Kingsbury Station
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Kingsbury
Part of Metroland but once a village called Tunworth. In the Domesday book it is ‘Chingsberie’
meaning ‘king’s manor’ granted by Edward the Confessor 1042-66 to
Westminster Abbey – ‘Kynges Byrig’ 1044, ‘Kingesbir' 1199. After the Black Death the village centre moved from Blackbird Hill
north to Kingsbury Green. The area
remained rural but with the coming of Metroland became an independent local
authority in 1900, and no longer part of Wembley. The centre moved further north in the 1920s.
Kingsbury Circle
Site of old moot of the Gore Hundred
Kingsbury Green
A small park at the junction of Kingsbury Road and Church
Road. In the middle ages a number of roads converged here and it became the
main focus of the village which had moved from the Church Road area. Reduced to one acre in the 1920s following
development
Holy Innocents
Kingsbury Road
The road was straightened in the 1970s. During the 1930s the area expanded around the
station to be joined by more shops and a cinema.
Vanden Plas bodyworks Kingsbury Works. Site
originally used by the Kingsbury Aviation Company who, during the period
1917-1919,built Sopwith Snipe aircraft. It was re-named Kingsbury Engineering
Company in 1919 and went into liquidation in 1921 after some unsuccessful
attempts at scooter and motor car manufacture. Vanden Plas, now part of British
Leyland, have over the years been involved in making bodies for such classic
cars as Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley, Bugatti, Daimler, Bentley and Rolls Royce.
Although still a viable company with full order books, they closed in November
1979 as part of the British Leyland rationalisation policy, production being
moved to Coventry
553 JJ Moons
Kingsbury Station 10th December 1880. Between Queensbury and Wembley Park
on the Jubilee Line but built by the Metropolitan Railway. Cottage style, red
brick station with shops, waiting room, tiled fireplace and Pretty electric
lights. There are flats above the station,
and five shops in each of the side blocks and three either side of the entrance
When it was built there were no houses anywhere near. From the outside the station looks like a
two-storey building – see the architectural trick in the booking hall. It was the first
station on the Stanmore Branch but the style is that of Wembley Park and other
19th century Metropolitan stations. It was designed by Charles W.Clark. There are lots of Metropolitan Line fittings
left inside - Isabella coloured tiling, plinth of polished
granite and a band of green tiles at picture rail level; Clock framed in hard
wood and centred line of telephone booths with hardwood frames with a matched
new booking office frame; Brass sills and cash trays possibly from
elsewhere; Another booking office window
with some Metropolitan and some more recent LT elements; Blue industrial brick
frame. The footbridge has 1930s bronze
framed windows and walls framed in brown unglazed terracotta tiles And the Stair entrances framed in blue industrial
brick and bronze handrails. On the platform are wooden framed quarter drop
windows painted white. In 1939 It
became a Bakerloo Line station. And in 1979 the Jubilee Line. It is nearer to Kingsbury Green than Kingsbury Town.
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