Avenue Road, NW8

Avenue Road was an important road on the Eyre estate.

St Johns Wood tube station

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In 1794, the Eyre family drew up a development plan based on the model of Bath. The Napoleonic wars intervened and the plan was never executed. From 1802, a new development plan for the Eyre estate was directed by John Shaw, a young architect who had been inspired by the town planning ideals of the late 18th century.

In 1819 Colonel Eyre began the first attempt to promote the construction of a public road through the estate. This was finally successful in the 1826 ’Finchley Road Act’. Avenue Road’s southern part existed by 1824 and the Hampstead portion also on the Eyre estate was built by 1829.

Building spread northward in the salient formed by the Finchley Road and Avenue Road. A building agreement was made in 1838 and several houses - called Regent’s Villas - stood in the Hampstead section of Avenue Road by 1842. Most later houses were detached and built by a number of builders: W. Wartnaby, C. C. Cook, E. Thomas & Son and Thomas Clark.

Main source:	A History of the County of Middlesex \| British History Online
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Added: 18 Aug 2023 16:22 GMT

Oppidans Mews, NW3
My dad had an office in Oppidans Mews during the 1960s. He parked on the ground floor and worked upstairs. He was a consulting engineer. It was very handy for us. We used to go up with him on Saturdays and either visit the zoo or go shopping in Oxford Street.

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Swiss Cottage TUM image id: 1455364693 Licence:	A photographer called Iain Macmillan was a friend of John and Yoko and, during the morning of Friday 8 August 1969 found himself commissioned to take a photo of the Fab Four to adorn their latest studio release, an album called ’Abbey Road’. As the group waited outside the studio for the shoot to begin, Linda McCartney took a number of extra photographs. Credit: Apple Corps TUM image id: 1630368852 Licence:	The oldest parts of the Barrow Hill Estate in St John’s Wood date from 1937 Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1627038891 Licence:	St. Mary’s Town & Country School logo as a woven badge TUM image id: 1452688135 Licence:	Adelaide Road, Hampstead Credit: Henry Silk TUM image id: 1673098981 Licence:
Houses in Eton Avenue (2011) Credit: Geograph/Mike Quinn TUM image id: 1675181915 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tower block, Swiss Cottage On Winchester Road, taken from Fellows Road Credit: David Howard TUM image id: 1453880149 Licence: CC BY 2.0	College Crescent TUM image id: 1577554764 Licence:	The Winchester, Winchester Road, Swiss Cottage (1962) Credit: Brian Fowler TUM image id: 1453880741 Licence:	Derived from a somewhat famous cover work by Iain Macmillan. Behind the art, the view is Abbey Road, NW8 looking north. The gates of the Abbey Road Studios are behind the white VW Beetle on the left. Credit: Iain Macmillan TUM image id: 1627049962 Licence:
Edwardian view of Marlborough Road station This gives an idea of the general arrangement; the building was directly over the railway cutting. The thoroughfare Marlborough Road was renamed Marlborough Place in the 1930s but the station retained the old name until closure. TUM image id: 1631020710 Licence:	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. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1625996374 Licence:	Cochrane Street, St John’s Wood (1958) From the episode ’Radioactive’ of the TV series ’Dial 999’, Credit: http://avengerland.theavengers.tv/ TUM image id: 1658776890 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Allitsen Road, NW8 was named after Frances Allitsen, a songwriter. During the Boer War, she composed the then-popular ’There’s A Land’. Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1617280568 Licence:	Oslo Court in St John’s Wood was built of reinforced concrete. Its basement was used through the war as a shelter for local residents as well as the flat owners. Olga Lehman (1912 – 2001) was an artist known for her murals and portraits and was permitted by the War Office to make sketches of London bomb damage, air raid shelters and ARP personnel. Credit: Olga Lehman TUM image id: 1627041732 Licence: