page_title: Burnt Oak
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Burnt Oak / History
caption_attribution_description: A large sports pub with some seating outside. They charge a £5 minimum spend to watch the football, which is probably why quite a few people were lingering outside. It's also called "L Bar" according to the plaque above the name. Address: 200 Burnt Oak Broadway. Former Name(s): The Broadway. Owner: Taylor Walker (former). Links: Randomness Guide to London Beer in the Evening
context_page_description: Burnt Oak is a suburb in the Edgware district in northwest London, England. It is within the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Brent. It was part of Middlesex until it was transferred to Greater London in 1965.
context_section_description: The name Burnt Oak was first used in 1754 and from then until the 1850s referred to no more than a field on the eastern side of the Edgware Road (Watling Street). Nor is there evidence that the name implies anything except that the field had once contained a burnt oak tree. In May 1844 Burnt Oak field was sold to a Mr Essex, and by the 1860s plans were in place to build three residential streets: North Street, East Street, and South Street. The application of the field name to the area seems to have followed from this new estate and was in use by the end of the 19th century. However, the area was generally known as Red Hill until the opening of Burnt Oak tube station.
  There were a handful of shops by the 1890s. There was a post office and grocery run by George and William Plumb, a bakery run by Caller & Poole, as well as James Huggett the greengrocer. A tramway along the Edgware Road to Cricklewood opened in 1905, but the population remained small, by 1921 still only around 1,000.
  Burnt Oak station on the London Underground's Northern line opened on 27 October 1924. It was first open on weekdays with a small booking hall suitable for a rural area. As it was on farmland south-east of the community in Edgware Road, Underground Electric Railways Company of London constructed a new road, Watling Avenue. In the same year news leaked out that the London County Council was to build a housing estate (Watling Estate), which was ready for its first occupants in April 1927. With this and other private estates the area was provided with a new station by 1928, and the population by 1931 had grown to 21,545. Along both sides of Watling Avenue shops were built along with a number of schools to serve the area, such as Woodcroft and Goldbeaters.
  In September 1931 Jack Cohen opened the first Tesco store at 54 Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak. 
  In 1930, Dominican nuns established St Rose's Convent on Orange Hill Road, which led to the foundation of St James' Catholic High School in 1934. In 1936 Watling Market opened with a hundred covered shops and stalls, and the Co-op opened its department store at the junction of Stag Lane and Burnt Oak Broadway (now a Peacocks).
caption: The Lansdowne
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