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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 16 The most important road in Willesden was Watling Street or Edgware Road, which is known, in stretches from south to … in 1855, 29 to form the triangle of roads called Craven Park. 30 That name came to be used of Harrow Road as far as … to Greenhill and then south-westward to Lower Place before turning southward to Acton. A road probably once …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Ages were from local, often long-lived families. Local place-names supplied surnames for the Willesden (1278-1494), … Cornhill (1274-1415), 1 Algar ( c. 1280-1432), 2 Fayrsire or Veyser of Harlesden (1293-1510), 3 Stokke or Stokker … 1832-55, 19 and of Oxgate to bloodstock dealers from Hyde Park Corner 1837-52. 20 Hay was the major crop on the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… schools. All were said to be connected with the Church or the National Society. 27 By 1875 the three National … of the Sisters of the Church, which was based in Kilburn Park Road, opened four schools: Gordon Memorial in Kilburn in … Willesden high, was opened. The second phase took place 1971-3 when the junior and senior high schools were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… had opened in the former Congregational chapel in Chichele Rd., Cricklewood, by 1980. 17 Kelly's Dir. Lond. (1980); …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… closed in 1974. 4 A second wave of immigration took place in the 1920s and 1930s leading to the establishment of … districts of Neasden, Dollis Hill, and Gladstone Park met to consider opening a synagogue. Services were held … it was called Gladstone Park and Neasden synagogue or Abravath Shalom. The foundation stone of a new synagogue …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… two overseers of the poor from 1678 and a salaried deputy or assistant overseer in 1794, 1798, 1826, and 1830. From … the fire brigade, and opened free libraries and a public park. 95 By 1894 the enmity between Kilburn and the rest of … Mus., 1 D 11 (vestry bk. 1825-32); ibid. gen. files, High Rd. ( Mdx. Courier, 21 June 1895). Based on Grange Mus., 1 D …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Brondesbury, Bounds, and Mapesbury in the east. The manor or prebend of BOUNDS or WILLESDEN may have taken the former … 1811 left it to his grandson John White, who lived at Park Hall (Derb.) and renewed the lease in 1834 and 1842. 5 … lived there in 1863, described the house as a delightful place and made it the setting of his novel Broken to Harness. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… land held at Sherrick and Sheeproad by William Roberts or Roberd (fl. 1295-1306) and in Neasden open fields by … sold the land south of Dollis Hill Lane for a public park in 1901, retaining the northern farm until 1939. 82 The … cats. 2/7, 11, 13, 23). Grange Mus., gen. files, Gibbons Rd.; M.R.O., Acc. 621/7-9. B.L. Add. Ch. 40602; P.R.O., C …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… poor church attendance, was compared in 1903 with Stepney or St. Pancras. Most of those attending places of worship … moved 1912 to new chapel in Wrentham Ave., Brondesbury Park. Had 79 members 1963-6. Closed by 1972 and bldg. used … by 1908. 42 Bapt. mission room in Disraeli Rd., Lower Place opened by 1908. Closed after 1933. 43 Red-brick and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… moved to its present site at the junction of Craven Park and West Ella Road. 48 Kilburn was served by successive … ordered the churchwardens to provide a more suitable place. 60 The local board's first sanitary report in 1875 … the L.C.C. system was completed. 10 There were only two or three wells from borings in the parish in the mid 19th …