{"id":19472,"date":"2026-10-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=19472"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:31:11","slug":"more-hampstead-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=19472","title":{"rendered":"More Hampstead – 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More Hampstead<\/strong>: More from my walk in Hampstead on Sunday 9th April 1990. The previous post was Hampstead Alleys, Hospital, Baths, House, Heath – 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hampstead wasn’t (and isn’t) an area of London I feel particularly sympathetic or comfortable in and I prefer the less affluent areas of the capital and those with more industry and that are less arty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked hard at taking pictures but somehow find many of them less interesting and looking back at them over 30 years later have digitised a rather smaller proportion. The eight in this post come from around 60 that I took on this section of the walk, almost all carefully composed and correctly exposed. Probably I should go back and digitise more, but I think Hampstead is a part of London that many others have photographed and so my pictures are perhaps less important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Houses,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Houses, Cannon Place, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4e-31<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I walked down from Hampstead Heath and turned into Cannon Place, where Sir Gerakd Du Maurier lived in Cannon Hall from 1916 until his death in 1935, and the childhood home of Daphne du Maurier and her siblings. The last Secretary of the East India Company had bought Rous Hall around 1838 and put a few old naval cannons in its grounds, renaming the house Cannon Hall. I haven’t digitised my picture of the Hall but found these two dogs mguarding the steps of one of the substantial Victorian houses in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Lion<\/a>\n<\/div>
Lion House, 19, Well Rd, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4e-22<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back on Well Road I took this picture of part of the Grade II listed Italianate Gothic Lion House, part of the large detached villa The Logs, built for civil engineer Edward Gotto<\/a> (1822-1897) who was for several years in charge of North London’s sewers and went on to build sewers around the world. For him muck was obviously brass and this large house was designed by J.S. Nightingale and built by Charles Till in 1861. This section was named Lion House when the property was divided in 1951. Boy George lived in the Logs from the mid 1980s, and he sold his part of the house for \u00a322million in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"House,<\/a>\n<\/div>
House, Heath St, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4e-12<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is the doorway of the Grade II listed Friends Meeting House<\/a> at 120 Heath Street designed by Frederick Rowntree in the Arts and Crafts style, very much under the influence of Voysey and built in 1907. Among its famous visitors was Mahatma Gandhi who spoke here in 1909.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Elm<\/a>\n<\/div>
Elm Row, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4e-16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think this is the alley with steps which leads from Elm Row to New End.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Heath<\/a>\n<\/div>
Heath St, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4f-62<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The leaping sculptures here have long gone, and there are fences on top of the wall to give greater privacy to the residents of the property on the east side of the street just north of Elm Row. I think it was here that D H Lawrence<\/a> and Frieda lived rather miserably after their return from New Mexico in 1923, along with Catherine and Donald Carswell, who was the lawyer who checked his work for possible libel claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I can find nothing more about these sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Hampstead<\/a>\n<\/div>
Hampstead Grove, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4f-51<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“The Hampstead Scientific Society<\/a> observatory is one of the few places left in London that provides regular public viewings of the Moon, planets and other objects of interest in the night sky.” Though skies in London have so much light pollution that the view must be rather dim though being on the edge of the heath must help. It would still be interesting to book a free ticket if I lived closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site is on the top of a Victorian covered reservoir, the Kidderpore Reservoir built in 1867 by the West Middlesex Water Company which still stores around 2.5 million gallons pumped here from water works at Hampton to supply 11,000 homes in the area. Still in use it was re-roofed in 2015<\/a> but still has its impressive Victorian architectural brickwork hidden away in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"The<\/a>\n<\/div>
The Mount, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4f-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1 The Mount, on the corner of Hollybush Steps, has lost almost all of its interest since I made this picture in 1990. There is a new brick wall and tall hedging hides the front garden, though I think everything in it has gone, along with the vases on the steps, the lions and even the little roof over the door. It just looks neat and plain now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"The<\/a>\n<\/div>
The Mount, Hampstead, Camden, 1990, 90-4f-24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most of this had changed by the time there appears to have been major building work on the site around 2019. What had been quirky and interesting is now rather dull. This large 3 bedroom end terrace house sold in 2017 for \u00a32.64million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still more from Hampstead to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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