This illuminated tree livens up and lightens up the dark nights outside The Broadwalk, indoor shopping centre at Edgware, Middlesex, right beside the Edgware train station and bus garage.
When you venture outside the shopping mall and supermarket, you'll find lots more choice of things to do and places to eat up and down the main road, Station Road: The public library, Izgara Turkish food, Orli, Halal food, Kosher food, Polish food, Nando's chicken, a coffee shop and many more.
Edgware Library
I grew up in Edgware, living near the public library. Once I was doing my homework in the library when a boyfriend phoned me. In those days you did not pay by the minute. One old Penny in the box and you could talk indefinitely. So our German au pair girl, Hannelore, ran down to the library to fetch me back to answer the phone whilst the boy of the moment was still hanging on.
Spelling of Edgware
Note that there is no E in the middle of Edgware, only one E at the start and another at the end. Maybe back int he mists of time there was an e as in edge, but over time people got tired. Or perhaps the nam e was established in the middle ages when spelling was a free for all, before the dictionary established set spelling.
Origin of the Name Edgware
OK - I had to look it up in Wikipedia which says:
Edgware is a Saxon name meaning Ecgi's weir. Ecgi was a Saxon and the weir relates to a pond where Ecgi's people caught fish. Goodness, I associate Edgware with being the end of the Edgware Road which was an old Roman road, dead straight from the centre of London, leading north.
Railway Tavern, Edgware
Alas the old Railway tavern, a grand Victorian mock Tudor building is still boarded up, waiting for help (financial help, loving help). It's been siting there for years, empty. Every now and then a sign goes up praising redevelopment. One day. Meanwhile, let's cheer ourselves up thinking of the illuminated tree outside The Broadwalk.
Getting There
If you are driving, it's hard to find a free parking place and you risk getting fined in streets around the main road. However, behind the bus garage is a big public car park. It was free on Sundays last time I parked in Edgware (and went into London on the Northern line). I suggest you look up car parking and the latest car parks and times and charges if you plan to drive and stop there.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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