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Dist:0.2km north<br/>A disparate group of buildings on the west side of the High Road. The Amber Gallery, an art and jewellery dealer located in the centre of the photo has an archway leading through to a courtyard behind. Several other buildings along this stretch of the road have similar courtyards. The road between the shops, just left of centre, is Woodside Park Road.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Hairdressers on the corner of Avenue Road, North Finchley. Several other premises within the building are 'to let' or recently sold. The faded sign between the upper storey windows tell of a past life as home to E'wd Croft, Contractors for Removals. The main road on the left is the High Road.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Shops, building societies become banks and fast food, the story of many high streets around the country. The grey modern building on the extreme left was built on the site of Prior's department store. Prior's had moved to a new location at the junction of Castle Street and High Road. The two imposing buildings occupied by an O'Neills pub and Abbey Bank currently defy my attempts to identify their original use, but they predate 1936, and the rest of the parade of shops predate 1905.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Shops along the east side of the High Road at the junction with Friern Park. Coffee Republic was once a hardware store and, before that, who knows what else? The design of the building, which dates from 1906, is somewhat unique. The adjacent shops and bank do not appear to have had upper storeys. The Monday morning traffic is quite light in the period between the rush hour and shopping.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Alleyway, which seems to be called Winifred Place (though the small wooden name board looks a bit unofficial!), beside the Iceland Supermarket with some interesting kerbstones and cobbles. I wonder if they were laid to fill wheelruts. There was a bus service from the Torrington (a now closed pub on the corner of Lodge Lane) to Charing Cross in 1851 and the vehicles may have turned here. An alternative, suggested by the 'point like' formation of the Kerbstones in the foreground, is that there were tram sidings here. More research is required! The road at the other end is the High Road.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Located on the High Road. The different shades of brick indicate that the exchange has grown over the years.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>At the Northern extremity of Ballards Lane where it becomes one with the High Road - the southbound lane of which is in the foreground. The shop on the corner of Hall Street, Garland Electronics, always has a large stock of appliances and seems to do a good trade. Sadly, the same cannot be said of the shop next door, Rosebys interiors. They are holding a closing down sale. 9:45am and the traffic is building up but not many shoppers are about yet.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A short terrace of houses on Hall Street, North Finchley. The houses in the distance are on Coleridge Road.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>Contrasting houses on Grove Road. The nearest is a modern bungalow whilst its ornate neighbour, built in 1862, resembles a railway station building with all its finials. The nearby Woodside Park station uses much the same style of straw coloured bricks, as do many of the older housing developments in the area.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Home of the 15th Finchley scouts on Grove Road. The Scouts Fleur-de-lys is proudly displayed in stained glass above the door. Minibus and trailer for camping expeditions are parked in the yard.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Terraced houses on the north side of Stanhope Road. The closest house has buttresses front and rear to prevent collapse.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A electronic information terminal set into a continental style advertising hoarding at the apex of the triangle created by Ballards Lane and the High Road - on the right. The terminal doesn't work and I didn't think we got that many tourists in North Finchley anyway. Autumn House, across the road, is a drinking establishment on the corner of Stanhope Road.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Modern office development located on the High Road, North Finchley between Fredrick's Place and Highwood Avenue.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Pedestrian crossing on Ballards Lane, North Finchley. Opposite is the Post Office. Strong early morning sunlight reflects off the windows opposite to create a pattern on the road surface.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The first cottages were built on Lodge Lane in the early 1820's. North Finchley's first shops were also located on Lodge Lane. Private John Parr, first British soldier killed in World War I, and David Jason (Actor) both lived in this road. Information from Wikipedia.
©Martin Addison

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