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Dist:0.1km north<br/>Shows the location of [[891810]].
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©Chris Gunns
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.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>From the junction with Rosslyn Hill NW3
©R Sones
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.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>On the corner of Perrin's Lane. This is a new version of the previous shop a little further up the street and there at least another two cake shops close by, Hampstead being an area where there is always a demand for luxury goods.
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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.
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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/>Shows the location of [[1073579]]. You can just see my "Roller" in the shade under the trees to the left of the postbox.
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Deliveries and rubbish collection are in full swing before the day begins.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>At 24 Heath Street Hampstead. Sir Charles Russell was Attorney General twice but not at the date he laid the stone.
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