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A History of the County of Middlesex
… parish, the Metropolitan in 1863 had opened London's first Underground railway from Farringdon Street to Paddington, by … were built at Swiss Cottage. 9 Hampstead's 19th-century railways ran east and west, except the Underground line through Swiss Cottage. None crossed the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by land lost to the Finchley Road. More land was taken for railways in the 1860s and farmland shrank as building on the … Finchley Road and the Midland and Hampstead Junction railways, where in 1858 John Culverhouse dumped refuse and … and, worked by Culverhouse, between Finchley Road and the railways and on the east side of the heath in 1866; they …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Much of the demesne west of Finchley Road was occupied by railways, with a station called Finchley Road opened on each …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Road, in 1867. 92 The estate most directly affected by the railways was Gilbert's across which the Hampstead Junction … during the Second World War, possibly because the railways were an obvious target. 28 It combined with …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… springs to gather the water, and wells were sunk to tap underground streams; in the later 19th century many large …
Old and New London
… was the establishment of cheap excursion trains on our railways on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays, an experiment …