London Buildings Outside London Little Green StreetLittle Green Street - Kentish Town
Little Green Street is an eighteenth century street in London, located off Highgate Road in Kentish Town. 
The street is by no means extensive, with only eight houses on one side and two on the other. The houses were built in the 1780s, are Grade II listed, and it remains one of the few intact Georgian streets in London. There are records of the small, bow-fronted shops selling ribbons and mousetraps, and previous inhabitants include manual workers such as carpenters.
The street is popular with film and television companies looking for an authentic location shoot, as so much of the original housing stock was destroyed in the Blitz. The remains were then levelled to make way for new housing. The Kinks filmed a controversial 'video' here for their single 'Dead End Street' - about Little Green Street. They were dressed as undertakers and other unsavoury characters which caused familiar grumblings and accusations of 'bad taste' within the establishment at the time (the BBC).
In1899, Charles Booth, in his survey Life and Labour of the People in London, gave the following description of Little Green Street:
"Little Green St. (E. side of H. Road) with 8 old-fashioned cottages; 2 st. and 2 plus attics; round projecting windows; small panes of glass; quaint; been done up; decent. Pink. These on N. side. On the S. are 2 or 3 more modern but much worse houses; 2 and 3 st. light blue."
(The colours in this description refer to Booth's poverty classifications. Light blue was: "Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family". Pink was "Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.")
I'm not advocating a pilgrimage of enlightenment to Little Green Street, but if you do need a backdrop or have an interest in minor historical spots and happen to be in the area - take a look. You can extract directions from the Google map below, as long as you ask it the right questions.
Little Green Street NW5 1BL
