EPW018758 ENGLAND (1927). Gayton Road and environs, Harrow, 1927

The two adjacent villas were incorporate as the Gayton Hotel, a residential hotel.

These houses were acquired over time and the buildings incorporated as the Monksdene Hotel, a residential hotel. In the days before all-day licensing, the Monksdene housed a rather shady private members drinking den, called the Guinea Club. The Monksdene Hotel has now closed and the site redeveloped as a retirement home complex.

The former Harrow South signal box.

This building housed Harrow High School, one of the many independent schools that once abounded in the area. The name has now been adopted by Harrow County/Gayton High, which lived next door.

Greenhill Laundry

Marquis of Granby pub. Demolished in the early sixties to make way for an extension to the adjacent Sopers department store.

Sopers department store.

This is possibly the last pitch-roofed house that now remains in Sheepcote Road. It once housed a YWCA hostel and has now been adapted as a privately run pre-school nursery. All the others have been replaced by apartment blocks.

There must, for some years, have been an intention by the Met railway to quadruple its tracks. A wide strip of vacant land appears to have been reserved between the existing railway and adjoining residential development.

Harrow Goods Yard. This was once a very busy location, such that it warranted a its own dedicated shunting locomotive supplied, alternately every five years, by the Met Railway and the GCR/LNER.

I'm not quite sure what this structure is. It's by the LNER lines at the end of Kenton Avenue. Perhaps it's a retaining wall that has been replaced more recently by something a little less obvious.

Harrow County School for Girls

I think this is No 28 Gayton Rd. I lived there from 1968 -72. This and the adjacent houses have since been replaced with low rise apartments with large car parks at the rear where the long back gardens used to be.

St John's Rd

Northwick Park Rd

Sheepcote Rd running across the photo from l to r.

Gayton Road.

St Ann's Road

College Road

Harrow-on-the-Hill Station

Harrow County School For Boys (1911-75), later Gayton High School, now Harrow High School.