EPW053683 ENGLAND (1937). St Anne's Road, Harrow, 1937

Peterborough & St. Margaret's High School For Girls occupied 15-19 Sheepcote Road, Harrow. 1936-1980s

This was part of a quite extensive complex of meeting rooms and banqueting suites known as the 'Gayton Rooms'. The entrance was in Station Road. At one time these were the main function rooms for the Harrow area and hosted wedding receptions, celebrations and masonic meetings. The buildings disappeared in the 1960s when the Universal Stationers store was resited.

A rather brutalist building appeared on this corner in the 1960s, opposite the Royal Oak. It housed S S White, a dental equipment supplier. The street level plate glass of the building was extensive, causing this corner of Clarendon Road and St Anns Road to be known as 'Admiration Bend' by the motorcycling fraternity, who would lean their bikes extravagantly round the corner and admire their own reflections in the windows of S S White as they passed. No doubt a number of accidents would have resulted in this manner.

A once common site you no longer see. Shop blinds. Drawn out at opening time with a pole with a brass hook on it by the shopkeeper and put away at closing time. Presumably there to protect window shoppers from the elements and items on display in the windows from the sun.

What is this? There appears to be someone inside it. A temporary sales stand? Is its purpose connected to nearby shops or the nearby roadworks?

I believe that these two adjacent villa houses were later extensively remodelled, combined and extended to become the St. John's Road frontage of the Cumberland Hotel. This site has now been closed and awaits redevelopment.

Old fashioned trade bike. These bikes, with their small front wheel and carrying frame, were once a very common sight. They very often had a sign-written panel advertising the shop to which they belonged. Shop delivery boys used them to deliver purchases from shops to customers' homes. I used to ride one when I had a Saturday job at a local greengrocers. They were becoming rare even then.

Hunt Kennard Timber Merchants, a very old established business in Greenhill.

I am intrigued by this White House between SOPERS & Bakers Alley. Not found anyone as yet who can recall it.

This is the Frederick Rothwell organ works on the corner of Bonnersfield Lane and Courtfield Avenue. The company made church organs and existed on this site from 1922 until 1960. The building remained for some time afterwards being used, I believe, as a council book storage facility. The site is now redeveloped as Rothwell Court.

This building would soon be removed and replaced with a Burton's gents outfitters built in the classic art-deco corporate style typical of the company. Many of these buildings still exist, although mostly in different hands. For reasons that I cannot fathom, the upper floors of these typical Burton's shops were very often utilised as dance clubs or schools of dance. In this, the Harrow branch was no exception.

The rear of the old Havelock Arms ph. This was redeveloped in the 1960s as a very ugly building housing the new Havelock Arms. Not only was the building ugly, so were the patrons. The pub closed and became a Burger King, which has in turn now closed.

Old Victoria Halls

Old Victoria Halls

Old Victoria Halls

There was a small clothing factory here called Snowmans.

In the 1960'a this was a music shop, but I guess when this photo was taken it was a grocers as you can just make out the word Hovis, on the boarding.

Laying cable in trench dug along gutter

Laundry?

Milk Depot & Stables

Harrow Art College

Granada Cinema site

St. John the Baptist, Greenhill.

Angel Road

Royal Oak

Byron Court Flats

Sopers, Debenhams.

Cousins Garage

Greenhill School, PE Class (Girls?)

Greenhill School, PE Class (Boys?)