As ice and snow bring Harrow’s roads to a standstill this week, February marked the 18th anniversary of the death of champion skier and Old Harrovian, James Riddell MBE. Whilst most of our borough are battening down the hatches and turning up the heating, Riddell would no doubt have delighted in seeing Harrow’s streets hidden […]

Nestled between rows of houses on streets named after British castles is Earlsmead Stadium, rumoured to lie atop an ancient battlefield where once the hundred of Gore fought a bloody battle in the ninth century.  Although the drums of war have not been beaten in the field for centuries, when Saturday comes, drums can still be heard, […]

A few weeks ago, Harrow FC were featured in a Harrow Online article – one exploring their long history of ups and downs, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first and the present. With that in mind, it seems only fair that the borough’s other football team, who consider Harrow FC their rivals, should […]

With the football season well underway, there may be no better time than the present to look at Harrow’s premier football team – a long-standing staple in the local community, and the source of, perhaps surprisingly, a number of successes over the years. Founded in 1933, initially under the name Roxonian F.C., the club quickly […]