Church Street W2

It is quite interesting that during all this years living in London I never have walked (this ) Church Street although I was driving on nearby roads hundreds if not thousands of times . What is so special about this road is that in relatively short space one experience so many different Londons next to each other. My journey started with a beautiful (at least from the outside ) Church of St Mary with a small cemetery, which is like oasis isolated from Marylebone Lane and Harrow Road traffic. Not far from it Beirut of London begins with Edgware Road at its centre. ( I have taken this photograph, just before Edgware Road ) Crossing Edgware Road one enters street market where next to each other are burka clad women, elderly white ladies dressed like '50 are still around and heavily tattooed men whose allegiance looks to be more to EDL that multicultural London. Immediately after market and some drab stores (I noticed so many pharmacies in that part of the road), Church Streets gets little by little gentrified with art and antiques galleries and shops . And then it ends with Lisson Grove that leads to NW London and little further away Marylebone Rail Station