London’s Alleys: Granny Dripping Steps, NW6

This is a bit of a passage, and mostly a footbridge over several railways in West Hampstead that has a remarkable name that’s just too amazing to ignore. It can be found at the far end of West Hampstead tube station, offering a route across six railway tracks used by Chiltern Railways and London Underground.What was the Metropolitan Railway opened a station at West Hampstead in 1879 (now part of the Jubilee line), when all around here were still fields, but the station had to be rebuilt wh