Railway Bridge, Wood Green High Road, c1905

Comment by matthew cuthbert on March 15, 2018 at 15:40

Is this where the Shopping City pedestrian bridge is now?

Comment by matthew cuthbert on March 15, 2018 at 15:53

The Beeching closure had a huge impact on the local economy, losing West Green Rd and St Ann’s Stations.

St Ann’s is feasable to reinstate serving Seven Sisters and potential residential quarter on the 14 hectare site of the former St Ann’s Hospital.   Access would be via Hermatage Road and Seven Sisters Road. This could be adapted part of RAIL PLAN 20/20.

Comment by matthew cuthbert on March 15, 2018 at 15:59

What is left of NHS services at St Ann’s could be connected with the Whittington and Royal Free services via the Barking line, serving Haringey East to West easily. It would have been my 1st wish to keep St Ann’s Hospital as an NHS employment site, with research and other essential services serving the community, but Haringey Council had a short term health vision for the East of the borough.

Comment by Tony on March 15, 2018 at 23:08

I think this is more or less where the library is now.

Comment by Hugh on March 16, 2018 at 0:51

Yes, the library was built where the railway ran to the west of the high road; part of the shopping city occupies the land to the east. The station itself was pretty much where the Metro Bank building is now. There's a picture of it at street level in 1969 here. There's a shot of the same site in 1974 here. A picture of the station at platform level from around the same period is here.

When it opened in 1878, the station was called Green Lanes station. The name changed to Noel Park and Wood Green Station in 1902.

Comment by Larklander on March 17, 2018 at 9:23

The legend across the image claims that it's from a collection curated by Harringay Online.  But isn't it actually from the archives at Bruce Castle Museum?

Comment by Hugh on March 17, 2018 at 9:35

Larklander, it isn't from Bruce Castle. It's an Edwardian postcard which I got elsewhere. I don't doubt that Bruce Castle has a copy, but given the thousands that were probably produced that's of little surprise.

Any images I reproduce on this site that come from other archive collections are watermarked with the archive name. They are also reproduced at a lower resolution than I would normally do. All such copies are reproduced with the archive's express permission and in a manner which is agreed with them in advance of publication (here's an example).

The reason I took to watermarking all non-archive pictures after a few years is because I found that where I don't, they are copied and sold on for someone else's profit. I publish the images to share our local history, not to create a profit stream for others. 

Comment by Alan on May 12, 2018 at 19:54

Very laudable Hugh.

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