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If you are awake , you might want to watch this as it features footage of RAF Hendon three years before the airfield was ripped up. @reelstreets.bsky.social has more info share.google/QIzcTL7KkD8h...

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Historical images of Brent Cross always go down well, so I thought you might like to see this. This is Brent Cross shopping centre under construction in the summer of 1973. The development would open 3 years later. This is a CIA spy satellite image accesed through the Layers of London website.

Some NW London locations in here. avengerland.theavengers.tv/ManInterpol/...

Another great photo from Peter Marshall's archive. Do visit his Facebook page for more.

The Coffee Cup, Hampstead High Street, 1966. Photographer unknown. This image has done the rounds and unfortunately no one has ever stated the photographer's name. If yiu know, please let us know.

The forgotten garden of Kingsbury. For a brief period of time in the 1950s & 60s there was a formal garden laid out just off Stag Lane. It belonged to Frigidaire, who had a sizeable factory facing onto the A5. By the late 1960s it was turned into car park. Its now a Toyota motor dealership.

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The Cricklewood Japes: The GoodiesSo it’s ta-ta Tim Brooke-Taylor, yet another victim of this Coronavirus holocaust that has forever changed our world. The Goodies seemed to be everywhere in the 1970s, making household names of Tim…stevepafford.com

A guest blog I did for @barneteye.bsky.social back in 2019 barneteye.blogspot.com/2019/12/stil...

Still Standing – Colindale’s Hidden Aircraft Factory - A guest film and blog by Mark AmiesA blog about music, life and living in the London Borough of Barnetbarneteye.blogspot.com

Transport Archeology at Edgware Bus Station. A combination of managed decline & ineffective maintenance has lead to the flooring at the bus station to become eroded, with layers of coating rubbed away to reveal the original 1980s tiling. Its all coming down anyway for the Ballymore redevelopment.

From Photographer Peter Marshall's Facebook account.

The junction of Neaden Lane and Dog Lane, 1930s and recent times. The Old Spotted Dog pub had been rebuilt around 1929. It lasted until 2006, thereafter an apartment block was built on the site. Top image - Mary Evans Picture Library/ National Brewery Centre.

Ai generated imagery versus historically accurate imagery. The Old Spotted Dog pub, Neasden. I've done a piece on this on my Instagram account here www.instagram.com/p/DbM70F-iNi...

Just over the border but of interest. oveg.org/all-news/pet...

Act now to save Bushey Museum from eviction - Oxhey Village Environment GroupA petition has been launched to prevent Bushey Museum being evicted and moved to a 'white box' on the Bushey Country Club development.oveg.org

A curious photo from the wonderful archives of Memories of Hendon The image is captioned as 'Brent Cross Exchange of Leases' and dated January 1972. So what you can see is model proposal of the Brent Cross Shopping Centre. It looks quite different to the version that was eventually constructed.

A 1968 ad for Duple, the coachbuilders, who had their works on the Edgware Road at West Hendon from 1926 to 1970. The aerial photo was taken by Aerofilms in 1951, and shows the size of the enterprise.

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The north London cafe that became 'a sanctuary' for those fleeing Nazi EuropeA historical lookback at The Cosmo Cafe in Finchley Road which became a sanctuary to Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis in the 1930s.www.hamhigh.co.uk

Another cracking bit of NW London history from Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms. kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2026/07/gerr...

Gerry Anderson in West Hampstead and an Amazing CoincidenceThis is a story about a house in West End Lane, the filmmaker who grew up there as a young boy, and a famous Soviet spy. As a child, Gerry...kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com

There's quite a lot of NW London locations on here.

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The lost ice-cream parlour that looked like a ship and was loved by generationsMarine Ices in Haverstock Hill, Camden, got its name when the Mansi family designed their gelato parlour to look like a ship.www.times-series.co.uk