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250  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA

North of the Centre

1 Lord’s Cricket
Ground
NW8. Map 3 A3. Tel 020 7616 8595.
MCC Museum tours: 020 7616 8658.
1 St John’s Wood. Open Tours daily
every hour: Jan–Mar 11am–2pm;
Apr–Oct 10am–3pm; Nov & Dec 10am–
2pm. Pre-booking essential. No tours
on major match days. Closed last
week of Dec (and occasional other
days). & museum free for match
ticket holders. 7 = See Enter tain ment
pp350–51. ∑ lords.org The lavish exterior of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
Professional cricketer Thomas Farm end. The first market here with his dog as well as footage
Lord moved his ground here in was a crafts market at Camden of Nazi attacks on his apart-
1814. The Pavilion (1890), from Lock in 1975. Today, the markets ment. The bookshop has a large
which women were excluded sell a range of goods, from crafts collection of his works.
until 1999, is late Victorian. and street fashion to new-age
You can visit the headquarters remedies, and there are lots of
of Britain’s chief summer sport food stalls, particularly near the 4 BAPS Shri
on regular guided tours that lock and in the Stables Market. Swaminarayan
take in the honour boards, Mandir
dressing rooms and the MCC
Museum, which is full of 3 Freud Museum 105–119 Brentfield Rd, Neasden
memorabilia from cricketing 20 Maresfield Gdns NW3. Tel 020 7435 NW10. 1 Harlesden Station, then
history, including a stuffed 2002. 1 Finchley Rd. Open noon– bus 224 (or Stonebridge Park and
sparrow killed by a cricket ball, 5pm Wed–Sun (also Mon in Aug & bus 112) Tel 020 8965 2651. Open
as well as the Ashes. This tiny Sep). Closed 1 Jan, 25–26 Dec. 9 Mandir and Haveli: 9am–11am,
urn contains, supposedly, the ^ no flash. 7 limited. = Events. 11:45am–12:15pm, 4pm-6pm (to
burned remains of a cricket bail ∑ freud.org.uk 5pm Sat) daily 8 arrange in advance.
signifying “the death of English & for museum. ^ 7 = ∑
cricket” after a notable defeat In 1938 Sigmund Freud, the londonmandir.baps.org
by Australia. It is still the object founder of psychoanalysis, fled
of ferocious competition from Nazi persecution in Vienna Right out in northwest London,
between the two national to this Hampstead house. not far from Wembley Stadium,
teams. The museum explains Making use of the possessions stands one of the most
the history of the game, and he brought with him, his family incongruous – and beautiful –
mem entos of notable cricketers recreated the atmosphere of his religious buildings in the city,
make it a place of pilgrimage for Vienna con sulting rooms. After often known simply as the
devotees of the sport. Freud died in 1939 his daughter Neasden Temple. The intricately
Anna (who was a pioneer of carved Hindu temple was
child psycho analysis) kept the completed in 1995, after a
2 Camden Market house as it was and in 1986 it small army of volunteers from
was opened as a museum the local community banded
NW1. 1 Camden Town, Chalk Farm. dedicated to Freud. On display together to raise funds and
Open 10am–6pm daily; some
cafés and bars open later. is the couch on which patients build it. Thousands of tonnes of
∑ camdenmarket.com lay for analysis. A series of 1930s Bulgarian limestone and Italian
home movies shows moments Carrara marble were shipped
Camden Market is really a series to India to be carved, then
of interconnected markets along assembled on site like a giant
Chalk Farm Road and Camden jigsaw, largely by volunteers.
High Street. Packed at the The result is a staggeringly
weekends, most of the shops detailed, intricately carved
and some of the stalls are also temple. Make sure you visit
open on weekdays. Many units when the inner hall is open
are housed in restored Victorian (it closes for prayers several
buildings alongside Camden times a day; check website)
Lock and the canal. Some of the when you can inspect some
more interesting stalls are in the The meticulously preserved consulting of the carving close-up. The
Stables Market towards the Chalk rooms in the Freud Museum complex also includes a Haveli,

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