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Thursday doors – 16 May 2024 – Doors from Highgate, London

Doors 264 – Doors from Highgate, London, November 2023 (Part IV)

This week I am incredibly pressed for time, so this will be a very short entry. My late afternoon doorscursion back in November 2023 through my old ‘manor’, Highgate village, continues in this penultimate collection from North London.

I really wanted to talk about all the pubs in Highgate, because when I was a teenager, all the talk was that Highgate had more pubs on the main street than anywhere else in the country. I have no idea if this was true, but the following is a list of them (all within a few hundred yards), starting halfway down Highgate Hill:

  • Brendan the Navigator, used to be called The Old Crown Inn – it has obviously gone up-market.
  • The Duke’s Head
  • The Angel
  • The Prince of Wales
  • The Crown
  • The Gatehouse (featured below)
  • The Flask (featured below)
  • The Red Lion and Sun
  • The Wrestlers
  • The Bull

I hope you enjoy this week’s selection:

The Gatehouse entrance door and lamp, Highgate , London, November 2023
The Gatehouse entrance door and lamp, Highgate , London, November 2023
The Flask entrance (please use other door), Highgate , London, November 2023
The Flask entrance (please use other door), Highgate , London, November 2023
Blue door with fine columns and portico, Highgate, London, November 2023
Blue door with fine columns and portico, Highgate, London, November 2023
Triple panelled black door, Highgate, London, November 2023
Triple panelled black door, Highgate, London, November 2023
Chesterfield door and fine scalloped awning, Highgate, London, November 2023
Chesterfield door and fine scalloped awning, Highgate, London, November 2023
The Old Hall gate and door, Highgate , London, November 2023
The Old Hall gate and door, Highgate, London, November 2023

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.

by Scooj

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Distraction

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An evening out

celebrating sixty years

of Jonathan G

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by Scooj

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Doors 64

Well I’m back from my short holiday in the French Alps, and have a few doors from there to share with you, but probably in a week or two. This week I am going to share five Bristol doors from alms houses and public houses… both rich veins to tap when searching for some door action.

Seeing these doors, which I consider to be fairly ordinary, as I publish them makes me realise that it is all too easy to take things for granted – one or two of them are crackers.

Enjoy…

Pub door (but not the main entrance), Bristol, March 2019
Pub door (but not the main entrance), Bristol, March 2019

Pub door, Bristol, March 2019
Pub door, Bristol, March 2019

Pub door, Bristol, March 2019
Pub door, Bristol, March 2019

Alms house door, Bristol, March 2019
Alms house door, Bristol, March 2019

Many more doors to be admired by following the links at the end of the brilliant Norm 2.0 blog: Thursday Doors – Norm 2.0

Until next time,

Scooj.

 

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Doors 48

This week I have pulled out some pictures I took back in July with Thursday Doors in mind. They are of a very popular pub in the centre of Bristol, the Llandoger Trow in King Street, diagonally opposite the very recently refurbished Theatre Royal.

The Llandoger Trow gets its name from a small village in South Wales, Llandogo, and a trow, which is a flat-bottomed sailing boat that could lower its mast for navigating under bridges. It was named by a former owner of the pub, Captain Hawkins, who lived in Llandogo.

Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol
Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol

The building dates from 1664 but it was damaged during the war, like so many buildings in Bristol, and originally had five gable fronted sections – it had been a row of houses. In the middle, the pub has an 18th century shop front, but the doors although they look old are in fact 20th century, the door frames much older.

Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol
Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol

I love the way that around old buildings grow great stories, some of which might be based on some kind of truth, but many are part of our urban mythology. One story says that the pub was the inspiration behind Robert Louis Stevenson’s Admiral Benbow in Treasure Island, another story is that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe here.

Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol
Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol

No self-respecting old building is complete without a ghost and the Llandoger Trow boasts some fifteen of them! Can’t say I’ve ever seen one, although I have seen some rather deathly looking characters emerge at closing time.

Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol
Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol

And round the side is a rather ordinary door and this ‘upside down’ window.

Window, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol
Door, Llandoger Trow, King Street, Bristol

And that’s it for this week.

by Scooj

More fabulous doors at: Thursday Doors – Norm 2.0

Pub crawl

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Leaving dos galore

farewells to long-time colleagues

drowning my sorrows. 

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by Scooj 

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* written whilst walking between pubs. 

101. Partition Street

I have visited the Three Tuns pub on many occasions. A few years ago it was an office favourite for farewell dos – at that time the public sector was being hit by harsh cuts, and many of my friends lost their jobs. It may become a favoured venue again as further cuts are in train for this year.

Zesk, Partition Street, Bristol, January 2016
Zesk, Partition Street, Bristol, January 2016

This cheerful mural by Zesk has appeared very recently (Early January 2016) and is something of a departure from his usual wildstyle burners. As with many of the street artists in Bristol, Zesk has close links with the hip hop music scene. There is little more I can tell you about him, but he keeps his Flickr account up to date.

Zesk, Partition Street, Bristol, January 2016
Zesk, Partition Street, Bristol, January 2016

There is something about this piece that reminds me of some of Inkie’s work. I think it will grow on me, especially as I will walk past it most days.

7.5/10