DO YOU REMEMBER: Looking back at bustling Ruislip centre as it was in the 1990s

This month’s photo was taken in April 1994, and depicts the centre of Ruislip as it appeared 29 years ago.

A part of the historic county of Middlesex until its abolition in 1965, Ruislip’s first historical mention was as the manor of a Saxon noble by the name of Wulfward White, during the time of Edward the Confessor.

In the 1086 Domesday Book, the area appears as Rislepe, thought to mean ‘leaping place on the river where rushes grow’. For centuries afterwards, it remained as a village separate from the rest of London, until the 19th century, when urbanisation started to creep in.

It then became part of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District, until this was merged with several other nearby districts to form the London Borough of Hillingdon in 1965.

Do you have any historic photos of Ruislip or Northwood as they were in previous decades? Please send them to us at reporter@mynewsmag.co.uk and they could feature in a future edition of the magazine.

Photo Credit: Ron Hann