Steeles Mews South, NW3

Steele’s Mews North lies opposite its southern namesake.

Many of the roads around NW3 and NW5 were built with a particular lack of naming imagination. Many an x Mews North matches a near-identical x Mews South
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Haycroft Gardens, NW10 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:26 GMT	Haycroft Gardens, NW10 My Grandfather bought No 45 Buchanan Gdns in I believe 1902 and died ther in the early 1950s Reply
Haycroft Gardens, NW10 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:20 GMT	Haycroft Gardens, NW10 I lived in No 7 from 1933 to 1938 Reply
Sylvia guiver Blandford Square, NW1 Added: 4 Jul 2024 14:52 GMT	Grandparents 1937 lived 37 Blandford Square Y mother and all her sisters and brother lived there, before this date , my parent wedding photographers were take in the square, I use to visit with my mother I remember the barge ballon in the square in the war. Reply
Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply

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West Country class loco 34010 ’Sidmouth’ has strayed onto the London Midland region on a special to Wembley Stadium and has been sent onto the Hampstead Junction line to turn. It is seen here at Hampstead Heath station on 15 May 1956. Credit: Neil Clifton TUM image id: 1450529639 Licence:	South End Green TUM image id: 1450539049 Licence:	Royal Free Hospital TUM image id: 1469364080 Licence:	'The Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen' was founded in Kentish Town on 10 February 1837. The asylum consisted of the chapel and ten houses; the dwelling at the south end being appropriated for the chaplain. Each house consisted of eight rooms, two being allotted to each pensioner. As reported in 1843, there were thirty-six male pensioners and their wives in the asylum. In addition to the apartments, each pensioner received 8 shillings a week plus coal. TUM image id: 1449310458 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Adelaide Road, Hampstead Credit: Henry Silk TUM image id: 1673098981 Licence:
Agincourt Road (2007) An Archway-bound C11 stops to collect a passenger. View taken from the junction with Cressy Road Credit: Geograph/Martin Addison TUM image id: 1678881755 Licence:	Sainsbury’s Allcroft Road depot This was built in what is now NW5 in the 1880s Credit: J. Sainsbury TUM image id: 1592125010 Licence:	Belsize Avenue in Belsize Park TUM image id: 1550088979 Licence:	Houses in Eton Avenue (2011) Credit: Geograph/Mike Quinn TUM image id: 1675181915 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Two women walking past the graffiti ’No Evictions!’ on a railway bridge on Grafton Road, NW5. Much of the area was bulldozed and redeveloped in the 1960s and early 1970s. TUM image id: 1607643107 Licence:
Haverstock Hill station in 1905 with its entrance on Lismore Circus. TUM image id: 1450611692 Licence:	The Isokon building Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1671211269 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Spotted playing games with London Borough of Camden traffic wardens. Probably not recommended. TUM image id: 1628262655 Licence:	Sainsbury’s opened its first depot in Langford Mews, Kentish Town around 1880. This was where Sainsbury’s smoked bacon and had stabling and warehouses to supply the growing chain of Sainsbury stores until the Company’s headquarters moved to Blackfriars in 1891. Credit: https://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/ TUM image id: 1628247918 Licence:	Hetty Scott at her greengrocer stall outside 159 Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town (1914) TUM image id: 1628259583 Licence:

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Royal Free Hospital
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'The Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen' was founded in Kentish Town on 10 February 1837. The asylum consisted of the chapel and ten houses; the dwelling at the south end being appropriated for the chaplain. Each house consisted of eight rooms, two being allotted to each pensioner. As reported in 1843, there were thirty-six male pensioners and their wives in the asylum. In addition to the apartments, each pensioner received 8 shillings a week plus coal.
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Adelaide Road, Hampstead
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Haverstock Hill station in 1905 with its entrance on Lismore Circus.
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The Isokon building
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Spotted playing games with London Borough of Camden traffic wardens. Probably not recommended.
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Sainsbury’s opened its first depot in Langford Mews, Kentish Town around 1880. This was where Sainsbury’s smoked bacon and had stabling and warehouses to supply the growing chain of Sainsbury stores until the Company’s headquarters moved to Blackfriars in 1891.
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Hetty Scott at her greengrocer stall outside 159 Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town (1914)
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View of a House and its Estate in Belsize, Middlesex (1696) London and its smoke is visible on the left horizon
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