HISTORY
| Between
1940 and 1960 the areas of Cricklewood, Harlesden and Kilburn became a
focal point for the rapidly growing Irish community in London. For
those that stayed and those that returned home, The Crown pub on
Cricklewood Broadway, which is immortalized in McAlpines Fusiliers by
Dominic Behan, remains an icon of the times. This
photo of Pake McNicholas, Pitcher (Michael) McNicholas and Margaret
McNicholas, from Co. Mayo, was taken outside The Crown in 1947. Michael
McNicholas was the founder of McNicholas Construction ‘The Brown Macs’. |
