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Arial Road,

Hebrew word for water spirit, built by British Land Company 1879

Brondesbury station. 1911/16. Rebuilt by London North West Railway booking office left.  Originally Edgeware Road Station on NLR line from Hampstead to Willesden 1870s Station on Hampstead Junction Railway in 1860 line from old Oak Common to Camden Road. Footpath gone to West Hampstead Station

Brondesbury Park

Stormont House home of WJ.G.Kingston, writer.`

Mission House. Used in the First World War for Belgian refugees

St.Monica’s Home hospital

Brondesbury Road

John Barker Court

Rosedene

St Hildas close

Brondesbury possible hill fort next to Watling Street

Cavendish Road

Houses – alleged that the houses were built with mud mixed into the mortar.

Brondesbury Station          1860.  Between West Hampstead and Brondesbury Park on Silverlink North London Line. Hampstead Junction Railway line from old Oak Common to Camden Road. Originally ‘Edgeware Road Station’ on NLR line from Hampstead to Willesden  1873 ‘Brondesbury’ station. Rebuilt by London North West Railway booking office left. 

Christchurch Avenue

Burstin girder bridge,

Rosedene, flats on the sire of a house with the same name

Malorees School.  Built for bulge in the late 1950s

Coventry Close

Coal offices

Dyne Road

Town Hall

Fordwych Road

St. Cuthbert 1987-8 by Jeremy A. Allen.  

Garlinge Road

Iverson Road

Bombing

Heysham Cottages site of West End House. Home of Beckford, let to railway contractors, then as railway workers flats, and stationmaster

From West End Lane to Maygrove Road built by Midland Railway

West Hampstead Station built as West End Station, Midland Railway, sidings, station on site of cobbled road from Iverson Road

Brondesbury Christian Centre.   1989; Replaces an ornate Neo-Norman Baptist church and hall of 1878 by W.A. Dixon.

Kilburn High Road.

Kilburn went under it at what was Bridge Street and flowed along site of St. Augustine's schools and down Kilburn park road.

Kilburn High Road

1 Queen's Arms

Classic Cinema, first premier of a West Indian made film here. Previously the Envoy

Kilburn stream ran parallel crossing Quex Road and then West End Lane

3/85 Bridges

Kilburn Grange Cinema site of the Grange with public park behind

8 Kilburn Bookshop

St.Andrew's church, clergy House etc

118 W.H.Smith

125 127 first M&S, in Willesden 1906, next to Cock, Penny Bazaar

165 Cooper's Arms

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Emerald Agency - for Irish employment

Linstead Street

Kilburn Grange Children’s Centre.  Fantastic range of children’s spaces.  Outdoor play areas, etc. Meadowcroft Griffin 2006.789

Loveridge Road

Built by British Land Company 1879

Maida Vale

Manor House Drive

Moated manor . first described in 1538.  in 1788 sold to Lady Elizabeth Salusbury by which time it was a three storey villa. The grounds had been landscaped by Repton. Occupiers included Sir Coutts Trotter and Charles Hambro. 1856 the lease was sold to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Original entrance was in Willesden Lane but it was cut off by new road in 1901.  From 1882 it was a school and was bought by local builder C.W.B.Simmonds in 1934 and demolished/

Mapesbury Road

Mapesbury RoadPreserves the name of the old manor of ‘Mapesberi’ c.1250, ‘Mapesbury’ 1254, ‘Mapesbery’ 1322, that is 'manor of a man called Map', from Middle English ‘bury’. Walter Map, a prebendary of St Paul's, is mentioned c.1180 in connection with Willesden. Mapesbury House is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1876-7, earlier shown as simply ‘Mopes’ on the map of 1822. Ecclesiatical commissioners replaced St.Pauls in 1840 and sold off the majority of the freeholds privately in the 1950s.

Mapesbury Estate. Typical Victorian estate  on the site of Mapes House. s

Maygrove/Iverson Road

Kilburn stream ran between these

Maygrove Road

Built by British Land Company 1879

Quex Road

Shoot Up Hill

250' above OD.  6m. galls water 1890.  Grand Junction Co.

windmill burnt down in 1860. 

Telephone House

Kilburn Station.  24thNovember 1879 Between Willesden Green and West Hampstead on the Jubilee Line. Metropolitan Railway.  Opened as ‘Kilburn and Brondesbury’. 1950 name changed to’Kilburn’.  1939 became Bakerloo Line. 1979 became Jubilee Line

Features in films 'The Smallest Show on Earth’.

Willesden

Was a village called Wilsdon

Brondesbury House home of Lady Salisbury and then Coutts Trotter

Willesden Green

Willesden Lane

Christ Church. As the population grew this was the first daughter church of St.Mary. the site was chosen by Dr.Charles Williams and it was consecratednon 21 November 1866.

Vernon House.  1960s this was Willesden Education Department and then a special school.

Mapesbury Hall built in the grounds of Mapesbury House as the Christ Church Parish Hall.  Taken over by Willesden Council in 1959 and renamed Majestic Rooms. Since in private ownership.



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