Background
 Golders Green remains the centre of Jewish and Japanese community in London. The Orthodox community is especially strong. The area is known for its semi detached, detached and terraced houses whilst Hampstead Garden Suburb has architecturally designed buildings.
The phrase Golders it has been claimed originates from a local family of Goodyear, and Green refers to the fields, which lay on either side of the road leading to Hampstead.
The area was an element of the old parish and manor of Hendon and before the middle of the eighteenth century was made up of forests which were cleaned up, the area was then made into farms.
 The core residents were farmers, labourers and occupiers of large country homes. The introduction of the Northern Line in 1905 significantly changed the face of Golders Green. Trains passed under Hampstead Heath to surface in the almost intact Golders Green fields. This caused a boom in property in the area, and the population expanded. House prices remained affordable, and the Underground began to encouraged suburban living in the area.
Establishment began setting up in the area, like Golders Greens Crematorium, the Hippodrome, which opened in 1914 and was host to the BBC Radio Concert Orchestra, and the Ivy House, which was the residence of well-known ballet dancer Anna Pavlova until her death in 1931. The Ivy House was then sold to the Industrial Orthopaedic Society and then passed into the hands of the New College of Speech and Drama in 1955, and became a memorial to Pavlova in 1974. The entire area has now been completely built over with the exclusion of the stunning Golders Hill Park.
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