Editing Hendon (section)

===Hendon Central===
[[File:ABC Hendon, Hendon, NW4 (13620958254).jpg|thumb|A former cinema, now a gymnasium run by [[Nuffield Health]], at the Hendon Central crossroads]]
This busy area around a major road junction contains parades of shops and [[Hendon Central tube station|Hendon Central Underground station]].<ref name="auto">{{cite web|author=The Kolberg Partnership, London |url=http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/tube-hendon-central.php |title=Hendon Central Tube Station London – Nearby Clubs and Bars, Restaurants, Shops, Hotels and Attractions |publisher=Allinlondon.co.uk |access-date=2011-06-30}}</ref> Before the coming of the Underground the area was just open fields. The station opened in 1923, built at the junction of the new Watford Way and a road from Brent Street to the Midland Railway station at West Hendon. A large roundabout was built in front of the station and shops and offices were built. London Electric railways referred to it as the Piccadilly Circus of North West London.<ref name="HampsteadTube">Anthony Badsey-Ellis (2007). The Hampstead Tube, pp.67–68.</ref> During 1923, 687 houses, etc. had been built and plans for a further 1,500 had been passed.<ref name="HampsteadTube"/> Thus the district developed, and the area around the station became an important shopping centre for Hendon.