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Download Your Copy of the Queen's Park Explorer Trail Here Queen’s Park Community Council (QPCC) is the Councillor first community (or parish) council in London. Our councillors are all local residents with a wide range of experiences and views. The councillors serve Quiz for four years. The next election will be in 2022. Queen’s Park 2020 1. Which former councillor was Queen’s Park Estate, just after it 9. Which councillor measures the first Mozart Community was built? the quality of the air in Queen’s Champion? Park, and is Chair of Friends of 5. Which councillor has an Queen’s Park Gardens? 2. Which councillor set up C4All MBE and was a director of The and runs a regular board games Tabernacle? 10. Which councillor runs the Explorer night and events? QPG Community and Sports 6. Which councillor is Hub? 3. Which councillor was President of the British Parking nominated Teacher of the Year, Association? 11. Which councillor supports and played for Arsenal, Chelsea The Children’s University at local 7. Which councillor founded and Tottenham Hotspur? schools? The Otherwise Club for local 4. Which councillor’s great families home-schooling and the 12. Which councillor writes for grandfather’s window cleaning Granville Kitchen? The Guardian? TRAIL business meant he was one of 8. Which councillor is a local Answers at side of this page. the first people to move onto the A walking trail around Queen’s Park Ward - Youth mentor? Find out about the council on our website full of interesting finds and facts. www.queensparkcommunitycouncil.gov.uk/about-queens-park-council MAP So much more to discover! Sources, links and further reading! INSIDE www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=968 www.British History Online, www.british-history.ac.uk www.thebeautifulhistory.wordpress.com/clubs/queens-park-rangers www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher_(politician) www.canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/paddington-arm-grand-union-canal www.ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk/map/grand-union-canal/paddington-arm www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/mp/p050/page083.htm 10. Ryan 9. Ray Lancashire Dalton 11. Stella Wilson Lawrence 12. Susanna Rustin 7. Leslie Barson 8. Orrel www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPevGYBD07M Barbe 2. Brian Nichols 3. Eartha Pond 4. Emma Sweeney 5. Gill Fitzhugh 6. John McArdle Answers: 1. Alfrena www.bombsight.org/#17/51.52837/-0.20610 www.rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/on-the-border-6-1-canal www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp217-221 www.stjohnskensalgreen.org.uk/welcome.htm www.londonist.com/london/pubs/paradise-by-way-of-kensal-green www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp217-221 www.pubwiki.co.uk/LondonPubs/Paddington/RoyalLancer.shtml London Street Names (book). Gillian Bebbington’s 1972 work on street name derivations. Hidden London. Historically inclined look at the capital’s obscure attractions. Londonist. All-encompassing website. British History Online. Digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources. • Fun trail with map & questions QUEEN’S PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL • Local history Find out the latest news on our website: www.queensparkcommunitycouncil.gov.uk • Councillor quiz We would love to hear from you! 020 8960 5644 | 07511 590997 | [email protected] HappyLizzy.com design & print: Positive Design Works Queen’s Park Welcome to the Queen’s Park Explorer Ward Explorer Trail - inside you’ll find a fascinating trail around the area with a TRAIL series of fun and interesting questions. The walk will take a few hours, with park breaks and places to stop and enjoy reading, so it can be split over a few days, and picked up again at any point. Note: some of the answers can be found on the map, some on the trail and some here in this fact- packed Local History section: © Ulrike Preuss 1882), although their official 1899 Both poor and 1979 The Avenues was founding date is 1882 the same comfortable households existed established in recognition of the as when Christchurch were when surveyed in Beethoven, lack of facilities targeting young first formed. QPR became a Herries, and Lancefield streets. Afro-Caribbean people in the professional team in 1889. A area. 7 October 1940 to 6 June plaque to commemorate the 1941 The London Blitz! Peach 1984 Stevie Wonder performed founding of QPR can be seen Street was demolished by a 500 live on the Mozart Estate. on St Jude’s Hall. pound German bomb dropped 1993 The Queen’s Park 1881 Beethoven Street School by parachute. It left a big crater Bangladesh Association was was opened. There were and the whole street was formed. infants on the ground floor, demolished. Debris from the girls on the first and boys at blast was blown into the air and 2012 QPCC shadow council Local History had begun his working life on a Street, Nutbourne the top, although it was soon landed as far away as Willesden was set up, with the first 12 farm as a scarecrow paid 1d per Street, Oliphant Street, Peach 1750 the whole area was fields, run as a mixed school under a where “it fell among people councillors elected in 2014. day, and had worked his way up Street. no railway, no canal yet. We can remarkable head teacher. The coming out of a cinema”. 2012 Mozart Community to become a drainage contractor. school had good laboratories, however see two main roads 1874 The north-east corner 1970s Farrant Street was Champions project was built up a regular attendance of Harrow Road and Kilburn Lane, The architecture of the estate of the estate was acquired by demolished and absorbed into launched. shaping the future Queen’s Park of some 2,000 small houses is the United Land Company. 700 and developed a flourishing the Queen’s Park Community 2016 QPG Community and Estate. distinctively Gothic-revival, with Four streets were eventually orchestra. Gardens. Volunteer gardening Sports Hub was set up. polychrome brickwork, pinnacles laid out - Beethoven, Mozart, 10 July 1801 The Paddington 1885 The school makes history sessions are open to the public and turrets along the bigger Herries, and Lancefield Streets. 2019 C4All community for all Arm (Grand Union Canal) by becoming the first school now through Friends of Queen’s roads. They were built from 1873-76. group was set up as a social opened. A huge crowd to offer woodwork classes for Park Gardens. It was thought that the grand boys. This was a success and club for local people to run (estimated to be 20,000 people) First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth 1974 Mr Isola Akay starts names would inspire the working followed in 1906 by cookery/ dominos clubs and events. turned out in what was then a and Sixth avenues are still there. training young black people people living there. The Rt Hon domestic science for girls. small rural village. excluded from gyms in local The original streets of the John Herries, was a member After the Second World War parks, and is eventually given 1838 The Great Western Queen’s Park Estate began of the Victorian Commission for Beethoven Street School was the derelict Queen’s Park Hall Railway opened. with the letters A through to P, Improving the Metropolis. later closed. It became part of although there was never a J. on Harrow Road to use as the 29 May 1854 Paddington It was on this estate that the first City of Westminster College for The street names have been All Stars Boxing Gym. Station opened. QPR footballers had their homes. some years. The Beethoven made into full words, Centre, the headquarters of 1976 The first black the Artizans, Labourers 1873 Alperton Street, Barfett 1882 Queens Park Queen’s Park Community British drama feature film & General Dwellings Company Street, Caird Street, Droop Rangers F.C. were formed Council is built on the site of Pressure is filmed along started building the Queen’s Park Street, Enbrook Street, Farrant in 1886, when a team the old Beethoven Secondary Harrow Road and Notting Hill, Estate. The Artizans Company Street, Galton Street, Huxley known as St Jude’s Institute School. directed by Horace Ové and was established in 1867 by Street, Ilbert Street, Kilravock (formed 1884) merged with starring Herbert Norville, Oscar William Austin, an illiterate who Street, Lothrop Street, Marne Christchurch Rangers (formed James and Frank Singuineau. Queen’s Park Kilburn Lane O Herries Street Explorer Bravington Road Portnall Road Ashmore Road TRAIL N wilberforce P Severn Ave primary school Kilburn Lane Q Beethoven St Oliphant St M Tolhurst Dr Dowland St Kilburn Lane Peach Rd beethoven Chamberlayne Rd Y centre Marban Rd Nutbourne Street Z Third Avenue Dart Street R Bruckner St Marne Street Parry Road Lothrop Street Lancefield St Kilravock Street K Ilbert Street Sixth Avenue X L T Ilbert Street Shirland Rd W S U Kilburn Lane Bruckner St Mozart St Droop Street Queen’s Park Droop Street Gardens Parish V Fourth Avenue Caird St church of Galton St J Huxley St saint john Fifth Avenue Enbrook Street Bravington Road Ladbroke Grove Queen’s Park Droop Street Second Avenue G Primary School I Queen’s F Third Avenue Park Briar Walk Barfett Street Harrow Roadlibrary E C Alperton St First Avenue H D all stars Queen’s Park Ward Explorer Trail boxing START A B Enjoy the walk and good luck with the questions! HERE A. Half Penny Steps, the footbridge had the communities of which they are 9. Find the words “Honi soit qui mal 11. What happened to the original streets reduced to short cul-de-sacs. 22. What date is carved on the wall? high sides and was very scary to cross part through various programmes and y pense” on the Royal shield.
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