Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hornsey Brewery circa 1910
Not the best picture in the world, but the only one I have Hornsey Brewery on Clarendon Road, taken from Hornsey Station. At this point it was run by Caffyn & Son. See this post in the History Group for more on the brewery.
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I haven't worked out what the nearby houses are and whether they[re ones that have survived. If you think you can, I'd be interested.
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Comment by Hugh on January 8, 2016 at 8:31
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I'd assumed it was part of the brewery. If you look at the 1893 OS, it looks to be an angled building. I'm guessing the the brewery is the L-shaped plot with a long tail running down to Clarendon Road. For interest, here's an image showing the point where Clarendon Road used to meet Turnpike Lane.
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The 1893 OS suggests that the long building with the chimney is part of the Hornsey Gas Works.
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Comment by Joy Nichol on January 10, 2016 at 21:52
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Very interesting photos - Thanks Hugh!
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Sadly the gas holders are slated for demolition.
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I saw someone mention allotments. Does anyone know if there were also allotments north of the space occupied by Chettle Court and between the industrial estate - we're on Uplands and an older neighbour, who's since died, said that there used to be allotments between Uplands and the railway line. She also said there was a little stream. I've never found any record of either?
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There were certainly allotments to be seen taking the path from Uplands Road up to the corner now occupied by Chettle Court. I used this path many times in 1960 on my way to take photographs of trains with my shiny new camera. I assumed that they dated from the Second World War as were the ones on part of Duckett's Common. I don't remember a stream but then my mind was on other things.
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According to all the OS maps (the latest I have is 1935) there were two wagon turntables from the GNR (LNER) sidings which would have enabled the coal wagons to be turned through 90 degrees and moved across to the gasworks. As well as coal going in there would presumably have been coke going out. Before 1957, when I believe gas production stopped, (the gasholders remaining in use) it was possible to buy half-hundredweight sacks of coke. I remember going with my father on several occasions to collect some. To do this you had to have a hand-cart of some description (hatchbacks had not been invented!). You would often meet other people with their carts of varying sophistication. The usual form of construction was a wooden crate running on axles and wheels salvaged from an old push-chair A pair of wooden shafts completed the ensemble. My father was not a very practical man (our "workshop" consisted of a hammer with a loose head, a blunt saw, a pair of pliers with a wobbly joint, a bent screwdriver and a gimlet) but we managed to get up and down Turnpike Lane without a wheel coming off - most of the time!
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Thanks Stephen and Gerry. So there was a path alongside the railway? It would explain the random plum trees.
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Stonebridge Brook, which rose in Crouch End and flowed eastwards through Harringay to the River Lea passed close to Uplands. The river, although culverted from 1885 fonwards, still flows underground.
Dick Harris gave a very good description of its course on HoL some years back:
The brook rises in Crouch End near the old town hall and flows eastwards. The original course of the brook ran more or less along Weston Park. Between Inderwick Road and Uplands Road it ran behind the gardens on the north side of Weston Park, ie along the edge of the school grounds. It passed under Uplands Road near number 99 and then under Cranford Way on the industrial estate, under the railway viaduct (that is also hidden from view) and then under the New River passing beneath the ventilation tower that stands at the back of the motor workshop facing Effingham Road. It then meandered about a block north behind the houses on the east side of Wightman Road and turned east again along Fairfax Road. It turned south near the passage and from Effingham to Allison ran parallel to Green Lanes before passing under it where the housing terrace ends and the commercial strip begins (near Selale). From there it crossed nine streets (Harringay, Glenwood, Avondale, Woodlands Park, Brampton, Ritches, Rowley, Etherley and Black Boy) before passing the NW corner of Chestnuts Park and continuing on Eastwards eventually flowing into the River Lea.
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Very good. It begins to fit together. Thanks everyone!
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