EAW022328 ENGLAND (1949). Alexandra Palace and environs, Muswell Hill, 1949

Cranbourne Road

East Crescent prefabs

Tarmac patch covering long gone tram tracks.

'The Dive' licensed premises

Station platform

The signal box

Racetrack grandstand.

Alexandra Park race track - aka the Frying Pan.

Railway station

Clifton Road. (See PLATE:- EPW024780)

The Avenue.

Harcourt Road.

Clyde Road.

Outram Road.

Princes Ave.

Alexandra Park Road.

Palace Gates Road.

Victoria Road.

Albert Road.

Dagmar Road.

Crescent Road.

Crescent Rise.

Wroxham Grds.

"Durnsford Rd, Swimming Pool".

Whittington Road.

"Bounds Green Underground Station". "The entrance in 1955" Like all stations on the Cockfosters extension, Bounds Green station, which opened on 19 September 1932, set new aesthetic standards, not previously seen on London's Underground. During the planning period of the extension to Cockfosters, alternate names for this station, "Wood Green North" and "Brownlow Road" were considered but rejected. Architecturally, this tube station, designed in the typical "Box-style" of the architect Charles Holden by his colleague C. H. James, is a well-preserved example of the modernist house style of London Transport in the 1930s. The octagonal frontage is flanked by a ventilation tower. Unlike others on this extension, the station was not previously nationally listed as of special architectural interest but in August 2008 an application was made to English Heritage for a listing recommendation and in January 2010 the station was Listed at Grade II. On the night of 13 October 1940, during The Blitz, a lone German aircraft dropped a single bomb on houses to the north of the station. The destruction of the houses caused the north end of the westbound platform tunnel to collapse, killing or injuring many people amongst those sheltering from the air raid. The train service was disrupted for two months.

"Arnos Grove, Underground Station". The station was opened on 19 September 1932 as the most northerly on the first section of the Piccadilly Line extension from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters. It was the terminus of the line until services were further extended to Oakwood on 13 March 1933. Its name was chosen after public deliberation: alternatives were "Arnos Park", "Bowes Road" and “Southgate". Like the other stations Charles Holden designed for the extension, Arnos Grove was built in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete and basic geometric shapes. A circular drum-like ticket hall of brick and glass panels rises from a low single-storey structure and is capped by a flat concrete roof. The design was inspired by the Stockholm City Library and Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. A similar design was employed by Holden for the rebuilding of Chiswick Park on the District line (also in 1932), although the drum there is supplemented with an adjacent brick tower. The centre of the ticket hall is occupied by a disused ticket office (a passimeter in London Underground parlance) which houses an exhibition on the station and the line. In July 2011 Arnos Grove became a Grade II* listed building. The building is one of the 12 "Great Modern Buildings" profiled in The Guardian during October 2007, and was summarised by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey as "...truly what German art historians would describe as a gesamtkunstwerk, a total and entire work of art."

Brooksdale.

Bowes Road.

Oakleigh Road South.

Brunswick Ave.

Whitehouse Way.

Aldermans Hill.

"Broomfield Park".

Powys Lane.

Wilmer Way.

Powys Lane.

Goring Road.

Queens Road.

Maidstone Road.

Pevensey Ave.

Ollerton Road.

Stanley Road.

"Bowes Road School". (Bowes Road). Junior Mixed School and Bowes Infant School. These two schools were reorganised into the present school in 1988. At the School Board meeting on the 6th April 1900, Messrs. W. Lawrence and Son of Tottenham were successful with a tender of £18,149 to build Bowes Road School, which was planned for 10 local pupils. A tender for electrical installation for £619 was unsuccessful, as it was £395 higher than the successful tender for installing gas fittings. Bowes Road School for Infants opened at 9am on 2 September 1901, and separate Junior Boys and Girls Schools opened on the upper floors. In 1927, the schools were reorganised into two schools, Senior Mixed and Junior Mixed with Infants. When the secondary pupils moved to Arnos School in 1939 the school was reorganised again into two schools, Bowes

Highworth Road.

Bowes Road.

BrownlowRoad.

"Saint Gabriels Church". (Durnsford Road). The Mission Church of St Gabriel (first known as St Peter's) was in the charge of St Michael-at-Bowes, and came into being in 1883. No written accounts of this period are to hand, but the first magazine was published in 1901. The old mission building stood where shops and flats are now to be seen.

Warwick Road.

Durnsford Road.

Telford Road.

Pinkham Way. A406 North Circular Road.

Church Hill Road.

Brookside South.

Osidge Lane.

"Ye Old Cherry Tree P/H". Southgate High Street.

"Christ Church Southgate" Waterfall Road.

Waterfall Road.

Morton Way.

Hampden Way.

Waterfall Road.

Brunswick Park Road.

"Great Northern London Cemetery".

"The Metal Box Company".

Friern Barnet Road.

Station Road.

"Friern Barnet Hospital". The asylum opened on 17 July 1851 and was officially referred to as the Second Middlesex County Asylum with William Charles Hood (1824-1870) being its first medical superintendent. In 1857 extensions were built to bring the total number of inmates to 2000. By this time, serious defects of construction had become apparent: in one ward the walls and rafters separated and the arched ceiling gave way while in another ward part of the ceiling collapsed. It was found that the roof was insufficient and that the foundations were insecure, necesscitating reinforcement works in 1858. Further extensions were added from 1875 to 1879 and by 1880 conditions for inmates had become very poor. In 1896, a temporary building of wood and corrugated iron was erected to house 320 chronic and infirm female patients in five dormitories, despite warnings from the Commissioners in Lunacy that this would pose a serious fire risk. In 1889 control of the asylum was transferred to the newly formed London County Council On 27 January 1903, the temporary building erected in 1896 was destroyed by a fire which claimed 52 lives. In its place, between 1908 and 1913 seven new permanent brick villas were built: four for the survivors of the fire, one for subnormal boys with epilepsy or disturbed behaviour and two for patients with Tuberculosis or dysentery. In 1912 a disused carpenters' shop and stores by the railway siding were converted into additional accommodation for male patients and further extensions were made to staff accommodation in 1927 by which time staff included 9 full-time doctors, 494 nurses and 171 probationers. In 1930, following the Mental Treatment Act the Asylum was renamed the Colney Hatch Mental Hospital. In 1937 a Female Nurses' Home was built, the resulting transfer of staff allowing the accommodation of 89 female patients in the old nurses' block. In the same year the hospital was once again renamed, this time as Friern Mental Hospital. In 1941 five villas were destroyed by bombs and thirty-six patients and four nurses were killed. By 1944 the hospital had 2557 beds for mental patients and 746 EMS beds.

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