London’s Alleys: Falkland Place, NW5

This is a small back passage hidden behind the shops in busy Kentish Town and offers a well-hidden patch of greenery in the area.The alley seemed to have arrived with the property developments that sprung up along the nearby railway which opened in 1868. Within just a few years, the whole area had been turned from fields into houses, and a passageway, originally called Assembly Row, had been built.
OS Map 1871
However, the alley was to undergo a rapid change, as just a decade later, the northwes