1865 Location of Express Dairy's 'Octagon Farm', Kenwood, demolished in 1935. (Map Courtesy National Library of Scotland)
1869 Octagon Model Farm at Kenwood was operated by Express until 1924, when it was demolished for the opening of Ken Wood by the King. From 1935 May-Dairymaid Magazine 47-Edited Highlight (Express Dairy Tales Archive)
1893 List of four farms operated by The Express Dairy Company, from 'Souvenir from Finchley' (Courtesy Brian Wastell)
1894 Location of Express Dairy's 'Octagon Farm', Kenwood, demolished in 1935.(Map Courtesy National Library of Scotland)
1925 opening by King George V of Ken Wood, Hampstead, site of the Octagon Farm. Ken Wood was owned and used by Express from 1869. (From 1935 May-Dairymaid Magazine 47-Edited Highlight -Express Dairy Tales Archive)
1980's? Kenwood Farm, Hampstead Lane, NW3. Grade II Listed 1064862 in 1983. www.heath-hands.org.uk comment "The first house on the Kenwood site was built in 1616, large areas of woodland were cleared to make way for the formal gardens. ‘Ken Wood’, the patch of woodland to the south of the estate, is a remnant of the Forest of Middlesex, an ancient woodland that once stretched 20 miles north of the City of London." (Courtesy Julian Osley)
