Kilburn

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Post to the east St.Johns Wood

Post to the south Maida Vale

Post to the west Brondesbury Park

Post to the north WestHampstead


Abbey Road
Developed in the 19th from a track which led to the Abbey at Kilburn. Name of the Beatles’ Album made it famous.
St Johns Wood Free Church members start of Abbey National Building Society
Ford


Belsize Road
Plaque marks the spring of the Kilburn spa and the Bell Inn.  Now in Kilburn High Road.
Women’s Missionary Fellowship. Was the Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel.1870?

Boundary Mews
Nottinghill Housing Trust housing of the 90s is represented by a group of flats by Avanti Architects, 1995-6, 

Boundary Road
Was the boundary between St.Marylebone and Hampstead now Camden and Westminster
Flats by Armstrong & MacManus for Marylebone completed 1956.  
48 home for young disabled people.  Innovative at the time for its combination of private rooms with their own s-facing outdoor terraces.  Converted by Evans & Shalev as a home for the elderly, 1996-7. 
49 blocks by Tom Kay Associates:  1975-80, with workshops 
61 Tom Kay Assocs. 1974-9; with N-facing studios above shops
98a Saatchi Gallery. This is one of the finest pieces of architecture in London. In few other works does one get such a delightful sense of simple space and light The building was originally an industrial shed of the most utilitarian sort - land-locked, top-lit by north-lights, and of an odd configuration.  

Cambridge Avenue
Hall - an example of a 'flatpack' building. A corrugated galvanised iron former chapel now used by a Sea Cadets Unit. Listed Grade II building of the type known as a 'tin tabernacle', dating from c1870 one of many non-conformist chapels and mission halls, designed and made in a kit form, used extensively m the UK and the Empire.
Kilburn Park Station 21st January 1915 Between Queen’s Park and Maida Vale on the Bakerloo Line. Fine example of London Electric Railway station entrance and booking hall, steel framed faced with glazed red tiles, built for Bakerloo line extension in 1911. The station building was designed by  in a modified version of the earlier  designed Bakerloo Line stations with  façades but without the large semi-circular windows at first floor level. 2000 people sleeping in it in September 1940.  

Cambridge Gardens

Carlton Vale.
Cast iron urinal. Not in use, but attractive above ground metal railings and a 'Gothick- vent pipe remain.
Carlton Centre

Clifton Hill
96 Clifton Hotel.  A pub in a house.

Coventry Close
Coal Offices. Three typical Victorian coal offices remain associated with Kilburn High Road Station.

Glengall Road
Kilburn Polytechnic.  Was St Lawrence institute

Granville Road
80 Granville Plus Community and Youth Centre.  sustainable principles, including wind turbines.  Information on new technologies.

Greville Place
Built up in 1819-25 by George Pocock on the Abbey Farm Estate, and share something of the character of St John's Wood

Greville Road
This area was developed rapidly by one builder.  Francis Armson, from 1843.
Stream crossing this to join main Kilburn. At the Corner with Mortimer Road the Kilburn stream turned south and was joined by another stream from Frognal area.  They Met at the corner of Fairhazel Gardens and flowed along Greencroft Gardens, across Goldhurst Terrace and down between Belsize Road and Alexandra Road.
79- 36 cottages which echo in miniature gothic houses in Clifton Hill

Hamilton Terrace
Strip of St John's Wood, next to Maida Vale, belonged not to the Eyre estate but to Harrow School.  This is its main thoroughfare wide and tree-lined, begun in the 1820s with brick terraces, but continued with a feature of tall terraces and villas only c. 1850 and after, and still largely complete.
St Mark

Kilburn Vale. GLC estate 1977  .  

Langtry Road

Kilburn
Great Central trains not allowed to stop here and no platform.  Lines go straight through.
Kyre burn – the top end of what becomes the Westbourne, now in sewers but can still be traced.  College stands where the stream crosses the Roman road.  Edgeware Road - major Roman road.  Also ‘Kele-bourne’, or ‘cold-bourne’ or ‘cow’s bourne’. 'Place by cattle stream', the development of early spellings showing the interchange of r that is often found in post-Norman place-name forms. Other etymologies have been suggested, including a derivation from OE ‘cyln’ but these are difficult to support from extant forms. The population soon made a living out of traffic on the main road through inn and so on.

Kilburn High Road
Kilburn High Road Station.  24th November 1851. Between Queens Park and South Hampstead on the London Overground Line to Euston. London North West Railway Station is on the site of Kilburn Wells. Plaque on corner of Belsize Road to mark the spot.  A stuccoed Italianate station house, c. 1852. Opened as ‘Kilburn and Maida Vale’. 
Parade of shops at the junction with Iverson Road
Third bridge added in 1914-15 in conjunction with the widening of the Metropolitan Railway
Old Bell. Average main-road pub of 1863, oblivious of its history.  It marks the site of a little c18 resort, although there is nothing now to recall the medicinal springs and pleasure gardens that once excited Londoners on their excursions from the city.  Earlier still it was the site of Kilburn Priory
Kilburn Wells. Tea Garden used the old Holy Well near the old priory.  The Ruins were called Kilburn Wells and the spring was in a brick reservoir wit water at 3d a glass.  Trying to be like the one in Hampstead. Demolished 1863. Became a tavern Then the Bell.  Old Station.
Kilburn Priory - now recalled only by a few street names.  Godwin set up as a hermit there. Then came the three - Esmond, Gundila and Cristina, Matilda's maids.  Founded priory and ordained Godwin was the chaplain.  Priory set up in 12th on the site of the hermitage.  St.John the Baptist.  With the Bishop that owned Highgate.  Holy well.  From Westminster Abbey, dissolved 1530.  Ruins. 
Evans and Co. drapers owned by Thomas Wallis & Co.           
M & S Moved to 66-68 in 1929 and still there.
Southern end site of turnpike.  Abolished 1868
197-199 Ruach Ministries Christian Centre - Gaumont State Cinema.  Desinged by George Coles and it was the ultimate work jointly for Hyams and Gaumont-British under the Gaumont Super banner. This was a return to the Italian-Renaissance style. With just over 4,000 seats it was the largest cinema in England and its fully-equipped stage, rising orchestra-lift and brilliance were shown to good effect on the opening night with Gracie Fields, George Formby, Vic Oliver, Henry Hall and Van Dam with their respective orchestras, and Sidney Torch at the Mighty Wurlitzer.  The circle foyer had a coffered ceiling. The restaurant was later converted to a 235-seat cinema, first as Gaumont State and after a fuller  conversion of the early eighties, to the Odeon. Its vast size, with over 4,000 seats, made it impossible to fill, once audiences went into decline, so the rear stalls were partitioned off for bingo. The entire building closed in 1980 but was substantially refurbished as a Top Rank Club, opening in 1985. the large stage and orchestra lift went but the mighty Wurlitzer had been retained. Visible from a distance, up and down Kilburn High Road, the State's prominent tower has become a famous landmark.
Tricycle Theatre.  Picture of a huge tricycle, area’s leading cultural venue.
Red Lion said to date from 1444 and could have been the priory guest house.
Cock both originally 15th.
Earl Derby
North London Tavern
Black Lion. Badge of Queen Phillipa, queen of Edward III.
Bounds Manor House – was between Oxford Road and Cambridge Avenue.

Kilburn Park
‘Park’ is a name made up by estate agents.  In the 1850s 47 acres sold by the Rev. Edward Stuart to a consortium of developers who divided the area up between themselves.

Kilburn Park Housing estate

Kilburn Park Road
St.Augustine's church is one of the best churches of its date in the whole of England.  
Augustine schools
All streams merge into Kilburn

Kilburn Priory Estate
1948 brick blocks. In the earliest parts not too crowded, B. K. J Cowper.

Kilburn Square
Council tower blocks 1964. With two level shopping arcade

Kilburn Station
1879 NLR trains from Hampstead Road to Willesden Junction. 

Maida Vale
Westbourne crosses it 

Oxford Road
Maida Vale
Greville Hall, on the east side, at the corner of Maida Vale and Greville Place.  1936.  A part of this block of flats, which is only four storeys high, stands on the site of a neighbouring semi-detached villa, which had been cut in half, to the great indignation of the owner of the surviving house.  He is said to have agreed to sell his house to enable this site to be incorporated into the adjoining Greville Hall, but the price offered him was far too small and he was unable to come to terms with its owners.  This villa was bombed in the Second World War and has since been pulled down.
Dibdin House.  To-day not quite all Maida Vale is monopolized by the " upper ten," for it now contains a great new block of artisan dwellings.  This was erected on the west side in 1938 and covers the extensive site between Carlton Vale and Kilburn Park Road.  Set up by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to accommodate about 230 families who have been displaced by slum clearances in other parts of Paddington, of which they are the ground landlords.  The northern section was damaged in the earlier raids of the Second World War, but it has since been repaired.

Pard Lane?
Agricultural cottages, church infants school.

Peel precinct

Princess Road
Stream crossing this to join main Kilburn


Priory Road
An enclave of mid-c19 stuccoed streets remains around St Mary's Church

Kings Gardens
Kilburn Empire then a cinema
St.Mary's church.  Bit of priory left.   Site of nunnery.  Church 1856. By F. H. Francis, typical of church building of its date in a new fairly well to do suburb.  .  Brass c5 fragment, the head of a nun discovered in 1877 on the site of the medieval nunnery at Kilburn, near Edgware Road.
Church Hall behind, with Gothic windows under gables.
Home of Tomlinson who was a railway engineer

Quex Road.
St.Mary Kilburn church of England school LCC 1990 low with pantiled roofs, around a courtyard, by H Haenlein Associates, 19901.
Sacred Heart of Jesus.  RC 1879 by Pugin & Pugin, 
Priory of the Oblates of St Mary Immaculate 1965
Methodist church 'rather cheap'.
Kilburn stream crossed it
Railway line to Euston.
Kilburn stream crossed it
Westbourne joined by tributary from Willesden

South Kilburn
Area in a dip and all the water from Hampstead etc drains down into it therefore there were water meadows there.  Kilburn name - 'cyna burna' or 'cow stream'.

Springfield Road
Genteel neo-Georgian residences of between the wars

West End Lane.
Kilburn stream crossed it near Bird in Hand.

West Hampstead
On 17th route north
Westbourne. South west down it


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