Search
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 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Road from 1863. 6 The lodge built its own hall in Acton Lane in 1930. 7 South Acton Working Men's Club, started in … and social functions and dances. 23 A cinema in Horn Lane was licensed in 1910, 24 followed by the Crown cinema c. … the shopping precinct. 28 The Crown and the Kinema, Horn Lane, had both been converted to other uses by 1964 29 and …