I was chilling out in front of the tv with a glass of wine on Saturday night when the phone rang. I saw it was my daughter, in Preston - or at least, that's where she lives so I assumed that was where she was. But it was late, almost 11. A crisis, I wondered as I answered, trying to prepare myself..…

7 years ago / 522 visits / 1 comment

The pedestrian subway running beneath Archway Road, between Despard Road and Pauntley Street, will be closed when the gyratory is redeveloped this year and replaced with a surface level crossing. Perhaps people feel safer crossing the road above ground but I have never found this subway intimidating…

8 years ago / 2 476 visits

My next foray was on a Tuesday evening a couple of weeks later - 20 May. I took in a few streets between Archway and Hornsey Rise.

9 years ago / 3 146 visits

My next foray was on Sunday the following weekend (11 May 2014). A short circular walk on an afternoon when rain threatened, taking in some streets around Highgate Hill and Archway Road.

9 years ago / 3 304 visits

Last year I photographed all the streets in my home postcode - N19 - and intended to blog about them as I went. Although I finished the photography side of the project the blog lagged behind. Now I have a bit more time, I'm intending to catch up with it. To those of you who have followed this so…

9 years ago / 2 663 visits

I was 12, coming up 13 when Churchill died. We lived in Maidenhead, about 40 miles west of London. My friend’s Dad brought her up to see his lying in state. I was invited to go along with them but Mum (who was a teacher, and later a headmistress for many years) was very strict about such things and…

9 years ago / 630 visits

I continued my exploration of N19 with a Sunday afternoon stroll taking in the streets between Tufnell Park Rd and Brecknock Rd; the south-west limits of N19. (Sunday 27 April).

10 years ago / 2 228 visits

Chester Road is the last N19 street on the right as you go down Dartmouth Park Hill, after that right turns take you into NW5. It's very odd the way the postcodes intertwine at this point. Bramshill Gardens, the first left off Chester Road, is also NW5 whereas the next two streets on the left - Win…

10 years ago / 3 254 visits / 1 comment

Continuing from Part 5...

10 years ago / 2 988 visits / 1 comment

A few days off work over Easter gave me a bit of time to catch up with various tasks and continue my explorations of N19. I started off with the intention of photographing a few streets on my way to the picture framers in Holloway Road but one thing led to another and I ended up taking in 14 streets…

10 years ago / 2 821 visits / 2 comments

Archway town centre was decimated in the '60s by the creation of the gyratory; a giant one-way system that swept all traffic coming south from either Highgate Hill or Archway Road around the back of the Methodist Hall and along the end of St John's Way to join Holloway Road and all traffic going nor…

10 years ago / 1 474 visits

It was a sunny afternoon last Friday (11 April). I was working from home and needed to get out of the house for a bit so I decided to pop out and photograph a few of the streets south of Junction Road for Bleeding London.

10 years ago / 1 446 visits / 3 comments

Continuing my mission to photograph all the streets in N19 as part of the Bleeding London project. In this part I cover the streets of the Girdlestone Estate, parts of which I often walk through on the way to the tube.

10 years ago / 3 120 visits / 2 comments

I've recently joined the Bleeding London project. Based on Geoff Nicholson's 1997 novel of the same name, the aim is to photograph every street in the A-Z between now and October. That needs a lot of people so, if this inspires you, why not sign up too? As part of this, I'm now on a mission to photo…

10 years ago / 2 279 visits

We continue our exploration of Trafalgar Square. The main features shown in the sketch can all still be seen today: the fountains, Nelson's Column, the George IV statue, the National Gallery and St Martin-in-the-Fields (which we have to spy) along with some other features not mentioned: the statue o…

10 years ago / 2 616 visits / 2 comments