English Heritage recently put forward funding for a number of shopfronts to be restored in a traditional timber framed style.

Shaftesbury Hall is a rare example of a 19th-century tin tabernacle, which lies abandoned on the western side of Bowes Park station, on Herbert Road.

Current part-owners The Samaritans have recently rebuilt the building for community use following an earlier proposal for demolition and replacement with a modern office block which was successfully opposed by local people.

[citation needed] Some of the exterior sequences featuring Omid Djalili for the David Baddiel scripted film The Infidel were shot in Thorold Road.

[6] Myddleton Road is included in some of the interior and exterior locations in the music video made by Free Seed Films for The Blockheads' "Express Yourself", the first single from their 2013 album 'Same Horse Different Jockey'.