Dalgarno Way, W10

Dalgarno Way played a small part in British sitcom history.

Some BBC rehearsal studios were in Dalgarno Way in a community centre, close to Wormwood Scrubs. It may have been strange for the people that lived there to see Rolls Royce’s turning up every day with Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

Eric and Ernie apparently loved the place as it was out of the way and they could get on with the serious business of rehearsal.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Brenda Newton Hewer Street, W10 Added: 5 Jun 2021 07:17 GMT	Hewer Street W10 John Nodes Undertakers Hewer Street W10 Reply
danny currie William Miller’s Yard Added: 30 Nov 2022 18:39 GMT	dads yard ron currie had a car breaking yard in millers yard back in the 60s good old days Reply
Brenda Newton Hewer Street, W10 Added: 5 Jun 2021 07:27 GMT	Hewer Street, W10 My husband Barry Newton lived over John Nodes in Hewer Street in 1950’s. Barry dad Tom worked for John Nodes and raced pigeons in his spare time Tom and his Lena raised 5 sons there before moving to the Southcoast in the mid 70’s due to Tom ill health Reply
donna Western Dwellings from below Added: 25 Jan 2021 13:25 GMT	Ladbroke Dwellings Three generations of my family lived along this row of dwellings, ’Ladbroke Dwellings’. All the men who lived there worked at the Gasworks. Among the shops you mention was Wilson’s sweet shop run by Maggie and her sister, and Johns grocery store. I believe there was also a photograph studio there too. Reply
stephen garraway Treverton Street, W10 Added: 13 Nov 2022 13:56 GMT	Martin Street, Latimer Road I was born at St Charlottes and lived at 14, Martin Street, Latimer Road W10 until I was 4 years old when we moved to the east end. It was my Nan Grant’s House and she was the widow of George Frederick Grant. She had two sons, George and Frederick, and one daughter, my mother Margaret Patricia. The downstairs flat where we lived had two floors, the basement and the ground floor. The upper two floors were rented to a Scot and his family, the Smiths. He had red hair. The lights and cooker were gas and there was one cold tap over a Belfast sink. A tin bath hung on the wall. The toilet was outside in the yard. This was concreted over and faced the the rear of the opposite terraces. All the yards were segregated by high brick walls. The basement had the a "best" room with a large , dark fireplace with two painted metal Alsation ornaments and it was very dark, cold and little used. The street lights were gas and a man came round twice daily to turn them on and off using a large pole with a hook and a lighted torch on the end. I remember men coming round the streets with carts selling hot chestnuts and muffins and also the hurdy gurdy man with his instrument and a monkey in a red jacket. I also remember the first time I saw a black man and my mother pulling me away from him. He had a Trilby and pale Mackintosh so he must of been one of the first of the Windrush people. I seem to recall he had a thin moustache. Uncle George had a small delivery lorry but mum lost touch with him and his family. Uncle Fred went to Peabody Buildings near ST.Pauls. My Nan was moved to a maisonette in White City around 1966, and couldn’t cope with electric lights, cookers and heating and she lost all of her neighbourhood friends. Within six months she had extreme dementia and died in a horrible ward in Tooting Bec hospital a year or so later. An awful way to end her life, being moved out of her lifelong neighbourhood even though it was slums. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Wendy The Polygon 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. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 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 Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 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 Reply
Charles Hornsey Rise, N19 Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT	My House I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s. Reply
NH Woodgrange Road, E7 Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT	Telephone House Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000 Reply
Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 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. Reply
Diana New Inn Yard, E1 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. Reply
Vic Stanley Peckham High Street, SE1 Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT	Postcose The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1 Reply

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The "Western" TUM image id: 1489498043 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Ladbroke Grove (1866) The future Kensington Park Hotel is the corner building on the left. The area beyond the railway bridge (now the Hammersmith and City Line) was still green fields at this stage TUM image id: 1513618275 Licence:	Photographed just after the Second World War, this is the bombed-out Rackham Street, London W10 looking down from the junction with Exmoor Street. Rackham Street ran off Ladbroke Grove, roughly along the line of the modern Bruce Close. Credit: Kensington and Chelsea library TUM image id: 1557403168 Licence:	The Dissenter’s Chapel inside Kensal Green cemetery - over the wall at the back the road with the streetlights is Ladbroke Grove. Credit: Phillip Perry TUM image id: 1453313372 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Saint John the Evangelist TUM image id: 1453377588 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Kensal Rise Library The site was donated by All Souls College, Oxford and the library was opened by Mark Twain, who had been staying nearby at Dollis Hill House. At the ceremony, Mark Twain gave the Library Committee Chairman five of his books and a signed photograph. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1453375368 Licence:	London West Ten Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1600607557 Licence:	An Edwardian snapshot of life in Bassett Road, North Kensington TUM image id: 1563717408 Licence:	The undertakers’ shop (John Nodes) at the end of Hewer Street at the turn of the twentieth century TUM image id: 1497098722 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Mitre Bridge, Scrubs Lane, NW10 (1941) This is a curious photograph in many ways. It’s 1941 but the truck has unmasked headlights, which you’d normally expect to see. The trolleybus doesn’t have anti-blast netting on its windows and neither does it have the large white disc painted on the rear of the vehicle that was normally placed there to aid visibility in the blackout. The black and white stripes on the kerb look very freshly painted and the sentry is wearing civilian clothes, but if he is a Home Guardsman, by 1941 we’d expect him to be in uniform. TUM image id: 1660647155 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Porlock Street, W10 TUM image id: 1453982201 Licence:	Bathurst Gardens, NW10 TUM image id: 1452326370 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Purves Road (date unknown) TUM image id: 1517844504 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Archway Close, W10 was built on the site of a large house - 70 St Mark’s Road - which covered the site. It lies at the back of the Carmelite Monastery Gardens. Credit: Google Maps TUM image id: 1457272377 Licence:	Cookery lesson in Kilburn Lane School, circa 1890s Old London postcard TUM image id: 1669931842 Licence:

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Archway Close, W10 was built on the site of a large house - 70 St Mark’s Road - which covered the site. It lies at the back of the Carmelite Monastery Gardens.
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