Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Old Railway Building?.
This hut lies at the rear of a scaffolding yard at the end of Mannock Road N22. It would have overlooked the (now defunct) railway line from Palace Gates Station. Does anyone recognise the architecture of it as a railway building? It even had a flagpole until recently.
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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You are indeed correct, there was a shop there but ironically I only discovered it after I moved out. It was a newsagent and I think an off-licence. The prefab was likely replaced by a terrace of houses, the originals taken out in WW2.
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Permalink Reply by dubmill on
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The prefabs were replaced by semi-detached council houses, in the 1970s, by the look of them.
https://dubmill.tumblr.com/post/650060869269585920/langham-road-lon...
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You're right, I got the terrace mixed up with somewhere else.
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on
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Interesting. We were sat at the new Georgian cafe (well worth a visit) on Langham Road at the weekend wondering why that western end of Langham Road is part of Langham Road given that part of it becomes Graham Road and part of it becomes Crescent Road.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I’ve asked a few people who used to live in that part about the shop at 2 Langham. I’m told by Bernadette Benahmed that it was a corner shop at least from the 60s till the 90s. For some or all if that period, According to Dermott Manion, it was known as Albert’s.
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Three more memories from old-time locals for you. If it's accurate, I assume that the reference to two shops in the first memory dates the development of the empty plot next to the railway. The second memory about the second photo on the original post, confirm my assumption that it was a commercial building of sorts.
I remember two shops there. A general corner shop nearest the railway and a newsagents on the corner. The one nearest the railway became a house only first and the corner one was Leroy's run (unsurprisingly due to the name) by a Jamaican. Or something like that. It's 50+ years ago. (Phillip Woolford)
There was a small industrial building behind them that became a house. (Phillip Woolford)
Remember going to school, standing on the old iron bridge, while a steam train passed underneath. Used to buy sweets or an orange jubbly from the shop now and again. We lived in Frome Road. (Jim Stapleton)
So, now we have two names for the corner shop, perhaps one came after the other - Albert's then Leroy's.
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Permalink Reply by Mr M on
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In the early 1990s my daily commute included using Langham Place to get to TP Lane, and I can confirm that No. 2 Langham Place was a corner shop / small convenience store, at that time called 'Floydes Corner' (he clearly was no Grocer!)
According to the LBH Planning Portal:
Feb 1955 - permission granted for “rebuilding of one house and shop with residents (sic) over" [#s 1-2 Langham Place]
June 2000 (now referred to as 'Floydes Corner') - change of use, ground floor shop to residential (ground & upper floor to form a single dwelling house.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Matz on
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To my knowledge, these buildings have no connection to the Palace Gates branch line. Too far south east for Noel Park goods yard which was at street level with a signal box controlling access to the yard sited at the north end of the station. The yard was on the 'up' side of the line between Lymington Avenue and Westbury Avenue.
Noel Park & Wood Green station
Too far north west for the goods yard at West Green.
The Palace Gates line had its own engine shed at the terminus which closed in 1954 after the shuttle to Seven Sisters also ceased
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Thanks Richard, it's ironic that it lies on almost the exact same route as part of the proposed Crossrail 2 project.
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Thanks. It was also the alignment of nos 49/51 Graham Road that made me wonder if a track had run behind (from a putative engine or goods shed where Langham Parade is and across Langham Place to/from the known railway line), but the maps in Hugh’s post show they’re really just using an awkward triangle of land where Graham Road and Langham Place meet. 4, 5 & 6 Langham Parade — now apparently one building, the House of Beauty — which actually faces Graham Road, has an industrial look to it, so maybe it was originally a store or stable or something. In any case, my original speculation was obviously wide of the mark, but the reminiscences here are very interesting.
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