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The Spike Milligan memorial bench in the garden of Avenue House in Finchley. Spike Milligan lived locally for many years up to his death in 2002. He was the first President of the Finchley Society. For a decade after his death the Society, led by Barbara Warren, raised funds – the Spike Milligan Statue Fund – to commission a statue of Spike.
Avenue House Grounds is a ten-acre (four hectares) Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation on East End Road in Church End, Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The estate is now known as Stephens House & Gardens.
To the southeast along East End Road are two institutions of note: Avenue House, built in 1859 and home to the Finchley Society, and a Jewish cultural centre, the Sternberg Centre. Avenue House was the home of Henry 'Inky' Stephens (1841-1918), son of Dr Henry Stephens (1796-1864) who founded the Stephens Ink Company, the first producers of ...
Henry Stephens (1796–1864), who founded the Stephens Ink company, and his son Henry Charles Stephens, who was the local Member of Parliament (MP) from 1887 until 1900, lived in Finchley: Henry Charles in Avenue House which he left, in 1918, as a bequest to the people of Finchley, along with its grounds, now known as Stephens House and Gardens.
St Alban's Catholic Church, North Finchley; St Mary-at-Finchley Church; St Michael's Catholic Grammar School; St Anne's House, East Finchley; St Margaret's United Reformed Church, Finchley; Sternberg Centre; Strawberry Vale Estate
The Bishops Avenue, London N2, connects the north side of Hampstead Heath at Kenwood (Hampstead Lane), Hampstead to East Finchley and lies near or, at the south end, on the boundary between the London Boroughs of Barnet and Haringey. It is considered to be one of the wealthiest streets in the world.
The house was demolished and the remnants of the estate sold in 1936. Finchley Lodge (from which Lodge Lane takes its name) may have existed by 1564 and was certainly there by 1667. Finally there was Woodside House, again possibly a medieval property but certainly known by 1699, around which a small hamlet had developed by the 1750s.
Strawberry Vale, East Finchley, N2 9AA: House: c.1825–26: 4 June 1971 1359105 ... House: 1911 [1] 18 March 1965 1064861: The Vicarage: Waterlow Court ...