eaw014134 ENGLAND (1948). The crossing of the Metropolitan and Bakerloo Lines and Draycott Avenue, Kenton, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.

There was once a motor garage here belonging to the Rest Hotel. In a previous era there had been the tearoom gardens of an older inn. Today there is a large Premier Inn squashed into the site.

This row of chalet shops balanced precariously to the side of Kenton Bridge were owned by the railway who rented them out to a variety of small businesses. At one time there was a toyshop, an estate agents, a watchmakers, a needlework shop, a radio and TV shop and a coal merchants. All disappeared in the 1980s when the new Sainsbury's development necessitated a change in the road layout.

Warner's flower shop, a familiar feature here for many years, its heady aromas contrasting starkly with the acrid smell of Jeyes fluid coming from the adjoining Kenton Station.

This footbridge over the LMS railway, connecting Northwick Avenue and The Ridgeway, was present before either road existed, as it maintained an older right of way connecting Sheepcote Farm with Woodcock Hill Farm and onwards to Preston.

This building (226-228 Kenton Road) comprising adjoining premises, was one of the first built by F & C Costin Ltd during their development of the Northwick Estate and was used by them as their estate office.

Churchill Avenue

This is the NE corner of Northwick Park open space, by this time owned by the local authority, but previously land belonging to Sheepcote Farm and later part of the Northwick Park Golf Course.

The Rest Hotel

Ex G.C.R.(London Extension) tracks running alongside the underground ones.

Greystone Gardens

Northwick Avenue

A six car LNWR/LMS Oerlikon stock train. This type operated the Euston-Watford and Broad Street-Richmond DC services at the time.

Railway Terrace. Railway cottages owned by the LNWR/LMS which were probably swept away before or at the time of the Sainsbury development in the old goods yard.

Curly's Cafe. A very strange place. A cafe built in a converted wooden garage building to the rear of the shops in an alley running off Draycott Avenue. The concept today in today's Health and Safety conscious environment would cause apoplexy. Curly, nevertheless, did a very commendable home boiled ham. The chief attraction for youngsters was a genuine pinball machine, a rarity. It is said that a young Keith Moon (a local boy from Wembley) was a frequent visitor. The cafe certainly existed up until the early '70s.

The original Sainsbury store in Kenton. It comprised two inter-connected sections; one for dry goods, the other for meat and dairy etc. After being served, payment was made at a separate enclosed booth at the rear of the shop. Decorative tiled surfaces everywhere as was the custom in the old Sainsbury stores.

W H Smith (Newsagent and Bookseller)

Guy Turnbull (Chemist)

Posner's drapery shop.

Northwick Tearooms

Odeon Cinema. Closed 1961.

F & C Costin builder's yard and offices. This local building firm was responsible for building much of the housing in Kenton.

This was once the site of Buckingham College Lower School (the main site being at Hindes Road, Harrow.) It is now a day nursery.

Kenton goods yard.

The West Coast Mainline from Euston to the North and Scotland.

Kenton station.

Draycott Avenue