Harringay Edwardian Buy Local Campaign

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Permalink Reply by Geraldine on March 11, 2019 at 9:30

Grumbles about a changing world as long ago as 1901.

Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 11, 2019 at 9:54

Now it’s Amazon; then it was the evil City retailers (or the editor may have been currying favour with much needed potential advertisers!)

Permalink Reply by Liz on March 14, 2019 at 16:47

I'm rather taken by the statement by the writer that in 1891, Green Lanes was a "swampy hollow" occupied by frogs and tadpoles. A wasteland, a "howling wilderness. "

Sounds like it might have been my kind of place!