page_title: Hendon
section_title: Hendon Central
hierarchical_section_title: Hendon / History / Hendon Central
caption_attribution_description: A former cinema, now a gym. It closed as a cinema in 1997. Address: 260 Hendon Way. Former Name(s): MGM Cinema; Cannon; Classic; Gaumont; The Ambassador. Links: &lt;a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/18100" rel="nofollow"&gt;Cinema Treasures&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: Hendon is a London urban area in the Borough of Barnet, 7 miles northwest of Charing Cross, between the A41, A406 and the M1 motorway. Hendon was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex and has been part of Greater London since 1965. It used to be the home for the London Aerodrome which later became RAF Hendon. From 1972 the site of the RAF station was gradually handed over to the RAF Museum London. Hendon had a population of 52,972 in 2011 which includes the West Hendon and Colindale wards.
context_section_description: This busy area around a major road junction contains parades of shops and Hendon Central Underground station. 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. During 1923, 687 houses, etc. had been built and plans for a further 1,500 had been passed. Thus the district developed, and the area around the station became an important shopping centre for Hendon.
caption: A former cinema, now a gymnasium run by Virgin Active, at the Hendon Central crossroads
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