Editing Hendon (section)

===The Burroughs===
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[[File:Hendon Town Hall The Burroughs, NW4 - geograph.org.uk - 2782335.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hendon town hall]]
The Burroughs was a distinct hamlet until the 1890s, and appears on an 1873 [[Ordnance Survey]] map of the area. The name, known from 1316 until the 19th century as 'the burrows', doubtless refers to the keeping of [[rabbit|rabbit warrens]].

There was an inn and brew-house by the 16th century for travellers, very possibly the White Bear, which was so-called from 1736, and was rebuilt in 1932. Here, the '[[Court leet|leet courts]]', based on feudal tradition, were held as late as 1916, to ensure the rights of the [[Lord of the Manor]] to control the increasingly emancipated peasantry, to punish transgressors, and to fix '[[Quit-Rent]]' for those who had built on manorial land and wastes.

By 1697 the inn was the location for Hendon's [[Pentecost|Whitsun]] [[fair]]. Originally an un-chartered hiring fair for local hay farmers, it was also renowned for dancing and country sports, and was immortalised in the lines of a song of the 1810s:

:Then a soldier fond of battle,
:Who has fought and bled in Spain,
:Finds in Hendon air his mettle,
:Well stirred up to fight again.
:Then a justice of the Quorum
:At Burroughs revels, Hendon Fair,
:Finds such order and decorum
:At the White and Funny Bear.

[[File:The Burroughs.jpg|thumb|The Burroughs]]
There was [[cockfighting]] during the 1820s, and horse racing in the 1860s; by this time, haymakers were usually contracted directly from [[Ireland]].

From 1735 until 1934 a [[poorhouse]] with six cottages used to house older parishioners (and sometimes wrongly called '[[almshouse|alms-houses]]') stood where Quadrant Close (occupied by 1936) is now located. The [[Poor Law]] workhouse ceased to be operational when 'Hendon Union Workhouse' opened in 1835, in what was then 'Red Hill' and is now [[Burnt Oak]]. With the foundation of a Local Board in 1879, the buildings were later used as offices.

In this same period, three religious institutions were established. The first was a [[Methodist]] chapel in 1827, which was reached by the footpath of the same name. The second was a Roman Catholic chapel, later called [[Our Lady of Dolours]] (1863, remodelled 1927). There were a handful of shops nearby by the 1880s. The modern [[Methodist]] chapel, designed by Welch & Lander, was built in 1937.

Grove House (or Hendon Grove), built before 1753, was a private [[psychiatric hospital]] by 1900; it was demolished in 1933, having already lost much of its original frontage for building. The remaining estate became a public park, with rumours of a secret tunnel. A number of picturesque 18th- and 19th-century houses survive. The [[Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ]] established the Convent of St Joseph, in 1882, and had added a school by 1900.

[[File:Hendon War Memorial, Watford Way, London NW4 - geograph.org.uk - 404504.jpg|thumb|[[Hendon War Memorial]] on Watford Way]]

[[Hendon Town Hall]] was built in 1900 from designs by [[T. H. Watson]].<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Hendon Town Hall, Barnet|num=1294762|access-date=27 April 2020}}</ref>

Hendon's first proper fire station (1914) was built to designs by [[A. Welch]], and superseded another close by in [[#Church End|Church End]]. Next to the town hall is [[Hendon Library]], built in 1929 to designs by [[T. M. Wilson]]. It was considerably rebuilt internally during 1972–3 and 2003–4. [[Eileen Colwell]], the pioneer children's librarian, worked for many years at Hendon from the 1930s.

Between 1937 and 1939, the [[Middlesex|Middlesex County Council]] built 'Hendon Technical Institute' (designed by (H. W. Burchett), which became 'Hendon College', then in 1973 an [[Institute of technology]] called 'Hendon Polytechnic', and it is now part of [[Middlesex University]].

[[Hendon War Memorial]] was unveiled on [[Saint George|St George's Day]], 23 April 1922, and was moved to its present location in 1962.