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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:	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:	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	St Marylebone Electricity Generating Station This was built in 1905 and located at the corner of Richmond Street (later Orchardson Street) and Fisherton Street TUM image id: 1660649298 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:	The site of Hendon Central station (1896) The future site of the 1920s Hendon Central station (at the red marker) was anticipated on the late nineteenth century Ordnance Survey map of the area. Butcher’s Lane, later to be Queen’s Road, headed west out of Hendon proper and made a sharp northward turn towards The Burroughs on the later site of Hendon Central Circus. The site is marked with GP (Guide Post) where a sign post pointed the way. Goosebury Gardens, at the bottom of the map, was located north of what became Brent Cross Flyover. The lane which ran north all the way The Burroughs became the route of Watford Way. The North Circular Road, Watford Way and the new Hendon Central station were all part of a coordinated 1920s scheme, transforming the area completely. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1656756550 Licence:	Aerial shot of Brent Cross area in the early 1970s TUM image id: 1692106201 Licence: