This is Highgate! - door and glass-panelled shopfront, Highgate, London, November 2023

Thursday doors – 25 April 2024 – Doors from Highgate, London

Doors 262 – Doors from Highgate, London, November 2023 (Part I)

Last November I went to London to visit one of my uncles who has been rather unwell. He lives in  Highgate in North London, where I lived for much of the first eighteen years of my life. After paying my uncle a visit, I thought I’d nip up to Highgate Village which was once so familiar to me when I was growing up, and where I went to secondary school.

Of course when I lived there I never really took in the special place, the architecture and of course the doors – I think appreciation of doors is something that comes with age. This post is the first of several selections of doors that I managed to snap in the space of an hour, before a rapid retreat back to Bristol. My uncle, in case you are wondering, is recovering well albeit quite slowly. I hope you enjoy this week’s selection:

This is Highgate! - door and glass-panelled shopfront, Highgate, London, November 2023
This is Highgate! – door and glass-panelled shopfront, Highgate, London, November 2023
The gates to Waterlow Park where I spent many happy moments, Highgate, London, November 2023
The gates to Waterlow Park where I spent many happy moments, Highgate, London, November 2023
High security door? Highgate, London, November 2023
High security door? Highgate, London, November 2023
Park View blue door, Highgate, London, November 2023
Park View blue door, Highgate, London, November 2023
Yellow door with fancy crest, Highgate, London, November 2023
Yellow door with fancy crest, Highgate, London, November 2023
Red door and steps, Highgate, London, November 2023
Red door and steps, Highgate, London, November 2023
Green door with large flat awning and worn steps, Highgate, London, November 2023
Green door with large flat awning and worn steps, Highgate, London, November 2023
Grey doors of the Angel Inn where many happy hours were spent, Highgate, London, November 2023
Grey doors of the Angel Inn where many happy hours were spent, Highgate, London, November 2023

Spending time in Highgate and writing this post now fills me with nostalgia. There will be plenty more doors to come from Highgate in the next few weeks. May I wish you a very happy weekend.

If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.

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10 thoughts on “Thursday doors – 25 April 2024 – Doors from Highgate, London”

  1. You captured some great doors, Steve, and all the primary colors. The featured door and the blue door at Park View are my favorites, but not by much. It’s always nice to return to a place you called home. I hope your uncle continues to improve.

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  4. Excellent doors, Steve. I like the Englefield House and Parkview Mansion entrances. Rather elegant luxurious feel to them. Love the Angel Inn facade, attractive grey doors adds great highlights to the stone work. Great share.

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