Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Crouch End advancing East?
Some folks are looking at the photo I posted recently of Wightman Road in the 1930s with a great sense of nostalgia. They're wishing we once again had that well maintained street of yesteryear; a street so quiet that kids played with their hoops along it.
Sadly, that's all gone for good. But buck up; against this loss you can chalk up a gain. Wightman Road is now officially in Crouch End. Well, officially at least according the Evening Standard. One of its buys of the week this week is a desirable four bed in a strangely familiar part of Crouch End.
I notice the agents are KFH. Since they've recently decided to let their Harringay office on Green Lanes, rather than moving in as they'd originally planned, it seems they've decided to fully include us as part of their Crouch End catchment area.
Here's anticipating the day that Harringay becomes East Crouch End. Not so ridiculous after all; look how far they managed to stretch Hampstead and Finchley.
When I first started writing this, the online version called it Crouch End too, but I it's just changed. Are we to be denied our new epithet?
Ah well. Some you win, some you lose.
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Permalink Reply by Edel B on
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It's West Hampstead all over again - it grew by 10,000 households a year in the 1990s, when estate agents started rebranding Kilburn
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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@melly - Kilburn was already being termed 'West Hampstead' in the 1970s .. Estate Agents have always been the same !
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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On a recent episode of "Location, Location, Location" (my occasional secret vice), they were looking for three-bed properties in North London but didn't try the Ladder, which surprised me because it's clear how much more you get for your money here than so-called trendier areas like Finsbury Park and Holloway.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I used to live in 'East Islington' (AKA Hackney). However, we soon learned it was in fact 'North Shoreditch'.... Even as far up as the Murder Mile. That said, we sold via the Stoke Newington branch of an estate agent, so maybe it was in fact East Stokey??? Who knows.
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Permalink Reply by 3dabemynv2wyk on
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My husband saw Seven Sisters referred to as "Stoke Newington borders" in a RE advert...
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When my partner and I were looking to buy on the ladder, we found nothing more annoying than estate agents pointing out to us how close the area was to Crouch End. As Maria says at the top of the replies here - we didn't want to live in Crouch End!
In the end, we chose to move east to N15. I think it was the sight of bread on sale for £3.50 at a certain cafe on Wightman Road that was the final straw!
I love Harringay and it is probably my favourite place I have ever lived. I do get the impression though that many owner occupiers in the area are wetting themselves at the prospect of it becoming 'East Crouch End'.
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Graham, are you by any chance moking us here on Wightman Road? This is no ordinary bread, you know - this is consecrated bread sold only here in North West Mauritius. Clearly you're more tot'nam at heart.
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Nah, I'm just still bitter about being priced out of an area I love due to its proximity to another I feel no affinity with.
Enjoy your £4 coffee!
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