IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Oakwood Crescent, LONDON, N21 1PB

Quite a heavy fall and the right sort of snow.

Quite a heavy fall or the right sort of snow.

Taken opposite Eversley School looking towards the shopping parade which is at the end of this pavement.

Looking towards the road junction with Eversley Park Road, we have the Chaseville Parade of shops and the service road. If you turn left before the shops you can access the Highlands Estate of houses, built on the site of the old Highlands Hospital.

The Northern Convalescent Fever Hospital at Winchmore Hill, Enfield, was one of the two such hospital sites to be established by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, the other being the Southern Hospital near Dartford. The MAB had been set up in 1867 to administer care for certain categories of the sick poor in metropolitan London and between 1870 and 1900 set up a ring of infectious diseases hospitals around the capital. After the passing of the 1891 Public Health (London) Law Consolidation Bill, the MAB entered a period of expansion, of which the Northern was a part. The 36-acre site, formerly part of the Chaseville Park estate, was acquired by the Board in 1883-4. The partnership of Pennington and Bridgen were the architects for the new hospital whose foundation stone was laid in May, 1885. The hospital was opened on 25th September, 1887. In 2001, the building were converted into residential apartments. More info at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB-NConvalescent/MAB-NConvalescent.shtml

Quite a heavy fall with unfortunate consequences for some drivers.

Looking towards Prince George Avenue.

Eversley Park from the junction with Holly Hill looking towards the junction with Oakwood Crescent.

Holly Hill as seen from near the junction with Eversley Park Road. The houses on the right were constructed during, I think, the 1960s. I was told by a resident who had lived in the road since the late 1930s that there was a line of poplar trees, which were all taken down so that these houses could be built on what had been part of the garden of a house which is still there behind the gardens of the new houses. As number 2 Holly Hill was the first of the 1930s houses, these new dwellings had to have different numbers, which sometimes causes confusion with the mail.

Path in wooded area of park.