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This row of tall tenement flats was built for the landowners, All Souls'College, Oxford, in the 1870's.
The last property on the left was also the location of the Board School for Kingsbury Parish, which opened in 1876, with classrooms on the lower two floors and a flat for the headmaster at the top. When Kingsbury Urban District Council was set up in 1900, one of the classrooms on the first floor was taken over and divided in two to provide an office and Council chamber, which was used until the Council moved to larger premises at Kingsbury Green in 1929.
In the 1930's, these tenement flats were described as 'the ugliest thing in rural Middlesex'.
The school was replaced by Oliver Goldsmith School, further up Kingsbury Road, at the top of the hill next door to Holy Innocents' Church, in 1937. The buildings are thought to have been damaged by bombing during World War II, and were demolished by 1950, when a row of new Wembley Borough Council flats was built on the site. '