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Formosa Street, LONDON, W9 2JP

This neat terrace of mid-Victorian townhouses is at the northern end of Formosa Street at its junction with Warwick Avenue.

This is a view up Bristol Gardens towards the Clifton Garden Centre (the white awning on the right at the top of the street). It is taken from the corner of Shirland Road and Formosa Street (and Bristol Gardens and Blomfield Road, as it's a roundabout with four differently named streets leading off it).

I had a vague memory of Formosa Street, from way back in the last century - as a little stub of a street, going round a sharp bend. So I was surprised - approaching from the bridge over the canal - to find myself in a wide thoroughfare of that same name. Having walked the length of it, I'd say that there are three distinct stretches. Approaching from the south, you first reach the wide straight bit, sloping down from the canal. Part of that carries a bus route. Then, beyond the junction with Warwick Avenue, the roadway narrows and veers a little to the right (middle distance in the picture). Finally, beyond Castellain Road (and not visible in the picture) there is my 'stub'. The road is narrow and there's a tight bend. The place feels much more enclosed and inhabited - with folk eating at tables set out on the pavement.

The school is on the corner of Shirland Road and Formosa Street. The building has some fine brickwork.

An old style telephone box with faded paint partly overgrown by the hedge and a bright red pillar box. The corner building has a first floor 'conservatory' - a solution to the lack of garden space in central London perhaps? The bricked in windows may have been removed as a result of the window tax, or just be an architects whim to balance the appearance of the building.

This view looks across the crossing of Warwick Avenue and Formosa Street. Warwick Avenue is to the left and Formosa Street is to the right.

Roundabout at junction with Shirland Road. A K2 telephone box on the street corner.