Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
1885 Harringay Map Unveiled at Garden Ladder
Left to right: Consortium members, "the WInkworth's guy" (he's going incognito at his own request!), Bethany Burrows, Rob Tao, Alison Park and Justin Guest face to face with the mighty map
After clubbing together to buy a historic map of Harringay on ebay, local residents and traders met last night at The Garden Ladder to see their new acquisition.
More than 20 'consortium' members met up at The Garden Ladder last night to pore over the five feet by three feet plan of the southern part of the Ladder at the start of its urban development. After paying a spine-tingling £410, expectations were high.
Ladder local, Bethany Burrow said, "Quite apart from the sheer size of the map, there's so much fascinating detail in the paragraphs around it's borders, I could easily spend a day looking at it!"
Local resident and Harringay trader, Rob Tao who was there with his son Keaton was delighted with the map, but explained that the purchase meant much more to him than just acquiring an artefact, "The map is superb, but I loved the fact that residents and traders joined together on Harringay Online and bought it as a community for the community. It's just a toe in the water of what we can do when we all pull together'.
As for the future, the map is being sent off to the London Metropolitan Archives for specialist copying next week (a snip at £45). Rob of Tao Sport and Elan Winkworth have both promised to follow up with contacts about having a few full size copies made for public display. Other consortium members are planning to have prints made, but perhaps at a slightly reduced size!
After it is copied, the consortium have agreed to donate the original to Bruce Castle Museum, where they hope it will be professionally cared for and made available for local and academic interest.
One of the copies will go on public display over the next few weeks as part of the public consultation on the forthcoming works to Harringay's high street. (More on that very soon!)
There's at least one intriguing oddity on the map for which none of the group last night had an answer. I'll be interested to hear whether anyone has any ideas about what's behind it - but I'm not going to tell you what it is. That'll spoil the surprise.
Thanks from us all last night to consortium member and gaffer of the The Garden Ladder, Simon Walters, for hosting us and arranging for a protective frame to be made for the map. Also thanks to another consortium member, Evgeniy Kazannik of Green Lens Studios, for taking the photos last night.
Left to right: Nigel Lupton, John McMullan, Justin Guest, "the WInkworth's guy" (he's going incognito at his own request!), Hugh Flouch, Maggie Sullivan, Simon Walters, Peter Miles, Edie Finnegan, Fionnuala, David Schmitz
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks Dick - thanks I'll take a look - I think what they mean is there' a problem with their button. It did this when I was testing then it worked ok. It seems to be the size options that blow its fuses. I'll mebbe try with two separate buttons.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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It works now. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Andy H on
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ooof!
went to buy a copy of the map using your link as i am proud of my area and love local history...then having clicked on the checkout button the price was revealed to me!
£145 for a full size copy! OUCH!
in these hard times there was no way i could afford that...the original only cost 3 times that!
tried the half size one...aaargh £95!!!
well, there is NO way i can justify either of those amounts on the run up to christmas - you have priced me out of this.
History belongs in the hands of the wealthy not the likes of me obviously.
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I'm not the pricer really Andy. The large size and very limited print run makes them expensive. The London Metropolitan Archive wasn't even the most expensive by far. To reassure you, no one's making a profit out of this.
I've tried my best to make Harringay's history available to everybody. I think I can confidently say that no one's done more, but the price of this this map is driven by the cost of the repro and printing.
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will the prints be available again early next year?
if i can wait till about feb i could probably afford one!
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That's the current aim, Andy. We wanted to get an initial run done asap and get the original off to Bruce Castle Museum. If in the couple of weeks after Thursday, a further 10 people or whatever request a copy, we could even do another print run before Xmas.
By way of a side note, I've been offered another three Harringay (railway related) maps as a direct result of the activity around this map. Those will get copied and go off the Bruce Castle too. I haven't seen the originals yet, but I think they're rather smaller.
So, all this is to the good of our local history. Remember what it was like trying to find out anything at all about Harringay's history (or even Harringay) before HoL?
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