please empty your brain below
This brings back memories of some kind people in Totteridge many, many years ago. As a teenager I was a keen aeromodeller and one summer day my free flight plane disappeared up out of sight in a thermal.
A few days later I had a letter from someone in Totteridge saying that my plane had landed in their back garden (we had no phone at home but my name and address was on the plane). So it was just a matter of cycling to their house from my home near Watford, dismantling the plane, having a drink of orange juice and cycling back home with everything packed into a box on my back.
Much too late to say thank you again to those finders but it did mean a lot to me then.

popartist | 13.10.13 - 9:50 a.m. | #

So close to where I grew up (near Burnt Oak), but a whole world apart!
Must do the 251 route myself, now I know where it goes!

CornishCockney | 13.10.13 - 11:25 a.m. | #

I estimated that this fascinating piece would only attract three comments (living diametrically opposite in South London I had simply no idea that this enclave existed). Sadly I was proved correct. However, you have inspired me to visit.

Ken | 14.10.13 - 8:04 a.m. | #

Only three comments? We can't have that Ken. :-P

DG, if and when you do walk the Dollis Valley Greenway, be sure to wear waterproof shoes/boots as the upper reaches tend to get *very* waterlogged.

THC | 14.10.13 - 9:54 a.m. | #

Not only swimming pools, but a private golf course at this house.
http://goo.gl/maps/PkcVJ
(this link from IE, might not work in chrome (scroll down a bit))


Wonder who lives there?

Karl, Dover | 14.10.13 - 8:38 p.m. | #

DG we must stop 'meeting' like this. I took the 251 from my friend's flat in Whetstone to get to Mill Hill, thence to Harrow and onto Heathrow, all by local bus, on Sunday to come here to Australia on holiday. The 251 is a very handy way to get to see 'the posh bit' and that pub The Orange Tree is very nice. I do wonder how many residents use the bus though.

Stephen | 15.10.13 - 12:07 p.m. | #











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