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Silk Stream near Colindale (1916) TUM image id: 1517938166 Licence:	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:	Mark Twain in Dollis Hill. From Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone using it as a summer retreat and legendary American writer, Mark Twain describing Dollis Hill House as ’coming nearer to being a paradise’ than any other place he had lived, the mansion the local community fought hard to save, was finally demolished a few years ago TUM image id: 1466432270 Licence:	The Edgware Road at Colindale, early 20th century Old London postcard TUM image id: 1517936686 Licence:	The Plough - reputedly 800 years old TUM image id: 1517936032 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Old Guttershedge Farm, Hendon (1880). There were two farms grouped as Gutters Hedge farm. Thomas Tilling, a pioneer of the omnibus transport industry was born here in 1825 and started his business in Peckham. Francis Petite Smith, later knighted, inventor of the marine propellor lived around the same period in Lower Guttershedge and may have tested his inventions on the nearby Brent River. TUM image id: 1692105345 Licence:	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	Dollis Hall Farm Credit: Brent Museum TUM image id: 1516546073 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Welsh Harp (2015) The Brent Reservoir (popularly called the Welsh Harp) is a reservoir which takes its informal name from a pub called The Welsh Harp, which stood nearby until the early 1970s. There was not enough water to supply the Grand Union Canal and the Regent’s Canal. In 1819, the Regent’s Canal Company decided to dam the River Brent to create a reservoir and cut a feeder channel from it to an upper point on the Grand Union Canal. The reservoir is fed by both the Silk Stream and the River Brent. Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1534456927 Licence:	The lower yard at cottages of Blackbird Hill Farm on Old Church Lane, Kingsbury (c.1880) Blackbird Hill Farm lay on the road between Neasden and what was later called Wembley Park. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1500238125 Licence:
The Old Welsh Harp, Hendon Credit: Reeves Postcards TUM image id: 1577706888 Licence:	Cool Oak Lane, West Hendon (1920) A view of the houses from the west bank of the Welsh Harp Reservoir. House building started circa 1898 and was advantageously situated beside the water. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1692105045 Licence:	Mark Twain at Dollis Hill House (colourised) TUM image id: 1597235902 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Normanby Road in Edwardian times. TUM image id: 1548713693 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Welsh Harp (2015) The Brent Reservoir (popularly called the Welsh Harp) is a reservoir which takes its informal name from a pub called The Welsh Harp, which stood nearby until the early 1970s. There was not enough water to supply the Grand Union Canal and the Regent’s Canal. In 1819, the Regent’s Canal Company decided to dam the River Brent to create a reservoir and cut a feeder channel from it to an upper point on the Grand Union Canal. The reservoir is fed by both the Silk Stream and the River Brent.
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