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Warwick Avenue, LONDON, W9 2PU

My favourite mews street in Maida Vale because it's unmodernised and the locals keep it in good condition. It's called Pindock Mews and is between Castellaine Road and Warwick Avenue.

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.

View north-west from near the junction with Formosa Street.

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

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.

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).