EPW037776 ENGLAND (1932). Housing estate centred upon Christchurch Avenue, Kenton, 1932

Part of this building (which appears on old maps and seems to form a part of the old Kenton Lane Farm complex) has been incorporated at the rear of the retail parade that appeared later in Kenton Lane. It is quite unusual at this time that an old building should be used in a new development. I think that developers then very much favoured a clean sweep approach and were less encumbered by any conservation considerations. It is difficult to know what the older building was. In the photograph it looks like they are semi-detached tied cottages (which were probably swept away for the new retail development) with buildings to the rear. It is probably one of these buildings that remains. The existing building is a tall structure with domestic chimney stacks but with no windows on the upper level. which tends to suggest that it was not a residential structure, but a heated ancillary building of some kind. It seems to have been retained in the more modern retail premises as stockroom space or, perhaps, a workshop area.

Kenton Lane Farm

Entrance to Refuse Plant

Where Cullington Close will be

Refuse Plant

The Course of Wealdstone Brook

Sewage Works

Site of the library?

Boxmoor Road.

Wykeham Road.

Our house would be built here in Maychurch Close circa 1935 by John Laing.

Sports pavilion for,what is now,the ASL(American Schools in London).

Whitchurch Lane.

Edgware.

Canons Park.

Brampton Grove.

Christchurch Gardens.

Kingshill Drive.

Hartford Avenue.

Radstock Avenue.

Beaufort Avenue.

Kenmore Avenue.

Site of Priestmead JMI School.

Railway from Stanmore to Harrow and Wealdstone via Belmont.It was known as the 'Belmont Rattler'.It ended service in July 1964 under the 'Beeching cuts'.

Christchurch Avenue.

Honeypot Lane.

Streatfield Road.Would later join up with Honeypot Lane.

Kenton Lane.

Gasholder,Marsh Lane Stanmore.