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 Maddy on
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When we bought our first flat in Harringay, the difference in price between here and Crouch End was around 15%, now it's at least 50% more expensive over the tracks. However, you're right that properties in Harringay are now very expensive, and certainly not as available to first-time buyers as they used to be. The nature of the area has not substantially changed - although the mix of shops is different I don't feel it has "gentrified" - but there's just been incredible inflation in London property values. I feel really sorry for anyone wanting to buy these days, and don't know how our children will manage to do it at all.
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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I am kind of partial to Hornsey as the description of where we we live.
In response to Maddy's posting I think London will see more households with 2 or more generations.
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