IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Felbridge Avenue, STANMORE, HA7 2BX

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Felbridge Avenue, HA7 2BX by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Image Listing (54 Images Found)

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St Edmunds Drive, Belmont, Harrow
Image: © Richard Rogerson Taken: 3 Sep 2018
0.02 miles
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Belmont, Middlesex
Looking northwards along the track towards Stanmore Village. This section still saw an occasional goods train at the time of the photograph.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 16 Feb 1957
0.04 miles
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Harrow: Trackbed of the dismantled railway, Belmont
Dismantled railway lines are normally associated with rural locations, but this one is in London. This branch line ran from Harrow and Wealdstone railway station to Stanmore with one intermediate station, at Belmont, and was originally financed by a wealthy landowner who owned Stanmore Golf Club and other land in the area. The railway was closed in 1964, a victim of Dr. Beeching's cuts. One of the possible factors in its downfall was the geometry of the connection at Harrow and Wealdstone where trains from Stanmore ended up facing northwards away from London. This view was taken looking southwards at the point where the railway crossed the east end of Vernon Drive.
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 12 Nov 2005
0.07 miles
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The northern end of the Belmont Trail
In the 1880s the village of Great Stanmore attracted the attention of the London hotel and restaurant magnate Frederick Gordon. In 1882 he bought the Bentley Priory estate with the intention of converting it into a country resort for his London hotel guests. He realised the project would not prosper without some improvement in railway communication. The Harrow & Stanmore Railway was authorised in 1886 from a junction with the up slow line at Harrow. The first train left Harrow for Stanmore on 18th December 1890. However, there was no sign by the early 20th century of any traffic potential. Gordon's enterprise at Stanmore failed and the line's business was very light. A few houses appeared near the station but the Bentley Priory hotel failed and Gordon moved in with his wife and 11 children. Gordon died in 1904. The country between Harrow and Stanmore remained almost entirely open until well into the 1920s. In response to house builders, a wooden halt was opened on 12th September 1932 called Belmont where the branch passed under Kenton Lane. With the building of low cost housing in the area Belmont became and remained the main traffic generator for the branch. The station was rebuilt by 1937. Sunday trains were permanently withdrawn from 27th July 1947. After 13th September 1952 the station at Stanmore saw only a daily freight train and these continued until August 1964 - track lifting started soon afterwards. Ordinary bookings from Belmont faded away almost completely from the early 1960s. Closure of the line from Belmont to Harrow & Wealdstone was included in the Beeching report and the last passenger train ran on 3rd October 1964. Belmont station was demolished in July 1966. The trackbed between Christchurch Avenue and Vernon Drive has now been made into a path called the Belmont Trail. For more information see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/belmont/ This is looking south from the northern end of the Belmont Trail at Vernon Drive.
Image: © Marathon Taken: 11 Nov 2015
0.08 miles
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Course of LNWR Stanmore branch
Looking south towards Belmont and Harrow & Wealdstone, this part closed in 1952 to passengers and 1964 to freight.
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 23 Feb 2013
0.09 miles
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The old railway track between Stanmore and Belmont
Image: © David Howard Taken: 7 Feb 2017
0.09 miles
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The trackbed of the former Harrow & Stanmore Railway
In the 1880s the village of Great Stanmore attracted the attention of the London hotel and restaurant magnate Frederick Gordon. In 1882 he bought the Bentley Priory estate with the intention of converting it into a country resort for his London hotel guests. He realised the project would not prosper without some improvement in railway communication. The Harrow & Stanmore Railway was authorised in 1886 from a junction with the up slow line at Harrow. The first train left Harrow for Stanmore on 18th December 1890. However, there was no sign by the early 20th century of any traffic potential. Gordon's enterprise at Stanmore failed and the line's business was very light. A few houses appeared near the station but the Bentley Priory hotel failed and Gordon moved in with his wife and 11 children. Gordon died in 1904. The country between Harrow and Stanmore remained almost entirely open until well into the 1920s. In response to house builders, a wooden halt was opened on 12th September 1932 called Belmont where the branch passed under Kenton Lane. With the building of low cost housing in the area Belmont became and remained the main traffic generator for the branch. The station was rebuilt by 1937. Sunday trains were permanently withdrawn from 27th July 1947. After 13th September 1952 the station at Stanmore saw only a daily freight train and these continued until August 1964 - track lifting started soon afterwards. Ordinary bookings from Belmont faded away almost completely from the early 1960s. Closure of the line from Belmont to Harrow & Wealdstone was included in the Beeching report and the last passenger train ran on 3rd October 1964. Belmont station was demolished in July 1966. The trackbed between Christchurch Avenue and Vernon Drive has now been made into a path called the Belmont Trail. For more information see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/belmont/ This is just south of Vernon Drive.
Image: © Marathon Taken: 11 Nov 2015
0.10 miles
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Cooper House, Belmont Circle
Belmont Circle is a 1930s development of curving shop terraces with housing above and a large traffic roundabout in the centre. Part of the east side is now a petrol station, but around three quarters is still much as built if you look above the shop fronts.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 4 Sep 2019
0.10 miles
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Belmont (Middlesex) Station
View northward, towards Stanmore; Harrow & Wealdstone - Stanmore branch, closed Belmont - Stanmore (Village) 15/9/52 (goods 6/7/64); Belmont station (only opened 12/9/32) was closed 5/10/64 when line from Harrow was closed (completely).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 19 Feb 1961
0.11 miles
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Funky Brownz Cardamom Restaurant
A 1930s former pub on the north side of Belmont Circle. Now an Indian Restaurant. A previous name was the Spanish Arch, as seen in this picture Image from 2010.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 4 Sep 2019
0.11 miles
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