Edgware and Mill Hill Online Resources
Histories
The Victoria County History describes the history of Edgware. Mill Hill, Burnt Oak and the Hale are to be found in the Hendon chapter.
Maps
Motco’s Cary’s 15 Miles around London (1786), is at one inch to the mile, and gives an interesting overview of Edgware and Mill Hill. For 1870s Victorian Ordnance Survey maps there is www.old-maps.co.uk. These are slow to download, but can be searched using post code and place name searches. There is also www.british-history.ac.uk versions of Ordnance Survey maps which are quicker to open.
Directories
The University of Leicester has made available their collection of directories online. There are four Kelly’s Directories which cover the Edgware area For Mill Hill see Hendon. For Burnt Oak, Hale, and Edgware see Kelly’s Directories for Middlesex.
Kelly's Hertfordshire and Middlesex Directory for 1855
- go to image 574
Kelly's Post Office Directory of Middlesex 1874
- go to image 61
Kelly's Directory of Middlesex 1899
- go to image 106
Kelly's Middlesex Directory for 1914
- go to image 122
Tips for using Kelly's Directories online
The links for Kelly's Directories take you to the first page of the directory. Each page in the directory is shown as a separate image. To find the start of the section about Edgware, type the number given next to the link into the Go to Image box and click Go. You can then use the Previous Image and Next Image links to browse through the directory.
Pictures
There are now a number of very good online libraries providing historical pictures of the Edgware and Mill Hill area. Simply use the search facility with words like: Edgware, Mill Hill, Burnt Oak, and other relevant search terms.
For 18th and 19th century try Collage for images from from the Guildhall Library, London. For Edwardian and 1920s postcards and images try Memories, and also and indipendent site called Old Post Cards of Barnet.
For 20th century images try Corbis Picture Library and the new Exploring 20th Century London website with pictures from the Museum of London, and the London Transport Museum. Francis Frith provided images from the post World War Two period. For films from 1910 to the 1960s try British-Pathe.
Books of Edgware and Mill Hill
- Hendon, Childs Hill, Golders Green, and Mill Hill; a pictorial history, Gillies, Stewart (MA) and Taylor, Pamela (Ph.D). Phillimore and Co. Ltd, 1993
- A History of Hendon John Hopkins (Hendon Borough Council) 1964
- A History of Hendon Edward T Evans, Hendon, 1890
- Mill Hill, A Thousand Years, Ralph Calder – Mill Hill Historical Society Publication 1993
- Barnet, Edgware, Hadley and Totteridge. Corden, Joanna and Taylor, Pamela (Ph.D). Phillimore and Co. Ltd, 1993
- Mill Hill As It Was, Smith, Clive. Memories 1973
- Mill Hill As It Was, Smith, Clive. Memories 1990
- Old Edgware In Camera, Porter, Alf. 1991
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