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Dist:0.1km north<br/>Shows the location of [[891810]].
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.1km north<br/>This alley which runs between Hampstead High Street and Well Walk was the route along which people seeking the clean and cleansing waters of the famous chalybeate well, a short way to the east, would carry their flasks. Once lined with lowly cottages and crowded with washing lines and children playing hopscotch, it is now has bijou shops with highly desirable accommodation above and yet retains a friendly community spirit to which this popular Sunday bric-a-brac stall contributes.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.2km north<br/>See [[891763]].
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Royal Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and Home was said to have been established in 1829 as a home in 1862 at Frognal House. In 1869 it moved to this new building at nos. 96-116 Fitzjohn's Avenue, designed by Edward Ellis. In 1871 two rooms served as a school, attended by 60 girls of all ages, whose subjects included domestic ones to prepare them for their future 'situations' as household servants. These orphans' asylums, as they were called, catered for the huge numbers of destitute children in Victorian Britain but the offspring of 'deserving' fathers such as soldiers and sailors attracted most attention (and royal patronage). Nevertheless this place always gives me a sense of sadness for the children who might have preferred to remain with their families rather than be institutionalized.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Shows the location of [[891763]].
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Tucked away down an alley but well-known to local residents.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Shows the location of [[843356]]; and is the post office mentioned in [[849000]].
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Taken from western end of Mews looking east.
©Peter Holmes
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The early morning hush of a Sunday in Hampstead is broken by the clatter of hooves as a troop of police horses trot up the High Street on their exercise route.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.2km north<br/>This is the centre of Hampstead, just off the High Street
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.2km north<br/>She is poised, very provocatively, up above the modern shopfront of Carphone Warehouse with no clue as to her original provenance or purpose. I'd love to know.
©ceridwen
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>See [[843356]].
©Mike Quinn

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