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Kensal Green

    This post is not finished and has not been checked or editedAlbert StreetPeach Street? Corner, bombsite where Paddington Borough Council have built flats  Banister RoadNamed after a farm which was...

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Ladbroke Grove

 This post is not finished and has not been checked or editedBarlby RoadPreviously Edinburgh Road. The site of demolished carriage sheds and sidings Pall Mall Deposit. warehouses of 1911 by W. G. Hunt,...

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Hammersmith

  This post is not finished and has not been checked or editedAnsleigh DriveAnsleigh PlaceWorkshop wings Bramley Road:Phoenix Brewery Tap. Ex brewery behind. Grim Latimer Road 15th December1868....

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Brondesbury

  This post is not finished and has not been checked or editedArial Road, Hebrew word for water spirit, built by British Land Company 1879Brondesbury station. 1911/16. Rebuilt by London North West...

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Brondesbury

 This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAlbert RoadEast end stream from Paddington Cemetery on its way to Kilburn, joins another stream from Willesden Lane Brondesbury ‘Bronnesburie’...

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Westbourne Park

  This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAdela StreetAlperton Street  Named for the company’s brickworks, which was at Alperton and run by Henry Haynes.Barfett Street  Beethoven Street...

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Nottinghill

  This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAklam Road Aldridge RoadVillas, J.Aldridge died 1795, MP, Queensboro 23 Sardar Patel, 1875-1950 'Indian statesman lived here’. Patel was...

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Holland Park

 This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAddison Avenue Good front gardens in this wide, tree-lined street of pastel-painted Regency houses which leads from the church to Holland Park –...

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West Hampstead

  This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAberdare Gardens. Called after late Victorian, H.Bruce, who was Home Secretary 1868-1873. He was known as Baron Aberdare. 12 Intimate, densely...

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Kilburn

   This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAbbey Road Developed in the 19th from a track which led to the Abbey at Kilburn. Name of the Beatles’ Album made it famous.St Johns Wood Free...

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Maida Vale

    This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAmberley RoadLord Amberley Pub.  1861 Lord S.Russell made Lord Amberley.Power Station on bank of canal at St.Peter’s Wharf for METESCO,...

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Westbourne Park

     This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAlfred RoadRoyal Saxon pub 1850 dedicated to Alfred the Great.Amberley EstateBegun by the G.L.C., completed by Westminster in 1974-5,...

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Bayswater

      This post is not finished has not been checked or editedBark PlaceBayswaterAn area originally known as Baynard Watering 1380 on the crossing of the Westbourne and Oxford Road.  Baynard family...

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Hampstead

       This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAbbey Road 1863, early track road from Lisson Village to Kilburn Priory, Westminster Abbey owned the whole area, tried to keep it, lane...

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St. Johns Wood

       This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAberdeen Place St.Marylebone generating station long windowless facade which, as can be seen from letters on the far end ('ST.MA') is but...

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Paddington

       This post is not finished has not been checked or editedBishop's Bridge RoadPaddington Station, Bishops Bridge Road. 4th June 1838. Great Western Railway original  London terminus.. Wooden...

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Kensington Gardens

     This post is not finished has not been checked or editedBarrie StreetBombed flat Bathhurst Mews Horses still kept there. Bathhurst riding stables Royal Toxopholite Society used to be site for...

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Primrose Hill

      This post is not finished has not been checked or editedAdelaide Road Some attractive villas erected prior to 1853 on land belonging to the former London and North-Western RailwaySupposed to have...

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St. John's Wood

     This post is not finished has not been checked or edited Allitsen Road F.Allitson was a song writer who lived until 1912 in 20 Queen's Grove, called Henry Street until 1938; Wall fountain Howard...

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St.Marylebone

      This post is not finished has not been checked or edited Alpha Close Lisson Green estate.  Site of Marylebone goods yard. An ambitious post-war undertaking by the Borough of St Marylebone and...

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