Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Mall Wood Green is 35 years old this week. Yay !
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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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Alexander on
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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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.
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Would be nice to have a couple of pubs/bars in there like Westfield, even Edmonton's got one (used to have two).
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That was the intention I think, then good ol' JL went for Brent Cross, #Grrrr
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Is that a young Trevor Brooking in that one?
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Permalink Reply by john higson on
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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!
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"Tell me 'bout the Frog George"
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Must have been the post and lintel construction.
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I have many memories of Wood Green before the redevelopment. Can anyone remind me of the name of the 'department store' that occupied the corner property, which then became ToyRUs and is now a sports retailer.
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Was it Edmonds?
I think we had a thread about it some time ago. Will have a look.
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