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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Shopping city it's like Marmite. They may have bulldozed Harringay for progress, it was considered.

It would have been like the estate opposite Clissold undergoing demolition.

Kind of like Max Lock on protein drinks and steroids. He master planned England's first major post war social housing scheme, archives are kept at the Max Lock Institute, Westminster University.

Happy Birthday Wood Green Mall:
http://londonist.com/2016/05/the-mall-wood-green-is-35-this-week?re...

Councilor alert, buildings last a longer than your lifetime, and its your legacy for future generations, how do you want to be remembered?

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Yes to both, Maddy. And Pearsons' predecessor was D H Evans, later renamed House of Fraser.

If you walk into a shop these days to look at or for something, shoes for example, they'll tell you most of their stock is on-line. There are a few businesses within SS that are still useful to visit in person but they could easily move into the increasing number of empty units on the high street. SS could then be demolished and morph into that Heartlands housing scheme the council keeps talking about.
That is a plausible thought. I do like the food Hall for international food, but a market could be created in a vacant large store, like Marks and Spencer's abandoned store on Wood Green High street. I'm surprised M&S didn't open a smaller food store, but we do have Harringay Local Store & Beans & Barley for specialities.

I remember hearing somewhere that originally John Lewis were going to take the anchor store but negotiations ended in failure for some reason.  What a different place it would have been if JL had been successful in securing a store.

No guarantee of permanency though - even John Lewis have closed a few stores: remember Jones Brothers on Holloway Road, now partly replaced by Waitrose? Instead of JL, the lead department store was D H Evans, later House of Fraser - and they walked away, so Pearsons moved in and folded before Primark took on the space.

Please knock it down and build a Westfield

Would be nice to have a couple of pubs/bars in there like Westfield, even Edmonton's got one (used to have two).

That was the intention I think, then good ol' JL went for Brent Cross, #Grrrr
Is that a young Trevor Brooking in that one?

Thanks for the link. Somehow I'd thought of the Shopping City as having always been there since the time of Stonehenge, but it just didn't any recognition because people thought it was ugly or the shops were a bit naff. Personally I quite like it for not being as big and alienating and corporate as more modern shopping centres. Happy birthday!

The giant wooden frog just couldn't compete with the mahoosive fountain up the north circular.
"Tell me 'bout the Frog George"

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