We had a tour of rural Hampstead, the bits we didn’t know. Starting in Downshire Hill:-

Then, Gainsborough Gardens:-

I think this is a cottage on The Mount:-

The garden wall of Fenton House:-

And some cottages on Admiral’s Walk:-

We ended up walking back down the hill to the local parish church. Hard to believe it’s London:-

I had never seen Benson and Forsyth’s 1978 Branch Hill Estate on the west hillside of Hampstead: an extraordinarily well-preserved model of its time, a year before the Thatcher election. It’s based on an Italian hill-town:-

It’s been such dreary weather that I haven’t been taking any photographs, but today the sun shone:-

Nice volutes in Bedford Square:-