On the south side of the allotments that you saw last night is a very exclusive row of four 1950s houses – looking north over the allotments and south over Millfield Lane – and, right now, awash in roses. (If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog as …
Fitzroy Park – The Elms, The Hexagon, the allotments – and a post box…
So, to continue our survey of Fitzroy Park…. The Elms is a bit of a mystery. According to the trusty Highgate Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Proposals it was on English Heritage’s building at risk register for some years – when we were cycling past back in the late 1990s. It was then bought, by, …
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Fitzroy Park 1
I have been promising you a trip down Fitzroy Park for some time, so here we go – but this could be a longish trip over several days…. Back in the 18th century Fitzroy Park was the carriage drive up through the Fitzroy Farm Estate – see my blog on Fitzroy Farm a few weeks …
Just a walk
I had intended tonight to take you on a trip down Fitzroy Park, as promised some blogs ago. But when I went to put it together I realised that the videos I had taken were really not telling you a lot. So now that my phone has been to the doctor and is feeling a …
Weekend view
Because it is the weekend and because my phone is still feeling somewhat constipated (going in for treatment tomorrow…) here are just few snapshots from a sunny Saturday afternoon. This was on my way down what I regard as my personal path from Hampstead Lane onto the heath. At the bottom just before you emerge …
Back to trees…
Well, more bark than trees really. I saw this rather splendid trunk as I was walking through Kenwood yesterday, looking to me rather like a massive Yale key. This one comes from a few weeks ago in Springett’s Wood – a lady (or maybe just a tree) clad in crushed gun metal grey Chinese silk …