The Mill Hill Park Conservation Area in Acton, London W3 covers an early garden suburb, the Mill Hill Park Estate, laid out in the 1870s by two famous father-and-son builders, both called William Willett. Their high-quality, desirable mansions can also be seen in Chelsea and Mayfair. Apart from being a builder of beautiful houses, the younger William Willett is now more famous for promoting the Daylight Savings Act, which created British Summer Time.

Signs of life and residency on the piece of land where Mill Hill Park now lies have been traced by Museum of London archaeologists back through medieval, Saxon and Roman times through th eBronze Age to the prehistoric era.

For a history of the area up to the present time, click here.

The old Mill Hill Tavern

Long gone …. the billiard hall on Gunnersbury Lane

Still there... the very large house - small castle, some say - at the 'dog leg' corner at the eastern end of Avenue Gardens

Tricycle Club, Mill Hill Road, 1882