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Chamberlayne Road
Chamberlayne was a separate manor named after Richard de Camera, prebendary and rector of St.Mary, Willesden, who was given it in 1215. later leased to the Roberts family. There never was a manor house. This area built by developers Charles Langler and Sir Charles Pinkham, of Middlesex CC. This road was built by All Souls College on the line of an existing footpath.
Church of the Transfiguration
Chamberlayne Wood School
Women’s Co-operative Movement shop 1887
Kensal Rise station. 1873. Between Brondesbury Park and Willesden Junction on the Silverlink North London Line. Opened as ‘Harlesden’ . replaced a station called Kensal Green and Harlesden to the west. 1890 name changed to ‘Kensal Rise’ 1911/l1 rebuilt by LNEW. Served the Royal Agricultural Show Ground.
119 Constitutional Club set up by the Tories
101 Liberal Central Club
Conservative Party HQ corner of Hardinge Road. Designed by George Sexton & Son. Hall called Pinkham Hall.
Catholic Church of the Annunciation. was built as the Weslyan Methodist Church
Chevening Road
Built as an approach road to the Royal Agricultural Show in 1879 by the Ecclessiastical Commissioners.
St.Lawrence.built by the Cutts Brothers and later amalgamated with St.Anne in Salusbury Road. Replaced by flats.
Brondesbury Synagogue. Built by Soloman Barnett, builder and member of the congregation. It was attacked by right wing extremists and eventually sold to Brent Council as a community centre and then bought by the Muslim Education Foundation.
Clifford Gardens
Area of an early sports ground for Queens Park Rangers. The housing was built across in 1896 by Langler and Pinkham.
College Road
Relates to local land ownership by All Souls College, Oxford
Kensal Rise Senior Club. Corner site with Hazel and Mortimer Roads was the site of a flying bomb attack on 21st August 1944 where 20 people were killed.
Library - originally a reading room opened by Mark Twain on 27th September 1900. By 1904 money from the Andrew Carnegie Trust allowed a proper library to be opened.
College Road School. Set up for special needs children in 1915. Became an education, training and youth centre for Brent in 1961 and is then the site of the Doyle nursery.
Craven Park
Boundary stones
Trespass sign
Harvist Road
Harvist named after Edward Harvist a 16thbrewer who left money to keep local roads in good repair. The name was changed from Mortimer Road
Kilburn tributary from Kempre Road crossed this on way to Shirland Road confluence.
Kensal Green School
Kensal Rise Primary School was originally Harvist Road Elementary School. Opened on 29thAugust 1898.
Kempe Road
Kempe was a 19th prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral. Houses built here by Chares Langler and Charles Pinkham.
Tributary of Kilburn rose here and went down to join other bits of Kilburn at Shirland Road
Quadrant village pond used to stand
Harrow City School on site of mansion house;
Railway Euston Line Kilburn tributary from Kempe Road crossed this on way to Shirland Road confluence
Kensal Rise
Late Victorian suburb. Housing from the late 1870s. A national athletics ground opened for a while. One of the earliest free libraries in the country.
Junction box 1911-16
Langler Road
Charles Langler builder of many properties in the area.
Millman Road
Millman was a prebendary of St. Pauls
Peploe Road
Peploe was a prebendary of St. Pauls
Purves Road
Purves was the solicitor of the United Land Company who were developers in this area. The land was sold to them by All Souls College and the builders were Vigers.
Princess Frederica School. originally sponsored by Emily Ayekbown in 1900 in the year in which she died. Sister Emily had founded the Church Extension Association setting up 8 church schools. Princess Fredrica of Hanover was their patron and she opened the school.
Station Terrace:
Plaque about spring
St.Peter's church. Amazing glass
Top end rifle range for Holland and Holland Gunsmiths
Company housing in the surrounding streets.
Wrentham Avenue
Originally called Ladysmith Road, thus dating it to the Boer War period. After the nasty Crossman trunk murder the name was changed.