Another Old Shop Sign Uncovered

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on January 3, 2014 at 15:29

....and another could of pics from Andy Newman:

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Permalink Reply by ROY BOWKER on January 3, 2014 at 17:57

As I have said before, I lived in Harringay in the 50's but cannot place this shop. Could anyone tell me what roads was it between? This may jog the memory banks.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on January 3, 2014 at 20:17

Click the link on the address in the original post, Roy.

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Permalink Reply by pamish on January 3, 2014 at 16:24

But Any Ful Kno that people only notice shop signs that are bright orange.  **waves goodbye**

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Permalink Reply by John Hinshelwood on January 28, 2014 at 12:59

The shop was one of a development of four (459-465) in Mattison Parade by A.W. Page in 1896. The shop was first occupied by a draper William Quick until it was taken over by Fredrick J. Hooper, a hosier;  this shop sign that can faintly be seen underneath J.H. Palmer’s name. In 1903 John Henry Palmer took possession of the shop which he retained as a confectioner until the end of the First World War.

After John Palmer vacated the shop it was taken over by another confectioner, Sol Zucker, until the 1930s when it became a tobbacconist run by the Finkel brothers. These, and subsequent occupants of the shop, must have put their own separate shop signs over the original, thus preserving it for us.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on January 28, 2014 at 13:03

Thanks for digging into the records for us all, John.

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