History of Maida vale?

Answer 1

Here is a piece from the local paper:

'“2006 – this year marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Maida, an early victory in Britain’s historic resistance against one of Europe’s most notorious tyrants.

A British garrison landed 5,000 British soldiers to tackle Napoleon’s occupying troops in the small village of San Pietro di Maida in southern Italy on 4 July, 1806.

In a single day the British outmanoeuvred and outfought a larger French force and roundly defeated Napoleon’s crack veterans, who had never before suffered a defeat on land.

The victory brought such pride back home that two areas of Westminster – then, as now, the seat of the monarchy, parliament and government – were renamed Maida Vale and Maida Hill.'

The rest, as above, you can see in Wikipedia.

Answer 2

This is the history of Maida Vale tube station if you asking about Maida Vale tube station-
Maida Vale opened on 6 June 1915 on the Bakerloo Line's extension from Paddington station to Queen's Park, although services had been running non-stop through the incomplete station to Kilburn Park since 31 January 1915 and to Queen's Park from 11 February 1915. The station is located at the junction of Elgin Avenue and Randolph Road and for a time prior to its opening the proposed name for the station was Elgin Avenue.

The station building, designed by the Underground Group's architect Stanley A Heaps, was constructed in a modified style of the earlier Leslie Green designed Bakerloo Line stations with glazed terra cotta façades. It was also one of the first London Underground stations built specifically to use escalators rather than lifts and therefore does not have the large semi-circular windows at first floor level that would have denoted the position of the lift machine room.

Answer 3

Maida Vale is a road in north-west London, and a district surrounding it. The road starts in Kilburn, near Kilburn High Road station as a continuation of Kilburn High Road. It is a section of the Edgware Road, which is in turn part of Watling Street. It goes south-east, past Maida Vale tube station, through the district known as Maida Vale. To the east is St John's Wood and Lord's Cricket Ground. When it meets St. John's Wood Road, Maida Vale reverts to the name Edgware Road.

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. The area is mostly residential, and affluent, consisting of many large Edwardian Mansion Houses. It encompasses the Paddington basin, a junction of three canals with many houseboats. This area is also known as Little Venice.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Maida Vale was a predominantly Jewish district, and the area contains the 1896 Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (a Grade II listed building).

Maida Vale is also home to a BBC Recording and Broadcast Studio, used primarily by BBC Radio 1. The studio was also home to John Peel's Peel Sessions, a regular slot in which a current popular band would play a set exclusively for the show. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based here from 1958 until the Workshop was shut down in 1998. Their pioneering Delaware synthesiser took its name from the studio's Delaware Road address. The studio is nicknamed "Maida Vegas" by Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe when he uses the studio for his show.

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

Answer 4

Go to the BBC people's war website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/
And put Maida Vale in the search box (bottom left of page), for some war time accounts.

See also wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maida_Vale

Answer 5

Venice (Venezia) actually needs no introduction, see how to get there with hotelbye . That town has been a fabled destination for centuries. Only the title Venice will do to conjure up a host of photographs, also for folks who have not even collection base in Italy. From gondoliers in striped jerseys to the Rialto and the Bridge of Sighs, bad balls, golden barges, courtesans in gondolas and failing palaces facing streets manufactured from water Venice is a fantastic city. When the only real bridge over the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge scars the location of the island's first settlement, called Rivus Altus and has become one of many plenty of place that Venice has to offer.

Answer 6

Firoze Maidavala or maidawala is my friend and he is Parsi. He is a very good natured person and spent most of the time hitting on women, smoking cigerates and drinking beer. His history is that, we had His great grand father had a floor mill and so their name became Maidawala. I know this is not the answer of this question but I'm going to send this question and my answer to him and some others. Reading this, he will be furious and it would be a great pass-time for us.

Answer 7

Drinking???

Answer 8

Used to be called Putney and before that Birmingham