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Place of interest |
Underground Tube Station/directions |
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Britain's best known women's prison Kinks link : Song title |
Holloway Road (P) North on Holloway Road, left into Camden Road, jail at junction with Parkhurst Road. |
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Pub in north London. Kinks link : Scene of "Muswell Hillbillies" cover photo. The building behind the corrugated sheeting, behind Ray, is a shop front, with the sign "Cats on Holiday". The street with Cats on Holiday in is called Retcar Street. This is not shown on the map, but it cut off the northwest corner of the junction of Dartmouth Park Hill and Raydon Street. This is pretty close to Archway tube station - just a little west of it. warning: the inside of the pub has changed from when the Kinks took that wonderful photo at the bar. |
Archway (N) It's right there by the tube station. |
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Arsenal FC Soccer club and underground station in north London. To learn about the soccer club, click. Kinks link : Davies brothers are fanatical supporters of Arsenal F.C. |
Arsenal (P) NE on Gillespie Road. (off map) |
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Highgate Hill Street in north London. Kinks link : mentioned in "London" Note: Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetary. |
Archway (N) Highgate Hill runs past station. |
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Hornsey Art College College attended by Ray and his "Art School Babe" |
Archway (N) Up St John's Way to T-junction, left into Hazelville Road, right into Hornsey Lane, left into Crouch End Hill. College is on right. |
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The Flask Pub in north London Kinks link :Location of some publicity shots for Muswell Hillbillies. |
Archway(N). Up Highgate Hill, then Highgate High Street. Left into Highgate West Hill. |
| The Boston
Venue for the annual Kinks Konvention. |
Tuffnell Park Turn right out of the station and you will see the Boston opposite. |
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Location for the Dead End Street Promo. (no 4 is the house used, and the tunnel is on College Lane, which crosses Little Green Street.
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Tuffnell Park
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Also, if you want to take your picture at the spot where the Kinks posed for the Muswell Hillbillies album - the one where they are standing on an island, in the middle of the road by a sign to Muswell Hill, this is off to the northwest of our section of the Archway map. It is the corner of Southwood Lane and Kingsley Gdns, according to Peter. Up Highgate Hill, then Highgate High Street, then right into Southwood Lane. Hikers of a robust constitution may want to walk on to Ken Wood, the location of the VGPS and Kinda Kinks (Marble Arch re-release) cover photos. This is part of Hampstead Heath, the well-known gay meeting area. Up Highgate Hill, then Highgate High Street. Left into Highgate West Hill, right into Merton Lane, then follow the footpath past Highgate ponds and bear right to Ken Wood.
"If you're ever up on highgate hill on a clear day, I'll be there"
"They got my baby in Holloway Jail"
Choose a map (each shows a small portion of London): Abbey, Archway, Berkeley, Soho, Waterloo, Lavender, Muswell, Savile, and Victoria.
| B - Bakerloo (brown) | M - Metropolitan (purple) |
| Ce - Central (red) | N - Northern (black) |
| Ci - Circle (yellow) | P - Piccadilly (dark blue) |
| D - District (green) | V - Victoria (light blue) |
| J - Jubilee (grey) |
