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Follow the Kinks through the dark alleyways and passages of

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Place of interest

Underground Tube Station/directions

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Konk Studios

This is IT, the Kinks' recording studios. Run by Mick Avory, and depicted in "X Ray", go here first!

  East Finchley (N)

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, which leads into Queen's Avenue, which leads into Muswell Hill. Bear left into Priory Road, which leads into High Street, Hornsey. Or take the 144 bus. Konk is on Church Lane and Tottenham Lane.

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Working Man’s Cafe (The Lane Cafe)

Kinks Link : Pictured on the Sleeve of Ray Davies album “Working Man’s Cafe”

Here is a page about the cafe, and here is one about the nearby shop window.

East Finchley (N)

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, which leads into Queen's Avenue, which leads into Muswell Hill. Bear left into Priory Road, which leads into High Street, Hornsey. Or take the 144 bus. The cafe is on Tottenham Lane.

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Muswell Hill

Road and Area of north London.

Kinks link : In song title "Muswell Hillbillies". General area where the Davies brothers were raised. Also mentioned in "So Long".

Look out for the Muswell Hill Bookshop.

  East Finchley (N)

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, which leads into Queen's Avenue, which leads into Muswell Hill.

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Fortis Green

Kinks link : Dave Davies song title.

Specific area where the Davies brothers lived.

  East Finchley (N)

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, bear right into Fortis Green Road. The Davies house was 6, Denmark Terrace on Fortis Green Road. It has a blue door.

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William Grimshaw School
(Now Fortismere School)

Kinks link : School attended by the Davies brothers, from which Dave was expelled.

 East Finchley (N)

Left into High Road, ahead up the Great North Road, right into Creighton Avenue, School about 1/2 mile on the right.

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Clissold Arms

highly recommended Pub in Muswell Hill (this is NOT the pub on the cover of Muswell Hillbillies. that is the Archway.)

Kinks link : the Davies' father's "local". Appears in DD song "Fortis Green".

Nice staff there, good beer, and has a Kinks room with signed photos, memorabilia, records and a plaque of the Muswell Hillbillies logo from the album, a gold plate plaque that says "site of 1957 performing debut of Ray and Dave Davies, founding members of the Kinks."
Note: Appears in the BBC documentary "I'm Not Like Everybody Else", 

   East Finchley (N).

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green. The Clissold Arms is on Fortis Green.

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St James' Church of England Primary School

Kinks link: School attended by the young Davies brothers.

East Finchley (N)

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, bear right into Fortis Green Road, then turn right into Muswell Hill Road. Turn right into Woodside Avenue, where the school is located. However, at the time the Davies brothers attended the school, it was located on Fortis Green, opposite Fortismere Avenue.

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Steeds Road

Street in Muswell Hill

Kinks link: #59 was the home of Pete Quaife and family.

East Finchley (N)

North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, left into Tetherdown, on into Coppets Road, left into Everington Road, Steeds Road is second on right.

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"The site that used to be the local palais."

Kinks link: location for the song "Come Dancing"

Formerly a dance hall, called the Athenaeum. Of course they knocked it down a long time ago. Sainsbury's have built a supermarket on the piece of land.

East Finchley (N)
 

Directions : North onto High Road, right into Fortis Green, bear right into Fortis Green Road, left into Athenaeum Place

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Click here to visit the official Muswell Hill Web Site

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"That afternoon I found myself standing outside a disused factory in north London. The old building had been used as a studio in Raymond Douglas' heyday, but now it was covered in graffiti. Barbed wire was wrapped around an old neon sign which had the name Konk on it." - Ray Davies, X Ray

Choose a map (each shows a small portion of London): Abbey Road, Archway, Berkeley Mews, Lavender Hill, Muswell Hill, Savile Row, Soho, Victoria and Waterloo. 

Click here to learn about other Kinks places not shown on the maps (This is the "Other Kinks Places" page).

Note, from Peter: Tube connections to the area are not good at all, except for the Fortis Green area, where Finchley is OK. For Muswell Hill, Bus 134 from Tottenham Court Road is the best connection, and for Hornsey (Konk Studio) British Rail to Hornsey station from Kings Cross is the most convenient. E mail Peter by clicking here.

Note: each tube station *name* has a letter (or several letters) next to it. This indicates which tube line the stop is on.

 B - Bakerloo (brown)

 M - Metropolitan (purple)

 Ce - Central (red)

 N - Northern (black)

 Ci - Circle (yellow)

 P - Piccadilly (dark blue)

 D - District (green)

 V - Victoria (light blue)

 J - Jubilee (grey)

 

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