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Dollis Hill Location OS grid reference: TQ225865 Latitude: 51.564167° Longitude: -0.234167° Administration London borough: Brent County level: Greater London Region: London Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Greater London Historic county: Middlesex Services Police force: Metropolitan Police Fire brigade: London Fire Brigade Ambulance service: London Ambulance Post office and telephone Post town: LONDON Postal district: NW2 Dialling code: 020 Politics UK Parliament: Brent East London Assembly: Brent and Harrow European Parliament: London London | List of places in London Dollis Hill is an area of north-west London. It lies close to Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent, and consists of the streets surrounding Gladstone Park, formerly the estate belonging to Dollis Hill House. Image File history File links Greater_london_outline_map_bw. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... 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An Estate (or housing estate) (mostly UK) refers to a defined area of housing, usually in a common style or built during the same period. ... [edit] History The Dollis Hill Estate was formed in the early 19th century, when the Finch family bought up a number of farms in the area to form a single estate. Dollis Hill House itself was built in the 1820s. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The code-breaking Colossus computer, used at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill by a team lead by Tommy Flowers. The station was relocated to Martlesham Heath at the end of the 1970s. A Colossus Mark II computer. ... During World War II, codebreakers at Bletchley Park solved messages from a large number of Axis code and cipher systems, including the German Enigma machine. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, London, was first established in 1921 and opened by the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1933. ... Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905–28 October 1998) was a British General Post Office (GPO) engineer who, during World War II designed Colossus — an early computer — to assist the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park. ... Map sources for Martlesham Heath at grid reference TM2547 Martlesham Heath village is situated 6 miles east of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. ... A World War II bunker for Winston Churchill called Paddock is located here. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Bunkers in Albania A bunker is a defensive military fortification. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Paddock is the codeword for an alternate Cabinet War Room bunker for Winston Churchills World War II government. ... Griffin Council Estate is notorious for the murders around the Area [edit] Famous Residents William Ewart Gladstone, the UK Prime Minister, was a frequent visitor to Dollis Hill House in the late 19th century. The year after his death, 1899, Willesden Council acquired much of the Dollis Hill Estate for use as a public park, which was named Gladstone Park. William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Mark Twain stayed in Dollis Hill House in the summer of 1900. He wrote that 'Dollis Hill comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I ever occupied'. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... British electronica artists the Future Sound of London and 4 Hero both come from the area. Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band, the duo of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. ... Comprised of Dego McFarlane, Mark Clair (Mark Mac), Gus Lawrence, and Ian Bardouille, 4 Hero are based in Dollis Hill, North London, from which they run their seminal Reinforced record label. ... There is also the Gladstoners, the famous teenage troupe. Consisting of Nathan, Lucas, Alastair, Tom and Roman. They routinely have fun fun fun in the Dollis Hill sun sun sun. [edit] Fictional References The fictional Dollis Hill Football Club features occasionally in the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and Dollis Hill tube station, although real, is frequently played in the radio panel game Mornington Crescent. Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio... Dollis Hill tube station is a London Underground station at Dollis Hill. ... The Mornington Crescent tube station, the games namesake Mornington Crescent is a game created by Geoffrey Perkins and popularised by the BBC Radio 4 programme Im Sorry I Havent a Clue (ISIHAC). ... Categories: Districts of London | Brent

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