Stanmore, Village 1906
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Photo of Stanmore, Village 1906

More about this scene

In thirty years, this scene would be reinterpreted to become the Broadway. Gone would be the village pump, the pond and the water splash. Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme right of the photograph. Behind the pump can be seen a row of early 17th-century plastered, timber-framed cottages, said to possess the longest unbroken jetty in Greater London.

Memories of Stanmore, Village 1906

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Stanmore, Village 1906

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Hallo , my name is Cliff Bowley. My family moved to Stanmore in 1950 to a very large house called "Belmont Lodge " on the corner of Denis Lane and London Road junction. Does anybody remember it? It was knocked down for development, (what a shame). It was not very visible to the road because it had very large trees and bushes surrounding it. The house was requisitioned by the council, and families like ours, displaced ...see more
During family research, I discovered that my grandmother, a Miss Bull was living in Regent House. She may have been in service, can anyone help with the family name or any other details of her employer?