Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay's sub-neighbourhoods
I was asked the other day to supply an ad for a local publication. So I dusted off a nice poster Birdy designed for us a couple of years back and tinkered with his wee map of Harringay awa' in the corner. In doing so, I added the names of Harringay's four sub-neighbourhoods and thought I'd stand up and take any flak coming my way for it.
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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I thought you'd get GaLa out of that. It makes things so festive.
Isn't that area along the New River/Canal?
Have a good one all.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Adam Sohawon on
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Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons (or maybe just to nudge it in their general direction), there's an argument to be made for naming the last block of the Ladder, i.e. the bit delineated by Endymion Rd and the Lothairs, the "Disraeli Block", as all the roads on it (Endymion, Coningsby, Tancred, Venetia, Sybil, Alroy and Lothair) are named after characters from his novels. The Beaconsfield pub on the corner of it is named for his aristocratic title of "Lord Beaconsfield".
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The Dis-aster Area.
Or, failing that, just name the area after him, so cops can say stuff like they do in the movies, like "I've got reports of a burglary down in Disraeli, gonna go check it out".
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"Earl of Beaconsfield", I think. So why not call that whole block "The Earldom"?
The big mistake was to confer 'Alroy' on that miserable butt end of Wightman Road. Well over a century later it's still unfinished and will ever be so. It should have been called after his unfinished novel, Falconet. Alroy, on the other hand, was inspired by the semi-mythical medieval David Alroy, part magician, part messiah. A name like that deserves a better road.
Across Finsbury Park to the Hermitage. Any serious hermit (like Antony of Egypt) always fled farther into the desert to escape the women. The Desert would be the ideal name for that Empty Quarter.
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What's unfinished about Alroy Road? Seems to be a full street with pavements and houses and everything.
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Permalink Reply by Nick Hare on
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If I could impose area names I would go as dystopian as possible. For this bit of Harringay I would choose "Civilian Commercial Sector 14-F".
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Ooh, I rather like that. Think I'll start doing that informally anyway.
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