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Metroline route 139: Waterloo Station, Tenison Way - Golders Green Station
Departed Belsize Road (G), towards Priory Road (H)
©London Bus Breh 2020.
Amazing...The Old Bank On College Crescent Now Long Gone..The Swiss Cottage Then Swiss Tavern Was Originally Built In The 1840s As A Coaching Inn..Partially Rebuilt In The Sixties...The Odeon Opened In 1937....The Old Tube Station Once On The Metropolitan line Then Bakerloo Now The Jubilee All Sadly Demolished Since All This Road Widening...
Metroline route 139: Waterloo Station, Tenison Way - West Hampstead, West End Green
Departing Belsize Road (G), towards Priory Road (H)
©London Bus Breh 2015.
NS238 / XO1122 with blow up tyres and a roof. Ian’s Bus Stop NS buses.
The photo is absolutely full of street life of this period. Being brought up in this area in the 1940/60s I only remember 4 cinemas in Kilburn. The State, largest cinema in UK, The Grange, both still standing (2020). There was also the Essoldo and the more refined Classic. For a short time we had the façade of the Bijou, under Kilburn bridge for the film “The Smallest Show on Earth”. But I never knew of the Palace in Belsize Road. I would guess that this is near to the Spa mentioned in Kilburn Wells. On the right of the photo, over the hording with the advertisement is the main that serves Euston Station. In my early years it would have been the LMS.
2020 Google Maps version. Notice in the google sceen the 31 bus stop still exists.
Photographer unknown.
The 31 bus route passes close by my home patch, in Belsize Road. It's another circuitous route that links west and north London. The North London terminus has always been at Camden Town, but having once served World's End, Chelsea, the West London terminus was then cut back to Notting Hill but has now been extended to the White City Westfield shopping complex by Shepherd's Bush. It was an unreliable route in its crew-operated days, being subject to delays and cancellations, but much worse was to follow in 1989, with the beezer idea of introducing minibuses, the notion being "little but often". It did not work like that in practice - the 31 became marked by long gaps in the service and crush-loading. Within 2-3 years, Dennis Dart midibuses replaced the minibuses, but still the overcrowding continued. I gave up on the route altogether. Then, great joy, in 2004 full-size double-deckers reappeared after a 15-year absence and the service frequency is good too. I am back on board. Volvo B7TL Alexander ALX400 VNL32266 (LT52WWM) is more usually found on the 10 - the normal offerings on the 31 from Westbourne Park garage are Volvo Wrights.
Post card indicating "Shopping Week", but wonder if the flags are for some other purpose. Historians may be able to throw light on this.
See my recent upload (also in comments) for more information regarding the bank building on the corner. To the right of that building is the Kilburn Bridge Station which looks like there could be fairly intensive work in progress.
I believe the tall building to the left of the bank was a telephone exchange. I have other shots with an array of telegraph polls radiating out carrying the over head wires.
Photographer unknown.
Kilburn was my home town for the first 21 years of my life. No trolleybuses, no trams and lots of buses. Ignored in the main by the early 1950s/60s transport photographers.
About the mid 18th century this area of Kilburn had a Well/Spa thought to have medicinal properties. Kilburn Wells.
The dominant building on the right was a pub named ”The Black Lion” and has the beast as part of it’s architecture, but pub no more. The building with the dome in the distance, on the corner of Belsize Road, has a plaque and pavement stone that is thought to be near to where the Wells existed.
2019 Google Maps shot of the same spot.
Photographer unknown.
Insomnia in einer Neumondnacht
Im Zirkelschluss gefangen sein
In altbekannten Konfusionen
Ohne Nachschub an Konklusionen
Eingeloggt und eingelocht
Wiederholt wiedergekaut
Nicht schlafen können
Nicht aufhören können
In einer leeren Neumondnacht
Ist viel
Ist alles viel zu viel
Zum Schlafen viel zu viel
Insomnia at new moon
Imprisoned in circular reasoning
In long familiar confusions
No newly supplied conclusions
Logged in and locked up
Repeated and rehashed
Unable to sleep
Unable to stop
On an empty night of the new moon
So much,
It's all much too much
To sleep, much too much
- Insomnia, Einstürzende Neubauten
Graffiti, Belsize Road
(replaced with a fractionally tighter crop for the Squared Circle group)
(c.1965)
(2011)
Swiss Cottage station was opened on 13th April 1868 by the Metropolitan & St John's Wood Railway (MSJWR) as their northern terminus from Baker Street. It remained the terminus until 30th June 1879 when the Metropolitan Railway (MET) extended the line up to Harrow, now called Harrow-on-the-Hill, and Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire.
The deep-level part of the station was opened on 20th November 1939 by the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) when a new deep-level tunnel was constructed between Baker Street and Finchley Road. This new section allowed a new branch of the Bakerloo line to take over the Metropolitan line's service to Stanmore. The Metropolitan line part of the station was closed on 18th August 1940.
The remaining Bakerloo line part of the station was, along with the rest of the Stanmore branch, was transferred to the new Jubilee line on 1st May 1979.
An estate pub, it seems to still be going, but if it is, only barely. It still has its old Ind Coope branding. As of 2022, it closed, and was demolished the following year for redevelopment by the council. (Close-up of pub sign, and older photo of it as The Cricketers from 2009.)
Address: 121 Abbey Road.
Former Name(s): The Cricketers; The Lillie Langtry; The Princess of Wales Hotel (on the same site).
Owner: Admiral Taverns (former); Ind Coope (former).
Links:
The building was a bank when built. Holland & Barrett do not seem to have done very well. (Maybe they have moved?).
Photos taken on one of my revisits to former years patch. The plaques are as follows. Left one on the wall of the building visible in main photo. The right one in the pavement near to the very right hand traffic lights.
This position of the wells is challenged and the spa/well is most likely to have been to the East of this photo. See more here :- Kilburn Wells.
(1906)
(2012)
A view from the corner of Belsize Road looking along Abbey Road towards St Mary's Church which is visible in both photos.
As the bottom photo shows, the houses lining this stretch of Abbey Road have long since gone and were replaced by the Abbey Estate which was completed in the late 1960s.
Eight storey residential slab built late 1960s to a design by Austin-Smith, Salmon & Lord (ASL), scheduled to be demolished as part of a regeneration scheme by Levitt Bernstein. London Borough of Camden.
(1906)
(2011)
Looking down Belsize Road at the junction with Abbey Road.
The pub shown in the top image was the Princess of Wales. The Lillie Langtry pub now occupies the same spot beneath Emminster House built in 1969 as part of the Abbey Estate.
Residential slab built late 1960s to a design by Austin-Smith, Salmon & Lord (ASL), scheduled to be demolished as part of a regeneration scheme by Levitt Bernstein. London Borough of Camden.
(c.1905)
(2016)
This view is looking north up Fairfax Road from the roundabout where it meets Fairhazel Gardens, Belsize Road, Hilgrove Road and Loudoun Road.
Attractive pub just around the corner from Kilburn High Road station. Closed briefly in 2018 for refurbishment.
Address: 250 Belsize Road (formerly at St Georges Terrace).
Owner: Stonegate Pub Company; Enterprise Inns (former); Father Ted Pubs and Bars (former); TW Gustrust (former); Truman Hanbury Buxton (former).
Links:
(c.1910)
(2014)
This view is looking along Fairhazel Gardens towards Goldhurst Terrace from the junction with Belsize Road.
An estate pub, it seems to still be going, but if it is, only barely. It still has its old Ind Coope branding and since this photo was taken seems to have returned to being The Lillie Langtry. It closed in 2022, and was demolished the following year for redevelopment (Close-up of pub sign, showing the old name.)
Address: 121 Abbey Road.
Former Name(s): The Lillie Langtry; The Princess of Wales Hotel (on the same site).
Owner: Admiral Taverns (former); Ind Coope (former).
Links:
In the early evening of 14 August 1975 for a period of 2 to 3 hours, a small area of north London was subjected to the most intense rainstorm ever known in the city. On Hampstead Heath a total of 170.8mm was recorded, most of it in two and a half hours, and within the vicinity a flood disaster of unprecedented magnitude. Cars floated along streets which resembled canals, torrents of water bore down walls, poured into basements, filled subways, burst sewers and brought the Underground to a standstill. Many houses were damaged and dozens of families were evacuated and had to be rehoused the next day.
(year unknown)
(2013)
This view is looking along Harben Road at the junction with Belsize Road.
The road was previously called Albion Road and ran from Fairfax Road (just around the curve of the street in the above photos) through to Hillgrove Road.
The stretch of road between Belsize Road and Hillgrove road has now been built upon and no longer exists. The remaing part of the road between Belsize Road and Fairfax Road was renamed sometime between January 1936 and July 1939.
In contrast with the big freeze of December 2010, we were a jammy lot in London this winter just past. The only snow that settled fell one February Saturday evening, and by Sunday morning, it was turning fast into melting slush. Nipping down to the bottom of my NW6 street to fetch the Sunday papers, I snatched this record of First London Volvo B7TL/Wright Gemini on the 31, negotiating the roundabout at Belsize Road/Fairhazel Gardens/Fairfax Road. Next stop: Swiss Cottage.