Summers Row was previously Dunger Place after Henry Dunger, owner of the Flower Pot brewery (1830s-1870s).
Summers Row is a turning off of Summers Lane. That road existed from at least the 18th century as a short cut across the Finchley Common from the High Road to Friern Barnet.
Below it and to the east is a small pocket of woodland called Coppetts Wood.
Where Compton School is now was Finchley sewage farm (1885-1961). Only the manager’s cottage now remains.
Between 1882 and 1922 there was also a small isolation hospital with 18 beds.
