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Vane House on Central Avenue.

Further examples of housing on the Grange Estate. In recent years some of the housing blocks have been cleaned and modernised. The old tile roof has been removed from Foskett House and a new floor of residences added. Sycamore House, in the background, retains its original roof profile and has yet to be cleaned.

Another view of Garden House from my balcony at 12, Vane House, Central Avenue on the Grange Estate in East Finchley, 4 August 1997

Unkempt and uncared for garden area next to the Grange Community Centre. Without the Convolvulus there would be no flowers. It looks like the council have given up on this borough backwater. In the background is one of the blocks of flats, ironically named Garden House, without a tiled roof.

Annette White Lodge, 287 High Road, East Finchley N2 8HB. Social Housing for Jewish elderly built in 1977 by Westlon Housing Association Ltd., opened circa April 1978. Photo taken from the kitchen window of 12, Vane House, Grange Estate. This was built on the site of a former Stone Masons, Joslin Memorials, whose offices were located further up the High Road adjacent to Martin Junior School.

Garden House (built circa 1949), Central Avenue on the Grange Estate as seen from my balcony at 12, Vane House on 4 August 1997. In the distance the Red Lion pub can be seen, built circa 1907 on the site of an Inn which originally dated back to 1714 and opened as 'The Rabbit'. It was situated on the corner of Red Lion Hill but unfortunately this lovely example of Edwardian architecture has since been demolished.

Craven House seen from the balcony of 12, Vane House, where I grew up as a child and lived for 20 years, on a warm and sunny day on 27 July 1997. Craven House was one of the first block of flats to be built as part of the new housing estate in 1938. The car park in front was provided in 1993, before that it was a rough tarmac vacant bit of land which had a children's play area on it, and a washing line enclosure. This area was also a bomb site during the Second World War, when Finchley experienced the Blitz in November 1940.

Access road to a parking area.

"The church replaced a WW2 damaged church and was built by Westmore and Sanders in collaboration with Mrs G. M. Reeves in 1953." - https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2017/04/21/st-mary-high-road-east-finchley-roman-catholic/. See also this https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/finchley-east-st-mary/.