Colindale
OS grid reference	TQ213897
London borough	Barnet
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	NW9
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
London Assembly	Barnet and Camden
European Parliament	London
List of places: UK • England • London

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Colindale is an area in the London Borough of Brent. It is a suburban development situated 8 miles (12.9 km) north west of Charing Cross. The London Borough of Brent is a London borough in north west London and forms part of Outer London. ... The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ...

Today

Colindale houses many of North London's largest institutions. They are the British Library newspaper depository, the Royal Air Force Museum, Barnet College and the Peel Centre (better known as Hendon Police College). A small brook, a tributary of the River Brent called the Silk Stream, runs north to south. Also located here is the Grahame Park Estate built on the former Hendon Aerodrome. British Library main building, London The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. ... An Avro Lancaster in the main hangar of the RAF Museum Hendon The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular. ... Hendon Police College is the principal training centre for the Metropolitan Police of London, England. ... The Brent is a river in south-east England. ... Grahame Park, located on the site of the old Hendon Aerodrome in north west London , and is the largest housing estate in the London Borough of Barnet with 1,777 homes, and was built in the 1970s by the Greater London Council. ... Hendon Aerodrome was an aerodrome in north London, England and between 1908 and 1968 was an important centre for aviation. ...

History

Formerly in the borough and ancient parish of Hendon, the area was essentially the dale between Mill Hill and The Burroughs. By the middle of the 20th century, it had come to include that part of the Edgware Road between The Hyde and Burnt Oak. Look up Borough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... Hendon was created an urban district of Middlesex in 1894. ... Mill Hill is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ... The Burroughs is a place in Hendon, and a civic district of London Borough of Barnet. ... The Hyde is a locality in the London Borough of Brent in London, United Kingdom. ... Burnt Oak is a vibrant multi-ethnic suburb in the London Borough of Barnet south of Edgware. ...

The area is named after a 16th century family of the same name. Until the 20th century Collindale, was without any buildings save for a large house called Collindale Lodge, Collindale Farm and a few cottages (a spelling with two L's has been used, as on this ordnance survey map printed in 1873). All of these properties were on Collindeep Lane which had in the medieval period been an alternative route out of London (via Hampstead, Golders Green and Hendon) to the Edgware Road. By the end of the 16th century it was not often used as a main road and by the middle part of the 19th century was called Ancient Street. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... , Hampstead is a suburb of north London in the London Borough of Camden, located four miles (6. ... Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. ... For other places with the same name, see Hendon (disambiguation). ...

By the end of the 19th century cheap land prices made Colindale attractive to developers. Colindale Hospital was started in 1898 as an asylum for the long term sick of central London and in 1907 The Government Lymph Establishment for making vaccines was built. By 1996 the majority of the hospital was closed and at present lies mostly derelict. In 1902 the British Library built a new depository and kept the newspaper collection there from 1934. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... British Library main building, London The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Garston’s Ltd established a trunk factory in 1901 as well as a row of cottages called Leatherville. As such they constitute the first manufacturer in the Collindale. By 1914 there was already housing between Colindale Avenue and Annesley avenues mostly to house the workers of these endeavours. Immediately after the First World War a number of other manufacturing companies came to Colindale. Franco Illuminated Signs came to Aerodrome Road in 1922. They made their money making the lights for the Franco British Exhibition (1908), from which they took their name (later abbreviated to Franco). They were best known for the neon signs to be found in Piccadilly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Frigidaire started in a wooden shack in Aerodrome Road, employing 11 people in 1923, selling the first automatic household fridges in England. The reason why many of these and other companies chose Colindale was that there was land available for expansion. However by 1923 when the tube railway reached Colindale land prices increased and factory expansion was not realisable. A number of industries looked elsewhere for premises. In 1931 Frigidaire, for example, decided to build a new manufacturing plant on the Edgware Road and had moved its entire operations there by 1946. Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Birds eye view of the exhibition area The Franco-British Exhibition (1908) was held in area west of London now called White City as all of the exhibition areas were painted white]. It celebrated the Entente Cordiale which had been signed by the United Kingdom and France in 1904. ... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Frigidaire is a major US appliance company owned by Electrolux. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After the station opened suburban development was rapid and by 1939 much of the western side was semi-detached housing. Typical is the Colin Park Estate built by F. H. Stucke & Co. around Colindeep Lane (1927). A number of the houses on this estate are by the architect E. G. Trobridge. St Matthias started as a mission church in 1905. Its permanent building was opened in 1934 and rebuilt 1971-3. Colindale infants' school was started in Colindeep Lane in 1921 with a new building constructed in Woodfield Avenue in 1933. In September of 1940 Colindale tube station and the Newspaper Library (rebuilt 1957) were bombed and the site was visited by George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother. V1 flying bombs hit Colindale Hospital on 1 July 1944 killing four members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. “Suburbia” redirects here. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Semi-detached housing (usually abbreviated to semi, as in three-bedroom semi) consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each houses layout is a mirror image of its twin. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saint Matthias is the Apostle chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot, following Judas betrayal of Jesus and suicide (Acts 1:21 - 26). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. ... Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002), was the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until his death in 1952. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The U.S. Womens Auxiliary Air Force was created in June of 1939. ...

Nearest stations

• Colindale tube station

Station on the Northern Line, Edgware branch in Zone 4, between Burnt Oak tube station and Hendon Central tube station. ...

Nearest places

• Burnt Oak and Mill Hill - north
• The Hyde and West Hendon - south
• Church End and The Burroughs - east
• Kingsbury - west
• Oriental City shopping centre

Burnt Oak is a vibrant multi-ethnic suburb in the London Borough of Barnet south of Edgware. ... Mill Hill is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ... The Hyde is a locality in the London Borough of Brent in London, United Kingdom. ... West Hendon. ... There are many Church Ends in England. ... The Burroughs is a place in Hendon, and a civic district of London Borough of Barnet. ... Kingsbury is a place in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London. ... The lobby of Oriental City, around 1997 The Oriental City Food Court Oriental City is a shopping centre in Colindale, London specialising in various oriental foods and items. ...

Image gallery

Colindale tube station Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2816 × 2112 pixel, file size: 2. ...

British Library newspapers depository Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 1. ...

Entrance to the Grahame Park Estate Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 2. ...

External links

• Hendon Aerodrome