Problem
How do you spell Edgware? With an e at the start and an e at the end but no e in the middle, only e on the edges. The letter e twice is e-nough. Somehow the middle e got dropped from Edgware.
The Edgware road runs from Marble Arch north through London to Edgware. This was the old, straight, Roman Road. Watling Street, if I'm not mistaken.
Driving north from Central London you will pass Brent Cross shopping Centre and maybe get stuck in traffic in the middle section. Finally, you reach Edgware.
You pass the Premier Inn on your left and reach the crossroads.
To your left is small B & K restaurant.
Ahead you have some medieval timber buildings. Drive further on and you will notice some art deco blocks of flats with the flat bay windows but curved edges. An indian girl recently asked me, "What's art deco. This is art deco. parallel lines and curves. Flat rooftops. Long, flat bay windows. Strips of horizontal panes of glass. Like a ship.
Turn right at the church and on your left is the biggest building but sadly in disrepair. It's not that old.
Edgware has a busy, too busy centre. The best parts of Edgware, the old parts, are hidden and you have to look for them.
The Pond
For example, as a child I would be taken walking along an elegant private road, Canons Drive, past grand Tudor-style houses to watch the ducks on the pond.
How do you spell Edgware? With an e at the start and an e at the end but no e in the middle, only e on the edges. The letter e twice is e-nough. Somehow the middle e got dropped from Edgware.
The Edgware road runs from Marble Arch north through London to Edgware. This was the old, straight, Roman Road. Watling Street, if I'm not mistaken.
Driving north from Central London you will pass Brent Cross shopping Centre and maybe get stuck in traffic in the middle section. Finally, you reach Edgware.
You pass the Premier Inn on your left and reach the crossroads.
To your left is small B & K restaurant.
Premier Inn, Edgware.
Ahead you have some medieval timber buildings. Drive further on and you will notice some art deco blocks of flats with the flat bay windows but curved edges. An indian girl recently asked me, "What's art deco. This is art deco. parallel lines and curves. Flat rooftops. Long, flat bay windows. Strips of horizontal panes of glass. Like a ship.
Art deco flats. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Turn right at the church and on your left is the biggest building but sadly in disrepair. It's not that old.
By car, this is what you see. What wonderful twisted brick chimneys.
Waiting at a bus stop, with those horrid seats too narrow to sit on, and likely to tip you off, designed to discourage rough sleepers, a view of the adly descrepit old pub.
B & K is small and moderately priced. For somewhere larger, try the Aviv restaurant. Aviv means spring.
Look more Medieval style black and white buildings in Edgware.
Edgware has a busy, too busy centre. The best parts of Edgware, the old parts, are hidden and you have to look for them.
The Pond
For example, as a child I would be taken walking along an elegant private road, Canons Drive, past grand Tudor-style houses to watch the ducks on the pond.
My family knew the Brons, whose daughter Eleanor Bron became a well-known actress.
St Lawrence's Church and Handel's Organ
Take the bus along Whitchurch Lane, or drive, and you will reach the park leading to North London Collegiate School. Alongside is St Lawrence's church which has Handel's organ.
St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware.
You might do a search on the church and find that it is listed as technically in Little Stanmore. However, if you measure the distance along roads, it is 1.15 km to Edgware station and 2.6 km to Stanmore station. I should know. As a child I used to live almost opposite and walked into Edgware nearly every day.
I belong to three branches of Toastmasters International, one in Singapore and two in London. Harrovians Speakers Club meets in St Lawrence's church hall behind the church. The minister gave us a talk on the church and Handel and the school.
Do an image search and you will see lots of great pictures of the inside of the church.
Do an image search and you will see lots of great pictures of the inside of the church.
My favourite place to eat is B & K, unpretentious, but filling food, chicken soup, salt beef and latkes and lokshen pudding. I have written several posts on B & K branches in Edgware and Hatch End.
B & K salt beef on rye bread with chips.
On Handel in Edgware and central London:
Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
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