London’s open air museum: buildings, famous people, nature, social history. HIGHGATE NORTH HILL – The most architecturally diverse residential street in London?
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The Northern Heights Partnership
The Northern Heights Partnership is an alliance of four not-for-profit organisations, co-ordinated by the Highgate Society, whose common aim is to protect and promote the historic heritage and natural beauty of London’s Northern Heights.
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Helping in community and civic affairs
The Society has supported a number of important local community projects, such as the saving and renovation of Hampstead Town Hall as an arts and educational centre,
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Town and Planning – who does what
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Keeping Hampstead Special
In the late l980s developers applied for permission to raze New End Hospital to the ground. Once again a fine Victorian building seemed doomed to destruction
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Commemorative Plaques in Hampstead
by Juliette Sonabend. Hampstead has been home to many famous and influential people, from those who have changed the way we think, to those who have changed the way we shop.
Read MoreGround response to basement development in Camden
Summary of a talk to the Society on 23 May 2013 by Dr Michael de Freitas, Chartered Geologist and Director of First Steps Ltd, also Emeritus Reader of Engineering Geology at Imperial College London. What every resident should know about geology, groundwater and basement excavation
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Read MoreAvoiding party wall aggro
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Read MoreWhat’s really causing your subsidence?
The ingredients that contribute to subsidence are: London Clay, water, trees and leaking drains. Trees however only have a ‘walk-on’ part: they do not contribute to subsidence without the primary role of water acting on clay first…
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