Avenue Road, NW3

Road in/near Swiss Cottage, existing between 1829 and now.

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Avenue Road dates from 1829.

Early in the nineteenth century, a plan for the development of the Eyre family’s estate was directed by John Shaw.

The southern section of Avenue Road was built to this plan in 1824 and the Hampstead section in 1829. The Swiss Cottage tavern was built at the apex of Finchley Road and Avenue Road by 1841.

New buildings included a school for the blind, built in 1848 at the southern junction of College Crescent and Avenue Road. Immediately to the south, a large house, Sunnyside - later St. Columba’s hospital - was built possibly in 1847. St. Paul’s church was built on the western side of Avenue Road in 1859.

J. T. Emmett designed the New College of Independent Dissenters’ Gothic chapel at the junction of Avenue Road and Adelaide Road.


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Wendy    
Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT   

Polygon Buildings
Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings.

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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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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Swiss Cottage
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In the neighbourhood...

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Swiss Cottage
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St. Mary’s Town & Country School logo as a woven badge
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Houses in Eton Avenue (2011)
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Finchley Road Metropolitan Railway station exterior (1910) Wood Lane station - the one confusingly advertised on the sign - was built near Shepherd’s Bush in west London to serve the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition and the 1908 Olympic Games.
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St Johns Court (built 1938) This development, beside Finchley Road station, is a classic 1930s block.
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Tower block, Swiss Cottage On Winchester Road, taken from Fellows Road
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College Crescent
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The Winchester, Winchester Road, Swiss Cottage (1962)
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Alexandra Road, St John’s Wood (c. 1900) Most of Alexandra Road went under the bulldozer for the creation of the notable, eponymous 1970s housing estate.
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St John’s Wood station is the only Underground station to have no letters in common with the word ’mackerel’. (Hoxton on the London Overground also doesn’t)
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