Highgate to Crouch End walk

Duke’s Head Yard, Highgate, 1940 image

Highgate to Crouch End Walking Tour: Modernism, Public Art and Green Spaces

A walk with Andrew Scoones HonFRIBA

Saturday 20th July at 1100hrs. Meet at Gail’s Bakery at the bottom of Swains Lane

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A walk that explores an area where modernism clings tenuously amongst the traditional, taking in several boroughs, inspiring architecture, sorry tales, planning squabbles, uplifting sculptures and some surprisingly diverse walls and fences. Although we will be looking at a number of modernist buildings the walk will focus on the spaces and boundaries between them and how the place is shaped by these aspects. It is an eclectic journey through everyday gems that you might often miss, accompanied by some personal views on buildings, boundaries, public spaces and what make good places to live. 

Tour includes: St Anne’s Close, 81 Swain’s Lane, Duke’s Head Yard, some schools, some sculptures and a few bits of Victoriana too. Finishing in Crouch End (Hornsey Town Hall).

Hornsey Town Hall, shortly after completion

Tour guide Andrew Scoones is Treasurer of Docomomo UK a former Director of the Building Centre, an erstwhile teacher of architectural history, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and a Highgate resident for nearly 30 years. 

The tour takes about three hours, with about 90 minutes of walking with hills and rough terrain in places. It will finish in Crouch End around 1400hrs.

Hornsey Town Hall