epw024763 ENGLAND (1928). The John Billam Sports Ground, Kenton, 1928

Currently called Kenton Hall occupied by the GAA Centre.

The north eastern corner of Harrow Golf Club. A rather exclusive club existing until the 1930s when it was swept away by the housing development of Preston Park and South Kenton.

Preston Waye just starting to take shape.

Mount Stewart Primary School would eventually be built in this area in the early 1950s.

This would appear to be the lodge house for Selfridge's Sports Ground. Occupied at the time, very probably, by the head green keeper. This building still exists.

This looks like the layout for Woodhill Crescent and the adjoining Ebrington Road.

Woodcock Hill Farm

Selfridge's Sports Ground (previously acquired from Marshall & Snelgrove, another department store chain later absorbed by Debenham's.)

Selfridge's Sports & Social Club. The building still exists in modified form as a privately owned events venue. It was opened in 1920 along with the adjoining playing fields, by Princess Wiasenski, daughter of Gordon Selfridge Snr. When the facility eventually came into the hands of the then Wembley UDC, it became known as the John Billam Sports Ground. Who John Billam was, I have no idea. Suffice to say local authorities have a well-established tendency to be self-regarding, so he was, in all probability, one of their officials.

Football fields alongside Woodcock Hill, later to be occupied by the housing of Woodcock Hill and Bulmer Gardens and Mount Stewart Avenue.

Woodcock Dell Farm

Tenterden Close (prefab housing) built here post-WW2. Demolished 1960s