This picture the start of the curve of the river as it swept around Harringay House. In the mid-distance is the bridge over the newly built Wightman Road. Beyond it is the old embankment of the Great Northern railway when it was just a two track line.
You can see from this map that it was directly due north of where Seymour and Hewitt Roads are, but is now built over by the much-expanded railway line.
This sketch shows a similar view, from the other direction.
This contemporary photo shows roughly the same spot, showing the same bridge over the river, with Ally Pally in the background.
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Albums: Old Harringay, before 1885
A similar view from the top of the little hill, beyond the small building, circa 1880, painted by Harold H Lawes. This was painted prior to the widening of the GNR. I suspect that had been done by the time the 1888 picture was drawn.
Believe it or not this bridge/viaduct still exists, buried under the existing railway.
I now have a colour version of the Lawes painting and it's very evocative!
Is that Holy Innocents towers to the left?
Indeed it is, opened in 1877.
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