Here’s a few more photograph comparisons of Ealing, West London, this time of Northfields Avenue. Again the old photos are from Britain in Old Photographs and the new ones I took a few weeks ago. These all show the junction of Mayfield Avenue and Northfields Avenue.
This shopping parade (above) was built in 1904 and Northfields avenue was named after the Great North Field that it was built through. It was again the arrival of the tram on the Uxbridge road that caused the area around this parade to be developed. The top photo was taken c. 1907 and the photo below c. 1913.
Lovely Old Tree 
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March 2, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Mike
Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content!
March 23, 2009 at 12:02 am
Dawn
Great to see picture of Ealing, I used to live at Northfields Avenue 40 years ago.
March 23, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Katherine
Thanks for your comment – it certainly is changing a lot! I wanted to get these pictures before building work changes it beyond recognition!
April 1, 2012 at 12:13 pm
anne
like it? I LOVE IT! being the owner of the now laundry and seeing it’s origins is absolutely amazing. do you know if the site was ever a house? or was it a part of the original shopping parade?
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April 1, 2012 at 12:15 pm
anne
correction of email address
April 1, 2012 at 1:09 pm
anne
ILove it, being the owner of the laundry photographed, the comparison has made me want to restore to it original decor. do you know what was there before the shopping parade? was the site originally residential or was the shopping parade newly built?
May 18, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Katherine
Hello! Sorry for the delay. Great to see locals rediscovering the history of the road!
To be honest I can’t find out exactly whether the shop was originally a house when it was built – probably with a bit more local history research I could. But as the top photo was only taken three years after the parade was built, it looks to me like the road was more residential, but perhaps with some corner shops. In that picture, what was the laundry still looks like a shop of some kind – so perhaps that building always has been!
By 1913 (the lower photo), it seems that plenty more shops have been set up in the street. So I’d guess that the laundry building is one of the oldest ones! 🙂
July 6, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Kath
Hello, can you please tell me if I can buy the photos anywhere?
September 1, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Katherine
Hi. The old photographs were taken from a book series ‘Britain in Old Photographs’, so you would have to contact the publishers Alan Sutton Publishing or Budding Books to find out where they got them from. Although I’d imagine they are in the public domain as they’re so old, but don’t quote me on that! 😛
January 5, 2020 at 11:06 am
Brian Gerrard
J Parker the bakers were there back in the 50’s and had been for many years, best bread for miles around. Northfields later was almost taken over after I left living in Northfields in the early 60’s by denominations from other countries. In my time it was quite a wonderful place to live and so nice to see J Parker still thriving.
March 26, 2020 at 12:24 pm
ceejay
The area is Northfields but the road is Northfield Avenue (not Northfields) – amazing how many supposed locals get it wrong.