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8 unusual facts about Willesden


Amelia Dyer

She went instead to 76 Mayo Road, Willesden, London where her 23-year-old daughter Polly was staying.

Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The full Olympic route was thus from Windsor, via Eton, Slough, Langley, Uxbridge, Ickenham, Ruislip, Harrow, Sudbury, Wembley, Willesden, and Wormwood Scrubs, to White City Stadium.

De Havilland Iris

Notable as the first aero engine to be designed by Geoffrey de Havilland it was produced in small numbers between 1909 and 1910 by the Iris Motor Company of Willesden from which it took its name.

Secret Secrets

The album was recorded and mixed at Battery Studios (previously known as Morgan Studios), in Willesden, London.

Vivex

It was produced by the British company Colour Photography Ltd of Willesden which operated the first professional colour printing service.

Willesden

By road, Willesden is connected to many places as the A41 road/A5 road runs close by in nearby Kilburn/Cricklewood.

In 1923, the specialist coach builder Freestone and Webb established their base in Willesden, producing bespoke cars on Rolls-Royce and Bentley chassis until 1956.

Willesden was the first location of Zomba Records where it remained for many years whilst growing into the International Music Company which would later release the music of such global artists as Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and Britney Spears.


Bishop of Willesden

The new bishop was given oversight of four rural deaneries: Hampstead, Hornsey, St Pancras and Willesden, previously the responsibility of the Bishop of Islington.

BR standard class 7 70048 The Territorial Army 1908–1958

During her life she was allocated to various depots including Chester, Willesden, Newton Heath, Annesley, Aston, Carlisle Upperby and finally Carlisle Kingmoor.

Ian Stanes

After this he was Priest Warden of Marrick Priory from 1976 to 1982 and the Willesden Area Officer for Mission, Ministry and Evangelism, London for a decade after that.

John Martin-Dye

He was born in 1940 in Willesden, North West London, and started swimming in 1948 at a club in Shepherd's Bush.

Kensington Canal

In the mid-1830s railways were being projected, in particular the London and Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway; both of these lines were to pass a little to the north of Kensington (at Willesden) and their London terminals were to be on the north-west fringe of London.

Pat Keen

Born in Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent, Keen trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the company of the novelist Paul Bailey, and after graduating in 1956, was offered a job at the Oxford Playhouse.

Peter Broadbent

Pete Broadbent (born 1952), Bishop of Willesden in the Church of England

Rowland Plumbe

Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe (2 February 1838, Whitechapel – 2 April 1919, Willesden), was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City.

Sir Richard Franklin, 1st Baronet

Franklin was the son of Sir John Franklin of Willesden Middlesex and his wife Elizabeth Purefoy, daughter of George Purefoy of Wadley Buckinghamshire and was baptised at Willesden on 20 July 1630.

Sir William Roberts

Sir William Roberts, 1st Baronet (1638–1688), of Willesden in Middlesex, English landowner and politician


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