At number 1 Branch Hill  there is a blue plaque commemorating a stay here by the American Paul Robeson. In his youth he was an outstanding athlete, who went on to become an international singer, with a distinctive, powerful, bass voice as well as acting in film and on stage. A political activist, he became involved in the left-wing response to the Spanish Civil War, fascism, and a range of social injustices leading to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.   ///rescue.awards.crest

 

• A little further along Branch Hill will bring you to the opening of Judges Walk on your left up a steep flight of rough steps…

 

• When you reach Windmill Hill turn right and walk down to the little green where, by following the road around to the left…
  
  …where you will see the Admirals House, This beautiful building was also painted by John Constable.
   

There are two plaques here, the first to John Galsworthy the novelist and playwright whose series, His series entitled the Forsyte Saga, has been filmed several times. The other commemorates George Gilbert Scott  the English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, who also designed the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station in London.   ///flies.wizard.finger

 

•   At the end of this road turn right into Hampstead Grove...

 

On your left you will see the house where George du Maurier lived marked by a plaque. He was a French-British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby. The father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier. He was the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan.   ///ashes.events.lamps