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A History of the County of Middlesex
… to Gunnersbury and Brentford was known as Bollo Bridge Lane in 1746, 15 Brentford Lane in 1769 16 and 1866, 17 and also as Gunnersbury Lane in the 1860s. The last name, once applied to a more …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… number of small keepers in South Acton. Farms in Old Oak Lane were well known for their piggeries in the late 19th … some success: 13 piggeries in 1901, 10 of them in Old Oak Lane, had been reduced to 3 in 1904, partly through … led to the creation of an industrial estate between Bollo Lane, Stanley Road, Bollo Bridge Road, and the North London …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… while Turnham Green's Roman Catholic school moved to Acton Lane in 1864. 44 By 1870 there were eight elementary schools: … after each named entry. Acton County Grammar, Gunnersbury Lane. First purpose-built county grammar sch. in Mdx., opened … Larger sch. built 1939 at Heathfield Lodge, Gunnersbury Lane; Woodlands bldgs. later annexe of tech. college. 65 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron-Age coins near Bollo Lane. 71 Although the name Acton, meaning 'oak town', is … most of the farmhouses lay along the Oxford road or Horn Lane, with only a few outlying farms. Friars Place Farm at the north end of Horn Lane and the moated site to the west, occupied until the 15th …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… branch, apparently rising near Acton Farm west of Horn Lane, flows south to meet another tributary, from Springfield …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and a gate was to be put up at the north end of Acton Lane, to protect South field. 54 A temporary board of health, … was alleged that many sewers were being put down in Horn Lane to accommodate gentlemen, while the badly flooded parts …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the wastes of Friars Place green, the Steyne, East Acton Lane, and Acton Green common to Acton local board. 46 … parish north and west of the footpath to Harlesden, Horn Lane, and Stamford brook's western branch, as far as Turnham … than either Acton Farm (later Springfield Farm) in Horn Lane or a house on the moated site west of Friars Place Farm, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 67 reg. rooms for worship in Brentford (later Gunnersbury) Lane 1840, and opposite George inn 1843. 68 Chapel in Steyne … and separate teacher's ho., built 1857 E. side Gunnersbury Lane, near High St., 70 of Kentish ragstone in Gothic style. … interior 1978, reducing seating to c. 650. 76 Gunnersbury Lane chapel housed community relations centre 1979. Acton …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 77 several houses had their own wells. Butlers in Horn Lane had one in 1633 78 and access was granted in 1670 to a … a rate was voted to make a proper sewer to improve Horn Lane. The sanitary committee which was formed in 1848 … side streets, the Steyne, and the lower end of Horn Lane. 15 In 1866 the new local board trebled the number of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… founded 1922, using breeze-block hall in Old Oak Common Lane, E. Acton. New building 1961 by John Newton, seating … Adam Kossowski. 26 Church of the Holy Family, Hanger Vale Lane, built 1967, to serve W. side of Acton. 27 Our Lady of …