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Hall Street, LONDON, N12 8DB

A short terrace of houses on Hall Street, North Finchley. The houses in the distance are on Coleridge Road.

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.

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.

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.

Police Cars parked up in the centre of the Great North Road in North Finchley as the officers deal with a mobile phone theft. The BMW was first on the scene and the officers from the Vauxhall Astra, having ascertained that everything was under control, promptly sped off in search of the next incident - Christmas is a busy time for the Police.

At the junction of Stanhope Road N12