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inches away you really hardly between Moat Mount Nature
notice it. Reserve and Hampstead Heath.
Secret Perhaps nobody walks through between the Capital Ring and
But I never see anyone there. It was designed to act as a link
Suburb this restful green space away the London Loop, and between PHOTOS: GEORGINA MALCOLM
from the traffic because nobody
the many green spaces and
Brookside Walk else does. I understand that. It wildlife corridors in the borough
of Barnet (thanks to Wikipedia
can be a little creepy, if you live
in London, to find yourself alone. for this little bit of additional
Have you ever been there? Do side. Here the Mutton Brook Brookside Walk is part of information).
you even know where this is? comes back, after its short stay the Dollis Valley Green Walk GEORGINA MALCOLM
Unlike Northway Gardens or on the north side of the A1,
Lyttelton Playing Fields, Brookside under the road from the bottom
Walk is not named on the map of Brookland Rise (the little
in your Suburb Directory. But if green area there is called The
you look at the (actually quite Bowles) and then runs along a
large) piece of land squashed pretty wooded river valley before
between the flats in Addison passing under the Finchley
Way and the A1: there it is. Road and out of the Suburb.
I fully admit this doesn’t There are Oaks, and hedgerow
look like a very promising site trees, and an old Laburnum and
for a walk with your children or a big Copper Beech that
the dog but don’t read this book somebody must have planted at
by its cover. There’s loads of some stage, and a good bridge
room for your dog to hurtle for playing Pooh Sticks, and in
around on the road side of the May there’s a sea of cow parsley
Mutton Brook (two big fields), and loads of hawthorn blossom.
and a tarmac path for your You could be in the countryside
pushchair on the Addison Way because although the A1 is just

What’s new in the Virtual Museum?

The Virtual Museum’s ambition They were opened by the Mayor
to include rooms featuring all the of Finchley, Alderman J Gordon
schools on the Suburb is nearing Bryson JP on 18 May 1954.
fruition, now that Brookland The Museum’s records
Infant and Junior Schools have illustrating the early Suburb are
joined Garden Suburb and also expanding, with Kay
Henrietta Barnett Schools in Graham and David Pearlman
displaying records and photos having kindly agreed to allow
for all to see. Go to hgsheritage. picture postcards from their
org.uk and you too can visit the collections to be scanned in to
Virtual Museum. supplement those in the Raymond
Go to ‘Organisations’ on the Lowe Collection and appear
home page and check out online in the very near future.
Brookland’s fascinating history, Do you have memorabilia
which began when the school relevant to the Suburb’s history
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