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Newest Review: ... This, combined with the coming of the railways, began the social changes that have made Kilburn London's pre-eminent Irish quarter. Although why they chose Kilburn is still a mystery to me. Any ideas welcome. The high road today is a million miles from the Roman road or the pilgrim’s way it must once have been. It’s shabby, it’s not fashionable, there’s no Starbucks or Bierodrome, no Hennes or Benetton. But then it isn’t as low down as some of the other small high streets in the city. It has more chutzpah that Denmark Hill and better shops than Peckham High Street. But then it is not Hampstead either̷... more

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Kilburn: Ballykilburn; So good they named it! (1126 words)
by - written on 11/04/01 (Very useful, 212 readings)
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Last week, whilst strolling down the Kilburn High Road on a glorious sunny evening after work. I saw something that made me wonder why I like Kilburn and why I am proud to be, and hope to remain, a Kilburnian. Heading South, I reached the Willesden Lane Junction when I saw, on the pavement, a rat. Now I know we are never so very far away from a rat in London but it isn’t often we see them in the street. And usually if you do spot them they are running madly for a bolt-hole. Well this rat was ambling, not running or skirting along the gutter, but strolling down the middle of the road like an Edwardian lady on Brighton Promenade. But by the time I had got home I had ... Read the complete review

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