Belmont Road, UB8

Road in/near Uxbridge, existing between 1692 and now.

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Belmont Road was the original site for Uxbridge station.

Uxbridge Common was enclosed in the 17th century to provide sites for country residences. Blue House or Belmont on the Common, west of the Harefield Road, was built in the late 17th century. The name for the house became the name for the road which was built to connect the Common with the town centre.

Uxbridge was a major centre for Quakers since 1658. The Friends Meeting House on the corner of Belmont Road and York Road dates from 1817 but this had replaced the original 1692 Meeting House on this site.

Also in the road, the Uxbridge Lancasterian or British School was a school for children ’of all labouring people or mechanics’ based in the Uxbridge Market House until premises in Belmont Road were erected in 1816.

Victorian housing became established in the road with building stretching from the Uxbridge end.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Harrow and Uxbridge Railway Company was established under the auspices of the ’Harrow and Uxbridge Railway Act’ (1897). It was they who built the line from Harrow to Uxbridge, subsequently operated by the Metropolitan Railway.

The Metropolitan opened their terminus at Belmont Road, Uxbridge on 4 July 1904. The reason for the Belmont Road location was to permit an extension to High Wycombe which was never built.

On 4 December 1938 the station was resited closer to the town centre. For many years the station was used as a warehouse but it was demolished in the late 1960s and is now beneath a supermarket car park.




Main source: Disused Stations: Uxbridge Belmont Road Station
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Wendy    
Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT   

Polygon Buildings
Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings.

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Chimes Shopping Centre, UB8
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In the neighbourhood...

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Chimes Shopping Centre, UB8
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The delightful environment of Cock’s Yard
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Wonderful old Victorian-era cottages along Harefield Road leading out of Uxbridge (2022)
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Uxbridge Police Station (2022) This, with its traditional blue lamp, lies at the Harefield Road end of Warwick Place.
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Windsor Street, Uxbridge Uxbridge was an important market town and coaching stop in the past, with many fine old buildings. Unfortunately it suffered in the 1960s from redevelopment and most of the old buildings have disappeared. Windsor Street is one of the few remaining old parts of the town.
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Fairlight Drive leads off Harefield Road.
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Plaque to the eponymous Mr Beasley in the Uxbridge yard named for him. I hope his afterlife wish came true...
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The Metropolitan Railway arrived in Uxbridge in 1904. Its terminus station was then not in the High Street but in Belmont Road. https://youtu.be/jwIkf 2x4iA
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