Little Green Street off Highgate Road in Kentish Town is one of only a few intact Georgian streets in London.
Most of the dozen houses were built in the 1780s, are Grade ll listed, and both survived the Blitz and more than two hundred years of wear and tear from the generations who have raised their children in the narrow cobbled terrace.
The street, only 2.5m wide remains a very real threat of being turned into a truck route which would see a vehicle pass within inches of the front doors of these homes every three minutes, all day every day for up to four years down this delicate cul-de-sac.
Although, after eight years of campaigning by more than fifteen thousand people, many visitors to this site, planning permission has lapsed, Camden Council are still vascillating about whether the construction work on a gated community with an underground car park should continue.
Mad, isn't it? Read on. Much of the history is at this site. Thanks for your interest.
Just how small (and magical) is Little Green Street? See for yourself at YouTube:
Walk up Little Green Street here
Walk back down here
See our story reported on TV, in the Summer of 2006
Dave Davies of The Kinks re-visits Little Green Street, where the Kinks filmed 'Dead End Street' in 1965. Spot the difference between then and now. Oh, yeah - no trucks.
Here it is in its original full black and white glory.
