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2015
Temple Park is one of the smaller suburbs of north London.

Just a few streets in total, Temple Park lies in the former grounds of a large house built along the (then new) Finchley Road in the 1830s.

The arrival of the Finchley road lessened the area’s isolation. A house called Temple Park was built on the smaller Temples estate probably in the 1830s by Henry Weech Burgess, a prosperous Lancastrian. Temple Park had become the Anglo-French College by 1873.

A few houses had been built by 1878 and in 1880 Weech Road was constructed between Fortune Green Road and Finchley Road on the portion of Teil's estate purchased by the Burgesses in 1855. Four houses were built there in 1880 and another 12 in 1887 by A. R. Amer and Becket.

In 1890 Kidderpore Hall was acquired by Westfield College, which made considerable additions to it in 1904-5, and the rest of the estate given over to the builders.

By the turn of the twentieth century, building was proceeding on the Burgess Park (Temples) estate: the same builder, George Hart, was responsible for Briardale Road and Clorane Gardens, where the houses were built between 1900 and 1910.

In 1905 on the Burgess Park estate 18 houses were built in Finchley Road, possibly including nos. 601 and 603 designed by Voysey, and by 1913 building was complete in Burgess Hill, Ardwick Road, and Weech Road and two houses had been built in Ranulf Road. In 1901 a small piece on the western side of the Burgess Park estate was added to the cemetery.

During the Second World War bombing destroyed several houses on the Burgess Park estate, including some in Ardwick Road and two of Voysey's houses, nos. 601 and 603 Finchley Road, which were replaced by houses designed by R. Seifert.


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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Gillian   
Added: 17 Feb 2024 00:08 GMT   

No 36 Upper East Smithfield
My great great grandfather was born at No 36 Upper East Smithfield and spent his early years staring out at a "dead wall" of St Katharine’s Docks. His father was an outfitter and sold clothing for sailors. He describes the place as being backed by tenements in terrible condition and most of the people living there were Irish.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 16 Feb 2024 20:32 GMT   

Name origin
Interestingly South Lambeth derives its name from the same source as Lambeth itself - a landing place for lambs.

But South Lambeth has no landing place - it is not on the River Thames

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C Hobbs   
Added: 31 Jan 2024 23:53 GMT   

George Gut (1853 - 1861)
George Gut, Master Baker lived with his family in Long Lane.
George was born in Bernbach, Hesse, Germany and came to the UK sometime in the 1840s. In 1849, George married an Englishwoman called Matilda Baker and became a nauralized Englishman. He was given the Freedom of the City of London (by Redemption in the Company of Bakers), in 1853 and was at that time, recorded as living at 3 Long Lane. In the 1861 census, George Gut was living at 11 Long Lane.

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Avenue Farm Cowhouse Farm was linked to Hodford Farm in Golders Green for a long period.
Fortune Green Fortune Green was originally part of the district of Hampstead but became physically separated from it by the building of the new turnpike road (now Finchley Road) in the 1830s.
Fortune Green Fortune Green lies to the north of the ancient village of West End.
Hackney College The Village Itinerancy Society, a Congregationalist college, was transformed into Hackney Theological Seminary.
New West End New West End was created in the 1840s on the Finchley Road.

NEARBY STREETS
, NW3 Kidderpore Gardens is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Ajax Road, NW6 Ajax Road was first developed in 1886 (Fortune Green)
Alfred Court, NW6 Alfred Court can be found on Fortune Green Road (Fortune Green)
Ardwick Road, NW2 Ardwick Road was named Major Ardwick Burgess who developed the road (Temple Park)
Ballantrae House, NW2 Ballantrae House can be found on Lyndale (Temple Park)
Boyd House, NW3 Boyd House is located on Kidderpore Avenue (Hampstead)
Briardale Gardens, NW3 Briardale Gardens is a street in Hampstead (Child’s Hill)
Burgess Hill, NW2 Burgess Hill runs off of Finchley Road (Temple Park)
Burrard Road, NW6 Burrard Road runs north from Fortune Green Road (Fortune Green)
Caulfield House, NW3 Caulfield House is a block on Kidderpore Avenue (Hampstead)
Childs Hill Walk, NW2 Childs Hill Walk is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Child’s Hill)
Church Walk, NW2 Church Walk is a street in Cricklewood (Child’s Hill)
Clark House, NW3 Clark House is a block on Finchley Road (Hampstead)
Croft House, NW3 Croft House is a block on Rosecroft Avenue (Hampstead)
Croft Way, NW3 Croft Way is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Croftway, NW3 Croftway is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Devonshire Place, NW2 Devonshire Place is a street in Cricklewood (Child’s Hill)
Durisdeer House, NW2 Durisdeer House is a block on Lyndale (Temple Park)
Farm Avenue, NW2 Farm Avenue is a street in Cricklewood (Cricklewood)
Ferncroft Avenue, NW3 Ferncroft Avenue is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Finchley Road, NW2 Finchley Road runs briefly through the NW2 postcode as it passes through Childs Hill (Child’s Hill)
Gentler House, NW3 Gentler House is a block on Finchley Road (Hampstead)
Heartfield House, NW3 Heartfield House is a block on Finchley Road (Hampstead)
Heath Drive, NW3 Heath Drive, one of the roads connecting Hampstead with the Finchley Road was originally West Hampstead Avenue (Hampstead)
Hocroft Avenue, NW2 Hocroft Avenue is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Cricklewood)
Hocroft Road, NW2 Hocroft Road is a street in Cricklewood (Temple Park)
Hocroft Walk, NW2 Hocroft Walk is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Child’s Hill)
Hollycroft Avenue, NW3 Hollycroft Avenue is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Ingham Road, NW6 Ingham Road is a street in Hampstead (Fortune Green)
Joan Court, NW6 Joan Court is a block on Fortune Green Road (Fortune Green)
Kidderpore Avenue, NW3 Kidderpore Avenue is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Lyncroft Gardens, NW6 Lyncroft Gardens is a street in Fortune Green, NW6 (Hampstead)
Lyndale Avenue, NW2 Lyndale Avenue lies north of Hendon Way (Child’s Hill)
Lyndale, NW2 Lyndale is just south of Hendon Way (Temple Park)
Mackellar House, NW2 Mackellar House is sited on Burgess Hill (Temple Park)
Menelik Road, NW2 Menelik Road runs from Westbere Road to Minster Road (Cricklewood)
Mondrian House, NW3 Mondrian House is a block on Platt’s Lane (Hampstead)
Moreland Court, NW2 Moreland Court dates from 1927 (Child’s Hill)
Nicholson House, NW3 Nicholson House is a block on Finchley Road (Hampstead)
Parsifal Road, NW6 Parsifal Road runs from Finchley Road to Fortune Green Road (Fortune Green)
Pattison Road, NW2 Pattison Road is a street in Cricklewood (Child’s Hill)
Penrose Gardens, NW3 Penrose Gardens is a location in London (Hampstead)
Platt’s Lane, NW3 A farmhouse on the edge of the heath was enlarged by Thomas Platt before 1811 and who gave his name to the lane. (Child’s Hill)
PO Box 4, NW3 Fortune Green Road is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Prospect Place, NW2 Prospect Place is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Child’s Hill)
Prospect Road, NW2 Prospect Road is a street in Cricklewood (Child’s Hill)
Rackham House, NW3 Rackham House is a block on Kidderpore Avenue (Hampstead)
Ranulf Road, NW2 Ranulf Road is a street in Cricklewood (Temple Park)
Ranulph Road, NW2 Ranulph Road is a location in London (Temple Park)
Rose Joan Mews, NW6 Rose Joan Mews is a small cul-de-sac in Fortune Green, NW6 (Fortune Green)
Rosecroft Avenue, NW3 Rosecroft Avenue is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Somali Road, NW2 Somali Road is a street in Cricklewood (Cricklewood)
Studholme Court, NW3 Studholme Court is a street in Hampstead (Hampstead)
Telegraph Hill, NW3 Telegraph Hill is a road in the NW3 postcode area (Hampstead)
The Garden House, NW3 The Garden House is a block on Rosecroft Avenue (Hampstead)
The Octagon 527a, NW3 The Octagon 527a is a location in London (Fortune Green)
Vernon Court, NW2 Vernon Court is a block on Hendon Way (Temple Park)
Weech Road, NW6 Weech Road is a street in Fortune Green, NW6 (Fortune Green)
Wendover Court, NW3 Wendover Court in a mock-Tudor style was erected after the opening of Hendon Way in 1927 (Temple Park)

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