please empty your brain below
£3 million is a bit much, after all you live in London - but without any convenience, tube station - too far away (and it's Stanmore), shops - too far away, school - too far away, you could buy a 3 bed house for £900,000 and have all three things nearby (btw - whats the broadband speed).

Conversely there are plenty of options if I want to live somewhere where I can only reach the station, shops, school by car - and still have change from £3 million.

Still anon | 07.07.17 - 7:38 a.m. | #

The class warrior in me rather likes the idea of a fence brutally cutting it's way across a golf course.

But how does it work? What sort of fence is it? Surely not the panel type that you can't see through?

Chris | 07.07.17 - 7:47 a.m. | #

@Chris

I assume the penultimate picture shows the fence in question

timbo | 07.07.17 - 7:59 a.m. | #

Very interesting read having only ever been there once back in 2003, to meet my accountant. The viewpoint looks a touch optimistic though, unless it was a rather hazy day back in the city.

dg writes: It was a rather hazy day back in the city.

Kevin | 07.07.17 - 8:09 a.m. | #

I love those modernist houses at Stanmore.

Michael | 07.07.17 - 8:23 a.m. | #

the view from the viewpoint is cracking. DG got it on a bad day. Funnily enough 50 years ago i remember you would have had a similar view at the top of Belmont (obviously minus today's skyscrapers) but the golf course was remodelled in the seventies and the now mature trees that provide a hazard for the golfers have become an effective screen for the view

peewit | 07.07.17 - 9:12 a.m. | #

The view was great.
Best not judge by what a camera shows.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.07.17 - 9:14 a.m. | #

@Timbo - Of course it does. Thanks.

Sigh.

I would probably get to the top and miss the view....

Chris | 07.07.17 - 9:57 a.m. | #

Despite the bit of Harrow I live in being a right dump, it does have many gems close by, and has great access to the Met, Jubilee, Piccadilly, Bakerloo, Overground and Central lines all within either a short walk or bus ride from my house.

When I moved here 5 years ago I was delighted to find the complete set of those Heritage Trail booklets in the library, among the free leaflets!

Cornish Cockney | 07.07.17 - 11:25 a.m. | #

Wood Farm is a nice view, but for me the absolutely best view of London is from the rather downmarket Norwood Park - far closer to the action, and you have a very good view of everything tall - West End, City and Canary Wharf.

straphan | 07.07.17 - 12:25 p.m. | #

There is a second footpath across Pinner Park Farm.
It starts from Moss Close (just round the corner from Heath Robinson's old house in Moss Lane) through a narrow strip of woodland shared with the headwaters of the Pinn, then across George V Avenue and through the northernmost field on the farm to come out at the end of Wellington Road in Hatch End.

Stephen Bird | 07.07.17 - 3:29 p.m. | #

I have a memory of going to an observatory in or near Stanmore Country Park, as part of an astronomy course run in the 80s by what was then the Polytechnic of North London on the Holloway Road. The large telescope was housed in a dome with no electric supply. It could be slewed to compensate for the earth's rotation using a clockwork mechanism driven by a large weight.
I can't find any reference online to this observatory, only to the University of London one on Watford Way. That wasn't the one I went to.

Bob L-S | 07.07.17 - 8:19 p.m. | #

DG - Just a mile from my house at Pinner Park Farm. Well researched to find out about the proposed developments there. Hopefully they won't reappear.
Might have met you if you were there on the 6th......If only we knew what you look like!!!

MikeK | 07.07.17 - 9:13 p.m. | #

Back in the '70s, when I lived in North Harrow, I regularly visited Pinner Park Farm. The round milking parlour was in daily use and had a first floor viewing gallery. The cows would walk onto a rotating platform, have their udders connected to the pumps and be delivered a tray full of food. After rotating by just under 360degrees it was all over and the cows exited the parlour.

I still remember the sound inside as all this took place. It went "Ker-chink-ker-plunker-ker-chink-ker-plunker", until all the cows were a few litres lighter.

Jeremy | 07.07.17 - 10:15 p.m. | #

God lord. Has Londonist taken to ripping off DG posts?

DG, 7 July : http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/harrow.html

L, 24 July: http://londonist.com/london/best-of-london/is-this-london-s-most-underrated-view

Has that happened quite so blatantly before?

Andrew | 24.07.17 - 4:55 p.m. | #

It's perfectly possible to argue that I ripped off Ian Visits' post.

30 July 2016:
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2016/07/30/the-hidden-delights-of-stanmore-country-park/

diamond geezer | Homepage | 24.07.17 - 5:14 p.m. | #

Gosh, you rogue! More noticeable if Ian's post was from say 30 June 2017, not almost a year ago.

The main thing that caught my attention was the images - several of yours and theirs look almost identical. Ian's are somewhat different.

Andrew | 25.07.17 - 8:31 a.m. | #











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