Former London borough. Municipal Borough of Willesden 1874 to 1965. In 1965 it was merged with Wembley to form the London Borough of Brent.
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Willesden Urban District Council
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Electricity Committee
Willesden District Council This stone was laid by C. Cowley Esq, Chairman of ...
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Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles, OBE
Born into an elite horsey family, close to the royals. 1960 commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and stayed in the mounted services for much of his military career, based at Hyde Park Barracks....
1 memorial
William Henry Matthews
J.P., Churchwarden and chairman of the St Pancras Vestry in 1897.
2 memorials
George Berridge
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial
Robert Stephenson
Railway and civil engineer. Born near Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of George Stephenson who built "the Rocket" locomotive in 1827. Robert was Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham Railway which ...
4 memorials
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Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
241 memorials
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Joseph William Comyns Carr
Born 47 Devonshire Street. Author, gallery director and theatre manager. In 1877 he became co-director of the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, which promoted the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brother...
1 memorial
German damage at St John's Lane
EC1, St John's Lane, 28
This building was partly destroyed by German aircraft on the 18th December 1917. Restoration completed 1919.
1 subject commemorated
J. Arthur Rank
Flour miller and film-maker. Born Joseph Arthur Rank at Chestnut Villas, Holderness Road, Drypool, Kingston upon Hull. He worked for many years in his (very wealthy) father's flour milling business...
1 memorial
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