Dallas Road, NW4

Dallas Road is a road running parallel to the Midland railway and M1.

No 3552 0-6-0 Hendon L.M.S at Hendon station in 1930.
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By 1906, Sir Audley Dallas Neeld was building on the land that had been Renters Farm, starting with a new road from Station Road to Queens Road, later called Vivian Avenue.

The eventual estate used many names associated with the family: Dallas, Audley, Elliot, Graham, Rundell, Vivian, and Algernon and Neeld.

The M1 was built alongside Dallas Road’s already busy railway setting.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Kevin Pont Hendon Central Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:15 GMT	Not as Central as advertised... Hendon Central was by no means the centre of Hendon when built, being a green field site. It was built at the same time as both the North Circular Road and the A41 were built as major truck roads �’ an early example of joined up London transport planning. Reply
Reginald John Gregory Colindeep Lane, NW9 Added: 8 Aug 2022 14:07 GMT	Worked in the vicinity of my ancestor’s house, Between the years 1982-1998 (unknown to me at the time) I worked in an office close to the site of my ancestors cottage. I discovered this when researching family history - the cottage was mentioned in the 1871 census for Colindeep Lane/Ancient Street coming up from the Hyde. The family lived in the ares betwen 1805 and 1912. Reply
Martina Schweppes Factory Added: 13 Jul 2017 21:22 GMT	Schweppes factory The site is now a car shop and Angels Fancy Dress shop and various bread factories are there. Reply
Brian Lynch Staples Corner, NW2 Added: 10 Apr 2022 13:38 GMT	Staples Mattress Factory An architect’s design of the Staples Mattress Factory An image found on the website of Dalzell’s Beds, in Armagh Northern Ireland. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Hendon Central Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:15 GMT	Not as Central as advertised... Hendon Central was by no means the centre of Hendon when built, being a green field site. It was built at the same time as both the North Circular Road and the A41 were built as major truck roads �’ an early example of joined up London transport planning. Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Gutters Hedge Farm Gutters Hedge Farm was also known as Park Hill Farm.

Gutters Hedge Farm

Old Welsh Harp The Old Welsh Harp was a famous inn beside the Edgware Road.

Old Welsh Harp

St John, Hendon St John is a church built by Temple Moore (1856–1920) was an English architect who was born in Tullamore, Ireland.

St John, Hendon

NEARBY STREETS

Algernon Road, NW4 Algernon Road was built on the Hendon side of the Midland Railway tracks during the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Algernon Road, NW4

Bertram Road, NW4 Bertram Road is one of a grid of pre-First World War streets.

Bertram Road, NW4

Brent View Road, NW4 Brent View Road is a terrace overlooking the Midland Main Line in West Hendon.

Brent View Road, NW4

Cool Oak Lane, NW9 Cool Oak Lane connects West Hendon with Kingsbury.

Cool Oak Lane, NW9

Damsel Walk, NW9 Damsel Walk is a location in London.

Damsel Walk, NW9

Daniel Place, NW4 Daniel Place is a road in the NW4 postcode area

Daniel Place, NW4

Dartmouth Road, NW4 Dartmouth Road runs north-south across Vicarage Road.

Dartmouth Road, NW4

Dehar Crescent, NW9 Dehar Crescent is a road in the NW9 postcode area

Dehar Crescent, NW9

Elliot Road, NW4 Elliot Road extended Vicarage Road eastwards in the early 1920s.

Elliot Road, NW4

Esmar Crescent, NW9 Esmar Crescent is a road in the NW9 postcode area

Esmar Crescent, NW9

Herbert Road, NW9 Herbert Road is now part of the West Hendon one way system.

Herbert Road, NW9

Ingledene Close, NW4 Ingledene Close is a location in London.

Ingledene Close, NW4

Layfield Close, NW4 Layfield Close is a road in the NW4 postcode area

Layfield Close, NW4

Layfield Crescent, NW4 Layfield Crescent is a road in the NW4 postcode area

Layfield Crescent, NW4

Layfield Road, NW4 Layfield Road is a street in Hendon.

Layfield Road, NW4

M1 motorway, NW4 The southernmost section of the M1 was built in 1977.

M1 motorway, NW4

Milton Road, NW9 Milton Road was the site of the first church in West Hendon.

Milton Road, NW9

Montagu Road, NW4 Montagu Road is a street in Hendon.

Montagu Road, NW4

Moorhen Drive, NW9 Moorhen Drive is a location in London.

Moorhen Drive, NW9

Mount Road, NW4 Mount Road is a street in Hendon.

Mount Road, NW4

Nicoll Place, NW4 Nicoll Place is a street in Hendon.

Nicoll Place, NW4

Park Road, NW4 Park Road was formerly called Gutterhedge Lane.

Park Road, NW4

Perryfield Way, NW9 Perryfield Way is a location in London.

Perryfield Way, NW9

Pheasant Square, NW9 Pheasant Square is a location in London.

Pheasant Square, NW9

Pollard Road, NW9 Pollard Road was urbanised in the final decades of the nineteenth century.

Pollard Road, NW9

Priestley Way, NW9 Priestley Way is a road in the NW9 postcode area

Priestley Way, NW9

Riverside, NW4 Riverside is a road in the NW4 postcode area

Riverside, NW4

Russell Road, NW9 Russell Road is a street in Kingsbury.

Russell Road, NW9

Seelig Avenue, NW9 Seelig Avenue is a road in the NW9 postcode area

Seelig Avenue, NW9

Sevington Road, NW4 Sevington Road was part of the Neeld lands in Hendon.

Sevington Road, NW4

Shearwater Drive, NW9 Shearwater Drive is a road in the NW9 postcode area

Shearwater Drive, NW9

Sorrel Mead, NW9 Sorrel Mead is a location in London.

Sorrel Mead, NW9

St Davids Place, NW4 St Davids Place is a street in Hendon.

St Davids Place, NW4

Station Road, NW9 Station Road was formerly called Burroughs Lane and led from the Burroughs to Edgware Road south of Silk Bridge.

Station Road, NW9

Stuart Avenue, NW9 Stuart Avenue is a road in the NW9 postcode area

Stuart Avenue, NW9

Sturgess Avenue, NW4 Sturgess Avenue lies south of Park Road on the Brent Farm estate

Sturgess Avenue, NW4

Telford Road, NW9 Telford Road, now reduced to a stump, was a major part of the West Hendon Estate.

Telford Road, NW9

The Broadway, NW9 The Broadway is a street in Kingsbury.

The Broadway, NW9

Tyrrel Way, NW9 Tyrrel Way is a street in Kingsbury.

Tyrrel Way, NW9

Verulam Court, NW9 Verulam Court is a street in Kingsbury.

Verulam Court, NW9

Vicarage Road, NW4 Vicarage Road was laid out over a field of Renter’s Farm in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Vicarage Road, NW4

Warner Close, NW9 Warner Close was part of the West Hendon Estate.

Warner Close, NW9

West Hendon Broadway, NW9 West Hendon Broadway is part of the Edgware Road.

West Hendon Broadway, NW9

Wilberforce Road, NW4 Wilberforce Road was one of a series of roads in the area built during the 1890s.

Wilberforce Road, NW4

Woolmead Avenue, NW9 Woolmead Avenue leads south from Cool Oak Lane.

Woolmead Avenue, NW9

NEARBY PUBS

O’Hanlons

Old Welsh Harp The Old Welsh Harp was a famous inn beside the Edgware Road.

Old Welsh Harp

Upper Welsh Harp The Upper Welsh Harp was a pub on West Hendon Broadway.

Upper Welsh Harp

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Hendon

Hendon railway station is a National Rail station situated to the west of Hendon, in the London Borough of Barnet.

The station was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. From 1875 the Midland opened a service to Victoria on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and received coaches from the London and South Western Railway for attachment to north-bound trains.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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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 Central (1923) TUM image id: 1489498425 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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:	Brent Gas Works (April 1921). Credit: Britain From Above TUM image id: 1557403086 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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
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:	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. TUM image id: 1692104751 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:	The Old Welsh Harp, Hendon Credit: Reeves Postcards TUM image id: 1577706888 Licence:	Hendon Central Circus Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1683132876 Licence:
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:

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St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican church located on the end of Algernon Road, next to Vicarage Road.
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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.
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The Old Welsh Harp, Hendon
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