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West End Lane, LONDON, NW6 1LL

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A 328 bus waits before commencing its journey to World's End. The triangular junction of West End Lane with itself has been a bus terminus for many years. Currently the 139 route terminates here with services from Waterloo - the vehicle behind is a metroline bus on that route. The 328 normally routes through to Golders Green from Chelsea but occasionally when traffic conditions result in late running a vehicle will be turned short at West Hampstead as in this case. The vehicle is a Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL. The morning sun highlights the Plane trees behind on the green itself, bringing out the callouses on the underside of some of the branches and the large number of seed balls still hanging on the tree.

Looking out from the entrance seen in Image The sign informs people leaving that the toilets are for Gentlemen. Image can be seen and Image is visible behind the green.

The entrance to the ladies toilets on West End Green in West Hampstead. The bus in the background is a number 139 from West Hampstead, West End Green to Waterloo. The vehicle is at the start of its route and is waiting for the right time to leave.

The male companion to Image The design is slightly different to the female entrance as the entrance leads directly to the steps, seen from West End Lane.

A small grassy area at the hub of several roads is all that remains of what must have been, centuries ago, a peaceful woodland clearing criss-crossed by paths running between country estates. During the Middle Ages a few large houses and farms were built in the area and by 1800 West End was a hamlet of cottages and seats set in parkland. In 1812 James Leigh Hunt moved to West End, attracted by a district so quiet that the inhabitants of West End Hall claimed to have heard the cannon at Waterloo, according to URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22636 Serious development was hastened by the local arrival of three railway lines during the second half of the C19, with the building of residential streets with small houses for artisans and minor professionals. Now the green hosts a colony of pigeons and rather too many dogs doing their their duties. Opposite in the image is the foot of West End Lane rising towards its junction with Finchley Road.