Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Snow in Harringay
I'm just about old enough to remember the winter of 1962/63 in Harringay. One of the longest and coldest winters on record in the U.K. when even 'the sea' began to freeze.
Many parts of Tottenham, had no running water for weeks and water had to be collected from stand pipes outside. There were also periods with no electricity and gas pressure went down. The majority of the Victorian housing stock in the Borough still had no double glazing, as well as outside toilets and many of these froze up too!
School (Woodlands Park) carried on normally as far as I can remember (we all walked to school in those days).
After the thaw, enormous damage had been done by the snow and ice to road surfaces and I remember that Black Boy Lane had to be completely dug up and relaid later in 1963.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Dropped? You mean sacked .. for fiddling his train fares..
A very interesting personality with his 'buzzing bluebottle' - I'll have to remember that one !
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Steve, I was being nice to Joad - de mortuis nil nisi bunkum etc. After his years of philosophy and brains trusting he should have been able to bamboozle a ticket inspector. And facing the magistrates, shouldn't he have recalled how Socrates, on being condemned to drink hemlock, proposed that instead (like Olympic champions) he should be rewarded with free meals at the Prytanaeum for life as reward for educating Athenian youth as a one-man strolling brains trust ?
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It looks as if he's been forgotten: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6532414
Perhaps you should pay him a visit at St John at Hampstead (in better weather of course). Would make a nice day out?
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