Jen Pedler's photos with the keyword: N6

... but don't cycle!

Is this a street name sign? It's on a pillar by the bottom entrance of Highgate East Cemetery in Chester Road. The bottom certainly looks as if it reads 'Road' but I can't really make out the top part (although occasionally I can convince myself that it says 'Chester'!)

You really couldn't read this one unless you already knew what it said!

Off Hornsey Lane, Highgate - just next to the covered reservoir.

Sort of cross between a street name sign and sculpture.

Choice of steps or slope...

Leading to Southwood Lawn Road

What is the missing part of the inscription? And what sort of creature is it? (And btw, where?)

Highgate, N6. Leading from the bottom of West Hill by Parliament Hill Fields up to South Grove, Highgate Village. Highgate Cemetery and Waterlow Park bound each side towards the top end. "This thoroughfare is mentioned as far back as the year 1492 as "Swayneslane," though the less euphonious form usually employed until last century was "Swines Lane." It was one of four parallel routes up the hill to the village, viz. West Hill, Bromwich Walk, Swain's Lane and Dartmouth Hill. Bromwich Walk never developed beyond a footpath and has disappeared. The use of Swain's Lane was mainly to provide access to the adjacent farm lands on either side and there were no dwellings in it except at a few yards from the upper end." From 'Swain's Lane', Survey of London: volume 17: The parish of St Pancras part 1: The village of Highgate (1936), pp. 39-40. In British History Online