EPW034998 ENGLAND (1931). Residential development around Glebe Avenue, Kenton, 1931

Lodge cottage at the entrance to Stanmore Isolation Hospital.

Kingsbury Lido (open air swimming pool) was built and opened here in 1939.

This is a bit of a puzzle. This is the area in Princes Avenue where the new building for Kingsbury County School was built, replacing the former site in the Edgware Road. Construction of the school is said to have started in 1929 and the school opened in 1931, but in this photograph (1931) there appears to be little sign of it nor of the adjacent and contemporary Roe Green Primary School. This site and part of Roe Green Park were previously the site of Kingsbury Polo Club.

This looks like it might be the prepared alignment of the Metropolitan Railway branch to Stanmore.

Valley Farm

Kingsbury Manor

Old Kenton Lane. The original course of Kenton Lane, which led from Stanmore to The Hyde (Edgware Road) via Woodcock Hill, Kenton.

This is where Kingsbury Circle would be built along with the 584 Garage and the Prince of Wales public house.

St Paul's Avenue

Preston Hill

This is where the bridge carrying Princes Avenue over the Met Railway Stanmore branch would be sited.

Berkeley Road

Brampton Road

This is a very interesting moment in time, probably early in 1931. The buildings marked here, on the south side of Kingsbury Road, are probably the main depot of Messrs Walter Scott & Middleton Ltd, the contractors hired by the Metropolitan Railway to build their extension from Wembley Park to Stanmore. There was a very tight deadline for this project, and by the end of 1932 the line had been opened and Kingsbury Station (on what is now London Underground's Jubilee Line)stood on this site. You can read about the building of this railway line in an illustrated article in the Brent Archives Local History Resources collection at: http://www.brent.gov.uk/media/387473/Building%20the%20Stanmore%20Line.pdf The attached photograph, from the article, shows a cutting being excavated, for the line through Kingsbury Station, just to the south (top right)of the depot.

Kingsbury Hospital

Site of future Glebe School

Kenmore Park Estate. (yet to be built)

Malvern Gardens

Honeypot Lane

Charlton Road

Glebe Avenue

Glebe Crescent