Harrow On The Hill, St Mary's Church 1906
Photo ref: 55673
Made in Britain logo

More about this scene

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century. It has always been an extremely important church as a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Although quite heavily 'restored' by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1849, the building retains much original fabric, including glass by Kempe and Comper, and memorials by Flaxman and Scheemakers. A particularly striking monument is that by Humphrey Hopper to John North, who died in 1831, which occupies a space adjacent to the north door.

A Selection of Memories from Harrow on the Hill

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Harrow on the Hill

Sparked a Memory for you?

If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

While sorting through some old photographs from the 1950s when I was in England and Europe with two girlfriends from Western Australia, some of the Southlands school were among them. So we did an internet search, and found the reminiscences on this website. This inspired me to write to tell you about the happy times I had as a relief physical education teacher at the school in the summer ...see more
I was at Hillside in JAN 67 - my daughter was born at the end of Feb - I remember sharing a room with two Carol’s - would love to know where they are now.
I went to Southlands as a day girl and have many happy memories of walking around the gardens during break chatting to friends Di, Dinks, Anita and Helen were members of my class. Miss Panter was Headmistress, Miss bowen our maths mistress. I think back on that time as a good time of my life.i used to go riding on a Wednesday afternoon, old Captain Younghusband used to fetch us from school . Paddy Presant was my name.
I attended this school as a weekly border in about 1960-61. At the time Helen Shapiro's first record was number one in the hit parade and Lilian Bailey was out head girl. The school was in a rambling old house and in the evening we spent a lot of time on the common room floor playing 'jacks' on the shiny Lino, an ideal surface for scooping up the little jacks before catching the small ...see more