Hampstead Heights, N2

Hampstead Heights is a road in the N2 postcode 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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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

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

Newmarket Farm existed until 1855.

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

Five Bells

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

Benedict Way, N2 Benedict Way is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Benedict Way, N2

Brackenbury Road, N2 Brackenbury Road is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Brackenbury Road, N2

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

Brim Hill, N2

Buckland House, N2 Buckland House is a building on Thomas More Way.

Buckland House, N2

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

Cecilia Close, N2

Church Lane, N2 Church Lane runs from East End Road to the Great North Road.

Church Lane, N2

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

Clare Close, N2

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

Claybrook Close, N2

Cranbourne Court, N2 Cranbourne Court is a block on Briar Close.

Cranbourne Court, 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

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

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

Elm Gardens, 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

Hamilton Road, N2 Hamilton Road is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Hamilton Road, 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

Helen Close, N2 Helen Close is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Helen Close, N2

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

Hill Rise, NW11

Hill Top, NW11 Hill Top contains some of the earliest building in the area.

Hill Top, NW11

Hobbs Green, N2 Hobbs Green is a road in the N2 postcode area

Hobbs Green, N2

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

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

Howard Walk, N2

Hutchings Walk, NW11 Hutchings Walk, designed in the mid 1930s, is an enclave of striking Moderne houses with pitched roofs.

Hutchings Walk, NW11

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

Juliana Close, N2

King Street, N2 King Street was named in 1920 but existed since Napoleonic times.

King Street, N2

Leopold Road, N2 Leopold Road is one of the streets of London in the N2 postal area.

Leopold Road, N2

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

Leslie Road, N2

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

Ludlow Way, NW11

Manor Park Road, N2 Manor Park Road is a road in the N2 postcode area

Manor Park Road, 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

New Trinity Road, N2 New Trinity Road is a road in the N2 postcode area

New Trinity Road, 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

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

Pulham Avenue, N2

Sedgemere Avenue, N2 Sedgemere Avenue is named after Sedgemere House which stood on the site.

Sedgemere Avenue, N2

St Mary’s Green, N2 St Mary’s Green is a road in the N2 postcode area

St Mary’s Green, 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

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.

The Walks, N2

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

Trinity Avenue, N2

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

Trinity Road, N2

NEARBY PUBS

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

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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	Golders Green crossroads (1905) Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1489497573 Licence:	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:	Kenwood House (2023) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1695301134 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:

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Bute Mews
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Finchley in 1814
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