Country	England
Region	London
Official name	Hendon
London borough	Barnet
Constituency westminster	Hendon
Post town	LONDON
Postcode area	NW
Postcode district	NW4
Dial code	020
Os grid reference	TQ229887
Latitude	51.5837
Longitude	-0.2252
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Hendon is a London suburb situated northwest of Charing Cross.

History

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Hendon was historically a civil parish in the county of Middlesex. The manor is described in Domesday (1087), but the name, 'Hendun' meaning 'at the highest hill', is earlier. There is even evidence of Roman settlement discovered by the Hendon and District Archaeological Society and others; an urn burial of a headless child was found in nearby Sunny Hill Park. The Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railways were built through Hendon in the 1860s. There is evidence of problems of wild horses feeding between the tracks. The underground, at Golders Green arrived in 1907. Much of the area developed into a suburb of London and now the area is mostly built up with some countryside in the Mill Hill area, such as the Copthall Playing fields. Hendon big industry was mostly centred on manufacturing, and included motor and aviation works, and developed from the 1880s. In 1931 the civil parish of Edgware was abolished and its area was added to the great civil parish of Hendon.

Hendon became an urban district in 1894. In 1932 the urban district became the Municipal Borough of Hendon. The municipal borough was abolished in 1965 and the area became part of the London Borough of Barnet.

Hendon’s claim to fame is in flying and Hendon Aerodrome is now the RAF Museum. The area is closely associated with the aviator Claude Grahame-White. Another part of the Aerodrome site is the Hendon Police College, the training centre for the Metropolitan Police. The Metropolitan Police Book of Remembrance is displayed in the entrance of Simpson Hall at the centre. There is also a memorial garden.

It is a former borough and ancient parish. The name means the high place or down, and Hendon's motto is ''Endeavour''. The Burroughs is a civic centre for the London Borough of Barnet, and also the site of Middlesex University Business School.

The River Brent runs trough Hendon. On 30 Nov 2009- The Environment Agency warned residents of a flooding along River Brent from Hendon to Brentford, after a day of notably heavy rain. Several premises were temporally flooded in Brentford and Perivale.

Church End

Hendon and District Archaeological Society has found a number of interesting Roman artifacts at Church End but nothing conclusive, and the Saxon settlement near to the church may not be a continuation of its Roman predecessor. The Domesday Survey mentions a priest, and a church building was documented in 1157. The oldest fabric of the present church is 13th century. The 50 ft tower (c1450) was much restored in the 18th century when the weathercock in the form of a "Lamb and Flag", the badge of St. John, was added. However, the church is dedicated to St. Mary, an enigma that defies local historians to this day. It may be a sign of the (heretical) cult of Mary Magdalene said to have been promoted by the Templars and their successors. Eastern extensions carried out between 1913-15 to designs by architect Temple Moore have greatly expanded the church. Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore in 1819, is buried in the church. Another grave of distinction in the churchyard is that of football manager Herbert Chapman who had great success in charge of Northampton Town, Leeds City, Huddersfield Town and finally Arsenal before his sudden death from pneumonia in 1934. Bram Stoker may well have had St. Mary's graveyard in mind when he created the fictional "Kingstead", the uneasy resting place of Lucy Westenra, in his book Dracula. However, St. Mary's graveyard is also the resting place of a more benign spirit, Coventry Patmore's wife Emily, the model for the poem The Angel in the House (1854), and upon whom the Victorian ideal of domesticity "the Angel of the Hearth" is based.

West of the church is the Greyhound pub which was rebuilt in 1898. Originally called the Church House, it was used for vestry meetings from the 1600s to 1878. In 1676 the inn, by then known as the Greyhound, burned down in a fire. In 1855 a fire brigade was established, renamed the Hendon volunteer fire brigade in 1866, and a manual fire engine was kept in a building near the church. Further west is the former Church Farmhouse Museum, (1955-2011).

The Claddagh Ring pub in Church Road, Hendon somewhat more than 9 miles from Athenry. Although the sign is Irish, it does point to a large Irish community in this area. The pub was originally called the Midland Arms, and was opened during the 1860s by a Mr Tasker to provide liquid refreshment for navvies working on the building of the Midland Railway, and many were Irish. The Irish connection with Hendon goes back at least to the early 19th century when many of that country came here to make the hay, for which Hendon was then famous.

The Burroughs

The Burroughs was a distinct hamlet until the 1890s, known from 1316 until the 19th Century as 'the burrows', which no doubt referred originally to the keeping of rabbit warrens. After the UK outbreak of myxomatosis in the 1950s, rabbits were smoked out of the area using steam engines.

Parson Street and Holders Hill

During the 18th century, some of the immediate estate surrounding Hendon Place was auctioned off for large houses, with much of the land being used for building other mansions. Of these, Hendon Hall (now a hotel owned by Hand Picked Hotels), built in 1756 at the corner of Ashley Lane, is the last remaining and perhaps the best known. The suggestion that David Garrick the actor lived here while he was Lord of the Manor (1765–79) is without foundation. A small obelisk in the hotel garden dedicated to William Shakespeare and David Garrick originally stood in Manor Hall Road until 1957. A ceiling painting by Tiepolo, ''Olympia and the Four Continents'', was uncovered in 1954 , now in the Met ; but two other large ceiling paintings are still in the house. A Mr. Somerville laid out Waverley Grove and Tenterden Grove in the 1860s, and by the end of the 19th century the estate saw further development by C.F. Hancock, including houses. On Parson Street, St. Swithans was for many years a convent and training house of the Sisters of Nazareth. It is now a Jewish School. Further north is Holders Hill House, now Hasmonean High School.

Hendon Central

It contains Hendon Central tube station.

Brent Street area

Brent Street was part of a northern route out of London, and at the Quadrant a seven-mile stone - the last piece of physical evidence for the road - is set into a wall. Much of the original small hamlet in Brent Street, which had been there since at least 1613, burned down in a fire in 1861. Brent Street had a parish pump, which was in disrepair in 1818 owing to the numerous thirsty travellers using the road, and from 1796 there was a cage for criminals (removed in 1883), which stood at the junction of Brent Street and Bell Lane and is now commemorated by a blue plaque outside the public lavatory. By the 1850s there were at least 13 shops in Brent Street. Congregationalists built a chapel (1855) and a school in New Brent Street (1856), which later moved and became Bell Lane Board School (1901). Tenby House is the last of three large properties that were built between Finchley Lane and Victoria Road. The Victoria Estate was developed around Victoria and Stratford Roads in the 1870s and 1880s. The cricketer and footballer Denis Compton was brought up here and lived at 20 Alexandra Road, attending Bell Lane Primary School. New Brent Street was the address of the local police office in 1855 (a later station, next to the Post Office at the corner of Brampton Grove and dating from 1884, was demolished in 2002). Christ Church was opened in October 1881 as a chapel of ease for St. Mary's, becoming a parish church in 1923.

During the 20th century, a number of small factories were established in the area. The largest was Tilley Lamps Ltd (1915 to 1961), which employed around 300 people and manufactured pressure paraffin lamps (rather charmingly called ''Aladdin'' lamps in the 1930s). In December 1969, planning permission was granted for the development of a new shopping precinct on Brent Street to be called Sentinel Square, at a cost of £1.5 million, and within a year the old Rose and Crown pub, the Classic Cinema (once called the Gala), and a number of shops had been replaced with a collection of modernist shops and a Tesco supermarket. The Odeon at the Quadrant was opened in 1939 at what had been Cook's Corner in Parson Street. It was pulled down in 1979 and the site redeveloped.

Salisbury Plain is a piece of wasteland in front of ''The Load of Hay'' (a pub demolished in 2004), where animals destined for Smithfield were penned overnight. The pub had been a favourite of Peter Mandelson in his youth. There is a small collection of 18th century houses along Shirehall Lane, two with fire plaques. Penfold House in Brent Street (not far from The Load of Hay) is said to have been built in 1713. It is believed it had been a lodge for drovers bringing cattle up to London, and it was known as Albert Cottage until 1923. Near to Brent Green was Goodyers House (demolished in 1934), named after an important Hendon family. Where Goodyers House was is now a cul-de-sac called Goodyers Gardens with about 10 or 11 houses. Number 11 was the main house when Goodyers House was still standing. Hendon Park was laid out on Step Fields, part of the Goodyers House estate, and was opened as Queen's Park in 1903. In July 1940, there was a particularly large propaganda rally held in Hendon Park - "Rout the Rumour", the first of its kind in England. Hendon House was home to John Norden, the renowned 16th century cartographer, but was demolished and replaced with Hendon School. Famous alumni include Peter Mandelson, Rabbi Lionel Blue, and author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

A little further down the road is a small gothic complex called the Alma White Centre. In 1893 the Rev W.H.Seddon, Hon Secretary of the Church Army, purchased Fosters, in Brent Street, with the intention of building "a Rescue Home (for fallen women), with a Chapel attached". The site became St. Saviour's Homes in 1897, caring for "feeble minded" women. In 1926 it was taken over by the Pillar of Fire Society as a bible college, school and chapel. This site has now been redeveloped as 'The Pillar' hotel and function suites.

Geography

Transport

Hendon is served by Hendon Central tube station on the Edgware Branch of the Northern Line [Zone 3 on the London Underground network] and by Hendon railway station on National Rail First Capital Connect line [still referred to many as the Thameslink line and also the Bedpan Line (BEDford to St. PANcras)], as well as by numerous bus routes. Buses come and go from Brent Cross Shopping Centre, London's West End and the new Wembley National Stadium. Buses run as far south as Central London, and as far north as Watford Junction

Numerous minicab companies operate within Hendon. Main routes which pass through Hendon are the A1 (Great North Road) A41 (North Western Avenue) also at various stretches called Hendon Way and Watford Way, and this intersects with the A406 (North Circular Road) at a junction called [the Brent Cross Flyover], also a known traffic blackspot.

Further north is the site of Hendon Aerodrome in a area of Hendon now know as Colindale, famous for the first airmail delivery; the first parachute descent from a powered aircraft; the first night flights; and, from RAF Hendon during World War II the RAF provided the first aerial defence of a city. It is believed that the first casualty in the Battle of Britain was an RAF Hurricane pilot from Hendon. It closed to flying in 1968 and is now the site of the RAF Museum, as well as the housing developments at Grahame Park and Beaufort Park.

Schools

The principal secondary school is Hendon School.

Football, athletics and hockey

The local football club is Hendon F.C. and until recently there was a local athletics club. Hendon also has a golf club and a Leisure Centre.

The local ladies hockey club is Hendon & Mill Hill Hockey Club

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Notable people

David Bohm - physicist

Joe Beevers - professional poker player

Gary Breen - footballer

Sir John Clements - actor and producer

Denis Compton - cricketer and footballer

Henry Cooper - heavyweight boxer

Harry Demetriou- professional poker player

Henry Hicks - Royal College of Surgeons, President of the Geological Society, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - novelist

Richard Llewellyn - writer

Peter Mandelson - Labour politician

Michael Podro - art historian

Oliver Postgate - animator, puppeteer and writer.

Thomas Tilling - omnibus operator was born here in 1825

Lacey Turner - actress who plays Stacey Slater in ''EastEnders''

References

External links

Barnet Archives and Local Studies

Hendon & District Archaeological Society (HADAS)

Victoria County History Hendon Chapter for a more detailed history of Hendon

Pictures 1700 - 1900

Pictures 1900 - 1930

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The Hendon Mob are a group of four professional poker players from London, England:

Joe Beevers

Barny Boatman

Ross Boatman

Ram Vaswani

The name of the group was first publicised by the ''Evening Standard'' newspaper in September 2000.

Joe Beevers is the only member of the group who actually comes from Hendon (a district of London) but the others played in Hendon. The Hendon Mob describe John Kabbaj as their unofficial fifth member. Several other European professionals, including Harry Demetriou ''(Koumari Boy)'', Padraig Parkinson ''(Padraig)'', Neil Channing ''(Bad Beat)'' and John Duthie have posted on the group's forum.

The Mob first became recognised for their appearances on the original televised poker programme ''Late Night Poker'' (1999–2002). The Hendon Mob also regularly attends the annual World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and other major tournaments. They have dozens of in the money results between them.

Sponsorship

In 2004 and 2005, the Mob was sponsored by Prima Poker to the tune of $2 million worth of worldwide tournament buyin fees. In exchange they played on the online Prima poker-room network. As part of the tour, the Mob challenged four-player teams of various nationalities to heads-up matches, culminating with the UK versus the U.S. in the inaugural Prima Transatlantic Cup in 2004. The Mob had won each of these international team matches until falling 3-1 to the US team of Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, and Paul Wolfe. The Mob's deal with Prima expired at the end of 2005.

The Mob were then sponsored by Full Tilt Poker up to September 2011 when the online poker site was accused of fraud.

Other ventures

The Mob run a successful website that includes a tournament poker player database that attempts to house the results of every major worldwide poker tournament since 2000, indexed by location, date, and player. The origin of the information contained in the database was queried in a court action brought by rival website Pokerpages.com. Information sourced from Pokerpages.com has since been removed from the database.

The Mob were used in series one of the British con-art documentary series 'The Real Hustle'. Presenters Paul Wilson and Alexis Conran, posing as poker novices filming a documentary, beat the Mob by smuggling in decks stacked to their advantage.

Notes

External links

Official site

Site Officiel Français

PokerPages.com article

CardPlayer.com interview

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birth date	November 09, 1944
birth place	Asheville, North Carolina
state	North Carolina
district	11th
term start	1981
term end	1983
preceded	V. Lamar Gudger
succeeded	James McClure Clarke
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term end3	1987
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William Martin Hendon (born November 9, 1944 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an author, POW/MIA activist, and two-term Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's 11th District.

Hendon is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, where he also taught from 1968 to 1970. In the 1980s Hendon’s congressional campaigns became nationally famous due to his rivalry with Democrat James McClure Clarke. In 1982, Clarke defeated Hendon’s bid for re-election by less than 1,500 votes. In 1984 Hendon gained revenge by defeating Clarke’s bid for re-election by just two percentage points. In their third consecutive meeting in 1986 Hendon lost to Clarke by one percentage point. Despite being encouraged to run against Clarke for a fourth time in 1988, Hendon declined.

His 2007 New York Times bestseller, ''An Enormous Crime'', co-written with attorney Elizabeth Stewart, argues that American soldiers were abandoned in Indochina following the Vietnam War. In its review, ''Publishers Weekly'' stated, "controversial former North Carolina congressman Hendon and attorney Stewart make the case that the U.S. knowingly left hundreds of POWs in Vietnam and Laos in 1973, and that every presidential administration since then has covered it up.” ''Kirkus Reviews'' called it “a sprawling indictment of eight U.S. Administrations.… A convincing, urgent argument.”

One day prior to the release of ''An Enormous Crime'', ''The Raleigh News & Observer'' ran a story about a passage in Douglas Brinkley’s ''The Reagan Diaries,'' wherein President Ronald Reagan, following a briefing by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, wrote that Hendon was "off his rocker" with allegations about Americans held in Vietnam. Bush’s feelings aside, after Hendon was narrowly defeated (50.7% to 49.3%) in the 1986 mid-term elections, Reagan appointed him to the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Hendon withdrew his name from consideration for the post in the face of stiff Senate Democratic opposition to his environmental record, and instead accepted a position with the pro-defense American Defense Institute. He resides in Washington, D.C. and remains active in the POW/MIA issue.

Tenure in the United States Congress

97th United States Congress (1981–1983)

99th United States Congress (1985–1987)

References

External links

''An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia''

Biography, The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

A Finding Aid to Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War Era, 1960-1994, The National Archives, compiled 1996

Hanoi and Washington Officials Reneging on Promises of Joint POW/MIA Cooperation, ''U.S. Veteran Dispatch'', February/March 1995

M.I.A. Hunter in Hanoi Chains Himself to Gate, ''The New York Times'', June 5, 1995

Vietnam Ousts American Over the P.O.W. Issue, ''The New York Times'', June 9, 1995

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Sir Peter Hugh Morrison PC (2 June 1944 – 13 July 1995) was a British Conservative politician, MP for Chester from 1974 to 1992, and Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Background and education

Morrison was the third son of John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, by the Honourable Margaret Smith, daughter of William Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden and Lady Esther Gore. Sir Charles Morrison, Conservative MP for Devizes from 1964 to 1992, was his elder brother. He was educated at Eton and Keble College, Oxford, where he studied Law.

Political career

Morrison was first elected to the House of Commons in the general election of February 1974 for Chester. He had been one of the first back-bench MPs to urge Margaret Thatcher to stand for the Party leadership in 1975. He was Deputy Conservative Party Chairman under Norman Tebbit, having been previously a Parliamentary Undersecretary of State and Minister of State in the Department of Employment. In 1987 he was Minister of State for Energy.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher in 1990 and was the leader of her campaign team in the Conservative leadership election of the same year. He was relaxed about Thatcher's prospects and predicted an easy win for her. Alan Clark went to visit Morrison one afternoon during the campaign and found him asleep in his office. Morrison claimed he had enough MPs down as Thatcher supporters to ensure she would win. After the first ballot among Conservative MPs had shown that Thatcher did not have enough votes to win outright, Morrison suggested to her that she should consult the Cabinet one-by-one to gauge support. He said to her: "Prime Minister, if you haven't won then there are a lot of Tory MPs who are lying". He stood down at the 1992 general election, being succeeded as MP for Chester by Gyles Brandreth.

Personal life

According to journalist Simon Heffer, Morrison was gay and went cruising in Sussex Gardens. Fellow Conservative MP Michael Brown, himself openly gay, has described Morrison as gay in a column published in ''The Independent''. Morrison died of a heart attack early in the morning of 13 July 1995, aged 50.

In popular culture

Morrison was portrayed by Nicholas Jones in the 2004 BBC production of ''The Alan Clark Diaries'', and by Rupert Vansittart in the 2009 BBC production of ''Margaret''.

References

External links

Obituary by Patrick Cosgrave.

Obituary by Sir Archibald Hamilton.

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