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Brook Road, LONDON, NW2 7DZ

Water supply for London, at the top of Dollis Hill

Brook Road rises up from Gladstone Park and Dollis Hill Lane to pass the covered Dollis Hill Reservoir before descending here to eventually meet the North Circular Road. This view is to the open land around the Brent Reservoir with Kingsbury beyond.

This is now Chartwell Court flats. It was built in 1933 as the Post Office Research Station, which included telecommunications research. The history section of the BT website http://www.btplc.com tells us that: "What is generally regarded as the world's first programmable electronic computer (Colossus) was designed and constructed by a Post Office Research Branch team headed by T H Flowers (1905-1998). It was constructed at Dollis Hill, and transported to Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, where it was demonstrated on 8 December. Bletchley Park was the centre of British wartime code breaking operations."

By Gladstone Park exit

Now in use as flats, this was formerly the Post Office Research Station where Colossus was built by a team led by Tommy Flowers. Colossus was the world's first digital electronic programmable computer. Colossus and its successors were used by code breakers at Bletchley Park to decrypt German messages during the Second World War. The computer used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform the calculations. A nearby street is named Flowers Close in honour of the team leader.

Located on Dollis Hill Lane, approximately 200yds from the one time Post Office Research Station. In 1939 work started on an alternative cabinet war room within the grounds of the research station called Paddock. There was no accommodation on site, so it was proposed that 60 flats in Neville's court would be used for housing war cabinet senior staff and secretaries. After the start of the London Blitz on 7th September 1940, Churchill visited the site and approved plans to knock two of the flats into one to form a double flat for himself and his secretaries. One week later the Office of Works requisitioned the whole of Neville's Court for the Government. information from Subterranea Britannica - see http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/p/paddock/index.shtml for the full story of Paddock.

The Church of St Mary and St Andrew with the church house next door.