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Avenue House from East End Road. Avenue House (also known as Stephens House) is a large Victorian mansion (Grade II listed) situated on East End Road in Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet.
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.
In February 2014 the estate was relaunched and rebranded, in conjunction with a Heritage Lottery Fund bid, as Stephens House and Gardens. South, along Regents Park Road, is College Farm, the last farm in Finchley (entrance in Fitzalan Road), and a statue, referred to locally as "The Naked Lady", but more properly named La Délivrance. [7]
Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834), Anglo-German inventor and bookseller, died in Finchley. 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 ...
Grounds of Stephens House, 17 East End Road: 2014: John Somerville — Statue on bench — [15] Susanna Wesley: East Finchley Methodist Church, High Road, East Finchley: 2022: Simon O'Rouke — Wooden statue — Unveiled 2022, the first public sculpture of Wesley.
Another of his achievements was the landscaping in the 1870s of the grounds of Avenue House, Finchley, north London, the property of ink magnate and local MP Henry Charles Stephens. After Stephens' death in 1918 they became a public park, renamed Stephens House & Gardens in February 2014.
Autry Stephens built Endeavor Energy into one of the biggest private oil producers and sold the company this spring, but died before the deal closed. Autry Stephens sold his company for $26 ...
Stephens was born at 71 York Road, Lambeth, London on 2 February 1841, the son of Dr Henry Stephens and his second wife Anne, of Redbourn, Hertfordshire.Dr Henry Stephens (1796–1864) was the inventor in 1832 of an indelible "blue-black writing fluid" which was to become famous as Stephens' Ink and to form the foundation of a successful worldwide company for over 150 years.