Church · Borehamwood · WD6 · Contributed by Scott Hatton

November

14

2016

Shenley Road, WD6

Shenley Road is the main street running through Borehamwood.

Leading to the village of Shenley, and hence the name, it was not always the high street of Boreham Wood (later Borehamwood). The main commercial activity until the 1930s was centred on Theobald Street instead.

As the village grew into a town, and especially as the new estate came into being, the largely residential nature of Shenley Road began to change as houses were knocked down and shops erected. This coincided with the centre of gravity of Borehamwood moving east as film studios were built.

When Elstree Way was laid out around the time of the Second World War, its junction with Shenley Road began to mark the limit of the commercial west end of the road and the still residential east/north end.

LOCATIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

131 Shenley Road, WD6:   131 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
133-135 Shenley Road, WD6:   133 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
148-150 Shenley Road, WD6:   148-150 Shenley Road is a double frontage and marks the former site of the Grosvenor Hotel.
174 Theobald Street, WD6: Scott Hatton:   Scott Hatton lived here in 2017
199 Shenley Road, WD6:   199 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
21 Shenley Road, WD6:   21 Shenley Road was the location of the Shenley Road Market Arcade.
23 Shenley Road, WD6:   23 Shenley Road was, for a long time, the location of the Boreham Wood Post Office.
25-27 Shenley Road, WD6:   25-27 Shenley Road was the former site of the local telephone exchange.
29 Shenley Road, WD6:   29 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
3 Shenley Road, WD6:   3 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
31 Shenley Road, WD6:   31 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
33 Shenley Road, WD6:   33 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
37 Shenley Road, WD6:   37 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
39 Shenley Road, WD6:   39 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
41 Shenley Road, WD6:   41 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
43 Shenley Road, WD6:   43 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
45 Shenley Road, WD6:   45 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
47 Shenley Road, WD6:   47 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
49 Shenley Road, WD6:   49 Shenley Road was the original location of Tom Wingate's General Store.
5 Shenley Road, WD6:   5 Shenley Road is one of three shops originally built in 1910.
51 Shenley Road, WD6:   51 Shenley Road is part of a row of five original interwar shops.
53 Shenley Road, WD6:   53 Shenley Road is part of a row of five original interwar shops.
55 Shenley Road, WD6:   55 Shenley Road is part of a row of five original interwar shops.
57 Shenley Road, WD6:   57 Shenley Road is part of a row of five original interwar shops.
59 Shenley Road, WD6:   59 Shenley Road is part of a row of five original interwar shops.
61 Shenley Road, WD6:   61 Shenley Road was an electricity showroom.
63 Shenley Road, WD6:   63 Shenley Road was one of four shops developed after World War One, opposite the top of Furzehill Road.
65 Shenley Road, WD6:   65 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
67 Shenley Road, WD6:   67 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
69 Shenley Road, WD6:   69 Shenley Road is a shop along the main street of Borehamwood.
7 Shenley Road, WD6:   7 Shenley Road is part of a row of three shops built in 1910.
71 Shenley Road, WD6:   71 Shenley Road was built at the turn of the twentieth century.
73 Shenley Road, WD6:   Before it was redeveloped to become a Starbucks, Hansons occupied 73 Shenley Road for decades.
9 Shenley Road, WD6:   9 Shenley Road is a shop built in 1910 on the corner of Glenhaven Avenue.
Aberford Park:   Aberford Park lies in Brook Road, Borehamwood.
ABPC Elstree Studios:   British National Pictures Ltd purchased 50 acres of land on the south side of Shenley Road and began construction of two large film stages in 1925. The first film produced there was Madame Pompadour in 1927.
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Barnet Grass Speedway:   Barnet Grass Speedway was active between 1929 and 1936, next to the recently constructed Barnet By Pass.
Boreham Wood Baptist Church:   The Baptist Church, situated on the corner of Furzehill Road, opened on 14 July 1911.
Borehamwood:   Borehamwood is a town of approximately 30 000 residents in southern Hertfordshire, just outside London, and part of the London commuter belt.
Brickfield Cottages:   Brickfield Cottages were built in 1858 by Charles Morgan, who owned the brickfield next door.
British and Dominion Studios:   In 1930 British and Dominion bought three new sound stages from British International Pictures Ltd on the adjoining site before their construction was completed.
Bullbaiters Farm:   Bullbaiters Farm near Boreham Wood was originally called Bullbeggar's Farm - Bullbeggar meaning 'hobgoblin' or 'scarecrow'.
Cressalls Farm:   Cressalls Farm was a Boreham Wood farm on Theobald Street.
Green Street:   Green Street was once a separate village from Borehamwood but is now on the edge of its urban area.
Green Willows:   The Green Willows pub seems to have existed from 1871 until the turn of the twentieth century.
Keystone Passage, WD6:   Keystone Passage commemorates the Keystone factory.
MGM Studios:   Amalgamated Studios Ltd constructed a large studio on the north side of Elstree Way between 1935 and 1937. The company was unable to meet the cost and sold out to Arthur Rank.
Mops and Brooms:   Nelson Cottage, Well End, is a two storey two bay timber framed house dating from c1600. It became a beer house in 1841.
Neptune Studios:   The Neptune Film Company opened the first studios in Borehamwood in 1914. It contained just a single small windowless stage (the first dark stage in England), relying entirely on electricity from a gas powered generator for lighting.
Red Lion:   The Red Lion was one of two pubs in Green Street.
Saffron Green Primary School:   The first bell for lessons sounded at Saffron Green Primary School in September 1953.
Sainsbury’s Local:   The Crown pub was replaced by a supermarket in 2011.
Shenley Road water tank:   Shenley Road tank was a fire prevention feature of Boreham Wood.
Station Road Studios:   A single large stage was built in Station Road, Borehamwood in 1928 by Whitehall Films Ltd but the company was wound up in 1930.
Stirling Corner:   Stirling Corner is the road junction of the A1 Barnet Bypass and Barnet Lane.
Studio 70:   Studio 70 was the main cinema in Borehamwood between the 1930s and the 1980s.
Tee Shaped Wood:   Tee Shaped Wood was a woodland in the fields of Boreham Wood.
Thatched Barn:   The Thatched Barn motel was built alongside the new Barnet By Pass in 1932.
The Crown:   The Crown was the main pub in Borehamwood until 2010.
Thrift Farm:   Thrift Farm was a farm in Boreham Wood.

PHOTOS OF THE AREA

Bullbaiter’s Farm Sale (1905):   Bullbaiter’s Farm was located at the bottom of the modern Bullhead Road.
Buses in Shenley Road:   A 292 and 358 in Shenley Road.
Fox and Clark’ Furniture Shop (1905):   Added photo for 73 Shenley Road, WD6
Home of Rest for Horses:   The Home of Rest for Horses was situated at the corner of Furzehill Road and Barnet Lane, near Borehamwood.
Horse and cart at Bullbaiter's Farm:   Addition to Bullbaiter's Farm
Junction of Shenley Road and Drayton Road:   Looking along Shenley Road towards Furzehill Road
Mr George King at Bullbaiter's Farm:   Addition to Bullbaiter's Farm.
Shenley Road (1930s):   Shenley Road, Borehamwood in the 1930s
Thatched Barn:   The Thatched Barn was a two-storey mock-Tudor hotel built in 1927 on the Barnet by-pass.
The Myriad Stores:   Added photo for 49 Shenley Road, WD6
The Orchard:   The Orchard (1953)
Theobald Street in the 1900s:   2015
Thift Farm (1960s):   A rare view of Thrift Farm, before the creation of the "Studio Estate".
View of Borehamwood (1928):   This view, taken from a plane high above Furzehill Road shows a Borehamwood which was yet to develop.

NEARBY STREETS AND BUILDINGS ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP

A41, WD6 · Abbots Place, WD6 · Aberford Road, WD6 · Alban Crescent, WD6 · Alconbury Close, WD6 · Alexandra Road, WD6 · Allerton Close, WD6 · Allerton Road, WD6 · Almond Way, WD6 · Anthony Road, WD6 · Armstrong Close, WD6 · Arundel Drive, WD6 · Ashdown Drive, WD6 · Ashley Drive, WD6 · Audley Close, WD6 · Aycliffe Road, WD6 · Bairstow Close, WD6 · Baldock Way, WD6 · Balmoral Drive, WD6 · Banks Road, WD6 · Barnet Way, EN5 · Barnet Way, WD6 · Barnsdale Close, WD6 · Barton Way, WD6 · Beech Drive, WD6 · Beechfield Close, WD6 · Belford Road, WD6 · Bennington Drive, WD6 · Berwick Road, WD6 · Blyth Close, WD6 · Boyce Close, WD6 · Bracken Close, WD6 · Bradbury Close, WD6 · Broghinge Road, WD6 · Brook Road, WD6 · Broughinge Road, WD6 · Brownlow Road, WD6 · Buckettsland Lane, WD6 · Buckingham Road, WD6 · Buckton Road, WD6 · Bullhead Road, WD6 · Burghley Avenue, WD6 · Byron Avenue, WD6 · Caishowe Road, WD6 · Canterbury Road, WD6 · Cardinal Avenue, WD6 · Carlton Close, WD6 · Carrington Avenue, WD6 · Carrington Close, WD6 · Castleford Close, WD6 · Catterick Way, WD6 · Cedars Close, WD6 · Champions Close, WD6 · Chandos Road, WD6 · Chatsworth Close, WD6 · Chaucer Grove, WD6 · Chester Road, WD6 · Chiltern Close, WD6 · Clarendon Road, WD6 · Cleveland Crescent, WD6 · Clifton Way, WD6 · Clydesdale Close, WD6 · Coleridge Way, WD6 · Connemara Close, WD6 · Coopers Crescent, WD6 · Corfe Close, WD6 · Cowley Hill, WD6 · Cranes Way, WD6 · Cromwell Road, WD6 · Crossoaks Lane, WD6 · Crown Road, WD6 · Croxdale Road, WD6 · Dacre Gardens, WD6 · Dales Road, WD6 · Danziger Way, WD6 · Darrington Road, WD6 · Delamere Road, WD6 · Denham Way, WD6 · Digswell Close, WD6 · Drayton Road, WD6 · Dunnock Close, WD6 · Durham Road, WD6 · Easton Gardens, WD6 · Eaton Way, WD6 · Edulf Road, WD6 · Eldon Avenue, WD6 · Elmwood Avenue, WD6 · Elstree Distribution Park, WD6 · Elstree Park, WD6 · Elstree Way, WD6 · Essex Road, WD6 · Fairburn Close, WD6 · Farm Close, WD6 · Farrant Way, WD6 · Farriers Way, WD6 · Featherstone Gardens, WD6 · Felton Close, WD6 · Furzehill Road, WD6 · Gables Avenue, WD6 · Gateshead Road, WD6 · George Street, WD6 · Gibbons Close, WD6 · Glenhaven Avenue, WD6 · Grace Close, WD6 · Grantham Green, WD6 · Green Street, WD6 · Greenside, WD6 · Gregson Close, WD6 · Grosvenor Road, WD6 · Grove Road, WD6 · Hackney Close, WD6 · Haddon Close, WD6 · Haggerston Road, WD6 · Halter Close, WD6 · Hampton Close, WD6 · Hartforde Road, WD6 · Hawkins Close, WD6 · High Canons, WD6 · Hillside Avenue, WD6 · Holme Park, WD6 · Holmshill Lane, WD6 · Hornbeam Close, WD6 · Howard Drive, WD6 · Hunter Close, WD6 · Keats Close, WD6 · Kelly Close, WD6 · Kenilworth Close, WD6 · Kenilworth Drive, WD6 · Kensington Way, WD6 · Kent Close, WD6 · Kingsley Avenue, WD6 · Knebworth Path, WD6 · Laughton Court, WD6 · Leeming Road, WD6 · Lexington Close, WD6 · Linster Grove, WD6 · Linton Avenue, WD6 · Lombardy Way, WD6 · Lullington Garth, WD6 · Malden Road, WD6 · Manor Way, WD6 · Masefield Avenue, WD6 · Mason Close, WD6 · Maxwell Road, WD6 · Maydwell Lodge, WD6 · Meadow Road, WD6 · Melrose Avenue, WD6 · Meryfield Close, WD6 · Micklefield Way, WD6 · Mildred Avenue, WD6 · Milland Court, WD6 · Milton Drive, WD6 · Monkswood Gardens, WD6 · Morpeth Avenue, WD6 · Newark Green, WD6 · Newton Crescent, WD6 · Nicoll Way, WD6 · Niven Close, WD6 · Norfolk Gardens, WD6 · Northfield Road, WD6 · Northgate Path, WD6 · Norton Close, WD6 · Novello Way, WD6 · Oakwood Avenue, WD6 · Oberon Close, WD6 · Odyssey Road, WD6 · Orchard Close, WD6 · Organ Hall Road, WD6 · Palmers Road, WD6 · Penscroft Gardens, WD6 · Percheron Road, WD6 · Pinewood Close, WD6 · Potters Lane, WD6 · Powys Court, WD6 · Purcell Close, WD6 · Pursley Gardens, WD6 · Ranskill Road, WD6 · Red Road, WD6 · Redwood Rise, WD6 · Reston Close, WD6 · Retford Close, WD6 · Richmond Close, WD6 · Ripon Way, WD6 · Robeson Way, WD6 · Rossington Avenue, WD6 · Rowley Lane, WD6 · Rutherford Close, WD6 · Rye Close, WD6 · Sawtry Way, WD6 · Saxon Court, WD6 · Sellers Close, WD6 · Shakespeare Drive, WD6 · Shenley Road, WD6 · Shepperton Close, WD6 · Silver Hill, WD6 · Sinderby Close, WD6 · Siskin Close, WD6 · Spring Close, WD6 · St Paul?s Close, WD6 · Stainer Road, WD6 · Stanborough Avenue, WD6 · Stanborough Close, WD6 · Stangate Crescent, WD6 · Stanley Gardens, WD6 · Stapleton Road, WD6 · Station Road, WD6 · Stevenage Crescent, WD6 · Stilton Path, WD6 · Stirling Corner, WD6 · Stirling Way, WD6 · Stratfield Road, WD6 · Stretton Way, WD6 · Studio Way, WD6 · Summerswood Lane, WD6 · Tallis Way, WD6 · Tempsford Avenue, WD6 · Tennison Avenue, WD6 · The Campions, WD6 · The Pines, WD6 · The Reddings, WD6 · Theobald Street, WD6 · Theobold Street, WD7 · Thirsk Road, WD6 · Thornbury Gardens, WD6 · Thrift Farm Lane, WD6 · Tilehouse Close, WD6 · Tinwell Mews, WD6 · Torworth Road, WD6 · Tudor Court, WD6 · Tuxford Close · Tuxford Close, WD6 · Vale Avenue, WD6 · Walshford Way, WD6 · Wansford Park, WD6 · Warenford Way, WD6 · Warren Grove, WD6 · Warwick Road, WD6 · Water End Close, WD6 · Welbeck Close, WD6 · Well End Road, WD6 · Wentbridge Path, WD6 · Wetherby Road, WD6 · Whitehall Close, WD6 · Whitehouse Avenue, WD6 · Winstre Road, WD6 · Winthorpe Gardens, WD6 · Woodlands Close, WD6 · Woolmer Close, WD6 · Wordsworth Gardens, WD6 · York Crescent, WD6 ·

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