We need your help with some Retail Therapy

The Heritage Team has been is working hard at the moment to shape the new Brent Museum. We have been carefully selecting and researching objects, trawling through our image database and looking at exciting design ideas.

The frontage of the Brentini’s confectionery shop and restaurant, 60 Edgware Road. 1890s

There will be a number of interactives in the new museum so that visitors can delve deeper into the archives and stories of Brent. One of the interactives focuses on the Victorian High Street in Brent. We want your help to choose a selection of images and stories illustrating the high streets and shops of Brent between the years 1837-1901 (approximately). There are two ways in which you can help us.

1. Tell us which Brent Archive images are your favourite. Thousands of our images are accessible on our database which you can access by clicking here. Search through our database and let us know which images you like best and why by commenting below or emailing us at archives@brent.gov.uk. Perhaps you now shop on the same streets as the streets in our images or maybe you are intrigued by some of the strange items for sale in our old photographs of shop fronts.
2. The second way you can help us with this interactive is by donating images and contributing stories. Perhaps you have some old Victorian photographs gathering dust somewhere which show the shops of Brent. Your photographs could become part of our collection and feature in our new interactive. If you think you might be able to help us we would love to hear from you.

Please let us know your favourite images or if you would like to donate any images by 1^st September 2014. If you have any questions or enquiries relating to the interactive please do not hesitate to contact us.