The Saturday List #357 - The complete list of eateries on Mill Hill Broadway and the financial institutions they replaced and some Mill Hill History

Over the last few years, Mill Hill Broadway has seen a huge number of new caafe's, restaurants and bars. I was discussing this with a friend. I commented that at one point in the 1980's there were fourteen financial institutions on the Broadway. Now there are none, as Nationwide Building society are departing. So lest start with the departed financial institutions. Back in 2009, Audrey Shaw provided a wonderful guest blog, which I updated when she passed away in April 2020. I added pictures of every building in the Broadway in 2020, in the middle of lockdown and some older ones. 

By 2009, the number had declined to 7, the likes of Yorkshire Building Society, Chelsea Builiding Society and five others that I simply can't recall at all had disappeared without trace! Many of the shops that we assumed would always be features of the Broadway are now distant and somewhat anachronistic memories

21 Barclays Bank Ltd

33 Halifax Bdg Soc.

35 Post Office

45 Santander Bank

73/75 H.S B C Bank

125/127 Lloyds T S B

46 Nationwide Bdg Soc

So on to the restaurants/bars etc. There are 28!

We have

North Side of the Broadway

9 The Bridge Tavern

19 Costa Coffee

23 Mill and Brew

27  Koi

45 Joice

51 Simple 

57 Bluebelles

67 Kiyoto

73/75 Food Bank

77 Moroccan Cafe

81 BAW

97/101 Prezzo

103 La Rada

105 Yummies

111 Pizza Hut

113 Gourmet Grill

119 Ananans

123 Hudsons (recently closed)

127 Domino's Pizza

143 The Good Earth

South Side

2 The Mill Hill Tandoori

8/10 Numa

20 Mani and Nicks

26 Broadway Cafe

40 The Pizza People

88 Gails Bakery

90 Yogopink

92 Pizza Express

In Audrey's list from 1959 we had a few less!

North Side

109 White Heather Restaurant

143 The Hunters Horn Restaurant

South Side

2 The New Cafe

There is a picture of the New Cafe on the Wonderful Mempics site

Whilst we are doing nostalgia and the Broadway in the 1950's, there are some nice shots of Mill Hill in this film, well worth a watch. 

Watch Quiet Morning online - BFI Player

At 1.17, there are some nice shots of the junction of Newcombe Park and Lawrence Court and a great film of a trip up the broadway 8.46.

I nipped around the corner, here are some comparison shots today and in 1956. 

Have a great Saturday!