My first post on a new blog, there won't be too much posting yet as this is a work for the future. The HA5 of the blog name - apart from also being 'has' - is the UK
postcode where I grew up; in
Northwood Hills, near Pinner to be precise but in the Borough of Hillingdon (Pinner is in the Borough of Harrow); on the very, very edge of Greater London.
The origins of Ows: I was born in Wembley (HA9...pure coincidence that Wembley Stadium is HA9 0WS) in what was the
hundred of Gore in the historic county of Middlesex [edit: another coincidence when you realise 'Gore' is part of the name of ancestors of mine] Aged one my family moved out to the far leafier Pinner.
The image is the cover of the 1924 edition of 'Metro-land' promoting the rapid suburban development north and west of London; this edition had the extra purpose of promoting The British Empire Exhibition of 1924/25 at Wembley. [Edit]
Click on image for Oliver Green's (Head Curator of London's Transport Museum) introduction. [Dead link removed] New link and citation:
Clendinning, Anne. “On The British Empire Exhibition, 1924-25.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. [accessed 18th June 2022. 1447hrs, BST].
Update 28th Oct 2010:
HERE's a OS map of where I lived. Thinking back I realise my parents made a perfect choice.
Update 19th April 2012!!! [Personal image removed, May 2022]
