By Chris Guy posted on 12 Feb 2017 in Urban

London’s Inner Circle – a series of walks that I began in 2014 but have yet to finish (see previous post) continues here. This section I walked in July 2014 was from Wood Green to Arnos Grove in North London.

Featuring the 1970s architecture of the Shopping City (or The Mall Wood Green to use it’s current name), the modernist ivy-covered Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Brutalist St Paul’s Church and 1930’s modernism of  Charles Holden’s Arnos Grove and Holden-inspired Bounds Green tube stations.

Shopping City Car Park

Top Floor – Shopping City Car Park

Aerial view of a busy city high street with red double-decker buses, traffic, shopfronts and pedestrians, lined by trees and mid‑rise buildings under a pale sky.

High Road, N22

Empty rooftop car park with tyre markings, two lamp posts and a small brick structure, overlooking a sprawling suburban town under a pale, cloudy sky.

North London Skyline from the Shopping City car park

Aerial view of a suburban neighbourhood with terraced brick houses, low‑rise commercial buildings and a tree-covered hill topped by a large building and radio mast beneath an overcast sky.

View to Alexandra Palace

Wood Green town-centre with mixed housing, office blocks, a Morrisons and multi-storey car park under a grey, cloudy sky.

Looking out over N22

Two tall tower blocks rise behind a large blank shopping-centre wall, with terraced roofs, chimneys and shop signs in the foreground.

Fast Food outlets. Wood Green Shopping City

Small urban square with newly planted trees, parked vans and cars, pedestrians and cyclists, brick buildings and a multi‑storey car park under a partly cloudy sky.

Ashley Crescent, N22

Red-brick brutalist apartment block with concrete balconies, terraced planters, satellite dishes and windows against a bright blue sky.

Flats in Wood Green Shopping City

Colourful Victorian terraced houses with pitched gables and satellite dishes, backed by red-brick flats and a circular multi-storey car park.

Hornsey Park Road, N22

Urban market hall with bright pink "market hall" sign beneath a circular multi-storey car park; red awning and outdoor seating line the pavement on a busy street.

Market Hall, N22

Livingston Recording Studios. Small white-painted brick chapel with black double doors, pointed gable and arched windows, set against a pale sky on a paved forecourt.

Livingston Recording Studios, N22

Black-and-white photo of a Ladbrokes betting shop façade beneath brutalist concrete pillars, with illustrated sports icons on the lower shutters.

Ladbrokes, Wood Green Shopping City

Corrugated-metal industrial warehouse labelled 'Solar Trading Limited' with a gated entrance, roller shutter door and warning signs under a cloudy sky.

Solar Trading Limited

Rectangular building on a street corner entirely cloaked in green ivy, with a low hedge at its base, bollards and a lamp post, beneath a bright, partly cloudy sky.

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, N22

A quiet courtyard of a 1970s office block: teal-framed glass entrance, corrugated dark façade with a pink door, overgrown shrubs and a rusting gasometer visible above the roof.

Corners of London, Coburg Road N22

Brick building frontage with a blue 'Faith Miracle Centre' sign, a 'Coburg Road N22' street sign, an upper window, pavement and road.

Faith Miracle Centre

Modern church with a tall concrete cross-topped spire, red-accented roof and stepped entrance under a bright blue sky.

St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Wood Green

Black-and-white photo of low, worn single-storey buildings and a brick wall in the foreground, with tall tower-block flats looming behind and trees framing the scene.

New River Path

Brick corner building with curved bay windows under an orange 'MINICAB' 24-hour sign against a blue sky.

MINICAB 24HR

Bounds Green Underground station: 1930s brick station building with roundels, entrances, people and street crossings under a blue sky.

Bounds Green Tube Station

Brick-faced London Underground station frontage with prominent roundel signs, large glass-panelled windows and a tower against a bright blue sky.

Detail of Bounds Green Tube Station

Blue road sign indicating Southgate and A406 New Southgate beside a tree, overlooking heavy traffic with cars queued at a junction amid leafy trees and urban street lamps.

Pre-Worboys Road Signage

Terraced shops with flats above, some shuttered, colourful planters and parked cars along a busy roadside under a cloudy sky.

Go Fun Yourself

Bounds Green Construction Site

Bounds Green Construction Site

Row of suburban semi-detached brick houses with garages and cars on driveways, under a cloudy sky on a quiet residential street.

Seafield Road, Arnos Grove

Curving multi-level metal spiral staircase and walkway with red steps, tubular black canopy and security fencing beside a street with double red lines.

North Circular Road Footbridge

Row of red‑brick semi‑detached houses with bay windows and front gardens along a suburban street, a lone car parked, under an overcast sky.

North London Suburbia

Half-timbered Tudor-style building on a suburban street corner, parked cars and lamppost under a bright, cloud-dappled sky.

The Arnos Arms Harvester pub, Arnos Vale

Arnos Grove Underground station: a circular brick rotunda with people waiting outside, a London Underground roundel and a cloudy sky.

Arnos Grove Tube Station

More London

You can view the other walk in this series below:

Day 1 - Woolwich Ferry to Gallions Reach

Day 2 - Gallions Reach to East Ham

Day 3 - Beckton Triangle to Ilford

Day 4 - Ilford to South Woodford

Day 5 - South Woodford to Wood Street

Day 6 - Wood Street to Edmonton Green

Day 7 - Edmonton Green to Wood Green

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