Capital Ring – South Kenton to Hendon: Monday twenty seventh August 2018 was August Financial institution Vacation, which for a few years meant if I used to be in London I used to be in Notting Hill for the carnival. However I feel the final time I went was in 2012, once I went on Kids’s Day after which wrote “both I’m getting too previous for it, or maybe carnival is altering, and this yr I discovered it somewhat tough. So I went on the Sunday, stayed round three hours and didn’t actually need to return for the large day. So I didn’t.“
Since then I’ve been out of London in a number of years and within the others I’ve thought of going to carnival once more, however determined as an alternative to exit for a household stroll. And in 2018 with my spouse we walked the part of the Capital Ring from South Kenton Station to Hendon Station.
The stroll itself is barely 6.2 miles, however strolling to the station on the finish and the form of wanderings that every one photographers take pleasure in it obtained somewhat longer. I’m not the form of walker for whom a stroll is a route march from A to B, however slightly somebody who likes to go the place his eyes lead him searching for attention-grabbing views and locations.
Not like some sections of the Ring that are virtually all woods, fields and timber this one has a variety of various areas, all of some curiosity, starting with South Kenton Station itself, the Windermere pub subsequent door and the entire space of Nineteen Thirties improvement.
I don’t suppose my two footage of The Church of the Ascension actually do that attention-grabbing 1957 constructing by J Harold Gibbons justice, however they do give some concept of how uncommon it’s.
We had the information to the entire stroll round London by Colin Saunders which saves having to hold maps and offers often clear route descriptions in addition to just a few snippets of attention-grabbing data – resembling the truth that this pond on the highest of Barn Hill was part of an enormous landscaping mission by Humphrey Repton, a lot of which was lined by housing within the Nineteen Twenties and 30s and contains Wembley Stadium.
From right here we had been somewhat let down by the stroll directions and ended up wandering round somewhat misplaced in Fryent Nation Park, however ultimately with the assistance of the map and somewhat guesswork discovered the right exit.
The stroll continues by means of quite a few suburban streets, not with out some curiosity, ultimately coming to Church Stroll. Kingsbury does in fact have some outstanding structure however this lies a long way off the route. Happily I’ve photographed it on different events.
There are two St Andrew’s church buildings a brief distance aside. The ‘new’ church is slightly bigger and was truly constructed round six miles away in Wells Avenue Marylebone in 1844-7 and moved right here stone by stone in 1931-3. I haven’t posted an image of this Grade II* constructing by S Daukes because it simply appeared to me one other Victorian gothic church. In all probability I might have been extra impressed had it been open and I may have seen the inside. A brief distance away is the previous St Andrew’s, a slightly extra quaint constructing with a Grade I itemizing, relationship from the Twelfth-Thirteenth century although with some nineteenth century restorations.
St Andrews Previous Churchyard, now left to nature as a ‘Web site of Borough Significance for Nature Conservation‘ can also be stuffed with curiosity, with at least 5 Grade II listed monuments and tombstones together with this one for “Timothy Wetherilt (d.1741). Portland gravestone with higher reduction of cherubs amid rays, set between auricular scrolls beneath an higher cornice enriched with egg and dart mouldings.”
A brief stroll (with some deviation to a backyard centre for its bogs) took us to the Welsh Harp – Brent Reservoir, in-built 1835 to provide water for the Regents Canal which had opened in 1820. It obtained its title from a close-by pub and each pub and lake had been for a few years a preferred leisure vacation spot for Londoners. In 1948 the rowing occasions for the Olympics had been held right here, whereas for 2012 Eton School supplied its Dorney Lake, accomplished in 2006 costing the school £17 million, although we paid by means of Olympic funding for the end tower, a brand new bridge and an upgraded strategy highway and extra.
On the east shore of the lake was Barnet Council’s West Hendon Property, bought off to builders and now West Hendon Waterside. The nice and well-loved council property with 680 properties in first rate situation was bought for 1 / 4 of its worth to Barratt who describe it as “170 hectares of gorgeous inexperienced environment overlooking the Welsh Harp reservoir” (see prime image.) A few of the council property was nonetheless occupied, overshadowed by new towers with a crane looming over. The event will lead to extra properties, however few might be social housing, and the so-called inexpensive properties are past attain of the present residents, with many most likely purchased and left empty by abroad property traders.
We walked previous what was a powerful Nineteen Thirties cul-de-sac once I photographed it in 1993, however rather less so now because the distinctive steel home windows with curved glazing on the bays have been exchange by double glazing, although this should make the occupants slightly extra snug.
We walked on to Hendon, stopping for an ice-cream at Hendon Park Cafe, “the primary kosher park café to open up within the UK” and admiring Hendon Park Holocaust Memorial Backyard and the buildings arond Hendon’s Central Circus earlier than catching a prepare on our method residence.
Extra footage on My London Diary at Capital Ring: South Kenton to Hendon.
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