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Maida Vale took its name from a small Italian town and an even smaller pub, so it’s the perfect place to celebrate the end of lockdown, says Carla Passino.
It’s strange to walk around Maida Vale’s stately roads and think that none of this existed until 200 years ago.
Of course, woods and fields had long occupied the stretch of land north of Paddington, but the area had no name of its own. Then a battle changed everything.
When, in 1806, the British troops inflicted a burning humiliation on the Napoleonic army at Maida a small Calabrian town few Italians would be able to pick out on a map a patriotic pub on Edgware Road named itself