Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Concern over our Library's future
SGRA (a residents association) will hold a meeting at 7pm tomorrow night (Thursday) at Stroud Green Library - which may well be the nearest library for many people in Harringay ward - and one of the issues we will be discussing is setting up or re-forming a 'Friends of Stroud Green Library' group as we are alarmed at the possible threat to this library of Budget cuts.
Everyone welcome - please come along and join us.
Tags for Forum Posts: libraries, public spending cuts, stroud green and harringay library
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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HOL also lists many of SGL's events on our Events page - here's the next four coming up and we have a widgit on the books and art page that lists all the upcoming events in libraries including SG. The Books and Art group also has regular postings about SGL art exhibitions.
I also write a regularly updated page with regular childrens activities here and a holiday listings here.
Last summer I wrote a short blog about how fab the library had been for keeping my eldest entertained which I know some of the library staff saw as well as one or two local cllrs.
I'm sort of surprised that there are Harringay folk who don't know about it or don't use it. I go regularly both for the kids and for getting them to dig dusty old tomes about history and heritage out of the reserve stock (I think my fines and charges are keeping the library service going sometimes - I don't mind) and I often see fellow Harringayites there. Maybe if you are more North than me, Wood Green is nearer but SG is a much calmer enviroment (not that I'm knocking WG, it does fab stuff too) and its easier to get on the computers etc.
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Permalink Reply by John Hinshelwood on
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You might find this short history of the library interesting.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks John.
(Glad to see that you've amended your potted history, but would be good if it could be further ammened to clearly pick up on the discovery of the original idea that the library should serve as the Stroud Green & Harringay library. The book by Frank Chalton Francis offers the opportunity to verify that?)
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Burt's idea was countered with an idea that Islington and Hornsey should share the cost of a libray for Stroud Green, but Islington weren't interested. instead they built the library, now demolished, in Hanley road.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Hi John,
I still remember the excellent talk you gave in SGL on buildings of historical note in SG, winding up appropriately enough with the most important building of all in the area!
Didn't Islington's Hanley Road Library come much later? I seem to remember it as a 60's style. I was sorry to see it demolished.
What it surely had against it, from Islington Council's viewpoint, is that the branch library was sited close to another Borough so the benefit was not wholly for Islington residents. Same reason that Finsbury Park saw so little attention for LBH for so long: it was by a Borough boundary.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Fascinating John. Thank you.
And I must go and investigate 239 Wightman Road :-)
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239 Wightman looks like an ordinary terraced house. No reason however that it couldn't have served as an auxiliary library, particularly during the War. There's no sign of bomb damage though: it's pretty dilapidated but that's probably because it seems to be in multi-occupancy and is sadly in need of maintenance.
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David: it did cross my mind: it's probably worth looking inot. It's already in a conservation area, but that doesn't necessarily mean much to this council. Listing might offer a little more protection. Bear in mind that Alexandra Palace for example, was Listed Grade II before the council tried to sell the whole building to a property developer. That would have caused fun and games further down the track had the council succeeded with their sale ...
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