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All Souls Avenue

Relates to local land ownership by All Souls College, Oxford

Bathurst Gardens

St Mark's church

Library built 1894

Donnington Road

King Edward VII Recreation Ground.  1909, open air swimming pool.    In the 19th it was used for Willesden Steeplechasers

Harlesden Road

Convent School of Jesus and Mary, later called Cardinal Hinsley School

Site of Sellon’s Farm Sellons was an early 19th local magistrate.  Demolished.

Willesden Cottage Hospital built through local fund raising and help from Passmore Edwards. Has become a Health and Care Centre.

Friends Meeting House

Harrow Road

Houses built along the road by the 1829s making Kensal Green a small village settlement.

Kensal Green and Harlesdon Station 1861-1873 north side west of Wrottesley Road bridge

Kensal Green Railway Tunnel 1836/7. First London railway tunnel by London & Birmingham Railway, contemporary with Primrose Hill.

Mortimer Road

St. Martin

Rucklidge Avenue

Royal Hygenic Hospital, set up by Dr. Thomas Allinson – developer of the wholemeal bread

Sellons Road

Name recalls Sellons, local farmer and magistrate

Wrottesley Road

Harlesden Green stretched from here to All Souls Church



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