Prospect Place, N2

Road in/near East Finchley, existing between 1825 and now

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

East End was a poor area, appalling near-by middle-class residents with its drunkards, ’godless persons’, and general lack of moral restraint. Prospect Place linked the Hogmarket to East End Road from 1825 and cottages had been built along it by 1841; there were 20 by 1869.

Ten cottages were built on an allotment near the White Lion between 1824 and 1844 and another four in 1846. Holy Trinity church and school were built to serve the growing community. The cottages in the Hogmarket, Chapel Row, and Red Lion Hill in 1851 housed tradesmen, craftsmen, and many labourers. In 1860 Finchley’s increase in population was said to be concentrated in North End and East End, with East End as the most populous part.


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Lived here
   
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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Nower Hill, HA5
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Albert Mews
It is not a gargoyle over the entrance arch to Albert Mews, it is a likeness of Prince Albert himself.

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Christine D Elliott   
Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT   

The Blute Family
My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area.
I attended Ilderton Road School.
Very happy memories of that time.

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Pearl Foster   
Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT   

Dukes Place, EC3A
Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations.

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Dr Paul Flewers   
Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT   

Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street
My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road.

From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous.

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KJH   
Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT   

Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957)
My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden

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The Queens Head
Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place.

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Mike   
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6 Elia Street
When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry.

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Five Bells The first recorded licensee of the Five Bells was in 1751.
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White Lion The White Lion dates from 1700 or even earlier.
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Brim Hill, N2 Brim Hill is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Brompton Grove, N2 Brompton Grove is part of Hampstead Garden Suburb
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Chapel Court, N2 Chapel Court was originally built as Chapel Street and lead in those days to the Great North Road.
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Deanery Close, N2 Deanery Close is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Deansway, N2 Deansway, was planned as part of Hampstead Garden Suburb
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Devon Rise, N2 Devon Rise is in an area of Hampstead Garden Suburb
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Diploma Avenue, N2 Diploma Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Diploma Court, N2 Diploma Court is a road in the N2 postcode area
Diploma Court, N2
Eagans Close, N2 Eagans Close is a road in the N2 postcode area
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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.
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Edmunds Walk, N2 Edmunds Walk is in an area of Hampstead Garden Suburb
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Elm Gardens, N2 Elm Gardens is a road in the N2 postcode area
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Fairlawn Avenue, N2 Fairlawn Avenue was built over the site of two adjacent large properties - Fairlawn House and Cranleigh House.
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Ingram Road, N2 Ingram Road is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Park Road, N2 Park Road is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Prospect Ring, N2 Prospect Ring is a road in the N2 postcode area
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Pulham Avenue, N2 Pulham Avenue was built in the grounds of a house called Elmshurst.
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Sedgemere Avenue, N2 Sedgemere Avenue is named after Sedgemere House which stood on the site.
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Stanley Road, N2 Stanley Road dates from the 1890s.
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Talbot Avenue, N2 Talbot Avenue is a road in the N2 postcode area
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The Walks, N2 The Walks was a medieval drovers track, which skirted the edge of the common and led to the hog market at Market Place.
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Totnes Walk, N2 Totnes Walk, lies in Hampstead Garden Suburb
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Trinity Avenue, N2 Trinity Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Trinity Road, N2 Trinity Road is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Unwin Court, N2 Unwin Court is a block on Beaumont Close.
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Viceroy Parade, N2 Viceroy Parade is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.
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Yardley House, N2 Yardley House is a block on The Bishops Avenue.
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NEARBY PUBS
Bald Faced Stag The Bald Faced Stag was probably an inn from 1738 and licensed from 1790 onwards.
Bald Faced Stag
East Finchley Constitutional Club
East Finchley Constitutional Club
Five Bells The first recorded licensee of the Five Bells was in 1751.
Five Bells
Gertie Brownes
Gertie Brownes
The Five Bells
The Five Bells
The Old White Lion
The Old White Lion
White Lion The White Lion dates from 1700 or even earlier.
White Lion


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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.


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