With its mixture of elegant stuccoed Regency villas, Victorian stock-brick terraces, mansion flats of the 1890s, post-1945 council blocks, small-scale industry and eclectic variety shops, Kilburn is one of the most diverse and interesting areas in the city.
In the High Road, the fish shops, public houses, small factories and shops selling exotic vegetables and saris reflect the successive waves of immigrants that have given Kilburn its distinctly cosmopolitan flavour. Due to a large Irish population, there are a number of good Irish pubs here.
The Grade II listed Gaumont State Cinema, now owned by an Evangelical church, and the church at St. Augustine's, which was the third largest place of worship in London (after St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey) at the time of its construction.
The Tricycle Theatre is known for staging many thought provoking productions, some of which have made it to the West End and even New York.
In the 18th century, the 'medicinal waters' of the Kilburn Wells were marketed as a surefire cure for stomach ailments.