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North Finchley, High Road c.1965
Photo ref: N268071
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This somewhat featureless shopping centre has developed to the north of the Tally Ho pub and Tally Ho corner, which can be seen as a multi-gabled vista stopper in this photograph. Vague echoes of C F A Voysey are to be seen in the higher building in the centre; the demolition of W E Trent's Gaumont Cinema to the south of the Tally Ho in the late 1980s was a loss to the area as a whole.

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Memories of North Finchley, High Road c1965

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of North Finchley, High Road c.1965

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This picture was taken on the corner of the road I lived in, the road being Lodge Lane, which had the sorting office in it. This picture is taken looking towards the Tally Ho pub (centre), the shop on the right with the blind down is a fruit and veg shop and they had a cockatoo which used to wolf-whistle the young ladies.
We lived in North Finchley between 1966 and 1978 so I was ten in 1976 and my sister was 7. We were allowed to walk to Tally Ho corner at that age, all the way from home at Friern Watch Avenue. Memories of those forays into town, perhaps not in dateline or chronological 'shop' order, but more with nostalgic licence would include passing the very old fashioned and austere Ashbeys where our ...see more