Dudley Street, W2

Dudley Street is a road in the W2 postcode area

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Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Admin Baker Street Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:41 GMT	Baker Street Baker Street station opened on the Metropolitan Railway - the world’s first underground line. Reply
Admin Paddington Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:44 GMT	The world’s first underground train The very first underground train left Paddington on the new Metropolitan Railway bound for Farringdon Street. Reply
EMC Ossington Street, W8 Added: 10 Jul 2023 22:35 GMT	Ossington Street, W8 correcting the date on my existing comment Source: Paddington: Bayswater \| British History Online Reply
The Underground Map Kilburn Park Added: 8 Mar 2021 14:30 GMT	Kilburn Park - opened 1915 Kilburn Park station was opened at the height of the First World War Reply
PETER FAIRCLOUGH Brindley Street, W2 Added: 10 May 2021 14:46 GMT	We once lived here My family resided at number 53 Brindley Street Paddington. My grandparents George and Elizabeth Jenkinson (ne Fowler) had four children with my Mother Olive Fairclough (ne Jenkinson) being born in the house on 30/09/1935. She died on 29/04/2021 aged 85 being the last surviving of the four siblings Reply
Ray Ashby Enford Street, W1H Added: 14 Aug 2023 17:22 GMT	Greengrocers in Enford street Greengrocer under new ownership by Mr Stanley Ashby, married to Mrs Lily Ashby Reply
Robert Burns Abourne Street, W9 Added: 5 Jan 2023 17:46 GMT	1 Abourne Street My mother, and my Aunt and my Aunt’s family lived at number 1 Abourne Street. I remember visitingn my aunt Win Housego, and the Housego family there. If I remember correctly virtually opposite number 1, onthe corner was the Lord Amberley pub. Reply
The Underground Map Kilburn Park Added: 8 Mar 2021 14:49 GMT	A bit of a lift.... Kilburn Park was the first station to be designed around escalators, rather than lifts. Reply
Fumblina Red Lion Added: 26 Dec 2022 18:59 GMT	Detailed history of Red Lion I’m not the author but this blog by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms has loads of really clear information about the history of the Red Lion which people might appreciate. Source: ‘Professor Morris’ and the Red Lion, Kilburn Reply
EMC Ossington Street, W8 Added: 10 Jul 2023 22:31 GMT	Correction re Ossington Street In the Wikipedia date of 1837 for the renaming of Victoria Grove as Ossington Street, the two last figures appear to have been transposed from the likely source, London County Council, Names of Streets (1905) quoted in T F T Baker, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot, ’Paddington: Bayswater’, in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1989), pp. 204-212. British History Online ptth;:’www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp204-212 [accessed 10 July 2023]. "During the 1830s Victoria Grove (renamed Ossington Street in 1873) (fn. 48) was laid out from the Uxbridge road close to the boundary, on part of Gravel Pit field." This makes sense, as John Evelyn Denison, a former Speaker of the House of Commons, was created 1st Viscount Ossington in 1873. Source: Paddington: Bayswater \| British History Online Reply
Albert Mews, SW7 Added: 26 Mar 2023 14:50 GMT	Albert Mews It is not a gargoyle over the entrance arch to Albert Mews, it is a likeness of Prince Albert himself. Reply
Hampden Street, W2 Added: 22 Aug 2023 12:31 GMT	Hampden Street, W2 My great great grandparents William and Hannah Playford lived at 60 Hampden Street from the mid 1880s when they moved from rural poverty in Norfolk to inner city hardship in Paddington and where all their children were born. My great grandfather was a road sweeper and sold cat meat. They had seven children in all, of whom five survived infancy: three boys who all volunteered for the army at the outbreak of WW1 and miraculously returned via Salonika, France and a German POW camp; and two daughters, the eldest of whom was my great grandmother, Annie Playford b 1888. She had an illegitimate daughter in 1910, my grandmother Hilda Sarah Catherine. She brought her up singlehandedly and assumed a false married name to conceal her (then socially unacceptable) status as a single mother. In fact she never married and would never tell my grandmother anything about her father. Because of her longevity (she died in 1986) I remember Annie very well. As a child I perceived her as grumpy, uncommunicative, unsocial and a voracious eater. Of course as an adult I realised this was borne from pride loneliness, ill health, a grim determination to survive, and hunger. Somehow she did survive on her own as a single parent, despite lack of family support and serious deprivation. She worked three back breaking menial cleaning jobs over many years to make ends meet. With the advent of DNA I now know the identity of my grandmother’s father which she always dearly wished to know herself. She used to ask her mother if she loved her. The answer: "I kept you, didn’t I?" In the context of the times, I think that says it all. I only wish nanny was still here so that I could tell her all about her father. Reply

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Jean Deane Mill Lane, looking east (1900s) Added: 2 Oct 2023 16:43 GMT	Advertisement for a laundry in Mill Lane, Brixton Hill, SW2 from early 1900’s The New Imperial Laundry Source: From a Ladies glance guide for Mistress and Maid Reply
Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply

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Paddington

The first underground railway station in the world ran from Paddington on 10 January 1863 as the terminus of the Metropolitan Railway’s route from Farringdon.

The first Metropolitan station opened as Paddington (Bishop’s Road) but Paddington station, designed by the celebrated engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel had long been the London end of the Great Western Railway.

Paddington had been an important town west of London before it was engulfed by the metropolis. It was first a medieval parish, then a metropolitan borough and finally integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Also found in Paddington are St Mary’s Hospital (where penicillin was first discovered) and the former Paddington Green Police Station - once the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom.

Alan Turing, the pioneer mathematician was born in Warrington Crescent.

Fictionally, Paddington Station has a display case showing Paddington Bear, a character of children’s fiction who, in the book, is first discovered at this station and hence named after it.

Paddington mainline railway station has a commuter service serving stations west of London, a mainline service to Oxford, Bristol, Bath, Taunton, Devon, Cornwall and South Wales. The Elizabeth Line now runs through, inheriting the express rail line to Heathrow Airport.

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The 1807 Hyatt map Credit: British Library TUM image id: 1485272957 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Bayswater Conduit in 1798. TUM image id: 1490459429 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A GWR 4073 Class locomotive waits to depart Paddington Station, adjacent to Brunel’s cast-iron Bishop’s Bridge road bridge, in April 1962. Credit: Wiki Commons/Ben Brooksbank TUM image id: 1611679064 Licence:	Bayswater Road TUM image id: 1552860722 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Chilworth Street, W2 TUM image id: 1483806751 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Going Greek, Colindale Credit: IG/@going.greek TUM image id: 1583775118 Licence:	Little Venice (1952) This is one of a large series of London views that Stephen Bone executed from the 1930s to the 1950s. Bone liked to paint water and its reflections, and often combined this with compositions showing people going about their daily business, a combination which is the subject of this picture. A barge, hung with its owner’s washing, travels along the canal. Two children play along the banks, and a man sits on the railings overhead, enjoying the view. Credit: Stephen Bone TUM image id: 1678891129 Licence:	Westbourne Terrace Road bridge - the northern end of Westbourne Terrace Road Through the bridge, and some 13 miles (but no locks) later, you will arrive at Bulls Bridge Junction on the Grand Union main line. Credit: IG/NeilClifton TUM image id: 1680174057 Licence:	Westway construction making its way along the Harrow Road (1960s) TUM image id: 1660664649 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bayswater Road sign TUM image id: 1682605971 Licence:
Paddington Fire Station (c.1900) Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1590751430 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Paddington Station at Night (1992) Since Doreen Fletcher (born 1952) was a teenager, she has been committed to drawing and painting what might be termed, ‘the almost gone’ - her immediate external environment and the traces left by people on the surface of things, in city and landscape, urban and rural Credit: Doreen Fletcher TUM image id: 9532603 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Marylebone Electricity Generating Station, built in 1905 and then located at the corner of Richmond Street and Fisherton Street TUM image id: 1693568960 Licence:

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The 1807 Hyatt map
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A GWR 4073 Class locomotive waits to depart Paddington Station, adjacent to Brunel’s cast-iron Bishop’s Bridge road bridge, in April 1962.
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Chilworth Street, W2
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Going Greek, Colindale
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Little Venice (1952) This is one of a large series of London views that Stephen Bone executed from the 1930s to the 1950s. Bone liked to paint water and its reflections, and often combined this with compositions showing people going about their daily business, a combination which is the subject of this picture. A barge, hung with its owner’s washing, travels along the canal. Two children play along the banks, and a man sits on the railings overhead, enjoying the view.
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Westway construction making its way along the Harrow Road (1960s)
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Paddington Fire Station (c.1900)
Credit: London Metropolitan Archives
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St Marylebone Electricity Generating Station, built in 1905 and then located at the corner of Richmond Street and Fisherton Street
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