Where was I?
Jane Willis
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,4334,00.html
Oops! Missed it. Back there: a "ghost" station, planned as North End,
but now popularly known after a famous pub hereabouts: famous thanks
to a music-hall performer who commissioned new words for an old song.
(Down Where the Wurzburger Flows doesn't have quite the same ring to
it.) Almost a mile later, I alight at a station that is very real
indeed, exit - beneath a louring sky - and consult my itinerary.
Goodness, I may have been slightly ambitious: I could walk a few
hundred yards to where several famous people are buried. Among them
are an artist whose works included Hadleigh Castle, and a writer,
author of Captain Cook. Alternatively, I could stroll a little further
to the house that was the home of a noted neurologist. He wrote Moses
and Monotheism. But no, I choose to walk east, where I find a second
house; the address is quite well known around here, and I cannot wait
to look inside. An outstanding example of modernist architecture, it
was designed by, and served as the home of, a Hungarian architect
(wife: Ursula Blackwell).
When, later, I re-emerge, those sullen clouds are spitting shards of
rain. Undeterred, I turn the corner for a look-see at a third,
19th-century house - home, briefly, to a poet. Here he wrote Ode to a
Nightingale. Then, brolly at the ready, I turn north, making for a
great open space of about 800 acres.
Soon I reach a hill whose name, according to one legend, dates back to
1605. It would have been a good place to observe the metaphoric
fireworks to the south. The views would be stupendous, too - if only
the descending mantle of cloud was not slowly suffocating all beneath
it.
Meanwhile, further north, a fourth house - famously remodelled in the
18th century by the sometime architect to George III. These days, it
is equally famous for outdoor concerts.
However, even though the weather is closing in, I stroll northwest in
the hope that the view might be a little better. But I am out of luck.
So, as I unfurl my brolly in a steady drizzle, I leave you with this
little conundrum: at 400ft, this is the highest point I have reached.
Yet I have climbed 600ft to get here. However did I manage it?
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"Jane Willis" <jane....@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:5id0sv80u7veie4pk...@4ax.com...
Bonsaiman
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/historicproperties/index.cfm?fuseaction=property&property_id=112
an that URL confirms Fenton House is in Hampstead, with Hampstead Heath being the nearest station.
Phil
"Mary Strong" <mary....@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:6a_vb.90$I12...@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net...
Mike Terry
Hampstead Heath
Storming Norm
http://freespace.virgin.net/roy.smith5/bullandbush.htm
says the unfinished North End Station is on the Northern Line.
I think Hampstead Heath Station is British Rail.
Norman
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Terry"
<miket...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Erno Goldfinger
>
>Hampstead Heath
>
Storming Norm
where John Constable is buried.
Norman
Storming Norm
St John, in Church Row is more than a few hundred yards from Hampstead
Heath station, but within a few hundred yards of the underground
station.
Norman