Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Hornsey Churchtower Open Day

Well I have just been up the church tower in Hornsey. What a great experience, and really pleased to see so many people there. Got chatting to a fella aged 79 who has lived in Hornsey since he was three months old, but said this was actually his first time up the tower! Heard about what it used to be like (green fields and cows), and apparently there's a tunnel underground from Wightman Road under the railway that comes out near here. Anyone heard of that?

I hope today was a success for FOHCT (Friends of Hornsey Church Tower). There is a coach trip to Kent in May of anyone is interested, looking at some other towers and turrets........

(Note from Site Admin: See Jo's pictures from the day in the gallery, here.)

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 31, 2012 at 17:55

Sadly most of the fields would have been long gone by the early thirties. There's no tunnel under the Great Northern, but it does seem like there's a local folk memory of a carriageway that used to run to Harringay House, under the railway when it was first built in the early 1850s. At that time it was just a two track rail line. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, it was a well developed railway goods and marshalling yard and the track running beneath it was just a memory. You can see it here.