Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 11, 2013 at 05:44:07 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: NLCS was: Lakeland Cam posted by Alan Hakim on November 10, 2013 at 09:29:58:
There was indeed the Northern Line, but Edgware station is inconveniently far from the school. Pupils did walk, but would the Callum parents have chosen that when there were several good day schools nearby?
You're absolutely right. In fact I looked on the map yesterday after I posted about North London Collegiate, and realised that I was probably wrong. My fault; it must have been wishful thinking- I once knew a very nice girl who went there and I was carried away by the romance of it all.
Somewhere there's a description of the traffic noise and dirt of the town where the Callums lived- about the snow turning to slush, something like that- and that sounds more like Bloomsbury than the leafy suburbs of North London, especially in the '30s. But if in London itself, then all kinds of possibilities open up, like Hammersmith or Brook Green, which had the Central line for the prof and a skating rink for the children- and some very nice middle class housing. Of course, that puts the skating rink near home, not near the university... But, of course, there would be St Paul's Girls school, a high powered girls' day school. And boy's day school- Colet Court for Dick, shading to St Paul's day school later on. And with an emphasis on science teaching.