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A History of the County of Middlesex
… or woodland in conveyances except in Harlesden and Kilburn. There was much woodland in the south and east; … 1784. 87 Most of the southeastern part of the parish, at Kilburn, was almost entirely pasture and meadow. 88 In 1816 … (d. by 1758), lessee of Bounds and owner of a freehold at Kilburn, was a grazier. 13 Londoners were often directly …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… vestry had in 1843 taken a decision to build a school in Kilburn for the poor. During the later 19th century the … Willesden began to acquire their own National schools. Kilburn was the first with St. Paul's, opened in 1847 and … opened in Harlesden in 1871 and a Roman Catholic school in Kilburn in 1872. In 1870 there was accommodation for 726 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and west by the river Brent, and on the south-east by the Kilburn brook. An ancient track, some of it forming part of Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane, marked most of the southern boundary. 3 There were slight adjustments to the course of the Kilburn brook in 1840, 4 and in 1862 the boundary at that …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… before 1950 until after 1960. An independent congregation, Kilburn and Brondesbury Chevra Torah, existed at no. 9 … [1963]. Grange Mus., gen. files, Jewish Community ( Kilburn Times, 12 May 1978). There were said to be 20,000 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and in 1849 it adopted the lighting provisions for part of Kilburn. 86 Increasingly the work of the vestry was done by … wards and governed by a local board of 15 members. South Kilburn had six members, North Kilburn, East Willesden and West Willesden three each. There …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… demesne lands, part in the south-east, on the boundary at Kilburn, and part extending along Willesden Lane to Willesden … leased Bounds for 21 years to Richard Fitzwilliams of Kilburn and his wife Elizabeth. 49 In 1563 Robert Weston, … lease, which he sold to William Bovington of Kilburn, to whom a 50-year lease was made in 1567. 50 In 1612 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and heir of Robert Atye, with land in Hampstead and Kilburn. 14 The Roberts estate began to contract after his … 17 who in 1664 was treating as his own land in Willesden, Kilburn, and Hampstead which Eleanor claimed should have gone … and fell deeper and deeper into debt. 19 He sold the Kilburn estate in 1664, 20 two estates in Harlesden, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… opened in Harlesden c. 1847, a Baptist chapel in West Kilburn in 1865, and a Presbyterian church at Fortune Gate in … halls opening in the rapidly developing districts of Kilburn, Harlesden, and Willesden, especially during the … worship were Protestant nonconformists. 97 In areas like Kilburn the division was less between Church and Dissent than …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… By 1851 there were police stations at Stonebridge and in Kilburn Lane. 46 The Stonebridge station had by 1871 been … site at the junction of Craven Park and West Ella Road. 48 Kilburn was served by successive stations at Kempshall … which exposed the inadequacy of the fire service, the Kilburn, Willesden, and St. John's Wood volunteer fire …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by 1920 and there were churches at Stonebridge in 1926 and Kilburn in 1948; another convent opened at Willesden Green in … reflects the general movement of the Irish north from Kilburn. The drop in the attendance figures of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Kilburn from 1961 to 1978 is explained by the replacement of …