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Rayners Lane: Newton Farm Ecology Park
Hidden away behind the flats on the east side of Alexandra Avenue, (visible over the trees here), is Newton Farm Ecology Park. This was originally haymaking farmland and then a Victorian sewage farm, and is marked as such on the OS 1940s mapping. A remnant of this area, alongside The Roxbourne brook, was not been built over during the suburban sprawl that followed the arrival of the Metropolitan railway line. Today the area is managed to try to bring back various species of wildlife that have disappeared. This is the pond with its small reed bed. A large part of the area of the ecology park is also designed to be a flood storage area in case The Roxbourne bursts its banks.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 24 Oct 2007
0.09 miles
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Sandringham Crescent, South Harrow
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 27 Oct 2017
0.10 miles
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Shops on Alexandra Avenue
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 27 Oct 2017
0.12 miles
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Rayners Lane: Alexandra Avenue flats
This is one of several blocks of 1950s council-owned flats set back on the eastern side of Alexandra Avenue. The road name plate with the "No through road" symbol shows the way to Learner Drive, so-named as the houses along it were built on the site of the former Harrow Driving Centre.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 24 Oct 2007
0.14 miles
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Alexandra Avenue
An evening shot of the shops located either side of the junction with Sandringham Crescent. The traffic lights in the distance are at the junction with Eastcote Lane.
Image: © Martin Addison
Taken: 11 Jan 2011
0.17 miles
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Shops and houses on Eastcote Lane, Harrow
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 13 Apr 2019
0.20 miles
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New homes on Eastcote Lane, Harrow
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 13 Apr 2019
0.21 miles
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New flats on Rayners Lane
The construction continues on the right, there are windows in the hoardings and the shells are now complete before getting roofs and cladding.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 20 Nov 2013
0.22 miles
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Eastcote Lane, South Harrow
Thousands of streets around here with 1930s houses
Image: © David Hawgood
Taken: 1 Jan 2006
0.22 miles
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Chapel, Eastcote Lane Cemetery
A small rather full cemetery with the chapel close to the entrance gates. What are probably lavatories on the right are boarded up.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Oct 2012
0.24 miles