and looking down Highgate Hill - you can see a blue haze, that's "downtown". It was at the bottom of this hill that Dick Whittington famously sat in the 14th century, listening to the bells telling him "turn again Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London".
The 210 bus turns past Highgate School, but you rarely see the pupils - there's a lot of expensive education on view here -
My Mother lived in Hampstead when she was young. She remembers that view with less trees and was distraught when she took my DD up there this summer to see it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why they've let the trees grow so tall as to block one of the most famous views from the Heath.