Oh fantastic! I was trying to look up what it was exactly

1930 England: Royal Air Force Display at Hendon YouTube video by Reuters Connect

Another video of Hendon Aerdrome recently released on YouTube by Reuters

This time from 1930 with crowds watching airplanes in formation, parachutists and a strange plane which appears to have a rota-blade

Nice little display of historic items at Hendon Golf Club

1929 DEFENCE: Royal Air Force aerial display at Hendon YouTube video by Reuters Connect

RAF planes showcase war maneuvers and aerial bombardment at Hendon in 1929

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1928 Barnet Horse Fair YouTube video by Reuters Connect

Footage of Barnet Horse Fair in 1928

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Mind Your Own Middlesex Let me introduce you to a wonderful little planning consultation document from the late 1940s called “Mind Your Own Middlesex”.  But first… Middlesex. Like many childhood first im…

Mind Your Own Middlesex, a wonderful little planning consultation document from the late 1940s:
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Brent Cross Hits The Big Five-O. One of Britain’s first out of town shopping malls opened on March 2nd, 1976. If things had gone to plan it probably would have opened a full two years before. When it opened its doors for the…

Brent Cross opened fifty years ago this month.

I wrote a small piece about it.

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A colour photo of an art deco house in Hendon

White House, Downage, Hendon

1936

Designed by Evelyn Simmons for Haymills Ltd

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The Goldsmith Oak, around 400 - 500 years old on Lawrence Street. Perhaps named for writer Oliver Goldsmith who lived locally or for nearby Goldbeaters Farm

Pictured in 1910, 1964 and 2009

I was watching London (1994) recently, some great if brief footage of the Brent Cross of yesteryear

North London landmark and UK's first American style shopping mall turns 50 Trailblazing Brent Cross Shopping Centre opened in March 1976 and is credited as the template for huge malls like Lakeside and Bluewater.

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This lovely tree is outside of Hendon Library and is a memorial to the residents of the Borough who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

It was planted in Oct 96 by the Mayor, then MEP and leader of the socialist group Pauline Green and Manuel Medina, leader of the Spanish Socialist MEPs

There was the strange case of Hendon School's "Hitler Oak"

Gold medal winners of the 1926 Berlin Olympics were given oak saplings.

Harold Whitlock won the 50 km walk and had it planted in his old school

In 2007, having grown to 50ft, it was cut down due to fungal infection

What is the oldest tree in the area?

I think it is very likely to be a yew tree in the century old churchyards of St Mary's Hendon or St Margaret of Antioch, Edgware

Considering that a yew tree in Totteridge churchyard is possibly 2,000 years old and the oldest in London

Grown up in Barnet is an exciting new collaboration between the Museum of Youth Culture and Barnet Council uncovering and collecting youth culture stories

Get out your family albums, dig out your old outfits, and share your stories, reach out to culture@barnet.gov.uk

Make sure it's all properly backed up on the Internet Archive!

Included in the book is the Japanese Maple in Hendon Park which is the tallest of its kind in the country

It was planted in 1903 when the park was opened and in 2008 it was recognised as one of the Great Trees of London

Inspired by Paul Wood's excellent "1,000 Trees to find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities" I'm starting a slow burn thread on the most interesting trees of Hendon, Mill Hill and Edgware

The Royal Air Force Museum site at Colindale, in the early 1980s.

Postcard image.

An excursion of the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society (London Branch) arrives at the old Edgware Great Northern Station on Oct 1st 1960

The station had been closed to passengers in 1939, & closed to freight in 1964

Site now covered by a Sainsbury's & it's car park.

Photo by David Pearson

Anyone recognise these locations?

London 1948 Olympic Marathon | Marathon Week YouTube video by Olympics

The marathon event of the 1948 Olympics left the old Wembley Stadium and looped through Kingsbury, Stanmore, Canon's Park, Stanmore, Elstree, Radlett, Mill Hill and Edgware

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⚠️ Important London air pollution update for Friday 6 March.

⚠️ I’ve triggered a high pollution alert due to a forecast of particulate levels mainly caused by Saharan dust.

⚠️ Protect the most vulnerable by avoiding unnecessary car trips, engine idling and burning garden waste.

1991: The Five Lawns of Maurice Pope | Little England | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

No idea where this is actually filmed but the most weirdly nostalgic film for someone who grew up in Edgware / Mill Hill in the 1990s

Quiet summer days with birdsong (which you don't quite get anymore) and the houses and gardens looking like they used to

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Mill Hill Broadway in 1924 and 2024.

A lot of differences, but the major change was the arrival in the 1960s of the M1, running alongside the railway. That saw the station building demolished.

1924 image by Aerofilms.

2024 image Google.

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The M1 Approaches London.

A high-angle view of the M1 motorway extension alongside the LMR main line at Mill Hill, Barnet, London, England, 24th November 1969. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)'

Mill Hill Village turn back the clock for 80th anniversary clash The cricket club mark a milestone at Burtonhole Lane by hosting the same opposition they faced in their very first home match in 1946

Mill Hill Village turn back the clock for 80th anniversary clash

The cricket club mark a milestone at Burtonhole Lane by hosting the same opposition they faced in their very first home match in 1946
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Cadets of 120 Squadron return to Hendon over 60 years after life-changing training Having met in the late 1950s, former RAF Air Training Corps cadets reunite at the RAF Museum in Hendon to revisit their roots and remember lost friends. They tell Leïla Davaud how their squadron shaped their lives

Cadets of 120 Squadron return to Hendon over 60 years after life-changing training

Having met in the late 1950s, former RAF Air Training Corps cadets reunite at the RAF Museum in Hendon to revisit their roots and remember lost friends.
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A colour photograph of the art deco White House in Downage, Hendon

White House, Downage, Hendon

1936

C.E. Simmons

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On a similar note, I'm sad I never got to see the only other play set in these parts (to my knowledge)

"Burnt Oak: Life and Death in London Town", a slice of documentary realism about working class life in North London

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