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...and no particular reason why it was these four, other than that they were well spread and interesting.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.04.16 - 6:39 a.m. | #
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What a pleasant way to spend a day, and very enjoyable to read about.
Cornish Cockney | 04.04.16 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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Very interesting article DG and Squares at points North, South, East and West.
Sara | 04.04.16 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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Cadogan Square, particularly number 189, always reminds me of my schooldays. Probably the only poem I ever learnt by heart, possibly for "O" level, was Betjeman's "In Westminster Abbey," a satirical war poem of which I can still remember some lines.
Tim | 04.04.16 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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Thank you DG. A most enjoyable read on a grey Monday morning. I really must get up to Hampstead sometime.
Jo W | 04.04.16 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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A welcome reminder of how good London can look in springtime, particularly when there is someone who knows just how to point the camera.
Malcolm | 04.04.16 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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I lived very near to Arbour Square as a kid and my mum and my sister worked in the Magistrates Court on Aylward Street/East Arbour Square throughout my childhood and young adulthood. I went to numbers of office parties there and so had some familiarity with the cells! My mum would have been completely thrown to have seen the offices in which she worked converted into luxury flats. Wonder what they did with the basement which housed the archives and used to terrify me as a kid. It was reputedly haunted by Mrs Brown the court matron.
Joan
Joan | 04.04.16 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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So the 115 is temporarily using Arbour Square but was a Trolleybus turning circle up to 1959 for late running Commercial Road routes 665, 567 and 569 and had poles and overhead wires circleing.
Agent Z | 04.04.16 - 12:26 p.m. | #
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The school on Central Square is actually called The Henrietta Barnett School, a girls' grammar. I know because I went there.
You were right about the teenage slouching on the tennis courts, though. There are two more down the steps on the west side of the Square which are more hidden and even better for slacking off out of sight of the games mistress. Ahh, great days...
Elaine | 04.04.16 - 12:26 p.m. | #
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In a previous life a long time ago, I sang in the choir at St Judes. Henrietta Barnett used to supply some of the sopranos. So among other things, it was an early opportunity to meet the opposite sex.
Julian Bond | 04.04.16 - 1:37 p.m. | #
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The Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute has been evicted from its co-existence wit the Henrietta Barnett School and has landed in some faceless place in Kingsbury NW9.
Helen D Vecht | 04.04.16 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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Sometimes it good to be square! ;)
Grumpy Anon | 04.04.16 - 6:27 p.m. | #
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I love the Arbour Square flower beds - white, purple and green (the suffragette colours!). And there's a couple of rogue red tulips from a previous planting. I'm glad they haven't been dug out.
By the way, ahem, I think you'll find those pansies are primulas.
GA Annie | 07.04.16 - 10:27 p.m. | #
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It now seems The Institute (formerly sited in Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb) has gone into liquidation.
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/14422030.Future_of_a_Kingsbury_college_hangs_in_the_balance/?ref=ebln
That building in Kingsbury was an access nightmare for a wheelchair user!
Helen D Vecht | 13.04.16 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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