The Hatch End Trade Association

The Hatch End Trade Association
are proud to present our next event

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Dear Reader,
The Hatch End Trade Association are proud to present to you our
forthcoming street event to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee in Hatch End Broadway.
Date: Monday 4 th June, 2012
Time: 3:00 pm until 6:00 pm
Location: Hatch End Broadway
After our previous landmark events, we expect this event to be
well attended and recommend that you come early.
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Look What’s In Store!!
The Broadway will be decorated with Union Flag bunting and will
also be hoisting our 6 foot union flag on our 20’ flagpole.
Roaming Magician Karaoke Harrow Choir
Zumba Fitness Grimsdyke School Horse & Carriage Rides
Bollywood Dance Troup Hatch End Horticultural Society
Fire Engine Display Face Painting Hook a Duck
Circus Skills and much much more …
Don’t forget to book a table at one of
our fine restaurants for after the event.

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modern oriental cuisine
t: 020 8421 6999
info@recipe-hatchend.co.uk www.recipe-hatchend.co.uk
408 – 410 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Harrow, Middlesex, HA5 4HP.

Meet some of our special Acts …
Mike Smith Magician,
member of the Inner
Magic Circle A.I.M.C.
t: 020 8621 0609
m: 07775 840858
SWEET SENSATIONS
KARAOKE / DISCO
incorporating singalong with Sweet�
m: 07960 36 46 26 or 07956 90 41 90
sweetsensationskaraokedisco@hotmail.com
Professional mehndi
(henna) artist available for
all occasions call:
Vinita on: 07772183333
Professional mehndi (henna) artist
For more information please call
Vinita: 07772 183333
Bollywood Dance Troup
Featuring Karishma Patel
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Children’s Activity and Educational specialists.
Experts in Private Tuition for all ages and subjects, tuition
centres in North & North west London and 11+ practice
exam.
Contact: Michelle - 07976 870209
Dee - 07825 161115
www.myspacekids.co.uk
Come and see us at the street party, having fun with
Circus Skills!
‘Friends of Grimsdyke School’
ARROW
Live music
for parties and events
020 8428 6651
brianeseager@googlemail.com
Let’s bring our community together.
Ditch the work out and join the ‘street’ party!
Zumba classes run every Wednesday
8-9pm
at Grimsdyke School, Sylvia Avenue
Dani 07956540785 Zoe 07985647065
anxietyaction.co.uk

Convenience Stores
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The Hatch End Trade Association Directory
Hatch End Food & Wine 020 8421 3888 Genuine Cakes 020 8428 8585
Ivor Silverman 020 8421 6564 Mili News 020 8428 3101
Stars News & Wine 020 8421 4476
Dining
Baskin Robbins 020 8428 1188 Black Pepper 020 8421 4349
B & K Salt Beef Bar 01923 518693 Casa Mia 020 8428 0079
Delicious 020 8428 6867 Divan Express Restaurant 020 8428 4766
Felini a-caffe 020 8428 0111 Hatch End Tandoori 020 8428 9781
Hatchets 020 8428 9973 Moon & Sixpence 020 8420 1074
Papu Miya 020 8421 2112 Recipe 020 8428 6991
Sea Pebbles 020 8421 0203 Zia Teresa 020 8421 5550
Electrical & Lighting
Essential Phones 020 8421 4023 Master Group 020 8420 2158
Music Matters 020 8420 1925 My Digital Lounge 020 8421 6677
Saimol Lighting 020 8421 0203
Estate Agents
Pulver Carr Partnership 020 8421 0107 Robertson Phillips 020 8428 7161
Fashion
Alle Boutique 020 8420 2050 Alpine – The Dry Cleaners 020 8428 0098
Cut & Sew 07580 520576 Impeccable Formal Wear 020 8421 1111
Smoothies 020 8421 1392 Sole & Heel 07828 881074
Whirligig 020 8428 6090
Finance & Banking
Ascot Sinclair Associates 020 8421 7990 Hatch End Post Office 020 8428 2078
Natwest 020 8421 8024
Funeral Directors
Hearnden & Daughters 020 8421 2202

Health & Beauty
Panos Barber Shop 07789 343938 Bliss Beauty 020 8428 8661
Cutting Edge 020 8421 5151 Elliott Hall Medical Centre 020 8428 4019
The Eyecare Studio 020 8421 2277 Hair ID 020 8428 3574
Hall Healthcare 020 8428 4333 Jeunesse Beauty 020 8428 1138
Tanna Pharmacy 020 8428 4195
Homes & Interiors
A & C Antiques 020 8421 1653 Axas Interiors 020 8421 1295
Chaplins 020 8421 1779 Halcyon Interiors 020 8420 1124
Howards Interiors 020 8420 1414 James Frames 020 8421 2330
Kingshill Carpets 020 8421 4014 Moores Interiors 020 8421 5448
The Restorer 020 8421 4222 UB8 Interiors 020 8421 4222
Motoring
Hatch End Motor Co. 020 8428 8984 Hatch End Motor Spares 020 8428 5832
Hilo Garage 020 8428 7744
Promotional Vouchers
Peel2Save 07774 695809
Schools
Hatch End Day Nursery 020 8421 5471
Solicitors
Mills Chody Solicitors 020 8421 8428
Web Design & Print
beeuneeq 020 8421 2102
For more information please visit our website at hatchendtrade.com
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History of Hatch End by Anne Swinson of the Hatch End Residents Association
The name Hatch End comes from the Saxon word Haece meaning gateway, possibly into the
nearby deer park (now Pinner Park Farm). This area became a small hamlet at the north end
of Headstone Lane with a chantry chapel linked to St Mary’s Church Harrow–on –the- Hill .in
the 1300’s.
Through the following centuries, this northern land of Pinner was mainly agricultural supporting
seven farms, several mansion houses and allied cottages. One such farm was Hatch End
Farm. The farmhouse, built in 1670, became Letchford House and today is Hatch End’s oldest
building and Grade ll Listed. Nearby is the Letchford Arms, both buildings named after a
Pinner doctor.
In the 1830’s the railway was built taking some land from four farms:-. Hatch End, Dove House,
Oxhey Lane and Woodhall as it carved its way from Euston to Birmingham. At first there was a
halt at Dove House and then the first station at Hatch End was opened in 1844 as Pinner
station.
With the railway came the developers and the year 1855 was significant on two accounts.
First, the school for the orphans of commercial travellers was moved from Wanstead to the
healthier country air of Pinner where it was built to the east of the railway. The Prince Consort
came by train to open it and was late for the ceremony!. Eventually, it became the Royal
Commercial Travellers School in 1919. Secondly, in 1855 fifty italianate villas were built to the
west of the railway and took the name of the nearest farm and became the Woodridings
Estate.
Many of the aspiring Victorian middle classes took up residence here to get away from the
cholera and polluted air of London. The roads and villas were named after various dukes e.g.
Wellington, Devonshire and Cornwall roads and some of the villas were along Station Road
which is now Hatch End Broadway and the Uxbridge Road. The new owners or tenants of the
villas were enticed with free first class return rail tickets to Euston for three months and thus the
age of commuting began. Eventually, the estate had a chapel and the Railway Hotel (the
Railway Pub became Locally Listed but was ruthlessly demolished over a weekend in 2004 to
make way for Tesco’s).
Notable residents of the Woodrdings Estate included Admiral Nelson’s daughter, Mrs Horatia
Nelson Ward. She spent her last years in Beaufort Villas. Isabella and Samuel Beeton, cookery
writer and publisher of the famous Book of Household Management lived in Chandos Villas,
roughly where Hatchets restaurant is today. A.E Houseman, poet, was a lodger in Yarborough
Villas in Devonshire Road.
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In 1895 St Anselm’s Church was consecrated on land donated by Mr Blackwell of Crosse and
Blackwell in Westfield Park. Here large houses were built, inspired by the architect Richard
Norman Shaw’s Grimsdyke House, for the directors of the company; sadly only three remain.
Meanwhile, Hatch End Station changed its name from Pinner to Hatch End and Pinner with the
coming of the Metropolitan station in Pinner. It was a toss- up whether it would be called
Woodridings but Hatch End won and eventually in 1911 our present station was built,
designed by Gerald Horsley. It is Grade ll Listed and is a charming, Wrenish building
acknowledged by Nicholas Pevsner among others.
The new Hatch End Station is also the logo of the Hatch End Association which was started in
1929 as the Woodridings Association by a group of residents in Hillview Road concerned about
flooding from the two streams in the area, the River Pinn and the Woodridings Brook.
By 1932 it took its present name in order to keep an eye on the great expansion of
development not only the Artigen estate of the present Pinnerwood Park Conservation area,
but also across the railway in The Avenue, Royston Park and Hatch End Park estate. South of
the Uxbridge Road, except for a pair of villas remaining in Wellington Road, the rest
disappeared to make way for smaller houses and the coming of the shopping centre, Hatch
End Broadway. In addition there was the emerging Green Belt, practically surrounding Hatch
End, to keep in focus as well as the need to campaign for a primary School. Until Grimsdyke
School opened in September 1939 children had to travel by bus to Pinner Park School in North
Harrow. The school was named after Grims Dyke, a prehistoric ditch, which runs in fragments
for six miles from Pinner to Stanmore through Hatch End near the school.
In 1953, officers of the Association put on a celebration for the Coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II centred on Shaftesbury Playing Fields and St Anselm’s Hall, now a nursery
school. In 1999 we formed a committee of most of the organisations and churches in Hatch
End to celebrate the Millennium.
In this year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we wish the Hatch End Traders Association and
Hatch Enders a happy celebration of the event.
Anne Swinson
Hatch End Association
Acknowledgements;
Hatch End Bulletin and Papers
Pinner and Hatch End W.E.A. publications
A special thank you to:
Memories Picture Library of
130 Brent Street
Hendon
London
NW4 2DR
Tel: 020 8203 1500
www.memoriespostcards.co.uk
for supplying these wonderful photographs
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