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Post to the east Holloway Road
Anson Road
Victorian vernacular. More densely built up, has large, varied
examples,
24, 26, 40, 44, 48 Truefit houses. Detached and semi-detached in both Gothic resemble
Truefitt's Villa Careno, a design illustrated in
the Building News in 1866.
Archibald Road
Belmore Lane
Brecknock Road,
Brecknock name of the Camden family's seat. New London County Council flats of 1938 where
previously villas were. They had been
'very pleasant'.
Hilldrop Estate Greater
London Council, 1930s onwards.
142 Brecknock Studios
Carleton Road
Spaciously
laid out
College Gardens, site of Queen's College
South Side
Penderyn Way
Trecastle Way
St George's
Church and its successor Truefitt
Celia Road
Clarence Way
Holy Trinity, 1849-50 by T.H. Wyatt & Brandon. - the spire was
destroyed in the Second World War.
Corinne Road
Crayford Road
St.George's Church. 1865 .
Dalmeny Avenue
Dalmeny Road
All Saints
Falkland Road
Was Assembly House Lane.
Flats. A back lane with cottages now having a landscaped setting
Fortess Grove
Fortess Road
Widened 1891-5. Turnpike road on line of old lane.
Name comes from 3 acres of Fortys Field, which were left as a charity to
the town by Eleanor Palmer. Now
administered by Fortys Field HA and part of the site is a school which is
called after her
56 Ford Maddox Brown
1821-1893. Plaque says 'painter, lived here'.
Church was RC became Methodist
Fire station 1883 very nice neo-Gothic
Post Office,
late c19th with shaped gable and pretty mosaic panel
Tufnell Park Station. 22nd June
1907. Between Archway and
Kentish Town on the Northern Line Built on the Charing
Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. With yellow ochre as its distinguishing colours. Designed by Leslie Green. Frontage with rows
of large arches; ox-blood faience outside, cream- and brown-tiled inside with
handsome lettering. Two
pretty wrought-iron lamps outside the entrance. Well-preserved example of former Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton
Railway Company stations. Ticket hall
was remodelled in 1987 otherwise the original station is intact although some
entrances and shop fronts have been changed. Original clock.
Green Street?
Top end of Kentish Town Road and bottom end of Highgate
Road, is the part known as 'The Grove' - eighteenth century romanticism
Hilldrop Crescent
39 Crippen's house is Margaret Bondfield flats
Hilldrop Lane
Hilldrop Road
Holloway School
Hugo Road
Islip Street
Christ Church, Oxford estate in the eighteenth century,
therefore Oxford name. .
School is a rebuilt National School. Still there with a bell on top;
Kentish Town
Probably named for an ‘estate held by
man called Le Kentish' - ‘Kentisston’
1208, ‘Cantistun’ c. 1200, ‘La Kentishton’ 1294, ‘Kentisshow’ 1488. The meaning of the surname is ‘man of Kent'.
Periscopic Prism Co., 1918, 44% staff skilled males,
making Medical equipment optical gauge instruments
Gordon House. Boys
school 1812. Owner died of apoplexy in
the middle of a lesson. The house was
owned by Nelson's uncle, J.Sudbury. In
1871 Waterlow bought it and leased it on the cheap to Barts for convalescents,
and then gave it to the London County Council.
Fire in 1963
St. John's Park House School, French
The Gothic, site of Chomondly House
Emmanuel Hospital for the blind, an old house which was
burnt down, insurance job, called the Ruin
Target Cottage and Baron de Berenger, shooting next door's
ducks
Kentish Town Road
Old name was Old Chapel Path. Several
wealthy citizens of London had their 'suburban homes' along its banks. One of
these was William Clulow, a solicitor and attorney, of Chancery Lane, who
occupied a house here. He was Wesley’s legal advisor.
Kentish Town Station. 1867. Between West Hampstead and Kings Cross Thameslink on the
Thameslink Line. Between Tufnel Park and Camden Town on the Northern Line.
Original Station opened in 1867, on Hampstead Junction Railway in 1860 line
from Old Oak Common to Camden Road.
Later part of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway on their
Highgate section, so the underground station was opened on 22nd June 1907 in the distinctive house style which Leslie W. Green used
for stations in Charles Yerkes's Underground Group. They have characteristic ox-blood glazed
tiles and bold arches incorporating a mezzanine office floor. Escalators installed in place of the lifts in 1932. Ticket hall
remodelled in 1980 to serve both the underground and the main line railway. The
original ticket hall building and tiling at below ground remains intact. Much of the ground floor though is infilled
with garish shops. Lift portals remain below ground. Original clocks with
ornate brackets.
Former Kentish Town
Station, Midland Railway. At the
entrance, a platform canopy c. 1890, re-erected from another station on the
line. Fragments of the engine shed of the 1860s
Lady Margaret Road
Our Lady Help of the Christians. Was Lady Margaret Methodist
Church by John Tarring 1865 became RC.
1b Richard Burton House. Richard Burton for
himself - urban infill in a Victorian area in an end-of- terrace brownfield
garden plot.
2a for Richard
Burton architect of ABK. Provides an individualistic interlude, with a slightly Chinese
circular doorway next to a
tree, and a steeply angled studio roof.
Leighton Crescent
Flats A gap in the late
c19 villas is filled by a block of maisonettes and flats for Camden by E. Cullinan, P. Tabor, M. Beedle & M.
Chassay, 1974-9-
Leighton Place
Leighton Road
An old thoroughfare. Starts with haphazard early c19
development. Stretches of small terraces.
30 is a lively
Edwardian former Sorting Office 1903.
Soup kitchen/dispensary 1860s
St.Margaret's Hospital Transferred from Metropolitan
Asylums Board to London County Council
Evans Place, later Gloucester Place, name of livery stable
owner who built them
Bridge Wharf garage was used as a garage for private buses
in the street.
City Coach Depot. service was from Kentish Town to
Southend-on-Sea.
Bower Cottage, later Outdoor Relieving Station and then a
nursery, in front was Methodist Chapel
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Leverton Place
Leverton Street
Pineapple
Lupton Street
St.Benet and All Saints. 1908-1927 style similar to
certain school chapels. Built by C. G. Hare and extensions by Peacock. Two lights by Burne-Jones, the
Building of the Temple, 1863, brought from Kentish Town Parish Church.
Maiden Lane?
New River Co. reservoirs 15 m gall. Off Dartmouth Hill
Peckwater Street
Christ Church, Oxford estate in the eighteenth century
therefore Oxford name, street demolished after 2nd World War
Pleshey Road
Railway line
Out of King's Cross goes on high ground between the
valleys of the Fleet and Hackney Brook
Rowstock Gardens
Neat
mixed development c. 1960, low terraces and two point
blocks set lozenge-wise to the road
St.George's Avenue
Victorian vernacular
Torriano Avenue
Called after Joshua Prole Torriano who owned the land. His
real name was Cox.
LCC Board School
Torriano Cottages
Unexpectedly rural
Tufnell Park
Secluded,
residential Tufnell Park is bounded by Camden, Brecknock
and Tufnell Park Roads. Plans to develop
it with varied, superior residences
were made c. 1840 by John Shaw Jun., who had laid out part of the Eton Estate at Chalk Farm. Shaw's scheme foundered, presumably at the
death of the owner, Henry Tufhell,
in 1845. Almost all that was achieved
was the laying out of the
pleasantly winding Carleton Road. Eventually higher-density development was
carried out from the 1860s, under George Truefitt,
surveyor to the estate 1865-90. He is supposed
to have designed many of the villas, although the one that can certainly be
identified lies just outside Tufhell
area proper,
and predate his surveyorship. Asymmetrical features
Camden Road New Church converted to Islington Arts Factory. 1873 by Edward Cosh for the Swedenborgians. Unexceptional. Decorated in Kentish rag. Brick lecture hall etc. extended 1908 by
Ernest Trobridge, himself a Swedenborgian
Tufnell Park Estate
London County Council flats five acres under 1937 CPO.
Willington Close
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