It was another sunny day today which felt much warmer than the forecaster’s 17° C (63° F). This encouraged us to take a more roundabout path.

Baron Street

This is Baron Street which gives its name to the nearby bus stop. It runs at the far end into Chapel Market, originally called Chapel Street, which became a market officially in 1879.

Mount Zion Chapel Sunday School

White Lion Street crosses Baron Street and we turned into it on the left where I photographed this building bearing a plaque that identifies it as the Mount Zion Chapel Sunday School. It was built in 1896-7 as a dependency of the Baptist chapel of that name which was in Chadwell Street. The chapel is still there, and is still a place of worship, but has changed its name several times since the 1890s. I don’t know what purpose the Sunday School performs today or whether it still belongs to the chapel.

Dated 1923

Further along White Lion is this attractive façade. All I know about it so far is that it prominently displays the date 1923. It has two pedestrian entrances, suggesting that it might have been a school (with entrances for boys and girls), though the large central gate for vehicles suggests otherwise. Perhaps it was a warehouse or factory.

Turning down Penton Street, we crossed Pentonville Road into Claremont Square and more usual territory.

Inside the reservoir enclosure

I took this photo through the railings of the reservoir to show how nicely wild it is and how attractive it is to birds and other wildlife.

Triumph Herald

Shortly beyond where Claremont Square becomes Amwell Street, we spotted this old-timer, a Triumph Herald convertible. This model was made between 1959 and 1971, and so this one is in good condition.

I am not particularly a car enthusiast but I do remember when these were launched. I was a university student in Sheffield and remember that in advance of the launch date, they put a Herald in the local car showrooms but covered it up, presumably hoping this would arouse people’s curiosity. It certainly aroused mine! Though I never owned one of these.

As an aside, I could mention that at that time, I lusted after the Triumph TR2. Sadly, I never owned one of them, either!

And so to Myddelton’s, as Samuel Pepys might have expressed it.

Myddelton’s

This is an interior view of the famous Myddelton’s (famous to us, anyway!), taken as our coffee was being prepared. And yes, I did ask permission to display the photo on the blog as this is the courteous way to proceed.

It was now time to take our coffee home, our outing concluded for today. Such are our little adventures in this time of pandemic.