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Boades Mews, LONDON, NW3 1DB

Seen from Murray Terrace - the cobbled street on the left. On the right is Boad's Mews. The school building dates from 1906.

View along the narrow back street. The chimney is associated with the former workhouse.

Ian Nairn says of Hampstead in Nairn's London 1966: "Hampstead is a bit of a joke, though many of its inhabitants are deadly serious about it. As soon as a picturesque street or alley gets well started and you can begin to live the refined life, along comes a great hospital or board school or block of tenements. Clatter and thump, you pick up the pieces and start again. It is not an amusing or exciting contrast, either, just head-on conflict which ends in stalemate. But socially, it has undoubtedly saved Hampstead from becoming intolerably precious. ... The whole place is a china shop with a good many wild bulls in it." New End Primary School would probably be one of the buildings he had in mind. A date of 1906 is prominent at the top of the wall on the right. Although many of the old Board Schools are impressive, ones like this are not right in the tiny streets and alleys which surround it. See for example http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5536169

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Ian Nairn says of Hampstead in Nairn's London 1966: "Hampstead is a bit of a joke, though many of its inhabitants are deadly serious about it. As soon as a picturesque street or alley gets well started and you can begin to live the refined life, along comes a great hospital or board school or block of tenements. Clatter and thump, you pick up the pieces and start again. It is not an amusing or exciting contrast, either, just head-on conflict which ends in stalemate. But socially, it has undoubtedly saved Hampstead from becoming intolerably precious. ... The whole place is a china shop with a good many wild bulls in it." New End Primary School would probably be one of the buildings he had in mind. A date of 1906 is prominent at the top of the wall on the right. Although many of the old Board Schools are impressive, ones like this are not right in the tiny streets and alleys which surround it. See for example http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2303426

Grade II listed http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1322110 , built circa 1906.

The white carved stone between the floors of the building tells us this is 'The Wells and Campden baths and wash houses 1888' - Wells and Campden was a charity organisation. Located opposite the green on Flask Walk, it was originally a place where you could get drinking water (the building is located next to the site of the original Chalybeate spring) and a bath - many of the workers houses in the area did not have running water at the time. The building was converted to housing in 1981. Information from a variety of websites.

The pavement and houses on the north side of Flask walk are at a higher level than the road, which is hidden by the trees on the left. A crocodile of children returning to New End Primary School approaches down the hill.