Illustrated above, L to R: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Pinner [photo: The Pinner Association]; 136 and 230 buses wait to enter service from Harrow Weald LT Garage, July 1968 [photo: Peter Gomm collection, from 'Red-RF' website]; Amber twist vase produced by Whitefriars Glass, Wealdstone [photo: 'The 20th Century Forum' website]; St. Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill [photo: Darryl Chamberlain].
Welcome to this web site. It is my hope that it becomes a primary source of electoral data for the area now covered by the London Borough of Harrow.
The periods covered are:
1894-1933: The Urban District of Harrow-on-the-Hill, the Urban District of Wealdstone and the Rural District of Hendon.
1934-1953: The Urban District of Harrow.*
1954-1963: The Municipal Borough of Harrow.*
1964-1977: The London Borough of Harrow.
1978-2001: The London Borough of Harrow.
2002-2012: The London Borough of Harrow.
Forthcoming Elections: Expected elections in Harrow, 2012-2015.
The information and data presented on this site has been accumulated as a result of intermittent research over a period of more than 33 years and were occasionally published in the Harrow area in the form of short print-run pamphlets and books. Between publication dates I have frequently corrected, revised and added to the contents. It now seems an appropriate time to make this information available on the Internet to a wider audience of historians, researchers and political 'anoraks'.
Within each section are links to Adobe pdf or Microsoft xls files, giving access to the pages of interest from the original books (hence the presence of page numbers). It will be noticed that I have relied upon the style employed by the late F.W.S. Craig in his scholarly series of books, British Parliamentary Election Results. No apologies for that - in my opinion it is the clearest way of setting out consecutive results for the same electoral area.
I have also scanned a selection of historic election addresses and leaflets from my collection. These have been uploaded as jpeg files: a click on the appropriate link should open the file and provide the illustration in a new window. I would welcome the opportunity of including images from other sources if they are sent to me - either as jpeg files or as originals for me to scan before carefully returning.
I am someone with strong partisan political opinions; however I have endeavoured to always present the information dispassionately and without bias. Please feel free to use the data for any purpose you please, however I would be grateful if you acknowledged the source. Corrections, suggestions or observations? Then please send me an e-mail.
Colin Gray
* The contribution of Stephen Giles-Medhurst during the initial research of these periods in the early 1980s is gratefully acknowledged.