EPW053683 ENGLAND (1937). St Anne's Road, Harrow, 1937

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Title [EPW053683] St Anne's Road, Harrow, 1937
Reference EPW053683
Date 12-June-1937
Link
Place name HARROW
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 515418, 188276
Longitude / Latitude -0.33405269481971, 51.581036850867
National Grid Reference TQ154883

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Peterborough & St. Margaret's High School For Girls occupied 15-19 Sheepcote Road, Harrow. 1936-1980s

amazos
Sunday 22nd of January 2023 08:43:16 PM
This was part of a quite extensive complex of meeting rooms and banqueting suites known as the 'Gayton Rooms'. The entrance was in Station Road. At one time these were the main function rooms for the Harrow area and hosted wedding receptions, celebrations and masonic meetings. The buildings disappeared in the 1960s when the Universal Stationers store was resited.

The Laird
Wednesday 2nd of February 2022 04:32:14 PM
A rather brutalist building appeared on this corner in the 1960s, opposite the Royal Oak. It housed S S White, a dental equipment supplier. The street level plate glass of the building was extensive, causing this corner of Clarendon Road and St Anns Road to be known as 'Admiration Bend' by the motorcycling fraternity, who would lean their bikes extravagantly round the corner and admire their own reflections in the windows of S S White as they passed. No doubt a number of accidents would have resulted in this manner.

The Laird
Wednesday 2nd of February 2022 03:51:17 PM
A once common site you no longer see. Shop blinds. Drawn out at opening time with a pole with a brass hook on it by the shopkeeper and put away at closing time. Presumably there to protect window shoppers from the elements and items on display in the windows from the sun.

The Laird
Sunday 18th of November 2018 02:16:50 AM
What is this? There appears to be someone inside it. A temporary sales stand? Is its purpose connected to nearby shops or the nearby roadworks?

The Laird
Wednesday 28th of March 2018 06:23:56 PM
I believe that these two adjacent villa houses were later extensively remodelled, combined and extended to become the St. John's Road frontage of the Cumberland Hotel. This site has now been closed and awaits redevelopment.

The Laird
Wednesday 28th of March 2018 05:48:31 PM
Old fashioned trade bike. These bikes, with their small front wheel and carrying frame, were once a very common sight. They very often had a sign-written panel advertising the shop to which they belonged. Shop delivery boys used them to deliver purchases from shops to customers' homes. I used to ride one when I had a Saturday job at a local greengrocers. They were becoming rare even then.

The Laird
Wednesday 28th of March 2018 05:34:06 PM
Hunt Kennard Timber Merchants, a very old established business in Greenhill.

JamesMac
Tuesday 17th of November 2015 06:14:08 PM
I am intrigued by this White House between SOPERS & Bakers Alley. Not found anyone as yet who can recall it.

JamesMac
Tuesday 17th of November 2015 06:12:40 PM
This is the Frederick Rothwell organ works on the corner of Bonnersfield Lane and Courtfield Avenue. The company made church organs and existed on this site from 1922 until 1960. The building remained for some time afterwards being used, I believe, as a council book storage facility. The site is now redeveloped as Rothwell Court.

The Laird
Thursday 16th of April 2015 01:30:29 PM
This building would soon be removed and replaced with a Burton's gents outfitters built in the classic art-deco corporate style typical of the company. Many of these buildings still exist, although mostly in different hands. For reasons that I cannot fathom, the upper floors of these typical Burton's shops were very often utilised as dance clubs or schools of dance. In this, the Harrow branch was no exception.

The Laird
Thursday 16th of April 2015 01:26:09 PM
Your comment about the upper floor is quite correct the Laird. This particular Burton's housed a billiards hall upstairs.

Sweet Pete
Thursday 6th of August 2015 02:10:20 PM
Guy Haywards school of dance was there as well. Maybe Burtons wanted to sell 'Whistle & Flutes' to the upper floor clients on their way past.

JamesMac
Tuesday 17th of November 2015 06:10:46 PM
This was part of Montague Burton's ethos, build a place where youngsters would hang out and the shop gets more vistors.

kels
Monday 17th of April 2017 12:20:43 PM
The rear of the old Havelock Arms ph. This was redeveloped in the 1960s as a very ugly building housing the new Havelock Arms. Not only was the building ugly, so were the patrons. The pub closed and became a Burger King, which has in turn now closed.

The Laird
Thursday 16th of April 2015 01:22:34 PM
Now (2015) a very up-market estate agents 'FOXTONS'

JamesMac
Tuesday 17th of November 2015 06:07:47 PM
Old Victoria Halls

essemmpro
Monday 2nd of March 2015 07:47:42 PM
Old Victoria Halls

essemmpro
Monday 2nd of March 2015 07:47:41 PM
Old Victoria Halls

essemmpro
Monday 2nd of March 2015 07:47:35 PM
There was a small clothing factory here called Snowmans.

Sweet Pete
Thursday 26th of February 2015 05:04:41 PM
In the 1960'a this was a music shop, but I guess when this photo was taken it was a grocers as you can just make out the word Hovis, on the boarding.

Sweet Pete
Thursday 26th of February 2015 05:03:26 PM

JamesMac
Tuesday 17th of November 2015 06:05:40 PM
Laying cable in trench dug along gutter

czyrko
Sunday 27th of April 2014 09:16:08 AM

czyrko
Sunday 27th of April 2014 09:13:35 AM
Yes, Greenhill Laundry.

Sweet Pete
Thursday 26th of February 2015 04:57:44 PM
Milk Depot & Stables

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:39:27 PM
Yes this was the United Dairies Depot. We used to walk up there on a Sunday morning and feed the horses. The horses were replaced by Milk Floats around 1961.

Sweet Pete
Thursday 26th of February 2015 05:00:42 PM
When I was still very young, our milk was delivered by a United Dairies horse-drawn cart. It very probably came from this depot as we lived quite locally. The milkman was called Bill, the horse was called Molly. One day no more Molly - just an orange coloured electric milk float. J H Brazier also delivered from Kenton Lane Farm.

The Laird
Sunday 18th of November 2018 02:30:44 AM
Harrow Art College

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:37:26 PM
Granada Cinema site

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:35:37 PM
St. John the Baptist, Greenhill.

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:34:03 PM

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:32:43 PM

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:31:58 PM
Byron Court Flats

JamesMac
Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:31:07 PM
Sopers, Debenhams.

kels
Wednesday 26th of June 2013 05:15:01 PM
Cousins Garage

kels
Wednesday 26th of June 2013 04:45:44 PM
Greenhill School, PE Class (Girls?)

kels
Wednesday 26th of June 2013 04:40:57 PM
Now Marks & Spencer

simes188
Sunday 24th of November 2013 10:17:15 PM
Greenhill School, PE Class (Boys?)

kels
Wednesday 26th of June 2013 04:40:27 PM
Now St Ann's Centre

simes188
Sunday 24th of November 2013 10:16:42 PM

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