UNDER KEN WOOD

UNDER KEN WOOD

By NEIL TITLEY

© N Titley 2016

 

Hampstead pond at South End Green

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Depiction of the projected motorway through SEG

 

The onion sellers bicycle on Hampstead High St 1998
The Load of Hay in 1997

 

South End Green in 1745 – Pond St in the distance – the site of the Magdala in the foreground

 

South End Green roughly around the time of RB Sheridan’s arrest

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Keats House in Keats Grove, near SEG

 

The grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery – with the writer

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The Stag Inn, scene of Dr Crippen’s last drink in the UK before flight

 

The Isoken Building, Lawn Road

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Memorial to George Orwell at Warwick Mansions, SEG

 

The White Horse pub with Orwell’s clock – currently Cork and Bottle.

 

Item in the Ham and HIgh around the time of the hacking scandal.

 

Triffid Alley, SEG – the gate.
Triffid Alley SEG – the passage

 

Starbucks Cafe, South End Green

 

Willow Road, home of Erno Goldfinger

 

The Jim Henson bench at the top of Parliament Hill

 

Alley off Hampstead High St, named after Marty Feldman

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The East Heath Road home of Thomas Crapper, Marty Feldman, and Boy George.

 

Air Studios, Lyndhurst Road

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Wham Corner on Roslyn Hill – made famous by George Michael
Michael Foot and the Hampstead MP Glenda Jackson

 

Parliament Hill Fields

 

Scene of the 1960s concerts

 

Parliament Hill Fields bandstand

 

Bookseller and ‘angel’ Anthony Wilson

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Bronco and his friend Peter Cook

Church Row, Hampstead
Hampstead Ponds
‘The Writer’ installation on Hampstead Heath

 

The Railway Tavern SEG around 1995 – later the Garden Gate

 

The phone box that featured in ‘Smiley’s People’

 

The 2001 Arts Project at the ABC cinema – later Marks and Spencer

 

The end of the SEG cinema – site of the M and S store

 

Everyman Cinema, Belsize Park

 

Poet Adrian Mitchell at Roderick Road, near SEG

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Roslyn Hill in 1881 by George Clausen 1852-1944
Roslyn Hill in 2015 – the roadworks were completed in 2014
The Royal Free Hospital – with additions
Posy Simmonds

The Magdala Tavern, South End Green, Hampstead

 

Derren Nesbit in ‘Where Eagles Dare’.
Paul Whitson-Jones, actor and bon viveur

 

Sylvia Whitson-Jones, Magdala regular

 

Ernie the taxi driver

 

Pub sign with representation of the Magdala battle

 

Vesna Stojanac’s poster for the Magdala Video Shop in Belgrade, Serbia.

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The Magdala Bar, Addis Ababa Ethiopia

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Documents relating to Ruth Ellis in the Magdala Bar

 

Mary Watson, landlady of the Magdala 1989-1997

 

Mary Watson’s amended notice and the ‘bullet holes’ – Magdala Tavern

 

Kirsty Wark of the BBC outside the Magdala

 

Play about Ruth Ellis at the Magdala – by Fiona Ellison

 

Mary Watson, landlady of the Magdala 1989-1997 (with Oscar Wilde)

 

Christiana Baehr (right), landlady of the Magdala 1997-

 

Bagpiper Dave Brookes being arrested for ‘carrying an offensive weapon’

 

South End Green entrance to Hampstead Heath

 

Parliament Hill

 

Inspector Ken Avis and Annie Scott

 

Alan Booth in doorway of the Railway Tavern. Also Dave Thomson and Keith Jacques

 

Jamie Jamieson-Black in the Magdala

 

The Marathon Café, Chalk Farm

 

The site of the Tunnel Club, now an optician’s shop

 

Robin Garland in the Magdala

 

Steven Mercer in the Magdala

 

Hampstead Heath in winter

 

 

Dog Show at the Garden Gate, SEG

From left to right: Jane McClintock, Andrew Hobday, Tony Elworthy, Terry Weil, David, Peter Bialsky, the Hoffmeister Peter Alderson-Smith, Jonathon, Dave Gravelle. Outside the Magdala Tavern circa 1983

 

Invitation to Miners money-raising event: Heidi Lee and Brian Loughrin 1984

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Tony Elworthy about to take strike at the Miners Cricket Match in Parliament Hill Fields, 1984

Peter Alderson-Smith at the Miners Cricket Match 1984

 

Julia Davote

 

John McDonnell, MP in 2006

 

Hampstead ponds swimming pool

 

Parliament Fields

 

Bernard Kelly

 

Aerial view of Parliament Hill, SEG

 

Hampstead pond

 

South End Green fountain

 

SEG Festival

 

SEG Festival

 

Bernard Kelly on Hampstead Heath 1984

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Bernard Shaw portrait in the Magdala saloon bar

 

 

 

Tony Elworthy

 

View of the Magdala across the roofs of SEG

 

The Old Bailey Door, minus knob

 

Dave Quinlan

 

Concert at the lake of Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath

 

Quinlan cartoon

 

Bill Driscoll

 

Hampstead Heath in winter

 

The site of the Old Prompt Corner Chess Café, now part of a coffee chain

 

Terry Weil

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St John’s Church, Downshire Hill

 

Declan Mulholland

 

Declan Mulholland in an advert of the 1980s

 

Le Gaffe restaurant, Heath St, Hampstead

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Paul Williams

 

Cumnor Pond, with flowers in Paul Williams’ memory

 

‘Big Nick’ Henderson

 

‘Big Nick’ Henderson’s grave in Highgate Cemetery

 

Pat McEwan’s ‘memorial’ bench

 

Simon Regan

 

 

Winter on Roderick Road, SEG

 

Angus James

 

Winter on Pond Street, SEG

 

Winter on South End Green

 

The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm

 

Michael ‘Peachey’ March with lady friend

 

Les Hyde playing the squeezebox

 

The Fleet Road chip shop, formerly ‘Michael’s’

 

Champagne Charlie

 

Beryl Kelly

 

Brian Snoaden

 

Keith Ley

 

Brian and Nadia Kettell. with Scamp

 

‘Lion’, the Peace Campaigner of SEG

 

Nice Brian

 

Flying Brian
Brian

 

Brian McDermott

 

The Water Rats Pub, formerly Pindar of Wakefield, Bob Dylan’s first UK gig

 

Marion Wight

 

Sasthi Brata

 

Locals at Hampstead Pond, SEG

 

Site of Sasthi Brata’s wine bar on Fleet Rd, now a café

 

 

Richard Ford

 

Victorian Savernake Road, SEG

 

Cornish Pat 9pm

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Hairy Richard

 

Cornish Pat 10pm

 

Cornish Pat 11pm

 

Eddie Linden (with Tony Elworthy)

 

‘Work’ by Ford Madox Brown 1863 – set in Heath Street, Hampstead

 

Locals in the Magdala 1985

 

Locals at the Magdala 2015

The Black Cap, Camden High St

 

The Black Cap, Camden High St – fighting back

 

The Falcon Site, now a private house 

Baxter Mitchell in 2012

 

Locals at the Magdala 2015

 

Torriano Meeting House

 

John Rety

 

The Roslyn Arms (aka Bar Room Bar)

 

Little Steve

 

Leonie Scott-Matthews at Pentameters Theatre

 

The Belsize Tavern

 

The Coach and Horses

 

The Horse and Groom
Jack Straw’s Castle
The King of Bohemia
The Old White Bear.

Danny Mulligan

 

Camden Lock

 

Chalk Farm Road, Camden

 

Camden Lock

 

Camden Lock

 

Camden Lock

 

Danny Mulligan

 

Camden Lock

 

Camden Lock

 

Camden Tube station

 

Camden High Street

 

Andrew Hobday – the Haydn concert

 

Roger Howsam

 

John Southgate

 

John Croucher and Rigsby the Singing Dog

 

Julie Felix in 2013

 

The off licence owner subsequent to serving Jonathan Ross

 

Mary Watson’s last night 1997

 

St Stephens Church, Pond St, SEG

 

Under Ken Wood

 

Tony Joyce – the patron saint of the Magdala

Tony and Jenny
Brendan

 

Extra Photographs – Magdala Locals in the 1990s

Angela
John

Billy

David

Derek
A visitor
Gaby
Graham
Renete
Jan with Jim
Jason
Jeff
Jo and her niece
Katie
Keith and Michael’s dog
Jim and Jackie
Margaret
Mark and Marguerite
Meyrick
Michael
Michael, David and Nikki
Michael
Michaela, Brendan and Pete
Mike
Lyndon and Neil

 

Nigel
Norma
Tam
Old Tom
Pat
Patsy
Peter Fitz
Pete and Poppy
Prof. Mike
Robin
Steven
Steve
Sue
The Aussie
The Zemlo Brothers
Tom
Tony
Tristan
Uncle Ted and Ginger Tom
Lyndon and Vesna

Georgina

Bob the Librarian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian
Chris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris

David

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danny

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan

Elaine and Julia

Lesley
Martin

Colonel Chris and the Royal Free medics

David, Kim, Jane, Spikey

Annie, Annat, Ashley, John