St Ann's
St Ann's was the first of the two big shopping malls in Harrow. St Ann's is centrally located facing the Harrow on the hill railway station, which is a few paces from the bus garage where bus converge and ran out across the region to as far away as Heathrow airport. The new shopping centre was opened in 197 by Princess Diana. The centre is named after St Ann's Road. It's features included major stores, and the novelty of a food court.
The site was Heathfield School, where I went to school before I graduated to a girls' Grammar school. The Heathfield school had excellent teachers, but the building and empty playground were not memorable, no great loss, and a central site for the new shopping centre.
St George's
A decade later along came St George's shopping mall, not a rival but an addition to an excursion to Harrow, a few feet away on the end of the pedestrian precinct which has St Ann's in the middle of the long side of the oblong.
St George's shopping mall has a smart striped exterior.
Inside are reliefs of St George around the ceiling, and a glass dome above escalators. In addition to the shops it added a cinema.
The complete history of St Anns Shopping Centre in Harrow - Harrow Online
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