Report - Six of the best from Bishops Avenue, London - April/May 2019

[brie11973]

back in the 90's I was a copper at a nearby police station....we had a callout for attempted theft of some curtains from an empty property on Bishops. The owner met us there and was livid there was not much we could do in protecting an essentially empty property. The curtains were worth thousands but the property stood empty,alarmed,but left for months, years even.

 

[Iceobelle]

Absolutely love that retro staircase. Makes sense for these to all be in the same report, nice to compare them. Nice one

 

[TheRealBenHughes]

I really want to explore here but looking it up on google maps there seems to be a cctv camera sign, curious to know how you would go about here without getting caught.

 

[Username2022]

I can remember driving along the Bishops Avenue numerous times in the seventies & eighties in the course of my work as a med/surg sales exec. It was a handy shortcut from Highgate to the North Circular Road. The houses were, with few exceptions, ridiculously overblown examples of what people with more money than they knew what to do with could dream up, or pay an architect to go off on one! It's hard to reconcile the fact that these multi-million pound palaces are now left empty to decay .. why weren't they sold or lived in by others? Doesn't make any sense! If these places are eventually bulldozed and a property developer is allowed to build a housing estate, those dwellings will need to be of the very highest quality and specification, otherwise current residents will be in uproar, for fear the tone of the place and the value of their houses become affected. It'll be a case of watch this space and revisit in 10 years, I guess.

Exactly. Rich people. Boggles the mind. Those swimming pools would have once had people relaxing oblivious to the woes or regular people i ntheir high rise flats. Wonder how they ever reconciled things with themselves if they ever did. where did they go? Maybe they put them on the market, and this is the top of the chain, and they couldn't/wouldn't lower the asking price and this is the result.

 

[bobdobelina]

Does anyone know if these are all still standing?

 

[pirate]

Does anyone know if these are all still standing?

Best off just going and having a look……the road is in a constant state of abandonment/redevelopment,just look on Google maps sat view

 

[bobdobelina]

Best off just going and having a look……the road is in a constant state of abandonment/redevelopment,just look on Google maps sat view

Good idea, I’ll check Google when I’m ready to go. I’m in Liverpool so it’ll be a few months before I can get down there

 

[Hoz9]

I went to Bishops Ave today and it seems all good lots of kids though. Might be an armadillo so be careful, and avoid being seen bc rich mfs will call feds. Besides that be careful bc the floors are falling

 

[Bikin Glynn]

I went to Bishops Ave today and it seems all good lots of kids though. Might be an armadillo so be careful, and avoid being seen bc rich mfs will call feds. Besides that be careful bc the floors are falling

they are all fkd, burnt out or demolished, shame really.

 

[Wastelandr]

The Towers is one of the few left and that's gone down hill lots, many have been demolished and burnt out

 

[W0LF]

Oak Lodge is still there. There was a fire last year though.