IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Fitzjohns Avenue, LONDON, NW3 6NX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Fitzjohns Avenue, NW3 6NX by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (520 Images Found)
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Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and Home
The Royal Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and Home was said to have been established in 1829 as a home in 1862 at Frognal House. In 1869 it moved to this new building at nos. 96-116 Fitzjohn's Avenue, designed by Edward Ellis. In 1871 two rooms served as a school, attended by 60 girls of all ages, whose subjects included domestic ones to prepare them for their future 'situations' as household servants.
These orphans' asylums, as they were called, catered for the huge numbers of destitute children in Victorian Britain but the offspring of 'deserving' fathers such as soldiers and sailors attracted most attention (and royal patronage). Nevertheless this place always gives me a sense of sadness for the children who might have preferred to remain with their families rather than be institutionalized.
An ex-pupil has pointed out that, in the school's later years until it closed in 1957, the pupils were not orphans in the strict sense, but children of sailors killed during World War Two. They still had mothers and siblings living. We might assume therefore that 'orphans' in this case refers to fatherless children whose families had limited means. My thanks to the informant for this explanation.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 4 Apr 2007
0.02 miles
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Edward VII postbox, Fitzjohn's Avenue, NW3 - royal cipher
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Image: © Mike Quinn
Taken: 2 Jul 2008
0.03 miles
5
Shops and homes, Heath Street
Looking towards the junction with Church Row
Image: © Robin Sones
Taken: 2 Sep 2018
0.04 miles
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Ghost-sign, Heath Street, Hampstead
According to the sign, the firm of estate agents and general contractors advertised was founded in 1746; in 2014 the premises are still used by an estate agent.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 1 Sep 2014
0.04 miles
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Shops along Hampstead High Street
Hampstead High Street was one of the first London suburbs outside the ring road to introduce parking meters, and the surrounding roads are almost exclusively resident parking, so the crowds of old are no longer a feature and many shops turn over regularly, no doubt a direct result of turning away passing trade. Some of the older shops had been there 30-40 years or more until then.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 15 Feb 2013
0.04 miles
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6 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead
6 Ellerdale Road is a Grade I listed residence designed and built for his own use by the celebrated late Victorian architect Richard Norman Shaw. Currently occupied by the Institute of St Marcellina.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 9 Aug 2016
0.05 miles
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OS Cut Mark - Hampstead, #18 Heath Street/Oriel Court
OS Cut Mark - Hampstead, #18 Heath Street/Oriel Court
More in Oriel Court than Heath Street to me?
Image: © thejackrustles
Taken: 21 Oct 2019
0.05 miles