Southbank Business Centre is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area.
Aliwal Road, SW11 Aliwal Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Anhalt Road, SW11 Anhalt Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Belleville Road, SW11 Belleville Road runs from Bollingbroke Grove, across Northcote Road, to Webb’s Road. Boutflower Road, SW11 Henry Boutflower Verdon was the first vicar-designate of St Mark’s Church, past which the road runs. Bridge Lane, SW11 Bridge Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Burns Road, SW11 Burns Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Cabul Road, SW11 Cabul Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Comyn Road, SW11 Comyn Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Coral Row, SW11 Coral Row is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Darien Road, SW11 Darien Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Edna Street, SW11 Edna Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Este Road, SW11 Este Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Ethelburga Street, SW11 Ethelburga Street was named after Saint Æthelburh (Ethelburga), founder and first Abbess of Barking. Fairchild Close, SW11 Fairchild Close is a housing development between Wye Street and York Road on the former sites of Lithgow Street and Tibet Street. Falcon Lane, SW11 Falcon Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Falcon Road, SW11 Falcon Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Grant Road, SW11 Grant Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Gwynne Road, SW11 Gwynne Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Hafer Road, SW11 Hafer Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Hester Road, SW11 Hester Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Home Road, SW11 Home Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. John Archer Way, SW18 John Archer was the first black mayor of a London council - Battersea Borough Council - in 1913/4. Juer Street, SW11 Juer Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Kersley Mews, SW11 Kersley Mews is a rare survival of a local mews and built to serve the residents of Foxmore Street and Kersley Street. Kiloh Court, SW11 Kiloh Court is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Kite Yard, SW11 Kite Yard is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Northcote Road, SW11 Northcote Road is a shopping street between Clapham and Battersea, which stretches over half a mile. Park South, SW11 Park South is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Petworth Street, SW11 Petworth Street was laid out in the late nineteenth century linking two bridge approaches - Albert Bridge Road and Battersea Bridge Road. Plough Road, SW11 Plough Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Rosenau Road, SW11 Rosenau Road was named after Schloss Rosenau, the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became the consort of Queen Victoria. Spice Court, SW11 Spice Court is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Surrey Lane, SW11 Surrey Lane is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. The Parade, SW11 The Parade is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. The Raven, SW11 The Raven is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Webbs Road, SW11 Webbs Road is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area. Wye Street, SW11 Wye Street is one of the streets of London in the SW11 postal area.
Queen's Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.The north of Queen's Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen's Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen's Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen's Park 'proper' formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen's Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.
Queen's Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett's wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen's Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queens Park are a conservation area.
There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.
Queen's Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.
Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen's Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR. As of December 2013, no mainline services calling at the station and the Watford service has been transferred to London Overground.
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