I have always been puzzled as to how the Job Centre on Harlesden High Street, and the DWP offices, above it got planning permission. Five stories is certainly out of scale with the rest of the street. I now think I know the answer. The site used to house the Willesden Hippodrome, a music hall erected in 1907 and destroyed by bomb damage in 1940. Still, I wish the block that replaced it had been rather less brutalist in construction.
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Here is a photo of the original willesden hippodrome.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32413393@N00/282450671/
Wow - looks like it was a great building. Not much traffic to block its entrance either.
Does anybody know what is happening to the land next door to the job centre?
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