Showing posts with label Centenary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centenary. Show all posts

Wednesday 27 June 2018

If you go to Roe Green on Saturday, you are in for a big surprise


If you have never been to Roe Green Village in Kingsbury you are in for a big surprise if you pop into the Centenary Village Day on Saturday - there really couldn't be a bigger contrast to the blocks of Wembley Park even if the two places were hundreds of miles apart. In fact Roe Green is about three miles from the Stadium.

Roe Green Village in 1920 (courtesy of Brent Archives)
 
Roe Green Village today

 Get there at 12 noon to support the youngster of the Brent Concert Band and either take a picnic or choose from  Caribbean, Indian vegetarian or Greek food while you enjoy the performance.

There will be plenty for children to enjoy including Punch and Judy and children's games and there will be a fly past by a De Havilland Tiger Moth biplane at about 3pm.

Visitors from other parts of Brent will be very welcome, but please travel by public transport (302 bus to the Grove Park stop is the nearest, or Jubilee Line to Kingsbury Station or 183 / 204 bus to the Valley Drive stop, then 10 minute walk across Roe Green Park). 

Background from local historian Philip Grant HERE