A Reservoir, Flats, a Cockerel and a Café: Extra from my stroll in Highgate on Sunday nineteenth November. You’ll be able to learn the earlier half at Church buildings, Flats, Homes & a Pineapple – Highgate 1989
Past these massive red-brick buildings that line the north aspect of Hornsey Lane is the grass coated reservoir constructed by the New River Firm and simply past that throughout Tile Kiln Lane is their Engine Home relationship from round 1859. Now referred to as the Pump Home the location contains the bottom of a giant chimney for a steam-driven pump. This reservoir and pump and others within the space turned needed as increased areas in Hampstead and Highgate had been developed. The regionally listed constructing has extra not too long ago been transformed to residential use.
A number of yards additional east I crossed the Archway Bridge, the place maybe surprisingly I didn’t take any photos of the view down the highway. I did take three pictures of one of many decorative lamposts however haven’t digitised any of those. The 2 on the east finish appear moderately just like a few of these on the Thames embankment with entwined fish swimming round them. About 5 years in the past the pretty low decorative fence on either side of the bridge has been augmented with a tall steel fence to stop individuals leaping to their dying on the highway beneath.
Additional east of the bridge is Northwood Corridor, an artwork deco block constructed as “extremely fashionable labour-saving” luxurious flats in 1935 and designed in a cross form by George Edward Vibrant who had earlier labored as an assistant to Herbert Baker, Edwin Lutyens and Man Dawber. The just about 200 flats had been set in in depth gardens with “a restaurant for residents, visitor rooms and out of doors facilities together with a tennis court docket. Indoors, there have been uniformed porters obtainable 24/7 and an non-compulsory maids’ service charged at hourly charges. In kitchens, double door cabinets opening onto the corridors had been used to offer extra providers together with garbage assortment, shoe cleansing and supply of papers, meals and even cooked meals.”
Sat on a hill overlooking London the residents on all however its floor flooring have in depth views throughout London ‘on a transparent day so far as Crystal Palace‘ and the constructing is a landmark seen from a lot of north London.
This sculpture was fee by and paid for by the architect of the LCC’s Ashmount Faculty, H.T. Cadbury-Brown. In-built 1954-6 it was an essential early instance of an all-glass curtain wall building.
The cockerel now stands on prime of the wall exterior the Whitehall Park Faculty, constructed on a part of the Ashmount website with the remainder getting used for housing.
Promoting for Nautilus Health and Tree Surgical procedure on Crouch Finish Hill, instantly south of the previous Crouch Finish Station – the place the outdated observe is now the Parkland Stroll. I puzzled what the massive letters BSG on the wall stood for however might give you no wise answer. I feel the image is wanting down Stroud Inexperienced Highway.
The Crescent Café was in a part of the previous Crouch Finish Station buildings. A Cafe continues right here – with a reputation change to Sercem Cafe for a few years earlier than going again to being Crescent Cafe once more till round 2021-2 and is now Merro. The station most likely dates from when the road opened in 1867; the station closed in 1954 however items visitors alongside the road continued till 1970.
The Café was closed on the Sunday I took this image. At proper you possibly can see one of many tall brick pillars on prime a a curved wall that go beside and throughout the bridge throughout the previous railway. I’d photographed the cafe and these twelve years earlier however hadn’t put the wall image on-line.
I turned north up Crouch Finish Hill and photographed one other mansion block, Monkridge, only a few yards additional on. This was apparently constructed between 1912 and 1935 with round 40 flats and a decrease constructing. The 2 blocks are very related in design with this being barely massive really on Crouch Finish Hill and the opposite behind on Haslemere Highway.
The ultimate submit on this stroll will comply with shortly.
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