If you know contemporary Kensal Rise, this is a quite astounding photograph.
The title found elsewhere on the web labels it as “Footpath off Chamberlayne Road leading to Kensal Green (1910)”.
But looking at a 1900 map, there’s no place for a rural footpath from Chamberlayne Road towards Kensal Green. The footpath in question. I think, heads instead towards Willesden – it’s Chamberlayne Road itself. North of the railway at Kensal Rise station, the urban sprawl stopped here as late as the First World War. The caps on the depicted gentlemen firmly place them in the pre-war period so we know the image date.
In the housing boom after that war, the fields here were covered in 1920s styie housing in sharp contrast to the Victorian terraces south of the railway.
This pictured bucolic pair could enjoy the fields of Kensal Rise and a country stroll to Willesden for a number of years to come.