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Harrow Headstone

 This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedHarrow Cemetery. 1887 unassuming monuments. Timber Cenotaph. Brick chapel. Lodge in Norman Shaw style but vandalised.Headstone‘Hegeton’ in...

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West Harrow

  This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedRailway LineMetropolitan Extension to Pinner Lane, Rickmansworth in 1887. The Harrow and Rickmansworth Company ran across the fields. Line...

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Harrow Roxteth

   This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedBessborough RoadRoxteth Farmhouse. Further on the edge of playing fields and so stillwith a rural air, an appealing earlyc18 front,...

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Roxteth

    This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedEastcote LaneRooks Heath High School Roxteth Manor Schools Hornbuckle Close Harrow School Laundry E. S. Prior 1887-8, the...

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South Harrow

 This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedRailwaycutting for the line to Neasden. Great Central Line to Neasden goes below the line between Sudbury Hill and South Harrow.car sheds and...

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Harrrow on the Hill

  This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedCollege RoadBus Station Elmgrove RoadFirst council houses in the area 1920sGayton RoadLibrary Greenhill The commercial centre in this area...

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Sudbury

   This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedHarrow Park Planned estates with large detached arts and crafts houses. A few large houses appearbetween the shrubberies. Newlandsbuilt as...

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Sudbury Hill

    This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedSudbury name from 1273 and means dwellings of Greenford RoadSudbury Hill Station. 28th June 1903. Between South Harrow and Sudbury Town on...

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Kenton

     This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedAlperton LaneWembley Dust Destructor, 1935, built by Heenan and Froude of Blackpool Tower. 100 tons to enclose tower, 8 hour shifts,...

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Wembley

      This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedEast LaneNorth Wembley Station 15th June 1912. Between South Kenton and Wembley Central on the Bakerloo Line and also on London...

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Queensbury

       This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedCumberland RoadQueensbury Station.  16th December 1934. Between Stanmore and Queensbury on the Jubilee Line. Opened on the Metropolitan...

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Wembey

        This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedHigh Road St John the Evangelist Lyons Farm Birthplace of Harrow School founder Moot site of Hundred of Gore 1000 yards NE of Lyons...

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Kingsbury

        This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedKingsbury HospitalWas Willesden Isolation Hospital.Railway LineMetropolitan Line to Stanmore skirts the side of what was Willesden...

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Kingsbury

      This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedKingsbury Part of Metroland but once a village called Tunworth.  In the Domesday book it is ‘Chingsberie’ meaning ‘king’s manor’...

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Barn Hill

   This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedBarn Hill Was part of Repton, designed Wembley Park a golf course bought by the Council in 1927.  Developed by Haymills Co 1826, complex of...

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Wembley Stadium

    This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedCannon Industrial Estate Wembley Stadium Station. 28th April 1923. London North Eastern Railway. Initially called ‘Exhibition Station’....

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Kingsbury Green

 This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedBuck LaneCastellated house.  On the corner of Buck Laneand Highfield Avenue- like Gaudi's Barcelona.  Irish Swedborgian architect, Ernest...

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Hendon

  This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedAerodrome roadplans for an 18 hole golf course. Grahame-White  used golf architect Dr. Alister Mackenzie to design the golf course In 1920...

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Hendon

   This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedAlgernon RoadSt. John the Evangelist. 1895. An early work by Temple Moore, 1895-6. Interior modelled on Austin Friars Church in the City....

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Dollis Hill

    This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedBrook RoadChartwell Court was the Post office Research Station Opened 1933. Given up by the PO in 1976 and then in other commercial use....

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