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Wembley Stadium, 1947 TUM image id: 1556882897 Licence:	The Edgware Road at Colindale, early 20th century Old London postcard TUM image id: 1517936686 Licence:	The Plough - reputedly 800 years old TUM image id: 1517936032 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Welsh Harp (2015) The Brent Reservoir (popularly called the Welsh Harp) is a reservoir which takes its informal name from a pub called The Welsh Harp, which stood nearby until the early 1970s. There was not enough water to supply the Grand Union Canal and the Regent’s Canal. In 1819, the Regent’s Canal Company decided to dam the River Brent to create a reservoir and cut a feeder channel from it to an upper point on the Grand Union Canal. The reservoir is fed by both the Silk Stream and the River Brent. Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1534456927 Licence:	The lower yard at cottages of Blackbird Hill Farm on Old Church Lane, Kingsbury (c.1880) Blackbird Hill Farm lay on the road between Neasden and what was later called Wembley Park. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1500238125 Licence:
Wembley Park Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1562851056 Licence:	The construction site for the Empire Stadium (1922) This would later become Wembley Stadium. The odd markings may mark diggings for the previous Wembley Tower foundations. Credit: Historic England TUM image id: 1660647732 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Uxendon Shooting Club during the 1908 Olympics Credit: Rapport officiel du CIO, Jeux Olympiques de 1908 TUM image id: 1692700890 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Wembley Park, around 1898 A map a day for the month of May. The name Wembley Park referred to an area that fell within the limits of a late 18th-century landscaped estate. Part of this estate became the location of development in the 1890s after being sold to Edward Watkin and the Metropolitan Railway. Wembley Park was next developed into a pleasure and events destination with a large fairground and the beginnings of a tower designed to rival the Eiffel Tower. Wembley was later a key area of the Metroland suburban development in the 1920s - the same decade saw the Empire Stadium built on the site of the tower and the British Empire Exhibition was held. This map was requested by a user last week and the area covered stretches from Wembley Central station (just off the map to the bottom left) to Blackbird Hill in the top right. The area was mostly pasture farmland though some arable fields are marked in yellow. Wembley Park continues to be a recreational centre today, being home to Wembley Stadium as well as Wembley Arena among others. Credit: Ordnance Survey/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1714991989 Licence:	Barn Hill area (1900) This map is a response to a user idea based on a previous map featuring 1900 Wembley Park (6 May) and a request to feature the area just a little to the left/west of that one. So this is 1900 Barn Hill and surroundings. For reference to the previous map, Blackbird Hill Farm at the top of Blackbird Hill is now bottom right, as is St Andrew’s Kingsbury. The tiny village of Preston is situated at the top left. The road leading south from it is called Preston Road and where it crosses the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway is the site of the future Preston Road station. This station was at first only a halt, built because of the staging of the shooting competitions of the 1908 London Olympics at Uxendon Farm. It allowed competitors to get to the grounds which stretched up Barn Hill from Uxendon. The now-busy Forty Lane runs along the southern edge of the map. Other important modern roads such as Fryent Way didn’t exist, even as former paths. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1715774589 Licence:
Alliott Verdon Roe in his Triplane, Wembley Park (1909) TUM image id: 1660651190 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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The Plough - reputedly 800 years old
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