Brook Road, WD6

Brook Road is one of the main arteries in the northern part of Borehamwood.

It was laid out in the early 1950s being named after Tykes Water which runs alongside the road. Aberford Park to the west of Brook Road now contains the culverted stream and a lake formed from it.

Until the turn of the 1970s, the southern end of Brook Road fizzled out with the parallel Eldon Avenue continuing as the main road south. The local council built a roundabout to improve the interchange between Shenley Road and Elstree Way and took the opportunity to extend Brook Road to the roundabout.

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Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
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Tykeswater runs under the road in this view of Green Street looking south Credit: David Howard TUM image id: 1498661285 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Aberford Park lake TUM image id: 1557403472 Licence:	Fox and Clark’ Furniture Shop (1905) TUM image id: 1469393744 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Richard Lidstone draper's shop on the corner of Shenley Road and Fuzehill Road (early 1900s) TUM image id: 1472234198 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Junction of Shenley Road and Drayton Road (1930s) TUM image id: 1479140089 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Meryfield crest TUM image id: 1526568929 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Brickfield Cottages, Boreham Wood TUM image id: 1556883123 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Theobald Street, Borehamwood in halcyon days looking south near the original Crown pub (which is now a supermarket) TUM image id: 1576453423 Licence:	Watercolour of the lower part of Theobald Street. TUM image id: 1469023756 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Clarendon Road, WD6 TUM image id: 1469027977 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Leeming Road, WD6 TUM image id: 1469035628 Licence:	Shenley Road, WD6 TUM image id: 1469289026 Licence:	7 Shenley Road, WD6 TUM image id: 1469394829 Licence:	Tonibell (1960s) Tonibell (here at 35 Shenley Road, Borehamwood) was a major ice cream company in the London area with a distinctive ’Greensleves theme’ for its vans TUM image id: 1469322616 Licence:	37 Shenley Road, WD6 Credit: Facebook user TUM image id: 1469362142 Licence: