Maida Vale

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Post to the South Westbourne Park - Royal Oak

Post to the north Kilburn

Post to the east St.Johns Wood

Post to the west Westbourne Park



Amberley Road

Lord Amberley Pub.  1861 Lord S.Russell made Lord Amberley.
Power Station on bank of canal at St.Peter’s Wharf for METESCO, 1893-1926
Subs station alongside for METESCO

Ashworth Road
Semi detached houses

Biddulph Road
Semi detached houses

Bristol Gardens
15 Dowson
GLC conversion of 83 dwellings 1977

Castellian Road
Collonade Hotel.


Chippenham Road
Neeld family development.

Elgin Avenue
Westbourne goes down it to turn at Dorchester Road.  Around Maida Vale station c. 1860. Shopping parade with corner pub. Non-basement houses and blocks of flats
The Lord Elgin
Ware Mansions of 1908 by Boehmer & Gibbs.
St.Peter's church built in 1976.  It was called St.Peter's Park because it belonged to Westminster Abbey.
Paddington Recreation Ground, flats all round it.  Managed by Vestry of Paddington. Paddington's only park with bowls, etc. laid out in 1889, imaginatively refurbished in 1987-9 by Ledward Macdonald.

Formosa Street
Prince Alfred. 

Harrow Road
Elgin Estate 1968 LCC housing

Hermitage Place?
Was the area where Hermitage of Godwin the Hermit was - who persuaded Westminster Abbey to build the Priory here.  River gave the moat and fishes.

Kilburn Park Road
Kilburn flowed down it irregularly and joined by other stream
Shirland Road junction.  The Kilburn stream turned left here down Shirland Road, to be joined by another tributary from Kensal Rise
Dibdin House.  Artisan flats built 1938 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to house 230 families from the slum clearances in Paddington where they were the landlords.  

Lanark Road
Flats Jeremy Dixon eight blocks 1983, an opposite approach to the L.CC. They are low-cost private housing intended for sale to Westminster Council tenants. 

Lauderdale Street
9 Lauderdale Road Synagogue.  Spanish and Portuguese synagogue - 1896.  1891 imposing Sephardic building.

Maida Hill
Maida Hill is marked thus on Mogg's map of 1817.  The district is called simply Maida on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822. The name is from the Battle of Maida in southern Italy, the site of a British victory against  the French in 1806. this Old name for part of Maida Vale which has been applied to a slightly different area.  Called St.Peter’s Park when it was built in the mid 1960s. Squatting hot spot in the 1970s.

Maida Vale
The area belonged to the Bishop of London in 1647 when it was woodland and pasture. Only farm buildings until the end of the 18th.  This is the continuation of Edgware Road some of which  was called  Maida Vale in 1828 but it was later before the whole area was known as this.  By the mid c19th it was filled with stucco villas. After that more red or multi coloured brick buildings - in a style advocated by Ruskin, then flats from c. 1890. The Church Commissioners eventually sold the freeholds in the 1980s. The study of London flats can be profitably pursued here -  mansion block territory.
Cunningham Court 1892
Aberdeen Court by Boehmer & Gibbs, 1903
Blomfield Court Boehmer Field 1903
Stuart Tower, 1964 by George Wimpey & Co . For the Church Commissioners.
Maida Vale Estate L.C.C.1959-64. Good example of a characteristic L.C.C. mix of the time.  
Greville Hall.  Built 1936 - four storey flats on the site.  This is a villa, which had been cut in half by the flats and then sold as a house to go into the flats.
Nugent Terrace named after Sir George Nugent property owner l850.
Maida Vale Station.  6th June 1915. Between Kilburn Park and Warwick Avenue on the Bakerloo Line one of the few above ground on it. Built as an intermediate station on the tube extension in 1915. Opened on 6th June 1915 during World War I. Because so many men were fighting abroad, the station was staffed entirely by women. The old underground sign in mosaic by the station entrance on the right.  
Dibden House at the corner of Carlton Vale 1937 by Carde & Passmore, big low-red brick blocks around a courtyard, built by Ecclesiastical Commissioners,

Randolph Avenue
Restored when the Church Commissioners adopted a policy of conversion rather than clearance in this part of their estate
Iyengar Yoga Institute – first purpose built yoga centre in Europe.

Shirland Road
4 Old People’s Home a design 1971 by Renton Howard Wood.
1114 Warwick Dairy farm l886 still used for milk.
191 Dorothy Gardner Centre.  Built 1975 as the first child centre in Europe for 80 children from birth to 5.  Undertook research on children's play.  

Southfield/Elgin Avenue –
Flats 1880s.

St.Saviour's church
1976 .  Church Commissioners recent restoration.

Sutherland Avenue
Busy stuccoed terraces
Earl of Derby grand

Walterton Road
St.Peter’s estate developed in this area 1870s.

Warrington Gardens


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