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Colindale history
Colindale was essentially the dale between Mill Hill and The Burroughs. By the middle of the 20th century it had come to include that part of the Edgware Road between The Hyde and Burnt Oak. The area is named after a 16th-century family of the same name.
Manufacturing
Garston’s Ltd established a trunk factory in 1901, as well as a row of cottages called Leatherville. By 1914 there was already housing between Colindale Avenue and Annesley Avenue, mostly to house the workers of such endeavours. Franco Illuminated Signs opened on Aerodrome Road in 1922, having made the lights for the Franco British Exhibition of 1908. Frigidaire started in a wooden shack in 1923, employing 11 people.
Suburban expansion
After the tube station opened, development as a London suburb was rapid, and by 1939 much of the western side was semi-detached housing. Colindale Primary School opened in Colindeep Lane in 1921, with a new building constructed in Woodfield Avenue in 1933. St Matthias started as a mission church in 1905, and rebuilt between 1971 and 1973.
Today
Colindale houses many of North London’s largest institutions, including the Royal Air Force Museum, Public Health England’s Centre for Infections and the Peel Centre. The British Library’s newspaper depository was also in the area until it was closed in 2013. The Oriental City was a mecca for London’s East Asian community until its 2008 closure.
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