EPW061235 ENGLAND (1939). Overlooking the new Town Hall towards Barn Hill, Wembley, from the south-east, 1939

No.15 East Hill, my boyhood home in the 60s. The house should have been No. 13, but clearly someone superstitious in the council decided to skip 13. An aunt and uncle of mine lived across the road at no. 4; me and my cousin spent many happy hours climbing the trees in my garden.

East Hill

Is this road Regal Way ???

Wembley Park covered sidings. The building was demolished a few years ago and the sidings reinstated in the open. Now too short to stable Metropolitan S8 stock they are used, rather incongruously, to stable the shorter S7 stock of the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines.

Mount Stewart Primary School would be built in these fields in the 1950s.

The Preston Park Hotel (now The Preston pub)

Northwick Park Station

Footbridge over London Midland Railway connecting Northwick Avenue and the Ridgeway.

Kenton Recreation Ground

Northwick Circle

Barn Hill

This looks like the Ascension church hall, already built. The adjacent church building itself was not built until well after the war and was consecrated in 1957.

Campbell Symonds Garage and car dealership. A rather striking Art Deco building in Forty Avenue now gone.

Metropolitan Railway Sports Ground - Wembley Park

The Avenue at the point where the Metropolitan Railway (by now Bakerloo Line) branch to Stanmore passes over.

Wembley Town Hall still under construction. The building is now redundant for council purposes, but is shortly to become a French lycée college.

This area, which includes what is now Preston Park, was developed from the land that once comprised Harrow Golf Club

Northwick Park (originally part of Sheepcote Farm)

Selfridge's Sports Ground and pavilion. Now in local authority ownership and known as John Billam playing fields.

Lyon's Farm This farm near the top of Preston Hill was once the farm of John Lyon (1534-92), yeoman farmer of Preston who founded Harrow School. He bequeathed the farm and other lands to the school for its continuing upkeep. Much of the farm land had, by this time, already been sold off for development, but the farmhouse existed until 1960 when it was demolished.

Uxendon Manor Primary School

Preston Road Station

Wembley Park Station