please empty your brain below
Given the money, I doubt if I would live in Totteridge. Yes, it's picture postcard beautiful, but it has no shops. Although maybe if I was that rich, I would have staff who would go to Waitress for me.

Malcolm of Kent | 28.10.23 - 9:46 a.m. | #

Malcolm, I’ll happily go to Waitress the musical for you.

Nick | 28.10.23 - 10:29 a.m. | #

Fascinating post Diamond Geezer
very interesting that these old stones survive but are kept in such a bizarre way - the Weald Stone, for example on its side. Both deserve more respect and in the case of the Wealdstone to be upright and in its own place so it can better seen and appreciated

Le Ver | 28.10.23 - 12:03 p.m. | #

It never occurred to me that there was an actual whet stone in Whetstone

Caroline | 28.10.23 - 2:01 p.m. | #

At the time of its renaming (1897), Harrow & Wealdstone was the closest station to The Weald Stone. Headstone Lane only opened in February 1913, after the London North Western Railway added the suburban electric lines.

Julian Walker | 28.10.23 - 4:26 p.m. | #

Might Leytonstone qualify as a third?

The Wikipedia article refers to a milestone mounted on an older piece of rock.

dg writes: see 2022 blogpost

Bernard | 28.10.23 - 7:38 p.m. | #

LEYTONSTONE should qualify. The name means Leyton-at -the - stone ( just as Ingatestone elsewhere in Essex means Ing-at-the stone
The stone is still there at the junction of A11 and A113.

dg writes: see 2022 blogpost

Crispy | 29.10.23 - 8:42 a.m. | #

I've changed the second word in the post so Leytonstone no longer counts.

But yes, otherwise it would.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.10.23 - 11:51 p.m. | #

I used to live in Harrow Weald until 2005, the pub was called The Weald Stone Inn, which made a lot of sense as a pub name... so I'm surprised it hadn't always been called that

Herned | 30.10.23 - 10:14 a.m. | #











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