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Regents Park Road, LONDON, N3 3JY

A small delicatessen on Regents Park Road, next to the Pardes House School playground.

Private housing development off Regents Park Road. The brick buildings on the right are part of Pardes House School. The sign on the right reads No Parking for Pardes House School, The Brothers Restaurant, nor any other outside establishment - I presume there have been issues in the past!

Postbox No. N3 4. See Image] for context.

Showing position of Postbox No. N3 4. See Image] for postbox.

Exit stage left for Barnet and stage right for Regents Park. The wall and railings were built behind the milestone as part of the Spencer Close development in the 1980's.

Cast iron post by the A598, in parish of Finchley (London Borough of Barnet), Regent's Park Road N3, Church End, outside Spencer Court (was No. 296), set in paving slabs on pavement, back onto brick pillar, on East side of road. Erected by the Marylebone to Finchley Road Turnpike Trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : REGENT'S / PARK / 5 : : FINCHLEY / PARISH : : BARNET / 4¼ : : FINCHLEY / PARISH : Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1064885 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064885 Milestone Society National ID: MX_RPBN05.

At the junction of Gravel Hill

Originally Christ's College, the building was designed by Anthony Salvin who also designed Holy Trinity Church in East Finchley. The roof of the tower has often been referred to as the candle snuffer. A group of C of E parishioners can be seen on the right having just come out of the Sunday service in St. Mary at Finchley Church whilst Jewish children enjoy a game of football in the school playground on the left - different faiths, different Sabbaths.

The building was constructed in 1860 as an Anglican School and named Christ's College. The designs were by the architect Edward Roberts; its main feature being a 120-foot tower. The school flourished as a private school during the 1860s and 1870s. In 1902, the school was taken over by Middlesex County Council, as the first Middlesex County grammar school. In 1972, a new annexe in East Finchley and in 1990 the Hendon Lane site was closed and the school moved in its entirety to the East Finchley site. For some time the building was unused but eventually it was sold to a Jewish school.

Part of what was once Christ's College on Hendon Lane.