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Post to the west Kilburn
Abbey Road
1863, early track road
from Lisson Village to Kilburn Priory, Westminster Abbey owned the whole area,
tried to keep it, lane going to Kilburn Priory villas from 1830. Little now to be seen of the Victorian tradition of
studios and artists' houses and of a 'faint impropriety' (Elizabeth Bowen),
although the atmosphere can perhaps be sensed round the Onslow Ford monument
Abbey Estate 1965.
Long swathe of concrete terraces. Comprehensive
rebuilding of this northern fringe of the Eyre Estate was discussed from
1959. The next stage was the estate was
planned in the early 1960s with the Austin-Smith, Salmon, Lord Partnership for
Hampstead Borough Council, but not built until 1965. Bridges link them across Abbey Road and Belsize Park a
half-hearted demonstration of the 1960s concern with pedestrian segregation,
for the convenience of the traffic clearly comes later. Shops, a health centre and
community centre (refurbished 1991 by Neil Thomson Associates
2 EMI studios
39 Marlborough
44 Lockhart
83 Victoria
Baptist church
Zebra crossing as
used by the Beatles.
Onslow
Ford monument. Obelisk with seated bronze women by Sir J. W.
Simpson. At the
Grove End corner Onslow Ford with a wide moustache and beard by A.C.Lacchesi.
On the other side semi-nude girl with lyre from the Shelley memorial. 1903 erected by friends and admirers.
Alma
Tadema's house
Grove Hall Court, 1936, 200 flats
J.MacWhirter painter
Flats of between the wars. More recent the vast block for Rosehaugh by
D. Y. Dam 1990.
Abercorn Place
Line of old track way.
On the Harrow School estate named after the Duke of Abercorn who was the
school governor. Building in the
1830s.
26 is a late c 19 red brick villa, home of the artist
J.J. O'Connor. Also T.H.Huxley
Acacia Road
Site of St.Joseph's Road.
A farm there in the 1870s. Other
tree names for roads in the area.
Commemorates a giant acacia which was on the corner of Finchley Road
5 Mansfield and Murray
Cabmen's Shelter at the end on the crossroad facing Grove
End Road. The site of first one which
was opened by Kinnard MP, 1875
Alexandra Road
Manhole at the west end, streamlet feeding into the
Westbourne
Development of Abbey Road by LB Camden 1977. Hilled area behind cemetery was a response to
site restraints,
Children’s Reception Home, Staff accommodation 1976
Estate of 2 terraces of flats and one terrace of houses. The last large social housing scheme which is
claimed to be the longest terrace in Europe and it shields the railway. Built 1972-8 Neave Brown for London Borough
of Camden.
13b Rowley Way. Flat as originally
built.
Barrier block of six storeys alongside the railway
and cantilevered out over the tracks.
hostels
Park
Alma Square
Avenue Road
29 an early Neo-Grecian villa, recalls the earlier phase of development
here, related to the growth of St John's Wood
100 instead of public buildings. 1981 offices.
By Architectural Design
Associates formerly Ted Levy, Benjamin & Partners,
St.Paul, severe
and sensational crude and impressive. By S.S.Teulon. Bombed and demolished.
Swiss Cottage Library.
First phase of civic centre which was never built. Basil Spence.
Swiss cottage baths.
Spence. Fashionable and
distinguished geometric concepts
Statue of Sigmund Freud
John Keats School, special school LCC
Blenheim Passage
Walls on line of old track
Blenheim Road
13 Sir Charles Santley
28
The use of Gothic houses to add
interest strategic points is especially characteristic of these streets
Blenheim Street
Blenheim Terrace
Carlton Hill
1 curiously echoes 72 with a c19 Romanesque
brick version. Formerly a
Presbyterian church.
Clifton Hill
42 Plaque to
Melanie Klein, 1882-1960 ‘‘psychoanalyst and pioneer of child analysis, lived
here'
62-64, 68 the use of Gothic houses to add interest at
strategic points is especially characteristic of these streets
Cochrane Street
T.Cochrane, 10th Earl, Admiral Lord Cochrane - Napoleon
called him 'le loup de mer'. Compromised
with the French in 1814 cleared in 1832.
Lived in Regent's Park.
Eton Villas
Eyre Estate
Transformation of urban into suburban form complete.
Finchley Road
137 Centre Heights.
167-173 shopping
parade.
28 Hood
College Crescent
after the Nonconformist college once there.
The
crescent is a prelude to the
mid-Victorian development of Belsize to the east
Drinking fountain to
Samuel Palmer biscuit manufacturer. Octagonal granite
Gothic 1904
Castle Pub,
Child's Hill toll house site, blue plaque
St Saviour's church
Apsley House flats 1935
Marlborough
Road Station. 13th April 1868. Built by the Metropolitan and St.John's
Wood Railway. the building was at the
corner of Finchley and Queen’s Roads. Closed in 1939 and the building became a
Chinese restaurant and painted black.
Grove End
Hamilton Terrace
Garden walls as early track way.
St.Mark's church Early English style 1847
28 Poet Thomas Hood lived
King Harry’s Road
St.Mary, 1833.
Lanark Road
Langtry Way
Housing was built as a
children's reception centre but functioned as such only briefly
Langford Place
Manor held in 1330 by William Langford. Lilestone Manor in the 16th century was held
by Portman family. This was a lane going
to Kilburn Priory villas from 1830
12 house
and studio of John Adams Acton, sculptor 1910, probably built to his own
design,
Lords Tavern. Victorian building, 'oval and green
like a pearl in an oyster'. Most poetic, most English in transformation
16 Plaque to
Dame Laura Knight 1877-1970 and Harold Knight 1874-1961, ‘painters lived here'.
Loudon Road
Marlborough Hill
Quintin Kynaston School
33 Aumonier
Marlborough Place
A good
sample of mid c 19 styles:
20 Gomme
38, Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895. Plaque saying 'biologist lived here' Huxley was born in
Ealing, Middlesex.
Marloes
Lang
Norfolk Road
New street 1840s house Norfolk House in Arena Road
Ordnance Hill,
Means artillery area first rated in the 1840s
Barracks built alongside St. John's Farm owned by Willans
in 1700s. 1832, Military Riding
Establishment. Became Royal Horse
Artillery after Crimea. Rebuilt
29 Ordnance Arms
Queen's Grove
Victorian description of gentleman entering the old Tyburn
here and sailing down it called King's Pond Main Sewer and entrance was then a
shaft by the cab stand
Rossetti, gone – more like an Italian restaurant than a
pub
32 George Frampton sculptor
Queen's Terrace
2 Richardson
7 Knights of St. John became a garage
Regent Mews
Behind 5-7 Langford Place, a small
tactful piece of infilling by Barton, Willmore Partnership, 1988
Rowley Way
Lower terrace of maisonettes.
The array of concrete cells, community
buildings. The play centre is a concrete bunker hidden among trees, two buildings by Evans & Shaley,
St. John’s Wood
The area north of St John's Wood
Road, owes its name to the Knights Hospitallers, who held land here from 13th
. St John's Wood Westminster.
Recorded as ‘Seynt Johns Woode’ earlier
as ‘Boscum Prioris Sanctijohannis’ ‘'wood of the Priory of St.John’ in a Latin
document of 1294. The area remained
wooded throughout the medieval period, and was still essentially rural until
development began in the early 19th.
From 1732 the area belonged to the Eyre family, for whom a development
plan was drawn up in 1794. The buildings that
eventually went up in the 1820s and 1830s were a mixture of villas and terraces
in generous gardens. the area had until
the early 20th a comfortable,
verdant, early Victorian character, never showy and never mean. the old atmosphere can now best be recaptured
around the High Street and in the streets of the end of Abbey Road.
St John's Wood High Street
Used to be called Portland Town. A
disorganized and somewhat slummy development of the early c 19 on land
belonging to the Portland estate. The
area was a much-criticized eyesore beside the respectable villas of the
Eyre estate until it was entirely rebuilt from the end of the c 19.
10 Shepard
13 Roja
15 Café Josephine. Features
35 Pereira
134 St. John's Wood Newsagents
Kent Terrace
Further 01
Sir Isaac Newton brick and terracotta-faced pub of 1892;
intricate glazing to the ground floor windows.
St. John's Wood Gardens
Monument to Joanna Southcott
St.Anne's Terrace
4 Spencer
The Marlowes
Built on from Hemel Hempstead then this is the name of the
shopping centre there.
Tyburn manor in 16th century was owned by Defoe family,
taken by Henry VIII for a hunting ground.
Became Marylebone Park. Portland
family held for 5 generations. Tyburn is
the historic boundary between the old manors of Tyburn and Lileston.
Upper York Place?
4 Huxley
Violet Hill
Middle ages lane from Lisson village to Kilburn Priory -
boundary between Eyre Estate and Harrow School estate
Abbey Tavern
St. Mark's Parochial Schools 1879-1950s
Violet Hill Gardens. garden, tended by local residents.park attendant's shed, with
its pitched roof and net curtains.
Waverley Place
14 Huxley
Wellington Road
Named for the Eyre Family.
Balloon ascents. Eyre lived and left property to Kingsmead. Other lease to Bolton. Road personal to the Norwich Union Life
Assurance Co. Norwich/Norfolk place names
Pre Second World Ward consisted
entirely of Early Victorian villas in a largely unbroken line concealed behind brick
walls extending 'from St. John's Wood Road to Swiss Cottage Station. Since then several great blocks of flats have
been erected on the west side forming a continuous range from
Eyre Court flats, with private carriageway. Pattern set before the Second World War . T P. Bennett & Son,
1930 long frontage to Finchley Road extending from Grove End Road to the
neighbouring Apsley House. It stands on
the site of the former Eyre Arms Hotel the adjoining Wellington Hall and a
number of private houses. Plaque to Oscar Kokoschka, 1886-1980. 'painter
lived here' . Plaque erected 1986.
Hotel 1816 Assembly Rooms and Gardens
Stephens Railway Office 1830. Drawing office HQ of Belsize Boxing
Club. Wellington Hall part of it and
used for functions. Demolished 1928
Wellington Court flats
St John's Wood station. 13th April 1868. Between Swiss Cottage and Baker Street
on the Jubilee Line. Built by the Metropolitan Railway and opened as ‘St.
John’s Wood Road’ . In 1879 it was opened between Baker Street and Swiss
Cottage and in April 1868 Metropolitan ran it up to West Hampstead. In 1925 the name changed to ‘St.John’s Wood’ and
in 1939 renamed ‘Lords’. It became part of the
Bakerloo Line in 1939. The present day station is between the old St John's Wood
Metropolitan Line and Marlborough Road Station. The original Metropolitan Line station nearby was closed on 20th
November 1939 when the present station was opened. There
is a portrait of Thomas Lord who
founded Lord's Cricket I Ground in the tiles under the archways leading from
the platform. This is one of the few tube stations that still has its bronze
escalator lamps. Acacia Road
and Wellington Road. In 1979 it
became part of the Jubilee Line
Play up!
Play up! And Play the Game. Bayes sculpture in
bas relief of athletes of 1934. Tennis, golf, cricketers, footballers, swimmers
and oarsmen. Presented by Alderman
Isaacs
Winchester Road
Sheltered housing
Woronzow Road
Russian ambassador who lived in Rey Lodge. In 1700 left £500 for the parish poor - almshouses
in St.John's Wood Terrace rebuilt 1965.
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