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Fairbank Apartments Beaufort Park, London Nw9 YOU’VE ARRIVED #BeaufortPark FAIRBANK APARTMENTS BEAUFORT PARK, LONDON NW9 YOU’VE ARRIVED | #BeaufortPark #BeaufortPark LONDON LIVING MADE EASY Beaufort Park is a thriving destination in North West London, one with a rich history in aviation, and provides homes set amongst a variety of shops and restaurants, with excellent facilities including a residents-only spa, gym and swimming pool. Beaufort Park is exceptionally well located for work and play. King’s Cross, home to tech giants Google, YouTube and Facebook, is just a short journey away. There are also a variety of cultural and leisure attractions 01 02 on the doorstep. Brent Cross, the retail and leisure complex, is within easy reach and will soon be London’s largest shopping centre. Close by is Hampstead Village with its boutiques, cobbled streets and views of London from Hampstead Heath. Beaufort Park is perfectly located to an outstanding selection of schools and nearby Middlesex University. The nearby London Underground Station provides swift and convenient access to Central London with 24-hour weekend service. This is London living at its very best. YOU’VE ARRIVED #BeaufortPark DISTINCTIVE DESIGN 03 Fairbank Apartments are an inspiring place to be. 04 Choose a studio, Manhattan, one, two, three or four bedroom apartment. These stylish homes offer spacious, light-filled living spaces with contemporary interiors. Quality specification homes are accompanied by stunning views over landscaped parkland, courtyard or historical listed watchtower. The exclusive, residents-only spa is home to a large fitness studio, fully-equipped gym, indoor swimming pool, sauna and jacuzzi. The Fairbank Apartments, named in continuation of the aviation history of the development, provides exclusive city living. YOU’VE ARRIVED Computer generated image depicts Beaufort Park and is indicative only. Fairbank Apartments #BeaufortPark EN-SUITE KITCHEN As flying became more familiar, it looked Today, Hendon Aerodrome is celebrated BEDROOM 1 SHOWER BEAUFORT PARK’S as though his aerodrome would become atROOM the Royal Air Force Museum, including ‘the Charing Cross of international air Grahame-White’sC original Watchtower, routes’. The airfield’s focus gradually shifted located adjacent to Beaufort Park. The GLORIOUS PAST LIVING/BEDROOM towards the military, and civilian flights museum is a huge attraction and continues were moved first to Croydon and eventually to celebrate the story of British aviation The area has hosted a number of the world’s BATHROOM to Heathrow. C in North West London. firsts over the years, including the first successful hydrogen balloon flight, aerial derby and aerial loop-the-loop. BEDROOM 2 YOU’VE ARRIVED Claude Grahame-White was one of England’s premiere pilots, who initially found fame racing Frenchman Louis Paulhan from Hendon to Manchester. C His reputation grew when he won the BALCONY Gordon Bennet Aviation Cup in New York, C and landed his Farman biplane on a road KITCHEN near the White House, where he was applauded rather than arrested. In 1911, he took control of the land around LIVING/DINING Beaufort Park to create the world’s first LIVING/DINING 05 airfield – Hendon Aerodrome. He started 06 a flight school, took the famous author KITCHEN H. G. Wells for a spin in 1912 and launched the great Hendon Air Shows. C BEDROOM EN-SUITE BEDROOM 1 SHOWER ROOM BATHROOM Bentfield Hucks’s first loop-the-loop was celebrated with an BEDROOM 2 upside-down dinner, with tables arrange in a loop, and a menu that started with dessert and finished with the starter. KITCHEN C LIVING/DINING BALCONY LIVING/DINING Fairbank Apartments KITCHEN #BeaufortPark The Watchtower, Beaufort Park. BALCONY Claude Grahame-White, Hendon Air Show, 1912. Aircraft being assembled, Grahame-White Factory, Beaufort Park. BALCONY 07 08 BRITISH FIRSTS FOR THE RAF LONDON AERODROME Claude Grahame-White founded First night flying display was staged on the Hendon Aerodrome which was the 26th September 1912 first opened in 1911 First loop-the-loop was celebrated by an From his small factory, Claude upside-down dinner in January 1914 with Grahame-White designed and tables arranged in the form of a loop and a manufactured aircrafts and created menu that started with dessert and ended an aerodrome community with with the starter! purpose-built housing and London’s First parachute descent from an aeroplane BALCONY BALCONY first flying school was opened in 1911 was made by Mr W. Newell on Saturday BALCONY First airmail service from Hendon 9th May 1914 to Windsor in September 1911. BALCONY Over 100,000 letters and cards YOU’VE ARRIVED were carried LIVING/DINING BALCONY BEDROOM 1 BEDROOM 2 BEDROOM LIVING/DINING LIVING/DINING Aircraft on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon. BEDROOM Fairbank Apartments BEDROOM BEDROOM 2 BEDROOM 1 #BeaufortPark SHOWER KITCHEN ROOM BALCONY Colindale Underground, Beaufort Park’s nearest station, is just a short C CLOSER walk away. From there, it’s 21 minutes to King’s Cross and 26 minutes LIVING/BEDROOM into Central London. Plus, with its 24-hour weekend service, the capital’s THAN EVER round-the-clock nightlife is more accessible than ever*. From St Pancras you can be in Paris within two and a half hours on the ever-popular Eurostar. YOU’VE ARRIVED BALCONY LIVING/BEDROOM C KITCHEN SHOWER ROOM COLIND ALE Station Brent Cross Hampstead King’s Cross St Pancras Leicester Square Beaufort Park 4 minutes 11 minutes 21 minutes LIVING/DINING26 minutes KITCHEN RAF Museum Brent Cross Shopping Centre Hampstead Village Google West End Theatre District Middlesex University YouTube BALCONY Covent Garden 09 Bang Bang Oriental Food Hall Facebook Chinatown 10 British Library Bond Street C University of the Arts London Eurostar BEDROOM Paris 2 hours 25 minutes SHOWER ROOM BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY C BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY BEDROOM * The London Underground’s Victoria and Jubilee lines, and most of the Central, Piccadilly and Northern lines, now run 24-hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Timings are approximate. Source www.tfl.gov.uk LIVING/DINING LIVING/DINING LIVING/DINING LIVING/DINING Fairbank Apartments LIVING/BEDROOM BEDROOM BEDROOM 2 BEDROOM 2 BEDROOM BEDROOM 2 BEDROOM BEDROOM 1 BEDROOM 1 BEDROOM LIVING/DINING C BALCONY HWC WD #BeaufortPark BEDROOM 1 C KITCHEN C C BATHROOM BEDROOM 2 HWC BALCONY WD C BEDROOM 2 BATHROOM KITCHEN LIVING/DINING BEDROOM 1 C SHOWER BALCONY ROOM EN-SUITE HWC WD LIVING/DINING KITCHEN C KITCHEN LIVING/DINING BALCONY LIVING/DINING KITCHEN SHOWER ROOM BEDROOM BEDROOM HWC WD SHOWER BALCONY ROOM C LIVING/DINING C KITCHEN 11 12 BEDROOM 2 BATHROOMBALCONY SHOWER LONDON’S ROOM C BEDROOM NEW TECH HUB BEDROOM 1 KITCHEN LIVING/DINING A short tube ride from Beaufort Park, on the Northern EN-SUITE Line, and you can be in the heart of King’s Cross. BEDROOM C HWC WD Google’s new headquarters is now in King’s Cross, welcoming 7,000 new professionals to the area. They are soon to be joined by 6,000 other tech-focused SHOWER experts, as Facebook takes residence. On completion ROOM 30,000 people are expected to be working in King’s BALCONY EN-SUITE Cross. Also located here are the creatives of the future, KITCHEN SHOWER LIVING/DINING Universal Music, YouTube and world fashion icon ROOM Louis Vuitton. HWC BEDROOM 1 BEDROOM WD C C YOU’VE ARRIVED C EN-SUITE BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY BEDROOM C LIVING/DINING BEDROOM 1 KITCHEN BEDROOM 2 Fairbank Apartments LIVING/BEDROOM C HWC WD BALCONY #BeaufortPark LIVING/DINING BALCONY BEDROOM A CITY LOVED BY BILLIONS BEDROOM London sets trends, shapes careers and Chinatown is located in the heart of Soho, continually reinvents. There’s nowhere famous for its restaurants, shops and its else like it. lively atmosphere. It’s matched only by the shopping, with the haute couture around CULTURE Knightsbridge, the King’s Road, Bond Street, Concerts at Wembley and The O2. Walks and Liberty of London mixing with the 13 14 through Kew Gardens’ beautifully-restored high street fashions of two giant Westfield Temperate glasshouse. Theatre at the Old and shopping centres. New Vic. The Victoria & Albert museum, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Tate Modern art WORK BALCONY gallery. The Shard’s 21st century architecture. Wherever you are in your career, this is a place 20 Fenchurch Street’s spectacular Sky Garden. of opportunity. Media, technology, finance, London’s 8.5 million residents enjoy a stellar bioscience – whatever the business, there’s a cast of local attractions. district famous for it, served by restaurants and bars that cater for like-minded crowds. LEISURE It’s a wonderful way to do business. The city also has a love affair with food, from three-Michelin-starred Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester and hip-Japanese Bone Daddies YOU’VE ARRIVED to Borough Market’s sprawling stalls. BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY BALCONY LIVING/DINING LIVING/DINING BEDROOM BEDROOM #BeaufortPark Hampstead Village. 15 CHARISMATIC 16 NORTH WEST LONDON From multi-million pound investments Brent Cross, directly south of Colindale to village charm, all eyes are looking to with its billion pound regeneration retail North West London. and leisure programme, once complete will place it as one of the largest shopping Beaufort Park gives the perfect balance centres in London. between village character and city living. Nearby local attractions are the designer boutiques, fine dining and nightlife around the fashionable Hampstead Village and YOU’VE ARRIVED Primrose Hill. View from Primrose Hill. Fairbank Apartments #BeaufortPark 17 TASTE OF 18 THE ORIENT Bang Bang Oriental Food Hall, London’s newest and largest Asian Food Hall, is located a short distance from Beaufort Park. Seating over 450 people, it is home to 33 individual pan-Asian food traders serving everything from sushi to laksa, Thai curries and steamed buns. On the ground floor, The Golden Dragon also provides a modern, stylish restaurant setting, with classic Chinese cuisine.
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