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Clay pigeon shooting at Uxendon, 1908 By 1900, Uxendon Farm had become a shooting ground (the Lancaster Shooting Club). When the Olympic Games were held in London in 1908 the ground was sufficiently important to be used for Olympic clay pigeon shooting. Pressure from the shooting club, which was a two mile walk from the nearest station (Wembley Park), played a part in the opening of Preston Road Halt in May 1908. Credit: Alamy images TUM image id: 1491752155 Licence:	Woodcock Dell farm, Kenton (1901) TUM image id: 1562854416 Licence:	Rare Edward VIII postbox in Kenmore Road, Kenton TUM image id: 1686062448 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Preston Road as a rural lane, looking towards Kingsbury TUM image id: 1562848320 Licence:	Kenton (1870) Kenton as an isolated rural village is somewhat hard to grasp. Kenton Farm was long one of the only buildings there. In 1852, Kenton village consisted only of Kenton Farm, four houses, 11 cottages, the ’Plough’ inn, the smithy and the National School. The village must have had a wide hinterland since 16 residential buildings would not usually support both a pub and a school. Travel around the area was quite difficult in the days before tarred roads and it was normal to walk. Many of the local lanes were notoriously muddy due to the heavy clay. There was an old country saying: "Stuck like bees on a honeypot". Honeypot Lane to the east was almost impassable during wet weather. The arrival of the railway changed everything and Kenton expanded. Especially during the interwar years. the area was covered in almost identical housing. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1712575994 Licence:
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	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: