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Place of interest |
Underground Tube Station/directions |
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Konk Studios This is IT, the Kinks' recording studios. Run by Mick Avory, and depicted in "X Ray", go here first! Click here to see a photo of it. |
East Finchley (N) North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, which leads into Queen's Avenue, which leads into Muswell Hill. Bear left into Priory Road, which leads into High Street, Hornsey. Konk is on Church Lane and Tottenham Lane. |
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Road and Area of north London. Kinks link : In song title "Muswell Hillbillies". General area where the Davies brothers were raised. Also mentioned in "So Long". Click here for photos of the Muswell Hill Bookshop. Click here to see a photo of 87 Fortis Green, Muswell Hill, the one time home of Ray and Rasa.. |
East Finchley (N) North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, which leads into Queen's Avenue, which leads into Muswell Hill. |
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Fortis Green Kinks link :
Dave Davies song title. Click here to see a photo of it. |
East Finchley (N) North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, bear right into Fortis Green Road. The Davies house was 6, Denmark Terrace on Fortis Green Road. It has a blue door. |
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William Grimshaw School
Kinks link : School attended by the Davies brothers, from which Dave was expelled. Click here to see a photo of it. |
East Finchley (N) Left into High Road, ahead up the Great North Road, right into Creighton Avenue, School about 1/2 mile on the right. |
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Clissold Arms highly recommended Pub in Muswell Hill (this is NOT the pub on the cover of Muswell Hillbillies. that is the Archway.) Kinks link : the
Davies' father's "local". Appears in DD song "Fortis
Green". Nice staff there, good beer, and a lot of football
regulars, some for Arsenal, and some for Tottenham. |
East Finchley (N). North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green. The Clissold Arms is on Fortis Green. |
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St James' Church of England Primary School Kinks link: School attended by the young Davies brothers. |
East Finchley (N) North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, bear right into Fortis Green Road, then turn right into Muswell Hill Road. Turn right into Woodside Avenue, where the school is located. However, at the time the Davies brothers attended the school, it was located on Fortis Green, opposite Fortismere Avenue. |
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Steeds Road Street in Muswell Hill Kinks link: #59 was the home of Pete Quaife and family. Click here to see a photo of it. |
East Finchley (N) North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, left into Tetherdown, on into Coppets Road, left into Everington Road, Steeds Road is second on right. |
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"The site that used to be the local
palais." Kinks link: location for the song "Come Dancing" Formerly a dance hall, called the Athenaeum. Of course they knocked it down a long time ago. Sainsbury's have built a supermarket on the piece of land. |
East Finchley
(N) Directions : North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, bear right into Fortis Green Road, left into Athenaeum Place |
Full-size map
"That afternoon I found myself standing outside
a disused factory in north London. The old building had been used
as a studio in Raymond Douglas' heyday, but now it was covered
in graffiti. Barbed wire was wrapped around an old neon sign which
had the name Konk on it." - Ray Davies, X Ray
Choose a map (each shows a small portion of London): Abbey, Archway, Berkeley, Soho, Waterloo, Lavender, Muswell, Savile, and Victoria.
BTW: Konk is also easy to get to from the Turnpike Lane tube stop, but you're on your own for directions there....
And, from Peter: Tube connections to the area are not good at all, except for
the Fortis Green area, where Finchly is OK. For Muswell Hills Bus 134 from Tottenham
Court Road is the best connection, and for Hornsey (Konk Studio) British Rail
to Hornsey station from Kings Cross is the most convenient. E mail Peter by
clicking here.
| 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) |
Note: each tube station *name* has a letter (or several letters) next to it. This indicates which tube line the stop is on.
