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Hamilton Road, LONDON, N2 0SQ

A large Roman Catholic school located on Hamilton Road. Contrasting styles of building make up the main block. Plenty of parking for teachers too!

Semi-detached and terraced housing opposite Bishop Douglass school.

Part of the Thomas More estate seen here from the junction with Hamilton Road. The usual 'residents parking only' and 'no ball games' signs are on display.

This World War II MOD sign which was never used at the time has been resurrected recently and is a popular poster for decorating student digs, etc. I'm not sure where the sticky back plastic version came from though - used here on a street cabinet.

Long since closed, though still in residential use, this shop was clearly not called Manor Park Stores originally - it would probably have had the owners name above the door. A victim of the supermarkets and the number of other small shops in the local area, the frontage is a memory of a bygone era with its pre-plate glass windows with glazed adverts for tea.

Glazed adverts for Typhoo and Brook Bond teas in the window a closed shop, Manor Park Stores. Please see photo of shop front, Image, for alternative colouring of the Brook Bond advert.

Part of the Thomas More estate, built on the site of a convent - see Image for a bit of the history.

Located on a footpath section of the Thomas More estate, This cottage and the adjacent building is part of the original convent on this site, though what its role was I don't know. The bricks are significantly smaller than the modern bricks used to build the new housing estate. There is evidence of a wall extending at rightangles from the right hand end of the building - the area where the bricks were removed can be just made out behind the pink Hydrangea.

Aftermath of an accident in Long Lane. A speeding Vauxhall Omega struck this Saxo, spinning it round and dumping it on the pavement. Part of the wall was demolished in the process. Fortunately no pedestrians were passing at the time. The Omega was abandoned further down the Lane opposite Abingdon Road. It was the second accident on this corner inside a month. The gentle nature of the corner can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/193285

A nice collection of off road vehicles parked on the drive of a house on Long Lane while a Lawson's Cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsonia) is removed from a garden on Brighton Road. There were 2 of these trees and both were removed in little more than an hour. The tractor is a John Deere 6920S. The vehicle hiding behind the tractor is a Unimog.