EPW034481 ENGLAND (1930). Housing under construction at Springfield Mount and environs, Kingsbury, 1930

Hyde House Farm The Springfield Mount estate was built by Laing's between 1929 and 1935 on the fields of Hyde House farm, which had been owned since the 1440's by All Souls' College, Oxford. The farm here had existed since at least Tudor times, but is probably most famous for being the place where the writer, Oliver Goldsmith, lodged for several years around 1770-73, and where he wrote the play "She Stoops to Conquer".

Holy Innocents' Church, and vicarage. The church was built in 1874, becoming the parish church of Kingsbury in place of the ancient (c.1100 AD) St Andrew's Church in the south of the parish. The vicarage was built a year or two later, but the large old building behind the church was replaced as the home for the vicar around 1930, and the building here was used for a few years as a "Babies Home" by the Church of England Children's Society, then as a home for Jewish refugee girls from Germany. The old vicarage was demolished in the 1950's, to allow for the expansion of Oliver Goldsmith Primary School, which was built in the field behind the vicarage in 1936/37, for the children of the Springfield Mount estate.

This could be Everett Edgecumbe's factory on Colindeep Lane

The Ridgeway

Parade at the junction of Edgware Road and Sheaveshill Avenue 11/3/2014

Looking east down Wakemans Hill Avenue towards the Edgware Road 11/3/2014