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Crewe Place, LONDON, NW10 6TR

Along with Webb Place and Stoke Place, this is part of the estate built for its workers by the London & North Western Railway. Part of the estate, it seems, falls into the London Borough of Hammersmith, the rest being in Ealing. In any case, the whole is a designated conservation area. My friend, ceridwen, points out that the survival of such company residential estates is a rarity in London http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773429 To my knowledge, something of the sort - on a smaller scale - survives at Merthyr Terrace, SW13, built to house water-board workers.

I first noticed the sign saying 'Railway Cottages' (by the down-pipe on the building nearest the camera) many years ago - and because they're not far from the old GWR's main London depot at Old Oak Common, I assumed it was the Great Western which had built them. But - on this visit I looked more closely, and found that the first opening on the right leads to Webb Place, the second to Stoke Place, the third to Crewe Place. Crewe was - of course - a railway town, but the railway which built it was the London & North Western; Francis Webb was chief engineer at Crewe Works from 1871 to 1903; the Stoke conurbation was very much part of LNWR territory. Local sources give the date of the development as 1889. I would have guessed that the little terraced cottages in the 'Places' were older - but the fact that Mr Webb's name is commemorated makes that unlikely. The part of the old railway estate on this side of the main road has been designated a conservation area by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. See also ceridwen's contribution: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1773429

It looks like new and T registration is around 1976.

The tower is by the railway behind.

Between Willesden Junction and the Grand Union Canal, Old Oak Lane forms part of a conservation area comprising terraces of former railway cottages.

At the junction of Goodhall Street. I thought Park Royal began at Victoria Road across the canal but the new road signs tell you this is Park Royal.

These cottages form part of an estate built by the London & North Western Railway in 1889 to house its workers in the vicinity of Willesden Junction with its locomotive shed and extensive freight yards. Many of the houses on Old Oak lane and the surrounding streets remain unmodified and the estate has been designated a conservation area since 1990 due to its importance to the social history of the area. Several of the street names have strong connections with railway history - Crewe, Stoke, Stephenson and Webb.

Old Oak Lane is one part of the A4000 connecting Acton with Harlesden. This stretch is part of a conservation area based on a small estate of former railway cottages originally built by the LNWR close to their extensive facilities in the Willesden Junction area.

These cottages form part of an estate built by the London & North Western Railway in 1889 to house its workers in the vicinity of Willesden Junction with its locomotive shed and extensive freight yards. Many of the houses on Old Oak lane and the surrounding streets remain unmodified and the estate has been designated a conservation area since 1990 due to its importance to the social history of the area. Several of the street names have strong connections with railway history - Crewe, Stoke, Stephenson and Webb.