I got there via Fishpond Road and parked the car in Bearton Avenue (opposite the Sikh Temple...........a new addition, I presume, to the Avenue since the 1950's).
Strolled past ther house - quite a nice largish detached house that looked like it would contain some element of architectural character inside..... in a typical suburban road. Nowdays the house has been painted a horrible pink as Ron says.
As I was looking at the house, someone left the actual property, glanced at me and got into their car and drove away..... I wonder if the bloke gets a few like me staring at the house. "Oh no not another one".
It felt odd looking at this actual house footprint - now really looking slightly downtrodden, with an overinfestation of cars, paved over front gardens, trade vans and traffic noise. To think of the craft, hard work, written words, energy, sprit, inspiration and original thought generated within the property footprint......by Walker, his contemporaries, mates and the visitors ......now all that energy and spirit has disappeared ........or at least moved on.
If I had a bit more time I would have liked to have looked at Hitchin Priory (I saw a sign as I left the town) where I think Walker took lots of large roach (14 two's in one session) out the the Hiz.
On the way home I got a bit lost and ended up in the Herts countryside where, for a brief while, I could not see any signs of the 20th Century....... and felt momentarily that I had been spirited to an earlier time..... like the 50's. It was a nice little introspective buzz.
All in all it was for me a worthwhile small and memorable personal experience.
Mark