A HISTORY OF THE
CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN
formerly Our Lady of Compassion
IN WILLESDEN GREEN
being a revised and amplified version of
“A short history of the Parish of Willesden Green”
by Sean Mullin, CSSR (1979), compiled for the
Golden Jubilee of the present church on 2nd October 1988
by
ERIC BRENTINI
AD MIAIOREM DEI GLORIAM – TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD
Sections – please be patient, the sections are being slowly added
- Willesden Green 1879 – 1901
- The First Mass Centres 1901 – 1905
- The Sisters of Jesus and Mary 1901 –
- The Diocesan Missionaries 1904 – 1932
- Miss Barber
- 28 Park Avenue 1905 -1906
- Our Lady of Compassion
- The Convent School
- The Parish Priests of the Mission
- Brickfield
- Mission House 1910 – 1940
- The Parish 1910 – 1933
- The Elementary School 1928 –
- The Sisters of Charity 1923 –
- The Missionaries leave
- Fr Tom Fitzgerald 1934 – 1943
- The New Church
- The War
- Fr Henry Bryant 1943 – 1964
- Fr Joseph Eldridge 1965 – 1977
- Fr Charles Mercer 1977 – 1980
- Fr Seamus McGeoghan 1980 – 1983
- The Parish in 1988: Fr John Power 1983 –
- Priests who have served the parish
- Acknowledgements