Where is inglis barracks

The barracks itself was scheduled for disposal and ultimately demolition. Suitable commemorative plaques have been displayed to describe its former purpose and history. The work of the Trust received fresh impetus as we approached the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. Academic teaching packages were prepared in conjunction with local schools. Services and ceremonies were arranged, and various local anniversaries were supported.

In due course, the centenaries of the awarding of the Victoria Cross to two former Barnet residents will be marked with parades and stone-laying ceremonies. In particular, research was conducted into the history of Private John Parr of the Middlesex Regiment, a Finchley boy, who became the first British soldier to die in action in the Great War.

The Association provided a memorial stone outside his former home at 52 Lodge Lane N12, and arranged a number of ceremonies locally in his memory. Professional research identified members of his family, allowing them to be involved in many of the ceremonies, and in the associated national publicity.

Interestingly Richard Seifert lived locally. In , when he returned from the army, Seifert bought himself a modest semi-detached house in Milespit Hill, which remained his home until his death in Rather than move, he enlarged it over time by purchasing and demolishing three neighbouring properties to make room for expansion.

Continue walking along this street which becomes possibly one of the shortest and least commercial high streets in London. There are no actual commercial premises here. As you get to the end take a look across the little green and main road at the white boarded property. This is our next stop. This is a late 17th century house, which has a plaque announcing it was a Quaker Meeting house from to It was apparently often visited by George Fox, founder of the Quakers. But he was always travelling around so I guess this is a claim for pretty much all the early Quaker meeting houses.

Continue along the main road and on your left are the various buildings of Mill Hill School. Mill Hill School is a coeducational independent day and boarding school with around pupils.

It has an impressive array of buildings with a rather grand one built by Sir William Tite in the mid s as its centrepiece. This was his first major work and he went on to build the Royal Exchange, South Metropolitan Cemetery in Norwood and a lot of railway stations, one of which we saw in SW And of course Tite Street in SW3 was named after him. The site was the location of Ridgeway House which was the home of 18th century botanist and avid gardener Peter Collinson — Collinson was a cloth merchant, largely trading with North America, but his real love was gardening.

In the s he began importing seeds from North America for English collectors to grow the newly discovered plants here. Collinson maintained an extensive correspondence and was friendly with notable scientists in London and abroad including Hans Sloane, Carolus Linnaeus, and Benjamin Franklin.

This turns out to be nothing to do with the school. It was transplanted here in from the site of the Inglis Barracks which were down the road and are being redeveloped for housing. The Barracks were also the location of the headquarters of the British Forces Post Office from to This was built in the late s so just about the same time as the William Tite school building as a chapel for the anti-slave campaigner, William Wilberforce, who had a house up the road on Highwood Hill.

It was consecrated in It does almost look like it is a film set. Now it is quite a way to get to Mill East Station and although there are some things on the way the National Institute for Medical Research, started in and finished in ; the site of Inglis Barracks, now being redeveloped as housing , we have probably walked far enough, so I suggest hopping on a bus to get you to Mill Hill East station, our final stop. But I just have to include this just to reinforce the rural image — it is a picture taken at the end of St Vincents Lane, which is a little along the main road towards Mill Hill East.

This is perhaps one of the most unusual stations on the London Underground. It at the end of a single track spur line with just a single platform. It also one of the few Underground stations without any ticket barriers. We heard about the ambitions plans in the s for this line but when the war came, a passenger service as part of the Northern line was created just to here in because of the Inglis Barracks. The Inglis Barracks site was sold by the Ministry of Defence in and is now being redeveloped for housing.

Also just near this station was a gasworks established in by the North Middlesex Gas Company and the line was used to deliver coal to the works. The gasworks is now occupied by Waitrose. Here by the way is a link to a fascinating story about a walk along the route of the disused line. So we are now at the end of our NW7 journey. You are now at Mill Hill East station which has a regular Underground service, although for most of the day you now have to change at Finchley Central.

But it is not all countryside as can be seen from our first stop. Stop 1: Mill Hill Broadway station Now this is an uninspiring station — and another one that has lost its original buildings and has little character as a result. Stop 3: Athene House former Capitol Cinema This green building may look like a modern office block but actually it was once a cinema called the Capitol.

Stop 4: Marshalls Estate Suddenly on the right you come across a late Victorian gated estate. Stop 5: Number 32 Parkside Keep walking along Parkside and on the right just before you get to a turning called The Rise, is Number And just by the almshouses is a terrace of modern mews type buildings, called Angel Cottages.

Stop 9: Rosebank This is a late 17th century house, which has a plaque announcing it was a Quaker Meeting house from to Stop Mill Hill School Mill Hill School is a coeducational independent day and boarding school with around pupils. In the Depot expanded and took over the nearby 18th-century Army barracks. The attack killed one soldier, injured nine more and destroyed large parts of the barracks. The Royal Regiment of Artillery had its headquarters here from until , when it was moved to Larkhill Garrison.

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