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Sutherland Avenue is a street in
Sutherland Avenue is a street in Maida Vale
Maida Vale ( ) is an affluent residential district consisting of the northern part of Paddington in West London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn. It is also the name of its main road, on the continuous Edgware Road. Maida Vale is p ...
in London
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, England. Located in the City of Westminster
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on the northern edge of Little Venice
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. it is an avenue
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running east to west from the Edgware Road
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to Harrow Road
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. Along the route it is crossed or joined by Randolph Avenue, Warrington Crescent, Lauderdale Road, Castellian Road, Warwick Avenue and Shirland Road. Elgin Avenue
Elgin Avenue is a street in Maida Vale in London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs east to west from the A5 road (Great Britain), A5 road close to Maida Vale tube station west to the Maida Hill area where it meets the Harrow Road. Su ...
runs directly parallel to the north.
In common with much of the area, the street design was laid out by the architect
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George Gutch
George Gutch (1790-1894) was a British architect and to four successive Bishops of London surveyor for much of the Diocese's southern strip of the parish of Paddington.
Background
Gutch was son of John Gutch, rector of St Clement's and regis ...
in the Regency era
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and built during the following decades. The builder Hugh Biers played a role in developing the new wealthy residential street. Originally it was two distinct roads Stranraer Place and Sutherland Gardens which were combined in 1887 to create the single Sutherland Avenue.
Like much of the surrounding area, it had a considerable Jewish population
As of 2020, the world's "core" Jewish
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by the late Victorian era
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which was served by the Synagogue
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in neighbouring Lauderdale Road from 1896. The Greek
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poet
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Andreas Kalvos
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lived in the street in the nineteenth century and is now commemorated by a blue plaque
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. The film director
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Val Guest
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was born in the street. The poet Eddie Linden
Edward Sean Linden (born John Edward Glackin; 5 May 1935) is a Scottish poet, literary magazine editor and political activist. From 1969 to 2004, he published and edited the poetry magazine ''Aquarius'', which, according to ''The Irish Post'', m ...
published the poetry magazine, ''Aquarius'', from his flat on the street.
References
Bibliography
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