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![]() Ian Gammons Added: 3 Apr 2018 08:08 GMT IP: 81.131.100.203 2:1:3189 | Post by Ian Gammons: Pamber Street, W10 Born in Pamber Street but moved to Harlow, Essex in 1958 when I was three years old. The air wasn?t clean in London and we had to move to cleaner air in Harlow - a new town with very clean air! |
![]() Vallie Webster Added: 16 Mar 2018 03:39 GMT IP: 142.114.172.35 2:2:3189 | Post by Vallie Webster: Tunis Road, W12 I visited my grandmother who lived on Tunis Road from Canada in approximately 1967-68. I remember the Rag and Bone man who came down the road with a horse and milk delivered to the door with cream on the top. I also remember having to use an outhouse in the back of the row house. No indoor plumbing. We had to have a bath in a big metal tub (like a horse trough) in the middle of the kitchen filled with boiled water on the stove. Very different from Canada. My moms madin name was Hardcastle. Interesting to see the maps. Google maps also brings the world closer. |
![]() Norman Norrington Added: 19 Jan 2018 14:49 GMT IP: 90.194.159.199 2:3:3189 | Post by Norman Norrington: Blechynden Street, W10 In the photo of Blechynden St on the right hand side the young man in the doorway could be me. That is the doorway of 40 Blechynden St. I lived there with My Mum Eileen and Dad Bert and Brothers Ron & Peter. I was Born in Du Cane Rd Hosp. Now Hammersmith Hosp. Left there with my Wife Margaret and Daughter Helen and moved to Stevenage. Mum and Dad are sadly gone. I now live on my own in Bedfordshire, Ron in Willesden and Pete in Hayling Island. Have many happy memories of the area and go back 3/4 times a year now 75 but it pulls back me still. |
![]() Paul Shepherd Added: 16 Jan 2018 15:21 GMT IP: 90.255.234.91 2:4:3189 | Post by Paul Shepherd: Chamberlayne Road, NW10 i lived in Rainham Rd in the 1960?s. my best friends were John McCollough and Rosalind Beevor. it was a good time to be there but local schools were not good and i got out before it went to a real slum. i gather it?s ok now. |
![]() Mary Harris Added: 19 Dec 2017 17:12 GMT IP: 217.63.194.106 2:5:3189 | Post by Mary Harris: 31 Princedale Road, W11 John and I were married in 1960 and we bought, or rather acquired a mortgage on 31 Princedale Road in 1961 for £5,760 plus another two thousand for updating plumbing and wiring, and installing central heating, a condition of our mortgage. It was the top of what we could afford. We chose the neighbourhood by putting a compass point on John’s office in the City and drawing a reasonable travelling circle round it because we didn’t want him to commute. I had recently returned from university in Nigeria, where I was the only white undergraduate and where I had read a lot of African history in addition to the subject I was studying, and John was still recovering from being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in the Far East in WW2. This is why we rejected advice from all sorts of people not to move into an area where there had so recently bee Message truncated Show whole message |
![]() Maria Russ Added: 7 Dec 2017 09:46 GMT IP: 47.72.255.177 2:6:3189 | Post by Maria Russ: Middle Row Bus Garage My mum worked as a Clippie out from Middle Row Bus Garage and was conductress to George Marsh Driver. They travel the City and out to Ruislip and Acton duiring the 1950’s and 1960’s. We moved to Langley and she joined Windsor Bus Garage and was on the Greenline buses after that. It was a real family of workers from Middle Row and it formed a part of my early years in London. I now live in New Zealand, but have happy memories of the early years of London Transport and Middle Row Garage. Still have mum’s bus badge. Happy times they were. |
![]() John Dye Added: 1 Dec 2017 14:50 GMT IP: 86.131.134.236 2:7:3189 | Post by John Dye: Cool Oak Lane, NW9 I lived at Queensbury Road, Kingsbury during World War II and used to play regularly along the edge of the Welsh Harp. About halfway along Cool Oak Lane on the south side was a pond we used to call Froggy Pond. It was the only place I ever saw a water scorpion, Nepa cinerea. At the end of the war, all the street air raid shelters were knocked down and the rubble was piled up on the ground south of the Cool Oak Lane bridge, on the Hendon side. I remember that this heap of rubble became infested with rats and I used to watch them from the bridge. I was told that an old house on the south side of Cool Oak Lane (Woodfield House?) was once owned by the wife of Horatio Nelson. I think it later became the nurseries for plants grown for the Hendon parks. |
![]() Lesley carlton Added: 26 Nov 2017 22:52 GMT IP: 81.96.23.80 2:8:3189 | Post by Lesley carlton: Embry Drive, HA7 I use to live in embry drive when it was an RAF station with my family and I went to Belmont school.cm |
![]() Ron Added: 24 Sep 2017 22:22 GMT IP: 92.6.6.10 2:9:3189 | Post by Ron: Colindale The leather business and ’Leatherville’ was set up by Arthur Garstin, not GARSTON. :o) |
![]() Debbie hobbs Added: 19 Sep 2017 09:08 GMT IP: 92.40.89.28 2:10:3189 | Post by Debbie hobbs : Raymede Street, W10 I SUPPLIED THE PICTURE ABOVE GIVEN TO TOM VAGUE TO PASS ON... ITS DATE IS C1906 ..IN THE DISTANCE IS RACKHAM STREET WITH ITS MISSION HALL, HEWER STREET TO THE RIGHT |
![]() Susan Wright Added: 16 Sep 2017 22:42 GMT IP: 120.154.67.244 2:11:3189 | Post by Susan Wright: Bramley Mews, W10 My Great Grandmother Ada Crowe was born in 9 Bramley Mews in 1876. |
![]() Martina Added: 13 Jul 2017 21:22 GMT IP: 146.198.174.6 2:12:3189 | Post by Martina: Schweppes Factory The site is now a car shop and Angels Fancy Dress shop and various bread factories are there. |
![]() LDNnews Added: 20 Feb 2019 16:20 GMT IP: 3:13:3189 | Post by LDNnews: Stonebridge Park Former Labour MP Angela Smith says she was 'very, very tired' when she made 'funny tinge' comment A former Labour MP has claimed she appeared to describe BAME people as having a "funny tinge" because she was "very, very tired". https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/former-labour-mp-angela-smith-says-she-was-very-very-tired-when-she-made-funny-tinge-comment-a4070996.html |
![]() LDNnews Added: 20 Feb 2019 16:20 GMT IP: 3:14:3189 | Post by LDNnews: Wembley Park Young Labour under fire again for 'hateful' tweet after eighth resignation from party in historic split Young Labour has again come under fire for a message sent from its Twitter account after an eighth MP quit as an historic split continued to rock the party. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/young-labour-under-fire-again-for-hateful-tweet-after-eighth-resignation-from-party-amid-historic-a4071216.html |
![]() LDNnews Added: 20 Feb 2019 16:20 GMT IP: 3:15:3189 | Post by LDNnews: Stanmore Tories' decision to quit party blasted as 'bad mistake'... but others hail 'brave' new Independent Group members The decision of three Tory MPs to quit the party over the "disastrous handling of Brexit" and join Labour rebels in the Independent Group has been blasted as a "bad mistake". https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mixed-response-to-tory-mps-defecting-to-independent-group-as-some-slam-resignations-as-a-bad-mistake-a4071731.html |
LDNnews Added: 20 Feb 2019 13:20 GMT IP: 3:16:3189 | Post by LDNnews: Canons Park Hillingdon named best place in London to buy a home HILLINGDON is the only London borough to make the top 10 list of best places to buy a house in the country. https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/17446257.survey-links-affordability-and-low-crime-rate/?ref=rss |
![]() | VIEW THE KINGSBURY 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 KINGSBURY 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 KINGSBURY 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 KINGSBURY 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 KINGSBURY AREA IN THE 1900s The 1900 mapping covers all of the London area. |
![]() | John Rocque (c. 1709–1762) was a surveyor, cartographer, engraver, map-seller and the son of Huguenot émigrés.
Roque is now mainly remembered for his maps of London. This map dates from the second edition produced in 1762. London and his other maps brought him an appointment as cartographer to the Prince of Wales in 1751. His widow continued the business after his death.
The map covers an area from Harrow in the northwest to Harlesden in the southeast. John Rocque, The Strand, London |
![]() | Environs of London (1832) FREE DOWNLOAD Engraved map. Hand coloured. Relief shown by hachures. A circle shows "Extent of the twopenny post delivery." Chapman and Hall, London |
![]() | Ordnance Survey of the London region (1939) FREE DOWNLOAD Ordnance Survey colour map of the environs of London 1:10,560 scale Ordnance Survey. Crown Copyright 1939. |
![]() | Outer London (1901) FREE DOWNLOAD Outer London shown in red, City of London in yellow. Relief shown by hachures. Stanford's Geographical Establishment. London : Edward Stanford, 26 & 27, Cockspur St., Charing Cross, S.W. (1901) |
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