Don’t you just love finding random, interesting things out about where you live? When writing my article for Good Homes magazine for Aiveen Daly’s home, I discovered this interesting and extremely useful fact about the area. Upholsterer, Aiveen Daly lives in a quiet conservation area in north west London called Queens Park Estate. The whole area was designed and built in the late 19th Century for the new middle classes by William Austin for the Artisan Labourers & General Dwellings Company. Unhelpfully the man was a bit puritanical and decided not to build any public houses to tempt those hard working middle classes (boo)! He did however, name all the streets running from south to north alphabetically and the avenues left to right, from one to six. Why is this useful to me? Well, if you have been tempted by the daemon liquor (as I frequently am), in one of the pubs north or south of this area, and you have friends who live in this area that all look the same when inebriated, then you can work out where you are going, whilst wandering aimlessly around! Anyhow, back to the charming Mrs Daly! http://www.stylenv.co.uk/p_portfolioInfo.cfm?g=33
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