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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:	Brent Cross (1947) Brent Cross roundabout was named after its nearby river, the Brent. The junction was transformed by a flyover over the North Circular Road followed by the 1970s construction of Brent Cross Shopping Centre. The latter was built next to Hendon’s former greyhound stadium. TUM image id: 1489498142 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 Park on a 1933 map TUM image id: 1509536783 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hendon House (1890) Credit: Louise surrey TUM image id: 1604937103 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Church Farmhouse Museum from Greyhound Hill (2011) Credit: Grim23 TUM image id: 1536786304 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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. Credit: S Carswill TUM image id: 1692104751 Licence:	Hendon Central (1923) TUM image id: 1489498425 Licence:	1920 map showing the future route of the Northern Line Edgware Branch - completed four years later TUM image id: 1697623141 Licence:	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:
1912 map of Golders Green, extending to Brent Cross and Temple Fortune. It is notable for showing how quickly Golders Green developed - in 1904 it was simply a lonely crossroads. Eight years later the street layout was just about complete, even if housing wasn’t quite there yet. Credit: London Borough of Barnet TUM image id: 1698420602 Licence:	Suburbia awaits (1908) This is a view of The Homestead from the end of the unfinished Sinclair Grove, NW11 The area was transformed from the year 1907. The opening of the underground as far as Golders Green crossroads that year caused the rapid transformation from farmland to suburb. Ribbon development along the main road got as far as Highfield Avenue by the end of 1907 and continued as far as the River Brent by 1912. This photo shows that transformation - we see the end of Sinclair Grove with the unnamed Western Avenue awaiting their houses. Meanwhile, across the fields we can still see "The Homestead" - a large house down a track from Golders Green Road until that year but now being dismantled. The fields beyond remained in place until after the First World War. Then the Northern Line was extended to Edgware in the early 1920s and the last of the countryside around Brent Cross disappeared under the tracks of the bulldozers. TUM image id: 1488708090 Licence:	Western Avenue - looking towards the North Circular Road (2015) Credit: Geograph/David Howard TUM image id: 1698767749 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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:	Hendon Central Circus Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1683132876 Licence: