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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

63 Tollington Park - scene of an Edwardian murder


In this house, lived Frederick Henry Seddon. In 1911 he rented the top floor to a wealthy spinster.......

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Fascinating, but won't be looking at that flat when it comes on the market ;o)
I found a few criminal case records from this area from newspaper archives not so long back. While most were quite 'low level' stuff like theft and fraud, a couple of them were quite sensational and rather sad. You're right, Moonta, our neighbours lived as varied lives as we read about in the red tops now (although the language in which they were described was more Dickens than Dacre)
I lived in Alba place W11 off Portobello road.
It wasn't until a few years after i found out this used to be called 'Rillington Place', the same little mews of the famous court case about the christie murders and book by Ludovik Kennedy and of course the film with richard attenborough.i was in number 5.
(this is not 'local' but i thought important enough to mention)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reginald_Christie
Yes but there is something of the ghoul in every one of us.
This is what facinates me about many of our grand old buildings, they remain the same in appearance but have seen so many changes as far as residents go over the last hundred years or so.

Makes me smile when I think of the old saying 'The walls have ears'... never mind all that, I wish they had mouths, some of the stories these old places could tell.

And imagine how many people literally got away with murder in the old days, when we consider todays DNA testing capabilities and forensic science etc.

Would be interesting to create a HOL macabre local property list!
Alice. I was born at this house in 1946 and lived there until 1957. I know evrryone sho lived at the house between thise dates if you are interested. I have sent an email to HOL. Michael
Alice . I meant IslingtonNow. It's old age!
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