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Long Lane, LONDON, N2 8JW

Sited between the large semi-detached houses on Long Lane is this unique house. A number of local myths surround its design. Was it built as a station masters house for a station half way between East Finchley and Finchley Central? - unlikely, it uses the wrong type of brick for a Great Northern Railway building. Or was it built as a vicarage - if so, for which church? Perhaps it was a lodge for the manor - located on East End Road at the junction with Manor View. Nobody seems to know for certain.

Recently resurfaced, the Lane appears quiet in this mid-morning shot. However, this gentle bend is often the scene of accidents (see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/193287 for example) as drivers travel too fast for the road conditions. The terraced houses all had peaks over the bay windows when built but as each has been re-roofed over the years some of the peaks have been lost.

The dawn sky laced with the contrails of airliners routing across southern England. A view along the backs of the terraced houses of Long Lane in East Finchley on a very frosty morning during a period of high pressure.

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

Long Lane during the first heavy snowfall for several years.

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.

One of Long Lane's Plane trees gets a haircut. The branches that are removed are shredded and used for garden and wood products. This tree finally succumbed to decay, you can see the split in the bark just above the green car, and was chopped down in June 2008.

A team of contractors replaces the pavements on Long Lane. The grab lorry is delivering gravel. Lantern must be fans of Bob the Builder - the truck carries the registration MUK 3 (MUK 2 and MUK 4 have also visited the pavement works on Long Lane).

With the days getting shorter as autumn begins, Barnet's highway maintenance team are out cleaning the streetlamps in Long Lane.

A family of Long Tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus) stop off to feed and preen in a Rowan Tree. The group consisted of 9 birds.