Dollis Hill

Underground station, existing between 1909 and now.

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Dollis Hill tube station lies on the Jubilee Line, between Willesden Green and Neasden. Metropolitan Line trains pass though the station, but do not stop.

On looking at the 1900 map of the area around Dollis Hill station, one might notice an immediate problem - Dollis Hill itself isn't there at all. The nearby area, in those days, was called Dudden Hill.

The Dollis Hill Estate was formed in the early 19th century, when the Finch family bought up a number of farms in the area to form a single estate, and it is somewhat to the north of the later location of the station. Dollis Hill House was built in the 1820s.

William Ewart Gladstone, the UK Prime Minister, was a frequent visitor to Dollis Hill House in the late 19th century. The year after his death, 1899, Willesden Council acquired much of the Dollis Hill Estate for use as a public park, which was named Gladstone Park.

Mark Twain stayed in Dollis Hill House in the summer of 1900. He wrote that ’Dollis Hill comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I ever occupied’.

The code-breaking Colossus computer, used at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill by a team lead by Tommy Flowers. The station was relocated to Martlesham Heath at the end of the 1970s.

A World War II bunker for Winston Churchill called Paddock is located here.

The fictional Dollis Hill Football Club features occasionally in the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and Dollis Hill tube station, although real, is frequently played in the radio panel game Mornington Crescent.

dollishill0Until the end of the nineteenth century, Dollis Hill was still a very rural backwater. The tube station was yet to be built (completed in 1907) and Dollis Hill Lane was the main thoroughfare through the area which was only later to be built up.

Dollis Hill Lane connected (and still does) the Edgware Road and Neasden. Dollis Hill Lane is not immediately locatable on the "slippy map" from 1900 at the top of the page since the red marker shows the future site of the tube station. Dollis Hill Lane is quite a way north.

About halfway along its length, Dollis Hill House had been built, opposite its farm, in 1825.

Author Mark Twain, stayed at Dollis Hill House, built along the lane, in the summer of 1900. Twain wrote that he had "never seen any place that was so satisfactorily situated, with its noble trees and stretch of country, and everything that went to make life delightful, and all within a biscuit's throw of the metropolis of the world." "There is no suggestion of city here; it is country, pure and simple, and as still and reposeful as is the bottom of the sea." He later wrote "Dollis Hill comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I ever occupied".

That same year, a photographer was at large along the lane. It is unclear who was photographed here in the year 1900, but the man and a woman in a two-wheeled carriage, may have been coming to or from the house.

dollishill1There is the possibility that this set of photographs shows an outing from the house, since here we see a different couple of people; the man is in a top hat and the woman shading herself from the winter sun using an umbrella.

In the final image of the 1900 series, pictured below, a group of people are pushing their bicycles along Dollis Hill Lane.


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Main source: Hidden London
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY


Kevin Pont   
Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT   

The connection with Bletchley Park
The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill.

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

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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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Gillian   
Added: 17 Feb 2024 00:08 GMT   

No 36 Upper East Smithfield
My great great grandfather was born at No 36 Upper East Smithfield and spent his early years staring out at a "dead wall" of St Katharine’s Docks. His father was an outfitter and sold clothing for sailors. He describes the place as being backed by tenements in terrible condition and most of the people living there were Irish.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 16 Feb 2024 20:32 GMT   

Name origin
Interestingly South Lambeth derives its name from the same source as Lambeth itself - a landing place for lambs.

But South Lambeth has no landing place - it is not on the River Thames

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C Hobbs   
Added: 31 Jan 2024 23:53 GMT   

George Gut (1853 - 1861)
George Gut, Master Baker lived with his family in Long Lane.
George was born in Bernbach, Hesse, Germany and came to the UK sometime in the 1840s. In 1849, George married an Englishwoman called Matilda Baker and became a nauralized Englishman. He was given the Freedom of the City of London (by Redemption in the Company of Bakers), in 1853 and was at that time, recorded as living at 3 Long Lane. In the 1861 census, George Gut was living at 11 Long Lane.

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Dollis Hill Dollis Hill tube station lies on the Jubilee Line, between Willesden Green and Neasden. Metropolitan Line trains pass though the station, but do not stop.

NEARBY STREETS
Aberdeen Road, NW10 Aberdeen Road is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Aboyne Road, NW2 Aboyne Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Addis Court, NW2 Addis Court is a block on Grunwick Close (Dollis Hill)
Ainsworth Close, NW2 Ainsworth Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Alder Grove, NW2 Alder Grove leads southeast from Crest Road (Dollis Hill)
Allies House, NW2 Residential block (Dollis Hill)
Applewood Close, NW2 Applewood Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Apsley Way, NW2 Apsley Way is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Aquarius Business Park, NW2 Aquarius Business Park is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Arnoux Court, NW2 Arnoux Court is sited on Grunwick Close (Dollis Hill)
Ashcombe Park Road, NW2 Ashcombe Park Road is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Ashcombe Park, NW2 Ashcombe Park is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Atlas Business Centre, NW2 Atlas Business Centre is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Attewood Avenue, NW2 Attewood Avenue is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Avondale Avenue, NW2 Avondale Avenue is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Ballards Road, NW2 Ballards Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Beaconsfield Road, NW10 Beaconsfield Road is a street in Willesden
Belton Road, NW2 Belton Road is a street in Cricklewood
Birse Crescent, NW10 Birse Crescent is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Brenthurst Road, NW10 Brenthurst Road is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Willesden)
Broadfield Close, NW2 Broadfield Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Broadfields Way, NW10 Broadfields Way is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Neasden)
Brook Road, NW2 Brook Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Burnley Road, NW10 Burnley Road runs parallel with the tracks of the Metropolitan/Jubilee line, to the north of them (Dollis Hill)
Byron Road, NW2 Byron Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Cairnfield Avenue, NW2 Cairnfield Avenue is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Campbell Gordon Way, NW2 Campbell Gordon Way is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Chaplin Road, NW2 Chaplin Road is a street in Cricklewood
Chapter Road, NW2 Chapter Road follows the line of the railway between Willesden Green and Dollis Hill (Willesden Green)
Chartley Avenue, NW2 Chartley Avenue is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Chipstead Gardens, NW2 Chipstead Gardens is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Church Walk House, NW2 Residential block (Dollis Hill)
Churchill Road, NW2 Churchill Road is a street in Cricklewood
Churchmead Road, NW10 Churchmead Road is a road in the NW10 postcode area
Clifford Way, NW10 Clifford Way is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Coles Green Court, NW2 Coles Green Court is a building on Coles Green Court (Dollis Hill)
Coles Green Road, NW2 Coles Green Road, once part of Oxgate Lane, is an original road of the area (Dollis Hill)
Colin Road, NW10 Colin Road is a street in Willesden
Comber Close, NW2 Comber Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Cooper Road, NW10 Cooper Road is a small crescent next to Dollis Hill station (Dollis Hill)
Copper Mead Close, NW2 Copper Mead Close is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Coppermead Close, NW2 Coppermead Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Cornmow Drive, NW10 Cornmow Drive is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Crest Road, NW2 Crest Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Cullingworth Road, NW10 Cullingworth Road is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Dalmeyer Road, NW10 Dalmeyer Road is a street in Willesden (Willesden)
Dawpool Road, NW2 Dawpool Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Deacon Road, NW2 Deacon Road is a street in Cricklewood (Willesden)
Denzil Road, NW10 Denzil Road is a street in Willesden
Dewsbury Road, NW10 Dewsbury Road is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Dollis Hill Avenue, NW2 Dollis Hill Avenue is named after the Dollis Brook. ’Dollis’ comes from the Saxon word Dwllice meaning ’erratic’ (Dollis Hill)
Dollis Hill Lane, NW2 Dollis Hill Lane is an ancient throughway (Dollis Hill)
Dudden Hill Lane, NW10 Dudden Hill Lane was named after a Saxon settler called Dodda (Dollis Hill)
Dudden Hill Parade, NW10 Dudden Hill Parade is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Eastleigh Close, NW2 Eastleigh Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Edgware Road, NW2 Edgware Road originated as part of Roman Watling Street and runs for 10 miles in an almost straight line (Dollis Hill)
Ellesmere Road, NW10 Ellesmere Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Eyhurst Close, NW2 Eyhurst Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Field Close, NW2 Field Close is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Fleetwood Road, NW10 Fleetwood Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Flowers Close, NW2 Flowers Close belated recognised Tommy Flowers, designer of the Colossus computer (Dollis Hill)
Forbes Close, NW2 Forbes Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Geary Road, NW10 Geary Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Gladstone Parade, NW2 Gladstone Parade is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Gladstone Park Gardens, NW2 Gladstone Park Gardens is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Griffin Close, NW10 Griffin Close is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Grunwick Close, NW2 Grunwick Close was the location of the Grunwick factory, heart of a notable 1970s labour dispute (Dollis Hill)
Hamilton Road, NW10 Hamilton Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Harp Business Centre, NW2 Harp Business Centre is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Hawarden Hill, NW2 Hawarden Hill is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Heather Road, NW2 Heather Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Helena Road, NW10 Helena Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
High Road, NW10 High Road is a street in Willesden
Hill Close, NW2 Hill Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Hillcrest Gardens, NW2 Hillcrest Gardens is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Homestead Park, NW2 Homestead Park consists of twenty one dwelling-houses located on the north side of Dollis Hill Lane (Dollis Hill)
Horseshoe Close, NW2 Horseshoe Close is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Horseshoe Estate, NW2 Commercial area (Dollis Hill)
Humber Road, NW2 Humber Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Humber Trading Estate, NW2 Commercial area (Dollis Hill)
Kelceda Close, NW2 Kelceda Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Kendal Road, NW10 Kendal Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Kenwyn Drive, NW2 Kenwyn Drive is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Lancaster Road, NW10 Lancaster Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Lecthmere Road, NW2 Lecthmere Road is a location in London
Lennox Gardens, NW10 Lennox Gardens is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Links Road, NW2 Links Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Longberrys, NW2 Longberrys is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Lovat Close, NW2 Lovat Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Lukes Close, EC1V Lukes Close is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Magic House, NW2 Magic House is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Mascotts Close, NW2 Mascotts Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Meyrick Road, NW10 Meyrick Road is a street in Willesden
Midwood Close, NW2 Midwood Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Millennium Business Centre Humber Trading Estate, NW2 Millennium Business Centre is on the Humber Trading Estate (Dollis Hill)
Mount Road, NW2 Mount Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Mulgrave Road, NW10 Mulgrave Road is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Neasden Parade, NW10 Neasden Parade is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Nevilles Court, NW2 Nevilles Court is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
New Row, NW2 New Row is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Newfield Rise, NW2 Newfield Rise is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Normanby Road, NW10 Normanby Road is a road within the Dudden Hill Estate (Dollis Hill)
North Circular Road, NW2 The Dollis Hill section of the North Circular Road leads west from Staples Corner (Dollis Hill)
Nutfield Road, NW2 Nutfield Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Oak Tree Mews, NW2 Oak Tree Mews is a location in London
Orchard Close, NW2 Orchard Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Oxgate Centre, NW2 Oxgate Centre is a road serving an industrial estate west of the Edgware Road (Dollis Hill)
Oxgate Court Parade, NW2 Oxgate Court Parade is a parade of shops lying underneath Oxgate Court (Dollis Hill)
Oxgate Court, NW2 Oxgate Court is a block on Coles Green Road (Dollis Hill)
Oxgate Gardens, NW2 Oxgate Gardens is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Oxgate Lane, NW2 Oxgate Lane is an old road in the Dollis Hill area (Dollis Hill)
Oxleys Road, NW2 Oxleys Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Paddock Road, NW2 Paddock Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Park Avenue North, NW10 Park Avenue North is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Park Lodge, NW2 Park Lodge is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Park Side, NW2 Park Side is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Park View Road, NW10 Park View Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Parkside, NW2 Parkside is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Phoenix Park, NW2 Phoenix Park is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Pinemartin Close, NW2 Pinemartin Close is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Pippin Close, NW2 Pippin Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Preston Place, NW10 Preston Place is a street in Cricklewood
Priestley Way, NW2 Priestley Way is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Randall Avenue, NW2 Randall Avenue is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Review Road, NW2 Review Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Rose Croft Gardens, NW2 Rose Croft Gardens is a cul-de-sac off of Dollis Hill Lane (Dollis Hill)
Rosecroft Gardens, NW2 Rosecroft Gardens is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Rylandes Road, NW2 Rylandes Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Sancroft Close, NW2 Sancroft Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Sandringham Road, NW2 Sandringham Road is a street in Cricklewood (Willesden Green)
Sapcote Trading Centre, NW10 Sapcote Trading Centre is a street in Willesden (Willesden)
Sayer House, NW2 Sayer House is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Selbie Avenue, NW10 Selbie Avenue is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Willesden)
Selsdon Road, NW2 Selsdon Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Shepherds Walk, NW2 Shepherds Walk is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Sherrick Green Road, NW10 Sherrick Green Road is a street in Willesden (Dollis Hill)
Sonia Gardens, NW10 Sonia Gardens is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Southview Avenue, NW10 Southview Avenue is a street in Willesden (Neasden)
St Andrews Close, NW2 St Andrews Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Staples Corner Business Park, NW2 Staples Corner Business Park is situated next to Staples Corner (Dollis Hill)
Streakes Field Road, NW2 Streakes Field Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Tadworth Road, NW2 Tadworth Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Tanfield Avenue, NW2 Tanfield Avenue is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Tanfield Avenue, NW2 Tanfield Avenue is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Tankridge Road, NW2 Tankridge Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
The Apsley Centre, NW2 The Apsley Centre is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
The Circle, NW2 The Circle is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
The Crescent, NW2 The Crescent is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
The Link, NW2 The Link is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Topp Walk, NW2 Topp Walk lies near to Oxgate Gardens (Dollis Hill)
Victoria Works, NW2 Victoria Works is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Villiers Road, NW2 Villiers Road was built by the United Land Co
Vincent Gardens, NW2 Vincent Gardens is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Walton Close, NW2 Walton Close is a road in the NW2 postcode area (Dollis Hill)
Warren Road, NW2 Warren Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Waterford Way, NW10 Waterford Way is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Willesden)
Waterloo Road, NW2 Waterloo Road is a street in Cricklewood (Dollis Hill)
Westview Close, NW10 Westview Close is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Neasden)
Wilkinson Close, NW2 Wilkinson Close is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Windsor Road, NW2 Windsor Road is a road in the NW2 postcode area
Wing Yip Business Centre, NW2 Wing Yip Business Centre is a location in London (Dollis Hill)
Woodbridge Close, NW2 Woodbridge Close lies off of Newfield Rise (Dollis Hill)
Woodmans Grove, NW10 Woodmans Grove is a road in the NW10 postcode area (Neasden)

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