The Anonymous Widower

On to Chalk Farm

I had intended to go to Hampstead using the North London Line from Highbury and Islington station.  But that line is closed for a few month for an upgrade, so I decided to take the Victoria and Northern lines instead.  But I changed my mind and instead of going all the way to Hampstead, I got off the tube at Chalk Farm.

Chalk Farm Station

I’d used this station many times, as in the early seventies I’d commuted from our fourth-floor walk-up flat in St. John’s Wood to ICI Plastics Division at Welwyn Garden City, by walking to Chalk Farm and then going to Kings Cross to get the train.  It was actually a pleasant commute, as I was going the wrong way most of the time.

Some things never change and Marine Ices is still there.

Marine Ices, Chalk Farm

The shop was one of the pleasures of when we lived in the area.

And then there is The Roundhouse.

The Roundhouse

I went there for a coffee.  It was good.

But it wasn’t the first time that I’d been there.  I’d seen a couple of shows over the years at the venue, including the amazing de la Guarda.

But I do have one very bad memory of Chalk Farm.  It was there that I was stopped by the police whilst driving a wreck of a Triumph Herald that I bought that I really shouldn’t have bought.  I remember parking it on this road here before I got it towed to the dump.

Regents Park Road, Chalk Farm

It was all different then in 1971 or so, with no flats and no parking restrictions.

March 13, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel, World | Chalk Farm, London, London Underground