East End Road, N3

East End Road was originally the route from the hamlet of Church End Finchley to the old Great North Road when it ran through Muswell Hill.

Finchley Central

Although apparently not so named until the late 19th century, it probably dated from the 14th-century growth of East End.

The road has had various names such as Manor Lane (19th century) and Finchley Road (18th century). In the medieval period a triangle of waste, called Hunts Green (1437), which stretched from Stanley Road to the Junction of Church Lane, was the location of the first hamlet of East End Finchley (1365).

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

MARY RUSHTON-BEALES

Willifield Way, NW11

Added: 25 Jan 2021 17:58 GMT

MY GRANDMA GREW UP HERE - 100 WILLIFIELD WAY
MY GRANDMA WINIFRED AND HER BROTHERS ERIC AND JEFF LIVED AT 100 WILLIFIELD WAY. THEY WERE PART OF THE HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. GRANDMA ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT WILLIFIELD WAY AND HER LIFE IN HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB WITH GREAT AFFECTION. SHE WAS CONVINCED THAT THEY HAD BETTER EDUCATION BECAUSE THEY LIVED THERE. NOT LONG AGO MY BROTHER AND I TOOK THE TRAIN TO THIS PART OF LONDON AND WALKED DOWN THE ROAD. THE HOUSE IS STILL THERE

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Tim Stevenson

The Bohemia

Added: 16 Nov 2021 18:03 GMT

Pub still open
The Bohemia survived the 2020/21 lockdowns and is still a thriving local social resource.

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Finchley Central

Finchley Central is a tube station which covers the central part of Finchley - an area formerly called Church End.

Finchley formed an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, becoming a municipal borough in 1933, and has been part of Greater London since 1965.

The main road runs on a north-south axis, and is called Regents Park Road from the North Circular Road until it reaches the station, where the name changes to Ballards Lane. Its heart is the ancient district around the St Mary’s Church, where the imposing tower of Pardes House (formally Christ’s College Finchley), is a landmark. There is a public library, Church End Library and Finchley police station. Along Ballards Lane, close to the station, is a retail district with some Victorian and Edwardian shoping parade as well as modern shops including Tesco.

To the southeast, along East End Road are two institutions of note Avenue House home to the Finchley Society, and a Jewish cultural centre the Sternberg Centre. South, along Regents Park Road is College Farm the last farm in Finchley, and a statue, referred to locally as ’The Naked Lady’, but more properly called La Delivrance. Victoria Park is the home of Finchley Carnival, a large fun fair held every year in July, dating back to 1905.

Finchley Central station opened on 22 August 1867 as part of the Great Northern Railway’s line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of London Underground’s Northern Heights plan, Northern line trains started serving the station in 1940 and main line passenger services ended in 1941.

The station was originally named ’Finchley and Hendon’.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Constructing Golders Green station (c. 1904) Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1660648864 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Dollis Brook Viaduct The viaduct is the highest point on the London Underground between Mill Hill East and Finchley Central stations Credit: 150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com TUM image id: 1624893326 Licence:	Eton College Estate was the land beneath modern Temple Fortune. The Estate, which consisted in 1828 of 315 acres, originated in grants of land by Bela, widow of Austin the mercer, in 1259 and by William de Pavely and his wife in 1273. TUM image id: 1637236470 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Claigmar Vineyard, Finchley (1921) Remembered in a few local street names such as Vines Avenue, the Claigmar Vineyards were begun by the Kay family in 1874. They not only produced 100 tons of grapes per year but also a quarter of a million cucumbers. During the 1920s, the vineyard was finally built over. Credit: Britain From Above/Historic England TUM image id: 1527242051 Licence:	Lyttelton Playing Fields A dispute between Finchley Urban District Council and Hampstead Garden Suburb as to whether the Lyttelton Playing Fields were to be exempt from building was settled by a Public Enquiry in 1931 and the lands conveyed to Finchley UDC in 1933. Credit: Wiki Commons/Memespring TUM image id: 1658403965 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Henly’s Corner garage. Many London junctions are named after pubs, garages and other commercial sites which are no longer there, but the names persist. TUM image id: 1603121810 Licence:	Decoy Farm on the Hendon/Temple Fortune boundary was painted circa 1890 by Louise Surrey. The farmhouse was an 18th-century building, which took its name from a nearby pond used as a duck decoy. The farmland was destroyed with the building of the North Circular Road in 1925. The building was demolished in 1935. A bricked-up window in the painting indicates an attempt to reduce window taxes paid on a residence introduced in the 18th century. Credit: Louise Surrey TUM image id: 1692103869 Licence:	Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum, Finchley. Credit: Alexander ?aj?yc TUM image id: 1526486240 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Finchley Golf Club bathed in brilliant sunshine after snow (2021) Credit: IG/@seftelegram TUM image id: 1630931219 Licence:	Cobley’s Farm - 19th century watercolour TUM image id: 1512653314 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Officers Mess at Inglis Barracks, Mill Hill East. Inglis Barracks was part of the local landscape between 1904 and 2012 when the site was redeveloped for housing. Credit: Mill Hill Preservation Society TUM image id: 1629810196 Licence:	La Délivrance (photographed 2006) This statue at Henly’s Corner, Finchley was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne, when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914. It is the work of French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume (1867-1942) and was originally called ’La Victoire’. It depicts a naked female figure standing on tip-toe with both feet on a bronze hemisphere. She lifts her face to the sky and holds both arms aloft, with a sword in her right hand with the title ’Délivrance’ embossed on the hilt. Credit: Wikicommons/Martin Addison TUM image id: 1603120651 Licence:	The Artsdepot, Nether Street Credit: Grim23 TUM image id: 1526150227 Licence: CC BY 2.0	View towards Central Square Credit: Hampstead Garden Suburb trust TUM image id: 1556568888 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Gaumont Finchley (1937) In north Finchley, the Gaumont opened in 1937 and closed in 1980, before being demolished in 1987. TUM image id: 1681222354 Licence:

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Claigmar Vineyard, Finchley (1921) Remembered in a few local street names such as Vines Avenue, the Claigmar Vineyards were begun by the Kay family in 1874. They not only produced 100 tons of grapes per year but also a quarter of a million cucumbers. During the 1920s, the vineyard was finally built over.
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