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  Edgware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The majority of Edgware is a ward in the London Borough of Barnet represented by three councillors.
The western edge of the Edgware Road is in the London Borough of Harrow.
Edgware (sometimes misspelt Edgeware) was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgware   (320 words)

  
 Edgware: Introduction | British History Online
Citation: 'Edgware: Introduction', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4: Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood with Southall, Hillingdon with Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow with Pinner (1971), pp.
Edgware Place, which stood in the village at the junction of Watling Street and the road now called Manor Park Crescent, was built c.
In the manor of Edgware in 1277 there were 8 free tenants (excluding the Grand Priory of Clerkenwell) and 52 customary tenants; the survey from which these figures are taken, however, includes lands appurtenant to the manor lying in Kingsbury.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22453   (4185 words)

  
 GENUKI: Edgware History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
EDGWARE, a parish in the hundred of Gore, county Middlesex, 8 miles N.W. of London.
The Roman Watling Street, leading to the ancient city of Verulam, passes over a bridge near the entrance to the village, which consists of one principal street, of which the W. side is in the parish of Little Stanmore, or Whitchurch.
of the monastery and church of Edgware at the time of the dissolution of religious houses.
homepages.gold.ac.uk /genuki/MDX/Edgware/EdgwareHistory.html   (433 words)

  
 History of Edgware: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Tudor usually relates to the tudor period in english history, which refers to the period of time between 1485 and 1558/1603 when the tudor...
Watling street was a roman road which went from dover on the southeast coast of england and is generally believed to have terminated at viroconium (now...
Edgware tube station is a london underground station in edgware, in the london borough of barnet, in north london....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_edgware.htm   (798 words)

  
 Willesden: Settlement and growth | British History Online
Citation: 'Willesden: Settlement and growth', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp.
The land on either side of Willesden (formerly Mapes) Lane was, save for the section nearest its junction with Edgware Road, entirely prebendal, that to the north belonging to Mapesbury, that to the south to Bounds and Brondesbury.
On Edgware Road there were two dilapidated cottages at the southern end and at Shoot-up Hill to the north a mill and a group of cottages and villas, some recently erected.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22601   (17654 words)

  
 Barnet PCT | Sites & Services | Edgware Community Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There is also a shuttle bus between Edgware Hospital and Barnet Hospitals which is managed by Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals.
The neares tube stations are Burnt Oak and Edgware on the Northern Line, although both are a short bus ride from the hospital.
Edgware Community Hospital provides many services to meet the needs of the local population.
www.barnet.nhs.uk /sites_services/edgware/index.shtm   (221 words)

  
 History News Network
History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
A week-long excavation at Edgware Junior School revealed the shelter, hidden under playing fields.
It contained the remains of electrical fittings and gas heaters as well as shoes, an ink-well, a wartime fire bucket and a metal escape ladder.
hnn.us /roundup/entries/22594.html   (117 words)

  
 Underground History - Mill Hill East to Edgware
It was a very hot and sticky day and this is where the walk ended for most of the walkers, with it's easy access to public transportation (Edgware Tube, and two bus routes ran directly back to Mill Hill The Hale, where some people had parked).
A few intrepid explorers (five) decided to go a little further and walked through the suburbs of Edgware to Brockley Hill, where some workings could be seen that would have been part of the Northern Line's push northwards, should World War Two have not interrupted the expansion programme.
Here, all that remains of the aborted extension is a series of grafitti strewn stumps which, had they been completed, would have formed a viaduct, allowing the line to bridge the marshy land beneath.
underground-history.co.uk /northernh4.php   (1469 words)

  
 ST MARYLEBONE - LoveToKnow Article on ST MARYLEBONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is mainly a rich residential quarter; the most fashionable part is found in the south, in the vicinity of Cavendish and Portman Squares, but there are numerous fine houses surrounding Regents Park and in the north-western district of St Johns Wood.
The manor at the Domesday Survey was in the possession of the nunnery at Barking, but the borough includes several estates, such as the manor of Lyllestone in the west, the name of which is preserved in Lisson Grove.
Another historic site is Horace Street near Edgware Road, formerly Cato Street, from which the conspiracy which bore that name was directed against the ministry in 1820.
45.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_MARYLEBONE.htm   (1099 words)

  
 History
In gathering material for this history I am grateful to a few long-serving members who have searched their memories to provide valuable information.
In later years, at the 4th Annual Dinner of the Society in 1948, Arthur Pole was asked to talk about the history of the Club and he said that during the war years the organization virtually closed down.
Usually this involves a short talk on the history of railways followed by free rides on the trains.
www.hwsme.org.uk /history.htm   (6771 words)

  
 CULG - Bakerloo Line
Extension in both directions - to Edgware Road and Elephant and Castle - was quick, but continuation to Paddington waited while the Underground and the GWR tried each to bluff the other into paying for it.
Edgware Road (1) is on the Circle Line, District Line, and Hammersmith and City Line.
The main depot is Stonebridge Park, on the east side of the line and reached from the south via a connection at the north end of the station (the boundary between LU and NR is at 57.32, and the depot extends to 57.99).
www.davros.org /rail/culg/bakerloo.html   (2507 words)

  
 History
The initial section was six km (nearly four miles) in length, and provided both a new commuter rail service and an onward rail link for passengers arriving at Paddington, Euston and King's Cross main line stations to the City of London.
Extensions eastwards by both the District and the Metropolitan enabled the Circle Line of today to be completed by 1884.
The Underground expanded rapidly between the wars, reaching Ealing Broadway in 1920, Edgware in 1924 and Morden in 1926.
www.uni-duesseldorf.de /WWW/fjks/klassen/London/History.htm   (1421 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first UK lodge was established in Hendon, north London, in 1995 after a group of brethren including the late Wor Bro Stan Szapira, Wor Bro George Tihany and Bro Peter Tihany got together and formed a steering group of London resident brethren.
A second lodge followed in Edgware in 1997 and at that time a UK Governing Lodge was established.
A third UK lodge was consecrated in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire to the North West of London in 2000.
www.pihas.co.uk /lodge_website/history.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Passionate about History
Edgware Times): "A Whetstone man with a passion for ancient Greece has produced a history magazine for Barnet's schoolchildren.
George Georgiou, of Tudor Grove, Whetstone, has become well-known to pupils in the borough for teaching ancient history dressed as a Greek warrior, and has now put together a history magazine on the period.
Research of a history enthusiast and technology developer who is particularly interested in integrating technology and history education.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/2005/01/warrior-tells-tales-of-greeks.html   (127 words)

  
 Edgware Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A showcase aimed at extending fl history outside of October's Black History Month held last Thursday was so successful it is to be held annually.
The idea of the event was to allow schools to share ideas on promoting fl history and to see what other schools are doing.
Schools will also be encouraged to keep fl history alive in classrooms throughout the year rather than just in October.
www.edgwaretimes.co.uk /display.var.644267.0.0.php   (273 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Radio Brockley was started by eight volunteers who broke away from the ill-fated Radio Edgware and approached the RNOH in Stanmore.
The first programme was a request-show and the first significant outside broadcast was made using a portable Philips open-reel tape recorder to commemorate the M1 extension.
The motorway originally began at Watford and was later extended south to the junction just prior to Edgware, near the hospital.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /danielgee/radiobrockley/history/history.htm   (472 words)

  
 Camden Council: Camden's history
The Society aims to research and describe the history of the borough and catalogue the fabric of life in Camden's past.
During the year 2000 the Society ran Catching the past - a millennium history project - in co-operation with the Centre.
Local history talks are held in different parts of the borough each month and outings and walks are arranged in the summer.
www.camden.gov.uk /ccm/content/leisure/local-history/camdens-history.en   (1832 words)

  
 MFI Furniture Group: Company History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
They joined forces, based themselves in Edgware, North London, and used the maiden name of Donald Searle's wife for the company name.
This was the most significant milestone in the company's history to date.
In August 1974 a new director was brought in with external management experience, Jack Seabright became joint MD with Noel Lister.
www.mfigroup.co.uk /html/about/company-history.html   (1137 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Survivor's tale: Edgware Road bombing
Professor John Tulloch, who works at Cardiff Journalism School, was at Edgware Road Tube station in London on 7 July where seven people were killed by the bomb detonated there.
Just out of Edgware Road there was this yellowish flash - I didn't hear a sound.
If you add to that the injustices the Muslim people have in this society following their family history, following their parents who worked hard and were spat on - people who get herded up by police and so on - I can't speak for them, they must speak for themselves.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4132170.stm   (809 words)

  
 War Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The history of the other party is a different one.
But the answer is not to regulate the speech and art that might appear at the International Freedom Center to fit someone's definition of "appropriate." The answer is to not build the IFC to begin with.
What we build at ground zero has to honor the memory of one terrible day in the history of America, but it also has to belong to the future as well, a future as optimistic and forward-looking as we can imagine.
www.frontpagemag.com /ARticles/Printable.asp?ID=18790   (6863 words)

  
 Archive CD Books Ireland Ltd History and Topography
This book therefore is not intended as a history but as, to some extent, a guide to the manners of the people and to the appearance of the city during the Mediaeval period."
"In histories, in biographies, in scientific records, and in chronicles of the past, however humble, let us gather materials for a record of the great and the wise, the base and the noble, the odd and the witty, who have inhabited London and left their names upon its walls".
Published in 1895 this is a wonderful history of the Borough of Southwark from it's earliest days. The name 'Southwark' did not appear until 1023 and the borough was thought to be older than the City of London itself.
www.archivecdbooks.ie /acatalog/lnd-history.html   (2093 words)

  
 Edgware Nodie
You are a welcome visitor to this the Edgware NODIE (No Over-Development In England - Edgware) site.
Due to the great interest this subject has generated, we are continually updating this site to bring you more history, published documents and opinions as well as trying to keep you up to date with the key development issues in Edgware.
The objectives of "nodie" are simply to highlight development plans in and around Edgware, and, if residents consider any plan unreasonable, or excessive over development in the area, we will try to fight them!
www.edgware.nodie.org.uk   (509 words)

  
 Edgware Alumni
Which I consider at least in part due to the help and encouragement I was given in the earlier years by the staff at Edgware Sec.
The Edgware School, from 1956 to 1964, was honoured to have the late Geoffrey Cook as its headmaster.
The school, at that time, was classified as Secondary Modern', which, in the parlance of the day, was a school for losers Yet its motivated teachers permitted thousands of 11-plus failures' to go on and achieve academic success, despite their perceived underprivileged status.
edgwarealumni.iwarp.com /fsguestbook.html   (6932 words)

  
 Electric Traction
The scientific wonder of to-day is the commonplace of tomorrow.
The cast iron tubes of the original line were of only 10 ft. 2 in.
The old City and South London Railway now forms part of the great north-to-south line under London between Edgware in Middlesex, and Morden in Surrey, via the Bank.
mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r066.html   (2731 words)

  
 - Family History Online
For more information about the West Middlesex Family History Society please see the web site or email fhol@west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk.
When using this index to assist with your research, consult the original documents to check the details given here, and to see the additional information that has not been transcribed into the index.
The West Middlesex History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the parish registers.)
www.familyhistoryonline.net /database/WMiddlesexFHSmar.shtml   (159 words)

  
 Edgware Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Guardian looks at his role in one of the most famous charges in military history and the lives of his East End comrades WAR historians will no doubt be up in arms if they knew Private Eastoe's last home in Wanstead is not commemorated with a plaque or a heritage trail in Redbridge.
THE streets are a safer place now teenage thug Jonathan Hawkins who beat his mother to death two days out of Feltham Young Offenders Institution is behind bars for her murder, said a senior detective this week.
Black History Month started life as Negro History Week in February 1926 in the USA as a supplement to the formal curriculum, largely through the work and dedication of Carter G. Woodson.
www.edgwaretimes.co.uk /authors.var.228.10.0.php   (370 words)

  
 Pharyngula::London Subway & Transit Rocked By Bomb Blasts
Edgware Road: "All of sudden there was this massive huge bang.
There would be little point in avoiding limited suspician or detection in the Muslim sections of town by your fellow Muslims if they were either silent or sympathetic to the point of tacit assistance.
And they do not have a long history of civil demonstration against much of anything their old governments didn't approve of.
pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/london_subway_rocked_by_bomb_blasts/P125   (5724 words)

  
 History
At a time when men sported huge sideburns, women suffered under the weight of Farrah Fawcet haircuts, flares were shoe-umbrellas and the Bay City Rollers ruled Radio Brockley's airwaves, romance blossomed at London's longest running hospital station.
Music librarian Les Sackwild and Shirley Benn (who had defected from Radio Edgware) became a couple, continued their work at the station and decided to tie the knot in 1975.
They set up home in Edgware and had three lovely daughters.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /danielgee/radiobrockley/baby/baby.htm   (290 words)

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