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Harrow Cemetery.

1887 unassuming monuments. Timber Cenotaph. Brick chapel. Lodge in Norman Shaw style but vandalised.

Headstone

‘Hegeton’ in the 14^th– the manor enclosed by the hedge

Headstone

‘Hegeton’ 1348, ‘Heggestone’ 1367, ‘Heggeton’ 1398, ‘Hedston’ 1754, probably 'farmstead enclosed by a hedge', from Old English. The unhistorical spellings with He(a)d- do not make their appearance until the late 17th century. The original name no doubt refers to Headstone Manor a moated manor house partly dating from the 14^th and referred to on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822 as  Headstone Farm; it is now the Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre.

Headstone Drive

Kodak Museum 1927, originally Kodak factory of 1891

Kodak works

Social centre

Headstone Manor. Middlesex residence of the Archbishop's of Canterbury from 1307 to 1546 Beckett stayed there. Wolsey lived here. Confiscated by the Crown in 1546 and sold on the same week.  14th century. Roof original. Headwaters of the Yeading in the moat. Only one bay left. Used for functions and recreation.  Restored with two storey frontage.  Brick moat and ducks. Remodelled in the 17th century old bricks with 1501 on them. Used as a Farm until 1923 and on the whole left to rot. Only example of an aisled hall left in London. Oldest timber framed building in Middlesex.

Barn, 1533 barn rebuilt 1973. Local History Museum with a ceramic collection. Built for the Manor Farm. 

Racecourse in use until 1899 and closed following a riot.

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Railway Line

Metropolitan Extension to Pinner Lane, Rickmansworth in 1887. The Harrow and Rickmansworth Company ran across the fields.

Line to Uxbridgebuilt by the Metropolitan Harrow and Uxbridge railway in 1904.  It left the Metropolitan main line west of Harrow on the Hill down to Rayners Lane Junction.

Sumner Road

St.Peter

Vaughan Road

West Harrow Station. Built by the Metropolitan Railway following 'energetic House building' locally. It is on an embankment, and handled 40,000 passengers a month in its first three years. It opened on 17th November 1913, and was the last of the halts added to the line. It originally consisted of a hut at street level for tickets, and a pair of wooden platforms with shelters on both sides, but with open paths leading down to the road. In 1928-29, platforms were lengthened to take eight-car trains, and the station accommodation was improved. A little tree-lined path leads up to the station. In the 1990 the station buildings began to slip off the embankment and the whole thing was rebuilt with white enamel platforms. New street buildings are in the style of a greenhouse however there is still no staircase to the down side.

Roxborough Road

St Thomas of Canterbury

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Bessborough Road

Roxteth Farmhouse. Further on the edge of playing fields and so stillwith a rural air, an appealing earlyc18 front, weatherboarded, with five sash-windows; one laterbay.

CunninghamHouse. Less obtrusive, 1975 by Green, Lloyd & Adams for the Harrow BuildingSociety

Byron Hill Road

Baptist Church, plain stock brick Gothic of 1862 and 1872.  In other use.

Byron Hill House,  extensions of 1887 for J. T. Prior are now surrounded by new development,

Middle Road

60-66 1887 E.S.Prior.  a row of highly picturesque cottages with quirky porches and tilehanging alternating with roughcast.

Cottages - plain earlier c 19 and villas further down the hill underline how much the vernacular revival of 60-66 was a conscious reaction against the immediate past

John Lyon School. Dominates.  It was established to serve the local needs no longer fulfilled by the older foundation.  The original building of 1876 by H. M. Burton,  later, plainer buildings in dark brick by Sheppard Robson & Partners, 1973, 1981, 1989.

Red House. Occupied by John Lyon School. Its substantial back addition is of 1883-5 by E. S. Prior for his brother John T. Prior. 

Roxeth

Means spring where the rocks drain

Cunningham House

Shaftesbury Circle

J.J. Moon's

Summer Road:

St Peter

Watford Road

231 John Lyon

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Eastcote Lane

Rooks Heath High School

Roxteth Manor Schools

Hornbuckle Close

Harrow School Laundry E. S. Prior 1887-8, the superintendent'shouse with workers' dining hall below. Mount Park Road

Mount Park Estate, where 'sites for residences that cannotbe surpassed in any of the southern counties' were being advertised already in 1879.

Northolt Road

The remains of the older settlement replaced by offices near South Harrow station.  Miscellaneous development replacing c 19 artisan housing, 

British Legion HQ.  1928 by S. Pointon Taylor, .

Grange Farm housing by Harrow Architect's Department completed 1968, built on an industrialized system; .

Roxteth

Began as a separate hamlet, for whicha church and school were supplied in the mid c19

Roxeth Hill

Christ church, 1862

Vicarage, now a nurses' home and much altered, is by George Peto, 1884-6

Roxeth schools

Harrow Hospital

Railway Line

Northolt Road Junction was north of South Harrow Station on the London side of the bridge over the Harrow/Northolt road.  Here the District Line from Sudbury met the Metropolitan Railway’s Uxbridge Line.

South Hill Avenue

South Hill Estate. Pointon Taylor and Raymond Unwin.  1910.

South Harrow Station. 28th June 1903. Between Rayners Lane and Sudbury Hill on the Piccadilly Line. Built as part of the Metropolitan District Railway Electric service from Ealing. The Entrance was on the main road. The area is really called Roxteth but the railway thought ‘South Harrow’ sounded posher. The original station building was located south of the existing station and was accessed from South Hill Avenue. It was similar to the building at North Ealing and remains, adjacent to the eastbound platform, in the car park on the north side of the tracks. In 1935 a new station was opened accessed from Northolt Road. This was designed by Holden as a graduated structure stepping up on each side to the platforms of the high level tracks. The brick walls and bands of horizontal glazing are capped with a series of flat concrete slabs

Sidingsfor the gas company north of Northolt Road. Coal train daily for the gas works.

Harrow District Gas co. works north of the station.  Opened in 1855 and got their coal from the canal wharf at Greenford Green. After 1904 it came via the railway.

Orley Farm School

Wyvenhoe Road

Weldon Park Schools

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Railway

cutting for the line to Neasden. Great Central Line to Neasden goes below the line between Sudbury Hill and South Harrow.

car sheds and a well built station house north of the cutting

Railway - South harrow tunnel 1905 on the Great Central Railway

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College Road

Bus Station

Elmgrove Road

First council houses in the area 1920s

Gayton Road

Library

Greenhill

The commercial centre in this area

Lowlands Road

Sheridan House

Lyon Road

Office Blocks The first largepost-war buildings loom up part ofthe 1960s drive for out-of-town offices: 1965 by Morgan & Branch.

Queen's Road

First National House

Railway Approach

Sheepcote Lane

St.John the Baptist. 1904, site of an earlier church.

Greenhill Farm, weather boarded barn eighteenth century

Cannon Cinema.  Former Granada, 1937 by J. Owen Bond, with an interesting interior by T. Komisarjevsky in classical vein, very complete, a curious contrast to his Gothic fr. ivolities at Tooting and Woolwich.  Listed Grade II built on the site of the old Greenhill Manor House.

St Ann's Road

The consumer-boom developments of the 1970s-80s lie on both sides of the pedestrianised road.The gardens of the houses were later built over for single storey shops known as 'bungalow fronts'.  The formation of the Metropolitan Surplus Lands Committee in 1887 served to develop housing on land adjacent to the route of the line outwards from Willesden Green

St Ann's. spectacular 1986-7 by BernardEngle & Partners, with a covered shopping mall by David DaviesAssociates.  Opened by Ms.D.Windsor in 1987.  Nine screen cinema inside.

Queen's House. Aneight-storey curtain-walled slab, also incorporates car parks, .

First National House, 1978-81 byG.M.W. Partnership, shops alonga covered way to the station.  Station Road

With College Road and St.Ann's Road was a tiny hamlet

Harrow on the Hill Station. 2nd August 1880. Between Rickmansworth and Marylebone on Chiltern Railways, and between Preston Road and West Harrow and between Preston Road and West Harrow on the Metropolitan Line. Metropolitan Railway.  Opened as ‘Harrow’. Metropolitan ran here from Baker Street. Main buildings on the down side for the importance of the old town on the hill. Also serving Roxteth.  Entrance on the up side for Greenhill. Station designed for dignity in modified Queen Anne style, single storey with a clock tower. Architect A.McDermott. Opening dinner held at the King’s Head.  Free journeys to Willesden Green on opening day. 1885 Harrow to Pinner opened by the Metropolitan Railway.  1894 Name changed to ‘Harrow on the Hill’. 1899 Marylebone service started. 1900s considerable rebuilding. 1935 station rebuilt completely in Holden style. 1980s College Road entrance demolished Built by Kingsbury and Harrow Railway,. St John's Wood from Baker Street Line opened to there in 1880 by Watkin as part of his vision for extending the Metropolitan and Called ‘Harrow’ from that date. First station on the K & H branch of the Metropolitan. The station was opened as plain Harrow on 2nd August 1880, and was a modest two-track affair. Its title was expanded to ‘Harrow-on-the Hill’ on 1st June 1894, and the premises were enlarged to four platforms in 1908. The Harrow to Uxbridge line built by the Metropolitan with steam traction in 1904, Last station into London to allow Great Central trains to stop at Metropolitan Stations.Major reconstruction took place between 1939 and 1948 under LT's 'New Works' programme, culminating in a station with six tracks and three island platforms.

Fly under.  On leaving Harrow, Oxbridge trains use a fly under which segregates them from the 'main line' to Amersham and beyond. This was constructed in anticipation of extra traffic which would be generated by the opening of the Metropolitan route to Watford, together with the introduction of new electric services to Rickmansworth, and was in use from 14th September 1925

Metropolitan Electric Substation in 1905 taking power from Neasden

Goods Yard

National Westminster Banister Fletcher, 1915, .

Harrow Cinema Theatre

The Hill

Post Office Ludlow Wallbox

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Harrow Park

Planned estates with large detached arts and crafts houses. A few large houses appearbetween the shrubberies.

Newlandsbuilt as a boarding house for Harrow School in 1889 by W. C. Marshall, brother ofa housemaster, 

Folly. Among trees, the ruinous remains of a Gothick Folly which stood in the grounds of the Park

Julian Hill

JulianHill leads to the house of the same name built for AnthonyTrollope's father in 1817: two storeys, Model for Orley Farm by Trollope

Julian Way, formerly Julian Cottage, c.1905 by ArnoldMitchell, London Road

Tollgate Cottagelow Gothick

Mount Park Road

Henry de Bono Austin estate of large planned middle class housing. Bankrupt in 1872. Train link with Met. 1879 and drains from 1880s Wood family took it over and changed the pattern.  Norman Shaw influence

Oakhurst, Purcell School, in large grounds, with additions by A. Mitchell of 1895 plans for additions by Edward Cullinan & Partners under discussion in 1990.

Bermuda House.  former billiard room added in 1889 by E. S. Prior converted to a separate house in1985, with new front door.  The house itself has been replaced by flats.

Hospital in Roxteth Road

Mount Park Avenue

The pines now shelter prim neo-Georgian villasof the 1970s-80s.

St Dominic’s College

Mount Park Hill

Julius, A.Trollope.

Morley farm road

Called after Trollope book describing his family home in Julian’s Hill in South Harrow.

Hospital

South Hill Avenue

Near Orley Farm School is the part of theestate developed in the early C20.  It was planned on gardensuburb principles by S. Pointon- Taylor in consultation withRaymond Unwin, preserving plenty of old trees 

Tollgate which marks theboundary of the estate

Sudbury Hill

This was Roxteth Common 1803. Planned estates with large detached arts and crafts houses. Arnold Mitchell. Architect. .

Clementine Churchill Hospital

Armstrongsa former coach house;

The Orchard.inscribed'domus Mitchellorum aedificat AD MDCCCC Arnoldus'. Ironwork by the Bromsgrove Guild, the gate a copy of the original, moved by Mitchell to Lyme Regis when he retired.

White Cottage. Low, built for a musician, Arnold Bussweiler, in 1908 

Chapel. set back in the grounds of the former convent of the Little Company of Mary, is of 1905-6 by Giles Gilbert Scott, incorporating details, roofs, doorways, and windows,  from its predecessor of 1901-2 by Thomas Garner. 

Chasewood Park.  Replaces the older convent buildings.  A large, free-standing block of flats, 1987-8 by Phippen, Randall & Parkes.

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Sudbury

name from 1273 and means dwellings of

Greenford Road

Sudbury Hill Station. 28^th June 1903. Between South Harrow and Sudbury Town on the Piccadilly Line.  Built on the  Metropolitan District Railway. Originally called 'Sudbury Hill for Greenford Green' it was in a corrugated iron hut. In  1931 the original station building was demolished and replaced by a new station in preparation for the handover to the Piccadilly Line. The new station designed was by  Holden in a modern style using brick, and glass. It featured a tall block-like ticket hall rising above a low horizontal structure that contains station facilities and shops. The brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of  windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof

Rosehill Gardens, track there because of the railway

Sudbury Hill refers to the high ground north of Sudbury

Sudburyhill House is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1877.

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Alperton Lane

Wembley Dust Destructor, 1935, built by Heenan and Froude of Blackpool Tower. 100 tons to enclose tower, 8 hour shifts, could not cope with plastic and closed in 1975, chimney demolished

Preston Park

Windermere Avenue:

South Kenton station. 3^rd July 1933. Between Kenton and North Wembley on the Bakerloo Line and also on London Overground into Euston. 1933 London Midland and Scottish.  Also Bakerloo Line. Built to solve problems of rapidly growing residential area, wayside station on a restricted site 

Annunciation

Woodcock Dell Estate

Built in 1920s on land sold by St.Thomas’s Hospital/Christ Church College, Oxford.

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East Lane

North Wembley Station 15^th June 1912. Between South Kenton and Wembley Central on the Bakerloo Line and also on London Overground into Euston. 1912 London North West Railway. 1917 Bakerloo trains began to use the station.

St.Augustine

Wembley High Technology College.

Horn Lane

Hind leg on Capricorn

North Wembley

Some building in the 1890s but the area began to expand after the station opened in 1912.

Wembley Commercial Centre

The remains of a large trading estate from the early 20^th, which originally included British Oxygen, Wrigley Co and GEC. 

Wrigleys Chewing Gum factory. 1926. Later became a laundry. It was designed by the Wallis Gilbert Partnership.

GEC works.In 1927 this was the site of F.W.Cooper & Co. In 1917-27 the Sopwith Aircraft then car parts until 1919. GEC took over in 1922.  Site of the Hirst Labs, of 1923. The site covered 65 acres. Included the GEC standardised special research plant built in 1930s. They grew silicon and germanium crystals to be manufactures at Stockport.  MO valves, half the total production of industrial valves. 

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Cumberland Road

Queensbury Station.  16^th December 1934. Between Stanmore and Queensbury on the Jubilee Line. Opened on the Metropolitan Line station and called Queensbury for a very simple reason - a station called Kingsbury had been opened two years before and this was the next on the line! It had an entrance hall, shops, flats, etc.  It was probably the last Metropolitan designed station. It was built on land given free by All Souls College who wanted it called Kingsbury Downs. It originally served Stag Lane Aerodrome but a lot of houses were built in the area once it was known the railway would be built.  It was originally a halt but within two years, by 1936, it was rebuilt as a proper station by LTPB. There was a new entrance between a tobacconist and a barber to Neo-Georgian flats built by John Laing. It was Kingsbury but on a grander scale.. It had a ticket office with steel windows and glazed black tiles while the rest was unglazed terracotta. The stairs have bronze handrails.  In 1939 it became part of the Bakerloo Line. In 1970s the last remnants of the wooden halt were still there on the platforms. In 1979 it became part of the Jubilee Line

Shops and a cinema appeared around the station..

Honey Pot

Border of Harrow and Kingsbury sticky clay of Middlesex . This was a tree lined lane until 1935 when it became a dual carriageway arterial road.

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High Road

St John the Evangelist

Lyons Farm Birthplace of Harrow School founder

Moot site of Hundred of Gore 1000 yards NE of Lyons farm

397 JJ Moon's

Wembley Central Station.1844 BetweenStonebridge Park and NorthWembley on the Bakerloo Line and London Overground into Euston. London and Birmingham Railway opened as ‘Sudbury’. 1882 renamed ‘Sudbury and Wembley’. 1910 renamed ‘Wembley for Sudbury’. 1917 Bakerloo Line opened. 1936 rebuilt to make it suitable to take large crowds. 1948 renamed ‘Wembley Central’ for the Olympic Games. Station entrance became part of shopping arcade.

Hillcroft Crescent,

King Edward VII Park 

Park Road

Electroflo Factory

Park Lane

Park Lane

The Lodge, A sign directs walkers through the delightful grounds to Wembley Park station. Incredibly this lodge still exists, incorporated into a modern house at the busy junction of Wembley Park Drive, Park Lane and Wembley Hill Road

South way

Tokyngton chapel to the south of it

Wembley

Wembley – ‘'Wemba's green or wood'– ‘Wemba Lea’ 825,  1249, Wembele 1282, 1387, Wembley 1535.

Wembley Hill

Wembley Stadium Station. 1^st March 1903. Between Sudbury and Harrow Road and Marylebone on Chiltern Railways. Opened On Great Central Railway asWembley Hill.  1978 renamed Wembley Complex. 1987 renamed Wembley Stadium. GCR station of 1903, unchanged

Wembley Hill

cutting

Green Man tavern and tea gardens

Garden Suburb   Sir Audrey Neeld’s garden city devleopment. And Oliver Hill designed houses 1934 development with British Empire Exhibition

Wembley Park

Some housing built before the First World War on the western part of the site owned by the Metropolitan Railway.

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Kingsbury Hospital

Was Willesden Isolation Hospital.

Railway Line

Metropolitan Line to Stanmore skirts the side of what was Willesden Isolation Hospital.

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Kingsbury

Part of Metroland but once a village called Tunworth.  In the Domesday book it is ‘Chingsberie’ meaning ‘king’s manor’  granted by Edward the Confessor 1042-66 to Westminster Abbey – ‘Kynges Byrig’ 1044, ‘Kingesbir' 1199. After the Black Death the village centre moved from Blackbird Hill north to Kingsbury Green.  The area remained rural but with the coming of Metroland became an independent local authority in 1900, and no longer part of Wembley.  The centre moved further north in the 1920s.

Kingsbury Circle:

Site of old moot of the Gore Hundred

Kingsbury Green

A small park at the junction of Kingsbury Road and Church Road. In the middle ages a number of roads converged here and it became the main focus of the village which had moved from the Church Road area.  Reduced to one acre in the 1920s following development

Holy Innocents

Kingsbury Road

The road was straightened in the 1970s.  During the 1930s the area expanded around the station to be joined by more shops and a cinema.

Vanden Plas bodyworks Kingsbury Works.  Site originally used by the Kingsbury Aviation Company who, during the period 1917-1919,built Sopwith Snipe aircraft. It was re-named Kingsbury Engineering Company in 1919 and went into liquidation in 1921 after some unsuccessful attempts at scooter and motor car manufacture. Vanden Plas, now part of British Leyland, have over the years been involved in making bodies for such classic cars as Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley, Bugatti, Daimler, Bentley and Rolls Royce. Although still a viable company with full order books, they closed in November 1979 as part of the British Leyland rationalisation policy, production being moved to Coventry

527 Kingsbury Stationers

553 JJ Moons

Kingsbury Station 10^th December 1880. Between Queensbury and Wembley Park on the Jubilee Line but built by the Metropolitan Railway. Cottage style, red brick station with shops, waiting room, tiled fireplace and Pretty electric lights.  There are flats above the station, and five shops in each of the side blocks and three either side of the entrance When it was built there were no houses anywhere near. From the outside the station looks like a two-storey building – see the architectural trick in the booking hall.  It was the first station on the Stanmore Branch but the style is that of Wembley Park and other 19th century Metropolitan stations. It was designed by Charles W.Clark.   There are lots of Metropolitan Line fittings left inside  -  Isabella coloured tiling, plinth of polished granite and a band of green tiles at picture rail level; Clock framed in hard wood and centred line of telephone booths with hardwood frames with a matched new booking office frame; Brass sills and cash trays possibly from elsewhere;  Another booking office window with some Metropolitan and some more recent LT elements; Blue industrial brick frame.  The footbridge has 1930s bronze framed windows and walls framed in brown unglazed terracotta tiles And the  Stair entrances framed in blue industrial brick and bronze handrails. On the platform are wooden framed quarter drop windows painted white. In 1939 It became a Bakerloo Line station. And in 1979 the Jubilee Line. It is nearer to Kingsbury Green than Kingsbury Town. 

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Barn Hill

Was part of Repton, designed Wembley Park a golf course bought by the Council in 1927.  Developed by Haymills Co 1826, complex of undulating roads

RC family Bellamy 1886. Hid there in the porch, site not marked

Barn Hill Recreation Ground

Bit of old Uxendon farm left.  Part of Fryent Country Park. 252 acres regenerating woodland and traditional meadow. 70 sorts of bird, 22 butterflies 5 dragonflies. Jubilee line. Along it lush grass and buttercups. Speckled wood butterflies.  Dew pond. Site of Barn of Bush Farm riding school. Repton worked here for Richard Page. Kingsbury and Harrow Line 1880. 

Fryent Regional Open Space. Microcosm of Middlesex lost countryside. Bought by Middlesex County Council in 1838 who leased it to a farmer who grubbed up the hedges. Hedges same as in 1597.

Fryent Way

Fryent was the original part of what is now Kingsbury, the name comes from early ownership by the friars of the Order of St.John of Jerusalem. Preserves the old name of Fryent Farm. marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1877.  earlier ‘Freryn Court’ c.1516. ‘Warn Manor’ 1593, ‘Friant’ 1754, ‘Fryem Farm’ 1822, that is 'court or manor house of the friars or brethren', from Middle English ‘frere’ referring to possession of the manor by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem. It will be noted that the final -t in the modem spelling is quite unhistorical.  Taken over by St. Paul’s at the Reformation and agricultural until the 20^th.

Fryent Country Park, The park is bisected by Fryent Way. The park, is often referred to simply as Barn Hill after the higher of two hills that rise on either side of the road.. It covers an area of landscaped park and traditional Middlesex countryside with fine views. This is a combination of a fragment of the c18 Wembley Park and a merger of Barn Hill and Kenton Lane open spaces plus the land of Bush and Hillhouse farms.  The field pattern, with ancient hedgerows has altered little since it was recorded in an estate plan of 1597. Barn Hill shows many signs of landscaping by Humphrey Repton including unfinished Page's folly, a prospect tower named after the commissioning landowner, Richard Page. Part was used for a golf course at the end of the c19, although it fell into disuse during the First World War. From 1927, when the district council acquired another 20 hectares, the park grew piecemeal with fields leased to a local farmer until 1957. Retention of extensive hay meadows, many of which were ploughed during the Second World War but have recovered. The ancient hedgerows, one of which was a parish boundary hedge between Kingsbury and Harrow, contain midland and hybrid hawthorn as well as elder, blackthorn and the rare wild service tree. Woodland on Barn Hill was planted around 1793 with oak, field maple, hornbeam and beech. There is a  pond at the summit of the hill. Young oak woodland is colonising the old golf course. Ten old farm ponds have been supplemented by four new ones to encourage; invertebrates and wetland plants.

Lawn Court

Stark concrete blocks part of Barn Hill estate. 1934 

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Cannon Industrial Estate

Wembley Stadium Station. 28^th April 1923. London North Eastern Railway. Initially called ‘Exhibition Station’. Built for the British Empire Exhibition only used by special trains and on a special loop, which had been provided for the event. The first time it opened was for an FA match it was still unfinished.  It handled vast crowds from the start, and at the first match far more men turned up than could get in so special trains had to be laid on to take them back to Marylebone. Built in a deep cutting on a loop so the train could go round and straight back. Trains at 12 minute intervals for the exhibition. Initially it had just a platform with no shelters or anything. By 1924 and the opening of the exhibition concrete station buildings had been erected in the same style as that of the exhibition. 1925 after the exhibition closed name changed to ‘Wembley Stadium’ but still carried lots and lots of football trains. It was done up again for the 1948 Olympics. 1968 closed. 

Cannon Industrial Estate around area of Wembley Exhibition Station 1923-1969

Commonwealth Way (not on AZ)

LNER railway sidings ran along the road to serve the Canada and Australia buildings.

Engineer's Way

Parkinson Cowan premises exhibition hall

Former Palace of Arts. Listed Grade II but once considered to be 'at risk'.  Built for the Empire Exhibition of 1924-25 as the Palace of Arts with an attached basilica. Designed by Simpson and Ayrton. Substantially demolished, leaving only frontage to Engineers Way.

First Way

Oakington

Oakington Manor Drive

Oakington Park

Railway Line

The LNER had sidings which went directly into the exhibition site to bring freight into the buildings

Exhibition Goods Yard provided for the exhibition remained until 1962,

Second Way

Exhibition Station Wembley opened 28.04.1923 at 0m 40ch approx on the up side (outside) of what was known as the Wembley Stadium Circular Railway. It was renamed Wembley Exhibition station at an unknown date and again renamed Wembley Stadium station by February 1928. It officially closed to passengers on 01.09.1969, although it was last used on 18.05.1968. 

Wembley Stadium Circular Railway. The station buildings were in the art deco style which was all the rage around that time. It even had mini towers not unlike the famous ones

Stadium Way

Third Way

Wembley Park

The estate had been bought by the Metropolitan Railway in 1890 and it was intended to launch it as a leisure area with the tower, which failed.  Some housing built before the First World War. In January 1922 216 sold as exhibition land.

The Metropolitan Tower. Constructed as far as the first stage, a height of 155 feet, on a site now occupied by Wembley Stadium. It was intended to be higher than the Eiffel Tower and was to be the main feature of a new recreational park. Sir Edward Watkin, of Great Central Railway and Channel Tunnel fame, was one of the chief promoters. A plot 200 across in extent was purchase and in November 1889 prizes of £500 and £250 were offered.  There were many entries many of which were, to put it politely obscure. Even one from Arnold Hills of the Thames Ironworks, an ardent proponent of vegetarianism, envisaged a colony of aerial vegetarians who would derive sustenance from fruit and vegetables grown in aerial gardens. His plan also included a one- twelfth size replica of the Great Pyramid of Gaza, a temple, an international and at the top of the Tower a hotel, flats which could let for a price commensurate with their altitude. The more fanatical projects need not be entertained. Sir Benjamin Baker FRS selected a design very similar to that of M. Eiffel's in Paris. Steel girders from ironworks in Manchester were delivered direct to the site by rail but in May 1894 the Tower was only completed to the first stage and work stopped at the end of the year. The Metropolitan Tower Construction Company had insufficient capital to complete their work and public opinion turned against having such a Tower in London. It stayed as it was for thirteen years. Demolition, making use of explosives, was completed in July 1907 by the Manchester firm of Aeonon and Froude. London's answer to the Eiffel tower. The tower was constructed as far as the first stage, a height of 155 feet, on a site now occupied by Wembley Stadium. It was intended to be higher than the Eiffel Tower and was to be the main feature of a new, recreational park. Sir Edward Watkin, of Great Central Railway and Channel Tunnel fame, was the chief promoter.  A plot 200 acres in extent was purchased at Wembley.  Steel girders from Neath Ironworks were delivered direct to the site by rail but May 1894 the Tower was only completed to the first stage. The Metropolitan Tower Construction Company had insufficient capital to complete their work.  It stayed as it was for thirteen years ignominiously. Demolition, by explosives, was completed in July 1907

Wembley Stadium

Arena and swimming pool, 1934, Owen Williams, like playing cards, vast car parks

Four dome towers remains of British Empire Exhibition, like Lutyens' New Delhi, people, cup finals, 1922-3 for the British Empire Exhibition 1923 cup final, 1948 Olympics,

Empire Stadium.The first part of the British Empire Exhibition to be finished. On the site of Watkin’s tower.  Largest building of its type in the world when it was built. Became the home of the cup final in 1923.  It could seat 120,000. At the first match 200,000.  Later converted to greyhound racing.

Palace of Industry, 1926. Black redstarts nested there, first recorded in England. The LNER had sidings, which went directly into the site.

Palace of Engineering. The LNER had sidings which went directly into the site to service railway exhibits.

Wembley Arena. Designed by Sir Owen Williams and built in 1934 for that year's Empire Games, it housed a 200 x 60 foot area covered by the then largest concrete span roof in the world but it fell out of use after the 1948 Summer Olympics. Listed grade II, it continued to house a variety of sports and music concerts and has recently been renovated as part of the major redevelopment of Wembley Stadium.

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Buck Lane

Castellated house.  On the corner of Buck Laneand Highfield Avenue- like Gaudi's Barcelona.  Irish Swedborgian architect, Ernest Trobridge.  Compressed greenwood construction.   collection of crazy houses built between the wars Flats Rochester Court and Whitecastle Mansions

Green Man 1920s one bar is called The Trobridge 

Hay Lane

Jettied and weatherboarded shops, 

Roe Green

Garden village, 1920 24 acres by Airco for aircraft workers  at adjoining Stag Lane 1916-20 by Frank Baines for HM Office of Works. .

Roe Green park, Middlesex County Council open space

Kingsbury manor, 1899, widening of the Duke of Sutherland, in the stables J.L.Baird first transmission.

Slough Lane

St Andrew's Church pre-conquest, medieval bell, Fifteenth century

125 Green Man 

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Aerodrome road

plans for an 18 hole golf course. Grahame-White  used golf architect Dr. Alister Mackenzie to design the golf course In 1920 the name was changed to the London Country Club,  Unfortunatly in 1922 the Northern Line extension went though the planned golf coure whucbh meant it has to be compressing between the railway line and Aerodrome Road. In 1925 Grahame-White was forced to close the London Country Club, and the clubhouse. the tennis courts and polo grounds had been closed, but the golf course was kept open. It had closed by 1930

 Bell Lane

Cluster of shops at the junction with Brent Street

Brampton Grove

Houses existed by 1896  

Brent Street

houses built in the 18^th.

Bell Inn

Church End

Church end farm turned into a model farm 1889 by Wimperis Arber for C.F. Hancock of Hendon Hall. 

Milking parlour a low brick range with crested ridge, at right angles to the road. The hay loft at the North end is quaintly apse-shaped, with a finial.

Adjoining house.  Also part of the farm, in a picturesque Norman Shaw style, tile-hung and half-timbered.

Church farmhouse, bought by and restored by Hendon council in 1944 –1954. Built around 1660.  Now a museum and it is a survival from rural Hendon.  Chiefly c17, with red brick three-bay front of two storeys and original dormer windows.  Behind it is a c18 service wing which was later heightened to two storeys.  Some reused c16 panelling in the hall, formerly upstairs.  Upstairs the main chamber lies over the hall, with closet over the entrance lobby.

Older house with irregular cross-wings, much altered.

Church Road.

Plain low- and medium-rise housing by the Borough Architect's Office 1975-9, in loose cul-de sacs behind a range along Church Road

Hinges Paddock open field. Last of old Church Farm

1-10 Daniel Almshouses 1729. School in the east wing. Two-storeyed centre with pedimented gable little gabled comer pavilions with newly fashionable Diocletia windows, one-storeyed tenements between.  The school in the wing has an inscription dating it 1766, but it was much restored in the c19. 

52 Greyhound .Pub which was the church house. Pub. Where they held the parish meetings. Rebuilt 1896. the first licensed premises on this site dated from 1675.  The present building fits neatly between an 18th-century church and the Church Farmhouse Museum.

Egerton Gardens

Our Lady of Dolours. RC 1927. 1863, completed 1927 by T.H.B. Scott. Cruciform, of ragstone; Early English detail.

Creswick Walk

Pillar box by A. Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.  Foundry; Britannia Foundry and Engineering Works.  Anonymous Lower posting aperture, large 19in diameter, 1884

Greyhound Hill.

Hendon Church Farm Museum of Local History. Farm until 2nd World War.  Hendon’s oldest house.

Gutter Edge

Farm birthplace of Thomas Tilling

Hendon,

Roman remains found.  Belonged to Abbot of Westminster and Wolsey stayed here the night before he died.  Name from ‘Hendun’ 959, ‘Heandun’ c.975 ‘Handone’ 1086, ‘Hendon’ 1199, that is "place at  the high hill', from Old English. The church of St Mary around which the original settlement developed stands on a prominent hill, reaching 280 ft and visible for many miles from the west and south-west and the name is first recorded when it was a hamlet at the top of Greyhound Hill,   The old manor of Hendon covered 8,000 acres of woodlands with clearing settlements.

Johnsons of Hendon.  The firm of Johnson's began as assayers in central London in 1743; because of their expertise with such chemicals as silver nitrate, the firm became prominent in the early development of photography. They acquired a site at Hendon during WW1 and the photographic chemical side of  their work was greatly increased by the expansion of aerial photography for military   purposes. In 1927 the rest of the central London firm moved to Hendon and in 1948 the name of 'Johnsons of Hendon1 was adopted. They were one of the most important manufacturers of photographic chemicals and equipment in this country.

Summerfields Road

St Mary's Church of England High School, By the 1970s a different, tougher  tradition was established. Senior School  1976-7 by K. C. White & Partners, is a rigorously plain two-storey cube with internal courtyard; of russet bricks with pebbly floor bands.

The Burroughs 

'land on the hill', alluding to the 'high down' which gives a name to Hendon itself There has possibly been a confusion with 'burrows' in some form – ‘Burrows’ 1822, probably 'the animal burrows', from Middle English ‘borow’, with reference to holes made by badgers, foxes, or rabbits.  ‘Le Berwestret’ 1316, ‘Borowis in Hendon’ c.l530, ‘Burrowes’ 1574. This is an old bit of a village which was separate but is  now linked to Church End by the civic buildings and a row of 19^th  cottage with rustic porches.

The Pond, which was a landmark, has gone, replaced by a pedestrian tunnel under a road. 

Neo Georgian library, architectural blend. Eclectic,

Cattle trough

Hendon Bus Garage, London General Omnibus Co. entrance was in Church Road

Town Hall. Forming the nucleus of a cluster of turn-of the century municipal buildings arranged around The Burroughs, Hendon Town Hall was built for the new District Council in 1901 to designs by Thomas Henry Watson. Watson’s design originally failed to qualify in a limited architectural  competition assessed by Arthur Beresford Pite but nevertheless found favour with a typically cost conscious council as it was one of the few that could  be carried out for  £12,000 'which was the essence of the contract' a two storey building with attics, it is executed in red brick and stone in a Free Renaissance style, with some details derived  from Gothic traditions. designed to express Hendon' historical associations with the  Knight' Templars.  in terms of layout it was more conventional with council chamber' committee rooms and chairman's office on the first floor when spaces were re-ordered in the 1930s when the building was extended to provide additional office space. architectural blend. A broad Free Renaissance front in red brick and stone, with a hipped roof with timber lantern rising behind a lively balustraded parapet.  Arches with blocked voussoirs to the ground floor.  A pair of stone corbelled-out mullioned-and-transomed oriels light the Council Chamber on the first floor.  This has a coved ceiling and original seating.  Sculpture: Family of Man, by Itzhak Ofer, 1981, bronze.  Built in the years shortly before the building of the line to Golders Green by Hendon Urban District Council.

Public Library, By T.M. Wilson, 1929, Eclectic Neo-Baroque.  A recessed centre with two attenuated fluted columns in antis, and projecting pedimented wings, whose main windows have swan-necked pediments with brick niches above.

Fire station. Competition with a design to relate to the town hall. It won the competition in 1911, with a design intended to relate to the Town Hall.  He was clearly influenced by the LCC's admirable fire stations in a free Arts and Crafts spirit.  Red brick over a stone ground floor with three arched openings; two canted stone oriels with mullioned windows; the stone surfaces very smooth and the mouldings

Middlesex University. This campus of the University started as Hendon Technical College; built by the MCC H. W. Burchett, 1937.  Serious classical building .  Extensions of 1955 and 1969, refectory and engineering blocks.  Lighter and brighter 1990s additions for the University.  Clock tower. Faculty Books.

Metropolitan Convalescent Institution

Hendon Methodist church, 1937 By Welch & Lander, 1937. Interior subdivided and refurnished 1982.  Stained glass window by Christopher Webb; the work of women: St Agnes to Josephine Butler.

Methodist Institute behind, 1910, now, Yakar Jewish Adult Education

Burroughs House. Dignified c18 house four bay with a parapet.  .

Pillar box by A. Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.  Foundry; Britannia Foundry and Engineering Works.  V.R. cypher  Large  19 dia.  1887 - c.1899

Watford Way

St. Joseph’s R.C. Convent and School.  This came to Hendon in 1882 from Whitechapel.  They belonged to an order known as Poor Handmaids of Jesus from Dembach in the Rhineland in the mid c19, invited to England by Cardinal Manning in 1875.  They moved to Norden Court, now Westminster House, c.1887.  The once fine grounds were built over but Norden House remains.  Also plain school buildings, the block of 1900 

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Algernon Road

St. John the Evangelist. 1895. An early work by Temple Moore, 1895-6. Interior modelled on Austin Friars Church in the City.  pulpit 1760 from St Michael Bassishaw.  wooden reredos are from St George, Botolph Lane, installed there in 1673, moved here 1909.  Vestry panelling also from City churches.  

Vicarage. 1900 is also by Moore alas, reglazed in front.  

Brent signal box

Burroughs tunnel

Central Circus

Pivotal, enormous, surrounded by loose compositions of meagre, thinly stretched Georgian motifs, facing the Underground station and a cinema of 1932

Gaumont/Classic Cinema. Classic quired forty-nine cinemas from Rank in December 1967 and renamed them and the company invested heavily in the former Gaumont at Hendon Central. A luxury lounge policy was created in the stalls, presenting a wonderful opportunity for stage presentations. Live shows booked by general manager Brian Yeoman included the Jewish revue Goldberg and Solomon Go Kosher for a six- day run which proved so popular that it was returned a month later for a further six days. The Syd Lawrence Orchestra was a sell-out. Miss Libby Morris in her solo revue As Dorothy Parker Once Said, Those Were the Days, starring Reg Dixon, Cavan O'Conner, Adelaide Hall and the king of jazz, Nat Gonella, played for six days. The controversial late nighter, Alex Sanders' White Witch Show, not only created an avalanche of national and local publicity but it nearly caused a riot by the capacity audience. Wrestling was also presented with top names - Mick McManus, Steve Logan, the St. Clair brothers and Jumping Jim Hussey. With its finger on the fashion of the Seventies, female front-of-house staff were attired in a black lace top and black leather miniskirt, with black knee-high boots. In February 1971, following a £72,000 conversion scheme, the Hendon Classic became a three-screen show- piece without the loss of a single evening show. Following this work, stage presentations were not entirely abandoned. In 1977, the actor John Forgeham read extracts  from the Bible from the stage of Screen One to a near capacity audience for a two-hour performance. Throughout the Seventies, this Classic was the focus of meetings, training and prize-giving ceremonies resulting from various business drives for managers. Hendon regularly presented a diet of late night shows on Friday and Saturday with an all-night horror show once a month, on a Saturday. All aspects of Hendon activity were always well pro- moted due to an excellent relationship with the editor and the show-page critic of the Hendon Times. Promotion for Hendon's second all-night horror show.

Elliott Road

The Hospital was demolished in 1992.  The site now contains the Grovemead Health Centre at 67 Elliot Road.

 Hendon

Tilley Lamps Co went to Ulster

Standard Telephones early specialised research plant

Park mansions Arcade

Handsome new shopping centre between Vivian Avenue and Queen's Road.

Montague Road

Montague Road Board School. Four were opened in 1901 the Hendon School Board was formed only in 1897, delayed by Anglican opposition. A pretty design with central shaped gable, and pargetted dormers.

Queen's Road

Hendon Central Station.  19^th November 1923. Between Colindale and Brent Cross on the Northern Line. Opened on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Opened as an extension from Golder's Green. Built as a neo Georgian design by S.A.Hea with an elegant shopping parade around it. Hendon Central forms the North East quadrant of the composition of Central Circus with eight white stone pillars outside the entrance to the station. There were plans for the area already in 1912, butbuildingonly took off after work on the railway began in 1922.

Rosebank 1678

The Grove 16th century or 17th panelling

Rising Sun Inn 17^th

Ambassador Cinema. Gaumont Cinema . Crompton organ installed 1932.

Silkstream Junction

Signal Box  went out of use on completion of re-signalling scheme in 1983.  typical Midland Railway style - "triangular" inserts in top of  windous, and  many retain Midland Railway style finials on roof ends. accessible by public footpath from Aerodrome Road,

Station Road

Hendon Station.  1868 Between Mill Hill Broadway and Cricklewood on the Thameslink Line. Built by the Midland Railway but such features as remained after the M1 was built have disappeared under electrification works.

Signal Box went out of use on completion of re-signalling scheme in 1983.  Typical Midland Railway style - "triangular" inserts in top of windows, and many retain Midland Railway style finials on roof ends. Visible from station.

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Brook Road

Chartwell Court was the Post office Research Station Opened 1933. Given up by the PO in 1976 and then in other commercial use. Typical brick built buildings of the period by A.R. Myers, HM Office of Works architect. - Main block 286 feet long with 3 principal floors, one other large block and a number of individual single storey research blocks also remain. Now flats and the Network HA

115-117 An inconspicuous door between then gives access to the top of spiral staircase - one of the two emergency exits of a very large bunker.  

38 1976 commercial

The Paddock. In the 2nd World War there was big underground citadel under it. alternative Cabinet War Rooms ('Paddock').  There are at least three entrances among modern housing along Brook Road, one of which remains in its original state in a small surface building with associated ventilation and power intake  arrangements. The two-storey underground bunker lies below the modern houses on the west side of Brook Road, within the grounds of a former Post Office telephones research station. Paddock Road was opposite, but is now obliterated by excavations for new work. The local geology appears to be gravelly drift  overlying, presumably, London clay. There are two floors underground, with notices on the walls declaring the lower one to be floor 26, and the upper one floor 27. Floor 28 appears to have been a surface building. There is no evidence for the whereabouts of any floors numbered 1-25! The two sets of emergency exit stairs are remarkably narrow and spiral around small square shafts. Floor 27 has a long central corridor, with numerous rooms off each side, including some still containing air filters and non-functioning electrical control equipment. Floor 26 has a similar corridor, but with rooms off one side only. The lower floor rooms include a large central room, presumably the main cabinet room, and a plant room with some equipment still in place. There is very little evidence of any domestic arrangements. One room might have been a small kitchen where a cup of tea might have been brewed (two sinks, but no trace of cooking apparatus). No traces identifiable as remains of lavatories or dormitories were seen. One room has the remains of telephone exchange racking. There appear to be no holes in the flooded lower floor, although persons wading in the rather murky water do need to take care not to fall over a few items of junk and occasional cables scattered about. The internal walls are flimsy in the extreme, often no more than panels on wooden framing. Much of the timberwork, especially on the currently flooded lower floor, is festooned with fungal mycelium, giving a horror-film appearance to doorways! Much larger and more strongly built and elaborately equipped bunkers were built in Germany during the Second World War, such as Goring's bunker at Wildpark near Potsdam. At least two Cabinet meetings are known to have been held at Paddock, one of them chaired by Winston Churchill. Churchill, however, is reported not to have liked the place.

Coles Green Road

Oxgate Farm. c. 1600.  wooden signboard says 1483. Was one of Willesden’s manors and one of the oldest buildings in Brent.

Dollis Hill

Name could be 16th century and connected with a family called Dalley. Sometimes called Dolly's Hill and Dales Way. Also Dollar’s Hill.  Dollis Brook may have a different derivation.

Progressive synagogue converted to a school.

Dollis Hill Lane

Neville Court, round a quadrangle stylish modernity with efficiently planned flats.

St.Andrew's Hospital 

St.Paul

Humber Road

Thrupp & Maberley carriage works

Neville’s Court

Churchill had a flat here in the Second World War.

Oxgate Lane,

Went from Oxgate Farm to Watling Street, Oxgate was an old village. It is marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, and used earlier c.1250 - that is 'gate used for oxen', from Old English ‘oxa’ and ‘gate’. It may originally have referred to a gate preventing cattle from straying on to nearby Watling Street. The lane from the farm o the main road is clearly shown on the 1822 map; the 16^thcentury farmhouse still survives.

Polydore Vergil from Urbinia

St.Paul's Oxgate 1939-80.

Parkside

Dollis Hill Synagogue. 1934 by Owen Williams. Very adverse reception when it was built – overt architectural structuralism. 

Railway Dudding Hill South Junction Signal Box  by Parkside. Typical Midland Railway signal box controlling the junction of Brent Curve and Cricklewood Curve which lead to the MR main line. 

Railway platelayers' hut.