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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
Karen Buck, MP for Westminster North
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11:00 AM December 28, 2020
Karen Buck MP at the protest outside Queens Park nursery. Picture: Polly Hancock
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2021 will be better. At least, that is my most fervent hope after a year scarred by the havoc wreaked by the coronavirus and the devastating impact of the restrictions to control it.
We end the year with the hope offered by the vaccine, an extraordinary scientific achievement given the timescale!
While we are looking for reasons to be cheerful, it’s also important to recognise the amazing work done by frontline health and care workers, day in and day out since March.