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Taken from the end of Cool Oak Lane
©David Hawgood
©John Salmon
The southern end of the southbound carriageway of the motorway is here at its junction with the A406 North Circular Road, or to be more prescise it is where the white coach is coming down the hill in the distance. The road in the foreground is on the ground level roundabout of the A406.
©Nigel Cox
This the southern end of the northbound carriageway of the motorway seen at its junction with the A406 North Circular Road. The main through route of the North Circular Road is on the flyover to the right. This part of the motorway was not part of the original route and was only built in the 1970s.
©Nigel Cox
Staples Corner is named after the Staples Mattress Factory which occupied a building at this junction from 1926 until 1986. The present day Staples office retailer took advantage of a ready made location with great publicity when the area was redeveloped after the IRA bombing of April 1992. This is the eponymous roundabout at the ground level junction of the A406 North Circular Road with the A5 Edgware Road. The main A5 runs on the lower flyover, with the A406 on the higher one to the right.
©Nigel Cox
This is proof that the use of railway arches for business premises is still thriving in 2007. The railway in question is the Midland main line from London to Bedford and beyond.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Brent Cross Underground Station looking “northbound”.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:1.0km south<br/>This is now Chartwell Court flats. It was built in 1933 as the Post Office Research Station, which included telecommunications research. The history section of the BT website http://www.btplc.com tells us that: "What is generally regarded as the world's first programmable electronic computer (Colossus) was designed and constructed by a Post Office Research Branch team headed by T H Flowers (1905-1998). It was constructed at Dollis Hill, and transported to Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, where it was demonstrated on 8 December. Bletchley Park was the centre of British wartime code breaking operations."
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km west<br/>This is the smaller section of Brent Reservoir north of Cool Oak Bridge. It was closed as a sailing base in 2004, leaving the wildfowl undisturbed.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km south<br/>These are near the top of Dollis Hill
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km south<br/>Water supply for London, at the top of Dollis Hill
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km west<br/>I was waiting at the traffic lights for Cool Oak Bridge, looked through the railings and saw this heron catch a fish. It is using the pontoons of the former Youth Sailing Base as its fishing platform - see also [[61785]].
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Hendon Station is on the Thameslink line to Luton, and the St Pancras line to East Midlands and Sheffield. The view is towards the North. On the right of the photo is the M1 Motorway, about a mile from its southern end. The road outside the station entrance just goes to its car park, it doesn't join the motorway.
©David Hawgood
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Just by the border with Kingsbury (just seen in the roof to the left) a typical view of the stretch of Silver Jubilee Park on Cool Oak Lane, West Hendon
©David Howard
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Silver Jubilee Park rises above Kinloch Drive Kingsbury.
©David Howard

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