The Street with Two Names
Recently our attention was drawn to a street sign that appears on a house in Dewsbury Road on the corner of Aberdeen Road. It’s fairly hard to decipher but our best guess is… Continue reading
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London Screen Archives event at the Lexi Cinema, Wednesday 12th September, 3-4pm
Brent Archives are working with London’s Screen Archives, who are planning a major project to collect more film relating to the history of Brent. We would like YOU to help. If you can spare… Continue reading
Arthur Machen and the Horror of Harlesden (Part 2)
Reprinted, with minor variations, from The Willesden Local History Society Journal, No. 34, winter 2011/12 Last time we saw that the Welsh fantasy writer Arthur Machen (pronounced so as to rhyme with ‘bracken’) wrote… Continue reading
Arthur Machen and the Horror of Harlesden (Part 1)
Reprinted from The Willesden Local History Society Journal, No. 34, winter 2011/12 Having been a teenager in the 1970s, when most Christmases saw the BBC screening an adaptation of an M.R. James ghost story,… Continue reading