Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Middlesex 1873 high res map
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Permalink Reply by Peter on
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Fantastic!!! With my half-Swiss hat on, I'm wondering whether anyone knows anything about the Swiss Cottage just south of the Tile Works?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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It’s one of those things I noticed on the map many years ago and have wondered the same thing. I haven’t come across any reference to it yet in more than a decade of research on the area. I haven’t looked for info specifically on it, but have come across Vale House and The Hermitage. Your question re-piques my interest. So I’ll keep an extra eye open (you know that spare one I keep in my back pocket!)
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Permalink Reply by Roy aka Smiffy on
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Wonderful zoomable map.
Thanks for spotting it.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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Terrific - I notice Dovecote House (moated?) and Dovecote Villas. Dovecote is offered as Ducketts. The house seems to be about where the shopping city is now (Hugh?).
Alderman's Bridge seems about where Lordship Lane is now with Aldermans Hill commencing somewhere there?
Tottenham Lane is show so I guess the crossroads at its eastern end would be Turnpike Lane?
The area that is now Ducketts Common is already marked out at least by shape.
My dear old local the Queens Head is shown but with no houses near it at all. We always thought it dated from later than this map suggests.
Fascinated to see the tile works where the arena was built - when I was a kid we went behind the arena on an embankment and we often found bits of old tile. I took them home and my father took it and me to the Hornsey) library to find out why they were there. It started a lifelong interest in such matters. Tx dad!
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