![]() | Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Road in/near Notting Dale, existing between 1922 and now |
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![]() ![]() ken gaston Added: 16 Jan 2021 11:04 GMT | Avondale Park Gardens My grandmother Hilda Baker and a large family lived in number 18 . It was a close community and that reflected in the coronation celebration held on the central green . I grew up in that square and went to school at Sirdar Road then St. Clements it was a great place to grow up with a local park and we would also trek to Holland Park or Kensington Gardens .Even then the area was considered deprived and a kindergarden for criminals . My generation were the first to escape to the new towns and became the overspill from London to get decent housing and living standards . Reply | |||
![]() ![]() john ormandy Added: 14 Mar 2021 18:59 GMT | Avondale Park Gardens, W11 We moved to number 6 in 1950 an family still live there now. I think i remember a family name of Larter living in the house you mention also living in the Gdns were names Prior, Cannon, Parsons Clives at number 26 who i went to school with. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Brian Lucas Added: 15 Mar 2021 16:02 GMT | Avondale Park Gardens, W11 I also lived here at No. 15 1854 then move to No. 23 The Lucas Family Reply | |||
![]() ![]() john ormandy Added: 20 Mar 2021 17:21 GMT | Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Remember the Lucas family think the eldest was about same age as me cant remember his name though seem to rember had several younger sisters may have been twins!! Reply | |||
![]() ![]() john ormandy Added: 20 Mar 2021 18:02 GMT | Avondale Park Gardens, W11 Went to that coranation party with my two younger brothers who both went to St Clements along with Alan Mullery the footballer. I went to St James before moving on to St Johns along with Alan who lived in Mary Place where we were both in the same class. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Joan Clarke Added: 2 Feb 2021 10:54 GMT | Avondale Park Gardens My late aunt Ivy Clarke (nee Burridge) lived with her whole family at 19 Avondale Park Gardens, according to the 1911 census and she was still there in 1937.What was it like in those days, I wonder, if the housing was only built in 1920? Reply | |||
![]() ![]() john ormandy Added: 20 Mar 2021 17:48 GMT | Mary Place Workhouse There was a lady called Ivy who lived in the corner she use to come out an tell us kids off for climbing over the fence to play football on the green. Those were the days. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() charlie evans Added: 10 Apr 2021 18:51 GMT | apollo pub 1950s Ted Lengthorne was the landlord of the apollo in the 1950s. A local called darkie broom who lived at number 5 lancaster road used to be the potman,I remember being in the appollo at a street party that was moved inside the pub because of rain for the queens coronation . Not sure how long the lengthornes had the pub but remember teds daughter julie being landlady in the early 1970,s Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Dave Fahey Added: 6 Jan 2021 02:40 GMT | Bombing of the Jack O Newberry My maternal grandfather, Archie Greatorex, was the licensee of the Earl of Warwick during the Second World War. My late mother Vera often told the story of the bombing of the Jack. The morning after the pub was bombed, the landlord’s son appeared at the Warwick with the pub’s till on an old pram; he asked my grandfather to pay the money into the bank for him. The poor soul was obviously in shock. The previous night, his parents had taken their baby down to the pub cellar to shelter from the air raids. The son, my mother never knew his name, opted to stay in his bedroom at the top of the building. He was the only survivor. I often wondered what became of him. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Norman Norrington Added: 28 Dec 2020 08:31 GMT | Blechynden Street, W10 I was born in Hammersmith Hospital (Ducane Rd) I lived at 40 Blecynden Street from birth in 1942 to 1967 when I moved due to oncoming demolition for the West way flyover. A bomb fell locally during the war and cracked one of our windows, that crack was still there the day I left. It was a great street to have grown up in I have very fond memories of living there. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() john ormandy Added: 20 Mar 2021 17:30 GMT | Blechynden Street, W10 Went to school St Johns with someone named Barry Green who lived in that St. Use to wait for him on the corner take a slow walk an end up being late most days. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Fumblina Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:13 GMT | St Jude’s Church, Lancefield Street Saint Jude’s was constructed in 1878, while the parish was assigned in 1879 from the parish of Saint John, Kensal Green (P87/JNE2). The parish was united with the parishes of Saint Luke (P87/LUK1) and Saint Simon (P87/SIM) in 1952. The church was used as a chapel of ease for a few years, but in 1959 it was closed and later demolished. The church is visible on the 1900 map for the street on the right hand side above the junction with Mozart Street. Source: SAINT JUDE, KENSAL GREEN: LANCEFIELD STREET, WESTMINSTER | Londo Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Fumblina Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:08 GMT | Wedding at St Jude’s Church On 9th November 1884 Charles Selby and Johanna Hanlon got married in St Jude’s Church on Lancefield Street. They lived together close by at 103 Lancefield Street. Charles was a Lather, so worked in construction. He was only 21 but was already a widower. Johanna is not shown as having a profession but this is common in the records and elsewhere she is shown as being an Ironer or a Laundress. It is possible that she worked at the large laundry shown at the top of Lancefield Road on the 1900 map. She was also 21. She was not literate as her signature on the record is a cross. The ceremony was carried out by William Hugh Wood and was witnessed by Charles H Hudson and Caroline Hudson. Source: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31280_197456-00100?pId=6694792 Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Susan Wright Added: 16 Sep 2017 22:42 GMT | Ada Crowe, 9 Bramley Mews My Great Grandmother Ada Crowe was born in 9 Bramley Mews in 1876. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() David Jones-Parry Added: 7 Sep 2017 12:13 GMT | Mcgregor Road, W11 (1938 - 1957) I was born n bred at 25 Mc Gregor Rd in 1938 and lived there until I joined the Royal Navy in 1957. It was a very interesting time what with air raid shelters,bombed houses,water tanks all sorts of areas for little boys to collect scrap and sell them on.no questions asked.A very happy boyhood -from there we could visit most areas of London by bus and tube and we did. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() donna Added: 25 Jan 2021 13:25 GMT | Ladbroke Dwellings Three generations of my family lived along this row of dwellings, ’Ladbroke Dwellings’. All the men who lived there worked at the Gasworks. Among the shops you mention was Wilson’s sweet shop run by Maggie and her sister, and Johns grocery store. I believe there was also a photograph studio there too. Reply |
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![]() ![]() Added: 11 Apr 2021 20:03 GMT | North Harrow The North Harrow Embassy Cinema was closed in 1963 and replaced by a bowling alley and a supermarket. As well as the cinema itself there was a substantial restaurant on the first floor. Source: Embassy Cinema in North Harrow, GB - Cinema Treasures Reply | |||
![]() ![]() KJ Added: 11 Apr 2021 12:34 GMT | Family 1900’s Cranmer family lived here at 105 (changed to 185 when road was re-numbered) James Cranmer wife Louisa ( b.Logan) They had 3 children one being my grandparent William (Bill) CRANMER married to grandmother “Nancy” He used to go to Glengall Tavern in Bird in Bush Rd ,now been converted to flats. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() charlie evans Added: 10 Apr 2021 18:51 GMT | apollo pub 1950s Ted Lengthorne was the landlord of the apollo in the 1950s. A local called darkie broom who lived at number 5 lancaster road used to be the potman,I remember being in the appollo at a street party that was moved inside the pub because of rain for the queens coronation . Not sure how long the lengthornes had the pub but remember teds daughter julie being landlady in the early 1970,s Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Graham O’Connell Added: 10 Apr 2021 10:24 GMT | Lloyd & Sons, Tin Box Manufacturers (1859 - 1982) A Lloyd & Sons occupied the wharf (now known as Lloyds Wharf, Mill Street) from the mid 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Best known for making tin boxes they also produced a range of things from petrol canisters to collecting tins. They won a notorious libel case in 1915 when a local councillor criticised the working conditions which, in fairness, weren’t great. There was a major fire here in 1929 but the company survived at least until 1982 and probably a year or two after that. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Joyce Taylor Added: 5 Apr 2021 21:05 GMT | Lavender Road, SW11 MyFather and Grand father lived at 100 Lavender Road many years .I was born here. Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Beverly Sand Added: 3 Apr 2021 17:19 GMT | Havering Street, E1 My mother was born at 48 Havering Street. That house no longer exists. It disappeared from the map by 1950. Family name Schneider, mother Ray and father Joe. Joe’s parents lived just up the road at 311 Cable Street Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Fumblina Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:13 GMT | St Jude’s Church, Lancefield Street Saint Jude’s was constructed in 1878, while the parish was assigned in 1879 from the parish of Saint John, Kensal Green (P87/JNE2). The parish was united with the parishes of Saint Luke (P87/LUK1) and Saint Simon (P87/SIM) in 1952. The church was used as a chapel of ease for a few years, but in 1959 it was closed and later demolished. The church is visible on the 1900 map for the street on the right hand side above the junction with Mozart Street. Source: SAINT JUDE, KENSAL GREEN: LANCEFIELD STREET, WESTMINSTER | Londo Reply | |||
![]() ![]() Fumblina Added: 27 Mar 2021 11:08 GMT | Wedding at St Jude’s Church On 9th November 1884 Charles Selby and Johanna Hanlon got married in St Jude’s Church on Lancefield Street. They lived together close by at 103 Lancefield Street. Charles was a Lather, so worked in construction. He was only 21 but was already a widower. Johanna is not shown as having a profession but this is common in the records and elsewhere she is shown as being an Ironer or a Laundress. It is possible that she worked at the large laundry shown at the top of Lancefield Road on the 1900 map. She was also 21. She was not literate as her signature on the record is a cross. The ceremony was carried out by William Hugh Wood and was witnessed by Charles H Hudson and Caroline Hudson. Source: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1623/images/31280_197456-00100?pId=6694792 Reply |
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![]() | ![]() | ![]() The Tile Kiln, Notting Dale (1824) Credit: Florence Gladstone TUM image id: 1563720078 Licence: CC BY 2.0 | ![]() | ![]() The location became the Dolphin Pub.
This picture is captioned in the London City Mission magazine TUM image id: 1456741533 Licence: CC BY 2.0 |
![]() The Hippodrome, about 1840, showing St John’s Hill in the background. TUM image id: 1455369279 Licence: CC BY 2.0 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() West end of Bevington Road, near to the Golborne Road junction - late 1950s or early 1960s. TUM image id: 1456437933 Licence: CC BY 2.0 |
![]() Cambridge Gardens (Oxford Mews on the left here is now Malton Mews) Credit: Kensington Libraries TUM image id: 1563715236 Licence: CC BY 2.0 | ![]() | ![]() Local resident 'Trevor' who grew tomatoes in compost made from Frestonian residents' waste. TUM image id: 1455723675 Licence: CC BY 2.0 | ![]() | ![]() |