The Ye Olde Swiss Cottage pub is in the news. Source - @newjournal.bsky.social Read here Camden New Journal share.google/LV55vmzEVMz2...

@balconyshirts.co.uk @londonindustrial.bsky.social @davelifelines.bsky.social Just found this last week walking around Swanage - sounds a wonderful person! Does anyone know about the Ruislip connection? More info www.suttles.co.uk/news/a-plint...

Electric House, Willesden, Brent 1937 (demolished 2014) F. Wayman Brown, F. Wilkinson and Percy Johnson-Marshall www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/electricity-...

Tower Mansions, West End Lane, West Hampstead. It was here that Steve Strange, founder of the legendary Blitz nightclub, shared a basement squat with Billy Idol, in the late 1970s.

This is a currently, rather shabby looking part-industrial corner of an alley in Chalk Farm, but one on the verge of a dose of gentrification. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

'Flask Walk, Autumn Afternoon' (2020) by Alan Lancaster alanlancaster.co.uk

Stonegrove House, Edgware, in 1948, & the present. The caption for the older image described the building as Stone Grove Manor House. Sadly it has been treated to unsympathetic alterations. 1948 image supplied by follower

View of Edgware, Middlesex, 1802 Artist not stated. From the Wakefield Collection. sourced via Corporation of London's London Picture Archive. www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/view-item?i=...

Former Odeon Cinema, Colindale 1935 A.P. Starkey www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/colindale-od...

Via Facebook. May be of interest.

At last, we can get to see what two decades of neglect have done to the interior of the Grade 2 listed Railway Hotel in Edgware . Yesterday, I went along to a public presentation by Cavendish Consulting on behalf of the new owners. This is a Hendon Memories image from 1982 and a recent photo.

More fascinating historical insights from Dick Wiendling and Marianne Colloms kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

You know how much I love a blue plaque, but stumbling across this one to Jim Henson off Hampstead High St just lit up my evening..

A visit to somewhere on my doorstep, in Canons Park. wordsbymarkamies.com/2025/09/15/c...

#OnThisDay 1964: Stanmore Village station was closed to passenger services by British Railways. ➡️ flic.kr/p/qnYq3J [Top photo - Dr Neil Clifton]

Yesterday I visited the old Wembley Town Hall, and I was so impressed, I did an article about it. wordsbymarkamies.com/2025/09/13/w...

The old Railway Hotel on Station Road, Edgware is getting alot of media attention at the moment, with news if its potential refurbishment. However, this was not the first Railway Hotel in the town. Read on in the replies for more.....⬇️

#OnThisDay 1969: Location filming for 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 took place on Midland Road, Somers Town. ➡️ flic.kr/p/QEKwZS

Hatch End Railway Station. A postcard image dating from the 1920s.

Edgware’s derelict Railway Hotel, which has been empty for two decades, could finally be restored at long last. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/pla...

If you liked that, you may like this. Again more unedited and silent footage, this time from 1968 share.google/F9cSWlhmMlOX...

Euston Station in 1970. Rough, unedited footage from British Pathé youtu.be/ZeU4szqW5Yo?...

A great chance find. This wonderful KinoLibrary footage dates from.the 1960s, and takes us along St Pancras Way, Camden from Agar Grove, onto Pancras Road. This area has changed greatly in terms last 60 years. youtu.be/OUzmxuYEXDo?...

Obviously, it's out of the NW London area, strictly speaking, but it may be of interest, so its going up!

#OtD 11 Sep 1946 the Abbey Lodge block of flats in Regents Park, London was squatted by homeless families of WWII ex-servicemen. It was part of a wave of similar occupations in the wake of WWII stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8359...

#OnThisDay 1939: Edgware station was closed to passenger services by the London and North Eastern Railway. ➡️ flic.kr/p/2qhBV42

Another historical report from Dick Wiendling and Marianne Colloms- kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Craven Park Road, Harlesden circa 1910 and in recent times.

#OnThisDay 1981: The BBC television adaptation of The Day of the Triffids was first broadcast. Filming locations included Kilburn, Islington, Hampstead, Primrose Hill, Westminster and Bloomsbury ➡️ flic.kr/s/aHskVG12Pz

I'm just going to take you beyond the boundary to Watford, and a story from the Watford Observer. What it doesn't tell you is that this building has an interesting past (see my reply below for more). www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/2545177...

Cautious welcome for “once-in-a-generation” plans for The Railway Hotel Developers have launched a public consultation on initial plans for “restoration and redevelopment” of the historic Edgware pub reports David Floyd barnetpost.co.uk/2025/09/08/c...

Terry Wogan opens the new Budgens supermarket, Mill Hill Broadway, 1973. This is now an M&S Food store. 1973 photos by Memories Hendon.

This morning. The past lost.

@stickyoliveira.bsky.social and @doctorsnacks.bsky.social have clarified that its the corner of Crawford Avenue and the High Road. Thank you both.

High Road Wembley in the early 1900s. Anyone out there want to work out exactly where? Postcard image.

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Wembley Hill Road circa 1910 and in recent years. Postcard image.

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The Specials at The Moonlight Club, West Hampstead, May 1979. Photograph from album cover.

The artist is William Whatley (I have struggled deciphering the signature on previous artworks of his as it reads as IV Hatley, but the guide gives a specific printed credit inside). He also produced this lively Hillingdon cover and this rather more tame effort for Harrow:

Made in Harlesden.

A Ruckus in Ruislip, this weeks blog exploring the battle between tradition and modernity played out in 1930s suburbia. Read all about here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/a-rucku...

These Middlesex related books have been reduced in price. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12671560...

I will be doing a talk about Hendon Aerodrome for Pinner Local History Society on October 9th. More info on their website, here www.pinnerlhs.org.uk/programme/