Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay's not Harringay after all. It's Official
In trying to get support from our local concilllors to improve the description of our area on Haringey's website Councillor Canver has given a statement on the name of our area:
We've discussed and we have agreed to call the area Harringay Green Lanes and Too much emphasis on Harringay confuses everyone with the borough Haringey and I’m afraid it refers to the Harringay ward and excludes the Gardens and other target areas.
'other target areas' refers to what the map on the main page includes as Harringay that's neither Gardens nor Ladder.
I have written seeking clarification, but as yet have recieved no reply.
So, if people were confused about where Harringay is, perhaps it's no wonder. The Council wants to keep all variants of the name for the Borough. Now maybe, as the councillor says, you're all happy about that. For my money, it's not on.
Almost exactly 100 years ago the Municipal Borough of Hornsey tried to rename our area Haringey. The Harringay Ratepayers' Association mounted a campaign and successfully overturned that nonsense. Perhaps the zealous flame of our forebears no longer burns so brightly..................??
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Permalink Reply by rahman on
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Thats interesting. So Haringey used to be Hornsey? It makes sense now! I thought my deeds had Hornsey as part of my address because thats where our local post office depot is (thats the only reason I could come up with in my head)! How silly am I! :D
I usually just put my door number, street name, London, and then my Postcode. I have dabbled with Harringay a few times, but wasnt sure if it was correct... but I shall start using it regularly now.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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That's great. (Well Part of Harringay used to be Hornsey - part of the Ladder. If you have paving stones outside your Ladder house, it used to be Tottenham Borough, if not then it was Hornsey.) All of Green Lanes and everything to the east was Tottenham Borough. And, of course not all of Haringey (different spelling) used to be Hornsey - part of it was Tottenham Borough and part was Wood Green Borough)
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Permalink Reply by Anthony on
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Our house deeds say Harringay Park, but that sounds a little pretentious! I guess it depends on the age of the house.
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Well, that's accurate. The Ladder was Harringay Park previously. Harringay Park were the grounds for Harringay House. The station on Green Lanes was called Harringay Park for a while.
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Yes, interesting that by the time the house builders got to where Rahman lived they had changed it to Hornsey (I live on Umfreville Rd, which from old maps seems to have been one of the first roads to have been built, not sure how long until all of them had been completed.
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They built in from both ends. The north half was called the Hornsey Station Estate and the Southern half the Harringay Park estate.
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But of course Wightman Road, the daddy and mammy of them all, wended its rustic and undulating way north and south long before it had to put up with any pesky incursions on its eastern flank from its non-existent offspring slicing their way through Harringay Park and Hornsey.
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Eddie, do you know anything about the history of Wightman. I've not been able to find much.
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No, Hugh. I'm afraid that was just my fevered imagination stirred by those older photos you have in your History of Harringay section.
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Fair nuff. It seems tough to dig up (the information, I mean; not the road. Evidently that's easy!)
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I don't know if you went to the maps exhibition at the British Library last year (or was it two years ago). That had some great maps of the progress of development in the area. Not sure how to access any of them now.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Time to resurrect this thread?
This is still a big issue for me and in fact the only policy issue I would vote on, I'm more interested in the candidates than what they say they will do in general.
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