Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Gun shop (& Rifle Range) on Green lanes
I was telling my son that there used to be a gun shop on Green Lanes when I first moved to the area (1987). He was interested to know more about it, but I can't really remember anything more than that there was a figure in the window that moved a gun up and down.
Can anyone else tell me more?
There was also a funeral parlour nearby, and I used to tell people that Green Lanes had everything! Now it's mainly food and jewellry shops.
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside)
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I found the old business card.
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Permalink Reply by Paul K
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Having a neighbourhood gunshop in urban London was getting a bit unfashionable in the 70s/80s [who were the clientele?] and some time in the 1980s [if you recall it still on Green Lanes in 1987 it must have been after that and before 1991 when I mover here] it moved further up Seymour Road to one of the units you can just make out to the right of the photograph on the business card, to be replaced by a chicken shop. Whether this was for security reasons [I suspect the police were none too keen on a gunshop with such lax security] or that a supplier of such niche products didn’t need a high street presence I don’t know, but the windows of the new premises were heavily barred, which is why, if you have ever wondered, the subsequent occupants [e.g. a letting agency, see attached photo]
seemed to have absurdly heavy security! It still sold guns and assorted accessories. Despite the bars and locks, in the early 1990s it was broken onto and a lot of guns stolen.
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