Hudson’s, a chemist shop, stood on the corner of Ilbert Street and Third Avenue in the Queen’s Park estate.
The Queens Park Estate was built from 1874 by the Artisans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company. It stretches from Kilburn Lane down to the Harrow Road. The architecture of the estate of some 2000 small houses is distinctively Gothic-revival, with polychrome brickwork, pinnacles and turrets along the bigger roads.
It retains First Avenue, Second Avenue etc up to Sixth Avenue, and originally had streets A-P. The street names have been made into full words, (Alperton Street, Barfett Street, Caird Street, Droop Street, Enbrook Street, Farrant Street, Galton Street, Huxley Street, Ilbert Street, Kilravock Street, Lothrop Street, Marne Street, Nutbourne Street, Oliphant Street, Peach Street).
It was on this estate that the first QPR footballers had their homes.
This photograph dates from 1906.
