The famous artist John Constable lived in the Hampstead area near Childs Hill. This painting depicts Childs Hill as it may have been then with Harrow in the distance. The painting was sold at Sotheby's in 1989 and appears to be in private hands.
The words below originally appeared in 1906 and are from Chapter 2 Part 1 of The Forsyte Saga Vol 1 by John Galsworthy (1867-1933). Old Jolyon reminisces Difficult to believe it was so long ago; he felt young still! ... those Sunday afternoons on Hampstead Heath, when young Jolyon and he went for a stretch along the Spaniard's Road to Highgate, to Child's Hill, and back over the Heath again to dine at Jack Straw's Castle - how delicious his cigars were then! And such weather! There was no weather now.
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