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Blenheim Gardens

Small, shady hideaway. Courtyard with small pond, statue and containers.

Heathfield Park

Typical development in the area late 19^thinfluence of Bedford Park

 Synagogue

Hoveden Road

10  25ft urban garden. 

Mora Road

St.Michael

St Gabriel's Road

19, Garden approx 35ft x 95ft, dominated by large aspen tree, 

Walm Lane

Willesden Green Station.  24^thNovember 1879. Between Dollis Hill and Kilburn on the Jubilee Line. Metropolitan Railway Originally called ‘Walm Lane’.   1894 Name changed to ‘Willesden Green and Cricklewood’. 1925 The main station buildings, are fine examples of the work of C W Clark, the Metropolitan Railway's architect, who used this style of marble white faience for several 'central' area stations. The Booking hall is in near original condition, ironwork. Facade bears inscription "Metropolitan Railway Willesden Green Station".  The diamond-shaped clock outside the station was put up by the Metropolitan Railway when the station was rebuilt in a more imposing style just before the First World War. The ticket hall interior, which retains much of the original green tesserae mosaic tiling, is a rare survival. Listed Grade 2  It is also one of the few stations on the southern section of the former Metropolitan Mainline to still have its original platform buildings intact and its architecture is typical for a station serving a medium sized town. 1938 name changed to ‘Willesden Green ‘. 1939 became a Bakerloo station . 1979 Jubilee

St.Gabriel

47 Gabriel's Bookshop

82 W.H.Smith

Willesden Vestry Hall burnt down in 1985.  Built in 1856 by side of Church Path at that time Church Path went across the churchyard as a short cut, had been cottages there, Fire proof closet for the archives and a house for the fire engine next door

Willesden

Willesden parish dates to 938 and includes Harlesden both of which are in Domesday.  Other areas like Kensal Green and Rise date to the 13^th.  Willesden means ‘hill of the spring’ which means Mount Pleasant rising above what became Willesden Green and a stream flowed from the spring to Slade Brook and so on to the Brent. a meaning somewhat obscured by the modern spelling, introduced c.1840 by the London and Birmingham Railway. The usual form, from the seventeenth century until then, was ‘Wilsdon’,  Wellesdone’ 1086, ‘Wilesdune’ 1185, ‘Wyllendon’ 1274, ‘Wylsdon’ 1563, ‘Witlesdon’  ‘Wilsson’ 1658

AEI factory

Mazda lamp factory

British Thompson Houston Co