Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Challenge of the Day: Is this a Wartime view from Ally Pally?
The Friends of Ally Pally have asked us to help out and answer the question "Is this a view from Ally Pally during the war?"
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Probably not as there don't appear to be any barrage balloons on the skyline.
When were the allottments in the picture established? Were they part of the Dig for Victory campaign (and therefore possibly placing this photo after WWII, taking into account the point about the barrage balloons)? Interestingly Mr CH Middleton (''the ‘Alan Titchmarsh’ of the 1940′s'') based his TV gardening programmes at Alexandra Palace before the war. During the war he shifted to radio at Evesham helping to establish the success of the Dig for Victory campaign. More on Mr Middleton.
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Permalink Reply by 1tltptkf5vm7x on
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It sounds like it may not be from Ally Pally - but it does come from the war, or at least it came from this sequence of photos:
http://life.time.com/history/world-war-ii-london-in-color/#14
As the one who posed the original question on Twitter I hope it whiled away a few minutes!
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This is from Parliament Hill. Notice the alignment of St. Paul's visible through the smokey haze. I found this picture taken from the same spot which also shows the large gabled building in the middle ground: http://traveldk.com/london/heading-north/dk/hampstead-heath-and
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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I thought it looked like Parliament Hill but didn't like to say. Ally Pally doesn't feel quite so high up.
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