Video of illustrated talk of the History of Cricklewood
Click on this link: http://vimeo.com/2257136
It starts out a little shaky but once you get a few minutes in the slides come into focus... This is a talk that was given at Cricklewood Library on 9th October 2008 by Malcolm Barres-Baker, of the Brent Museum. He gave a talk with slideshow about the history of Cricklewood illustrated with photos from the local archives. Many thanks to Lynette for doing this.
Name of “Cricklewood” is Saxon for “the wood with the uneven outline”.
The original Cricklewood was a remnant of an earlier forest on the western side of Watling Street – the modern Edgware Road – north of Sherrick Green Lane – today Walm Lane.
- In 1870 Childs Hill station was opened and in 1903 renamed Cricklewood.
- Crown has stood on the eastern side of Cricklewood since 1751 and was rebuilt in 1889.
- By 1875 there were 36 houses in the Willesden portion of Cricklewood including the Windmill Inn to the north of Cricklewood Lodge
and still fairly rural with sheep being driven up the Edgware Road
- In 1879 opening of Willesden Green Metropolitan station with trains to Baker Street every 10 minutes.
- In 1893 Pine Road was built and in 1897 Larch Road was under construction
- Cricklewood got it’s own newspaper in 1900 – Cricklewood Observer.
- 1914 – 1915 ordnance survey map shows a Picture Palace and a skating rink on Edgware Road.
- Temple Road – first entry in Kelly’s Street directories was 1906, when it numbered 1 – 61A on the South side and 2 – 18 on the perhaps less complete North side. By 1914, this North side still only numbered 2 – 28.
