Elton Place, NW3

Elton Place is a road in the N16 postcode area

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Sue Rowley

Oppidans Mews, NW3

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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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journey The Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen was founded on 10 February 1837.

Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journey

Kentish Town West Kentish Town West station opened on 1 April 1867 as ’Kentish Town’ and was renamed ’Kentish Town West’ on 2 June 1924.

Kentish Town West

The Load of Hay The Load of Hay was established by 1721.

The Load of Hay

NEARBY STREETS

Ainger Road, NW3 Ainger Road lies along the boundary of St John’s Hampstead, a parish which saw rapid development in the nineteenth century (Primrose Hill)

Ainger Road, NW3

Antrim Grove, NW3 Antrim Grove was Antrim Street until 1895 (Belsize Park)

Antrim Grove, NW3

Antrim Mansions, NW3 Antrim Mansions is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Antrim Mansions, NW3

Antrim Road, NW3 Antrim Road is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Antrim Road, NW3

Augusta Street, NW1 Augusta Street was located off of Harmood Street (Chalk Farm)

Augusta Street, NW1

Baptist Gardens, NW5 Baptist Gardens is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Baptist Gardens, NW5

Belmont Street, NW1 Belmont Street leads north from Chalk Farm Road (Chalk Farm)

Belmont Street, NW1

Berkley Grove, NW1 Berkley Grove is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Berkley Grove, NW1

Berkley Road, NW1 Berkley Road is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Berkley Road, NW1

Bridge Approach, NW1 Bridge Approach was once a busy thoroughfare connecting Regents Park Road with the world (Chalk Farm)

Bridge Approach, NW1

Bridge Approach, NW3 Bridge Approach is a location in London (Chalk Farm)

Bridge Approach, NW3

Broomfield, NW1 Broomfield is a block on Ferdinand Street (Chalk Farm)

Broomfield, NW1

Chalcot Crescent, NW1 Chalcot Crescent is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Primrose Hill)

Chalcot Crescent, NW1

Chalcot Gardens, NW3 Chalcot Gardens is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Chalcot Gardens, NW3

Chalcot Square, NW1 Chalcot Square is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Primrose Hill)

Chalcot Square, NW1

Chalk Farm Parade, NW3 Chalk Farm Parade is a street in Hampstead (Chalk Farm)

Chalk Farm Parade, NW3

Chalk Farm Road, NW3 This is the main road connecting Camden Town with Chalk Farm (Chalk Farm)

Chalk Farm Road, NW3

Chamberlain Street, NW1 Chamberlain Street is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Chamberlain Street, NW1

Collard Place, NW1 Collard Place is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Chalk Farm)

Collard Place, NW1

Constable House, NW3 Constable House can be found on Adelaide Road (Belsize Park)

Constable House, NW3

Crogsland Road, NW1 Crogsland Road is a street in Camden Town (Belsize Park)

Crogsland Road, NW1

Dalby Street, NW5 Dalby Street is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Dalby Street, NW5

Dumpton Place, NW1 Dumpton Place is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Dumpton Place, NW1

Elizabeth Mews, NW3 Elizabeth Mews is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Elizabeth Mews, NW3

Elton Place, NW3 Elton Place is a road in the N16 postcode area (Chalk Farm)

Elton Place, NW3

England’s Lane, NW3 This is a street in the NW3 postcode area (Belsize Park)

England’s Lane, NW3

Erskine Mews, NW3 Erskine Mews is a road in the NW3 postcode area (Primrose Hill)

Erskine Mews, NW3

Erskine Road, NW1 Erskine Road is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Primrose Hill)

Erskine Road, NW1

Eton College Road, NW3 Eton College Road is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Eton College Road, NW3

Eton Hall, NW3 Eton Hall is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Eton Hall, NW3

Eton Rise, NW3 Eton Rise is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Eton Rise, NW3

Eton Road, NW3 Eton Road is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Eton Road, NW3

Eton Villas, NW3 Eton Villas is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Eton Villas, NW3

Ferdinand House, NW1 Ferdinand House is a block on Collard Place (Chalk Farm)

Ferdinand House, NW1

Ferdinand Place, NW1 Ferdinand Place is a street in Camden Town (Chalk Farm)

Ferdinand Place, NW1

Ferdinand Street, NW1 Ferdinand Street is a street in Camden Town (Chalk Farm)

Ferdinand Street, NW1

Fitzroy Road, NW1 Fitzroy Road is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Fitzroy Road, NW1

Fountain Mews, NW3 Fountain Mews is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Fountain Mews, NW3

Gilbeys Yard, NW1 Gilbeys Yard is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Camden Town)

Gilbeys Yard, NW1

Harmood House, NW1 Harmood House is a block on Harmood Street (Chalk Farm)

Harmood House, NW1

Harmood Street, NW1 Harmood Street was named for Harry and Mary Harmood (Chalk Farm)

Harmood Street, NW1

Hazel House, NW3 Hazel House is a block on Maitland Park Road (Belsize Park)

Hazel House, NW3

Hillview, NW3 Hillview is a street in Hampstead (Primrose Hill)

Hillview, NW3

Iron Bridge House, NW3 Iron Bridge House is a block on Bridge Approach (Chalk Farm)

Iron Bridge House, NW3

Jasmin Mews, NW1 Jasmin Mews is a location in London (Primrose Hill)

Jasmin Mews, NW1

Juniper Crescent, NW1 Juniper Crescent is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Chalk Farm)

Juniper Crescent, NW1

Kent House, NW1 Kent House is a block on Ferdinand Street (Chalk Farm)

Kent House, NW1

King Henry Road, NW3 King Henry Road is a location in London (Primrose Hill)

King Henry Road, NW3

King Henrys Road, NW3 King Henrys Road is a location in London (Primrose Hill)

King Henrys Road, NW3

Klara Court, NW3 Klara Court is a block on Haverstock Hill (Belsize Park)

Klara Court, NW3

Maitland Park Road, NW3 Maitland Park Road is a street in Hampstead (Kentish Town West)

Maitland Park Road, NW3

Maitland Park Villas, NW3 Maitland Park Villas is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Maitland Park Villas, NW3

Malden Crescent, NW1 Malden Crescent is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Belsize Park)

Malden Crescent, NW1

Marsden Street, NW5 Marsden Street is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Marsden Street, NW5

Mead Close, NW1 Mead Close is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Chalk Farm)

Mead Close, NW1

Meadowbank, NW3 Meadowbank, blocks of flats on a street of the same name, were created as part of the Whitton council estate in 1970/71 (Primrose Hill)

Meadowbank, NW3

Modbury Gardens, NW5 Modbury Gardens is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Modbury Gardens, NW5

Oppidans Mews, NW3 Oppidans Mews was the very road to be laid out in the original development of the area (Primrose Hill)

Oppidans Mews, NW3

Oppidans Road, NW3 Oppidans Road was built by George Pownall in 1868 (Primrose Hill)

Oppidans Road, NW3

Powlett Place, NW1 Powlett Place is a street in Camden Town (Chalk Farm)

Powlett Place, NW1

Primrose Hill Court, NW3 Primrose Hill Court is a block on King Henry’s Road (Primrose Hill)

Primrose Hill Court, NW3

Primrose Hill Road, NW3 Primrose Hill Road is a street in Hampstead (Primrose Hill)

Primrose Hill Road, NW3

Primrose Mews, NW1 Primrose Mews is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Primrose Mews, NW1

Prince of Wales Road, NW1 Prince of Wales Road is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Kentish Town West)

Prince of Wales Road, NW1

Prince of Wales Road, NW3 Prince of Wales Road is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Prince of Wales Road, NW3

Provost Road, NW3 Provost Road is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Provost Road, NW3

Rhyl Street, NW5 Rhyl Street is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Rhyl Street, NW5

Rothwell Street, NW1 Rothwell Street is a road in Primrose Hill (Primrose Hill)

Rothwell Street, NW1

Rowan House, NW3 Rowan House is a block on Maitland Park Road (Kentish Town West)

Rowan House, NW3

Sharpleshall Street, NW1 Sharpleshall Street is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

Sharpleshall Street, NW1

Shipton House, NW5 Shipton House is sited on Prince of Wales Road (Kentish Town West)

Shipton House, NW5

St Ann’s Gardens, NW5 St Ann’s Gardens lies off Queen’s Crescent (Kentish Town West)

St Ann’s Gardens, NW5

St Georges Mews, NW3 St Georges Mews is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

St Georges Mews, NW3

St Georges Terrace, NW1 St Georges Terrace is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

St Georges Terrace, NW1

Stanbury Court, NW3 Stanbury Court can be found on Haverstock Hill (Belsize Park)

Stanbury Court, NW3

Steele’s Road, NW3 Steele?s Road is a street in Hampstead (Belsize Park)

Steele’s Road, NW3

Steeles Mews South, NW3 Steele’s Mews North lies opposite its southern namesake (Belsize Park)

Steeles Mews South, NW3

Steele’s Mews South, NW3 Steele’s Mews South runs off Steele’s Road, behind Haverstock Hill (Belsize Park)

Steele’s Mews South, NW3

Talacre Road, NW5 Talacre Road was formerly Weedington Street (Kentish Town West)

Talacre Road, NW5

The Courtyard, NW1 The Courtyard is a street in Camden Town (Primrose Hill)

The Courtyard, NW1

The Stables Market, NW1 The Stables Market is a street in Camden Town (Camden Town)

The Stables Market, NW1

Truro Street, NW1 Truro Street is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Belsize Park)

Truro Street, NW1

Walham Court, NW3 Walham Court is a block on Haverstock Hill (Belsize Park)

Walham Court, NW3

Whittlebury Mews East, NW1 Whittlebury Mews East is a location in London (Primrose Hill)

Whittlebury Mews East, NW1

Whittlebury Mews West, NW1 Whittlebury Mews West is a location in London (Primrose Hill)

Whittlebury Mews West, NW1

Wilkin St Mews, NW5 Wilkin St Mews is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Wilkin St Mews, NW5

Wilkin Street Mews, NW5 Wilkin Street Mews is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Wilkin Street Mews, NW5

Wilkin Street, NW5 Wilkin Street is a street in Kentish Town (Kentish Town West)

Wilkin Street, NW5

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Entrance to the Fleet River, c. 1750 Credit: Samuel Scott TUM image id: 1529237151 Licence:	'The Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen' was founded in Kentish Town on 10 February 1837. The asylum consisted of the chapel and ten houses; the dwelling at the south end being appropriated for the chaplain. Each house consisted of eight rooms, two being allotted to each pensioner. As reported in 1843, there were thirty-six male pensioners and their wives in the asylum. In addition to the apartments, each pensioner received 8 shillings a week plus coal. TUM image id: 1449310458 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Adelaide Road, Hampstead Credit: Henry Silk TUM image id: 1673098981 Licence:	Sainsbury’s Allcroft Road depot This was built in what is now NW5 in the 1880s Credit: J. Sainsbury TUM image id: 1592125010 Licence:	Two women walking past the graffiti ’No Evictions!’ on a railway bridge on Grafton Road, NW5. Much of the area was bulldozed and redeveloped in the 1960s and early 1970s. TUM image id: 1607643107 Licence:
Haverstock Hill station in 1905 with its entrance on Lismore Circus. TUM image id: 1450611692 Licence:	An STL bus entering Park Street, NW1 from the High Street (1930) The former Brittania pub is on the extreme right. The pub was later a shop and its ornamental lamps have long disappeared. The bank building, seen between the two buses, belonged to the Westminster Bank, who amalgamated with the National Provincial to become the Natwest. TUM image id: 1600265321 Licence:	The Isokon building Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1671211269 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Spotted playing games with London Borough of Camden traffic wardens. Probably not recommended. TUM image id: 1628262655 Licence:	Many of the roads around NW3 and NW5 were built with a particular lack of naming imagination. Many an x Mews North matches a near-identical x Mews South TUM image id: 1628262161 Licence:
Sainsbury’s opened its first depot in Langford Mews, Kentish Town around 1880. This was where Sainsbury’s smoked bacon and had stabling and warehouses to supply the growing chain of Sainsbury stores until the Company’s headquarters moved to Blackfriars in 1891. Credit: https://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/ TUM image id: 1628247918 Licence:	Hetty Scott at her greengrocer stall outside 159 Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town (1914) TUM image id: 1628259583 Licence:	View of a House and its Estate in Belsize, Middlesex (1696) London and its smoke is visible on the left horizon Credit: Jan Siberechts/Tate Britain TUM image id: 1657704433 Licence:	Primrose Hill John Duffin is a contemporary painter and printmaker whose work is based on the modern environments of cities and towns, creating dynamic, cinematic images of contemporary urban life. www.johnduffin.co.uk Credit: John Duffin TUM image id: 9532634 Licence:	Woman pulling a fully-laden barge at Hampstead Road Lock on the Regents Canal TUM image id: 1669223865 Licence: