Ada Gardens, E14 Ada Gardens runs north-south linking Blair Street and Dee Street. Ailsa Street, E14 Ailsa Street is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Au, E14 A street within the E14 postcode Baffin Way, E14 Baffin Way is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Benledi Road, E14 Benledi Road is an ’Italianised; version of a Scottish mountain - Ben Ledi. Bf, E14 A street within the E14 postcode Blyth Close, E14 Blyth Close is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Cold Harbour, E14 Cold Harbour is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Dee Street, E14 Dee Street is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Dy, E14 A street within the postcode Findhorn Street, E14 Findhorn Street is one of a series of local roads with a Scottish highlands name. Ives Road, E16 Ives Road is one of the streets of London in the E16 postal area. Lanrick Road, E14 Lanrick Road is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Leven Road, E14 Leven Road is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Naval Row, E14 Naval Row is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Nutmeg Lane, E14 Nutmeg Lane is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Pier Street, E14 Pier Street is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Prestage Way, E14 Prestage Way is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area. Yabsley Street, E14 Yabsley Street was a rebuilt Russell Street which had existed before the Blackwall Tunnell was built.
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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