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Lismore Circus, LONDON, NW5 4SF

This is about the only surviving remnant of a Victorian residential road called Gospel Oak Grove that ran around the west and south side of Lismore Circus, before much of the area was redeveloped in the 1960s following Second World War bomb damage. This section probably only survived because it is actually the bridge over the former Midland Railway below. The Ludham housing block is directly ahead, built over the top of the junction of Gospel Oak Grove with Lismore Road.

This path leads from Southampton Road towards Grafton Road. It passes Lismore Circus (in the background), a roundabout for paths surrounded by trees. A small playpark is on the left.

When the Midland Railway extended their line southwards into St Pancras in 1868 they built several suburban stations close in to the centre of London. However, having so many stations slowed down commuter train speeds, and with the additional competition from other forms of transport, such as buses and the Underground railway, three of them (this one, Camden Road and Finchley Road) were closed. This one at Haverstock Hill shut in 1916 as was the Camden Road one. Finchley Road survived until 1927, leaving only the Kentish Town and West Hampstead stations surviving in the immediate area. Haverstock Hill station was built to serve the Victorian housing estate radiating out from Lismore Circus, the site of which is shown by the group of trees in the distance to the left. The station only served the slow lines on the left so the platforms would have been where the grassy areas are now. By one of those odd quirks of geography this view is looking slightly north of east although it shows the railway heading generally southwards towards St Pancras. The photo was taken from Image

Ludham, and its parallel housing block, Waxham, are named after two Norfolk villages Image and Image respectively. The blocks are about 240 metres long. This is the south side of Ludham. There are copious images of the estate, when it was brand new, on the English Heritage Viewfinder website. This link goes to an image taken, I think, from virtually the same location http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=145906&index=12&mainQuery=lismore&searchType=all&form=home

Waxham, and its parallel housing block, Ludham, are named after two Norfolk villages Image and Image respectively. The blocks are continuous and about 240 metres long. This is the Mansfield Road side of Waxham. There are copious images of the estate, when it was brand new, on the English Heritage Viewfinder website here http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx

Ludham, on the left, and Waxham on the right, are two parallel blocks of continuous housing units dating from the early 1970s. They are both about 240 metres long. There are copious photographs of this estate when it was brand new on the English Heritage Viewfinder website here http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx

Taken from the road bridge

This very wide bridge leads from the Ludham and Waxham Blocks (with 532 flats) near Mansfield Road, towards an estate on Havestock Road. It passes over the national railway line to Upper Holloway station and the London Underground network (on the Northern line) leading towards Kentish Town.

The railway runs along the wall.

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