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1 South End Road
c.Early 20th Century building on the corner of Pond Street and South End Road. For many years until the mid 1950s it housed a second hand bookshop known as Booklovers' Corner, famed for being where George Orwell worked during 1934-5, also living above the shop (see
Image for a close up of the commemorative plaque on the pillar in the centre of the photo). Later uses of the ground floor included a chess café, a pizza joint and a bakery, firstly as a branch of Le Pain Quotidien and since 2020 of Gail's.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 4 Jun 2022
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Plaque, 1 South End Road
Plaque commemorating George Orwell on a pillar by the door of 1 South End Road, who during 1934-5 worked at a second hand bookshop here known as Booklovers' Corner, also living above the shop. See
Image) for a photo of the whole building.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 4 Jun 2022
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Coffee shops and red buses
South End Green, on the way to Hampstead Heath.
Image: © Kate Jewell
Taken: 31 Mar 2014
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Julian Huxley's house
In Pond Street, Hampstead, over the road from the Royal Free Hospital.
A ceramic plaque records that the celebrated zoologist lived here from 1943 until his death in 1975, and depicts a pair of grebes, his close study of which birds first made his name.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 11 May 2007
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Drinking fountain, South End Road NW3
Image: © Robin Sones
Taken: 4 Jan 2012
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South End Road, Hampstead
Some of my favourite shops have been on this parade, from the stationers, health food shop, cake shop and various other family owned unique businesses.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 1 Nov 2022
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Bus at South End Green, Hampstead Heath (1)
Arriva London VLA78, a Volvo B7TL/Alexander ALX400, lays over on the stand on South End Road before heading back to Old Kent Road (Tesco) on route 168. On the left, the great bulk of the Royal Free Hospital towers over the scene.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 12 Mar 2006
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Drinking fountain, South End Green
Drinking fountain on South End Green, dating from 1880 to a design of J H Evin. Grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1378669?section=official-list-entry.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 4 Jun 2022
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Drinking fountain, South End Green
Drinking fountain on South End Green, dating from 1880 to a design of J H Evin. Grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1378669?section=official-list-entry.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 4 Jun 2022
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Royal Free Hospital
View from South End Road.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 12 Oct 2017
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