History of Kilburn and West Hampstead

Recently I found that Ludovic Charles McBean, known as L.C. MacBean in the film world, lived at several local addresses. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find a picture of him. Although born in Glasgow about 1875, six years old Ludovic McBean was living with his aunt in Lewisham by 1881. Ten years later in the 1891 census he had moved to 33 Maygrove Road in Kilburn, and aged 16 he was working as a clerk for a mining office. When he married Ida Esther Wood in 1905, he was at 113 Iverson Road Kilburn.  Three years later they had moved a short distance to 22 Agamemnon Road in West Hampstead, and he was now working as an electrical engineer for Hampstead Council in Lithos Road, off Finchley Road. They moved yet again to 77 Cricklewood Broadway by 1911. He and Ida had two daughters; a third child had died as an infant. In April 1919 they moved back to West Hampstead and were living at ‘Lyndale’ 124 Broadhurst Gardens (now demolished), where they stayed a few years. They moved out...