Year Book of Harringay Ratepayers' Association, 1913

Comment by Hugh on September 1, 2011 at 8:19

While most of the Harringay Ladder fell within the borough of Hornsey, the eastern fringe adjoining Green Lanes became part of a new ward within Tottenham in 1901 after its residents sought to be transferred to Hornsey. Harringay ward was created out of parts of West Green and St. Ann's wards.

Consequently, by 1901 there were three Harringay wards - North and South Harringay in the urban district of Hornsey and Harringay ward in Tottenham.

The picture shows the 1913 yearbook of the Harringay ratepayers' Association (Borough of Tottenham), forerunner to the GRA.

Comment by Karen Alexander on June 7, 2019 at 9:46

Do we know when the Harringay Ratepayers Association ceased to exist? It seems to have been a lobby group (trying to get an underground station on the Piccadilly line at the Green Lanes/St Ann's junction) so it must have been more about just the rates.

Comment by Hugh on June 7, 2019 at 10:25

I think it was in essence a residents association. But it operated at an overtly political level and included councillors in its number. I don’t know when it fizzled out. 

Comment by Hugh on June 7, 2019 at 11:43

Just had a quick check. The local press was diminished after te Edwardian period. So, there's generally less local news to be read after then. The reamining local press that I have access to seems to have lost interest after the First World War. 

The latest (and rather ignoble) mention I found of the Harringay Ratepayers was in the Daily Mirror on 10 Sept, 1938.

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