Arthur J. Reynolds
, Mayor of HendonSitter in 5 portraits
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 18 May 1937
NPG x152928
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Joanna Biddolph
19 January 2019, 01:26
This is my grandfather and I have one of these photographs. I also have a portrait in oils, a quarter the size of the full size portrait of him that hangs in Hendon Town Hall. The portraits were painted by Ernest Moore RA and appeared in a portrait exhibition of which I have the catalogue. He was mayor of Hendon from 1935 to 1936 and 1936 to 1937 and therefore served under three kings, proclaiming a coronation - and the abdication - from the balcony of the Hendon Town Hall. He served as a sharpshooter in the Boer War. He was a builder and built many large family houses and some flats in Golders Green, Hendon and Hampstead; he was the first builder on the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Many of his houses and flats still survive; a few were lost to WWI bomb damage; none of them is affordable by me. As a young councillor, he chaired the committee that raised the funds to build the Grade II listed Golders Green Clock Tower War Memorial that stands in the middle of a busy junction at Golders Green. His daughter, my mother, became a Surrey county councillor; his son-in-law, my father, was a Woking borough councillor; I was recently elected a councillor in the London Borough of Hounslow. His father Jabez Reynolds junior was a builder, building in north London and Brighton and Hove including the Grade II listed St Martin's church on the Lewes Road. His grandfather, Jabez Reynolds senior, built extensively in Brighton and Hove - about 1,000 houses, four churches and the very large workhouse which is Grade II listed and now used as Brighton General Hospital; many of his houses are Grade II listed including both Palmeira Mansions blocks, Adelaide Mansions, Medina Villas and others.