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Welcome to Kemi Badenoch and Mel Stride , Shadow Chancellor along with Bob Blackman #harroweast MP to #stanmore #harrow . Speaking to local businesses how and growing our economy.
Valencia Road, Stanmore, 1935 and this afternoon.
1935 image - London Transport Museum Collection.
#1930shomes #modernistarchitecture #Stanmore
⚠️⛔️A huge fly-tip dumped on land at Marsh Lane in Stanmore has been described by Harrow Council as one of the worst ever seen in the borough. Read more on our website. #Harrow #Stanmore #Flytipping
R.I.P., Ruth #Bourne [°May 23, 1926 – Dec. 17, 2025]🫡🕯️🌹
#codebreaker #Enigma #BletchleyPark #Bombemachine #Eastcote #Stanmore #Wrens #WRNS #WomensRoyalNavalService #AJEX #AlanTuring #GordonWelchman #StephenBentall #RuthJuneHenry #RuthBourne #LégiondHonneur
London Road (later the Broadway), Stanmore, circa 1900 and the present.
Whilst everything may have changed, the buildings behind the horse and carriage remain.
1900 image sourced postcard image.
#Stanmore
Stanmore Underground station in 1936, four years after it opened.
Topical Press/LT Museum Collection.
#stanmore
The Gloster Javelin gate guardian at RAF Stanmore Park, in the 1970s.
The ruin of the 1632 church of St John's the Evangelist can be seen in the background.
Image sourced from eBay.
#stanmore #glosterjavelin
Busy #OnePlaceWednesday today writing up my #Stanmore family history for a recent DNA match. Also thought i’d write up my recent Liverpool trip where of course we found a graveyard and I tried to take myself back to Gt Grandfathers trip up the Mersey 🎼 in a town where he was born
Witches and demons cavort in Stanmore.
1/2 #Stanmore, 1290. Arrest of Adam de Stratton, property swindler, royal moneylender, alleged black magician. Recovered from his home, a substantial fortune, & "a silk-lined chest ... containing fingernail & toenail clippings, women's pubic hair, & feet of toads & moles". These were considered ...
Stanmore Golf Club, founded 1893.
Old Church Farm, near #hauntedgolfcourse #Stanmore. Former rectory, haunted by ghost of parson said to rise from grave opposite farm, visit house, return from whence he came. Family illness excites him ...
On 2 May 1557, at the devil's instigation, Henry Slanke hung himself with his own girdle in a field at Harrow, Verdict: cursed by a witch.
Cover of Stormcock's infuriatingly rare volume of local ghostlore, 'The Phantom Nun of St Mary's Churchyard and Other Tales of Terror,' (Whitefriars, 1975)
Swimming a witch
Hatch End Farm
Re The Duck in the Pond, Kenton Lane, #Stanmore. ... closer study reveals there were also ducking ponds at Cuckoo Hill, Pinner, and opposite the entrance to #HatchEndFarm (later Letchford House) Headstone Lane. #witchcraft #HauntedHatchEnd
Duck in the Pond, Kenton Lane, Stanmore/ Belmont
Ducking a "witch." Drown and she's innocent.
Duck in the Pond circa 1920-30s (?)
Duck in the Pond, #KentonLane #Stanmore. "the name is derived from its association with a 'ducking pond' — a rather unpleasant medieval custom which involved the immersion of recalcitrant wives in the cold waters of a village pond." - R.S. Brown '#HarrowWeald & #HatchEnd, 1980.
Amber Lodge maximum security of folks' home, Stanmore. Scene of a terrifying case of spontaneous feline combustion in the late 1980s.
Almer Lodge. Think it had been shut down at this point (probably same goes for previous photo).
Almer Lodge. Pre 'Marks & Spencer' makeover.
A cat on the verge of spontaneous combustion.
#HauntedHarrow Anmer Lodge nursing home, #Stanmore, c. Nov. 1986/ Jan. 87. Peppi the cat burst into flame & exploded before horrified residents. The authorities, fearing a mass outbreak of #spontaneous_feline/OAP_combustion, promptly shut the place down & sold site to developers. It’s now an M&S.
Throwback Thursday time; this time in Stanmore County Park in 2022 #throwbackthursday #Stanmore #park #NorthLondon
View of London skyline from Stanmore Country Park
I’m not sure the photo I posted yesterday did the view from the hill above the dyke justice, by the way, so here’s another one. Still not great, but you can sort of make out the City, the Shard and Strata at the Elephant on the left and the Wembley Arch on the right. [3/3]
#stanmore
1/5 #infrared #monochrome
This week a set of black and white images from a section of the #LondonLoop from #Stanmore to #Elstree. Here's a #tree.
#Olympus EM1ii #fullspectrum #590nm clip-in filter. PanaLeica 12-60mm f2.8-4
#ir
#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome #classicmono
Big Sunday morning crowd came out for a walking tour of Stanmore hosted by @innerwestcouncil
Lots of fab architecture and stories.
#stanmore #heritage #walkingtour
3/5 #winter #woodlands
One of my favourite aspects of winter is the chance to see trees without their leaves - I find the structures and shape of the branches endlessly fascinating.
Another from #Stanmore #Olympus EM1iii 12-100mmf4 lens - panorama.
#photography
#landscape
#landscapephotography
2/5 #winter #woodlands
Another winter scene from last November around #Stanmore.
#Olympus EM1iii 12-100mm f4
#photography
#landscape
#landscapephotography
1/5 #winter #woodlands
This week a selection of winter scenes as spring creeps up on us.
This one was shot at the end of last November around #Stanmore but has rather a lot of unseasonal green shoots.
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography
