Appendix Z

DISCOVERING OLD BOUNDARIES

Trying to understand the location of old boundaries in modern-day Harrow is difficult. A detailed study of Ordnance Survey maps — either in hard copy, as published in the Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps, or online courtesy of the National Library of Scotland — can help, but sometimes more modern development has obscured the routes of old roads or obliterated features that would help identify former boundary locations. However, the various editions of the Register of Electors can assist (with the maps) in pinpointing old boundaries: for obvious reasons the individual polling districts (or specific sections of polling districts) within the Registers could not cross those boundaries.

This Appendix provides details of twelve case studies of old boundaries:

1. The 1894-95 Urban District Boundary 2. Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / RD 3. Mount Park Road and South Hill Avenue - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Uxbridge RD 4. Cavendish Avenue and Wood End Road; Fernbank Avenue and Rosebank Avenue - Uxbridge RD / Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Greenford UD / Wembley UD 5. Boundary Through the ‘Nash’ Estate - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Hendon RD 6. The Southern Boundary of Little Parish - Hendon RD / Kingsbury UD 7. Carmelite Road and Park Gardens - Wealdstone UD / Hendon RD 8. Bonnersfield Lane and Northwick Park Road - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Wealdstone UD 9. Kenton Road and Woodgrange Avenue - Wealdstone UD / Wembley UD 10. Fernbrook Drive - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Hendon RD 11. Locket Road - Wealdstone UD / Hendon RD 12. Byron Road, Wealdstone - Wealdstone UD / Hendon RD References and Notes

1. The 1894-95 Wealdstone Urban District Boundary

As explained in the Introduction to this book, Wealdstone Urban District was created in December 1894 as a result of the Local Government Act of 1894 and Local Government Board Order no. 31,845. The district had irregular and scattered boundaries that varied “in length from four to five miles between three long arms.” On 1 October 1895, following Local Government Board Order no. 33,399, a small part of Harrow-on-the-Hill UD (north of the centre of Hindes Road) was transferred to Wealdstone; but a large area of Wealdstone UD (including portions of Greenhill south of the centre of Hindes Road, as well as the ‘arm’ towards Dabs Hill, ), was transferred to Harrow-on-the-Hill.

No map has yet been found that shows the boundaries of the ‘original’ Wealdstone Urban District — such a map would reveal, in particular, the ‘shape’ and extent of the south-western ‘arm’. However, the 1896 Register provides a listing of 156 parochial electors, and their addresses, who transferred to Harrow-on-the-Hill following the 1895 Order, thereby providing an indication of the original boundaries of Wealdstone. The following roads (or parts of roads) and locations were involved:

Springfield Road, Amersham Road, St. Kilda’s Road, Headstone Road, Roxborough Road, Pinner Road [i.e. roads in the ‘western’ part of modern Greenhill]; Grove Farm, Roxeth [on the north side of Road, near the junction with today’s Park Lane]; Perkins Farm, Roxeth [location uncertain]; Tithe Farm, Roxeth [on Lane, near the crossroads with today’s Alexandra Avenue]; Land at Dabb’s Hill, Roxeth [on the south side of Eastcote Lane, near the junction with today’s Carlyon Avenue].

Following the Order, only four electors transferred to Wealdstone, all with Station Road addresses. The land transferred included Greenhill Farm (see Map 7).

2. Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Uxbridge RD

These two roads in were developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It will be remembered that the (Harrow-on-the-Hill Urban District) Confirmation Order no. 72,899

196 transferred land from the Northolt Parish of Uxbridge to Harrow on 1 October 1928; arising from this Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue, once built, straddled the old boundary. The OS 1935 sheet X.15 for Middlesex and the 1931 Registers were particularly helpful in revealing where the boundary was, as detailed in the Map 9 and the Table:

Map 9: Extract from 1935 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.15, in the region of Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. The long-dash line marks the boundary between the Parliamentary divisions of Harrow and Uxbridge, the legacy of the boundary between Harrow-on-the-Hill UD and Northolt Parish (Uxbridge RD). The dotted line to the north of the railway track marks the southern boundary of Harrow-on-the-Hill UD from 1 October 1928.

Road and House Numbers Before 1.10.1928 After 1.10.1928

Westwood Avenue: Harrow-on-the-Hill UD No change 3-27, 2-24 Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Wood End Avenue: Harrow Parliamentary division 1-27, 2-32

Westwood Avenue: Northolt Parish, Hendon RD Harrow-on-the-Hill UD 29-47, 26-68 Hayes MCC ED Hayes MCC ED Wood End Avenue: Uxbridge Parliamentary Uxbridge Parliamentary 29-91, 34-78 division division

The 1930 Register showed a degree of confusion in the Registration Officer’s department at Middlesex Guildhall: all occupied properties in Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue were placed in the Roxeth polling district. This error had no consequences at the 1931 Harrow-on-the-Hill UDC election (28 March) as all local government electors in the two roads were eligible to vote in that election.

The discrepancy would have been problematic at the earlier Middlesex County Council election on 2 March 1931: the higher number properties, on the Northolt side of the old RD/UD boundary, should not have been entitled to vote in the Harrow-on-the-Hill electoral division (although luckily this division was not contested). The Hayes electoral division was contested, by three candidates, and the electors concerned may have been denied an opportunity to vote at that election. The copy of the Register provided by the London Metropolitan Archives bore no annotation or mark to indicate that the error had been detected; however, other copies of the Register would have existed, so it cannot be said whether arrangements were in place at the election for managing the effects of the mistake.

The faulty 1930 Register came into force on 15 October 1930 and was valid until 14 October 1931 (see Appendix X). The 1931 Register, in force from 15 October 1931, showed the error had, by this time, been detected: the higher number properties in Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue had been placed in the appropriate polling district (Northolt). This correct Register was therefore ready to be used at the Parliamentary General Election held on 27 October 1931 and avoided electors in the two roads voting in the ‘wrong’ division.

197 3. Mount Park Road and South Hill Avenue - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Uxbridge RD

Map 5 has already shown the boundary in this area at the time of the publication of an 1897 Ordnance Survey map.

The 1928 Register of Electors recorded the voters of properties in these two roads that were transferred from Uxbridge RD to Harrow-on-the-Hill UD on 1 October 1928. They formed a specific section of the Northolt polling district of the Uxbridge Register, and totalled 56 electors. All were qualified as Parliamentary electors (in the Uxbridge division), and of these 51 were local government electors (for Harrow-on-the-Hill UD and the Hayes electoral division of the MCC).

The following unnumbered properties (some of which can be seen in the OS mapping of 1935) were in Northolt Parish, Uxbridge RD, prior to the transfer and therefore provide a guide to where the original boundary (Map 10) ran:

Mount Park Road: Ingleby, Ingleby (The Garage), Broomfield, Broomfield (Gardener’s Cottage), Oakhurst, St. Margaret’s, Ravensholt, Penketh, The Hut, Salem End. South Hill Avenue: The Cottage, The Lodge, Herons Ghyll, Hill End, Rosemead, Bamford Cottage, Meadowside, Little Pottery, Skaill, Dunsmore, Brakelond, Oakmead, Orley Farm School, Orley Farm School (Garage), The Poplars.

Map 10: Extract from 1935 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.15, in the region of Mount Park Road and South Hill Avenue, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. The long-dash line marks the boundary between the Parliamentary divisions of Harrow and Uxbridge, the legacy of the boundary between Harrow-on-the-Hill UD and Northolt Parish (Uxbridge RD).

It has already been mentioned in case (2) (page196), that the 1930 Uxbridge Register should also have contained electors from Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue, but due to compilation errors they were placed in the 1930 Harrow Register. The 1931 Register correctly included Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue in the Northolt polling district with Mount Park Road and South Hill Avenue, making a grand total of 300 electors, of whom 221 were local government electors. (This section of the polling district appears to have formed a ‘detached’ portion of the Hayes MCC electoral division.)

198 4. Cavendish Avenue and Wood End Road; Fernbank Avenue and Rosebank Avenue - Uxbridge RD / Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Greenford UD / Wembley UD

Map 4, from 1897, has already shown the complicated boundaries between the Harrow-on-the-Hill, Wembley and Greenford Urban Districts. The land opposite the junction of Ridding Lane with Greenford Road was to become the site of London Underground’s station, which opened on 28 June 1903. On 1 March 1906, about 200 yards further north along Greenford Road, the Sudbury Hill Harrow mainline railway station was opened: it was one of three stations on a new stretch of track from Neasden Junction to Northolt Junction.

Map 11 below is an extract from the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Middlesex, sheet X.SE, showing the area in 1913 (Urban District boundaries are indicated by the dotted lines). It will be seen that the two railway lines created a large ‘finger-shaped’ parcel of land containing no residential properties, defined by the railway tracks and Greenford Road to the east. A visitor to the area, depending on their exact location, could be in one of four districts: Uxbridge RD, Greenford UD (which became part of the Municipal Borough of Ealing in 1926), Harrow-on-the-Hill UD or Wembley UD.

Uxbridge RD Harrow-on-the-Hill UD W e m bley Wembley UD UD Greenford UD

Map 11: Extract from 1913 OS sheet X.SE in the region of Cavendish Avenue, yet to be built, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations.

In the early 1930s a new residential street was constructed on the land — Cavendish Avenue — that ran between Greenford Road and Wood End Road (the unnamed lane meandering through the north- western part of Map 11), and homes were constructed in both roads (Map 12). This development, and the 1934 Registers, allows the location of most of the 1913 district boundaries to be pinpointed should a visit be made to the area in the present day.

Map 12: Extract from 1935 25-inch OS sheet X.15 in the region of Cavendish Avenue, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. The long-dash line marks the boundary between the Parliamentary divisions of Harrow and Uxbridge, the legacy of the boundary between Northolt Parish (Uxbridge RD) and Harrow-on-the-Hill UD or Greenford UD.

199 Road and House Numbers Assignments — 1913 boundaries

Cavendish Avenue: Harrow-on-the-Hill UD 1-69, 22-80 Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Wood End Road: Harrow Parliamentary division 4-68

Cavendish Avenue: Greenford Green ward, Greenford UD 73-105, 82-122 Hanwell MCC ED Wood End Road: Ealing Parliamentary division 70-74

Cavendish Avenue: Northolt Parish, Uxbridge RD 107-111, 124-140 Hayes MCC ED Wood End Road: Uxbridge Parliamentary division 76-102

Notes: No properties could be assigned to the detached portion of Wembley UD despite a detailed study of the 1934 Register. No electors were listed for 71 Cavendish Avenue, making it impossible to allocate it to either Greenford or Harrow. 22 Cavendish Avenue was the lowest even numbered house in the road in 1934.

In the south-east portion of Maps 11 and 12, on the opposite side of Greenford Road, can be seen Fernbank Avenue and another road running parallel (Rosebank Avenue). Some properties in these roads were confirmed by the 1933 Register as being in Harrow-on-the-Hill UD, and inform us of the location of the boundary here prior to implementation of the Middlesex Review Order 1934. The Order created, inter alia, the new Harrow UD, at which point the land these homes occupied was transferred to Wembley UD:

Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934

Fernbank Avenue: Harrow-on-the-Hill UD Sudbury ward, Wembley UD 1-23, 2-22 Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Rosebank Avenue: Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division 1-29, 2-28

The 25-inch OS map from 1935 is useful here: the post-1934 boundary at Fernbank Avenue and Rosebank Avenue can be seen now following the rear curtilages of shops in Greenford Road.

5. Boundary Through the ‘Nash’ Estate - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Hendon RD

The ‘Nash’ Estate of properties was built south of station in the mid-1930s on the extensive land of the former Tithe Farm. Once completed, the estate came under the new Harrow UD; prior to the implementation of the Middlesex Review Order in 1934 the boundary between Pinner Parish (Hendon RD) and Harrow-on-the-Hill UD would have split Torbay Road, Exeter Road, Lynton Road and Kings Road between authorities. The Ordnance Survey map of the area in 1939 shows the defunct west-to-east straight-line district boundary here because it continued to exist as the boundary between the Hendon and Harrow Parliamentary divisions of Middlesex; see Map 13 below. The Register of Electors for 1936 and 1939 help pinpoint the location of the boundary in the modern street scene:

200 Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934

Torbay Road: Harrow-on-the-Hill UD Pinner South ward, Harrow UD 193-233, 148-186 Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Exeter Road: Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division 129-163, 146-184 Lynton Road: 125-167, 138-144 Kings Road: (except Kings Road, 206-210, 209-219, 206-210 Roxeth ward)

Torbay Road: Pinner Parish, Hendon RD Pinner South ward, Harrow UD 235-397, 188-312 Pinner MCC ED Pinner MCC ED Exeter Road: Hendon Parliamentary division Hendon Parliamentary division 165-241, 186-256 Lynton Road: 169-223, 146-184 Kings Road: 221-303, 212-280

Hendon RD lip-Northwood UD

uis Harrow-on-the-Hill UD R

Map 13: Extract from 1935 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.10, in the region of Torbay Road, Kings Road etc., reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations. The boundary between the Hendon and Harrow Parliamentary divisions is marked by a long dash line and shows the location of the old UD/RD boundary; the short-dash line shows the route of electricity power lines. The boundary with - Northwood UD is indicated by the dotted line in the south-west corner.

It is worth noting here that just one house on the ‘Nash’ Estate, viz. 256 Malvern Avenue, was built over the border in Ruislip-Northwood UD (see the References and Notes). It was not until 1 April 1993, following a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for , that this property was transferred to the (from the London Borough of ).

6. The Southern Boundary of Little Stanmore Parish - Hendon RD / Kingsbury UD

The OS 25-inch maps for this area are particularly helpful in showing the southern boundary of Little Stanmore Parish (Hendon RD) with Kingsbury UD. (Kingsbury UD was created in 1900 after initially existing as a separate ward of Wembley UD upon the latter’s creation in 1894.) Map 14 shows that in 1895 the boundary followed the pattern of field hedges or fences near Burntoak Farm, the farm buildings themselves lying just within Kingsbury.

Residential development, especially intense by the mid-1930s, laid down a pattern of roads and homes that did not necessarily conform to the existing boundaries. By then the boundary picked its way carefully towards the west from the Road, following garden fences or running along the ‘party’ walls of semi-detached houses. (The boundary agreed as far as possible with the traditional boundary but there was a little”give and take” between Little Stanmore and Kingsbury, to avoid running through individual properties.) The modern street-scene does not betray the former location of the boundary except by examination of house numbers. The following roads were noteworthy for straddling the

201 boundary, with low-numbered properties in Kingsbury but the majority of each road in Little Stanmore:

Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934

Vancouver Road: 1-13, 2-10 Kingsbury UD The Hyde ward, Wembley UD The Chase: 1-17, 2-14 Kingsbury MCC ED Kingsbury MCC ED Axholme Avenue: 1-23, 2-22 Hendon Parliamentary Hendon Parliamentary Orchard Grove: 1-27, 2-26 division division Broomgrove Gardens: 1-39, 2-26 (except Constable Gardens Constable Gardens: 1-21, 2-14 and Reynolds Drive: Roe Reynolds Drive: 1-29, 2-24 Green ward)

Vancouver Road: 15-119, 14-98 Little Stanmore Parish, Stanmore South ward, The Chase: 19-105, 16-140 Hendon RD Harrow UD Axholme Avenue: 25-107, 24-104 Pinner MCC ED Pinner MCC ED Orchard Grove: 29-107, 28-108 Hendon Parliamentary Hendon Parliamentary Broomgrove Gardens: 41-155, 28-120 division division Constable Gardens: 23-69, 16-88 Reynolds Drive: 31-145, 26-150

This ‘difficult’ boundary persisted for decades, eventually forming part of the boundary between the London Boroughs of Harrow and Brent in the 1960s. After reviews by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, on the 1 April 1994 the boundary between them was moved further south to a more logical position. As a result, these ‘split’ roads were united in one council area for the first time, viz. the London Borough of Harrow.

Map 14: The boundary between Little Stanmore Parish (Hendon RD) and Kingsbury/Wembley UD shown in 1895 (left) and 1935 (right) 25-inch maps of Middlesex, with detail of a portion of the 1935 map (below). Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

202 7. Carmelite Road and Pinner Park Gardens - Wealdstone UD / Hendon RD

The area of land just north of the Kodak factory was the location of a ’zig-zagging’ boundary between Wealdstone UD and Hendon RD. The nature of the boundary here, crossing the railway three times, was discussed in the notes to Map 8. By 1935 substantial residential development had taken place — see Map 15 — but this resulted in many peculiarities, two of which are examined here in detail.

Map 15: Extract from 1935 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.3, in the region immediately to the north of the Kodak factory, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. The long-dash line marks the boundary between the Parliamentary divisions of Harrow and Hendon, the legacy of the boundary between Wealdstone UD and the Pinner and parishes of Hendon RD.

The first street with complications, Carmelite Road, was on the eastern side of the railway. The Table below shows how the boundaries can be located while walking along the road; an observer, moving in a northerly direction, traverses through land firstly from Pinner Parish, then land from Wealdstone Urban District before arriving in land originally from Harrow Weald Parish:

Road and 1939 House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934 PD

Carmelite Road: Pinner Parish, Hendon RD Wealdstone North ward, Harrow UD H(2) 1-31, 2-24, Pinner MCC ED Pinner MCC ED Lynn Close Hendon Parliamentary division Hendon Parliamentary division

Carmelite Road: Wealdstone UD Wealdstone North ward, Harrow UD MH 33-121, 26-56 Wealdstone MCC ED Wealdstone MCC ED (1) Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division

Carmelite Road: Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Wealdstone North ward, Harrow UD H(2) 123-135 Pinner MCC ED Pinner MCC ED Hendon Parliamentary division Hendon Parliamentary division

Carmelite Road: Wealdstone UD Harrow Weald ward, Harrow UD MH 66-88 Wealdstone MCC ED Wealdstone MCC ED (2) Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division

Carmelite Road: Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Harrow Weald ward, Harrow UD H(1), 90-108 Pinner MCC ED Pinner MCC ED see Hendon Parliamentary division Hendon Parliamentary division note

Note: Houses 90-108 were incorrectly listed in PD MH(2) of the 1939 Register for the Harrow division — they should have been assigned to PD H(1) in the Hendon division; the Table corrects the error. Placing the boundary between houses 88 and 90 is a judgment made after inspecting the mapping. There are no properties in Carmelite Road with the following numbers: 67-87 (odd), 58-64 (even).

203 The Table below and its note shows there was an error in the Register (the first of several committed at this locality by the Registrar’s office at Middlesex Guildhall) arising from the erratic, zig-zagging boundary. Confusion was compounded by the apparently illogical 1934 decision to place a small portion of Carmelite Road (numbers 66-108 (even)) in a different ward (Harrow Weald) to the rest of the street.

The second road with complexity, Pinner Park Gardens, is on the western side of the railway. Here the houses in the south of the cul-de-sac were in the Pinner Parish of Hendon RD, while those to the north were in Wealdstone UD. The geography of the roads meant that the only access to the ‘southern’ properties, nearest the Kodak works, was via the northern (Wealdstone) portion of Pinner Park Gardens:

Road and House 1939 Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934 PD Pinner Park Gardens: Wealdstone UD Headstone ward, Harrow UD MH 5-18, 46-48d Wealdstone MCC ED Wealdstone MCC ED (3) (consecutive) Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division

Pinner Park Gardens: Pinner Parish, Hendon RD Headstone ward, Harrow UD L 19-45 Pinner MCC ED Pinner MCC ED (consecutive) Hendon Parliamentary division Hendon Parliamentary division

Note: There remains doubt about the exact location of the boundary on one side of Pinner Park Gardens: nos. 44 and 45 were listed, for example, in the Wealdstone UD section of the 1931 Register; no. 45 was listed in a Harrow division PD in the 1935 Register; the 1936 Register had the limits shown in the Table.

Examination of the various sections of the 1939 Register leads to the conclusion that the Middlesex Registration Officer’s department were confused again by the boundaries in this area, making further mistakes that persisted for several years after the 1934 reorganisation of local government. In addition to the error with properties 90-108 (even) in Carmelite Road, discussed earlier, the following significant errors were detected in the Register:

Incorrect Assignment in Road and House Numbers 1939 Register Correct Assignment

Harrow View: 319-365 (odd). In PD MH(3) of Headstone In a Hendon polling district, PD ward, a Harrow polling district. L, joining the properties from Built on land originally in the south end of Pinner Park Pinner Parish of Hendon RD. Gardens (already in PD L).

Tudor Gardens: 1-12 In PD MH(1) of Wealdstone In a Hendon polling district, PD (consecutive). North ward, a Harrow polling H(1), joining Tudor Road 1-11 district. (odd) (already in PD H(1)). Built on land originally in Note that Tudor Road 13-51 Pinner Parish of Hendon RD. (odd) was correctly placed in PD MH(1) of Harrow division.

The 1939 Registers did properly assign some of the ‘split’ roads. There was no mistaking the boundary at Toorack Road, the kerb on the south side of the road being constructed along the line of the ‘gun- barrel’ straight boundary here. This placed all the odd-numbered properties in Wealdstone UD and all the even-numbered properties in Harrow Weald parish. The Tables below summarise the positions at two more locations — Hampden Road and Athelstone Road:

‘Before 1.4.1934' Assignment, using Road and House Numbers 1939 Register 1939 Polling District

Hampden Road: Wealdstone UD MH(2) 1-5 (odd) Wealdstone MCC ED Harrow Weald Harrow Parliamentary division ward

Hampden Road: Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD H(1) 7-143, 2-116 Pinner MCC ED Harrow Weald Hendon Parliamentary division ward

204 ‘Before 1.4.1934' Assignment, using Road and House Numbers 1939 Register 1939 Polling District

Athelstone Road: Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD H(2) 2-12 (even) Pinner MCC ED Wealdstone North Hendon Parliamentary division ward

Athelstone Road: Wealdstone UD MH(1) 1-99, 14-100 Wealdstone MCC ED Wealdstone Parliamentary division ward

Did it matter that these errors occurred? With regard to elections to the new Harrow Urban District, created 1934, none of the mistakes in the Register would have resulted in electors voting in the ‘wrong’ ward — all the roads or parts of roads examined had been placed in the correct wards.

The impact of the errors could have been greater at the Middlesex County Council election in March 1934. There was potential for problems as voters had been incorrectly assigned to the Wealdstone electoral division from the Pinner division — it was fortunate both divisions were not contested. (The 1937 MCC election was conducted on a new set of division boundaries based on the UD wards.)

At a Parliamentary level it can be stated with certainty that some electors had been placed in the ‘wrong’ division at the time of the 1935 General Election. Specifically, electors in some properties in Carmelite Road, Harrow View and Tudor Gardens, as detailed above, would have voted in the Harrow division when they should have been voting in the Hendon seat. The 2 December 1941 by-election for Harrow would have led to similar anomalies with unqualified electors being able to vote.

8. Bonnersfield Lane and Northwick Park Road - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Wealdstone UD

This is an example of a more straightforward, easier-to-follow, case from an area close to centre of modern Harrow that was to form, from 1934, the southern portion of Wealdstone South ward. The district boundary between the two Urban Districts of Harrow-on-the-Hill and Wealdstone followed for a short distance the centre of Bonnersfield Lane before turning south-westerly, across Northwick Park Road so as to meet Sheepcote Road (Map 16):

Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934

Bonnersfield Lane: Harrow-on-the-Hill UD Wealdstone South ward, Harrow UD 6-66, 67-79, Bonnersfield Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Harrow-on-the-Hill MCC ED Close Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division Northwick Park Road: 19-45, 26-34

Bonnersfield Lane: Wealdstone UD Wealdstone South ward, Harrow UD Croft Villas 1-6 (consecutive) Wealdstone MCC ED Wealdstone MCC ED Northwick Park Road: Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division 1-17, 2-24

Map 16: Extract from 1912 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.8, at Bonnersfield Lane, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. The dotted line marks the boundary between Harrow-on-the-Hill UD (north-western part of the map) and Wealdstone UD (south-eastern part).

205 9. Kenton Road and Woodgrange Avenue - Wealdstone UD / Wembley UD

Traditionally, the boundary between Wealdstone Urban District and Wembley Urban District was the centre of Kenton Road. However, the route of Kenton Road in 1894, when the urban districts were constituted, had changed by the time of the 1934 Middlesex Review Order. A certain amount of ‘smoothing out’ of the ‘kinks’ in the road had taken place, especially in latter years; this was most noticeable near the junction with Kenton Lane. Here, the new route for the Kenton Road described an arc further north than the original boundary — but the previous portion of Kenton Road, renamed as Woodgrange Avenue, continued to have the district boundary running along its middle.

The ‘island’ of Wealdstone UD land between the old and new Kenton Roads was transferred to Wembley following implementation of the Middlesex Review Order on 1 April 1934, when the centre of Kenton Road was reinstated as the district boundary, see Map 17 and the Table.

Map 17: Extracts from the 1912 (top) and 1935 (bottom) editions of 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.8, in the region of Kenton Road and Woodgrange Avenue, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. Harrow Weald Parish (Hendon RD) intrudes in the top left corner.

Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934

Kenton Road: Wealdstone UD Kenton ward, Wembley UD 339-379 (odd), Kenmo Wealdstone MCC ED Wealdstone MCC ED House, The Plough PH, Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division Devon Mansions, Cornwall Mansions Woodgrange Avenue: 6-52 (even), Wood Grange Mansions

This area of land (approximately 10 acres) constituted its own polling district section in the 1934 Register, listing 199 electors (198 for Parliamentary and 160 for local government elections).

206 A study of the Registers revealed a second example of an ‘island’ of land resulting from the realignment of Kenton Road: this time the area was on the northern side of the road and was transferred from Wembley UD to the new Harrow UD when the Middlesex Review Order was implemented in 1934. Detecting the ‘island’ was again possible because the electors involved had to form, in the 1934 Register of Electors, a polling district section of their own because there was a requirement to assign them to the Kingsbury electoral division for MCC elections:

Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934

Kenton Road: Kenton ward, Wembley UD Kenton ward, Harrow UD 136A-166A (even) Kingsbury MCC ED Kingsbury MCC ED Harrow Parliamentary division Harrow Parliamentary division

This section of Kenton Road near the Traveller’s Rest Hotel consisted then, as it does today, of shops (with flats above), mainly between the junctions with Carlton Avenue and Mayfield Avenue. In the 1934 Register there were 32 electors listed, of whom 29 were Parliamentary electors, 26 were ‘district’ electors and 25 ‘county’ electors. (In the 1933 Register there were 39 electors with various franchise qualifications: 31 Parliamentary, 27 ‘district’ and 26 ‘county’.)

Providing a map to show the old Wealdstone UD / Wembley UD boundary here was achieved by overlaying the 1912 25-inch OS map with the equivalent 1936 map and, with the aid of a light box, carefully adding the old boundary to the later map — good alignment between the two editions was possible due to the presence of the railway lines, station buildings and the route of Carlton Avenue. It can be seen from Map 18 that the shops and flats numbered 136 to 166A had been built straddling the old boundary, resulting in a complex partition of these homes and commercial premises between Wealdstone UD and Wembley UD.

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Map 18: Extract from the 1936 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.8, showing Kenton Road near the Traveller’s Rest PH, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations. The dotted line shows the boundary between Harrow UD and Wembley UD from April 1934; the added dashed line shows the position of the old boundary between Wealdstone UD and Wembley UD prior to that date, following the centre of the old route of Kenton Road, but later running through numbers 136-166 Kenton Road.

207 10. Fernbrook Drive - Harrow-on-the-Hill UD / Hendon RD

This case provides more examples of unsatisfactory assignments discovered in the Register of Electors. Map 19 shows an extract from the Ordnance Survey revision of 1935 at Fernbrook Drive, North Harrow, together with a 2019 map onto which has been superimposed, as accurately as possible, the Parliamentary boundary between Harrow and Hendon — this being the legacy boundary between Harrow-on-the-Hill UD and Pinner Parish (Hendon RD). Housing development was incomplete in 1935 and (like the example of Pinner Park Gardens above) some properties in the road could only be accessed by first passing through parts of a different Parliamentary constituency.

The sharp bends in Fernbrook Drive, coupled with a near right-angle turn in the boundary, produced a confusing sequence of alternating constituencies; this Appendix argues that the Registers of Electors made several errors, mostly small, that are summarised in the Table. (For clarity, the Table refers to ‘Harrow’ and ‘Hendon’ sides of the boundary; prior to 1 April 1934 it would also have meant the ‘Harrow-on-the-Hill UD’ and ‘Pinner Parish, Hendon RD’ sides of the boundary, respectively.)

Map 19: Fernbrook Drive, as depicted in a 1935 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.11 (left), reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, and in a 2019 map to which has been added property numbers and the former UD/RD, or Harrow/Hendon, boundary.

House Assignment in Numbers 1939 Register Comment

1-33 (odd) Hendon Correct assignments.

35-41 (odd) Harrow Correct assignments. (Property no. 35 is split, but the frontage appears to be in Harrow.)

43-53 (odd) Hendon Property no. 43, apart from a small corner, is in Harrow. (Property no. 45 is split, the majority appears to be in Hendon.)

55-57 (odd) Harrow Correct assignments.

59-73 (odd) Hendon Property no. 59 should have been placed in Harrow. Property no. 61 is split. The frontage appears to be in Harrow.

2-36 (even) Hendon Correct assignments.

38-128 (even) Harrow Significant errors. Property no. 38, according to both the 1935 and 2019 mapping, should have been placed in Hendon. Property no. 110 is split. The frontage appears to be in Hendon. Property nos. 112-128 (evens) should all have appeared in the Hendon Register.

208 In total, two (possibly three) properties had been placed in the Hendon Register when they should have been in the Harrow Register, and 10 (possibly 11) properties were in Harrow when they should have been in Hendon. The question has to be asked again: “Was this important?” The wrong assignments would have no impact on UD and RD elections, the last of which took place in 1933 using the Register of Electors that came into force in October 1932, well before Fernbrook Avenue was laid out and construction of properties began. Both sides of the border were in Pinner South ward for elections to the new Harrow Urban District (created April 1934), so any newly-built properties in the ‘wrong’ polling district would not materially affect the election and electors would not have been disfranchised.

A July 1936 by-election to the Harrow-on-the-Hill electoral division of Middlesex County Council, to be fought on the 1935 Register, might have caused problems had the vacancy not been uncontested.

The situation for Parliamentary elections is as follows. The 1935 General Election took place in November, so the 1935 Register, which was only a month old, would have applied. Map 19 shows that only a portion of Fernbrook Drive had been built by 1935; the properties (nos. 110-128) that feature in the significant Register error had not been built. However, it can be said with certainty that the December 1941 by-election for the Harrow division was significantly impacted, with electors in ten or eleven households inadvertently being given the opportunity to vote while a further two or three households were disfranchised.

11. Locket Road - Wealdstone UD / Hendon RD

This example finds ‘split’ properties which predate the First World War; Registers of Electors, published some twenty years later, were still having to deal with the consequences.

The 1914 25-inch Ordnance Survey map X.4 shows Locket Road in the south-western corner. This road, originating at a junction with Wealdstone High Street, was laid out after the publication of the previous OS map of 1896. An imposing Methodist Church (inaugural service November 1904) was constructed on Locket Road, and homes were built towards a junction with Byron Road (Map 20).

59

82

Map 20: Locket Road, as depicted in a 25-inch 1914 OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.4, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations. The dotted line shows the boundary between Wealdstone UD (to the east of the map) and Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD (to the west).

Even though the district boundary ran almost perpendicular to the route of Locket Road, complications arose as the boundary bisected two properties: house numbers 59 and 82.

Registers of Electors for the Harrow Parliamentary division show both 59 and 82 Locket Road assigned to that division, and therefore to Wealdstone Urban District, for electoral purposes. The following extracts (Figure 6) from the 1933 Register — the last full year before reorganisation of local government in the area — show the nature of the entries for both properties:

209 Figure 6: Extracts from the 1933 Register of Electors for Harrow division: entries for 59 Locket Road (left) and 82 Locket Road (right). Two columns indicate (1) the elector’s qualification to vote in Parliamentary elections (R or Rw indicate a ‘residence’ qualification), and (2) the elector’s qualification for local government elections (O = ‘occupation’ qualification, Dw = qualification through husband’s occupation). A dash (–) indicates no qualification to the franchise to which the column relates.

Interestingly, the Hendon Parliamentary division Register for 1933 showed the following entries for Locket Road (Figure 7).

Figure 7: Extracts from the 1933 Register of Electors for Hendon division: entries for 59 and 82 Locket Road. (The arrangement of the columns is the same as in Figure 6).

It can be seen that one person (presumably the ‘head of the household’) from both 59 and 82 Locket Road was included in the Hendon Register; however, George Keech and William Sandford were restricted to a local government franchise and did not have a Parliamentary franchise.

A table can now be constructed to summarise this boundary:

Road and House Numbers Before 1.4.1934 After 1.4.1934 1933 PD

Locket Road: Wealdstone UD Wealdstone North ward, P 3-59, Wealdstone MCC ED Harrow UD (Harrow) 2-82 Harrow Parliamentary division Wealdstone MCC ED Harrow Parliamentary division

Locket Road: Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Wealdstone North ward, F 59*, 61-95; Pinner MCC ED Harrow UD (Hendon) 82*, 84-102 Hendon Parliamentary division Pinner MCC ED Hendon Parliamentary division

* No franchise for Parliamentary elections; one elector per household with local government franchise.

The most likely explanation for the ‘dual’ registration of 59 and 82 Locket Road is that the occupiers paid a rate to both Wealdstone UD and Hendon RD. Therefore, not only were Keech and Sandford able to cast votes at elections for councillors to Wealdstone UD, they would also be entitled to vote at elections of councillors for Harrow Weald Parish and Hendon RD. This type of plural voting is clearly different in nature to the plural voting enjoyed by ‘business premises’ voters. (See Appendix N in Harrow Votes: The Urban District of Harrow, 1934-1953 for a discussion of the ‘business premises’ vote. The Representation of the People Act 1948 ended plural voting at the General Election held in February 1950.)

With regards to Middlesex County Council elections, Register entries could be marked with a dagger (†) which would indicate no entitlement (with respect to that entry) to vote at elections for County Councillors. The absence of such marks in the Locket Road entries suggest that there was no restriction to Keech and Sandford voting in both the Wealdstone and Pinner electoral divisions.

210 12. Byron Road, Wealdstone - Wealdstone UD / Hendon RD

Case study 11 — an examination of the boundary between Wealdstone Urban District and Hendon Rural District in Locket Road — presented the facts surrounding the dual registration of some electors in the Wealdstone and Hendon Registers. The last of the twelve studies comprising this Appendix turns to a more complex situation in nearby Byron Road, where the boundary between the authorities sliced through the road, twice, at very ‘shallow’ angles: firstly, near the road junction with Grant Road and secondly, somewhat further north near the junction with (what was then) Montrose Road.

The first area of interest, near the junction with Grant Road, is shown in Map 21.

130

92 Grant 124

141 108 Byron 135

113 129

Map 21: Byron Road, Wealdstone, as depicted in a 1914 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.4 (left), and in 1936 (right), reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations. The dotted line (1914) shows the boundary between Wealdstone UD (to the east of the map) and Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD (to the west). The dashed line (1936) shows the ‘orphan’ municipal boundary — now only marking the Parliamentary division boundary — between Harrow (to the east of the map) and Hendon (to the west).

The boundary can be followed, from a southern starting-point, running along the rear curtilages of the low odd numbers of Byron Road. It then tracked eastwards through house number 133 before veering to the junction with Grant Road. The mapping implies that 92 Grant Road was in Harrow Weald Parish, but the residents there were (presumably erroneously) listed in the Wealdstone UD section of the Harrow division Register. Continuing its course, the boundary then skimmed the rear of properties 124-128 Byron Road and continued through the garden of number 130 (and the gardens of the other properties on the western side of the road).

A study of the Registers in this ‘borderland’ region confirmed that one elector in each of four houses was given an additional local government franchise as detailed in the following tables:

Byron Road (odds) Assignments — 1933 Registers

up to Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED 131 Harrow Parliamentary division

133 Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED Harrow Parliamentary division One elector with local government franchise in Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED

135 to Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 233 Hendon Parliamentary division

211 Byron Road (evens) Assignments — 1933 Registers

up to Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED 108 Harrow Parliamentary division

124 Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 126 Hendon Parliamentary division 128 One elector with local government franchise in Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED

130 to Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 178 Hendon Parliamentary division

It is assumed, like the Locket Road example, that the four households were paying a rate to both Wealdstone UD and Hendon RD and that the plural vote assigned to one elector was in recognition of that fact. Figure 8 below reproduces a section of the Harrow division Register: the extract displays 108-128 and 192-206 Byron Road, the latter group will be examined later. It will be noted that the entries for houses 124-128 (and 192-204) consist of one person only and that the dash (‘–‘) in the second column indicates the elector has no Parliamentary franchise (in Harrow division), but they qualified as occupiers (‘O’) to a local government vote in Wealdstone.

Figure 8: Extract from the 1933 Register of Electors for Harrow division: entries for 108-206 Byron Road. (There are no entries for houses 130-190 as they are to be found only in the Hendon Register.) Columns indicate (1) the elector’s qualification to vote in Parliamentary elections (R or Rw indicate a ‘residence’ qualification), and (2) the elector’s qualification for local government elections (O = ‘occupation’ qualification, Dw = qualification through husband’s occupation). A dash (–) indicates no qualification to the franchise to which the column relates.

The second area of interest in Byron Road, between the junctions with Locket Road and Montrose Road, is illustrated in Map 22. This section of boundary is a straight-line continuation of that seen earlier (north of Grant Road). Reviewing this some 90 years later gives rise to some unanswered questions: it has not been possible to reconcile all the relevant entries in the Registers of Electors with the cartography.

Again, starting at the southernmost point of the boundary in Map 22, the straight-line impinges on the back garden of property 192, but only very slightly so as to place a small portion within Wealdstone UD. The boundary proceeds northwards up to property number 204, placing ever-increasing amounts of back garden in Wealdstone. At number 206 the boundary enters the house, and then proceeds to increase the proportions of numbers 208-212 in Wealdstone. The mapping suggests number 214 is the first residence to be completely within Wealdstone, although the front garden is in Hendon RD.

The straight-line continues and crosses Byron Road at a shallow angle towards the odd-numbered houses. The map tells us that property number 295 is the last to be wholly within Hendon RD; from 297-313 the front door of each house is on the Wealdstone side of the boundary together with portions of the house, but all in this group have sections of the rear of the house and/or the back garden in Hendon RD.

Two tables summarising what was discovered in the Registers, together with an example from the 1933 Hendon Register of Electors (Figure 9), are also shown below.

212 313

Map 22: Byron Road, Wealdstone, north of its junction with Locket Road, as depicted in a 1936 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, 303 sheet X.4, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations. The dashed 297 line shows the former municipal boundary between Wealdstone UD (to the west of the map) and Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD (to the east). By the time of the publication of the map the sole purpose of the line was to depict a Parliamentary division boundary — between Harrow (to the east) and Hendon 210 200 (to the west).

190

182

Byron Road (evens) Assignments — 1933 Registers

182 to Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 190 Hendon Parliamentary division

192 to Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 204 Hendon Parliamentary division One elector with local government franchise in Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED

206 Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED 208 Harrow Parliamentary division One elector with local government franchise in Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED

210 to Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED 220 Harrow Parliamentary division

Byron Road (odds) Assignments — 1933 Registers

235 to Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 297 Hendon Parliamentary division

299 Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED 301 Hendon Parliamentary division One elector with local government franchise in Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED

303 to Wealdstone UD Wealdstone MCC ED 313 Harrow Parliamentary division One elector with local government franchise in Harrow Weald Parish, Hendon RD Pinner MCC ED

213 Figure 9: Extract from the 1933 Register of Electors for Hendon division: entries for 297-313 Byron Road. Columns indicate (1) the elector’s qualification to vote in Parliamentary elections (R or Rw indicate a ‘residence’ qualification), and (2) the elector’s qualification for local government elections (O = ‘occupation’ qualification, Dw = qualification through husband’s occupation). A dash (–) indicates no qualification to the franchise to which the column relates; therefore the ‘single entries’ for 303-313 have no Parliamentary vote in Hendon.

From the information we see again that in certain ‘borderland’ properties, some voters were given an additional local government franchise. It was unexpected that this occurred for 192-204 Byron Road where the boundary went through the back garden and not the building. Dual registrations did not occur for properties 130-158 Byron Road, south of the junction with Locket Road, where the district boundary also cut through back gardens. It is not clear what was ‘special’ about 192-204 Byron Road, but the properties were presumably liable to pay a rate to Wealdstone UD whereas numbers 130-158 were not. It could be conjectured that the proximity of Wealdstone Brook (culverted in part) and drainage issues from the gardens, might lead to such a rate demand from Wealdstone.

Number 206 Byron Road is the first property to be principally registered in Wealdstone UD, which is surprising, as only a small slither of the rear of the house is in the district. Inconsistency between OS mapping and the Registers was also a feature of 210 Byron Road: apparently the house was bisected by the boundary but there is no dual registration. Likewise, the house at 297 Byron Road was split by the boundary, yet it is not included in the group of properties (299-313) given dual registration.

It is doubtful that the apparent discrepancies between the mapping and the Registers can now be satisfactorily resolved. It is worth noting that some of the other case studies have found evidence of clear mistakes in the Registers, while there has never been any evidence of faulty mapping.

References and Notes

Case 1 At its first meeting on 3 January 1895, Harrow-on-the-Hill UDC addressed the issue of the boundary between the authority and Wealdstone UD, passing the following resolution: “That the Council adopt the Resolution of the late Harrow Local Board of the 28th May 1894 for a rectification of the Boundaries of the District and hope that the County Council will arrive at an early decision on the matter.” The enquiry into the boundary between Harrow-on- the-Hill and Wealdstone was held on 19 and 20 April 1895. 1896 Register of Electors, Harrow division, entries K285 to K440, pp. 607-619. 1896 Register of Electors, Harrow division, entries E1296 to E1299, pp. 315-325. Amersham Road was located on land now occupied by the St. George’s Shopping Centre. See any pre-modern era street map of Harrow.

Case 2 1930 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district J (Roxeth). 1931 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district JA (Roxeth East). 1931 Register of Electors, Uxbridge division, polling district KE (Northolt). There was a total of 199 entries (KE1985 to KE2183) for Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue, of which 169 were local government electors. The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: South Harrow and Northolt Park 1935, Middlesex sheet 10.15. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.15 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657826.

214 Case 3 1928 Register of Electors, Uxbridge division, polling district I (Northolt). Entry numbers I1022 to I1077, a total of 56 electors, were transferred to Harrow-on-the-Hill UD. 1930 Register of Electors, Uxbridge division, polling district KE (Northolt). This Register incorrectly omitted electors in Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue. 1931 Register of Electors, Uxbridge division, polling district KE (Northolt). There was a total of 101 entries (KE1884 to KE1984) for Mount Park Road and South Hill Avenue, of which 52 were local government electors. (The Register correctly included electors in Westwood Avenue and Wood End Avenue — see note to Case (2).) There was a total of 300 entries for the Harrow-on-the-Hill UD area, of which 221 were local government electors. The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: South Harrow and Northolt Park 1935, Middlesex sheet 10.15. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.15 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657826.

Case 4 1913 Register of Electors, Harrow, Uxbridge and Ealing divisions. 1934 Register of Electors, Uxbridge division, polling district LE(2) (Northolt). 1934 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling districts L(1) and L(3) (Harrow-on-the-Hill and Greenhill ward). The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: South Harrow and Northolt Park 1935, Middlesex sheet 10.15. National Library of Scotland: OS 6-inch map Middlesex X.SE at https://maps.nls.uk/view/102352836. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.15 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657826. No electors were listed for 71 Cavendish Avenue, making it impossible to allocate it to either Greenford or Harrow. No properties could be found that should have been assigned to the detached portion of Wembley UD. There were no properties in the section of Wood End Road of interest with ‘even’ house numbers. 1933 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district J (Harrow-on-the-Hill). There was a total of 136 entries (J467 to J527, and J1805 to J1879) for Fernbank Avenue and Rosebank Avenue, of which 106 were local government electors. 1935 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district CC(3) (Sudbury ward, Wembley UD). Numbers 26 and 28 Rosebank Avenue, Wembley MCC ED, were incorrectly placed in polling district CC(1) of the 1935 Register.

Case 5 1939 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district HH(2) (Roxeth North-west). 1936 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district T(1) (Rayners Lane). 1936 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district U (Rayners Lane South). The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Rayners Lane and Eastcote 1939, Middlesex sheet 10.10. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.10 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657778. 1939 Register of Electors, Uxbridge division, polling district O (South Ruislip ward, Ruislip-Northwood UD). See entries O2585 and O2586 for 256 Malvern Avenue. Alphabetical Street Index to the 1992 Registers of Electors (published by The London Borough of Harrow). Local Government Boundary Commission for England Report No. 610, 12 September 1991.

675

254

693

Map 23: Malvern Avenue and its junction with Field End Road, as depicted in a 1940 25-inch OS map of Middlesex, sheet X.14, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, but with additional annotations. The dotted line shows the boundary between Harrow UD (to the east of the map) and Ruislip-Northwood UD (to the west).

215 The 1940 revision of the OS 25-inch map for Middlesex sheet X.14 (https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657814) clearly defined the boundary between Harrow UD and Ruislip-Northwood UD at the western end of Malvern Avenue: the dotted lines on the map follow the party wall between nos. 254 and 256 Malvern Avenue so as to leave the latter as the only ‘Nash Estate’ property outside Harrow’s boundaries. It should be noted that a portion of the back garden of No. 254 Malvern Avenue was within Ruislip-Northwood UD while portions of the back gardens of nos. 675-693 (odds, inclusive) Field End Road were within Harrow UD boundaries (Map 23).

Case 6 1935 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district QQ (The Hyde ward, Wembley UD). 28-32 (even) Broomgrove Gardens are incorrectly listed in Kingsbury/Wembley in this Register. There is no property numbered 12 Vancouver Road. 1935 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district PP (Roe Green ward, Wembley UD). The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Burnt Oak and Little Stanmore 1895, Middlesex sheet 11.01. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex XI.1 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657850. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex XI.1 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657844. Alphabetical Street Index to the 1992 Registers of Electors (published by The London Borough of Harrow). The status of 27 and 29 Reynolds Drive was hard to determine. The 1935 Register listed no. 27 in Wembley UD, but Harrow’s 1950 and 1965 Register of Electors, Stanmore South ward (PD FC and BC, respectively), showed both 27 and 29 Reynolds Drive in Harrow, while the later Alphabetical Street Index from 1992 states Harrow’s odd- numbered properties in Reynolds Drive commenced at no. 31. A careful examination of the 1935 25-inch OS Middlesex map at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657844 proved that the boundary ran between nos. 29 and 31. Local Government Boundary Commission for England Report No. 651, 7 May 1992. Local Government Boundary Commission for England Report No. 687, 24 September 1992. Special Report of the General Purposes Committee upon Rectifications of Boundaries and Consequential Matters Arising in Connection with the First General Review of County Districts under Section 46 of the Local Government Act, 1929, p. 81. Presented to the meeting of Middlesex County Council, 30 June 1932.

Case 7 1939 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district MH(1) (Wealdstone North ward). 1939 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district MH(2) (Harrow Weald ward). 1939 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district MH(3) (Headstone ward). 1939 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district H(1) (Harrow Weald ward). 1939 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district H(2) (Wealdstone North ward). 12 Athelstone Road was assigned to polling district H(2) after consulting the 1937 Register. 1939 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district L (Headstone ward). 1931 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district N (Wealdstone North-west). 1935 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district Q(2) (Headstone ward). 1936 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district MH(3) (Headstone ward). The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Wealdstone and 1935, Middlesex sheet 10.03. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.3 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657712.

Case 8

1935 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling districts R(1) and R(2) (Wealdstone South ward). The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Kenton and Wealdstone 1912, Middlesex sheet 10.08. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.8 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657763.

Case 9 1934 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district X(2) (Kenton ward, Wembley UD). Special Report of the General Purposes Committee upon Rectifications of Boundaries and Consequential Matters Arising in Connection with the First General Review of County Districts under Section 46 of the Local Government Act, 1929, p. 80-81. Presented to the meeting of Middlesex County Council, 30 June 1932. The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Kenton and Wealdstone 1912, Middlesex sheet 10.08. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.8 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657763. The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Kenton and Wealdstone 1936, Middlesex sheet 10.08. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.8 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657760. 1934 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district M(2) (Kenton ward , Harrow UD), entry numbers 2509 to 2540 inclusive of polling district M. In the 1933 Register covering Wembley UD the equivalent entries can be found in polling district V (Kenton ward, Wembley UD), entry numbers V1828 to V1866 inclusive. Note that polling district O (Kenton - West) of the 1933 Register, which dealt with Wealdstone UD, also contained a number of entries for 136 to 166A Kenton Road (entry numbers O2230 to O2247 inclusive). The following is a list of electors who appeared in both the Wealdstone (‘O’) and Wembley (‘V’) polling districts in the 1933 Register. It confirms the complexities arising for the commercial properties and flats of 136 to 166 Kenton Road that straddled the Wealdstone UD/Wembley UD boundary: Coleman, Leon George, 136A Kenton Road: O2244 (Parliamentary and local government votes) V1828 (local government vote only) Darlington, Arthur Veale, 136A Kenton Road: O2245 (Parliamentary and local government votes) V1829 (local government vote only)

216 Taylor, Barbara Eaton, 148 Kenton Road O2242 (local government vote only) V1848 (Parliamentary and local government votes) Nobes, Bertram William, 150 Kenton Road O2239 (local government vote only) V1849 (Parliamentary and local government votes, property listed as 150A Kenton Road) Hardy, Edith Sarah, 154 Kenton Road O2238 (local government vote only) V1854 (Parliamentary and local government votes) Jones, Walter John Hazard, 160 Kenton Road O2236 (local government vote only) V1863 (Parliamentary and local government votes, property listed as 160A Kenton Road) Ward, Henry Oliver, 162 Kenton Road O2235 (Parliamentary and local government votes) V1864 (local government vote only) Jackson, Mary, 164A Kenton Road O2233 (Parliamentary vote only) V1865 (local government vote only, entry for Kate Jackson; it is unclear if this is the same person) Hurry, Theodore Langton, 166A Kenton Road O2231 (Parliamentary and local government votes) V1866 (local government vote only) These examples of ‘plural’ voting may be the result of ‘business premises’ qualifications, although Case (11) provides a possible alternative explanation.

Case 10 1939 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district UH(2) (Pinner South ward). 1939 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district E (Pinner South ward). The Godfrey Edition of Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Harrow-on-the-Hill 1935, Middlesex sheet 10.11. National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.11 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657790.

Case 11 1933 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district P (Wealdstone North-East). 1933 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district F (Harrow Weald South). National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.4 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657724. C.J. Gray, Harrow Votes: The Urban District of Harrow, 1934-1953: Appendix N.

Case 12 This case examines Byron Road in Wealdstone. There is another Byron Road in central Harrow. 1933 Register of Electors, Harrow division, polling district P (Wealdstone North-East). 1933 Register of Electors, Hendon division, polling district F (Harrow Weald South). National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.4 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657724 (1912). National Library of Scotland: OS 25-inch map Middlesex X.4 at https://maps.nls.uk/view/103657721 (1936).

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