Londons Maida vale in Spring a Painting by Rob Miller

Maida Vale work in progress cherry blosom in springtime work in progress.

Maida Vale is a residential district in West London between St John's Wood and Kilburn. It is part of City of Westminster. The area is mostly residential, and mainly affluent, consisting of many large Edwardian blocks of mansion flats, though it is also home to the BBC Maida Vale Studios. In Maida Hill in the south, the Paddington Basin, a junction of three canals with many houseboats, is known as Little Venice.

It starts off the Edgware Road (or A5) from Kilburn, near Kilburn High Road station running south-east, past Maida Vale tube station, through the district known as Maida Vale. Just to the east of Maida Vale is St John's Wood and Lord's Cricket Ground. Where it meets St. John's Wood Road, Maida Vale reverts to the name Edgware Road.

Maida Vale acrylics 70 x70 cm

History. The area was developed by the Church Commissioners in the early 1800s as middle class housing. The district acquired its name from the Hero of Maida, a public house which opened on the Edgware Road soon after the Battle of Maida, 1806.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Maida Vale was a predominantly Jewish district, and the area contains the 1896 Spanish & amp; Portuguese Synagogue (a Grade II listed building) and headquarters of the British Sephardi community. The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, lived within sight of this synagogue on Warrington Crescent. The pioneer of modern computing, Alan Turing was born a few hundred yards further down this same road.

Formosa Street Maida Vale 

Maida Vale tube station was opened on June 6, 1915, on the Bakerloo Line.#

So how interesting was all that? I like the bit about the Maida Battle and respect the housing some of which is quite beautiful in the spring.