Allcroft Passage, NW5

Allcroft Passage was situated off of Allcroft Road.

Sainsbury’s opened its first depot in Langford Mews, Kentish Town around 1880.

This was where Sainsbury’s smoked bacon and had stabling and warehouses to supply the growing chain of Sainsbury stores until the Company’s headquarters moved to Blackfriars in 1891.
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It was built as Langford Mews - a mews off of the then Langford Road.

In 1868 John Sainsbury, a dairyman, opened the first Sainsbury’s shop at 173 Drury Lane. He and his family moved to 159 Queen’s Crescent in Kentish Town and at that address opened the second shop in the chain. As the 1870s closed, Sainsbury’s had three shops in Queen’s Crescent and several elsewhere. The 1881 census showed 94 Queen’s Crescent being used as a hostel for six young men, aged between fourteen to eighteen, who worked as shopmen in the various Sainsbury shops along the Crescent.

John Sainsbury set up his first wholesale depot in Langford Mews (listed as 90 Allcroft Road) near to his three Kentish Town shops. Sainsbury’s smoked bacon at the depot and there were stabling and warehouses here to supply the growing chain of Sainsbury stores until the company’s headquarters moved to Blackfriars in 1891.

The warehouse buildings in Langford Mews were turned over to other companies and in 1937, the mews was renamed as Allcroft Passage for a couple of decades.

The area was redeveloped in the 1960s and the little street disappeared.

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London bus ticket issued from a Gibson ticket machine which were in use from 1953-1993 TUM image id: 1630631225 Licence:	View towards Central London from the top of Parliament Hill (2007) Credit: Chesdovi TUM image id: 1557488009 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Isokon building Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1671211269 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Entrance to the Fleet River, c. 1750 Credit: Samuel Scott TUM image id: 1529237151 Licence:	Agincourt Road (2007) An Archway-bound C11 stops to collect a passenger. View taken from the junction with Cressy Road Credit: Geograph/Martin Addison TUM image id: 1678881755 Licence:
Sainsbury’s Allcroft Road depot This was built in what is now NW5 in the 1880s Credit: J. Sainsbury TUM image id: 1592125010 Licence:	Two women walking past the graffiti ’No Evictions!’ on a railway bridge on Grafton Road, NW5. Much of the area was bulldozed and redeveloped in the 1960s and early 1970s. TUM image id: 1607643107 Licence:	Haverstock Hill station in 1905 with its entrance on Lismore Circus. TUM image id: 1450611692 Licence:	'The Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen' was founded in Kentish Town on 10 February 1837. The asylum consisted of the chapel and ten houses; the dwelling at the south end being appropriated for the chaplain. Each house consisted of eight rooms, two being allotted to each pensioner. As reported in 1843, there were thirty-six male pensioners and their wives in the asylum. In addition to the apartments, each pensioner received 8 shillings a week plus coal. TUM image id: 1449310458 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Spotted playing games with London Borough of Camden traffic wardens. Probably not recommended. TUM image id: 1628262655 Licence:
Many of the roads around NW3 and NW5 were built with a particular lack of naming imagination. Many an x Mews North matches a near-identical x Mews South TUM image id: 1628262161 Licence:	Little Green Street sign Credit: Wikimedia/IMS TUM image id: 1552945858 Licence:	Hetty Scott at her greengrocer stall outside 159 Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town (1914) TUM image id: 1628259583 Licence:	Regent’s Canal at Hawley Lock (c1905) TUM image id: 1660312527 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Crossing, Camden High Street Credit: IG/londonweek TUM image id: 1653779037 Licence:

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London bus ticket issued from a Gibson ticket machine which were in use from 1953-1993
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Entrance to the Fleet River, c. 1750
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Sainsbury’s Allcroft Road depot This was built in what is now NW5 in the 1880s
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Two women walking past the graffiti ’No Evictions!’ on a railway bridge on Grafton Road, NW5. Much of the area was bulldozed and redeveloped in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Haverstock Hill station in 1905 with its entrance on Lismore Circus.
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'The Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen' was founded in Kentish Town on 10 February 1837. The asylum consisted of the chapel and ten houses; the dwelling at the south end being appropriated for the chaplain. Each house consisted of eight rooms, two being allotted to each pensioner. As reported in 1843, there were thirty-six male pensioners and their wives in the asylum. In addition to the apartments, each pensioner received 8 shillings a week plus coal.
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Spotted playing games with London Borough of Camden traffic wardens. Probably not recommended.
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Many of the roads around NW3 and NW5 were built with a particular lack of naming imagination. Many an x Mews North matches a near-identical x Mews South
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Hetty Scott at her greengrocer stall outside 159 Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town (1914)
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