Howard Walk, N2

Howard Walk is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

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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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Wellgarth Road, NW11

Added: 10 Dec 2020 23:51 GMT

Wellgarth Road, NW11
I lived at 15 Wellgarth Road with my parents and family from 1956 until I left home in the 70s and continued to visit my mother there until she moved in the early 80s. On the first day we moved in we kids raced around the garden and immediately discovered an air raid shelter that ran right underneath the house which I assume was added in the run-up to WW2. There was a basement room with its own entrance off the garden and right opposite where the air raid shelter emerged. In no time at all up high near the ceiling of this room, we discovered a door which, while we were little enough, we could enter by standing on some item of furniture, haul ourselves in and hide from the grownups. That room was soundproof enough for us kids to make a racket if we wanted to. But not too loud if my dad was playing billiards in the amazing wood-panelled room immediately above. We had no idea that we were living in such an historical building. To us it was just fun - and home!

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Five Bells The first recorded licensee of the Five Bells was in 1751.

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Park Farm Park Farm, Finchley give much of its land to the later Hampstead Garden Surburb.

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NEARBY STREETS

Abbots Gardens, N2 Abbots Gardens is a circular road with an entrance onto East End Road.

Abbots Gardens, N2

Ashburnham Close, N2 Ashburnham Close is a road in the N2 postcode area

Ashburnham Close, N2

Belvedere Court, N2 Belvedere Court is a block on Lyttelton Road.

Belvedere Court, N2

Blandford Close, N2 Blandford Close, was planned as part of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Blandford Close, N2

Brim Hill, N2 Brim Hill is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Brim Hill, N2

Brownlow Court, N2 Brownlow Court can be found on Lyttelton Road.

Brownlow Court, N2

Bute Mews, N2 Bute Mews lies behind Market Place.

Bute Mews, N2

Cedar Drive, N2 Cedar Drive is in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Cedar Drive, N2

Colwyn House, N2 Colwyn House is a block on The Bishops Avenue.

Colwyn House, N2

Cornwood Close, N2 Cornwood Close is a location in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Cornwood Close, N2

Crosby Court, N2 Crosby Court is in an area of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Crosby Court, N2

Deacons Rise, N2 Deacons Rise is in the Hampstead Garden Suburb area

Deacons Rise, N2

Deansway, N2 Deansway, was planned as part of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Deansway, N2

Denison Close, N2 The flats in Denison Close have a modern feel, with horizontal paned casement windows.

Denison Close, N2

Devon Rise, N2 Devon Rise is in an area of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Devon Rise, N2

Eagans Close, N2 Eagans Close is a road in the N2 postcode area

Eagans Close, N2

East End Road, N2 East End Road, linking East End and the southern section of the Great North Road with Church End, was the main east-west road in Finchley.

East End Road, N2

Edeleny Close, N2 Edeleny Close is a location in London.

Edeleny Close, N2

Elmhurst Avenue, N2 Elmhurst Avenue is a road in the N2 postcode area

Elmhurst Avenue, N2

Elmshurst Crescent, N2 Elmshurst Crescent was built after the Second World War.

Elmshurst Crescent, N2

Greenhalgh Walk, N2 Greenhalgh Walk, was planned as part of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Greenhalgh Walk, N2

Gurney Drive, N2 Gurney Drive, was planned as part of Hampstead Garden Suburb

Gurney Drive, N2

Hampstead Heights, N2 Hampstead Heights is a road in the N2 postcode area

Hampstead Heights, N2

Harford Walk, N2 Harford Walk lies within the N2 postal area

Harford Walk, N2

Heath View Close, N2 Heath View Close is a road in the N2 postcode area

Heath View Close, N2

Heath View, N2 Heath View is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Heath View, N2

Hill Rise, NW11 Hill Rise leads north from Falloden Way.

Hill Rise, NW11

Holyoake Walk, N2 Holyoake Walk has brick and render houses with modernist influences.

Holyoake Walk, N2

Homefield Gardens, N2 Homefield Gardens is a road in the N2 postcode area

Homefield Gardens, N2

Kingsley Close, NW11 Kingsley Close is in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Kingsley Close, NW11

Ludlow Way, NW11 Ludlow Way was designed by the architect Crickmer.

Ludlow Way, NW11

Lyttelton Road, N2 Lyttelton Road (and Market Place) formed part of Unwin’s 1911-12 plan for the ‘New (Hampstead Garden) Suburb’

Lyttelton Road, N2

Market Place, N2 Market Place formed part of Unwin’s 1911-12 plan for the ‘New (Hampstead Garden) Suburb’

Market Place, N2

Maurice Walk, N2 Maurice Walk is a road in the northern section of Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Maurice Walk, N2

Maya Road, N2 Maya Road is a road in the N2 postcode area

Maya Road, N2

Neale Close, N2 Neale Close was designed by Butler in 1929.

Neale Close, N2

Oakview Gardens, N2 Oakview Gardens is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Oakview Gardens, N2

Ossulton Way, N2 Ossulton Way rises steeply out of Market Place running northwards to meet East End Road which forms the northern boundary of Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Ossulton Way, N2

Park Farm Close, N2 Park Farm Close is a road in the N2 postcode area

Park Farm Close, N2

Prospect Place, N2 Prospect Place was built in 1825 to link Cuckolds Haven with East End Road.

Prospect Place, N2

Prospect Ring, N2 Prospect Ring is a road in the N2 postcode area

Prospect Ring, N2

Pulham Avenue, N2 Pulham Avenue was built in the grounds of a house called Elmshurst.

Pulham Avenue, N2

Stanley Road, N2 Stanley Road dates from the 1890s.

Stanley Road, N2

Talbot Avenue, N2 Talbot Avenue is a road in the N2 postcode area

Talbot Avenue, N2

The Leys, N2 The Leys is a road in the N2 postcode area

The Leys, N2

Totnes Walk, N2 Totnes Walk, lies in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Totnes Walk, N2

Trinity Avenue, N2 Trinity Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Trinity Avenue, N2

Vivian Way, N2 Vivian Way lies within the N2 postal area

Vivian Way, N2

Widecombe Way, N2 Widecombe Way is in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Widecombe Way, N2

NEARBY PUBS

Five Bells The first recorded licensee of the Five Bells was in 1751.

Five Bells

Papillion Lounge Bar

The Five Bells

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East Finchley

East Finchley is a suburban development, five miles north north-west of Charing Cross.

The land on which East Finchley now stands was once part of the Bishop of London’s hunting ground. More recently, it was home to some grand ’country’ estates of wealthy Londoners, from which several roads take their names (e.g. Summerlee Avenue, Park Hall Road). At one time East Finchley was referred to as ’East End’.

East Finchley underground station, first opened in 1863 by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway, is topped by a famous statue of an archer, created in the Art Deco style, and pointing his arrow towards the other end of the tunnel which starts south of the station and runs all the way to the end of the Northern Line at Morden. This 27.8 km tunnel was for many years the longest in the world. There was originally an arrow at Morden Station to match the archer at East Finchley, but this was stolen not long after the station was opened.

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	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	Cobley’s Farm - 19th century watercolour TUM image id: 1512653314 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley TUM image id: 1527336393 Licence:
Southern entrance to Coldfall Wood (2006). Credit: ElectricRay TUM image id: 1526231136 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Islington Chapel, St Pancras and Islington Cemetery Credit: Mark Kobayashi-Hillary TUM image id: 1526232428 Licence: CC BY 2.0	View towards Central Square Credit: Hampstead Garden Suburb trust TUM image id: 1556568888 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Fortis Green, N2 TUM image id: 1527091150 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead Lane From "Old and New London: Volume 5" (1878) Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1674146482 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Meadway Gate (c.1924) An album of watercolours depicting a variety of Hampstead Garden Suburb scenes was painted between 1923 and 1925 by William Isaac Aston. Credit: William Isaac Aston (1857-1939) TUM image id: 1674232869 Licence:	Nether Street Old London postcard TUM image id: 1603387691 Licence: CC BY 2.0	North End Road, NW11 TUM image id: 1492987726 Licence:	Hampstead Garden Suburb from Willifield Way (1914) Golders Green crematorium can be seen in the background Credit: William Whitehead Ratcliffe/Tate TUM image id: 1657883252 Licence:	Bute Mews Credit: Godfrey and Barr TUM image id: 1658403397 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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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.
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Bute Mews
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