Lower Halfpenny Bottom

Felled trees in Gobions Wood

Path along the south of Gobions Wood

Fields to the south of Gobions Wood

View north from platform of Brookmans Park station

Station road, immediately east of Brookmans Park station, facing east

Gobions Wood facing east on the path

Footbridge over the railway line, Brookmans Park

The pale blue structure is the parallel road bridge, carrying Station Road over the East Coast Main Line.

Shops, the south side of Bradmore Green

And no longer just shops. Built after 1950. This is the retail and services centre of Brookmans Park.

Shops, the north side of Bradmore Green

And no longer just shops. Built after 1950. This is the retail and services centre of Brookmans Park.

Houses on the south side of Brookmans Avenue

One of the earliest roads in Brookmans Park, a commuting village developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Most of these houses had been built by 1935.

The south side of Brookmans Avenue

One of the earliest roads in Brookmans Park, a commuting village developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Most of these houses had been built by 1935.

Sleeping policeman, Brookmans Avenue

Traffic management in the commuter village of Brookmans Park.

Houses on Strafford Gate

Philip Jeffrey

Leighton House, Potters Bar

Although the station at Potters Bar opened in 1850 the area around it did not become built up until well into the 20th century. Much of the town's development came after the Second World War and Leighton House on Darkes Lane was built opposite the station in the 1950s. Today it houses retail units and a dental practice on the ground floor with apartments above. See TL2501 : Leighton House taken in 2012 from roughly the same spot which shows a branch of Barclays Bank where Specsavers is now.

Darkes Lane Bridge, Potters Bar

This bridge at the south end of Potters Bar station carries the East Coast Main Line over Darkes Lane. When the railway was built a low girder design was adopted to lessen the gradient heading north through Barnet and Hadley Wood; as a consequence the roadway has had to be lowered to accommodate modern traffic. In May 2002 a serious derailment occurred on a set of points on the approach to the bridge causing a Kings Cross to Kings Lynn train to crash into the station platforms. One of the carriages struck the bridge parapet causing masonry to fall onto the road below. In addition to six passengers in the train, an elderly woman was killed while walking under the bridge. A replacement bridge had to be provided which was installed in November 2002, painted blue at the request of Hertsmere Council.

Darkes Lane, Potters Bar

This view shows the southern end of Darkes Lane where it meets Mutton Lane and there is a parade of shops on the corner. Beyond here Darkes Lane becomes Baker Street although the latter is the older name; Darkes Lane was only so-called from the early 1930s.

Candie Stop, Potters Bar

There is no missing this shop on Mutton Lane. As well as The Sun, it sells 'groceries, newspapers, lottery, confectionery, greeting cards, bus pass, off licence, Oyster, phone top up, stationery'. The free-standing boards advertise the National Lottery and the Welwyn Hatfield Times.