Public art in South End Green

Whilst graphic art remains the main focus of our local cultural life, conceptual artists also contribute to the rich heritage of South End Green. This installation - untitled, but incorporating an empty beer bottle and cigarette butts - has recently been placed in front of the local Marks and Spencers, perhaps alluding to the former use of the site as a place of entertainment.

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South End Green's artistic heritage

South End Green has long been famous as a home for artists , writers and others committed to the creative process. The Isokon building on nearby Lawn Road was a home for painter and writer Adrian Stokes, the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius, and the Constructivist sculptors László Moholy-Nagy and Naum Gabo. And Henry Moore lived at no. 11A Parkhill Road from 1929 to 1940.

Thankfully, this artistic heritage lives on. Although the Ingrid Barron Gallery has recently become a vets, local artists continue to contribute to the cultural scene of this calm oasis hidden from the hustle, bustle and problems of the capital.

More of our marvellous shops

Our wonderful shops

At the heart of the magic of South End Green are its shops. Stretching along a parade that runs from the corner bookshop where George Orwell once worked (more recently a pizzeria, but now an upmarket burger bar) all the way to the post office heroically saved for the community by the assembled forces of Bill Oddie and some other local notables, they offer a range of merchandise unmatched by the nearby pretenders such as Belsize Village, Englands Lane, Queen's Crescent or that small group of shops over the other side of the Heath by the tennis courts.

Come to sunny South End Green

South End Green is not just a place. It is a neighbourhood and a community. Everything you could want in life, nestling picturesquely between the trinity of the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead Heath and Hampstead Village itself. With its own residents association, a vocal traders forum and an active and concerned citizenry, South End Green is a place to visit and to linger. Perhaps drinking a cup of coffee at Polly's, eating a Viennese fancy at the Hampstead Tea Rooms or sampling a pain au chocolat at Boulangerie Jade, there is something for all in South End Green.

As Jonathan Bergman, Secretary of the South End Green Traders Association and the Director of Amberden Estates, in South Hill Park, says in the Camden New Journal, “A relaxed old fashioned calm drifts onto the high street from the shores of the fishing lakes on Hampstead Heath. You go for a stroll around South End Green rather than the quick panicked run you are forced into around somewhere like the West End."

This website aims to celebrate Hampstead's best kept secret.