Editing Golders Green (section)

==Appearances in popular culture==
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The area is the setting of the humorous short story "The Ghoul of Golders Green" (''May Fair'', 1925) by [[Michael Arlen]].

In chapter three of the 1932 book “[[Brave New World]],” [[Aldous Huxley]] wrote, “Eight hundred Simple Lifers were mowed down by machine guns at Golders Green.”

In his 1946 book "[[The Great Divorce]]," [[C. S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]] has a character from Golders Green. Sarah Smith and her husband are the last characters to enter the novel. She appears with great pomp and circumstance, arrayed in splendor and arriving behind a procession complete with music. She is beautiful and one of the "great ones" in heaven, but on earth had led an anonymous life in Golders Green.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=C.S. |title=The Great Divorce |title-link=The Great Divorce |publisher=HarperOne |year=1946 |isbn=978-0-06-065295-1 |location=Great Britain |pages=117–118 |language=English |author-link=C. S. Lewis}}</ref>

Golders Green was alluded to in the phrase "half as '''gold as green'''" in the 1948 BBC radio sketch "Balham: Gateway to the South", written by [[Frank Muir]] and [[Denis Norden]]. It was also an allusion to [[John Burgon]]'s 1845 poem "Petra", in which [[Petra]] is called "a rose-red city, half as old as time". "Half as old as time" was itself a quotation from [[Samuel Rogers]]' ''Italy'' (1822–28). The sketch was popularised through a 1958 recording by [[Peter Sellers]].

[[George Harrison]] recorded an unreleased track titled "Going Down to Golders Green" during the sessions for his acclaimed triple album ''[[All Things Must Pass]]''. The song was inspired by his visits to members of the pop group [[Badfinger]], who lived at 7 Park Avenue, off North End Road, near the borders of Golders Hill Park.

The first posthumous (1997) album release of the music of [[Pete Ham]] of the pop group [[Badfinger]] was titled ''[[7 Park Avenue]]'', named after the address of Badfinger's band residence in Golders Green. A second posthumous (1999) album release was titled ''[[Golders Green (album)|Golders Green]]''.