Those of you who followed this blog during the first days of lockdown last year may remember my post about The Elms, a rather grand house in Fitzroy Park. It had been in a sad state of disrepair in the 1990s when I first came across it (indeed, it had got onto the ‘buildings at …
Fitzroy Park
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 Farm
This is Millfield Lane, now a delightfully shady path running up the eastern side of the heath from Highgate West Hill , past the Ladies Bathing Pond, to Kenwood. But, way back, it formed the boundary between the Kenwood Estate and Fitzroy Farm. On the 1940 map above (found on the excellent London Inheritance – …