EPW034803 ENGLAND (1931). Kenton Road and environs, Kenton, from the south-west, 1931

Kenton Library

Kenton Cricket Club - formed in 1927

My Grandmother lived in the Grange Farm 1950 t01970

Churchill Hall (North Wembley Conservative Club). This was originally named the Northwick Park Hall and served as a meeting hall for many different clubs and societies. During the 1960s it was home to the (New) Fender Club and some other music clubs. In its time it hosted many of the top R&B groups of the day such as The Yardbirds, The Graham Bond Organisation, The Cyril Davies Allstars, The Who, The Bo Street Runners, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, as well as some well known visiting American blues artists of the time. Not bad for a little place like Kenton. The building now lies forlorn and abandoned, awaiting demolition and redevelopment.

The old Express Dairy building and yard. The stable block still exists at the rear of the current hire shop. Express Dairies had its origins with Barham Farm in Sudbury. Rather curiously, the main rival company, United Dairies, also had connections with another branch of the Barham family. Another business rival, J H Brazier, also had retail premises further along Kenton Road, probably supplied from their farm in Kenton Lane. Dairy supply seems to have been big business in earlier times.

St Leonard's Church. A temporary structure, replaced in 1936 by St Mary-the-Virgin Church. This explains the present anomaly of the adjacent St. Leonard's Avenue. For a while, the old missionary church building was retained as a church hall for the new church.

Site of Odeon Cinema. Not yet built at the time of this photograph. It opened in 1935. http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/BB8/BB87_02751.jpg Closed in 1961 and demolished. A rather ugly Waitrose store and office building (Brent House) were built on the site. Some of the adjoining parade (which included the old Northwick Tearooms) survives. The Waitrose store is now an Asian cash & carry.

The remaining buildings of Kenton Farm (latterly Kenton Grange Farm). Much of the farm lands had been already been built upon, so it is doubtful whether this was still a working farm.

Kenton Park Garage (now redeveloped as flats)

Woodgrange Avenue. This was the original line of the old Kenton Road (Kenton Lane), which continued to Kingsbury Green and the The Hyde/Edgware Road. The main road was straightened and rerouted in the late 20s when the development of Kenton started in earnest.

Cranleigh Gardens

Site where St Gregory's RC School would be built in the 50s. This was previously the site of a horticultural nursery.

Kenton Recreation Ground (formerly a sewage treatment works.)

Site of Little Northwick Tennis Club

Kenton railway coal yard.

Kenton LNWR/LMS Station

Rest Hotel

Dry's Garage

Northwick Park & Kenton station (Metropolitan Railway.) Renamed Northwick Park in 1937.

Kenton Methodist Church

Vacant plot on which would soon be built Devon Mansions and shops.

Site of Kenton (Wordsworth) Telephone Exchange. Plot appears to be vacant at the time of photograph.

Woodcock Park

Kenton Grange (now St Luke's Hospice)

The Plough public house (now Blue Ginger Asian bistro)

The Palaestra tennis and social club in Northwick Circle. Now the Masonic Centre.

This is the church hall, now to the rear of St John's Church, Woodcock Hill, which was yet to be built.

Railway Terrace. Tied railway cottages built for LNWR employees.