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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:	Silk Stream near Colindale (1916) TUM image id: 1517938166 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:	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:	The Edgware Road at Colindale, early 20th century Old London postcard TUM image id: 1517936686 Licence:
Brent Gas Works (April 1921). Credit: Britain From Above TUM image id: 1557403086 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Watford Way junction with Great North Way (1927) The photo shows the area still as fields; within ten years this view would be dominated by houses. The site is known today as Fiveways Corner, Mill Hill and the M1 flyover runs through the scene. TUM image id: 1629841084 Licence:	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:	The Plough - reputedly 800 years old TUM image id: 1517936032 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Hendon Central (1923) TUM image id: 1489498425 Licence:	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	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 Old Welsh Harp, Hendon Credit: Reeves Postcards TUM image id: 1577706888 Licence:

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Silk Stream near Colindale (1916)
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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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