EPW053688 ENGLAND (1937). Station Road, College Road and environs, Harow, 1937

As I remember, this was a showroom for the North Thames Gas Board. Here you could view and buy the latest gas appliances or pay your bill. However at the time of the photograph, it would have been the premises for the Gas Light and Coke Company, one of its earlier constituent companies.

AEC Regent ST type bus with protruding driver's cab. Originally constructed for LGOC bus fleet.

Coliseum Cinema opened in 1920 by the then Conservative MP for Harrow, Oswald Mosley (later leader of the British Union of Fascists.) The building was later converted into a theatre and was demolished c1958. It was redeveloped as a Premier Supermarket and later still an International Store (subsequently a Bejam/Iceland)

Heathfield School for girls. This building, along with others, was swept away by the St Anne's shopping centre development.

Former Post Office

Randalls boots are the best

Byron Court

Royal Oak

Boots

Greenhill School

Beaumonts

Adams Furniture Store. The building was originally a cinema.

Curry's (the cycle people), selling Hercules and Raleigh bicycles. The company that would later become Currys PCWorld.

Boots the Chemist

Welldon Crescent

Angel Road

St. Anne's Road

Harrow Baptist Church

College Road

Station Road

Awning 'International Stores'

Belisha Beacon. Quite modern: introduced by Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport, in 1934. An amber coloured globe, lit at night (and day?) above a black and white pole

A 'J. Sainsbury' shop

'Chemists' shop-front awning

Impressive collection of shop-front awnings. Not nearly so common today

'The Harrow Observer .. Printing Works ..'

'Randall's Boots are the Best' - shoe shop?