Greyhound Hill, NW4
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Greyhound Hill was part of a medieval route which ran from Church End, Hendon to Mill Hill at the Three Hammers pub on the Ridgeway. | Click here to explore another London street We now have 507 completed street histories and 46993 partial histories Find streets or residential blocks within the M25 by clicking STREETS |
| CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY |
  Reginald John Gregory Added: 8 Aug 2022 14:07 GMT | Worked in the vicinity of my ancestor’s house, Between the years 1982-1998 (unknown to me at the time) I worked in an office close to the site of my ancestors cottage. I discovered this when researching family history - the cottage was mentioned in the 1871 census for Colindeep Lane/Ancient Street coming up from the Hyde. The family lived in the ares betwen 1805 and 1912. Reply |
 Martina Added: 13 Jul 2017 21:22 GMT | Schweppes factory The site is now a car shop and Angels Fancy Dress shop and various bread factories are there. Reply |
| LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT |
 Richard Lake Added: 28 Sep 2022 09:37 GMT | Trade Union Official John William Lake snr moved with his family to 22 De Laune Street in 1936. He was the London Branch Secretary for the Street Masons, Paviours and Road Makers Union. He had previously lived in Orange St now Copperfield St Southwark but had been forced to move because the landlord didn’t like him working from home and said it broke his lease. John William snr died in 1940. His son John William Lake jnr also became a stone mason and at the end of World War two he was responsible for the engraving of the dates of WW2 onto the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Reply |
  Julie Added: 22 Sep 2022 18:30 GMT | Well Walk, NW3 (1817 - 1818) The home of Benthy, the Postman, with whom poet John Keats and his brother Tom lodged from early 1817 to Dec., 1818. They occupied the first floor up. Here Tom died Dec. 1, 1818. It was next door to the Welles Tavern then called ’The Green Man’." From collected papers and photos re: No. 1 Well Walk at the library of Harvard University. Source: No. 1, Well Walk, Hampstead. | HOLLIS for Reply |
 Added: 4 Sep 2022 15:42 GMT | Superman 2 I worked here in 1977. The scene in the prison laundry in Superman 2 was filmed here. Reply |
  TUM Added: 27 Aug 2022 10:22 GMT | The Underground Map Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer at the Royal Institute, London. Reply |
 Admin Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT | Bus makes a leap A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge. He was awarded a £10 bonus. Reply |
 Admin Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:44 GMT | The world’s first underground train The very first underground train left Paddington on the new Metropolitan Railway bound for Farringdon Street. Reply |
 Admin Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:41 GMT | Baker Street Baker Street station opened on the Metropolitan Railway - the world’s first underground line. Reply |
Admin Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:17 GMT | TV comes to Olympia Over 7000 people queued to see the first high definition television pictures on sets at the Olympia Radio Show. The pictures were transmitted by the BBC from Alexandra Palace, introduced by Leslie Mitchell, their first announcer. Reply |
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