Archive for crouch end
To you, it’s an empty pavement; to me, it’s a miracle – encore
Clearly it’s the season for ridiculously long-running sagas to be sorted out for have just spotted that another long-damaged utility box has finally been removed. This one is on Hornsey Lane, Crouch End and, as with the one in Westminster, it involved a long and tortuous process including the local council (Haringey Council this time) [...]
A tiny victory for improved urban design
Earlier this month I blogged about a broken and ugly piece of railings in Crouch End: It is these details – the look of road name signs, the style of bollards, the appearance of railings – that cumulatively can do so much to raise or depress the look of an area and the pleasure or [...]
So often it's the small pieces of urban design that are done so poorly…
Exhibit A: a set of railings on Crouch Hill in Crouch End (north London). The railings themselves are of very limited apparent use – presumably to stop cars cutting the corner going in or out of Abbots Terrace, though even if cars did it’s hard to see how that would pose a danger to pedestrians [...]
Crouch End Clock Tower: a little history
Walking over the hill and round the corner from my home in to Crouch End, one of the architectural delights of Crouch End appears in the distance – the Clock Tower. Stood at the foot of the Clock Tower you can enjoy not just the surviving architecture of many buildings in the area, you can [...]
