Edgware
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Edgware books (18 available)
- 10 photos on Edgware appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Edgware
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Edgware memories
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my family church
This was the church I attended with my family as a child from 1950-1966 when I moved away to college. My father is buried at the end of the path up to the entry to the church. The rector for some time was Rev. Cottrell with three children who were about the age of my twin and me. The boys were called Richard and David. Our lives pretty well revolved round the church with sunday Services,Sunday school and church breakfast and the youth group as we got older and scouts and girl guides. The rector lived in a huge cold manse next to the church where we would have the annual summer fete.To get to church we would ride in ...read more here
Contributed by sanna Say
Edgware, Station Road
I lived in Edgware between 1959 and 1969, I was only 6 months old when we moved from Harrow. I can remember my mother going into the haberdashery shop called Stanley J Lees, the original Sainsbury's with wooden floors and counters and where they wrapped up the cheese in greaseproof paper, Woolworths, MacFisheries (with their upstairs restaurant), Valentine Brooks the sweet shop, Fine Fare's down by the library, also the furriers in Edgebury Lane which was diagonally opposite the Kosher grocers. I can also remember the wood yard (somewhere around where the Green Shield Stamp building was eventually built) where they used to let me scrabble round the floor and collect bags of sawdust for my guinea pig's cage for no ...read more here
Contributed by Anne Broomhead
Edgware
This year we came over to England from Africa - so first impression of England was this suburban town, the majority of habitants were Jewish; close community, just like our Indian community. Most of my friends were Jewish. The atmosphere and smells were of Jewish cooking. My friends' fathers were also businessmen, so I related to them. During my school days, I read Anne Frank's Diary, I am David and watched Fiddler on the Roof on television, I understood where they came from. My first home in England was in Edgware and where my mother still lives. It still holds happy memories of my childhood..It has since changed drastically, but I will always consider it home..
Contributed by grishma shah
The town I grew up in
This was the town I grew up in until I was 8. There is one day that stands out in my mind. My mother had been informed that the local fruiterer had oranges. His location was about half a mile from our house. England was still in the grip of heavy rationing. As I loved oranges, our Mother decided that I should go with her instead of one of my three siblings. We left the house and had walked about 100 yards then we came across a queue, my Mother enquired whether they were queueing for meat, bread or fish the answer was no, it was oranges, so we dutifully waited and slowly it gradually got to our turn. When my ...read more here
Contributed by Raymond GARFIELD
Now I remember
Having discovered this site only recently many memories came flooding back, as reminded by the photo of Hale Lane where I helped out in the Kosher Deli as a kid.
I lived in Lynford Gardens then in Glendale Avenue over a period of about 10 years from the age of nine until 19 when I left to live overseas.
Looking back today I feel very fortunate to have grown up here having moved from Kensington out to the 'Green Belt' as it was known in those days.
I attended Edgware Secondary Modern School and as a kid used to roam far and wide especialy on bicycles with my mates. Climbing the big oak trees in Edgwarbury Park, and missing out on ...read more here
Contributed by David Berg
Extracts From Edgware & Middlesex books
Between the underground station and the parish church, this is a wonderful neo-Tudor pub of 1936 by A E Sewell; he also designed the Crown and Anchor in High Street, Chipping Barnet, and the Goat near Forty Hill, Enfield, in the same style for the brewers Truman, Hanbury and Buxton. Detail, both internally and externally, is paramount, from the clustered brick chimney stacks to the beautifully-carved brackets supporting the jettying. It is a great pity that the off-sales wing, seen here to the right of the main building, has for some time been in a shabby rundown condition.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Half close your eyes, and it is almost possible to visualise village Edgware. Visit today, and see that the pub has gone, and that offices and shops of little architectural merit have come to dominate the street scene. If you should pass this way, take time to reflect on the dignified, simple memorial to two children who died at Aberfan on 21 October 1956, victims of a disaster which should never have happened; it is situated close to the western churchyard entrance gate, which can be seen in the photograph.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Dated 1923, the neo-Georgian terrace of shops and flats was built to coincide with the arrival of the Northern Line in that same year. The reassuring style of the architecture, with its Ionic pilasters and solid timber and glass shop fronts, was designed to attract the young city worker to live in a world somewhere between the town and the country. Out of shot to the left is a very pretty bank building in the same, but rather more luxurious, style.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Originally owned by the Priory of St Bartholomew The Great, the estate was acquired in 1709 by James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos. Here he created one of London’s great houses. After the Duke’s death the estate was sold and the house demolished; various features were salvaged and dispersed, mainly over southern England. The present building on its site, now the North London Collegiate School, dates from 1910, and it is difficult to say with absolute certainty whether any of the original fabric is incorporated in the structure. Handel was Kapellmeister here between 1717 and 1719, and wrote the eleven Chandos Anthems for his patron. He is said to have played the organ at one of the most amazing churches in Greater London, St Lawrence, Whitchurch Lane. Two walled gardens that once belonged to the house survive, including the Memorial Gardens, which were laid out in 1938.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind its panelled brick boundary wall. The church is close to the main road and vulnerable to vandalism, so access is rarely easy; but the interior, whilst not of breathtaking interest, is worth seeing.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".