath linking the Community Centre site with Grove Park Nature Reserve. The Centre has a weekly 3-hour drop-in cafe with live music, hosts local groups and "Clay at the Ringway" venture, with a pottery kiln and classes
Ringway 2 in the 1960s the Greater London Council (GLC) announced plans to create a new highway called Ringway 2 which was to replace the South Circular Road. It would have meant the demolition of the Grove Park Library and a number of homes on Coopers Lane, Baring Road and Somertrees Avenue, and then gone in a cutting through the Downham estate. . The plans were opposed and the plans were cancelled in 1972.
255 Woodstock From 1923 the house was used as a factory making Gripfix adhesive. It was later been used by both the British Legion, and the Grove Park Society Club, known as the 255 Club. In 1937 the 329th Company Royal Engineers moved in as Napier House was not ready. Later used by the Southern Railway Home Guard..
61 Napier House .TA Centre. Current use by the Royal Artillery 265 (Home Counties) Air Assault Battery 106 (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery and Regimental Headquarters 106 (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery. It was built in 1938 on the site of three houses. It was opened in 1939 by the Lord Mayor of London guided there by 16 searchlights.  Napier was a 19th Royal Engineer. It was built to house 600 men in two anti-aircraft searchlight units, the 329th and 330th, in the City of London Battalion. In June 1940, the 330th were first Searchlight Company to shoot down an enemy aircraft. It is the biggest Territorial Army building in the country.  Later land behind the site was acquired and used for training. IN 1940 a Home Guard unit was based here Heavy Anti Aircraft.
St.Augustine. Gothic ragstone church, Buil in 1885-6 by Charles Bell in Kentish rag. Nave and aisles built in 1912 by P. Leeds. A Greet War memorial chapel was added in 1926. In the early 1990s St Augustine’s Church suffered significant structural damage to the apse which was demolished. It was not replaced until 2007 following fund ain Archbishop Desmond Tutu attended the church during the years he lived in Grove Park in the 1970s and also assisted with services
Vicarage. This is alongside the church and there are three Halls at the back. In 1942 a large underground shelter was built here with accommodation for 400.
Grove Park Nature Reserve. Following the building of the line from New Cross to Chislehurst and is upgrading in 1904, a wide corridor of land was left. .. Some of the site was the garden of a large house. The western edge of the reserve is on the bank of a cutting which has remained undisturbed since the railway was built. It became a nature reserve in 1984, under a licence from British Rail and after the community organisation acquired the freehold in 1987. It provides an area for local schools to engage in forest school activities as well as public access. It is accessed via the Railway Children Walk,
Bus garage. This was opened in 1949 on railway land and was supposed to make the transition from trams to buses easier as part of the Tram Replacement Programme. It is a small open site, all built at street level. The only building is the former canteen which has remained locked and out of use since privatisation. The turn around point for the trams was here and LCC wanted to extend them but this never happened. It now handles 8 bus routes.
368 Baring Hall Hotel. 1880s pub on a corner. It was originally built as part of the Earl of Northbrook's estate in 1882 and is an early design by architect Ernest Newton. There was a fire in the early 2000s and then planning applications to demolish it in 2011 and 2012. It is locally, but tot nationally listed, but it was given Asset of Community Value status for 5 years from 2013. It re-opened as a pub by Antic in December 2014.  It seems now to be shut
Grove Park station opened 1871. It lies Between Elmstead Woods and Hither Green. Later became the terminus of the line from Sundridge Park. Built by the South Eastern Railway it was named after nearby Grove Farm It was provided at the request of a local landowner, opened later than the Tonbridge cut-off line of 1868,. The main station building, on the ‘’up’’ side, was clapboard single-storey with an ornate platform canopy and an identical canopy on down side. Linking the two platforms was a lattice footbridge, installed ten years later. In 1878, the 1½-mile long Bromley North SER joined here. A signal box was added by Saxby & Farmer. In 1899, the ‘’South Eastern & Chatham Dover Railway was set up an they upgraded the line  with four-track running from 1905, which meant the  original Grove Park station vanished. The revised layout had two covered lattice footbridges, plus six platforms. All surfaces were protected by ornate canopies and crème brick platform waiting rooms. There was a high-level entrance in red crème brick, lying across the tracks at the northern ends of the platforms with a clapboard extension on its side! There was a triple-track connection with the Bromley branch. Electric services began under the Southern Railway with Third rail from Orpington, and in 1926 to Bromley North. From 1938 there as an impressive mechanical signal box constituted with sixty levers, nearly double the number of the pre-1938 arrangement. In 1961 the Bromley North branch eastern platform was blocked off with a prefabricated concrete barricade. In 1967 there was a major railway disaster with a Hastings train derailed killing 49 and injuring 7
In 1976 signalling came from the London Bridge Panel.
Goods yard. This was full f rolling stock storage tracks. This was shut in 1961. Sidings were originally used to store made up business trains during the day. 
Nursery gardens Following World War Two, demand for housing continued to rise resulting in a new six acre development behind the railway station in 1947. Prior the land ad been was used as nursery gardens, which was then developed into municipal housing.
333-335 Grove Park Adult Learning Centre

Baring Close
Site of pre-Second World War tennis courts and allotments

Burnt Ash Hill
Triangle. Amenity green space
Baring Primary School. This was a temporary school closed in 1958

Chinbrook Road
Rifle Range. In the 1860s a rifle range ran south east from the junction with Baring Road.

Coopers Lane
This is an old farm lane. The wide verges result from the Ringway 2 plans

Downham Way
This was the main axis of the London County Council's Downham Estate, with 7000 houses it the 1920s.
The tram line was provided in 1928. It eventually terminated Grove Park having come from Bromley Road.
Kings Church.  Downham Family Church is a federation of churches called Kings Church based in Catford. It was previously a Baptist church

Luffman Road
Amoa chemical factory located off of Marvels  This Lane. 1936 Emulsions for the textile trade. the works had started in a garage here.

Marvels Lane
Was once known as Claypit Lane 
Grove Park Hospital. This had originally been a workhouse built by the Board of Guardians of the Greenwich Union after they had been refused permission to expand their Vanbrugh Hill site. Spicers Meadow, was purchased in 1896 for an 'overspill' workhouse. It was completed in 1902 but changes in the poor relief system meant admission to workhouses fell dramatically, and it was empty until 1904.  In 1914 it workhouse was requisitioned by the Army Service Corps and used as a mobilisation training camp. From 1919 it was used as a hospital for TB patients but not until 1926, when it was renamed Grove Park Hospital.  In 1930 the Hospital it passed to the LCC, who added a Nurses' Home. In the Second World War it served as a first aid post and auxiliary fire station but in 1940 it was bombed.  Two nurses were awarded the George Medal for rescuing patients. It joined the NHS in 1948 with 393 beds for TB and chest cases.  In 1968 a geriatric ward was opened but it remained a TB and chest hospital until 1977, when it chanted to take mentally handicapped patients.  It closed in 1994 and the site was sold for housing. Many buildings were demolished but some along Marvels Lane survive. The entrance way has two domed turrets attached to porters’ houses behind, all of which are red brick. The building behind is also in red brick and has a large central archway for. The building has seven bays plus Dutch gables and a central clock below a cupola.

Pragnell Road
Coopers Lane Primary School. Built by the LCC in 1936 as a secondary co-educational school with every facility and convenience possible at the time.  It was also used for adult education . It closed in the 1950s and the premises used by what had been the Burnt Ash Primary school.

Pullman Mews
Housing built on site of old railway sidings
South Eastern Railway Transformer building

Railway Children Walk
Footpath from Baring Road to Reigate Road which is named for Edith Bland (Nesbit) and her book the Railway Children Walk. Her house as on the corner with Baring Road. There are two pedestrian bridges are caged to prevent access to the tracks and in a poor state of repair.  This is part of the Green Chain Walk and also the Capital Ring Walk.

Railway
Bromley Direct Railway left Grove Park in 1878 and curved south on an embankment for a mile.
Hither Green Marshalling yard. The majority of the yard is in the square to the north west but elements run south along the railway line north of Grove Park Station. And there is also a large depot. The enabling Act of Parliament was passed in 1900 for the purchase of about 100 acres for this use. In 1959 a large shed for amenity use of trains was opened on this stretch,

Reigate Road
Railway Children walk and Capital Ring Walk go along here for a short stretch.
Children’s playground

Roundtable Road
Drumbeat School. School for children with the highest level of autism. The building dates from 2013.
Downham Elementary School No 6 later Pendragon School. It Became a special needs school by the late 1950s.as a secondary school, with Humanities College status that caters for students with a range of additional needs: moderate learning, speech, language and communication, autism, complex needs

Somertrees Avenue
Was originally called The Avenue.  Grove Farm was about ha way down on the west was in these areas in the 18th Together with a brick works. The farm closed about 1860 but the very large farm house continued as Grove House.
122 St. Joseph’s Convent. Dr Barnardo's children’s  Home.. The building was originally Meredith House, : handsome with a 1940s extension. 1945-1964. There is now housing on the site
Grove Park Library. This dates from 1953. But was threatened with demolition for the Ringway. It is now volunteer staffed.

Thomas Dinwiddy Road
Dinwiddy was the architect for the workhouse building.

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Post to the north Acton Town and Gunnersbury Park
Post to the south Strand on the Green
Post to the east Turnham Green and Acton Green




Brentford Market
Brentford Market began in 1306 with a Royal Charter. Later a Market House was built. By 1890 the trading by at least 60 wagons around the fountain was becoming a nuisance, causing congestion and blocking the road.  The Brentford Local Board planned a purpose built market and bought land from the Rothschild estate east of Kew Bridge and north of the road at Gunnersbury to provide a market site. In 1897 an extension was laid out next to the original site. By1929 there were 260 growers regularly bringing produce from local country areas. In 1968 the site included a bank, restaurant, barbers and clothing shops, a blacksmith, an eel stall, a florist sundries stand as well as casual stands but q report concluded that the site was ‘completely unsuited to the needs of the modern pattern of trade and its associated problems’ and  A new Western International Market opened in 1974

Brooks Road
This was called Blenheim Road it hr 1890s, but appears to be a country lane before that called Back Lane
7 Meadowcroft. Sheltered housing
Cope Studios. Flats built on site of ‘works’
St.James Court. Built on the site of St James' parish hall. St. James since demolished

Cambridge Road North
Stench pipe in cast iron from the 19th
6-18 houses here were destroyed by a land mine during the Second World War and a British Restaurant was established on the site. It was redeveloped in the 1980s when Afroze Court flats were built.

Capital Interchange Way
Built on the site of Brentford Market and includes a number of large warehouse and similar buildings. There are now more development plans.
Kew House School. This is in what looks like a large commercial tower block. Independent co-educational secondary school. This was founded by qualified teachers Maria and Edward Gardener in 2013. It is part of the Gardener Schools Group. Parents at the ‘preparatory’ schools urged the Directors to open a co-educational secondary school for older pupils and so Kew House School opened

Chiswick High Road
This was once known as Brentford Road.
389 Chiswick Tower. 17 story office block which stands above the station and which also provides a new entrance and footway to the station. It was originally called Radial House and was designed by Raymond Spratley and Partners.
389 British Standards Institution. This is in the Chiswick Tower
Gunnersbury Station. Opened in it lies between Turnham Green and Kew Gardens on the District Line; and between South Acton and Kew Gardens on the North London Line. It was originally built by the London South West Railway as a main-line station called ‘Brentford Road’ on the Kensington and Richmond Railway. In 1871 the name was changed to ‘Gunnersbury’. From 1877 it was part of the Metropolitan District Railway when the first underground trains started using the station and it is an important connecting line from the North London Railway. There was a two storey station house, etc to the north of the station which was identical to that at Hammersmith Grove Road Station. In 1932 the eastern island platform on the London North West Railway curve to Kew Bridge was dismantled by Southern Railway.  On the in 1954 the roof of the island platform was blown off by a tornado.  The station was rebuilt by British Rail in 1967 with 18-storey office tower, and car park on the original station area. It now has only two tracks as distinct to the original four.’
Bowling green 1982 is this the Sanderson Bleak House sports site??
578-586 Office block with Co-op supermarket in the ground floor – ‘high profile contemporary office building’. The site was previously Hardware House
Chiswick Park., This is a complex of business units designed in the late 1990s by the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The site was formerly occupied by London Transport’s Chiswick Works developed by the Anglo-Norwegian Kvaerner Group. This was the largest development in London at the time and has an inner garden, which references Monet and Chinese influences.
Chiswick Works. Opened by London General Omnibus Company, and then London Transport, in 1921–2 as its central overhaul works, employing 2,000 men. Built on what was market garden land. This is where new buses were put through their paces and trainee drivers tested on the famous skidpan. It was originally designed to maintain 4,000 vehicles, and included a training school from 1925 but was restricted to engineering after London Transport opened its Aldenham works in 1956.  In 1979 London Transport employed over 2,680 at its Chiswick works. Ornamental iron gateway which has now gone. It closed in 1988
590 The Gunnersbury pub. Previously called Sir John Bull when it was a live music venue featuring groups like The Who. It was built in 1853 with a saloon next door with tables for billiards, pool and snooker.
Toll gate. In 1717 the High Road on the north side, became a toll road and a tollgate was situated at the site of what became Gunnersbury station, until 1872 when tolls were abolished.  A mile stone is marked on OS maps here up to the 1930s.
630 Cultural Bureau of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia.  Late 1980/90s office building,
636 Clayton Hotel
St James’ Gunnersbury Church. This mission church served a chapel formed in 1880.  The church in Kentish rag stone, early English style was built in 1886/7 on a site given by Rothschild family. It. closed in 1986 and was demolished in 1989 .There is an office block built on its site.
433 Mitchell House. Local Tory HQ
475 Crown Inn. Demolished 1975
London Stile farm. Farm in the hamlet of London Stile. Slightly north of Brentford Market
515 Gardeners Arms. This pub was demolished in 1957 for the Chiswick flyover.
658 Fountain Leisure Centre, this is on the site of Brentford market. Built in 1987 by the Borough Architects Department.  Named after the fountain which stood in the market when it was at Kew Bridge. There are plans to replace it.

Chiswick Flyover
This a short section of elevated dual-carriageway which opened in 1959 was not originally classed as a motorway. .It was intended to reduce the impact of traffic travelling between central London and the west. There is a 40mph speed limit

Great West Road
This was a route built between the wars bypassing Brentford and Hounslow first planned around 1920. It is only called this for this short stretch.
Railway bridge

Gunnersbury
Gunnersbury-The Suburb’ was an attempt by developers to re-brand Brentford Road and link it to Gunnersbury House and its Park.

Gunnersbury Avenue
Part of the North Circular Road. The A406 is described as North Circular Road (proposed new road): the road was mostly new build but in the west was renumbered from existing roads. By the mid-1930s the road was in existence from the A4 at Chiswick clockwise. The westernmost stretch is inadequate for its task. It runs north from the A4/ A406/ A205/ A315 roundabout
Gypsy Gate. Entrance to Gunnersbury Park.
International School of London. This was a Roman Catholic Grammar School, built in 1932 on land from the Rothschilds. It is now the International School of London, an international school which seeks to integrate mother tongue languages into a standard international curriculum, starting in early childhood. Founded in 1972.
141 St Dunstan Roman Catholic church. A small church of 1931 by T.H.B. Scott. Built as part of a complex with the former Roman Catholic church next door.
Gunnersbury Catholic Grammar school. This was founded in 1919 with 15 boys in a local hall. The Grammar school was opened in 1932 in Gunnersbury Avenue.  It became a Voluntary Aided school in 1939. From 1962 it operated on a split site as a comprehensive. They have since moved to new site as Gunnersbury Catholic School

Gunnersbury Cemetery
143 Gunnersbury Avenue.  Gunnersbury Cemetery, also called Kensington or New Kensington Cemetery, was opened in 1929. It is owned and managed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.  It was opened in 1936 on land which was part of the Rothschild estate.  There is simple brick chapel
Katyn Memorial.  20 foot black Nubian granite.  1976 in Gunnersbury Cemetery.  In memory of 14,500 prisoners of war who disappeared from camps in Russia. Designed by Louis Fitzgibbon and Count Stefan Zamoysky – who always wore a black tie.  Foreign Office wouldn’t let them say that the Russians were the guilty party and also stopped them putting a crowned Polish Eagle surrounded by barbed wire.

Gunnersbury Park
This square covers only a small section of the south west area of this large park. See squares to the north and west for detail

Harvard Road
57 Russian Orthodox Cathedral. – called the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Royal Martyrs.  Built 1998 in the Pskov style – blue onion dome with gold stars. the main church is  on the ground floor and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and a second church, or chapel, downstairs is dedicated to the last Imperial Russian emperor, Tsar Nicholai II and his family, who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1981. It is a compact building painted white with a walk-way around it used for processions. The belfry was completed in 2013 with a full peal of nine bells specially commissioned from Russia
Clergy House – Sanderson’s House. This was the home of Harold Sanderson, who with his two brothers ran the Sanderson wall-paper works and who was responsible for production after the death of his father. Harold married in 1893 and lived in this house until 1904.

Chiswick Roundabout
Chiswick Roundabout. This opened in 1959, and is one of the oldest motorway junctions in England opened some years before the M4 was built.  It is the junction for the A4 Great West Road, A205 South Circular, A315 Chiswick High Road, A406 North Circular and M4. Chiswick Flyover which is clad with brickwork. On the westbound side the original section is visible.

Kew Bridge Road
Prince’s Hall. In the 1880s this was opposite Kew Bridge Station on the north side of the Star and Garter Hotel and was used as a beer garden. Later it was a swimming pool and in the Great War it was a roller skating rink. Later it was a dance hall and then a cinema, Prince’s Hall Electric Cinema. In the early 1920s it became a film studio and later it was leased by the de Leon family as the Q Theatre. It was a venue for new plays and experience for directors, technicians and actors. For instance Dirk Bogarde started his career painting scenery for the theatre there and then became Assistant Stage Manager.  It closed as a professional theatre in 1956 and was used by amateurs until 1958, was demolished and replaced with offices, called Rivers House, (was New Bridge House). The De Leon Drama School formed the nucleus of the Richmond Drama School.
Star and Garter.  This was an 18th century coaching inn. It was once owned by Royal Brewery then leased to Fuller's. When the second Kew Bridge was opened on 22 September 1789 the celebration dinner was held here. It was replaced with offices and flats in 1984 and seems to have been since demolished
56 Express Tavern. Also called The Express Ale & Cider House. Building date from the 1860s and the forecourt was used for trading which that developed in to Brentford Market. Plaque commemorating the Trafalgar Despatch unveiled August 2009. There is a brass plaque claiming that this pub was on the route of the 'Trafalgar Despatch', on which messengers communicated news about the battle of Trafalgar to the government
Fountain. This dated from 1877 and was in the informal market which occupied this junction from 1888. The fountain went to Southall when the market moved there
Jupp's Malthouse. This was on the west side of the bridge approach. Jupp's wharf was near is mooring posts and coal and grain was landed here.  There was a tall cowled chimney. William Jupp owned the malthouse from at least 1877 and was also a coal and corn merchant.

London Stile.
At the junction with Kew Bridge road a few houses along the High R n the 17th century were a hamlet called London Stile. London Style House was on the corner of what is now Wellesley Road. This was rented from 1764 by the painter John Zoffany in the late 18th century

M4
The M4, motorway runs from London to South Wales and, was called the London-South Wales Motorway. Junctions J1-J5 opened in 1965 and included the Chiswick Flyover.[

Park Place
Gunnersbury Sports and Social Club. This appears to be on the site of a London transport (District Line) sports ground. It may include a Serbian Restaurant.  In 2008 various clubs who used the ground were barred without explanation.
Groundsman’s bungalow. This is now a private nursery school
On the other side of the railway from this sports area is the southernmost section of the London Transport Acton Works. Entered from Bolo Lane – in the square to the north.

Power Road
Trading Estate area. Manly car dealerships plus old factory and warehouse areas converted to office and workshop rentals.
Chiswick studios. In the 1930’s The Warehouse which is now Studio 1 was built by the ‘American Singer’ Sewing Machine company. And became a leading distribution centre for the country.  In the Second World War the company produced munitions. In 1950’s Singer’s main factory in Scotland was modernised which meant they no longer needed their distribution hub here. It was then used by the BBC. The Equipment Department housing workshops where electronic equipment was manufactured tested and stored.  Gryphon and George were two lion-like beasts at the entrance. They are now at Kingswood Warren. Helical acquired the site in 2015. Studio 1 was refurbished in 2017, for rented workspace

Railway Line
Triangular junction with the line to Kew Bridge and the South Western Hounslow loop at Kew.  Both Old and New Junctions were built in the 1860s. Richmond Line Extension to North London Railway on London South Western Railway property, which left new line at Acton Junction. This is all about the coal trade.
Brentford Road Junction is under the High Road. This connects the lines into   Gunnersbury Station with the lines from the North London Railway.

Surrey Crescent
As early as the 1840s the cottages here described as Gunnersbury. The road is now essentially part of the roundabout.

Wellesley Road
Wellesley Road was a right of way for pedestrians with its alignment connected to Barley Mow Passage.
Gunnersbury Baptist Church. IN 1873 Rev William Frith led a group of eighty dissenters anxious to form a church called the Trinity Martyrs’ Memorial Church. They met in an iron church and a permanent church was opened in 1878. However they ran into debt and gave the church and buildings to the London Baptist Association. Soon they were again flourishing - on Saturdays a sandwich board man walked the High Road; they were against Sunday opening of Cinemas and Madame Tussauds and Sunday games in Gunnersbury Park.  In 1934 a hall was built behind the church. The church was bombed in the Second World War ad lost a lot of members, but things improved later and it still flourishes now.
Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal church was on the site off Wellesley Court. This was an iron church. Demolished 1949
Site of Sunday school on west side of the railway. This was the lecture hall of the Gunnersbury Baptist church, sold n 1934

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Post to the south Swiss Cottage


This area consists of many roads where most buildings are listed and many have been lived in by a succession of famous people.  This blog is supposed to be about workplaces and public buildings – so the amount of detail on architecture and celebrity has been drastically limited.

Akenside Road
Named for Mark Akenside poet and doctor lived at Golders Hill

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

Back Lane
The road existed by 1745
5 Radius Works. Charities Advisory Trust

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

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

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

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

Bird in Hand Yard
This is a narrow alley associated with the Bird in Hand pub. It has brick walls on either side. Tram services started from here and the yard is said to have had stables for the LGOC horses. It had a covered entry from the High Street.

Church Row
Built 1710-1728 and considered one of the finest Georgian suburban streets in London. The original houses had no mews or stables.  Most houses are listed and many have had famous residents.
Tollgate.  Until the late 19th the access to Frognal at the north end of the road was barred by a tollgate.
St.John’s Church .1745-7 and not clear which St.John is intended. The medieval church had a wooden tower for the Benedictine monks of Westminster - the then owners - so that they could look up to it. The old church was in need of repair by the 18th and   Henry Flitcroft, who was a local resident, offered to rebuild it in 1744. The parish rejected his designs and turned to another parishioner, Palladian architect John Sanderson.  This building has a plain brown brick outside with the tower at the end to save money. The upper part of the tower rebuilt by Samuel Steemson in 1759, with battlements and a spike added in 1782-3.  However this is a pretty church demonstrating the social life of Hampstead in the early 19th.  Inside are box pews and umbrella stands. It became a parish church in 1860. A competition was held in 1874 for a new building, which led to a campaign to save the 18th tower.  One result of this was that William Morris took to campaigning against ‘restoring’ churches.  F.P. Cockerell was the winning competitor, and his work in 1877-8 turned it round. The Vicar was a friend of Byron – but following a dispute an evangelical vicar was appointed in 1832. In 1910 the congregation bought the Freehold. There are carved Hanoverian Royal Arms and Commandment Boards in the gallery and much other art work. The church has a long musical tradition which it maintains with a professional choir and high-profile concerts. The current organ was installed by Henry Willis in 1884.
Churchyard. This is a Garden with iron railings and wrought iron gates from the 1747 sale of Canons at Little Stanmore. The churchyard is enclosed by 19th wrought iron railings with a dwarf brick wall. There is long grass and mature trees.  At the west entrance is an 18th wrought-iron gate from the 1747 sale of the Duke of Chandos' mansion Canons. The northern entrance has wrought and cast-iron railings an original Sugg 6-sided Westminster lantern and a lamp-holder with ladder bar incorporated in the railings. The brick churchyard walls date from the 18th.  There are lots of tombs including that of John Constable 1837, John Harrison, Norman Shaw and Hugh Gaitskell as well as those of famous show business people and many more.
St John's Churchyard Extension An additional plot of land was purchased on the other side of Church Row in 1812. There are many monuments including one by Eric Gill and others using Coade stone
9 Hampstead Reformatory for Girls. Following the decision by the Rescue Society to close its reformatory at no 28 a new institution was founded here. It opened in 1860 and the inmates of 28 moved in. It closed in 1876 and the building was used by the .Field Lane Industrial School for Girls, from Clerkenwell. In 1893 some of the building had to be reconstructed and the school closed in 1901.
28 Reformatory for Girls. This opened in 1857 for ‘openly immoral’ young women. It closed in 1860.

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

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

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

Denning Road
38 Denning Hall. Built as a mission hall in 1883, associated with St. Stephen’s Church, Rosslyn Hill. Later converted into artists' studios and as housing.

Downshire Hill
The western end of the street was originally called Albion Grove and was developed from 1813. Site of Red Lion Hill brickfields. Most houses in the road are listed and most have had famous residents – many of them successively.
1b Keats GP Group Practice. Built as a postal sorting office by the Office of Works in 1891 an apparently later used by the National Assistance Board.
14a former school of St. Johns Church. This was apparently built in the early 1830s at his own expense by John Willcox, who owned the church and with whom there were disputes and a court case. It was financed by subscriptions and a parliamentary grant. It was closed and transferred to St. Stephen’s elementary school in 1874-5. In the 1920s it was used as a studio by sculptor Sydney Carline and others, and appears to continue in studio and residential use today.

Ellerdale Road
The area belonged to the Greenhill estate and was built up in the early 1870s with grand gothic villas, many of them by T.K. Green
6 Institute of St Marcellina. This is an Italian Sisterhood providing accommodation for foreign students.  Also called Hampstead Towers.  It was Norman Shaw’s own house built for himself and daringly progressive.  Built in 1874-6 by W.H.  Lascelles for Shaw himself, who lived there until 1912.  The house is tall and appears craggy.
24 King Alfred's school opened in 1898 here to practise modern theories of education. The school had no religious or political affiliations; discipline depended on the pupils' co-operation and competition was discouraged. It moved to Hendon in 1919.

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

Fitzjohns Avenue
The road was built as a link between Swiss Cottage and central Hampstead on land sold by the Maryon Wilsons to developers in 1875 and named after an estate of theirs in Essex.  It opened up a large area between here and Finchley Road for development with large houses. From the 1920s houses were divided into flats
Source of the Tyburn.  This is marked by a  disused drinking fountain at the junction with Lyndhurst Road said to be near the site of Shepherd's Well.. This is marked as 'Conduit' on a map of 1814. The well when closed was 24 feet wide and lay about halfway between the fountain and the opposite corner of Akenside Road. The water is said to have clean and pure.
116 Monro House. This was  The Royal Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and Home.  It was founded by Major Powys in 1829 at Frognal House. In 1869 it moved to this new building designed by Edward Ellis. In 1871 two rooms were a school for 60 girls of all ages, learning for a future as household servants. It seems to have closed in 1957 and transferred to a similar organisation in Hull. The building is now flats for pensioners owned by LB Camden.
Air vent for the tunnel of the North London Line which runs under the road is marked on maps to the north of the Lyndhurst Road junction.
47 St Mary’s School. Fee paying private Roman Catholic School. Established here in 1926 founded by the Congregation of Jesus. The house dates from 1880 designed by George Lethbridge for L.M. Casella plus a 20th chapel. The house is in orange brick with decoration in high quality gauged and rubbed brickwork. There is a brick boundary wall in stepped sections with cast-iron railings and wrought-iron gates. This was an extremely expensive house to build and its quality is apparent. Casella was the inventor of the clinical thermometer.
66 Havelock Hall, a Baptist Training College.  In the 1930s used as an annexe to Westminster Hospital
66 Marie Curie Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases had been founded at 2 Fitzjohn's Avenue in 1929. These buildings, except for the new wing and the shelter, were totally destroyed by a high explosive bomb in 1944. And they moved to the Westminster hospital annexe for temporary relocation. Following repairs and improvement, the 50-bedded Hospital was opened by Queen Mary in 1946.  In 1965 it was decided to move the Hospital in its entirety to a ward at Mount Vernon Hospital, where the equipment of a modern radiotherapy department would be available and The Marie Curie Hospital closed in 1967. The Hospital buildings were demolished in 1969.  The site has been redeveloped and now contains an apartment block fronting Akenside Road. , was replaced in 1969 by flats built for the Medical Research Council.
69 Devonshire House ‘Preparatory’ school, plus nursery. The house was built in 1877 for C. Kemp Wild.
73 alterations of 1901-3 by Voysey for P. A. Barendt
75 Uplands. This is a Gothic style house built in the 19th by T.K. Green for P.F. Poole, RA. It is in purple brick with black and white bands plus a carved monogram "PFP RA". Outside are stepped brick walls with timber gates.
77 Field Court. Housing for the local authority by Pollard Thomas & Edwards built 1977. This is made up of nine houses and twelve flats in a tall, block with pitched roofs intended to echo its 19th  neighbours.

Flask Walk
Source of the Fleet. One source of the river Fleet was near Flask Walk.  And a pond existed at the east end of the walk in 1762, possibly fed by the tributary spring. The engine pond was here for the use of fire engines.
The road is an 18th development of a country lane. Archway from the street which fell down in 1911
14 Flask Tavern. This was the ‘Lower Flask Inn’ or the ‘Thatched House’ selling bottled spa water from the Hampstead Wells. The Upper Flask was in Hampstead Hill and the clientele of the Lower Flask were considered socially inferior. The pub is now a 19th creation having been rebuilt by Cumming and Nixon in 1874, since when it has been known as ‘The Flask’. It has the original glass and mahogany partitions, bar counter and fittings, cast-iron fireplaces with tiles and "Victorian chromolithographs". A vaulted brick-built cellar was discovered in 1990. It has been a Young’s pub since 1904.
65 Subscription library set up in 1833 Hampstead Pubic Library of General Literature and Elementary Science. In 1885 a reading room was installed and the working classes let in by a side door
Public Baths of 1888 built by Camden Baths and Washhouses. The Wells and Campden Charity which was a major local landowner and the site was chosen for being near the original Chalybeate spring on Well Walk. It had 9 baths, a laundry, and drying-room. Closed in 1978 and now residential.
Village green.  This is the old village green, with grass and a number of trees. It used to be larger and in 1712 the Hampstead Fair took –place here.Watch house and site of stocks at the side of the telephone kiosk. The watch house was moved here from, Heath Street by 1795. It had two’ dungeons’ for the miscreants and was demolished soon after 1839.  By the early C20th the Green was owned and maintained by Hampstead Borough Council
Two Type K6 telephone kiosks on the village green.  Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935, fabricated by W MacFarlane of Glasgow.

Frognal
First recorded in the 15th as a ‘customary tenement’ – an estate held on the basis that local custom must be adhered to. It was a community in its own right in the 17th and 18th. A manor farm and cottages were scattered along the road, which winds uphill. It grew from a single house and as other houses were built they took on the ‘Frognal’ name. ‘Frognal’ means ‘a nook of land frequented by frogs', and the area was well watered, with a cattle pond fed by a brook.  The road itself appears to follow a stream flowing into the Westbourne.. It became a village in the 17th from a single house and as other houses were built it took on the ‘Frognal’ name which had been used from the 14th.
Frognal Hall, Manor farm and buildings. These were near the junction with Frognal Lane together with a group of other houses. It was set back from the road in 1½ acres, adjoining the churchyard, and probably existed by 1646
66 classic modernist house by Connell, Ward 1937, built of concrete with plastered walls, and non structural blue brick. The entrance is at the first-floor level while the top floor is partly on stilts and planned as deck. Built for solicitor, Geoffrey Walford and designed by Colin Lucas.
99 St. Dorothy’s Residence. This offers accommodation to young ladies coming to study in London and run by the Sisters of Saint Dorothy. The building is called Frognal House. It is mid-c18 built on the site of the original Frognal House. De Gaulle lived here during the latter part of the Second World War
103 Upper Frognal Lodge.  Coach house to Henry Flitcroft's house Frognal Grove. c1745-50.  .  Home of Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour Prime Minister, 1925-37;
105-111 Frognal Grove. Approached by Lime Walk, which is a right of way. The house is subdivided into four semi-detached house. The core is 1745 by Henry Flitcroft.  There is also a former stable, adapted by A. & P. Smithson in 1960. 
39 this was the home of illustrator Kate Greenaway 1886-1901. It is a building by Norman Shaw and there is a plaque to Kate.
41 house, in the International Modern style by Alexander Flinders, 1966-8.
University College School.  The School was founded in Gower Street in 1830 as part of University College, and here in 1907.  UCS was founded with a liberal philosophy. It has three separate schools: the Phoenix School takes boys and girls aged 3-7. The school opened in 2002.  The Junior Branch educated education for boys aged 7-11. The Senior School caters for boys aged from 11-18.  Sixth form. The school took girls from 2008.  The buildings are from 1905-7 by Arnold Mitchell and originally planned for 500 pupils.  It is brick with a stone frontispiece and cupola.  There is a great hall restored by Michael Foster after a fire in 1978.  There are additions from the 1059s.1970s and subsequently.

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

Frognal Gardens
Laid out in the grounds of the Old Mansion. Alexander Gray bought the Old Mansion on the east side of old Frognal c. 1889, laid out an L-shaped road, Frognal Gardens, through the grounds, and commissioned James Neale, a former pupil
18 Frognal End. Built for Sir Walter Besant 1836-1901 –'novelist and antiquary lived and died here'. A later resident was, Hugh Gaitskill. Labour Party leader

Frognal Lane
Once called West End Lane and is a continuation of the road which still has that name.

Frognal Rise
This is one of Hampstead’s oldest roads connecting Holly Hill and Branch Hill. There are a number of large 18th and 19th houses here.
Mount Vernon Hospital for Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Lungs.   The Hospital took over a house called Mount Vernon and work began here in 1880 to –build the North London Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest designed in a 17th French renaissance style and fronting on Frognal Rise.  The western block with 34 beds opened in 1881.  On the first floor was a female ward, with the men on the second floor and facilities in floors above.   The central block with entrance hall, a dining room was opened by Princess Christian in 1893 ad she paid off the debts on the building.  In 1902 X-ray apparatus was installed and high frequency electrical currents were used for treatment.  The eastern block was completed in 1903 for 45 patients. In 1913, because of financial difficulties everything moved to Northwood and the Hampstead building was sold to for a National Institute for Medical Research. In the Great War at first it became the No. 1 Canadian Stationary Hospital.  But the changes needed to make it fit for purpose took two months. The following day the unit was sent overseas.  In 1915 it became The Military Hospital, Hampstead and huts were built in the grounds.  In 1916 it became a special army research hospital for the study and treatment of cardiac cases.  In 1917 it became the Royal Flying Corps Central Hospital and an Air Medical Investigation Committee was established here to investigate the problems associated with flying. The National Institute for Medical Research - renamed the Medical Research Council remained in the buildings until 1950 and until 1972 it was used by as the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control. The buildings have now been converted into flats.
Mount Vernon House, built in 1800, which had been the residence of the Hospital Secretary, became the Nurses' Home.

Frognal Way
Road which continues as a foot path from what was the hamlet of Frognal to St John’s church
66 Sun House.  Modernist concrete house by Maxwell Fry. 1934-5, an object lesson in facade.

Gainsborough Gardens
Only the southern portion of this estate is in this square
The area was part of the site of Hampstead Wells spa. In 1698 6 acres of swampy ground, were donated by the then Lords of the Manor of Hampstead, the Gainsborough family, hence the name of the gardens. The Wells Trust was set up to administer this gift. Gainsborough Gardens was the pleasure garden area of the spa with a bowling green and an ornamental pond with boathouse.
Gated private estate. This is an oval crescent around a central garden laid out  and developed by the Wells and Camden Charity Trust, set up to administer the Gainsborough gift, and overseen by their surveyor, H.S. Legg. The central garden was the site of the Spa’s ornamental pond, including an ice house. The estate was built following the ethos pioneered at Bedford Park and also steps to limit expansion onto Hampstead Heath and the preservation of Parliament Hill Fields - attributed to CE Maurice who lived here and was married to the sister of Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust. English Heritage says that the area’s prominent in the history of the protection of open spaces’.
Ice Well.  Domed, south facing 18th ice well under a mound. Brick built entered through a brick tunnel in a timber shed. Has been used as an air raid shelter. Ice probably came from the lake to use in ices in the Long Room.

Gayton Road
The entrance to the road was the entrance to the White Hart Inn and some of the road is on what was the yard of the pub

Golden Yard
Cluster of cottages at the back of Heath Street, once owned by a family called Goulding. Said to be a 16th sand pit.

Greenhill
Raised roadway paralleling Rosslyn Avenue and providing a frontage for flats.  This may have been a roadway serving Mount Grove House

Hampstead High Street
Street of tall late 19th shopping terraces. Once called Kingswell Street, the name changed in the Middle Ages to Hampstead Street or Hampstead Hill.
88 Stanfield Hall – to the rear of Stanfield House, in Prince Arthur Road. Headquarters of the Rosicrucian Society. Previously Fourth Ch. of Christ Scientist from 1953 and Closed in 1978
85 Stanfield House.  Once the home of Clarkson Stanfield 19TH, theatrical scenic artist, marine and landscape painter, Royal Academician and has had a variety of uses, including a school. It is currently used by Turning Point, a charity dealing with problems of alcohol and drug abuse
North London Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest. This opened in what is now Stanfield House in 1860. Stanfield may still have been resident when the patients arrived and may have had TB himself. The Hospital treated the poor and Patients came from all parts of the United Kingdom –The dry, bracing air of Hampstead was considered to be beneficial to recovery. Stanfield House was sold in 1864 and the Hospital then leased it back. Work began on the new hospital in 1880 and the patients were transferred from Stanfield House to the new building at Mount Vernon.
"The Hampstead Public Library of General Literature and Elementary Science -this was a Subscription Library moved here from Flask Walk in 1884.  This was on the ground floor of the house which was altered for the library. In 1966 the library was closed and the stock WS dispersed.
2 Trinity Presbyterian church. This was first built in 1844 for Scottish inhabitants and they used the Temperance Hall in Perrin's Court. The congregation then moved to Well Walk Chapel in 1853, and in 1861 bought 2 High Street. They built a new church which opened in 1862. It was demolished in 1962 and Shops were built on the site and the hall was converted into Trinity Close.
9a Hampstead Brewery. This was founded in 1720 by John Vincent. Later known as Harris & Co., Acquired by Reffells Brewery in 1931. The remains of the brewery are still standing at the rear of the property. The buildings stood, behind the King of Bohemia pub on Hampstead High Street and, by the end of the 1920s, employed 128 people. The site was refurbished in the 1970s and the adapted original buildings stand in Old Brewery Mews, designed by Dinerman, Davidson & Partners in 1973
10 King of Bohemia built here in 17th before 1680 and rebuilt in the 1930s. It was originally called The King of Bohemia's Head. It closed in the early 21st.  The King of Bohemia was the Elector Palentine and son in law to James I.
14 The Three Tuns Tavern
17 White Hart, This pub was trading by 1762 but is now long gone.  The entrance to Gayton Road is sited on the yard entrance
Penfold pillar box. This is outside no 23. It is of the Penfold type, c1866-79, a hexagonal box in cast-iron, with ‘VR’ on the door and ‘VR’ plus the Royal Arms above the mouth along with "Post" and "Office". It is no longer in use. In 1914 it was damaged by suffragettes. Smoke was seen coming from box - tar and oil had been poured in and set alight,
38/39 Bird in Hand. This pub dates from 1771, converted from a coffee house, and rebuilt in 1879. It is now Cafe Rouge and was previously a branch of Dome. There is a carved motif of a dove over the central door at first floor level. Said to be hidden sign ‘Alton Ales’.
Omnibus routes. Buses left from the Bird in Hand - Eight to the City in 1834. In 1856, most were acquired by the Compagnie Générale des Omnibus de Londres – this became the London General Omnibus Co. or L.G.O.C..
Hampstead station opened in 1907 it lies between Golders Green and Belsize Park on the Northern Line. It was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway and taken over by Yerkes. Work started 1903. It was originally to be called Heath Street – there is some signage showing this at platform level. Its unusually shaped surface building is determined by the topography.  It was designed by Leslie Green Like other Northern Line's stations there are rows of arches and ox-blood glazed tiles.  It is the deepest station in London lying 250' below surface and the Second World War it was used as an air raid shelter.  Its lift shaft is 181 feet down, originally housing Otis lifts which were modernised by the Wadsworth Lift Company, and again in 2014 by Accord. The metal roof structure houses the lift equipment.  There is also a spiral emergency staircase with over 320 steps. Only the ticket hall and some isolated areas remain as original.  The central entrance was blocked in the 1980s and the ticket hall modernised in 1988. The beamed ceilings and clock remain and there are original finishes by the Permanent Decorative Glass Company.  .

Hampstead Hill Gardens,
This is a street with red brick artists' villas built 1875-83, or ’gentleman artists’ by Batterbury & Huxley, described as ’rosered villas’ with rubbed-brick ornaments.

Heath Street
Late 19th road but stands in an area mentioned in 19th charters. I he late19th road improvement and slum clearance led to development of the street
28 The Horseshoe pub. This pub was originally at 62 High Street, but moved here in 1890. It was then called the Three Horseshows. For a while it was a Wetherspoons. A brewing operation began in the cellar of the pub but by 2010, it was too big and moved out to become the Camden Town Brewery.
49 Hampstead Fire Station. Hampstead fire station, designed by George Vulliamy, opened in 1874 on the site of the former police station. For the Metropolitan Board of Works. It has patterned brick, and a comer clock tower, said to have been a watch tower but which has lost its pyramidal roof. There is a plaque on the building explaining all this.
64 Cinema. This was the Eldorado Cinematograph which opened 1909/10 but was not licenced until September 1909.  In 1913, it was re-named Hampstead Picture Palace, and also the Hampstead Electric Theatre. It was closed in 1916, and in 1917 it was the Tube Tea Rooms. It has since become a restaurant.
68 Horse and Groom. Closed and now in other use.  The name sign remains at first floor level.
79-81 Nags Head. For awhile this was The Cruel Sea and said to have murals on the walls. Now in other use’s
Baptist Church, in the 18th Baptists used a room in Holly Bush Hill but some left to set up an ‘Ebeneezer Strict Baptist Church’ in New End. The Heath Street building opened in 1861 and paid for by James Harvey, a London merchant the site had previously been a fruit and vegetable garden.
British School. This was connected to the chapel but eventually moved to a purpose built block in New End. It is said to have been ‘well regarded’. The building may remain as part of the chapel

Holly Bush Hill
This was in the 19th a pathway called Bradley’s Buildings
Romney House. This was the site of Cloth Hill designed by Samuel Bunce as a two-storeyed timber framed and weatherboarded house. The portrait painter George Romney bought the house in 1796. He wanted to build a studio with a museum of casts from the antique, where students would work under his supervision. The original house had a garden, a stable, and coach house. Romney built a new stable plus a "whimsical structure”.  He left in 1799, and in 1807 it became the Hampstead Assembly Rooms with a tea room, ballroom and card room. The Hampstead Literary and Scientific Society began here in 1833, the Conversazione Society followed in 1846 and met here. From 1886 the Constitutional Club met here.  In 1929 it was bought by Clough Williams-Ellis as his home and international writers were entertained here. The house was redesigned by 6a architects in 2012 and a staircase tower added. The stables became a pub. There is a London County Council plaque on the house
Green space –there are two small areas of green space maintained by Hampstead Borough Council, now by LB Camden. One is a narrow strip of land laid out as a shrubbery, and the other a small area of grass with some small trees with low post and chain boundary.
New Camden Court built 1887 by the Wells and Camden Charity but taken over eventually by the local authority,

Holly Bush Vale
Hampstead Parochial Schools. Boys’, girls' and infants' schools of 1856, having previously been in other premises from an organs charitable school. c. 1862 and 1887;
Everyman Cinema.  The building dates from 1888 as an assembly room to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. It later became the Hampstead Drill Hall, and base for the Hampstead Regiment and Films were screened in the basement room the 1890’s. It opened as the Everyman Theatre in 1920 presenting plays by new playwrights and closed in 1933. It reopened as a cinema and was redesigned by Alistair Gladstone MacDonald, and equipped with a Western Electric sound system. From 1934 it showed foreign films which could only be seen there. It closed in 1940 and reopened in 1943 and from the end of the War it returned to showing foreign films. In 1954 it opened an art gallery in the foyer. And Sunday concerts were held. Despite a down turn it survived and was refurbished in 1984 with grants from the Greater London Council and Channel 4 TV. In 1986 a cafe/restaurant was opened, A Saturday morning children’s cinema club was introduced and cine-variety presentations ad live concerts held. Later a second screen was added and there is also a private screening room

Holly Hill
11 University College School Junior School, site of Holly Hill House This is the junior school of the school founded in Gower Street in 1830 as part of University College, London and moved here in 1907. It was founded to promote the Benthamite principles of liberal scholarship and education

Holly Mount
The Baptist Chapel is said to have originated in a building here built in 1818.  It later became printers with the Hampstead and Highgate Express. Since 1911 it has been housing and a studio
Holly Bush Pub. Said to be built on the site of painter Romney’s stables and opened in 1897. Romney lived to the rear at 6 the Mount or Cloth Hill, in 1796. When he moved away in 1799, he converted the stables into Prospect House and studio. His son sold it in 1801 and it was converted into assembly rooms and the stables into the pub.   This was a Beskins House and more recently Fullers.
18 this was the Holly Mount Laundry in the 1850s

Holly Place
4 St. Mary's RC Church. Built 1816 and in the centre of a recessed terrace of cottages. This is one of the earliest Roman Catholic churches in London and is a. Monument to Abbe Morel, founded by French émigrés at the expense of the congregation at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.  The stuccoed front was added by W. Wardell in 1850: it has a statue of the Virgin in a niche above, and an open belfry plus bell.
1 St Vincent's Orphanage for Little Boys.  Soon after the church was built, two schools, for boys and girls, were set up next to the presbytery and supported by subscriptions. By the 1860s there was also an orphanage for boys. In 1871 a new priest had a new school built behind the church. The Franciscan Tertiary Sisters from St Joseph's College took over the school and orphanage and opened a convent at No 1. Eventually it had taken over all the buildings in the terrace south of the church.  In 1907 the school was condemned by the Board of Education and demolished. In 1911, the orphanage was closed and the convent amalgamated with Sisters in Canning Town.

Holly Walk
9 The Watch House. Hampstead police watch house built 1830. A plaque says "in the 1830s the newly formed Hampstead Police Force set out on its patrol and nightly watch from this house." They moved out after four years

Kemplay Road
Laid out by the British Land Company in the late 1870s

Lakis Walk
Built in 1973 an alley of houses, grey brick and exposed concrete by Gerson Rottenberg.

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

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

Maresfield Gardens
4 Cecil Sharp
16 for the Danish glass designer Arild Rosenkrantz, plain brick  |
20 Freud Museum. a broad symmetrical Queen Anne house. home of Sigmund reud and where he died. interior alterations are by his son, Ernst. In 1938, Sigmund Freud left Vienna as a refugee from the Nazi occupation and came to England. He resumed work a year later. His collection of Eyptian, Greek, Ottoman  and Oriental antiquities, his working library and papers, and his furniture including the desk and couch are here. These rooms were his laboratory, the site of his discoveries about the human psyche, and they offer insights into the nature of his achievements as the founder of pschoanalysis. The house was later the home of his daughter, Anna 1895-1982, whose development of her father's work is also part of the museum.
St, Thomas More RC church. 1968 elliptical. Undramatic.
58 1938-9 by H. Herry-Zwiegenthal for F Jolowitz, a modernist house of brick, with an angled projecting room carrying a bold pierced metal balcony

Netherhall Gardens
50 built at part of 61 Fitzjohn's Avenue in 1878 as a single house for the artist Edwin Long by Shaw.  Thanks to the architect's inexhaustible fantasy motifs and composition from his own house in Ellerdale Road low, comfortable, broadly composed, with Dutch gables, and below, in the middle of them, a project studio with large bow at the end.

New Court
Flats. Consists of two bleak five-storey blocks of artisan tenements, one of 1854-5, and a slightly more decorative one of 1871, the latter perhaps by T. G. Jackson, whose father, Hugh Jackson, a local solicitor, paid for the earlier one.
55, The Tower, 1880 H.F. Baxter by T. Wimperis.  Massive Baronial creation, stone balconies and tourelles; grand gate piers and gates
47 St Mary's Convent is by George Lethbridge for L.  Casella, c. 1880; much terracotta detail.
6, Three Gables, 1881 Shaw for Frank Holl, demolished
Flockhart's studio house for Pettie.  Now demolished.
6 1882-3 for Thomas Davidson, by Batterbury & Huxley, with a large studio   wing with big leaded-light window.  The best house in the hinterland.

New End
Area of gambling and souvenir shops in the early 18th.  Later dominated by the hospital.
Workhouse. The parish workhouse had been in Frognal but was moved here n 1891 because of conditions there. A large house was bought here and extended under Henry White. This remained until 1842 when inmates were moved to Edmonton and this building went into other use. In 1848 Hampstead became a Poor Law authority and sanctioned a new building by H.E.Kendall and these are the buildings fronting onto New End. It is said that the stone breaking cells are still extant. In 1878 the infirmary was extended and in 1883 a new circular ward block was built. In 1896 another infirmary block was added on the corner with Heath Street. In the Great War the whole complex was a military hospital and facilities were improved, with X-rays and an operating theatre – it was thought wounds healed more quickly the higher the altitude. From 1922 the buildings were back with Hampstead Guardians and renamed the New End Hospital.
New End Hospital. The workhouse infirmary was renamed a hospital in 1922. In 1930 it was taken over by the London County Council and became a general hospital, including space for children and a maternity department. There was also an Out-patients Department and a Casualty Department. In 1931 a Thyroid Clinic gained an international reputation for the treatment of patients suffering from toxic goitre and myasthenia gravis. The Hospital joined the NHS in 1948 and it became recognised as a hospital for acutely sick patients and a centre for endocrinology. By 1955 the world's most modern radioactive iodine isotope was developed in the basement. From 1972 when the new Royal Free Hospital opened New End Hospital became a geriatric hospital. The site was closed in 1986, despite much opposition.  The site is now a gated estate developed by Berkeley Homes, 1996-7.  The old ward blocks were converted and refurbished for residential use in 1996-1998. The the main frontage to New End has been preserved.  This area is own called Upper Hampstead walk
Rotunda. This is a hospital ward with attached an ablution and water tank tower 1884-5 by Charles Bell, an early example of a circular ward, with central chimney and square tower to one side, with 3 floors containing wards, with accommodation staff. The tower includes a cast-iron water tank. It had a ventilation system and was the first free-standing example of the circular "ward tower" in the country. The design gave improved air, light and ventilation with the advantage of only needing a small site.
Boiler house chimney. This was built in 1898 and Designed by Keith D Young, built by Frederick Gough and Co of Hendon. As part of New End Hospital. It is in Red brick with Portland stone dressings, tapering towards the top. It is the only surviving part of the boiler and laundry house
16 Heathside Preparatory School. Middle school. This is a boarding and day ’preparatory 'school with five other sites nearby. Following some problems with Ofsted the school is now owed by Dukes Education and has a new head. After its parent company of 27 years, Remus White Limited went into administration. This site also contains their head office
23 Duke of Hamilton Pub. This pub has strong community focus which fields its own cricket and rugby teams. Named after a Civil War Royalist, it opened in 1721 rebuilt 1930s. It was a popular meeting place for actors Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and Richard Burton. Reed would be seen for long periods at the pub on a daily basis. . In 2015, its landlord barred some 800 members of community group Hampstead Neighbourhood Forum after their successful campaign to make the pub an Asset of Community Value against his wishes.]The pub closed in July 2017, and was reopened in early 2018 as the "Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club and the Hampstead Jazz Club is based in its cellar.
27 Mortuary.  This was –part of the hospital and was linked to the hospital across the road by a tunnel. It is where Karl Marx was laid out. It became the New End Theatre in 1974. It is now the Village Shul.
27 New End Theatre founded in 1974 in the converted mortuary. It had a number of successes which transferred to both the West End and Broadway and also showed world premieres of works by Jean Anouilh, Steven Berkoff, and Arnold Wesker. It closed in 2011 because of declining audiences
27 Village Shul. An independent Orthodox congregation of around 50 families
16c Hampstead Provident Dispensary. This was built by local fundraising in thanks for escaping the cholera epidemic. IT was founded in 1846 by the Rev Thomas Ainger as a sick relief club and dispensary. Initially they used rooms in the workhouse but in 1850 following collections in churches land was purchased at New End and a three storied building opened in 1853. In January 1879 they amalgamated with the Hampstead Dispensary in Heath Street and then both operating from the New End premises. From 1911 Following the National Insurance Act it declined in importance and closed in 1948 on the creation of the National Health Service. The building was sold in 1950.and is now a private school
Samuel Hoare's British School. Opened by 1811 in a building. Paid for by Hoare, who also paid master's salary and other expenses? After the Parochial school was united with National Society but without religious test, Hoare closed the school, it later became the Baptist chapel.
Ebenezer Baptist chapel. In 1825 a group of seceders from a Hampstead Baptist congregation founded Ebenezer Strict Baptist chapel in New End, at first meeting in a house.    The Ebenezer chapel opened 1827 in a former schoolroom. In 1938 the Chapel was compulsorily purchased for flats

New End Square
Built to accommodate visitors to the Spa
Burgh House.  Saved from conversion to offices in 1979. The house hosts regular art exhibitions, serves as a classical concert venue and is home to the Hampstead Museum.  The house was built in 1704 and was the home of the Hampstead Spa's physician, Dr. William Gibbons. The current wrought-iron gate carries his initials.  Until the 1870s the house was known as Lewis House after another resident. In 1858 Burgh House was taken over by the Royal East Middlesex Militia, and served as the headquarters and officers' mess until 1881. The house returned to residential use in 1884. From 1937 until after the Second World War it was empty and it was eventually bought and restored by the local authority. This included demolition of barrack blocks in front of the building. In 1947 it reopened as a community centre with a Citizen's Advice Bureau in its basement. Problems with dry rot led to another closure in 1977, local residents launched a "Keep Burgh House" appeal, as a result leased the house. In 1979, it reopened with the museum
40 this was once a pub called The Hawk. Opened before 1748. It was rebuilt in 1815, and closed in the 1840s or 1850s.
Well Walk Pottery. This was the workshop of Christopher Magarshack.  He made ceramics of all sorts, as well as woodwork and in later years stained glass.  The pottery had originated in 1957 when his family bought Sidney Spall’s Grocer’s Shop and opened it as a studio.

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

Perrin’s Court
This is a private road, partly made of mews type buildings. It has a granite sett surface.
Temperance Hall. Used by the Presbyterian congregation in the 1840s.

Perrin's Lane
A very old lane which linked Hampstead village to Frognal. It was earlier called Church Lane Perrin was the land owner
2 Henry Holiday stained-glass painter, set up a glassworks here in the late 1891. He made stained glass, mosaics, enamels and sacerdotal objects.

Pilgrim’s Lane
The northern part of the road was once Worsley Road. The road is named after Charles Pilgrim who had bought the manor

Prince Arthur Road
2a this was a Christian Science Church

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

Rosslyn Hill
Was at one time called Red Lion Hill after a pub which was on the site of the later police station. Named after Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of Rosslyn, and Lord Chancellor who was sacked from the Woolsack in 1861.
Mount Grove. This was the home of Longman the publisher, with an exhibition garden and many big trees. Also called the Rookery. The building of Prince Arthur Road shaved away a northern strip of the site. The cedar trees are said to have been kept but the rooks had cleared off
Hampstead Wesleyan Church. Built 1870 and demolished about 1934. This was on some of the Mount Grove site and was on the corner of Prince Arthur Road. They had previously been in South Hill Park from 1869 and bought this Site in 1870. The building was red brick by Charles Bell.  A gallery was added in 1878 but the tower was never built. The site includes a school, vestries, and a caretaker's house. The site is now flats.
65 Vane House. This was named after 17th Henry Vane who was an ex-American settler who became an administrator under the Commonwealth.  Eventually he quarrelled with Cromwell. He was executed on Tower Hill after the Restoration. The House demolished but RSA plaque of 1897 remains on a surviving gate pier 'statesman lived here. There were subsequently a number of distinguished residents and it was eventually bought by the Soldiers' Daughters' Home and demolished in 1972
65 The Soldiers' Daughters' Home. This was founded in 1855 with   the object 'to nurse, clothe, board, and educate the destitute female children  ... of soldiers’.  Initially they were at Rosslyn House. The girls did all the household work themselves, assisted in the kitchen, nursery and sick room, and so on. Following extensive fund-raising, they bought Vane House, to build permanent premises and a new building, was opened in 1858, by Prince Albert. The building for 200 girls was in the Early English style by William Munt. From 1924, the Home was maintained by the London County Council. But 1945 when the charity turned into an independent all-age boarding school and girls attended local schools. In the late 1960s, a modern building was constructed and the old ones demolished. A modern housing estate was built. In 1987 –now called Vane Close  -  the Home was renamed the Royal School, Hampstead, with girls being admitted from all armed services, plus civilian pupils.. In 2011 it was closed and in 2012 North Bridge House Senior School took over the Royal School site with an address in Vane Close.
Drinking fountain. In the wall of 65. This dates from around c1875 and may be associated with the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough Association.  It is in polished granite. And has a semicircular animal bowl at the bottom which says ‘"The merciful man is merciful to his beast".  The main fountain is a projecting semicircular basin with a slab which says "Jesus said 'Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst".  An also around the arch "Ask and ye shall receive: Seek and ye shall find".
48 Rosslyn Arms. This pub was established as the Red Lion and was rebuilt in 1869. It was then called the Rosslyn Arms. It Closed in 2012
40 Lloyds Bank Built 1891 by Horace Field, with a corner entrance
Red Lion Inn. This was a very old, maybe 14th, house.  It was leased from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, on condition that a truss of hay was given for the horse of the mass-priest, who came up from the Abbey on Sundays... This inn is long gone.
26 Police Station. Desiged by, Dixon Butler in 1910-13. They had previously been on the other side of the road. It included a stable and harness room, railings and lamps. .This building is no longer n use by the police.
K6 telephone box: outside the police station this is a K6
Police station. The police moved here in 1868 to a site was next to the sailors’ daughters’ home. They moved across the road to no 26 in 191.
64-66 buildings of 1890s on the site of the Chicken House Inn. This may have been a 17th hunting lodge. There was a window and a plaque to say that the King and the Duke of Buckingham has slept there. It later became a pub and was demolished in the 19th. Originally it was a low brick building. It pub closed around 1754
Queen Elizabeth's House. This building had a local tradition that Queen Elizabeth once spent a night there. Various 19th historians who knew the building were very disparaging about this claim. Later it was taken over by a religious order that changed its name to "St. Elizabeth's Home." And ran it as girls’ boarding school – presumably one of the many that were in his area in the 19th.
Unitarian Chapel built 1862 by John Johnson in Kentish rag.  The aisle and chancel built 1885 by Thomas Worthington. The main entrance was moved to Rosslyn Hill in 1898 and a line of shops was demolished to achieve this.  Furnishings and monuments of high quality indicate the strength of Hampstead Unitarianism.

Rudall Crescent
Laid out in 1878
13a Penn Studios, with plaque to artist Mark Gertler.  There is a sculpture gallery at eaves level.

Shepherd's Walk,
Royal Mail Delivery Office
4a The Old Chapel.  This is an architect’s office

Streatley Place
A tiny passage between the workhouse site and New End School. It continues as a footpath through the old hospital estate and eventually gets to Back Lane.
New End Primary School. Built as New End Board School in 1905-6, by the London County Council Schools branch and designed by .T.J. Bailey. Pevsner says it is ‘one of his most remarkable buildings; squeezed onto a tiny hillside site, and handled in an exceptionally confident free Baroque manner’.  It is dramatically tall. It is said to have been built above a spring going down to the river Fleet.  Since 1951 it has been New End Primary school.
12 City Arms. This pub became the school house for New End School from around 1910.  It closed as a pub in 1905

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

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

Well Road
White Bear Place. The Old White Bear pub dates back to 1704, rebuilt 1930s and closed in 2014. It is the subject of a long-running campaign for it to be restored as a pub

Well Walk
Well Walk ran from the centre of Hampstead to The Wells. (Which are to the north of this square).

Willoughby Road,
On grounds of Carlisle House, sold to the British Land Co. in 1875,
Trinity Court. This was the Sunday School for the Presbyterian Church which stood on the corner with Rosslyn Road and converted in the early 1960s.

Willow Road
The road s built on the Line of stream going to the river Fleet. The source arose near Flask Walk. Until the early 19th the stream supported watercress beds
Retaining walls and brick arches include a brick stairway which went to Willow Buildings, 19th flats above.

Windmill Hill
Mount Vernon House originally called Windmill Hill House was built on the site of the other windmill between 1725 and 1728 by William Knight, a Hampstead timber smith.

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Bispham Road
Road of houses, probably late 1930s. The end of the road has flats, probably 1970s or 1980s. One block of flats appears be called Mountrath and this must be a reference to the previous building here, with that name, run as an animal hospital by vet W.T.G.Hodgin.  By the 1950s this had been supplemented with a piggery.

Brumwill Road
This now appears to be Quill Street

Brunswick Road
Junction box - green electricity cabinets.  This is near the junction with Brunswick Gardens. It is in cast iron and installed in the 1930s. Still in use

Chatsworth Road,
Also Ashbourne Road, The Ridings, Heathcroft and Connell Crescent
Haymills Estate. Estate built in 1928 with buildings in concentric crescents.  - One side semi circular. Built by Haymills with Welch Cachemialle Day and Lander as architects. Definitive inter war superior suburbia, if boring, with no discernible community or service buildings. The underground station was part of the same design.  This was previously part of the grounds of Hangar Hill House, laid out as Hangar Hill Golf Course from 1901-1930, after which the site was sold and developed as the estate.
Hangar Hill Golf Club.  This was founded in 1901. It was an 18-hole course designed by Tom Dunn, with also a 9-hole course for ladies. The mansion was the club house. Membership fell during and after the Great War.   It was reported in 1926 that the lease on the Hangar Hill course had been sold. It was understood that the land would be used for housing.  The club however appears to have continued

Clarendon Road
Central grass strip. Water pipes running between Fox Reservoir to the River Brent are marked by the strip. It also marks a public footpath which ran in 1911 from the Great Western Railway station at Brentham Halt to the top of Hanger Hill.

Connell Crescent
Sewage Pumping Station .Alley way next to no.11 leads to a Sewage Pumping Station built by Ealing Council. It is now owned by Thames Water and discharges clean water into Twyford Abbey ditch

Coronation Road
Although this road no longer appears to be marked as such it present as a footpath. It once ran as a road up to Twyford Abbey Road alongside the recreation ground to meet Western Avenue and an underpass. IT had been built to provide access to the Royal Agricultural Showground which here – in the square to the east.
Coronation Gardens. This is a strip of land which lies o the east of the railway line and in the London Borough of Brent.  It is shown on old maps as a playground and then as Coronation Gardens. It is not listed as a park in ether Brent or Ealing.  The Guinness Sports Ground lay on the east side of Coronation Road (in the square to the east) and it is now an office complex and grounds owned by Diagio and it may be that they own this strip of parkland.  It is now considered an area of wildlife life importance and ‘former shrubberies .... have been allowed to naturalise’.  The playground still apparently exists but may be closed.

Fox Lane
It was named after Edwin G Fox, Chairman of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company. This footpath runs north through the park as far as Greystoke Cottages and then on to Sandall Road.
Hangar Hill Park.  Ealing Town Council purchased the land for this park in 1905 as part of an agreement on a sewage works. The park was completed by 1907 with railings, entrance gates, paths, seats and shrubberies and children’s’ play grounds. There are also springs.   Undulating ground near Hanger Lane is thought to have been a Second World War trench air-raid shelter.
Oak woodland. This is in the west part of the park. There is leylandia as well as horse chestnut and oaks and ornamental shrubs, there is a hexagonal wooden shelter.
Nature Reserve. This is on the west side of Fox Lane and ancient woodland once part Fox Reservoir. When the reservoir was in use the site was closed to the public and the woodland grew undisturbed. After the reservoir was closed and filled in the site was a flower- meadow but was later used as playing fields in 1982. From 1983 the London Wildlife Trust manages Fox Wood and the meadow and it was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 1991. It is an important amenity space, which lies just behind the Brunswick area.
Fox Reservoir. This was built in 1888 for the Grand Junction Waterworks with a capacity of 50m gallons. It was on the site of Mount Castle. It was taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board, when that was set up in 1902. It was drained in 1943 to prevent it being used for navigation by the Luftwaffe, and in 1949 the land was bought as open space by Ealing Council.  The remaining basin was filled in 1969-72.
Mount Castle, This is said to have been an Elizabethan watch tower also calls Hanger Hill Tower. it was a viewing point for the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790), which linked the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory via a chain of trigonometric readings, led by General William Roy. Hanger Hill Tower was its northernmost observation point, and from it sightings were made to the Greenwich Observatory itself
Greystoke cottages. Large semi -detached cottages in red brick set in green space in Hanger Hill Park Golf course. They were probably tied housing for the 'Grand Junction Waterworks' staff.
Hangar Hill Park Golf Club. A beautiful undulating parkland golf course with a brook running through the middle of the course. From the highest point you can see Wembley Stadium.

Greystoke Gardens
Flats built post-Second World War in the gardens of Greystoke Lodge

Hanger Hill
Shown and named his on a map of 1710 and shown in 1822, as former wood called ‘Le Hangrewode’ – a ‘hanging wood’ is a wood on a steep slope.

Hanger Lane
This was once a country lane extending northward from Ealing Common it now forms part of the North Circular Road south of the gyratory. North of the gyratory it turns North West and the North Circular turns north eastwards.
69 Fwanees. Lebanese restaurant set up in 2010.  They appear to have added the roof extension and external stars around 2018.
Pioneer Works. Wolf Electrical Tools. Wolf Tools was founded by S. Wolf in 1900, opening their Pioneer Works in 1935.  They first produced large cast woodworking power tools and achieved a Royal Warrant. They produced their first DIY electric drill, in 1949. In 1978, they employed 850 people, some disabled.  In the 1980s they were bought out by Kango Tools Ltd and the Wolf name disappeared in due course. Imitations of their products were also made under license by a firm in India. The site is now an American fast food retailer.
Virol factory. Virol was produced experimentally in 1899 by Bovril and became a separate company in 1900. Production ended during the Second World War and in 1971 Bovril itself was taken over. It was dark and thick, Virol Bone Marrow” contained bone marrow from ox rib and calf bones, whole eggs with the shells, malt extract and lemon syrup. It claimed to strengthen the body and should be taken by children and invalids.
Fox & Goose. This is now a hotel and is a Fullers house. The origins of the pub go back as far as 1680 and the front bar dates from 1790. The building has been extended several times, the latest being the addition of the hotel block. It remains a traditional hotel with a large pretty patio garden and is a typical English pub. . It has a history of music gigs - . The Who played here as The Detours, and in the 1950s, every Friday night. Was Ealing Jazz Club run by Steve Lane with the Southern Stompers
Coronation cottages.  These were on the corner with Brentham Park. They were built by Ealing Town Council, for the coronation of George VI as almshouses...
Twyford Abbey Halt. This opened in 1904 between Perivale Halt and Park Royal stations by the Great Western Railway. It was west Hangar Lane near to what is now Hangar Lane Station. It closed in 1911 closed. It had a short timber platform, corrugated iron ‘pagoda’ hut, oil lamps, name board and no staff.
Greystoke House. Greystoke House was built on Hanger Lane for John Carve JP towards the end of the 19th. The land belonging to the house was sold in the early 1930s probably to Percy Bilton, a local developer and construction began in what is now known as the Brunswick area. But it is said that in the grounds of Greystoke House and the pastures of Greystoke Farm a “superior suburbia” had been created. The Greystoke name survives in Hangar Lane in various blocks of flats and side turnings
Hanger Hill House. Built in 1790 this was the home of the Wood family until 1874 when it was let out. It became a golf club house in the early 20th.  Woodland on the east side of Hanger Lane north and south of Chatsworth Road may be a vestige of its grounds.

Hangar Lane Gyratory
This is the world-famous Hanger Lane Gyratory System, where main roads meet and where the London Underground's Central Line Station is in the middle. It has been reconstructed twice but is still prone to congestion. Until the early 20th Hanger Lane was a road through countryside and simply crossed the railway on a bridge. In 1928 it was joined by the new Western Avenue with a simple crossroads while Hangar Lane itself was upgraded.  In 1936 it was joined by the new North Circular which created a five-way junction in which the railway bridge stood between three major roads all set to be widened. A scheme opened in 1963 providing an underpass to take Western Avenue underneath the junction. IN the late 1970s the roundabout, was installed and it took its present shape.  However for large parts of the day it is unable to handle the quantity of traffic in 2007 it was voted Britain's scariest road junction
Western Avenue. This is now the A40 main arterial road. It was a new major arterial route from White City to Uxbridge built in the early 1920s providing a bypass to the then A40 Uxbridge Road. It was numbered to A40 between 1939 and the new road was routed alongside the railway and crossed Hanger Lane at a crossroads to the south of the line. In the early 1960s it was taken on two lanes in a tunnel under Hangar Lane and slip roads were built.
Hangar Lane. After Western Avenue was built here, in the late 1920s, the part of Hanger Lane north of the railway was upgraded into an arterial road as a link from Western Avenue to the Harrow Road. Then in the 1930s the section of Hanger Lane to the south of the junction became part of the North Circular Road. Before 1936 it had reached Western Avenue at Hanger Lane. It connected to Western Avenue north of the railway bridge, forming a difficult five-way junction in which the railway bridge was a critical link between three major arterial roads.
Hanger Lane station. Opened in 1903 it lies between Perivale and North Acton on the Central Line. The Great Western Railway had opened Twyford Abbey Halt east of this station in 1904 which closed in 1911 and then Brentham station was opened to the west and that finally closed in 1947. In 1947 the Central Line came from North Acton going to Ruislip as part f the New Works Programme. This station was opened as "Hanger Lane" for the Central Line trains.  It had been designed by Brian Lewis in 1938 but held up by the Second World War.  At first a temporary station was built and Lewis' design only opened in 1949. The ticket hall is in an area in the centre of the gyratory system. It is reached by subways under the gyratory but the station is actually above ground. Planned tower was never built to save money.
Nature reserve – in the centre of the roundabout along with the station

Norbreck Gardens
This terrace fronts directly onto Western Avenue

Quill Street
This was previously Brumwill Road. It is the main road on a small trading estate
Kiwi Factory. This is the brand name of an Australian shoe polish made since 1906. In the UK, Kiwi was for many years made in Burwell Road. They manufactured and sold to much of Europe and the Middle East. In the mid-1970s the factory was closed with production switched to France

Ritz Parade
This was previously Cinema Parade
Premier Inn .On the site of the cinema
Ritz was built and designed by Major W.J. King for London and District Cinemas Ltd. It was the centre of a parade of shops and had a brick tower with glass tiles lit from within and had lantern light at the top.  Facilities included a cafe. It was taken over by Odeon Theatres in 1944 and re-named Odeon in 1946. It was sold to Classic in 1967 and re-named Classic Cinema. It was later the Vogue Bingo Club with films at weekends. From 1972, it was the Tatler Cinema Club screening adult pictures but by 1974 it was the Paradise Cinema showing Asian films. It closed in 1980 and demolished in 1983. It was replaced by offices called Orbit House later converted into a Premier Inn

Royal Parade
Big parade of shops built before the gyratory

Twyford Abbey Road
Playground which stood at top of coronation gardens. May or may not be closed

Westgate
Was Bentham Halt Road
Westgate House. Office block being converted to flats/
Manhattan Business Park
Brentham and North Ealing Station. Brentham for North Ealing and Greystoke Park Station. This was built by the Great Western Railway on their main line.  It closed in 1947 when it was made redundant when the Central line was extended to West Ruislip and Hangar Lane station was available.. Built as a halt for the Brentham Gardens Co-ownership Estate which had been set up by Vivian.  It was opened when Twyford Abbey Halt was closed.

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Post to the west Park Royal
Post to the north Stonebridge


Acton Lane
Old substation.  This appears to be a railway electrification related building. Now in use by small business
Harlesden Station This opened in 1912 and lies between Stonebridge Park and Willesden Junction on the Bakerloo Line and also on London Overground into Euston. London North West Railway. The story is however more complicated than that. The first railway station nearby – about 50 yards away – was called Willesden and it was opened in 1841 by the London and Birmingham Railway on what became their main line to Birmingham and beyond. It had wooden platforms beside two tracks, a small wooden ticket office and a coal siding. It closed, reopened in 1844 and closed finally when Willesden Junction station opened half a mile away in 1866. On 15 June 1912 the London North West Railway opened a new station here called Harleston. This was on a ‘new line’ opened between Euston Station and Watford. Five years later the Bakerloo Line also began to use the new line tracks with trains coming from Queens Park as their Watford Extension.  These services run parallel with the West Coast Main line services into Euston.  The station buildings remain as those built in 1912 for the railway service – this is not a station with the styling of much of the London Underground. - Red brick blocks with long station canopies.
Road bridge - a long road bridge   carries Acton Lane across multiple railway tracks
National Grid site.  There are a number of installations on this site which is basically that of the demolished Acton Power Station.
Willesden Substation Site. This is a complex with a deep cable tunnel south to Fulham and a northern tunnel to Gibbons Road. The site supplies a London Underground traction substation and three Network Rail trackside supply points. It is the connection point for the Taylors Lane gas turbine power station
Switchboard. This was built for the now demolished power station in 1965.
Acton Power Station. The first 'A' station was built by the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company in 1899 on a nine acre site. It supplied a wide local area. From 1903 pulverised coal was used. In 1925 it was taken over by the London Power Company.  It had three vertical compound marine type steam engines which drove two-phase 1.5 MW alternators producing electricity at 500 volts, 60Hz.  . Coal was supplied by rail to sidings from the adjacent railway Water from the canal was used in the cooling cycle and then being pumped back. Ownership was transferred to the London Power Company in 1927 and following installation of new plant the final capacity of the station was 155.MW by the time it closed in 1964.    Acton Lane 'B' station, setup in 1950, had three cooling towers which would have been unnecessary at the Thameside sites. .  The turbine-hall had a precast ferroconcrete frame rather than steel which was expensive at the time of construction.  It was one of the last CEGB stations to retain steam railway locomotives to handle incoming coal.  The station closed on 1983 with a generating capacity of 150 MW. One locomotive was preserved at the Foxfield Light Railway, near Stoke-on-Trent called Little Barford it is said to e now at the North Norfolk Railway
The Grange and Grange Farm.  Large house and associated farm, probably l9th century. Eventually taken over by sports facilities and United Biscuits. The farm was the original Lower Place Farm.
Grand Junction Arms. Pub with canal side terrace and a stopping place for passing boats with moorings available. Was a Wells & Young's house, formerly Wells Bought by Young’s in 1939 after leasing since the 19th. .Now says it is the Ram Pub Co.  (i.e. Young’s). What had been a beer house became the ‘Grand Junction and Railway Inn’ in 1861 also sometimes called The Junction Arms.
Canal Bridge. Known locally as ‘The Red Bridge’.
Lancashire Dynamo & Crypto. The Crypto Electrical Company was formed in 1904 and made electrical motors in Bermondsey but by 1908 had moved to Acton Lane, London in 1912. They became associated with the Manchester based  The Lancashire Dynamo and Motor Company in 1919 and in 1932 they  merged as Lancashire Dynamo & Crypto Ltd, They then set up in Axton a works to manufacture and sell food preparation machinery and equipment..By 1967 they were part of AEI. The Acton works was still extant in the 1960s.
141 Anthony Ward Thomas. Removals firm on a very large site. They were set up in the 1980s and remain in business
192 Kings Kitchens. Kitchen planners. Large building here and still in business
194 Beckett Laycock & Watkinson Limited. They were there in the 1930s and were Makers of windows and door fittings for railways, ships, and road vehicles.  As Beclawat Windows the company still exists in Canada.
196 New Screw Works. H. G. W. Newey, Manufacturers of precision turned brass. This firm appears to have been in Acton Lane, probably from the 1930s until at least the 1970s.  The site is now under a trading estate.
186 Polarisers. They made windows, goggles etc incorporating ‘Polaroid – light polarising material’. The current occupants of 186 are Park Royal Office Furniture – but the building could well have been that present in the 1950s when Polarisers were there
184 Utilitas. This was a cleaning works present in the 1930s .Their building is now Frigo.
182 Trevor Howsam. Theatrical costume supplies.
182 Transatlantic Records. This was a British independent record label.  It had been established in 1961, to import of American folk, blues and jazz records. Later they recorded an eclectic mix of British artists. They appear to have been there since at least the 1970s
180 Machine Shop. This is a special effects company Established originally in Acton Vale in 1993
180 Maya Cosmetics. This was Maya House in the 1980s. They seem have made nail varnish.

Barrett’s Green Road
This was originally Acton Lane in the 1890s, but the route of Acton Lane was straightened, by 1915 leaving this as a loop off it.  Barretts Green was a green space on the original line of the road
Lower Place house was a 15th house owned by Sir John Elrington originally Lower Place Farm beside Barrett's Green. Maybe the site of a chapel built by Sir John where Thomas More’s daughters were married in 1525.   Farm land cut by the canal and then the railway. By the end of the 19th century a farm in Acton had become known as Lower Place Farm
Medivance Instruments Ltd. Velopex Medical equipment suppliers, this s a dental equipment specialist company offering dental diagnostic solutions, patient treatment equipment, veterinary diagnostics and portable dentistry products
Park Royal Studios. Photographic Studio Hire & Services
Swan Works Mabie, Todd and Co. manufactured the Swan pen here but were eventually bombed and the works badly damaged
Ambulance Depot. This had links to the Central Middlesex Hospital.
11 Park Lane Group. Shoe manufacturers. Footwear & accessories designed in London since 2000
Lower Place School. Constructed by the local authority in 1915 on a site next to the temporary school. In the 1930s it included a Lower Place School for Mothers. It closed 1977 and was apparently demolished in 1997.
Lower Place Temporary School. This opened in 1902 as a board school and was closed in 1915.
Houses. These were on the south side of the road in 1930s. They were demolished from the 1970s following decisions to- turn the road into an industrial area only
Steps down to the canal towpath from a green area alongside a restaurant near to the junction with Acton Lane.

Canal
This is the Grand Union Canal Paddington Arm. The Grand Union starts in London and ends in Birmingham with arms to places like Leicester, Slough, Aylesbury, and Northampton.  The Paddington branch runs to Paddington in central London leaving the main line of the canal at Bull's Bridge in Hayes. It is a long level pound of 27 miles without locks and is fed by water from the Brent Reservoir (the Welsh Harp, Hendon).
CEGB cable. There is an electric grid cable concealed beneath the concrete slabs of the tow path. It begins at the old power station site here and runs to the East End. The Central Electricity Generating Board used the canal for laying the cable ducts as it provided the most direct route across London as well as easier access for maintenance. The canal water is used in the process of keeping the cable cool.
Waxlow Road Pipe Bridge – this crosses the canal from the area of the McVitie factory
Feeder. Underneath a small bridge, is the canal feeder from the Brent Reservoir,
Harlesden Winding Hole. This is where the feeder stream joins the canal. A winding hole is a place where canal boats could turn round.
Grand Junction Arms Pub. Visitor Moorings
Lower Place Bridge No 9.this carries Acton Lane over the canal and is known locally as ‘The Red Bridge”
Acton Lane Power Station Bridge No 9A
Acton Lane Power Station Bridge No 9B
Transformer station. The Canal bisects the transformer site with associated high level bridges required for cross site cables.
Towpath – this is continuous along the south bank with moored vessels, seating and graffiti.  There are a set of fairly grand steps from Barretts Green road to the tow path. There is also a junction with
Steele Road

Blakemore DrivePrincess Royal Distribution Centre on a long central sidings. One of seven Royal Mail distribution centres which are responsible for handling customer sorted products such as Business Mail. It is the central hub in London for the transport of mail by road and rail. In 1999 there were around 20 train arrivals and departures and about 500 road vehicle trips, and it was handling 12 to 16 million items of post daily. However, although Originally built to integrate the movement of mail between road and rail, it is now mostly used as a road hub

Craven Road
Harlesden Station. This was opened in 1875 by the Midland Railway and was first called as ‘Harrow Road for Stonebridge Park and West Willesden’. . It was built when the road has been straightened in 1855 which meant that it was built fewer than two roads with the same name. It was on the super outer circle; this stretch of which is now the Dudding Hill line.  In 1876 it became Harrow Road for Stonebridge Park and Harlesden; in 1880; with variants in succeeding yeas. It closed in 1888 but was reopened in 1893 and in 1901 it was renamed Harlesden for West Willesden and Stonebridge Park. It closed to passengers in 1902 but the street level station buildings were not demolished until 1960s.  Some platform edges remain, although most were removed when the railway embankment was pinned to stop slippage in 2001. The Platform itself could be seen from Craven Road until the 1960s. The Booking office was used as a car park office.  The Dudding Hill Line remains in use as a goods only line.
Goods sidings.  These were slightly down Craven Road and remained in use for coal deliveries until the 1960s. The former goods office remained until 2010 despite a fire in 2009.

Disraeli Road
All houses pre-Second World War, after the war this road became purely industrial
Premier House.  Luxcrete with a glass bricked head office frontage Timber merchants.
Drakeglen House, Custom fabric and paper print – design it yourself.
Mission of the Good Shepherd. This opened in 1890. It was on the north side of the road, later taken over by Mission Engineering.
Disraeli Road Baths. Built by Willesden Borough Council

Hillside
This is a continuation of Harrow Road and in the past has been known as such.
St Michael and All Angels. Church of England set up from 1876 when mission meetings were held in rented rooms with a permanent Mission room in 1879. The London Diocesan Home Mission provided a new building in 1885 which eventually became a Parish church. Te church was but in 1891 in red brick in late 13th style by Goldie and Child. Various extensions have been made since. The church continues to flourish
Sun Disc. Sculpture on the corner with Brentfield Road. Desi
gned by Guy Paterson and Geraldine Konya. It is a steel circle cut out to show all sorts of shapes, people, animals etc. Installed in 1994
Stonebridge Evangelical Centre.  Originally set up by London City Mission who had had various buildings in the area since 1903. All were replaced in 1972 by a new chapel ere
32 Orange Tree Pub. Closed and demolished. This was a laree double fronted half timbered building.
Bridge Park Hotel. This was the Stonebridge Park Hotel and appears to be closed. It is a mid 19th public house.
Canal feeder.  This waterway crosses the road to the west of the Stonebridge Park hotel.
177 Coach and Horses, The pub included a gymnasium. Rebuilt to the designs of M T Saunders, in brick, render and half timber reopening in summer 1908. Demolished in 2002
Palace of Varieties. In a separate but adjacent building to the Coach and Horses. A building may have been in use as early as 1860, but it opened 1901.  It was rebuilt with the pub in 1908. By 1909 it was a cinema. It was closed by 1922 and was altered later. Later it suffered subdivision, the demolition of the dressing rooms and an alteration to the front. It is now part of a garage, but some elements of the theatre remain to the rear
Stonebridge Recreation Ground.  This opened in 1902 on land that was part of the District Council's Sewage Farm. By 1906 most of the sewage farm belonged to the Council and was laid out for cricket and football plus a playground. During the Second World War a honeycomb of air raid shelters under the ground protected several thousand people. Later entertainments for children were provided and in 1957 an open air theatre was built. Recently New gates designed by local children as part of a summer workshop commemorated community leader, Yetunde Bolaji.
The Pavilion. With National Lottery funding it offers sports hall, artificial grass pitch and floodlit sports pitches.

Lower Place
This is a name for what is now part of Park Royal.  It was named from a large house – or a farm - probably he manor house of East Twyford and marked on maps in the late 18th and early. The name appears to refer to the low-lying situation on marshy ground in the flood plain of the River Brent.

McNichol Drive
Coriander House. Charlie Bingham’s –this is posh ready-meals founded in 1996.
Concept House – this is a site for offices and small business. The gate into the site has a design of hares and shields – was it salvaged from somewhere else?

Milton Avenue
Housing at the west end covers the site of an engineering and other works present until at least the 1880s
Small grass patch with a seat, railings and a view of rubbish bins, apparently managed by London and Quadrant.
W.J.Bond, Cabinet makers – making ‘gramophone’ cabinets. They had been on site since 1920 and remained into the 1940s.
G.Blunt, Library furniture manufacture. 1920s.
Canal feeder. This stream crosses the road from the west side of Johnson Road and runs to the railway over a section of landscaped grass
The western end of the road continues as a footpath to Stonebridge Recreation Ground.  It passes alongside school buildings

Mordaunt Road
This area redeveloped since 1994 recreating the street pattern of the original early 20th housing on the site. This had been replaced by the 1960s Stonebridge Estate, now demolished

Morlands Gardens
Altamira. This is a 19th rustic villa in the Italianate style by Henry Edward Kendall Jr built in 1876. After the Great War it was too big for a family home. By 1926 it was the Services Rendered Club (aka the Altamira Working Man’s Club), with ground floor extensions to enlarge the bar and other facilities. In 1994 it became the Stonebridge Centre for Adult Education, and now Brent Start. There are plans to demolish it and build flats and a smaller education centre.

Oliver Road
This road contains a large gated trading estate which appears to have been built on land which was allotments until at least the 1970s.

Railway lines
London and Birmingham Railway. This opened here in 1837 from Euston.  The route from Euston is currently the southern section of the West Coast main line.  The first station at the site was called Willesden and was opened in 1841 and closed in 1866.  This important line connects London with many major cities of England, Wales and Scotland. It is one of the busiest railway routes in Europe carrying both intercity and suburban passengers and freight.  It is the main rail freight corridor linking to the Channel Tunnel and is thus a strategic European route
London and North Western Railway. This line opened here in 1912. It is currently managed by the Bakerloo Line on London Underground. Originally new electrified tracks were built alongside its existing main line between Watford and Kilburn by what was by then the London and North West Railway. The lines between Willesden Junction and Watford opened 1912 - 1913, together with new stations including Harlesden. Bakerloo Tube services were extended there to Willesden in 1915 and from 1917; the tube service was extended to Watford Junction using these lines.
Princess Royal distribution Centre on long central sidings
Willesden Brent sidings are a marshalling yard and stabling on the eastern side of the West Coast Main Line between Stonebridge Park and Harlesden Stations on the Watford and Bakerloo Lines. London and North Western Railway sidings, built between 1873 and 1894. Willesden F sidings to the south
Siding to McVities factory off to the south and a siding to what was Acton Power Station.
Dudding Hill Line.  This runs north/south on the eastern edge of this square and is not connected to the through east/west lines or to Harlesden Station. A previous Harlesden Station on the line is ling closed. The line runs between Acton and Cricklewood. It has no scheduled passenger service, no stations, and is not electrified. It is used for freight only. It opened in 1868 as the Midland and South Western Junction Railway. There was a sidings to Acton power station

Shakespeare Avenue
Stonebridge Primary School, this is an early 20th board school, in a Queen Anne style.  There have been some additions since and there are also small workshop outbuildings.  It was also once known as Stonebridge County Primary School. It opened in 1900 as a board school for boys, girls and infants. It was reorganised in 1932 and again in. 1955. The building were modernised and extended in 1978.
Day Centre to the main school
London Welsh School. Ysgol Gymraeg Llundain. The London Welsh School's origins were language classes in 1955 for which a dedicated school was set up two years later. In 2000 the London Welsh School was to leave the Welsh Chapel in Willesden but were relocated in the annex of a primary school. In 2015 the school moved to Hanwell.

Stonebridge Park Estate
Developed by the architect H.E. Kendall Jr. between 1872 and 1876, to provide “smart new villas for City men”.  About sixty villas were built around the nearby station n Craven Park, on the Midland and South-Western Junction railway, which opened in 1875.

Steele Road
At the northern end of the road it joins the canal towpath.
Lower Place Business Centre
Children’s home built c.1915

Stonebridge Park,
Canal side Industrial Estate.  Many of the factories bordering on the canal have canal side terraces.

Waxlow Road
Mcvities. McVitie's is owned by United Biscuits. The name derives from the original Scottish biscuit maker, McVitie & Price, established in 1830 in Edinburgh. They later developed large manufacturing plants south of the border, including Harlesden opened in 1902 and originally called the Edinburgh Biscuit Works. McVitie's produces chocolate digestives, Hobnobs, Rich tea.  All three were originally created in 1925 in McVitie’s Harlesden factory. In 2014, United Biscuits became owned by Turkish company Yildiz. Harlesden works is the biggest biscuit factory in Europe – bakes 125,000 tonnes of biscuit and snacks every year, and around one sixth is exported. a single storey brick fronted unit with saw tooth north lights in the roof survives from the 1930s as does also as brick building parallel to the canal.
Heinz. Henry John Heinz sold horseradish sauce in Pittsburgh from 1869. A British subsidiary was established to manage Heinz imports from America in 1886. In 1914 Salad Cream was introduced the first product that Heinz created for the UK market. Heinz UK sales quadrupled between 1919 and 1927. And a 22 acre Greenfield site was opened in Harlesden, London in 1925. The works was on the canal side with private rail sidings. In the first year, 125 workers produced 100,000 tons of food and it became one of the largest employers in the area. In 1924 they used 8 railway wagons of Welsh coal every day for the boilers and converted 8,000 gallons of water to steam every hour. There was a unit converting Welsh plate into tins. In the 1920s tinplate came by rail and they distributed soup from the sidings.  The factory had a long water frontage and sported the number '57'. They used the canal as a supply route to bring in beans and raw materials from the London Docks and for the transport of canned products until the 1960's. Closed in 2000 it is now the Premier Park Trading Estate
Townsend Industrial Estate
Canal feeder. This passes across the road slightly to the west of the fire station
Park Royal Fire Station. Built in 1958 to the 'Middlesex' design, this is a 2-storey fire station with bays for two fire appliances. It has a 4-storey drill tower in the yard, which is a landmark through much of the area,
Gormley House. This belonged to Gormley Stone Marble Granite Ltd. It is now a general office block

Wesley Road
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School. This opened in 1973 as a voluntary aided Roma Catholic school for boys and girls. They were inn part of the building formerly occupied by Wesley Road School
Wesley Road School. Opened in 1910 as local authority school for boys and girls. Reorganised in 1932. After the 1944 Act it became a secondary modern and new buildings where provided in 1956.  It closed in 1969.

Winchelsea Road
Taylor and Tucker, art metal works. They made ornate metal work domestic item – grates, bath taps, light fittings, etc. in the 1890s. They had a Soho office and showrooms.  Following a fire they went out of business

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Pevsner and Cherry.  North West London
Walford.  Village London 
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Albert Road
This road is the earliest built here, first listed in 1855, and although the Croydon Canal was no longer in use it influenced the alignment of the road. From the junction with Portland Road looking the curve of the road reflects the line of the old canal which was to the north of the houses. It is named after Albert, the Prince Consort.
74-76 Stanleybury. Very large three-storey semis. Built for William Stanley, who moved to 74 in 1867. William Stanley’s works in South Norwood was complimented by his local philanthropy. His site is now a close of modern flats. Accidentally demolished.
67 small trading estate and MOT centre.  At one time this was home to a theatre transport specialist.
St.Mark. This was the first church in the area and is the parish church by G. H. Lewis. The nave was built in 1852 and the church was extended in 1862 and in successive years until 1890. It is in Kentish rag. Pictures show a house with a cross patterned front on the west side of the church and this has been replaced with what looks like a community building from the 1950s.

Apsley Road
Apsley Road Playground. This site was bought by the local authority in 1946 and had been a house. It was laid out as a children’s playground in 1951. An air raid shelter to the rear was demolished in 1973.

Belgrave Road
Estate of local authority blocks behind the High Street

Cambridge Road
Tunnel under the railway to Love Lane

Carmichael Road
48 there is a small workshop behind the house which had on the wall "Richards, Sign Writer, Carriage Painter, Etc.". Richards was here from 1889 as a "Sign Writer and Wheelwright" until the 1930's.

Clifford Road
Railway coal depot. This was on the triangle of land between Portland and Clifford roads and the railway.
1 In the 1970s this was Photo speed Lithographic Ltd and Shown on maps as a Printing Works in the 1970s.  Buildings to the rear may have been those of Coldrey's Steam Bakery in the 1930s, becoming Broomfields in the 1950's. Previously A. Creesy, coachbuilder had the premises from the mid 1880s until the Great War and who made car bodies in 1906.
3 South Norwood Islamic Centre. They are in the workshops to the rear of 1.  In the 1990s a group of local Muslims started looking for a building which would cater for needs of local Muslims, This site was procured in 2000 and the Centre was established soon after as a place of prayer.
19 building shown on maps as St Mark’s Hall, latterly a double glazing business. Now demolished
21-23 Alexandra Hotel. Became an engineering works, the offices and now demolished.
South Norwood Congregational Church. This was a temporary ‘tin tabernacle’ with an adjoining Hall which opened in 1867. . In 1907 it was purchased by the Catholic church. The chapel, a so-called tin tabernacle, and dedicated to St Chad. Later an industrial building was erected here which had a number of uses, including that of a spice mill in the 1930s.  This was demolished around 2010 and there is now a modern block of flats on the site.

Coventry Road
When the road was built in 1860, it was called Victoria Road, to complement the older Albert Road
St. Mark Church of England Primary School.  This is now an ‘academy and part of the Reach2 Academy Trust in the Diocese of Southwark. The school was built in 1969s by the Borough Architect's Department
School building of around 1860, 'vaguely Tudor' with diapered red brick, altered. From map evidence this was in use as the school until the 1960s. There is a plaque on the wall with nothing written on it!
17 Victoria Arms Beer house. This dated from around 1853 and was demolished in 1973. It was a Watney house       
3a Car repair business and panel beater with behind it a building variously used as stables, a smithy, and a Wesleyan chapel.  – The two-storey building is in flint and is a larger building.  It appears to have been in later industrial use as the Acme Button Co...
3 a pair of flint cottages with brick dressings. There is a similar building at 37 Portland Road

Cresswell Road
Morland Nursery. This lay in the middle of the square of roads with an entry in the area of Brierly Close. It was started in the early 1870s by Mr Bause (confusingly the address given then is Portland Road) who had managed a nursery in Anerley and specialised in ferns. It appears to have closed in the 1960s.

Crowther Road
34 South Norwood Primary School. This opened as Station Road School in 1872 but without any boys.  A boys' school opened in a different building to the girls and infants in 1875. The school was reorganised in 1931 and senior pupils went elsewhere. In 1937 new buildings were opened.

Croydon Canal
The canal was authorised in 1801 and ran south from a junction at New Cross with the Grand Surrey Canal to what is now West Croydon Station which is on the canal basin. It was never a success and closed in 1836 and much of the alignment was used by the London & Croydon Railway Company, for the railway between London Bridge and West Croydon station, which is on the site of the canal basin. This included their use of the atmospheric system.
After crossing an almost level area the canal had to cross South Norwood Hill. So as to avoid the need to build locks it had to go round this staying on the 150f contour.   Horses were needed to pull the barges so there had to be a towpath and this ran on the south side of the canal. By 1861 all that was left was a narrow strip of land next to an isolated section of the old canal.

Cumberlow Avenue
The large site at the end of the road, now the Harris ‘Academy’ was originally Pascall’s brickfield and then a dairy farm. It was later purchased by William Stanley for the building of his house, Cumberlow, which was now been demolished
Boyden & Co.  Tile factory. This works was purchased to enable construction of the Harris academy. Previous works here had been a Bottling works and the Cosmo Dental Co., who made acrylic teeth.
Stanley Trade Schools. Now demolished for the ‘academy’.  In the square to the north.
Stanley's Film Club. This was established in 2015 ad Stanley Halls, where it became a weekly community cinema. N 2017 it relocated to the Harris Academy, rebranding as Screen25

Doyle Road
This was previously called Farley Road
36 this was a small nursery run by a florist until the early 1900s.

Eldon Park
The road follows path of the Croydon canal which was filled in 1868. The road name reflects the type of area that was being developed:  exclusive residences tucked away from the main road close to a railway station.  Several lengths of canal bank, which had been lined with trees, survive as property boundaries and there are descendants of some of the original trees.
10 Tobacco factory with land at the rear
Stanley House. Henry Tinsley moved his works here in 1907 and entered into a partnership with another instrument maker named Snell - telegraph apparatus, condensers, standard cells, potentiometers and 'bridges'. Snell however died after one year of the partnership, Henry produced many innovative and pioneering instruments her but in 1916 moved to Werndee Hall.

Goat House Bridge
This bridge is on the A213 leading from Penge/Anerley towards South Norwood. It passes over the Croydon bound railway between Anerley and Norwood Junction.
The name ‘Goat House’ is shown in 1678 on a map as a clearing in the woods. In 1797 here was a farm called Goat House in the Sunnybank area. I the 1860s a hotel was built called Goat House and the bridge took the name
Goat House Bridge Woodland Garden.  On the corner south of the bridge is a garden made up of shrubs found in the Great North Wood. They were planted by local people and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV).

Great North Wood.
The Great North Wood once extended over the high ridge of land between Deptford, Sydenham Hill, Streatham and Selhurst. It supported woodland industry, timber for ship building, charcoal as fuel, bark for dyeing leather and thinnings for baskets, brooms and woven hedges for a rapidly expanding London. The Wood was mainly composed of oak and hornbeam trees, with some ash, hazel and holly. In damper places willows thrived. There are still places where the Wood has recovered such as in parks, peoples' back gardens and along the railway embankments.

Hambrook Road
A footpath at the end leads to a tunnel under the railway going to Marlow Road

Harrington Road
Harrington Road Station. 1998. between Birkbeck and Arena on the Croydon Tramlink
Site of the tram station was once called ‘Blind Corner’.  This is thought to be the site of a small settlement and farm, and there is a widening of the road here where the farmyard was
65-67 Albert Tavern.  On the site of a pub which was bombed.  Cricketing memorabilia

King's Road:
Croydon Canal route would just touch the southern corner of the road
Camille Close is built on some of the alignment of the canal and of its successor railway,
St Marks Mission. Converted into housing
The Croydon canal is thought to have crossed the road where the cottages next to the mission are

Lincoln Road,
The road follows the line of the canal and the trees would have been on the banks of it.  It was filled in in 1868. Several lengths of river bank survived as property boundaries   between the houses.

Love Lane
At one time a through thoroughfare but now a footpath link.After the junction with Waverley Road this continues as footpath to meet a tunnel under the railway going to Cambridge Road
Norwood Spur Railway crossed at the junction with Cambridge Road to where it joined the route from Crystal Palace, this is now the Tramlink. Now Croydon Tramlink Beckenham Junction branch joins the Railtrack line south-west of Birkbeck station and the two systems run adjacent until the tram terminus alongside the main line.
30 Scout hut. “The Den” 23rd Norwood Scouts, formed in 1909. The building is described as a Mission Hall in the 1930s

Manor Road
The triangle of land between the railway and Manor Road is the site of where the Croydon Canal was widened for Norwood Wharf.  It later was a site for railway sidings. It is now the site of houses and flats called Leybourne Court. Manor Road seemed originally to go to the grounds of a big house.  This may have been called Canal House
Jolly Sailor Station.  Just past the junction with Portland Road is the site of the Jolly Sailor Station on the west side of the railway. There were also buildings here connected to the atmospheric railway.  Slightly further up were a group of railway cottages which may have been built for the canal
This was the first station at South Norwood, opened in and was called ‘Jolly Sailor’ but renamed Norwood in 1846. It was about 80 yards to the north of the railway bridge. In 1859 it closed, and replaced by the present station. It was subsequently been demolished
Where the canal crossed the road is the site of three houses. At their rear the canal went through what are now gardens to Sunnycroft Road.  This stretch appears to have had water in it up to the 1890s.
Manor Works. This is now GEN Vent, metalworkers – they make garage doors. This probably sits on the sites of the jolly sailor station and railway cottages.
14 originally Manor Cottage, it was converted into the Liberal and Radical Club in 1890. It became the South Norwood Liberal & Working Men’s Club and was extended in 1900. Now, partly demolished, it is converted to flats
Parking area at the back of the club. Trees along the side of the car park are on the site of the Croydon canal southern bank

Marlow Road
Slight depression in the road may mark the course of a contributory stream to Pool River flowing down from near Goat House Bridge.

Pembury Road
Charles Dickens Court. Retirement housing. This is on the site of Abner Creasey's Coach Building Company – A. Creasey (Locomotors). This had been established as a coach building business in Clifford Road in 1888 and moved to Pembury Road before 1913.

Penge Road
2 Goat House pub. Said to be named after a marking on an old map when goats were kept here. This was the first site on the east side of the road over the bridge after Sunnybank. A Charrington's pub, It was latterly taken over by Fullers and closed in 2004. Demolished.
Croydon Canal route.  The point at which the canal crossed the main road, now Penge Road, is unmarked. The route of the canal then cuts across to the southern corner of King's Road
Goat House Bridge. The bridge makes a severe skew kink in Penge Road. In order to get up South Norwood hill, rather than make a detour like the canal the railway company dug a cutting over 40ft deep.  This meant they had to skew the bridge round at an angle of 30° to shorten its length. Thus they interrupted the original straight road as laid out by the Enclosure Commissioners.
81 Freemasons Tavern. With ornate carriage entry to the rear. Closed in 2003

Portland Road
Portland Road was one of the oldest tracks across Norwood Common. It was retained by the 1800 Enclosure Commissioners and given the name Woodside Road. Portland Road was South Norwood’s main shopping centre until the when the railway station was removed from Portland Road and a new railway station built in 1859 at Norwood Junction Station. The new station changed the commercial centre of South Norwood from Portland Road to the High Street
Croydon Canal Crossing. From the railway going down Portland Road the ground slopes down South Norwood Hill.  Near the railway bridge itself it is flatter and it is here that the canal and the road met. The road crossed the canal on a simple swing bridge standing where the railway line does now.  It was looked after by a canal company employee 'Old Grumble'.
Railway Bridge Rail crossing. When the atmospheric system was installed the road needed to be lowered to get enough headroom.  The London & Croydon Railway was built on an embankment, here and crosses Portland Road above the original canal bed and the road at some height.  The first railway bridge in 1838 was of cast iron, with a span of 20 feet. It is assumed to have carried only the two original tracks but after 1841 it needed to carry in addition trains belonging to the London & Brighton Railway and the South Eastern Railway. It was rebuilt, in 1859 when the station was moved and could then take seven railway tracks. One of these tracks was used only for shunting and was lifted. There were site safety concerns on this and The Board of Trade refused to sanction the erection of any further such bridges from 1883 in addition Croydon Corporation wanted the road widened.  Following another accident a new bridge was built with a span of 42 feet and a footpath was built.
1 Portmanor. This pub was originally called ‘The Signal’ dating from the early 1860s. It was an Allied Brewers pub, later owned by Punch Taverns. It closed following dispute with Punch Taverns over CCTV. The pub was expected to reopen in 2014, it is still closed but has now been demolished
37 This is a shop front on a flint building with some sort of plaque above the cable.  It appears to be a very, very similar building in structure and design to the flint cottages in Coventry Road which connect to a possible chapel.  There seems to be, or to have been, a connection at the rear between them which must date from before 1868.  Is this the entrance to the Wesleyan shown here in directories of the 1860s? The space between the buildings is full of various sheds and other structures.  Some of these seem to have been used at one time by Percy Frostick Percy, for a pianoforte warehouse
44b Regent Cinema. This was between Crowther and Doyle Roads. Initially as the New Electric Theatre it opened in 1911. It had a long passage led to the auditorium which was built at the rear of other buildings. It was closed soon after opening and then reopened again months later. After three years it closed again and reopened after another three years as the Electric Theatre and soon after re-named Mascot Cinema. A few years after that it was La Rosa Cinema, but within a year was back to being the Electric Cinema again.  It closed again two years later and re-opened in 1934 as the Regent Cinema, but closed in 1935.  In the Second World War it became a restaurant and then a kitchen for school meals. In 1963, it was converted into the Socco-Cheta Club with snooker and television. This closed in 2005. Corrugated iron shed
57 Duke of Clarence pub. Closed since 2010 following a drugs raid and losing their licence.  Dated from the 1880s.
89-91 Sullivan’s Scrap Metal. This was founded in 1966. The building was Thomas Jenkins printers in the 1970s
105 London City Mission Hall. The London City Mission first met in Norwood in 1880 in Birchanger Road, latterly in a tent. The Portland Road building was adjacent to ‘The Tent’ and opened in 1889. An extension was later built for a classroom, tea room and for the Girls’ Brigade.
110 The Central Hall Picture Palace.   Opened in 1910, on the corner of Portland Road and Stanger Road. In the late-1930’s, it was became the Central Cinema and in 1953, it was re-named Rex Cinema. It closed in 1956. The building became the Portland Room and more recently a furniture showroom.  It has now been converted into flats.  The prominent tower on the corner of the site is still in place but no longer lit.
167 Gladstone pub. 19th pub which closed in 2008.  It is now in residential use

Railway Lines
In the early 19th as railways using locomotives began to be built promoters put forward a scheme to link Croydon with London. The Croydon Canal was a failure and it was proposed to buy it and to use its course. Meanwhile The South Eastern Railway planned a line to Dover in 1837 which relied on using the proposed London and Croydon line from Norwood making the proposed line a trunk route. The consultant engineer was William Cubitt. In 1837 it was also agreed that The London and Brighton Railway could run a line to Brighton from a junction with the London and Croydon Railway at Norwood. The railway to Norwood opened in 1839 but using the Jolly Sailor station on a site to the north of Norwood Junction.  From 1841 the lines through Norwood were used by both the London and Brighton Railway and from 1842 the South Eastern Railway, but neither of them used the station
Atmospheric Railway. In 1844, the London & Croydon Railway was authorised to lay an additional line next to the existing track to test an atmospheric railway system. For this a pumping station was built at Norwood. The system created a vacuum in a pipe laid between the running rails. A piston in the pipe was attached to the train. The piston and the train were thus propelled towards the pumping station by atmospheric pressure. There were many problems and in 1847, the atmospheric experiment was abandoned.
Flyover. As part of the atmospheric system, the world's first railway flyover,   a wooden structure was built south of Jolly Sailor, to carry the atmospheric line over the steam line.  This appears to have been on the site of the current crossover and thus in the square to the south.
Brighton Main Line. This goes though the station and is the original London to Croydon Route from London Bridge.  However clearly it also takes trains from other places, on lines which have joined the main line at various points up and down the route.
The West End and Crystal Palace Railway. This had originated as a tourist line to Crystal Palace in the 1850s and was extended to Norwood in 1857. It now provides a service to Victoria.
Railway that crosses Penge Road north of Kings Road is the Farnborough Extension of the Norwood Junction-Crystal Palace line of 1857.  It continues from here to Birkbeck Station.
Norwood Spur. This spur left the line from Norwood Junction to London Bridge at a point shortly beyond the station. It ran between the London Bridge bound lines and Manor Road then veering east to Kings Road and covering the area of Camilla close. It met the line running to Birkbeck at Norwood Spur Junction roughly where the tunnel between Cambridge Road and Love Lane runs. It opened in 1862 connected Norwood Junction but had no passenger services after 1917 and closed in 1928. IK continued open with some special trains until 1959 and was not officially closed until 1966. It was lifted in 1969
Marshalling yard. The London and Brighton and South Coast Railway built a marshalling yard south of the station in the 1870s.  It lay on both sides of the line with 30 sidings roped in sixes and eights. In 1934 a Motive power depot with a turntable was added 1935. The yard was used less for freight from the 1980s and the site was eventually used for the Selhurst Depot.
Traction cable depot. This is on the site of the old motive power depot.

Regina Road
This was originally called Queens Road, a short cul-de-sac from Sunny Bank dating from the early 1860s which was extended in 1889 to join up with Lincoln Road.  The road no longer followed the route of the old canal but the Norwood Spur Railway paralleled the curve of the road. Queens Road was renamed Regina Road in 1939 thus keeping the link to complement Albert Road while preventing duplication of road names elsewhere.  Second World War bombing demolished 19th housing on the Goat House site and they were replaced by flats.

South Norwood High Street
(Edith admits that the street numbering here seems to follow a very unusual line)
River Willmore. This stream ran down the hillside to the River Pool, it had various contributory streams. One of these is thought to have started south of Goat House Bridge. And flowed in the direction of Marlow Road.
Harris Academy South Norwood ex-state school sponsored by a carpet salesman. The old school was vacated in 2005 and the whole site was demolished, with the exception of Stanley's original buildings ad should be "refurbish" them in a "sympathetic manner"
Thomas Pascall Brickworks. South Norwood is built on clay, which made it much easier to build a canal which was watertight. Even so, leakage of water from the canal was a constant problem. There were a number of brickworks and the largest was that of Thomas Pascall whose brickfields extended to behind The Albion public house.
24 this was a butchers shop until 1940 with a licensed slaughterhouse at the rear. Cattle were led in through the passage in South Norwood Hill. The slaughterhouse building remains, in other use. The tiled front of the shop where the meat carcases were hung is underneath the front of the current shop
26 Albion pub. Stables and outbuildings remain at the back. There was a fire station here in 1897, either in the stables or on the site of the shops next door.
27 Double-fronted shop. The central entry leads to old dairy buildings behind Welford's Surrey Dairies Ltd. present in 1913.
45 Astoria Cinema. This opened as New Gaiety Cinematograph Theatre in 1921. It had a straight Robert Hope-Jones 2Manual organ. In 1937, it was modernised to look Art Deco by Richard Seifert and was re-named Astoria Cinema. On the front was a half-circular glass tower lit from the inside. It closed in 1957 and became a motor parts store. Later there was a snooker hall and in the 2000’s it became the church of Higher Ground Assembly and the building was David House. It was demolished in 2008 and flats built on the site.
55 The Ship. This opened in 1853, over ten years after the canal closed, but the rear structure of the building appears on canal maps. It was built on the south side of a track way that linked Thomas Pascall's brick-works on the north side of the High Street with the canal wharf. This alleyway survived until the beginning of this century as access to a tile and brick-yard.
57 behind is a builder’s yard created around the old entrance to the Norwood Wharf. The triangle of land on which the coal depot was built was where the canal widened at Norwood Wharf.
The atmospheric station with a pumping engine house was here. This was an early English Gothic design with tall church like chimneys disguised as bell towers and called stalks which also acted as an exhaust vent for air pumped from the propulsion pipe.  Much of this building was transferred to Croydon waterworks where it remains.
59 substantial mid-19th century cottage with the shops added later. The opening to the rear ran down to the canal.
63 this is an inter-war brick building with a balcony and pillars. In the 19th there was a coal depot and small goods yard with two lines from a wagon turntable and sidings running up to the High Street.
64 Jolly Sailor.  . This is first noted in 1810 as the canal opened and it was the 'Jolly Sailor Beer House' on an uninhabited crossroads. They provided overnight stabling for the barge horses and a Tea garden for leisure boats. The original building was to the south of the present one and had a garden sloping down to the canal. ". The present building is about 1868.
Cast iron clock tower. This commemorates Mr. and Mrs, Stanley's Golden wedding. It came from the Croydon clockmakers Gillet and Johnston and was erected in 1907.

South Norwood Hill
Drinking fountain. This in the wall of 25.  It was installed in 1887 for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. It was made by Whiteheads of Kennington Oval and provided by the Metropolitan Cattle Trough and Drinking Fountain Association. The metal cup was removed in 1946
10 South Norwood Conservative Club.  The club was founded in 1912 and was visited by Winston Churchill and some snooker players. This may originally have been a bank
White Lion Pub. 1826-1871

Stanger Road
Werndee.  A large mansion of the late 19th.
Tinsley Precision Instruments. Tinsley in 1904. In 1904 Henry Tinsley started his business from a workshop at home making resistance boxes and galvanometers. In 1905 he made Weston Standard Cells and in 1907 moved to South Norwood to Eldon Park Road. After successfully manufacturing many new instruments there in 1916 he moved to Werndee Hall where there was space to expand became of military demand for his instruments. After the war the firm continued with many pioneering and innovative instruments. In 1983 the firm moved to the Old Croydon Airport Estate.

Station Road
The rest of Station Road is in the square to the west
A service road which keeps at the higher original level.
Norwood Junction Station.  Opened in 1839 as Jolly Sailor station this lies between East Croydon and Anerley and also Crystal Palace on Southern Rail.  It was originally built on the old main line of South Eastern Railway.  It was also a station on the atmospheric railway. In 1846 the station's name was changed to Norwood and the station moved to the present site. In the 1850s a line was added for trains to Crystal Palace. and later for the Norwood Spur.  There are seven platforms but not all are used.
Subway under the tracks. This said to be the world first use of reinforced concrete as a tunnel lining
Goods shed. Just south of the station forecourt, is the goods shed, built just a few years after the station opened in 1859 . It is now used as railway offices.
Footpath south and along by the railway.  The slightly curved footpath corresponds exactly to the west bank of the canal.

Sunnybank
This road originally led to cottages on the site of what had been called the Goat House on the edge of a common. When the canal was built it curved round the area and later it became known as Frogs Island. Developers renamed it Sunny Bank.
Canal - Although the canal had disappeared by the end of 9th trees from its bank survived as boundaries   .
9-10 a V2 hit the area in 1944 a water-filled crater, and demolishing many houses.

Sunnycroft Road
Canal House. North of Sunnycroft was Canal House which was a big 1840s house with ground covering north of the canal and bounded by Sunnybank and the railway. Owned by Mr. Peacock. An earlier house was nearer Sunnybank and had a pond off the canal. Canal in the grounds of both houses.

Westgate Road
South Norwood Sewage Farm. This was in what is now South Norwood Country Park in a space which would be adjacent to the south east comer of the road. Baldwin Latham designed tr19th sewage farm at South Norwood. South Norwood Irrigation Farm opened in 1865. The fields would lay wet for long periods of time and smelt very bad. . Despite this, the sewage farm was productive. Grass was sold as hay, as were mangold worzels for animal feed. Later improvements to the works included concrete channels, to direct sewage out and over the numerous fields, and later filter beds were built and the irrigation beds abandoned. By 1967 raw sewage treatment ceased at the site and it was no longer used

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Pratt's Bottom. Porcupine Inn, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Washneys. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Letts Green. Letts Green Farm, Cacket's Farm http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Horns Green. Portland Oast. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-border...

 

The Nower. Cudham Frith. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Hogtrough Hill. Chalk pit, earthwork. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Westerham Hill - Woolwich Building Soc. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Westerham Hill. Reservoir, pit, fort, highest point in Kent. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../square-by-square...

 

South Street. Gladstone Bag factoryhttp://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/south-street.html

 

Biggin Hill, Pimlico. Rebuilt church, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../pimlico-biggin-hill...

 

Tatsfield.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-border...

 

Tatsfield. Wireless Station, Aerial Lighthouse, Transco Test site http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Beddlestead. Roman Road http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Norheads. Roman road http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Crown Ash. Norheads farm. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Skid Hill. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Skid Hill. Roman road http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

New Addington. Coal duty posts, New Addington School, West Wickham Reservoir. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Featherbed Lane. Hutchinsons Bank Nature Reserve http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Fickelshole. Chapel Bank Nature Reserve, White Bear http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Farleigh Deanhttp://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/farleigh-dean.html

 

Selsdon Woods. Nature reserve http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Old Farleigh Road. Selsdon Court Hotel. Croydon Girls High School http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Farleigh Court Roadhttp://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Hamsley Green. Good Companions. Neolithic Pond. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Tithepit. ancient quarry, Warlingham School, The Dobbin. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Rose & Crown Pit. The Bourne, Lewes Road, Bourne Park, Roman Road, Rose & Crown Pit, Lattice girder railway viaduct, Caterham and Kenley Gas Works, Riddesdown, Riddlesdown Road, Gas House Lane, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Whyteleafe Hill. The Bourne, Lewes Road, Electricity Sub-station, Kenley Common, Whyteleafe Station, coal tax duty posts, Kenley Airfield, war defence structures http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Kenley Common. Air raid shelters http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Caterham on the Hill. Kenley airport, old forge, Kenley Observatory http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Caterham Barracks. Guards depot, skate park, coal posts, Coulsdon Common, Mill. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Happy Valley. The Fox, nuclear bomb store. golf course http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/londonsurrey-boundary-happy-valley.html

 

Chaldon. Medieval cottages and barn. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/therge-london.html

 

Chaldon. Alderstead fort, Doom painting. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Devilsden. Coal posts, chalk mine. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonsurrey...

 

Farthingdown.  Field system, Farthingdown, ancient hedgerow, sacon burials. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/londonsurrey-boundaryfarthingdown.html

 

Dutch Village. Brighton Road, coal dues obelisk Dutch village, Merstham and Godstone Railway crossing.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/londonsurrey-boundary-brighton-road.html

Millstock.Domesday Mill site, The Bourne, clay pit  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/londonsurrey-boundary-millstock.html

Portnalls.  Deer Farm, coal post. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/london-surrey-boundary-skirting-cane.html

Chipstead Valley Road. Woodmansterne Station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/08/londonsurrey-boundary-chipstead-valley.html

Woodmansterne.Clockhouse estate, ancient track and hedge, Jack and Jill.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-woodmansterne.html

Woodmasterne.  Primary School, major lavender grower, Oaks farm. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-woodmansterne_01.html

Oaks Park. Smallholdings, Oaks Park, The Oaks.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-oaks-park.html

Banstead Prisons.  Hundred Acres Mill, Banstead LCC Lunatic Asylum, Highdown Prison,Downview Prison, hospital tramway, Downs Children’s Hospital, Royal Marsden Hospital, Golf Course, Cemetery.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-banstead-prisons.html

Banstead Downs. Brighton Road, reservoir, drove way.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-banstead-downs.html

Banstead. Gally Hill tumuli, Banstead Station, Archers and shooting club, transformer kiosk,Cuddington Hospital. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-border-banstead.html

North Looe.  Pillboxes and road blocks,  Epsom Downs Station, Drift Bridge, Drift Bridge Railway arch,  reservoir, small holdings. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-border-north-looe.html

Howell Hill. Nature reserve, golf course. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-howell-hill.html

Cheam.  Howell Hill Nature Reserve, Hare Warren remains, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-cheam.html

Nonsuch.  Cheam Park,  Cuddington, Cheam Girls High School, chalk pit, Nonsuch House, unfinished road.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-nonsuch.html

North Cheam. Leisure Centre, Queen Victoria http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-stoneleigh.html

Stoneleigh.  Stoneleigh Station. Worcester Park brickworks, Beverley Brook  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-stoneleigh.html

Cheam Common. Lower Farm brickworks, Epsom Isolation Hospital, Cheam Common School, rope worked rail incline.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary.html

Worcester Park. Wandgas Sports,gunpowder mills, ice house, Tolworth Stream, Shadbolt Arboretum  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurreysutton-boundary-worcester.html

Old Malden. Hogsmill River, Old Kingston Road, Tolworth Bridge, Tolworth Court Bridge, Tolworth Court Farm and moat, Hogsmill Tavern and mill, Maori sports Ground. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-old-malden.html

Hogsmill & Bonesgate.  Bonesgate Stream, Epsom sewage works, Ruxley Splash http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-hogsmill.html

Bonesgate.  Drake Road Open Space. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-bonesgate.html

Castle Hill. Horton Light Railway,Castle Hill, Medieval earthworks, Bonesgate pub http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-castle-hill.html

Horton.  Horton Light Railway, Horton Country Park, Aeronautical Radio Station, Bonesgate Stream.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-boundary-horton.html

West Park.  Hollywood Lodge, coal post, Stewpond Valley, West Park Hospital, Horton Light Railway, Parklands Day Hospital, Epsom and Ewell Cottage Hospital, The Poplars.   http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-boundary-west-park.html

Rushet Farm. Rushet Farm landing strip, coal post, Ashstead  Common Nature Reserve. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london.html

Rushet Common. Telegraph Hill, Admiralty Telegraph coal post. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-border-rushettcommoln.html

Rushet Common.  Leatherhead Air Sevices, Prince’s Coverts. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-boundary-rushett-common.html

Claygate Common.  Esher Bypass .  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-boundary-claygate-common.html

Claygate. Griffin. Ruxley Towers.   http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-boundary-claygate.html

Chessington.Chessington South Station, RAF Chessington, Ordnance Survey Buildings, Leatherhead rail extension.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-boundary-chessington.html

Hook.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/london-surrey-boundary-hook.html

Hook and Long Ditton  Tolworth Stream, Kingston Bypass smith

Long Ditton. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-border-long-ditton.html

Seething Wells. Lamb, Lambeth Water Works,  Chelsea Water Works, Ringmain shaft, Raven’s Ait and Clubhouse, Seething Wells.   http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-border-seething-wells.html

Thames Ditton.  Thames. Long Ditton ferry, Ferry House, House of Compassion, Swan, George & Dragon, Old Slaughter House, drinking fountain, horse trough, Ferry Works (posh car engines),  City Arms, Lambeth Water Company filter beds, water tower, statue foundry, Boyle Farm Island, Swan Island,Thames Ditton Island, suspension bridge.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-londonsurrey-boundary-thames-ditton.html

Thames Ditton.  Skiff and punting club, ferry, Thames, Albany, Ditton Field, copperas grounds. Mole tributary, cemetery.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-border-thames-ditton.html

East Molesey.  Hampton Court Station, Prince of Wales, Caernarvon Castle, Tagg’s Hotel, Court Cinema, Castle Inn,horse trough, Creek, Cigarette Island, Substation, Mitre, Harry Tagg boat works, Mole, East Molesey Lower Mill, Hampton Court Bridge, Molesey Lock.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-londonsurrey-border-east-moseley.html

East Molesey. Ash Island, smithy, Mole, Fire Engine House, old telephone box.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurrey-border-east-molesey.html

Hurst Park. Racecourse,  Karsino, Tagg’s Island, AC Motor Works. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2016/07/london-surrey-border-hurst-park.html

West Molesey and Platts Eyot.  West Molesey Wharf, Lambeth Water Works, Platt’s Eyot, spoil from reservoirs, pipes on the Eyot, bridge to the Eyot, Tom Tagg’s boatyard, Thorneycrofts  Hampton Launch works, Immisch Electric Launches.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-londonsurrey-border-west-molesey.html

Kempton Park.  Grand Junction Reservoir, West Middlesex Water Company, St.Mary’s Lodge, Hampton  Rifle Club, Sunnyside Reservoir, Portlane Brook, Stainhill reservoirs, west and east. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonsurreybuckinghamshire-border.html

Marling Park.  Red House Reservoir, Female Orphan Home, Council burning ground, Twickenham school old rugby ground, Shepperton Line http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-border-marling.html

Kempton Park. Racecourse, Reservoirs, Water Works/ Shepperton Line.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-kempton.html

Kempton Park.  Cross Lances, Hanworth Water Works, Kempton Park race track, Kempton Park Station, Pyrene House, Sunbury Cross, Kempton Park sideings, British cemetery http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-border-l.html

Feltham Hill.  Moat, Feltham Brook, Staines Rugby Club   http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-feltham.html

Feltham.  Greenham Pit Fishery, Sunbury Research Park, Greenham Construction Materials, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-feltham_26.html

Ashford.  Piggeries, snallholdings, Feltham Prison Officers Social Club, Middlesex United Football Club. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-ashford.html

Bedfont Lakes.  Gravel pits, Bedfont lakes, Monolith Hill, Orchard, Feltham Young Offenders Insitution.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundry-bedfont.html

Bedfont Lakes.  Gravel Pits, nature reserve, Airfreight and Aircargo centre, ephemeral ponds, fishing lake, water ski cluhttp://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-border-bedfont.html.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-border-bedfont.html. 

West Bedfont.  Esso West London Terminal, Orchard cafe http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-west.html

Terminal Four. Heathrow Animal Reception Centre, Terminal Four, Heathrow Cargo Tunnel, Duke of Northumberland’s River, Longford River.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-border-heathrow.html

Cargo Terminal.  Duke of Northumberland’s River, Longford River, Cargo Terminal.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-border-heathrow_27.html

Stanwell. Duke of Northumberland’s River, Lord Knyvet’s Schoolhouse, Swan, Milestone,   Longford River, Rising Sun, Gates Stanwell Place, Stanwell cursus, moated enclosure, Wheatsheaf, Gates to Stanwell Place. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-stanwell.html

Stanwellmoor.  Spout arch, Upper Mill, Airport Way http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border.html

Longford. Weekley House and Barn, Kings Arms, Queens Bridge, Mad Bridge, milestone, King’s Bridge, Moor Bridge, Longford River, White Horse, gravel works, Wraysbury River, the Baracks http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-longford.html

(( Stanwell.  Haws Road Pumping Station,  Stanwell House., crop marks.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/09/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-stanwell_27.html

Poyle.  Wraysbury river, Lintells Bridge,M25, Poyle Explosives Factory,Poyle Industrial Estate, West Drayto and Staines Railway, Stanwell Moorand Poyle Halt.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-poyle.html

Poyle. Old Bath Road, Milestone, Pump, level crossing, Punch Bowl Inn, Toll House, Poyle Estate Halt, Colnbrook Estate Halt, Railway Oil Terminal Poyle Infants School, Wraysbury River, coal post. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/av44-poyle-tq-03-77-london-hillingdon.html)))

Harmondsworth. Bigley Ditch, Keyhole. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border_19.html

Thorney.Thorney Country Park, Thorney Pool, Rodney Meadows. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-thorney.html

West Drayton.  Old Mill House, The Frays, West Drayton and Staines Railway, Brittanie Court (soap works and brewery), Wilkinson, Heywood and Clarke (manufacturing chemists) coal posts, Thorney Mills.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-west.html

Cowley.Junction of Grand Junction Canal with Slough Arm, footbridge, Packet Boat Marina, stop lock, aqueduct, Key House, defunct Great Western Railway Line, coal post, West Drayton and Staines Railway, Middlesex Oil and Chemical Works,Kenilworth and Metal Powder, Trout Bridge. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-cowley.html

Little Britain. Farlowe’s Angling Lake,  Slough arm canal,  coal post obelisk. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/buckinghamshirelondon-boundary-little.html

Little Britain. Boyle Gravel Co., Frays River, Weir, Old Mill House, Little Britain Lake and gravel workings. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-little.html

Cowley.  Gravel pit, coal tax posts, poultry farm. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-cowley.html

Uxbridge.  Uxbridge Wharf, Uxbridge Boat Centre, Mills, coal posts, Culvert Pub, Imofs, canal bridge, pill box, the Culvert, sluice, Rockingham Road mill, National Schools, electricity sub station, Long Bridge, gravel pit,Iver Nature Study Centre.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-uxbridge.html

New Denham.  New Denham Quarry, Uxbridge Moor Nature Reserve.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-boundary-new.html

Uxbridge. Watts Hall, Uxbridge Bus Garage, Belmont Road Station, Friends Meeting House, Hermitage Primary School, Haman’s Brewery, Grand Union Canal, Uxbridge Lock, Police Headquarters, Fray’s College, Kings Arms, Three Tuns, Fountains Mill, Good Yarn, Crown and Sceptre, Market  House, Uxbridge Station,White Horse Tavern, proposed rail bridge, Colne Bridge,  coal posts, canal bridge, Swan and Bottle, Crown and Treaty House, The Quays, Uxbridge High Street Station, Sedgewick’s Brewery, Xerox, Great Western Railway remains, Uxbridge Common,  water tower, Queens Head, town pump, Kingsmill mill, weigh bridge, gazebo.   K6 telephone box. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/london-buckinghamshire-boundary.html

Willow Bank.  Disused Great Western railway, Grand Union Canal, Pipe Bridge, Frays Junction, Western Avenue Bridge,  Denham Arm Bridge, Western Arterial Road, Shire ditch, Willowbank, Sandersons wallpaper factory.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-willowbank.html

Denham Lock.  Denham Lock, Denham Lock Wood, Fray’s Island, Fray’s River, Harefield Golf Course,  lakes, River Colne, Crescent weirs, gauging station, heron sculpture http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-denham.html

Denham. Harefield Place Golf Course, lakes, Harfield Pit No.2, Hillingdon Outdoor Activities Centre. Flint axe production site, Pumping station, Hanson Premix, skip hire, Denham West Junction, Denham East Junction, Denham South  Junction. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-denham.html

Denham Station.  Coal posts, Buckinghamshire Golf Club, coal post, Savay, Savay barns,Denham Station, old forge, Falcon, Denham Place gates, old Bakery, Swan, Green Man,http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-denham_9537.html

Harefield Moor.  Pumping station, reservoir, Wide Water Lock, Green Bridge, Harefield Lake, Korda Lake, Harleford Aggregates, Horse and Barge,  North Orbital Road, London Film Production studios,  Denham Laboratories http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-harefield.html

Harefield Moor.  Widewater winding hole, Grand Union canal, River Colne, Harefield chalk pit. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-harefield_30.html

Tile House Lane. Halings House, Northmoor Hill wood, Pumping House. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshire-border-tilehouse.html

Troy. Troy Mill, marble factory, Troy farm,Troy Lake, Rickmansworth Sailing Club, Long Life Lake http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonbuckinghamshirehertfordshire.html

Harefield.  Black Jack’s Mill, dry dock, Jack’s Cottage, iron foundry, Black Jacks Lock,Colney Farm barns, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-harefield.html

Harefield. Grand Union Canal, Milestone, Bridge over a spillway, Bridge at entrance to basin, Pipe bridges., water depth gauge,  Watercress beds, Royal Quay, Electricity sub-station, Mill., Bell Works, Harefield Rubber Company, Mines Royal Copper Company., Coppermill Lock, Distance marker, Nature reserve, Kennels,  Coles Shadbolt and Co. Cement Works ,Weybeards pit.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-harefield_31.htm

Springwell.  Grand Union Canal, Springwell Lock, Springwell Lane Bridge, Springwell Lane Pipe Bridge, Springwell Lane Sewerage Pipe Bridge , Sewerage Farm Marina, Watercress beds, River Colne, Springwell Lake. gravel pit, shaft in a wood. Springwell Chalk Pit.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-springwell.html

Stockers Lake.  Coal post with bench mark, Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Water works, River Colne, coal posts, Stockers Lake.. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border.http

Woodcock Hill.  Coal post, Woodcock Cementery http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-woodcock.html

Battlerswells. Coal post, old reservoir, toll house, Harefield Grove Farm,  Bishops Wood, barns.  https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/search?q=harefield+Grove

Mount Vernon.  Coal post, Mount Vernon Hospital, Michael Sobell House. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-boundary-mount.html

Batchworth HeathPrince of Wales, coal post, derelict quarry, Ye Olde Greene Manne, Moor Park, gatehouse, vegetarian pharmacy college, Bishops Wood Hospital, Northwood Chalk Mine, Northwood Golf club http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-boundary-batchworth.html

Northwood.  Coal post, St.Martin’s school. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-northwood.html

Northwood. St.Helen’s School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-northwood_31.html

Northwood.  Frithwood Primary School, chalk well, old cinema, Northwood Station, Northwood College http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-border-northwood_6634.html

Pinner Wood. Gatehouse, coal post,  reservoir, pottery kiln,  golf course, ice house http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/10/londonhertfordshire-boundary-pinner.html

Pinner Wood.  Golf course, Grimsdyke, Chalk mine, Pinner Wood Farm, dam. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-pinner-wood.html

South Oxhey. Dick Whitington http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-south-oxhey.htm

Little Oxhey.  Stadium, swimming pool  coal post, school, cemetery, brickfield, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-little-oxhey.html

Grimsdyke.  Grims Ditch, Grimsdyke, Riding School, Golf Club http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-grimsdyke.html

Hartsbourne Golf Club. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary.html

Harrow Weald.  Golf course.  Grimdyke open space http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-harrow.html

Bentley Priory.  Bentley Priory, Clutterbucks Brewery, The Windmill, Stanmore Common, Tyke’s Water, LittleTyke’s Stream, Spering Stream, Boudicca’s Mound, coal tax post http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-bentley.html

 

Bushy Heath. Three Valley’s Water Works, Bushey Heath Hospital, Spire Hospital, Black Boy Pub https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-bushey.html

Stanmore Common.  Watford ByPass, M1, Pynding Merse http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-stanmore.html

Aldenham Reservoir.  Reservoir, pump house, railway, dam, tunnel, laboratory, Watford Way Junction.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-aldenham.html

Elstree. Hollybush Inn, Elstree School, Artichoke.  Roman Road. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-elstree.html

Elstree.  Lawn Cemetery. Wishing well http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/hertfordshirelondon-border-elstree.html

Deacon’s Hill.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-deacons-hill.html

Scratchwood.  Barnet Way,optical telegraph,Open Space.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-scratchwood.html

Borehamwood. Elstree Moat House, Arkley Golf Course http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-borehamwood.html

Barnet Way.Saffron Green transmitter masts, Regent shooting grounds http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/london-hertfordshire-border-barnet-way.html

Barnet Way.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-barnet-way.html

Ridgehttp://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/london-hertfordshire-border-ridge.html

Dyrham Park Farm.  Barnet By Pass, A1, Mymshall Brook http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2013/03/mymshall-brook-dyrham-park-farm.html

Dyrham Park. Dammed stream, ponds, moat. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/london-hertfordshire-border-dyrham-park.html

Arkley.  Moat,monastery http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-arkley.html

Arkley. Wall post box http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/london-hertfordshire-border-arkley.html

Barnet. Queen Elizabeth Boys School, milestone, trough, pillar box, Barnet General Hospital, Lord Nelson, Optical Laboratories, Whalebone park http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-barnet.html

Barnet. Bridgetown Golf Club, Barnet Ditch, Christchurch Primary School,electricity transformer station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-barnet_19.html

Hadley Green. Water and gas pressure tower,Hadley Green, Battle of Barnet,tollgate, drinking fountain, Josslyn’s Pond, Hadley Brewery, stables, almshouses, Hadley High Stone, William IV,  Mill and  Windmill Tavern, Old Fold Golf Club, Maw Works, St.Albans Road, dummy airfield. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/london-hertfordshire-border-hadley.html

Monken Hadley.Schools, Hadley Common, Warwick’s Oak,barn, copper beacon,Monken Mead Brook http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-monken.html

Hadley Wood.  Bartram’s Quash, Monken Mead Brook. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-hadley.html

Hadley Wood.  Hadley Wood Station. Cricket ground, tennis club http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-hadley_25.html

Enfield Chase. pylons  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-enfield.html

Potters Bar.  Pond Wood http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-potters-bar.html

Potters Bar.  Greyhound Racing Association Kennels, Jain Temple,  fish pond http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-potters.html

Barvin Park. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-barvin.html

Cattlegate.Turkey Brook http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-cattlegate.html

Crews Hill.  Crews Hill Station, Crews Hill Golf Course, Enfield  Chase http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-crews-hill_25.html

Glasgow Stud.  Piggeries, glass houses, Glasgow stud http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-boundary-crews-hill_25.html

 

Whitewebbs.  Plantation, barn http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-whitewebbsd.html

Theobald’s Manor.  Gunsite stud http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-theobalds.html

Theobalds.  Theobald’s  brook,Jewish cemetery, moat, maze, New River, Temple Bar, M25, Tesco Sports, Riding School, New River aqueduct. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshire-border-theobalds_26.html

Waltham Cross. Cambridge Road,News International Printing Works, Travellodge, level crossing sand and gravel pits. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordfshire-border-waltham.html

Ramney Marsh.  Aqueduct, Cobbins Brook, Gunpowder Park, guncotton factory, M25, canal, Lower Island,Lea Navigation, Enfield Cut, Ramney Marsh Lock, Footbridge, pumping station, tumbling bay, Newman’s  Weir, Weir Keeper’s house, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonhertfordshireessex-border-ramney.html

Enfield Lock.Enfield Lock, Lock House, Rifles, Lea Navigation, Enfield Cut, Enfield millstream, igSmall Arms, gasholders,  gunpowder mills, machine shop, factory school, bridge, canal, Museum, Thwaites Turret clock water tower,rail layout, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-enfield-lock.html

King George V.  Lea Navigation, George V reservoir,pumping station http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-king-george-v.html

King GeorgeV. Mardyke, Lea Navigation, Sewardstone Mill, embankment id-reservoir, Enfield Cut, Fox and Hounds, Lea Valley Campsite http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-king-george-v_27.html

King George V.  Sailing club, gun site  battery. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-king-george-v_5997.html

Sewardstonebury.  Livery stables, filter beds, sewage works, Hawkwood School, well http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-sewardstonebury.html

Sewardstonebury.  Retreat, Cuckoo Brook. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-sewardstonebury_27.html

Epping Forest. Green rides, Cuckoo pits, Grimston’s Oak, obelisk, Connaught Water, The Warren, The Ching. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/11/londonessex-border-epping-forest.html

Buckhurst  Hill. Warren Wood House, The Ching. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-buckhurst-hill.html

Buckhurst Hill. Rigg’s Retreat, Epping New Road, Knighton Wood,Bancroft’s School, East London Water Co. Reservoir, Bald Faced Stag,  Roebuck Hotel, Holly House Hospital, Monkhams Lane  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-buckhurst-hill_03.html

Buckhurst Hill. Prince of Wales, Monkhams,British Queen, Buckhurst Hill Station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-buckhurst-hill_5368.html

Roding Valley.  Loughton Junction, Roding Valley Station, Monkhams Inn, Rayhouse  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-roding-valley.html

Woodford Bridge. Three Jolly Wheelers, Sewage works,West Hach High school, west hatch into Epping Forest. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-woodford-bridge.htm

Woodford Bridge. White Hart, Guide Dogs for the Blind Centre.  Crown and Crooked Billett, Woodford Bridge. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-woodford-bridge_03.html

Claybury.Claybury Wood Nature Reserve, Roman road, Claybury Asylum, Repton Park, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-woodford-bridge_03.html

Hainault. Old Mapole, Limes Farm Estate http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-hainault.html

Hainault.  Playing fields, Hainault Aerodrome, Hainault Station, Hainault Rolling Stock Depot, Maersk Logsitics,Hainault trainstaff mess. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-hainault_1517.html

Grange Hill. Schools, Railway line, mineral spring. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-grange-hill.html

Hainault.  LCC Estate, steel framed houses, schools. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-hainault_11.html

Hainault Forest.  Hainault Country Park, Sheep Water, coal post. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-hainault-forest.html

Hainault Forest. Sandhills, Mile Plantation. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-hainault-forest.html

Havering Park.  Park Farm, River Rom. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-havering-park.html

Havering  Park.  Bower Farm, gas house, Park Office, Wellingtonia Avenue. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-havering-park_11.html

Tysea Hill.  Nupers fish farm. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-tysea-hill.html

Pyrgo Wood. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-pyrgo-wood.html

Noak Hill.  Greyhound training track, Rottweiler trainng, golf course, medieval kiln. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/london-essex-border-noak-hill.html

Havering Plain. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-jha.html

St.Vincent’s Hamlet.  Wrightsbridge ,  Weald Brook, Old Macdonald’s Farm. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-stvincents-hamlet.html

Wealdside.  Weald Brook http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-weald-side.html

South Weald. Weald Brook. Chalybeate spring. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-south-weald.html

Harold Park.  Colchester Road, Roman road, Putwell Bridge, tollhouse, Brentford Bypass, Brook Street Interchange, Wead Brook. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-harold-park.html

Harold Park.  Boundary issues. Thames Water Treatment Station . http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/03/thames-tributary-ingrebourne-harold.html

Great Warley, M25 http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-great-warley.html

Great Warley.  Village Green, Abbey Metal Works,  de Rougemont Hotel, Thatcher’s Arms. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/03/thames-tributary-mardyke-great-warley.html

Parker’s  Shaw. Pilgrim’s Way, Parkers Shaw. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-parkers-shaw.html

 

Cranham. Ancient woodland, medieval dam,  medieval ditch, ceramics workshop http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-cranhamn.html

Cranham. Cranham Brick and Tile Co. Railway spur, pond,  Jobbers Rest.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-cranham.html

Warley Street. Puddle Dock sewage works, fishery, Alma Ammuniion, Plessey . http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-warley-street.html

Warley Street.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-border-warley-street.html

Bury Farm. Upminster Sewage Works, Mardyke. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-bury-farm.html

Dunnings Lane. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-dunnings-lane.html

Dunnings Lane. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-dunnings-lane_31.html

Fen Farm. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-fen-farm.html

North Ockenden. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2009/12/londonessex-boundary-north-ockenden.html

North Ockenden. Groves Barns, forge http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-boundary-north-ockendon.html

North Ockenden.  Moat, barns, coach house. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-border-north-ockendon.html

Dennis’s Lane. Gravelpit http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-border-dennises-lane.html

Brick kiln wood.  Brick kiln, lakes,Belhuis Wood Country Park http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-border-brick-kiln-wood.html

Belhuis. Country Park, Roman road,  Running Water brook, Saxon pits http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-border-bellhuis.html

Warwick Woods.  Grael pits, fishing lake, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/boundary-londonessexhavering-boundary.html

Aveley. Clay pit, fishing lake, golf coure, Bronze Age buriels, Sarson stone, Roman field system, medieval enclosure. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-boundary-aveley.html

Aveley.Aveley Sand and Gravel. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-border-aveley.html

Wennington. Quarry, old school, Lennard Arms,laundry http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-border-wennington.html

Purfleet Ranges.  Government gunpowder store,targets, stores, barracks,rifle ranges. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-boundary-purfleet.html

Purfleet.Wennington Marshes, RSPB reserve http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/londonessex-boundary-purfleet_02.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DARENT AND IS TRIBUTORIES

Darent . spring, source and Squerries.  Romano British fort http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-squerryes.html

Westerham.  Black Eagle Brewery, Drill Hall, General Wolfe Pub, British Legion,  old forge,19thC post box, old  laundry, Royal Standard, Swan Cinema, Darent, Kings Arms, George and Dragon, Squerries Park Mill, footbridge, chimney stack, Westerham Mill, Dovecote, cenotaph, folly tower.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent.html

Westerham.  Westerham Press, Westerham Library, Westerham Station, M25, market, Post Office, Crown Hotel,Old House at Home. Seenoaks Road, turnpike, Darent, Wolfe Statue, Churchill Statue, Grasshopper Inn,  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-westerham.html

Valence House. St.George’s Field, Valence School, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-valence-house.html

Brasted.  Westerham Golf Club http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-brasted.html

Brasted.  Darent Bridge, Stanhope Arms, Bull Inn, M25, turnaround junction, swimming pool, Brasted Station http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-brasted_05.

Brasted.  Brasted Green, old mill, Durtnell Building Co., old pump, Crampton brickfield, White Hart Inn, Ian Ramsey College, mill stream, stables with Guards clock,  lake, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-brasted_7644.html

Sundridge.  Mill stream,Sundridge Mill, pond, earthworks, Sundridge airfield, folly, ice house, pit, Lamb, White Horse, Sundridge Water Works  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-sundridge.html

Dry Hill.  Dry Hill Quarry, Sevenoaks Bypass, Sandridge Lakes Fishery, Darent Lakes Wood Fishery, piggeries, Council Depot, Dumbrik Depot.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-sundridge_06.html

Chipstead. Brickworks, clay pit, sand extraction, Marley Tiles, school, swimming pool, Bricklayers Arms, Mill, pottery, studios, Working Mens Club, forge, water channel, windmill,moat, oast, Sevenoaks Bypass, Chevening Halt Station, Rye Road.   http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-chipstead.html

Chipstead. Sand and gravel extraction, Rye Road,working men’s club, George and Dragon, old bakery, Rock House, Chipstead Lake, Club House and sailing club, sand pit, whiteing mine     http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-chipstead_06.html

Riverhead. Walter Smith office,engineering workshop, Chipstead Common, sand and gravel extraction, dry dock, weir, brickworks, Miners’ Arms , Longford Bridge, Millstone, Marley Tile works, Bullfinch, Druidical ruins, watermill, mill house, Darent arch underthe railway, Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-riverhead.html

Dunton Green.  Primary School, bus garage, railway bridge, Dunton Green Brick Tile and Pottery works,West Kent Cold Storage Depot, Dunton Green Station,brickworks siding. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-dunton-green.html

Watercress Stream

Greatness. Tarmac aggregate quarry, Greatness brickworks, Sevenoaks brickworks, clay pit. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-watercress-honeypot.html

Dunton Green, Darent joined by Watercress Stream, gas works,Jeffrey Harrison Nature Reserve. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-dunton-green_06.html

Honeypot Stream

Kemsing. Clay pits, pumping Station http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-honeypot-stream.html

Kemsing. Kemsing Station.stone  extraction, Roman clay pit, granary, railway bridge. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-honeypot-stream_06.html

Noah’s Ark. Wayside shrine,Noah’s Ark Bridge, Railway bridge.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-honeypot-stream_4089.html

Child’s Bridge.  Child’s Bridge Milll,  Junior school. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-honeypot-stream_9169.html

Otford.  M26, Long Lodge Oast House, Long Lodge Mill, Old Otford Road,Otford Junction, brickworks. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-honeypot-stream_2456.html

Greatness. Tarmac aggregate quarry, Greatness brickworks, Sevenoaks brickworks, clay pit. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-watercress-honeypot.html

Darent

Otford. Darent is joined by the Honeypot Stream and the Bubblestone Stream.  Roman site. Anglo Saxon burials. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-otford.html

Otford. Historic naviation limit.  Joined by Bubblestone Stream.  Colet’s Well, prehistoric trackway, Poor House, RE Bridge, Bull Inn,forge, Horns,school, Heritage Centre, Saturn, Mill, Romano British villa, Otford Palace, dene hole, medieval deer park, leper hospital, Castle House, Beckett’s Well, subterranean conduit house, Otford Solar System, chantry, pond, duck house, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-otford_06.html

Otford. Pilgrim’s Way, Romano British cemetery,Neptune, Twitton Farm Oast, Battle of Otford, Sevenoaks Isolation Hospital,Rising ‘Sun http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-otford_9862.html. Twitton Brook

Filston. Filston stream, original course of the Darent, oast houses, Roman site, Model farm,Pluto, Moat.Twitton Brook. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-filston.html

Shoreham.  Shoreham Upper Mill,medieval farm bank. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-shoreham.html

Shoreham.Rising Sun, Yew Avenue, George Inn, forge, farrier, Shoreham Station, Countryside Centre, Darenth Valley Golf Club, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-shoreham_07.html

Shoreham. Samuel Palmer School of Fine Art, almshouses, Crown, Royal  Oak, Kings Arms, Two Brewers, Pumping Station, School, chalk cut war memorial cross, aircraft museum, forge,Warings hop. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-shoreham_7490.html

Shoreham. Preston Farm Oast, Shoreham Mill and Mill House,. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-shoreham_9490.html

Castle Farm.  Bridge, hop pickers huts, Shoreham Castle, Lullingstone Park Visitor Centre, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-lullingstone.html

Lullingstone.almshouse  Hospital, jousting ground, gatehouse, Bailey Bridge, stream.lake, bath house, ice house,Roman Villa http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-lullingstone_07.html

Eynsford Station.  Lullingstone Castle. Silkworms, World Garden of Plants, Eynsford Station http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-lullingstone_9763.html

Eynsford. Mount Eagle, Eynsford Pumping Station,Wood Mill, Lullingstone viaduct , Old Mill, ford, bridge, boulder in the river, Water Board conifers https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-eynsford.html

Eynsford.  Castle, Village Hall, Lychgate, Gibson’s Ironworks, Boer War trees, stocks, drinking fountain,Castle Pub, Five Bells,Acrostic  trees, schools. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributory-darent-eynsford.html

Farningham. Iron Age farmstead, Mill, forge, Bricklayers Arms, Pied Bull, tank, flint barn, bakery, FRoman villas, market, castle. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-farningham.html

Farningham. Ancient woodland, Roman villa, Chequers, flint wall with bee bole, bridge, screen, ford, Farningham mill, folly garden house, Lion Hotel, Bricklayers Arms, Farningham bypass. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-farningham_10.html

Farningham. Hundred Year Wood, Franks Generating Station, Picture Gallery Horton Kirby Cricket Club. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-farningham_9015.html

Horton Kirby. Site of Roman granary. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-horton-kirby.html

Horton Kirby.  Weir, gravel pits, concrete sill in the river, barns, forge, post box, Horton Castle, moat, dovecote, school, The Bull, Fighting Cocks, Mill, Environmental Education Centre. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-horton-kirby_10.html

South Darenth.  St.John’s Stream, Devon Road Bridge, Bridge, Jolly Millers, Engineering works, Mill, Fire Station, Darenth Valley Gas works, Homes for Little Boys, Gospel Hall, railway viaduct, Saxon graves. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-south-darenth.html

St. John’s Stream

Farningham Road.  Farningham Road and Sutton at Hone Station. Corus Building, Signal box, Frog Lane Mill. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/darent-thames-tributary-st-johns-stream.html

Darent

Sutton at Hone.  Primary School, gravel pit, Little Lake, Ship, ice houses, almshouses, St.John of Jerusalem, Sutton Ballast Co., St. John’s Stream. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-stjohns-stream.html

Darenth. Roman Villa. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-darenth.html

Darenth.Depot, ice house, Fox and Hounds, Millis Brewing Co. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-darenth_13.html

Hawley.  Chequers, Darenth Water Works, King George’s  Field, Hawley Mill, Darenth Paper Mill, HaJ.wley Garden Centre, Old Mill. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-hawley.html

Hawley. Darenth Interchange, Albion Ironworks. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-hawley_13.html

Hawley. Four Lymes, Papermarkers Arms, Orange Tree, Dovecote, J&E Hall, Bridge, Powder Mill, Pumping station,Smelting Plant, Watling Street. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-hawley_8679.html

Dartford Central Park. Brooklands Lake, Lower Paper Mill, Brooklands Park, Colyers Mill, Roman villa, Dartford Brewery, Paper Mill, Sports Centre,Swimming Pool, Foundry,Malt Shovel, Ivy Leaf, Dartford Bridge, St Edmund’s Cemetery, Livingstone Hospital, Foresters Arms, Tollgate Pub, Tasker Brewery, One Bell Pub, Lowfield Street Stream, Beadles coach builders, almshouses, Fox and Hounds, Two Brewers, Windmill, Plough, Cinema, Drill Hall, Fairfield Pool and Leisure Centre, Hussey Fleet Brewery, Paper Moon,Museum, Library, Bus Station, War Memorial, RAF Memorial Hall,Town Mill, Serena Hall, Princes Road, Tiger. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-dartford.html

Dartford. Dartford Printing Works, Wat Tyler, canal plans for the Creek, BRS depot, bus depot, Priory Lock, basin, lift bridge, 2 bascule bridges, cable bridge, flood banks, riverside mills, New Town Tavern, ship breakers, Kings Head, Black Boy Inn, Crown Brewery, Bulls Head, Royal Victoria and Bull, Orchard Theatre, Baltic Saw Mills, footbridge, Hufflers Arms,Steam Crane Wharf, Stage door, Gas Works, J.& E.Hall, Erith & Darford Lighterage, James Sharp, Dartford Wharfage, Public House Trust, County Court, London Paper Mills, Phoenix Pub, Dartford Gas Mantle Factory, Phoenix Mills, Boroughs Welcombe, Mill Pond, Cartway, Pipe House, Stricklands, Royal Oak, Gala Cinema, Old Court House, Beadles Garage, Roller Skating Rink, Dartford Working Men’s Institute, Dartford Station, Railway Hotel, Silk Mill. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-darent-dartford_13.html

River Cray, tributary to Darent.

Orpington.  Dairy Crest, Bark Hart,Hodsoll’s Mill, stables, library, outbuildings, walls, tunnel, well, Priory Gardens entrance, Orpington Bypass, Civic Centre, College of Further Education, Anchor and Hope, Harvest Moon, Artichoke, War Memorial, George and Dragon, sports centre, walnut trees, White Hart, Buff Orpington, Orpington car, denehole, chalkwell, Commodore Cinema, Lower Pond, Henrietta Spring, gates, parterre.  https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-river-cray-flowing-to.html

St.Mary Cray.  Rising Sun, Coates Bros., Morphy Richards, dene hole, Tip Top Bakery, Oertling Pilgrim House, Blue Lagoon, National Time Recorder, Royal Albert, Orpington car, Primary School, Saxon Cemetery, Fordcroft Roman Villa.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-flowing-to-main.html

St.Mary Cray. Forge, chestnut tree, dene holes, coal tax post, chalk well, Rosecroft Social Club, St.Mary Cray Brewery, Red Lion, primary school, Blue Anchor, village hall, Upper Paper Mill, Reynolds Cross, Wealden House, White Swan, Angelsey Arms, stables, Snellings Mill, boating pond, Beech Tree. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-flowing-to-darent.html

St.Paul’s Cray.  Shaft, dene hole, Black Boy, Mary Rose, village sign, railway viaduct, market meadow, fire engine house, Joynson Mill, The Mount, old forge, gasworks, Babbs, cemetery, library, war memorial, flint bridge.  https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-flowing-to-darent_20.html

St.Paul’s Cray. Granary, The Bull, St.Paul’s Cray Mill, Nash Mills, bridge, recreation ground, gravel pit, Broomwood pub, Ruxley Golf Course, Bromley Ski Centre, health club. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-flowing-to-darent_2844.html

Foots Cray.  Schweppes, Klinger works, Seven Stars, Red Lion, Sidcup Technology Centre, Foots Cray Mill, Kloster Brandes, Brimar, STC valves, Harenc, Foots Cray Bridge, Sidcup Bus Garage, denehole, Sidcup Bypass, Crittall factory.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-tributary-to.html

Foots Cray. Harenc Mill, War Memorial, Foots Cray Place,Bowls Pavilion, Outdoor Activities Centre, gates, Dutch Garden, Foots Cray Meadows, Lake, canal, tollgate, Toyota centre, David Lloyd Leisure, Community Centre, stable block, war memorial, Tiger’s Head, Foots Cray Woods, Foots Cray Chalk, Lime and Brick Works, British Metallic Packing, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-tributary-to_21.

North Cray.  Romano British Bath House, Five Arch bridge, Roman pottery, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-tributary-to_5012.html

North Cray.  Scout Hut, sports ground, White Cross, old school, pumping station, old main road. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributory-cray-north-cray.html

Bexley. Reffell’s Brewery, Owelett, water tower, K9 telephone box, national schools, almshouses, Phamax, Electricity generating station, Kent Brewery, sorting office, Bexley Brewery, print house, medieval pottery, railway viaduct, Railway Tavern,Fremantle Hal, Kings Head, The George, Millers Arms,Fire engine shed, old mill, war memorial, church hall, Bexley Sand and Gravel, St.Mary’s cemetery,  Coach and Horses, Penfold Pillar box, Dartford Loop, Butterfly Farm, Bexley /station, railway electricity sub-station, Bexley tannery, medieval tile kiln, gravel pit, Upton Road brickfield, garden subdial, Bexley electricity sub-station, artificial hill, Sun field, Rising Sun, Bexley Equestrian Centre, sidings, council generating station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributary-cray-bexley.html

River Shuttle. Tributary to River Cray.

Eltham. Pippenhall Meadows,Conduit Meadow, Conduit Head, reservoirs, K2 phone bo, fire station, Man of Kent, shaft and chamber, Eltham Warren Golf Course, barn, stables milestone, Graftons Engineering, schools, almshouses, forge, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/thames-tributory-river-shuttle-flowing_24.html

Wyncham Stream. Tributory to River Shuttle

Kemnal Manor. Belmont Lane Open Space, primary school, British Legion, stock wells, waterfall, Foxbury Mission Training College, Kemnal Riding Stables,Kemnal Manor. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/wyncham-stream-flowing-to-shuttlekemnal.html

New Eltham.  School, Footscray Road, turnpike, New Eltham Library, milestone, Crossways Hotel, Flamingo Park, Jack Nicklaus Golf Centre.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/wyncham-stream-flowing-to-shuttle-new.html

River Shuttle

Avery Hill.  Avery Hil Fields, Student Accommodation blocks,Witch of Agnesi, signpost, Cambridge University Mission sports, Unilever sports, Grundoin Coaches, Metrogas Sports, Gaelic Athletic Sports, Stanley Instrument Factory,  Dickersons Building Merchants, New Eltham Social Club, commemorative stone seat, North’s kennels, Charlton Athletic Training Ground, Sparrows Farm Leisure Centre.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-flowing-to-cray-new-eltham.html

Halfway Street.  Marrowbone Hall, Hollies Childrens’ Home, Blackboy Pub http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-and-wyncham-stream-flowing-to.html

Lamorbey. Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama, piggery, Barn Theatre, Rose BexleyTheatre, Bath House footings, Sidcup Golf Course, schools, ice houses, pinnacle. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-tributory-to-cray-and-darent.html

Blendon.  Hurst Place Community Centre, Penhill Bridge, water voles. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-tributory-to-cray-and-darent_26.html

Brigden. Bexley Woods, Tanyard Farm, Three Blackbirds, Blue Anchor, Shuttle Riverway. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-tributory-to-cray-and-darent_3320.html

River Cray

Bexley. Shuttle joins the Cray, The Warren, Vickers aircraft factory, Meredith and Drew Bakery, milestone, Bexley and Erith Technical High School, Rochester Way, Black Prince road house, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-tributary-to-cray-and-darent.html

Crayford.  Shuttle joins the Cray. A2, Rochester Way, lampposts from cinema, wall post box,. Silk and calico bleaching, Applegarth, David Evans silk printing, madder shop, steel houses, Hall Place, topiary,barn, stable, granary, museum, corn mill, Crayford Gas Works, dene hole,  Feakes Joinery, Gibbett Wood, Munns Calico Grounds, Siddeley Autocards, Parish Loam Pit. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/01/shuttle-cray-tributary-to-darent.html

Crayford Town Centre. Ford, dene holes, Roman Road, brickworks, tannery, brewery, Town Hall, clock tower, Vickers Maxim Gun Foundry (two sites), Swaisland silk & calico dyes, Crayford Water Works, Crayford Dogs, Mineral Water Works, coal duty posts, Observatory instrument factory, Crayford Station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Maiden Lane. Coal duty posts and obelisk, remains of rail junction to Vickers works, bleach fields, Dartford Railway Loop and Curve, Vickers housing, India rubber works, carpet works, River Wanshunt, Dartford by-pass., dene holes. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Barnes Cray. Calico printing, Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre, Dussek, brick kilns, dene holes, Crayford Flour Mill, Railway viaducts, saw mills, clay pits, Maxim Guns, Jolly Farmers. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../cray-tributary-to...

 

Cray/Darent confluence. River Cray, River Wansunt, Stanham River. West Kent Main Sewer. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

River Darent

Cray Marshes. 1830s canal plans, salt marsh http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

Dartford Marshes. Coal duty post, bunkers and pillboxes, Trench Warfare Railway, Thames Ammunition Works. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

The Darent meets the Thames. Long Reach, Measured mile, Royal Flying Corps ground Dartford Creek Barrier. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/.../londonkent-boundary...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOUTH LONDON – RIVER RAVENSBOURNE AND ITS TRIBUTORIES

 

Keston. Source of the Ravensbourne, Olive’s Mill, Romano British Cemetery, gravel pit, Keston Ponds, reservoirs.https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-keston.html

Hayes Common. Football and cricket clubs, boys secondary school.https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-hayes.html

Hayes.  Various small tributaries to the Ravensbourne. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-hayes_11.html

Tributory to the Ravensbourne

Bromley Common. Steam Brewery, Bus Garage, war memorial, Garden Gate Pub, Village hall, golf club, race course,New Era Laundry,country park, Hastings Road, turnpike, City of London plaque, Lennard Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Astley Adult Training Centre, School.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-stream-flowing-to.html

River Ravensbourne

Norman Park.  Bromley College of  Higher Education, Blue Circle Sports Club, Crown Pub, Five Bells, Ambulance Centre, Norman Park, Football Club, Harriers and Athletic Club, Rookery Lake.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-norman.html

Hayes. Bourne Stream parallel to the Ravensbourne, Bromley Football Club, Norman Park Athletics Track.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-and.html

The Bourne.Tributory to the Ravensbourne

West Wickham. Pond, House for 1934 Ideal Homes, obelisk, College of Further Education, Metropolitan Police Sport Club, police stables, public air raid shelters, school, assembly rooms, granary, earthwork, Armada ditches, Domesday oaks. T

Hayes.  Hayes Station, signal box, Pickhurst Pub, football clubs, scout hut.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.comLabour/2010/02/thames-tributary-bourne-flowing-to.html

River Ravensbourne

Bromley South. Ravensbourne is joined by a number of streams near the junction of Hayes and Westmoreland Roads, Board School, Kitson’s Works,Bromley Hospital, Foresters House, Masonic Hall, VAD Hospital, Conservative Club, High School,Labour Exchange, Scout Hut, Tennis club, School, Rising Sun, Gaumont Cinema, Police Station, Kentish Way, Gravel Pits,Railway Signal Pub, Crown Buldings, Two Brewers pub, Charity School, Tiger’s Head, Centre for Autism, Bricklayers Arms, Maternity Hospital, Palace Tavern,Lola Cars, Dialisis Unit, Friends Meeting House, Bromley Labour Club, Richmal Crompton. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2017/10/bromley-south.html

Tributory to the Ravensbourne  This runs from Toots Wood between Westmoreland and Stone Road.https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne.html

River Ravensbourne

Shortlands Station.  Page not done

Beckenham. Sloane hospital, sewer vent pipe, St.Christopher’s School, Bishop Challenor’s School, primary school. Beckenham Place Park Lodge. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beckenham.html

Beckenham Place.  Wray Works, Millwall Football Club Training, Lewisham Youth Football, Beckenham Place Park hollow ex-pond, boundarypost, Ravenbourne Station,  ancient woodland, Beckenham Park Lodge, Convent, School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beckenham_

South End.  Beckenham Hill Station, Park Lodge, Pillarbox, milestone, school, Green Man, Upper Mill, Obelisk, Mill Pond, Lower Mill, Tiger’s Head, memorial green areas, Garden Gate pub, horse trough.Sedgehill School, two tributaries, Bonnies.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-south-end.html

Bellingham. Mound, bridges, Roman Road, Catford Bus Garage, Old Mill, Police Station, Sports Ground, Rivers Centre,  Open air swimming pool, Bellingham Station, Fellowship Inn. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_4690.html

Pool River. Tributory to the Ravensbourne, from its source

Woodside. Primary school, Croydon baths, VR pillar box, Handleys brickworks, brickworks meadow, school nature garden, Enshaw’s clay pipes, smithy, Greyhound pub, Adult Learning Centre, fire station, Gold Coast pub, South Norwood Library, South Norwood Leisure Centre, Oceans Apart, Horse tram depot, Woodsde Tram Stop, Woodside Station, Woodside Timber merchants, Beehive, Joiners Arms, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain, war memorial http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_8205.html

Tributories to the Pool Riverx

Addiscombe.Primary school, Cherry Orchard Pub, Glamorgan Pub, Addiscombe Railway Park, Freemasons’ Asylum, St.John’s Ambulance,Victory Works Oliver typewriters, Beverley Hall Scout HQ, Roman House Mansell Construction Co., East India College Gym, Co-op milk depot, Builders Arms, Gaybank Construction, New Moon Recording Studio, Leslie Arms, Croydon Tramlink, Addiscombe Station, Alma Tavern,train cleaning sheds, Turners Removal Co., Oval Tavern,Lake.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/10/thames-tributaries-norbury-brook.html

Addiscombe. Addiscombe tram stop, train tunnels, Ashburton Park, Library, Woodside Convent Orphanage,Claret Free House, Bingham Road Half, Blackhorse Lane Tramstop, Bridge, telephone exchange, pillar box, Black Horse Garage, Alma Tavern, Black Horse, Woodside Tunnel, Woodside Junction, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_2357.html

Arena.  Arena Tram Stop, Croydon Racetrack, Golf Driving range,http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbournen-pool.html

Pool River. Tributory to River Ravensbourne

Birkbeck  Elmers End Bus Garage, Muirhead Works, Beckenham Cemetary, Elmers End Station, Birkbeck Station, South Norwood Country Park, Croydon UDC Sewage Works, Elmers End Moat. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_418.html

Penge – Beckenham. Crystal Palace Brickworks, Allotments, Cator Masonic Hall, Aldous and Stamp, water treatment engineers,  Dixon Glass, Avenue Road tram stop, Birkbeck Estate, Churchfields School, Council Depot, Churchfields Recreation Ground, Conservative Club, Nissan Dealer, Dashwood Engineering, Empire Works, Robin Hood pub, Dexter Works, roller skate factory, Penge UDC depot, Miracle Mills, Royston School, Royston Field, Penge Green Gym, The Anchor, Odeon Cinema, Moon and Stars, Kings Hall Electric Theatre, Londex Electrical Engineering Works, Harris Primary Academy, Maple Tree, Button Factory, Golden Lion, Lord Palmerston, Melvin Road National School, South Met. Tramways Depot, Royston Halls, Frank and Peggy Spencer School of Dance, The Hub  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2017/04/penge-beckenham.html

Beckenham.  Beckenham Central School, Clockhouse Station, Beckenham Road Tram Stop, Penge Station, School of Art, Library, Sports Ground, The Spa, Chaffinch Bridge, Electricity Station, Beckenham Cottage Hospital, Clock House pub, Croydon Road Recreation Ground, bandstand, Woodbrook School, Riverside School, Kent House Station, Cyphers Bowling Club, Churchfield School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_27.html

Chaffinch Brook.  Tributory to Pool River

Shirley.  Shirley Oaks BMI Hospital, Stroud Green Well, Stroud Green Pump, Shirley Oaks Children’s Home. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-chaffinch-brook.html

Arena.  Arena Tram Stop, Croydon Racetrack, Golf Driving range,http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbournen-pool.html

Penge – Beckenham. Crystal Palace Brickworks, Allotments, Cator Masonic Hall, Aldous and Stamp, water treatment engineers,  Dixon Glass, Avenue Road tram stop, Birkbeck Estate, Churchfields School, Council Depot, Churchfields Recreation Ground, Conservative Club, Nissan Dealer, Dashwood Engineering, Empire Works, Robin Hood pub, Dexter Works, roller skate factory, Penge UDC depot, Miracle Mills, Royston School, Royston Field, Penge Green Gym, The Anchor, Odeon Cinema, Moon and Stars, Kings Hall Electric Theatre, Londex Electrical Engineering Works, Harris Primary Academy, Maple Tree, Button Factory, Golden Lion, Lord Palmerston, Melvin Road National School, South Met. Tramways Depot, Royston Halls, Frank and Peggy Spencer School of Dance, The Hub  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2017/04/penge-beckenham.html

Beckenham.  Beckenham Central School, Clockhouse Station, Beckenham Road Tram Stop, Penge Station, School of Art, Library, Sports Ground, The Spa, Chaffinch Bridge, Electricity Station, Beckenham Cottage Hospital, Clock House pub, Croydon Road Recreation Ground, bandstand, Woodbrook School, Riverside School, Kent House Station, Cyphers Bowling Club, Churchfield School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_27.html

The Beck. Tributory to the Pool  River

Addington. Croydon Rugby Club, boundary ditches, The Wicket,  Cricketers Inn, smithy, Cricket Green.  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beck.html

Shirley. Roman Cemetery, The Goat, Spring Park School, golf course, tank traps, drinking fountain. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beck_26.html

Monks Orchard. St David’s College,  Blake Recreation Ground, Oak Lodge Primary School, Wheatsheaf, Wickham Hall Stables, Mellins, Unigate, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Museum of the Mind, British Legio Club. Scout HQ, West Wickham Social Club, Wickham Hall, car park o possible mill site, forge,White Hart. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beck_9544.html

Eden Park.  Beckenham Football Club, Unicorn Primary School, Wellcombe Research Labortories, Nature Reserve, Langley Park Boys School, Langley Park School for Girls, Eden Park Station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-beck-eden-park.html

Kelsey Park.  Sandhills School, footbridge, Chinese garage, Kelsey Park School, Sports ground, Beckenham Maternity Hospital  http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beck_5543.html

Beckenham.  BR Southern Region SE Divisional HQ, Local Board Offices, Public Hall, Fire Station, firemen’s houses, infants school, almshouses, Oakhill Tavern, Beckenham Theatre Centre, Coach and Horses, Law Notes Lending Library, forge, Jolly Woodman, Town Hall, Railway Hotel, Ye Olde George Inn, Slug and Lettuce, pump, Three Tuns, The Goose, Bricklayers Arms, Greyhound Inn, Drumonds, Chessington Tyres, Electricity showrooms, milestone, Odeon, Pavilion Cinema, police station, telephone exchange,Edward VIII pillar box, Manor Preparatory School, Beckenham Junction Station, war memorial, school.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-beck_27.html

 Beckenham.  Beckenham Central School, Clockhouse Station, Beckenham Road Tram Stop, Penge Station, School of Art, Library, Sports Ground, The Spa, Chaffinch Bridge, Electricity Station, Beckenham Cottage Hospital, Clock House pub, Croydon Road Recreation Ground, bandstand, Woodbrook School, Riverside School, Kent House Station, Cyphers Bowling Club, Churchfield School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_27.html

Pool River. Met here by The Chaffinch and The Beck

New Beckenham.  New Beckenham Station, HSBC Sports Ground, Cater Park Secondary School, Level crossing. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_28.html

Bell Green, Adamsrill Primary School, Sydenham Green Health Centre, Livesey Memorial Hall, Gas Works, The Bell, The Old Bath House, horse trough, Haseltine Primary  School, Brittanic Sports Ground, Gardner Monument Works, horse trough, Sydenham Brewery, Lower Sydenham Station, Railway Tavern,Sydenham Library, Golden Lion, fire hydrant, Dolphin, Sydenham Childrens Hospital, Mid Kent brickworks, Baird TV, Dylon,Maybrey, Bromcom, Henderson Biomedical. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_1137.html

Bellingham.  Fellowship Inn, Sedgehill School, Lloyds Bank Cricket Club, Sydenham High School Sports Ground. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_4690.html

Perry Hill. Well, Kilmorie Road Primary School, Roger Manwood School, Library, Rutland Arms, fire hydrant, Two Brewers, horse trough, sewer vent, farm outbuilding, canal, Prince of Wales, Parkland Riverside walk, bridge. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_158.html

Bellingham. Mound, bridges, Roman Road, Catford Bus Garage, Old Mill, Police Station, Sports Ground, Rivers Centre,  Open air swimming pool, Bellingham Station, Fellowship Inn. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_4690.html

River Ravensbourne.  Met here by the Pool River.

Catford. Bridge. Catford Bridge Station, fire hydrant, ABC Cinema, Hippodrome, The Water Line, Bromley & Crays Co-op, Banks Athletic Club, Town Hall, Civic Suite, Lewisham Theatre, Pensive Girl, drinking fountain, Railway Tavern, Holbeach School, South Met. Gas Co. Lamppost, sewer vent, Catford Mill, Rising Sun, horse trough, London for Rye, Queens Hall Cinema, hand pump, Black Horse and Harrow, Timpsons, St.Dunstan’s College, Catford Station, Catford Ram. Bellingham. Mound, bridges, Roman Road, Catford Bus Garage, Old Mill, Police Station, Sports Ground, Rivers Centre,  Open air swimming pool, Bellingham Station, Fellowship Inn. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-pool_4690.html

Ladywell. Bridge, water tower, John Evelyn Education Centre, St.Olave Union Workshouse, Gordonbrock Primary School, sewer vent, Ladywell Fields, boundary marker, water main, Catford Greyhound Stadium, Holy Well, Ladywell Bridge, Ladywell Mill, Freemason’s Arms, J.Stone inspection cover, Ladywell Tavern, Coroners Court, Ladywell Baths, Ladywell Nature Reserve, Lewisham Fire Station, Tikitape House, Police Station, Wall letterbox, WW2 shelter sign, Coach and Horses, almshouses, Jolly Farmers, Doctors’ Quarters, Infirmary, fire hydrant, Lewisham Hospital, Lewisham Library, Lewisham workhouse, Emergency, Serendipity, Ladywell Unit, Registrar’s Office, Medical Centre Club Room, Riverside Wing, Schools, Crofton Leisure Centre, Crofton School, Ladywell Station, surgical dressings factory, The George, Grammar School for Girls, Job Centre, Plough and Harrow, drainage ditch. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/02/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-ladywell.html

Lewisham. Crown and Anchor, fire hydrant, Watergate Special School, Prendergast Hilly Fields School, Postbox, brickfields, Lewisham Bridge School, Francis Drake Bowling Club, Jerrards Timber yard, Rising Sun, post box, Thorne Offset, stable block, Ladywell Loop, sandstone quarry, Council depot. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-lewisham.html

River Quaggy. Tributory to the River Ravensbourne

Quaggy (with the Kydbrook)

Locksbottom. Black Horse, British Queen, Darrick Wood School, Tugmutton Green. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_8395.html

Farnborough. Darrick Wood Sports Centre, Darrick Wood Swimming Pool, Newstead Woods Girls School.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy.html

Crofton. Crofton Schools, Recreation Ground, Gumping Common.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_05.html

Crofton Heath .  Lennard Hospital. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_6406.html

Petts Wood. Sovereign of the Seas, Embassy Cinema, Petts Wood Station, Daylight Inn, Dunstonian Garage, Petts Wood Estate Office, Garden of Remembrance, Memorial Hall. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_46.html

Petts Wood. Edleman Memorial wood, De Gaulle WW2 home, Pett’s Wood.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_3989.html

Chiselhurst. Bromley High School for Girls, West Kent Golf Course, Jubilee Country Park, Old Chiselhurst Station, Chiselhurst Junction, Bickley Junction. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_7472.html

Chiselhurst.  Railway Bridge, Chalkpit woods,Chiselhurst Caves, Bickley Arms, horse trough, cricket ground, windmill, cockpit, forge, Ramblers Rest, Camden Place Club, Imperial Arms, Old Court House, samphire, dene hole, Chiselhurst Station, wall post box, water tower, Ravenshill Stables, lime kilns, brick kilns, chalk mine. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_5747.html

Bickley.  St.Hugh’s Playing Fields, Chalk mine, reservoir, Bullers Wood School, stables. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_2200.html

Elmstead Woods.  Elmstead Pit, Babington House School, Stables, Camden Park Mine, railway bridge, SIRA Institute, Elmstead Woods Station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_2200.htm

Sundridge Park. Sundridge Park Golf Club, stables, ice house. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_7772.html

Elmstead. Chinbrook Meadows, pedestrian tunnel, Elmstead Woods Railway tunnels, Grove Park Cemetery, Grove Park Tavern, Marvels Playing fields, Chinbrook Pub, Chimbrook cottages nature reserve, Marvels Lane Primary School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_1497.html

Mottingham. Grove Park Hospital, water tower . Eltham College, Mottingham Sports Ground, pump.https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_9024.html

Mottingham. Mottingham Farm Fields, milestone, McIntyre Nature Reserve, Dutch House. https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_9024.html

Eltham Common. Middle Park Stud Farm, Sutcliffe Park, Yorkshire Grey, horse trough, Eltham Gas Works, K2 telephone box, Middle Park Junior School, Eltham Green School, Descending Forms, Clifton’s Service Station. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_8808.html

Kidbrook streams.  Tributories to River Quaggy

Eltham Common. (Mid Kid Brook, Lower Kid Brook).War Dept. Boundary markers, reservoir, Nine Fields, mortuary, Lower Rochester Way, Kidbrooke School, Playing Fields, Hutments, Eltham Common, King George’s Fields, Brook Pub, Royal Ordnance Boundary markers, Brook Hospital, police station, Royal Herbert Military Hospital, Medical Officers Mess, parish boundary markers, Kent Water Works, Victorian letter box, Borough of Woolwich plate, concrete cylinder, Sherard tennis courts, Welcome Inn, water repumping station, Greenwich cemetery. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne.html

Kidbrooke.(Mid Kid Brook. Upper Kid Brook). Playing fields. Kidbrook Park Infants School.. Harvey’s Sports Ground, Fox Under the Hill, Royal Naval College Sports Ground, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne.html

Kidbrooke (Lower Kid Brook). Nature reserve, barrage balloon HQ, Dover Patrol, Rochester Way, Holy Family Primary School. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-lower.html

Kidbrooke .(Mid Kid Brook. Upper Kid Brook).boundary stone, coach house, wall letter box, Upper Farm, Thomas Tallis School, wireless station, Morden college, burial ground, boundary markers, lodge,milestone, Christ’s College, cricket club, railway tunnel. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-kid_10.html

Blackheath.  (Upper Kidbrook). Barrows, golf club, Rugby football, gravel extraction, plaque to Cornish marchers, canal, roller skating rink, Blackheath Brewery, Livery Stables, Blackheath Station, signal boxes, fire brigade station, East Mill, Morden College Extension, Hare and Billett pond, Hare and Billett, windmill, Marr’s Ravine,Princess of Wales, Clarendon Hotel, Princess of Wales pond, horse trough, Zerodegrees, pond, Livery stables, boundry stones, milestone, Roman road, Folly pond, Heath Keepers House, Crown Pit, drinking fountain, boundary pillar, fire hydrant, west mill, village school, Blackheath Literary Institute,  Three Tuns, Crown Inn, Post Office, http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-upper.html

Quaggy tributary to the Ravensbourne.

Blackheath Park. (Mid Kid Brook, Lower Kid Brook). Boundary stones,  railway tunnel, Casterbridge Pond, Brooklands Primary School, Royal Flying Corps grounds, Burnred & Co., instruments, Scientific and Projections, POW camp, RAF Depot, Balloon Centre, David Lloyd Fitness Centre, John Roan Playing Field, Blackheath Wanderers,Kidbrooke Station, Wat Tyler,Quaggy Bridge, playing fields,Country Club Sports Ground.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-kid.html

Lee. (Mid Kid Brook, Upper Kid Brook) Lee Centre, Blackheath Art Club, Canal, Age Exchange Reminisence Centre,Railway Hotel, Alexandra Assembly Rooms, Lowne Electric Clock and Appliance Co., VR Post Box, Brandram Road Community Centre, Lychgate, Burndept Radio, School for the Sons and Orphans of Missionaries, Dacre Arms, Royal Oak, Church of England School, Greyhound, windmill, Quaggy Bridge,pool,Woodman, Swan, Picture Palace, Medical Centre, Old Tiger’s Head, Imperial Picture Palace, Police Station, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Arthur,  Boone’s almshouses,Colfe’s almshouses, horse trough, Merchant Tailor’s almshouses, property plaque, war time shelter sign, Blackheath Art School, Blackheath Conservertoire of Music, Bitter Experience, New Tiger’s Head, Lee Working Men’s Club, standpipe, Quaggy Bridge, Old Road, moat, Lee Public Library, Goldsmith’s Hall of Residence, brick wall. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne_7119.html

Tributory to the Quaggy from the south

Hither Green. Prefabs, Downham Estate, Downham Park and Woodland Walk, mound of hardcore, Hither Green Cemetery, Crematorium, Nature Reserve.https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-tributary.html

 Hither Green.  South Met. Gas Co, lamppost, Pillar box and strip vending machine, Hither Green railway depot, well. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-tributary_10.html

Quaggy. Tributory to the Ravensbourne.

Hither Green.  Northbrook, Lee Station, coal yard, laundry, fire hydrant, pond, Lee Health Centre, Windmill,  Old Tiger’s Head, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Arthur, farm wall, Rainbird nursery, Quaggy bridge with date stone, Chiltonian biscuit factory, Manor Lane School, water main, flood prevention channel, Manor House Gardens, ice house, boundary stone, freight train spur, Globe Cinema, fire hydrant, Board of Works depot. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_10.html

Hither Green.  Hither Green Primary School,  stable loft, fire hydrant plate, VR Pillar Box, The Sir John Morden,Queesn Arms, Hansbury’s Free House, Ennersdale School, Holly Tree, plaque to the Macmillan sisters, Hither Green Hospital, Park Cinema, Hither Green Station, Subway, Chiltonian biscuits, Fox and Firkin, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain, Swimming baths, Lewisham Park, war memorial, Pitman’s College, St.Marys School, obelisk, steps, footbridge, Sir David Brewster, inspectistion cover, South Met. Gas lamppost, Blackheath New Proprietary School, Paladin Plastics, telephone boxes, Station Hotel, benchmark.http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne-quaggy_15.html

River Ravensbourne

Lewisham.  Sacred Heart Convent, Quaggy Bridge, horse trough, disused railway bridge, telephone exchange, telephone box, Colfe’s School, Ravensbourne Bridge, High Pavement, Lewisham Station, Lewisham Bus Station, Mid-Kent Tavern, Lee Bridge, White Horse, Sultan, Rose of Lee, Plough, King’s Hall Cinema, Duke of Cambridge, Police Station, Joiners Arms, Yates Wine Lodge, White Hart, Watch House Green, Market Tavern, Watch House, Lewisham Library, Lewisham Electric Palace, Prince of Wales Cinema, temperance billiard hall, The Castle, Clock Tower, Conservative Club, fire hydrant, Lewisham Market, Library, Odeon, Plough Green, Bridge House Mill, Limes Hall, obelisk, Obelisk Cinema, The Angel, Gloucester Bewery, service tunnel. Ridgeway, Riverdale Mill, footbridge, column, Roebuck, Courthill Loop, St.Matthew’s Academy. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/tq-389-759-thames-tributary.html

Blackheath. Green Man,Whitfield’s Mount, Mount Pond, Roman Road,  chalk workings, air raid shelters, Horse and Groom, Blackheath Hill Station, boundary stone, Court Leet, Duke’s Head, underground passage,  Royal George, wellCaroline’s bath, almshouses, Hare and Billett Pub, Holly Hedge House TA, pump, mill, regimental memorial, drinking fountain, chalk pit, nurses home, fire hydrant, Anchor Brewery, fire station, estate office, St,Johns Hospital, the Point, Point Cavern, conduits, pump, Lewisham silk mills, boundary stone, railway arches, quarry. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/tq-388-764-thames-tributary.html

St.John’s.  Prince Alfred, Deals Gateway, Merritt & Hatcher Mercury, George and Dragon, White Swan, Royal Albert, Darwin Press, Berryman Printers, Penn’s Engineering Works, Somerset House Laundry, Central School for Boys, Blackheath Road Schools, Coach and Horses, Breakspears Building, Stephen Lawrence Building, Brook Mill, Kent Water Works, Sterling Building, Royal Dockyard Bakery, Carrngton House, Deptford Brewery, Brookmill Nature Reserve, Brookmill Park, well,  bridge, tollgate, Russell engineers, section house, pocket park, nurses home, Greenwich Central School, Ravensbourne Arms, Cranbrook, tidemill,Deptford Bridge, Battle of Deptford Bridge, Express Patent Shutter Works, market gardens, Norfolk Brewery, Holland’s Distillery, Furlong musical instruments, Deptford Playing Fields, Deptford Bridge Station, Centurion, Smith’s printers, Dover Castle, Burtons, Peppercorn’s Depository, Depford Odeon,Broadway Picture Palace,Lady Florence Hall, The Fountain,Semi-conductor arhives,  boundary marker, Bar, Bridge House marker,  Lewisham College, mural, Guildford Arms, Roan Girls School, brick field,railway embankment, Elverson Road station, Gilbeys’printing ink, Crown and Sceptre, Royal Kent Dispesary, Miller House, Miller Hospital,Melanie Klein House, Millers Pub,The forge, Deptford Telephone Exchange, Memorial  Gardems,  Albertines, Lewisham College of Further Education, Lewisham Road Station, Lee chalk extraction and lime burner, British Telecom Service Tunnel,Angel,Lucas Road School,Crown Cinema, Star and Garter, Little Crown,Broadway Theatre, Addey & Stanhope School,railway bridge,sandstone cliff,St.John’s School, St.John’s Station, Tanners Hill School, Witcombe Cycles,Deptford Municipal Offices, Palace Cinema,Royal George,Royal Standard, Crystal Palace Tavern, railway bridge, air road shelter, Talbot,sarcophagus. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne_15.html

Deptford Creek.  Deptford Medical Union, drinking fountain, horse trough, Ashburnham Arms, Roman Eagle, granary, copperas works, Agricultural Manure Co, Lower Pottery, Ford, Wheen’s soap,, Lawes Works, Creek Bridge, Noah’s Oak, Harp of Erin, Creek Rail Bridge, Hoy Inn, Francs and White depot, Postman’s Office, Albany Institute,South East London College,  Rachel MacMillann College,Hoy Inn Stairs, cattle trough, The Duke, Deptford Chemical  Works,Laban, Greenwich Railway Gas Co. Ecology Centre, CrownWharf, Lo e over sold, Art in Pepetuity, Medina Refiery, Council Depot, Deptford Bridewll, Sue Godfrey Nature Reerve, gravel pits,Gibs and Canning Pottery, drinking fountain, underground passage, Trinty Hospital, Birds Nest Theare, Royal Eagle, railway viaduct,   Trinity House, Trinity Hall, Deptford Arms, Job Centre, St,Paul’s House,  Mechanics Arms, Royal Oak, Windsor Castle, Pilot,  Deptford Electric Palace Cinema,White Swan, Anchor, sewer vent, Bluecoat School, Deptford Station, Railway arches, inclined plane, fire hydrant,signal box, Hills & Son tallow, fire hydrant, fairground, Deptford Market, Women’s Centre, Tidemill School, Wavelengths Leisure Centre, Hope House, Greenwich Inn, Hope House, Merryweathers Fire Engine Works, North Pole, Mumford’s Granary, Rose of Denmark, Davy Winebar,West Greenwich House, Lovibond’s Brewery, Blue Stile,LESC buiding, Perkins Toys, almshouses,Rose  and Crown, watch house, Guilford Arms,Bell, Princess Louise Institute, Hughes Fields Primary School, Duke of Wellington, McMillans, Armada Hall,Mcmillan Herb Garden, wheelwrights, Peter the Great statue,globe, Osborne Arms, Navy Arms, Nasemell, Deptford Sewage Pumping Station, Gas holder station, Brewery Wharf, Phoenix Wharf,  Dowells Wharf, Raensbourne Gas Works, Kent Wharf, Dog and Bell, Covoys, Greycoat Boy, Macmillan Nursery School, Thanet Wharf, General Steam,  Deptford Power Station, shipbuilders, Granoplast Wharf, Dreadnought Wharf. http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2010/03/thames-tributary-ravensbourne_16.html