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Oh Happy Days
I was born in Kilburn in Plympton Road on 2nd May 1928 and went to school at Christ Church School and then Salisbury Road School. What a lovely place Kilburn was in those days with the iron railings and gates on every house and our mums scrubbing the steps and whiting them every week. Our front door keys were left in the locks of the front door with no problems of anybody taking advantage. All the boys and girls in Plympton Road were friends, Tommy Edwards, Richard Roberts, Desmond Mosedale, Marie Douglas from no. 7 and Doris Donaldson from no. 15 I think, the Jefferys from Plympton Avenue, Pat Penny (my first girlfriend), to name just a few. Loads of us ...read more here
A memory of Kilburn contributed by William Bowling
Born but not bred
Born to Kathleen Leniston, and Ned Leniston July 1951 in Torbay Road, to the glorious rolling green fields (joke) of Kilburn. There were still bloody big holes where buildings used to be, thanks to Mr Hitler's town planning arrangments for London. The family loved Kilburn so much, we promptly moved to Colindale, then to Dartmouth Road, West Hendon; see the connection, from Torbay, to Dartmouth. If you think that's a coincidence, I now live in the West Country. However, we were not completely finished with Kilburn quite yet. My mother, with me in tow, seemed to haunt the Kilburn high road in those far off days of the late 50s and early 60s, almost every Saturday. And on some Sundays, I ...read more here
A memory of Kilburn contributed by First Name Last Name
Cricklewood and Kilburn area
I was born in this area in 1939 and lived in Cricklewood until 1955 when we moved to Dollis hill (Hamilton Road). We were in Olive Road throughout the war and would shelter in the street shelter and sometimes in Smiths (near what was Rolls Razor on the Broadway near the Bus Garage).I remember the Queen's cinema on the Broadway and the Crown(which is still there. The 16 bus ran to Kilburn where I went to school from 11yrs-16 yrs. In those years the cinemas were the Ionic,the Grange the Essoldo and the State. My parents were both born in Kilburn and never moved far from their roots. When I married,I moved away to South London but I was never ...read more here
A memory of Kilburn contributed by Valerie Clemens
my memories of kilburn
I was born in early 1967 and lived on malvern road kilburn till around 1975
then my parents moved to kilburn square, where we lived in rathbone house till 1980 and moved to kensal green.
my memory of growing up in kilburn was a mixture of tears and joys...tears because as common for most children i bunked school and got many a hiding for my neglect...my joys came in the form of long summer holidays spent playing with my friends around the estate.
also i fell in love for the first time in about 1978 which i remember was a wonderful feeling i will never forget.
i rarely visit kilburn these days but i remain fond of it.
A memory of Kilburn contributed by trevor ellis
Extracts From Hampstead & London books
The camera looks from the High Street towards Holly Hill, and on towards West Heath. The simple but somehow graceful shop fronts have gone, although the buildings remain, including the Old Fire Station of 1873, with its prominent tower. It is regrettable that its original use has been supplanted by offices on the ground floor and flats to the upper floor, and that the upper part of the tower above the clock has been removed. One day, perhaps with the help of a small grant, this may be properly rebuilt, but the passing of the wonderful street furniture is almost certainly forever.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Not much more than a stone’s throw from Jack Straw’s Castle, the original Old Bull and Bush can be seen on the right of shot. The road at the foot of the hill still curves past the pub, but the houses adjacent to Sandy Close, to the left, have been rebuilt. The road is wider and most of the trees have gone.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
The pub is said to have been built as a farm in the mid 17th century, and it was licensed in 1721. It is alleged to have been the house of William Hogarth, the painter. Among its known drinkers were Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick. The building seen in the photograph appears as an atmospheric drinkers’ dream pub, with its low doorway stepping down into a dark panelled bar, with its inevitably yellowy-brown smoke-stained ceiling.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill. The mid 19th-century houses are fairly run-of-the-mill, but had the cameraman turned round he could have photographed a fairly new arrival on the Hill. This is St Stephen’s Church, designed by S S Teulon in 1873, a superb red-brick High Victorian building. It has suffered gravely since being declared redundant in 1977, and is boarded up at the time of writing. The church is included in English Heritage’s Register of Buildings at Risk in Greater London.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath. The banks are grown up now with immature trees and undergrowth, rendering the overall setting rather more romantic. It is a pity that the stone balustrade has given way to a plain iron railing.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".