If you walk down or up the Kilburn High Road you can't help but notice the massive development taking place at number 156-162 (?) on the camden side. It's a huge retail development that includes going down into the basements as well as an extension on the roof to add a residential floor.
In short it is a big major development. For too long it lay empty and looked like nothing was happening and now it's all a go-go.
So the other day I was wandering along the back along Kingsgate Place - a charming small cobbled street that has the Brazillian Cafe and the Youth Club Station in and happened to pause and look up.I'm not sure what I expected but I did not expect to see the quality of brickwork and windows that are there. It's got ana amazing perspective and sense of space and I can only assume are stunning inside.
It has a slightly church/chapel air about it but suspect it was just the finest of department stores from the late 19th century...
Any tips or leads from local residents out there who remember?
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I forget the name of it but yes there was a huge department store there complete with potted palms in the foyer, It was there until the sixties, I believe.
That street behind used to be the stables where London Transport kept all their horses for the north west horse drawn buses.
The department store was Evans, I think.
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