This plaque on Kingsgate Community Centre is a really nice piece of inscription and very much 'of it's time'.THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
MRS STANLEY BALDWIN
WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
ON ST GEORGE'S DAY 1929
With really intricate carving around it.
The community centre itslef as a whole is really large and utterly misleading at first glance and at the point at which it was opened must have been a major community facility. Now it is slightly lost and in fact seen as slightly off the beaten track.
But it is important to remember the development of this part of Kilburn ws significant at this time - the Library in Cotleigh Road and Kingsgate School a couple of hundred yards away.I assume from the architecture that the building once hosted a police presence as well, but I'm uncertain as to it's other uses - but there must be some memories out there - perhaps amonst the West Hampstead and Kilburn Pensioners club...
Lucy Baldwin was very much her own person with a busy schedule of charitable and educational projects that she supported: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Baldwin
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