Harlesden

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Bramshill Road

Bramshill Lodge stood here and it became the name of the road and it was beside the site of the county court house.

Buckingham Road

Dr.Hastings Banda practised here as a GP before becoming President of Malawi/

Craven Park Road

Green Man – pub there before enclosure. Rebuilt in 1908 as part of a shop-building project.

Crown – pub there before enclosure. Now closed.

Crown Hill Road

Keble Memorial School. Sponsored by Emily Ayekbown

Convent of Mary and Jesus opened in  1888.

Harrow Road

Harlesden Manor House was near the Royal Oak site

Harlesden

Name dates from the 11th and is a corruption of ‘Herewulf’s tun’ – his farm. ‘Herulvestune’ 1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Herleston’ 1195, ‘Harlesden’ 1606, that is 'farmstead or estate of a man called ‘Heoruwulf’ or ‘Herewulf,’ from an Old English personal name and Old English ‘tun’. The current spelling ‘den’, found from 1606, is unhistorical, likewise the spelling ‘don’ which is sometimes found in early records. It was a separate village from before Domesday and owned by the Canons of St.Pauls.   It appears as ‘Hokdon Green’ on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822.  Just a hamlet with a pub and cottages until after enclosure – just a green on the Harrow Road. Area largely owned by All Souls College, Oxford – who were to lay out late Victorian estates in the area. In the 17th   acquired by the Taylor family and later by the Wrights and the Seddons. Pubs set up along the main road provided a living for residents.

High Street

Built up after the opening of Willesden Junction station. Widened to allow for trams in 1906.

Jubilee clock tower 1887.  Listed building built for Victoria’s Golden Jubille. Has been incorporated into a pedestrian-only shopping precinct.

Kensal Rise Junction Signal Box. Visible from Willesden High Street,.near junction with Scrubbs Lane.
St.Mary’s Hall where first silent films were played

Electric Palace cinema

Hippodrome Theatre. Built by Frank Matcham.  Opened 1907 and bombed in 1941, never reopened.

Odeon Court on the site of Odeon Cinema by Oscar Deutsch

Royal Oak. Once had a garden at the back.

Weslyan Methodist church. Destroyed by bombing

Manor Park Road

Site of Harlesden Manor House. The road goes right through the sie,

Coliseum cinema.  Opened in 1912 and still there but not used as a cinema

Catholic Church 1886 and closed in 1907

Nicoll Road

Nicoll is the name of an early 19th local family.

Our Lady of Willesden.  1931 RC Church

Nightingale Road

Named for Colonel R.T.Nightingale-Tubb, local landowner

Station Road

GPO sorting office 1887  and post office with the royal crest for Edward VII.

Tubbs Road

Named for Colonel R.T.Nightingale-Tubb, local landowner


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