Postal area WC1

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The streets of : Bushfield Close · Carriage Drive East · Duck’s Hill Road · East Heath Road · Shirehall Park

1313

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	VIEW THE QUEEN'S PARK AREA IN THE 1750s The 1750 Rocque map is bounded by Sudbury (NW), Snaresbrook (NE), Eltham (SE) and Hampton Court (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1750 map does not display.
	VIEW THE QUEEN'S PARK AREA IN THE 1800s The 1800 mapping is bounded by Stanmore (NW), Woodford (NE), Bromley (SE) and Hampton Court (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1800 map does not display.
	VIEW THE QUEEN'S PARK AREA IN THE 1830s The 1830 mapping is bounded by West Hampstead (NW), Hackney (NE), Greenwich (SE) and Chelsea (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1830 map does not display.
	VIEW THE QUEEN'S PARK AREA IN THE 1860s The 1860 mapping is bounded by Brent Cross (NW), Stratford (NE), Greenwich (SE) and Hammermith (SW). Outside these bounds, the 1860 map does not display.
	VIEW THE QUEEN'S PARK AREA IN THE 1900s The 1900 mapping covers all of the London area.

Queen's Park

Queen's Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.

The north of Queen's Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen's Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen's Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen's Park 'proper' formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen's Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.

Queen's Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett's wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen's Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queens Park are a conservation area.

There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.

Queen's Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR. As of December 2013, no mainline services calling at the station and the Watford service has been transferred to London Overground.

LOCATIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

1879 Royal Agricultural Society Show:   Washout summers are not only a modern phenomenon
1950 to 1963 at 3 woodnook road, sw16:   house with gas mantles, kitchen range, bread and milk delivered by horse drawn vans.
Aldershot Manor Park:
Ark Franklin Primary Academy:   Academy sponsor led (Primary) which accepts students between the ages of 3 and 11.
Black Park Country Park:
Blackheath:
Boxhill:
Bricket Wood Sports and Country Club:
Bulstrode Park:
Camden Sports Ground:   Camden Sports Ground is the facility of the Old Camdenians Club.
Canterbury Park:
Capel Manor Environmental Centre for Schools:
Castle Park:
Cherry Tree Park:
Chipperfield Common:
Clandon Park:
Clarence Park:
Cock Marsh:
Crown Court Brookman Park:
Custom:
Dee Em Bee Sports Development Centre:   Dee Em Bee Sports Development Centre.
Deer Park:
Epping Forest Public Open Space:
Eton Dorney:
Grays Beach Riverside Park:
Greenwich Park:   One of the Royal Parks of London, Greenwich Park is a former deer-park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south east London.
Guards Club Park:
Heathrow Brick Works:   The Heathrow Brick Works was a 20th century concern.
Heathrow Road chapel:   Heathrow Road chapel was already disused when the area was demolished
Ingress Park:
Jarman Park:
Lee Valley Regional Park Authority:
Lee Valley White Water Centre:
Lily Hill Park:
Lower Green:
Lower Park:
M25 (Colney Street):   London Orbital Motorway is a road in the AL2 postcode area
M25 Junction 30:   Junction 30 (J30) of the M25 motorway is the junction to the north of the Dartford River Crossing.
Mertsham:   Merstham is a largely residential dispersed village in four sections in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, and lying near to the M23 and M25 motorways.
Moneyhole Lane Park:
Northfleet Urban Country Park:
Northlands Park:
Odney Club:
Preston Recreation Ground:
Queen's Park:   Queen's Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.
Queen’s Park:
River Gardens:
Runnymede:
Shrub End Playing Field:
Silwood Park:
St Albans Centurians Rugby League Club:
Stoke Park:
Tesco Sports Ground:
The Brocas:
The Home Park:
The Rough Park:
The Royal Pavillion:
The Rye:
The Whites:
Theobold Park:
Tidemills:
Titness Park:
Town Mead:
Tunnel Road, TW6:   Tunnel Road connects the central area of Heathrow Airport with the M4.
Upper Park:
Viaduct Road:   Named pathway through the St Pancras and Islington Cemetery.
Victoria Park:   Victoria Park is a large open space that stretches out across part of the East End of London, England bordering parts of Bethnal Green, Hackney, and Bow, such as along Old Ford Road, London E3. The park is entirely within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Weald Country Park:
West End Sports Ground:
Wombwell Park:

PHOTOS OF THE AREA

Four Cross Roads: The Four Cross Roads, Watford photographed in 1905.
Norwood Green (1899): North Norwood Green (1899)

NEARBY STREETS AND BUILDINGS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

Queen's Park

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