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A History of the County of Middlesex
… when a parish school was opened in Willesden, Freelove's gift being used to build a schoolroom and voluntary … (1946), 15 July 1946. i.e. within the Willesden part of Brent L.B.: inf. from Brent L.B. educ. dept. (1978). Mdx. C.C. 6 th Ann. Rep. of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… it joined Wembley and Kingsbury in the London Borough of Brent. Willesden was bounded on the north-east by the Roman … later Edgware Road, on the north and west by the river Brent, and on the south-east by the Kilburn brook. An ancient … through the common fields of Neasden and Stonebridge. 15 O.S. Map 6", Mdx. XI. SW., SE.; XVI. NW., NE. (1864-73 edn.). …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… opening a synagogue. Services were held at the L.M.S. institute in Edgware Road and in 1930 at Neasden mission … Hamedrash or Keser Torah had opened at no. 62 St. Gabriel's Road by 1949 when it was a member of the Union of Orthodox … Times, 12 May 1978). There were said to be 20,000 Jews in Brent in 1976: ibid. ( Jewish Chron. 1 Oct. 1976). Thorne, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Government. In 1294 the dean and chapter of St. Paul's established their title to view of frankpledge, the assize … leader 1958-65, M.P. for Willesden East and later for Brent East, and a junior minister for housing in 1974. 30 The … was vetoed by the government in 1963. 33 London Borough of Brent Per chevron gules and vert, a chevron wavy argent …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 1454 and 1465. In 1480 Roberts and the others, at Careley's request, enfeoffed William Page of Harlesden, who in 1495 … Wandsworth parish; 64 a. in north Neasden, bordering the Brent, were bought from the coheirs of the Roberts estate in 1704. In 1835 and 1838 parts were sold for the Brent reservoir. W. Prout of Neasden purchased the remaining …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… bldg. used for Sunday sch. until closed 1907. 7 St. James's iron Cong. chapel opened in Cambridge Rd., Kilburn, by 1872 … 13 Congregation met in constitutional hall in St. Mary's Rd., Harlesden before foundation stone of chapel laid at … by 1908, closed by 1933; Claremont Rd. hall at Midland Brent Terrace, Queen's Park, flourished 1917-18; 98 Harley …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a station at Fortune Gate in the junction between St. Mary's Road and Harrow Road. 47 In 1913 the Harlesden station … of the National Health Service and in 1972 was sold to Brent council which closed it a year later. 78 No. 14 … by 1969 there were eight clinics in the Willesden part of Brent. 94 In the 1950s overcrowding, atmospheric pollution, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green in the 1900s and a church and hospital (St. Andrew's) at Dollis Hill at the time of the First World War. There … cult of Our Lady of Willesden. 78 St. Catherine's chapel of ease, no. 59 Chaplin Rd., Willesden Green, … Rel. Life, 416; Dept. of Environment, list of bldgs., Brent L.B. ( c. 1978). G.R.O. Worship Reg. 39368, 41354, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… GROWTH. Apart from Roman Watling Street, evidence of man's activities in the Willesden area before the Saxon period is … finds at Park Royal, Bronze Age vessels on the site of Brent reservoir, and Roman bricks at Neasden. There have also … the Kilburn brook and Twyford at a bridging point of the Brent. Church End as a settlement probably followed the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… c. 1910 and at Neasden in 1920. 67 Fishing rights on the Brent belonged in the 16th and 17th centuries to East Twyford … shooting c. 1790 and in the mid 19th century at Purdey's grounds. 69 In the 19th century packs of hounds, of which … it over and expanding it. 96 There was a Willesden (later Brent) symphony orchestra by 1961. 97 Willesden operatic …