History of Kilburn and West Hampstead

This unusual story from over 30 years ago looks at events which had links from Kilburn to both national and international events. There are similarities with John le Carr é ’s The Little Drummer Girl which was written in 1983 and made into a TV series shown on BBC last year. In 1986 Ann Marie Murphy was living in a terraced house in Mazenod Avenue Kilburn which the 32-year-old shared with two friends. Ann was born into the large family of lorry driver William and Kathleen Murphy who lived in Sallynoggin Park Dun Laoghaire, a small coastal town about eight miles south of Dublin. She left school at 14 and worked for ten years at the Glen Abbey tights and stocking factory at Blackrock, about two miles from her home. In October 1984 Ann and her friend Therese Leonard came to London and got jobs as chambermaids for the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane . They initially lived in the staff house in Earls Court . Therese met Jordanian Khaled Hasi whose flatmate was fellow countryman Ne...