Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
House Numbers in Harringay
This is possibly the most dull thread ever posted on HoL, but I'll wear that badge with pride should it be awarded. It occurred to me today that there is only one ladder rung road that I know of where the odd numbered houses are on the south side of the street, and that is Mattison Road. I will freely admit that I have not surveyed every road, but I know that Cavendish, Duckett, Pemberton, Warham, Seymour, Hewitt and Falkland all have the odd numbers on the north side of the road.
Is it just Mattison that is the odd one out? And, if so, why is that the case? Is it something to do with the school being there? Does anyone actually know why and, if not, who can come up with the most ridiculous answer?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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We'll stick that one up there with why Lothair Road is split into north and south when most people might have used east and west......and of course the perennial on about where (excluding the Disraeli ones) the Ladder road names came from (now that the admiral option has been debunked).
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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On the Lothair Road point, in 1914, people were just describing themselves as living in Lothair Road without the split.
But yes, it's definitely a jewel in that crown of topics...
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...and so it shows on my 1914 Batholomew's. I'd never thought to look before.
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So I wonder when it changed (and, in reference to my previous question, whether the numbers are continuous across the now two streets or whether they were renumbered when the split happened).
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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The numbering doesn't seem to have changed. Again from Kelly 1935,
Lothiar Road south. North side from Wightman Road - 7 to 73
South side from Wightman Road - 2 to 30
(So what happened to numbers 1, 3 and 5?)
Lothair Road north. North side from the New River - 75 to 145
South side from Venetia Road - 32 to 48
Maybe they were designated as north and south to make it easier to find an address. If you were after Charles Berry who lived at number 7 and you started at the Green Lanes end you've have a fair bit of a walk up what is now Lothair Road north, along Venetia Road, along Endymion Road, up Coningsby Road and finally up to number 7.
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So the odd numbers are on the north side there as well
!It would make sense for it to remain continuous given the lateness of the split compared to the time it was built. Interesting about 1, 3 and 5.
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I get the differentiation. See my last comment below; it's the north / south bit that makes no sense since they're located on an east - west plane.
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I reckon someone was just holding the map the wrong way up.
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By 1935, Kelly's directory shows them as Lothairs north and south so something happened in the twenty years between the two publications.
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I'm guessing residents requested it, after countless frustrated visitors (and telegram boys?).
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I love the idea of competing for the dullest thread posted on HoL.
An old and very firm friend of ours - she had to be or we'd have been thrown out of her home - once showed us a book she was proud to find. It was called: The Lost Jews of Cornwall. We gently suggested that not only was it not the most eye-catching title, but that if there was enough for a whole book, they were hardly lost.
The conversation moved on to inventing unlikely book titles. Which included: "One Thousand Different Walks Round the Finsbury Park Boating Lake".
"Fascinating Facts You Never Knew about Street Numbering of Buildings on the Harringay Ladder" sounds like a surefire worst seller. Though the follow-up: "One Hundred More Fascinating Facts etc" could possibly become a novelty hit.
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Alan, you've given me an idea for a 2014 Christmas stocking filler. Keep your eye on the Amazon clearance list.
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