East Finchley

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Post to the west East Finchley

Post to the east East Finchley Station

Post to the south Hampstead Garden Suburb


Abbots Gardens


Brim Hill

Chandos Road
Birthplace of Jerry Springer.

Church Lane
Holy Trinity 1845-6 by A. Salvin, who lived at East Finchley and was Vicar's Warden. Set in quite a large leafy churchyard. A modest effort for a humble neighbourhood, which when it was built was still more of a village than a suburb. 
Church Hall - now a community centre. the main part is dated 1913 in  brick with mullioned windows.

Deansway

East End Road
165-167 Five Bells. Extended, detached, mock-Georgian pub set back behind a car park and a garden with a children's play area. conservatory popular with diners and is used for functions.
Farmhouse of Park Farm and an 18th barn. Rebuilt, opposite the cricket ground.  Old cement on l723 rain heads. Gone
Nazareth House. Home for the elderly.  This is on the site of a mid-c19 house in its own grounds and this decent plain brick two-storey wing still remains behind the 1970s buildings. It has a prominent slate-hung pyramidal steeple. 
273 North London Ismaili Centre, 1996. 
250 Bobath Centre for children with cerebral palsy.  Originally built as National school in 1847 by A.Salvin, the architet also of Holy Trinity East Finchley.  and Adapted in 1993. 
Five Bells.  An 1860s building of an older inn dating from 1812.

Elmfield Road
Pillar box by A. Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.  Foundry; Britannia  Foundry and Engineering Works.  Anonymous  Lower posting aperture  is  Large  19 inches in diameter.  1884

Elmhurst Avenue
1 layered front with a gable of concrete blocks By Newton Clarke, c. 1989. .

Gurney Drive

Hamilton Road
Bishop Douglas’s RC High School. Behind are earlier buildings .

Howard Walk
Buildings with 1935-6 sun trap windows by Crickmer. classic 1930s semi-detached 

King Street,
Pillar box by A. Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.  Foundry; Britannia Foundry and Engineering Works.  Anonymous manufacturer. The  Lower posting aperture  is a Large  one of 19 inch diameter . 1884

Long Lane
Market Place
This was seen by Unwin as the commercial focus of Hampstead Garden Suburb but it has  only discordant quadrants of 1930s parades

Neale Close

The Causeway
East Finchley Train staff mess room.
Trinity Road
Pillar boxes by A. Handyside & Co. Ltd. Derby & London.  Foundry; Britannia Foundry and Engineering Works. Anonymous  High posting aperture , which is large  of 19 inch diameter.  1879 - c.1884

Widecombe Way
76-78 by G.B. Drury & R.F. Reekie. Built in 1936 as a  compromise between International Modernism and traditional forms. 


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