Colindeep Lane, NW4

Colindeep Lane runs west from the A41.

No 3552 0-6-0 Hendon L.M.S at Hendon station in 1930.
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The Hendon section of Colindeep Lane has rather lost its identity since 1920s roadbuilding created Watford Way. The latter road in its NW4 part follows part of the route of Colindeep Lane. It was a very old thoroughfare which dates a time before recorded history as a route from London - an alternative way to the frequently mud-bound Edgware Road.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Kevin Pont Hendon Central Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:15 GMT	Not as Central as advertised... Hendon Central was by no means the centre of Hendon when built, being a green field site. It was built at the same time as both the North Circular Road and the A41 were built as major truck roads �’ an early example of joined up London transport planning. Reply
Reginald John Gregory Colindeep Lane, NW9 Added: 8 Aug 2022 14:07 GMT	Worked in the vicinity of my ancestor’s house, Between the years 1982-1998 (unknown to me at the time) I worked in an office close to the site of my ancestors cottage. I discovered this when researching family history - the cottage was mentioned in the 1871 census for Colindeep Lane/Ancient Street coming up from the Hyde. The family lived in the ares betwen 1805 and 1912. Reply
Martina Schweppes Factory Added: 13 Jul 2017 21:22 GMT	Schweppes factory The site is now a car shop and Angels Fancy Dress shop and various bread factories are there. Reply
Brian Lynch Staples Corner, NW2 Added: 10 Apr 2022 13:38 GMT	Staples Mattress Factory An architect’s design of the Staples Mattress Factory An image found on the website of Dalzell’s Beds, in Armagh Northern Ireland. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Jean Deane Mill Lane, looking east (1900s) Added: 2 Oct 2023 16:43 GMT	Advertisement for a laundry in Mill Lane, Brixton Hill, SW2 from early 1900’s The New Imperial Laundry Source: From a Ladies glance guide for Mistress and Maid Reply
Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply

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Hendon War Memorial Hendon War Memorial is located on the central reservation at the junction between Watford Way and The Burroughs.

Hendon War Memorial

Silk Stream (1916) The Silk Stream was the stream which fed the Welsh Harp reservoir.

Silk Stream (1916)

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Hendon

Hendon railway station is a National Rail station situated to the west of Hendon, in the London Borough of Barnet.

The station was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. From 1875 the Midland opened a service to Victoria on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and received coaches from the London and South Western Railway for attachment to north-bound trains.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Hendon was a Middlesex village, albeit large, until the arrival of the railway. The Midland Main Line reached Hendon in 1868 followed by London Underground further east under the name Hendon Central in 1923. The district is famous historically for the London Aerodrome which later became RAF Hendon. Credit: Wiki Commons/Irid Escent TUM image id: 1630579319 Licence:	Hendon Central Circus (1928) This image looks north along Watford Way, some four years after construction - when the new road contained widely separated carriageways with a building between the two Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1489498245 Licence:	Hendon Central (1923) TUM image id: 1489498425 Licence: CC BY 2.0	West Hendon from above (1930s) The terraces of houses shown mostly disappeared after the Second World War. Credit: Britain From Above/Aerofilms TUM image id: 1489498601 Licence:	Church Farmhouse Museum from Greyhound Hill (2011) Credit: Grim23 TUM image id: 1536786304 Licence: CC BY 2.0
St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican church located on the end of Algernon Road, next to Vicarage Road. Credit: Martin Addison TUM image id: 1534359641 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Greyhound Hill The photo was taken in 1912, looking down the hill towards Hendon Aerodrome. Basing themselves on Greyhound Hill, Hendon residents could get a free view of the aerobatic displays when they took place below. The Aerodrome later became the Grahame Park Estate though a small section was reserved for the RAF Museum, TUM image id: 1578154404 Licence:	Silk Stream near Colindale (1916) TUM image id: 1517938166 Licence:	Burroughs Farm was located at the top of the Watford Way on land which is now St Mary’s and St John’s Primary School. In the early 1900s it was a dairy farm. TUM image id: 1692104751 Licence:	Hendon Central Circus Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1683132876 Licence:
Bates Farm. Hendon, watercolour by David W McQuire (1925). For much of its existence Bates Farm was Boroughs Farm on what was Butchers Lane now the Watford Way Credit: David W McQuire TUM image id: 1692105981 Licence:

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Hendon was a Middlesex village, albeit large, until the arrival of the railway. The Midland Main Line reached Hendon in 1868 followed by London Underground further east under the name Hendon Central in 1923. The district is famous historically for the London Aerodrome which later became RAF Hendon.
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West Hendon from above (1930s) The terraces of houses shown mostly disappeared after the Second World War.
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Greyhound Hill The photo was taken in 1912, looking down the hill towards Hendon Aerodrome. Basing themselves on Greyhound Hill, Hendon residents could get a free view of the aerobatic displays when they took place below. The Aerodrome later became the Grahame Park Estate though a small section was reserved for the RAF Museum,
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Silk Stream near Colindale (1916)
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Burroughs Farm was located at the top of the Watford Way on land which is now St Mary’s and St John’s Primary School. In the early 1900s it was a dairy farm.
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