Paddington Green is the location for the ancient sites of Paddington and Lillestone villages. The detail of Rocque’s 1714 map shows Paddington as an isolated village at the junction of Edgware Road and Harrow Road. By the end of the 18th century Paddington Green, with nearby Lisson Grove, was a fashionable area on the edge …
February 2015 archive
The Queen’s Park Estate
The Queens Park Estate was built from 1874 by the Artisans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company. The Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company was founded by the philanthropist William Austin in 1867 based on his own temperance principles. Austin came to London as a poor man, unable to read or write and working as a …
Treadgold Street, W11
Treadgold Street is part of the Avondale Park Gardens Conservation Area.
The development of Kilburn
A chronological guide to the development of this part of north west London. 1134 The name Kilburn is recorder as Cuneburna, the royal or possibly cow’s stream, was applied to the priory built beside the stream and later to the whole neighbourhood on both sides of Edgware Road. Before c. 1134 there was a …
Go west young man/woman
We have added lots of new mapping to The Underground Map. A whole adjacent area to the southwest of Kilburn has been opened up, from Willesden in the north west to Westbourne Green in the south east. The new area is roughly contiguous to the W10 postal area with remaining parts of NW6 and sections …
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