Hendon Online Resources
There is now a large amount of material on line.
Histories
The Victoria County History describes development of Hendon in detail. Hendon and District Archaeological Society webpage contains their newsletter and articles on the history of the area.
Maps
Motco’s Cary’s 15 Miles around London (1786), is at one inch to the mile, and gives an interesting overview of the Barnet area. 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.
Directories
The University of Leicester has made available their collection of directories online. There are four Kelly’s Directories which cover Hendon (including Golders Green and elsewhere in the parish). Each has a description of Hendon at the time the directory was published, with a limited list of private residents, and then a list of trades’ people, including shopkeepers.
- Kelly’s Directory 1855 - go to image 611 for Hendon
- Kelly's Directory 1894 - go to image 547 for Hendon
- Kelly's Directory 1914 - go to image 234 for Hendon
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 Hendon, 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 online libraries providing historical pictures of the Barnet area.
- For 18th and 19th century try Collage for images from from the Guildhall Library, London.
- For Edwardian and 1920s postcards and images try Memories,
- For 20th century images try Popperfoto, or Corbis Picture Library.
- Francis Frith provided images from the post World War Two period.
- For films from 1910 to the 1960s try British-Pathe.
Simply use the search facility with words like: Hendon, Golders Green, Colindale, and other relevant search terms.
Books on Hendon
- Hendon, and Golders Green Past, Hugh Petrie, Historical Publications 2005
- 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
- The Story of Golders Green Clive Smith and John P Hall, Ernest Owers and Williams, 1993.
- A History of Hendon Edward T Evans, Hendon, 1890.
Other Hendon Special Topics
- Hendon Police College
- Hendon Aerodrome
- The Brent reservoir
- Hendon Coat of Arms
- Hendon in Domesday
- Hendon Population
- Hendon introduction
Email this pageLast modified by: Richard Nurse on 20/11/2007