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Crouch End is an area of north London , in the London Borough Of Haringey . The area is in the Hornsey And Wood Green constituency. Before 1965 it was administratively part of the old Borough of Hornsey , which in 1933-5 built the strikingly modernistic Hornsey Town Hall as a civic focus and community centre. GEOGRAPHY Crouch End is in a valley between Crouch Hill and Highgate to the south and west, Harringay to the east, and Hornsey , Muswell Hill and Alexandra Park to the north. To the immediate west, it is bounded by Highgate Woods, and the adjacent Queen's Wood, as well as a large expanse of playing fields, and other parks in the area are Stationer's Park, Priory Park, and Alexandra Park. These give the suburb a rather greener character than others in North London. The disused railway line from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace is now a public footpath,' The Parkland Walk ', providing the area with yet more green space. LIVING IN CROUCH END It is seen by many as a desirable area to live in as it has a pleasant town centre with many shops and restaurants. It is on many bus routes, and though it has no Tube station of its own it is not too far from Highgate Tube, Finsbury Park Tube, and from Hornsey, Harringay and Crouch Hill railway stations. Famous residents have included Simon Pegg , Erasure frontman Andy Bell , Gina McKee , Andy Serkis , Neil Morrisey , Sean Hughes , Dan Stevens , Luke De Woolfson , David Tennant , Matt Willis , Ian Hart , Alan Carr , John Simm , writer and former member of Gallon Drunk and the Flaming Stars Max Decharné, Kate Kannibal out of The Priscillas , podcasters Sowerby And Luff , Rob Britton from the band Luxembourg, Brian Blowup, and members of the band Travis . {Link without Title} There is a thriving local music scene thanks to the large number of professional and amateur musicians who live there. One of the best places to see world class musicians such as Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Robin Wiiliamson, John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee is at The Kalamazoo Klub which meets every second Friday of the month at The King's Head pub. This venue also hosts live comedy, jazz, blues and other kinds of music. It is also home to Crouch End Festival Chorus , a leading symphonic Chorus which has recorded with Lesley Garrett , Bryn Terfel , Alfie Boe , EMI Classics and Classic FM as well as singing on the soundtrack for '' Doctor Who ''. They perform four concerts a year and also undertake scores of other professional engagements for concerts and recordings. NOTABLE BUILDINGS A red-brick clock-tower dominates the north end of Crouch End Broadway. Its stone placard reads:
Henry Williams was a local wine-merchant and local councillor who led the campaign to preserve Highgate Wood against threatened development. Among its more prominent buildings is Hornsey Town Hall , formerly the headquarters of the Hornsey district council, which governed the area until the creation of the larger Haringey Council. The oldest building in the area, and in Haringey, is the tower of the former Hornsey Parish Church, St. Mary's. Most of the streets in Crouch End were laid out in the late 19th century, and much of the area is now protected as a Conservation Area. HISTORY Crouch End grew up as a hamlet on the old medieval route from London to the north. It expanded greatly in Victorian times and had its own Railway Station until it closed in 1954. In 1880 an Art School was established which in May 1968, as Hornsey College Of Art , became the centre of national and even international headlines. As with similar radical protests including the Paris Sorbonne, students and lecturers occupied the building as a protest against the ideology of the teaching methods. One of the lecturers and leaders of the occupation, Kim Howells , is now a Minister in the current British government. The Art College contributed to Crouch End's former air of bohemianism, as did the nearby Mountview Theatre School . Crouch End Vampires F.C. are the local football team, a once prestigious amateur side. URBAN LEGENDS
The local comedy club, Downstairs At The King's Head, is London's oldest comedy room. Many greats of comedy have performed there, including Robin Williams, Al Murray, Eddie Izzard, Jack Dee, Robbie Coltrane, Rowan Atkinson in fact virtually every British comedian has performed there at some stage in his career. The club is run by Peter Grahame and hosted by Dominic Frisby. There are also music nights and Peter recalls one occasion when Dave Stewart was playing that saw Bill Wyman on bass, Harry Dean Stanton on harmonica with Bob Dylan watching from the audience. NOTABLE RESIDENTS
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EDUCATION For details of education in Crouch End see the London Borough Of Haringey article. NEAREST PLACES EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES # Celebrities who have lived in Crouch End # Bob Dylan rumour # Travers, Ben. The Book of Crouch End. Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1990. # I see famous people. Blog listing celebrity sightings in Crouch End |
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