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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 House (1890) Credit: Louise surrey TUM image id: 1604937103 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Eton College Estate was the land beneath modern Temple Fortune. The Estate, which consisted in 1828 of 315 acres, originated in grants of land by Bela, widow of Austin the mercer, in 1259 and by William de Pavely and his wife in 1273. TUM image id: 1637236470 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Decoy Farm on the Hendon/Temple Fortune boundary was painted circa 1890 by Louise Surrey. The farmhouse was an 18th-century building, which took its name from a nearby pond used as a duck decoy. The farmland was destroyed with the building of the North Circular Road in 1925. The building was demolished in 1935. A bricked-up window in the painting indicates an attempt to reduce window taxes paid on a residence introduced in the 18th century. Credit: Louise Surrey TUM image id: 1692103869 Licence:	Highfield (1920) Credit: London Borough of Barnet TUM image id: 1692113549 Licence: CC BY 2.0
White Swan, Golders Green (2011) Credit: Flickr/Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1692112978 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Plough with horses TUM image id: 1492960289 Licence:	1920 map showing the future route of the Northern Line Edgware Branch - completed four years later TUM image id: 1697623141 Licence:	Golders Green Road Formerly a particular select area of large houses, during the 20th century the character of Golders Green Road drastically changed as the street became the commercial heart of the new suburb of Golders Green. Credit: Wiki Commons/Mark Ahsmann TUM image id: 1698416928 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:
Brent station (1923) This photograph shows the future site of Brent Cross station on the Edgware branch of the Northern line. The Edgware extension utilised unused plans dating back to 1901 for the Edgware and Hampstead Railway (E&HR) which the UERL had taken over in 1912. It extended the CCE&HR line from its terminus at Golders Green to Edgware in two stages - to Hendon Central in 1923 and to Edgware in 1924. The line crossed undeveloped open countryside and, apart from a short tunnel north of Hendon Central station, was on the surface. Five new stations were constructed to pavilion-style designs by Stanley Heaps, stimulating the rapid northward expansion of suburban developments in the following years. In the mid 1970s, this Northern Line station was renamed Brent Cross. Credit: London General Omnibus Company TUM image id: 1489498511 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:	Highfield Court (built 1935) Credit: modernisttourists.com TUM image id: 1692102190 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Western Avenue - looking towards the North Circular Road (2015) Credit: Geograph/David Howard TUM image id: 1698767749 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Aerial shot of Brent Cross area in the early 1970s TUM image id: 1692106201 Licence: