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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Published in Pearson's Weekly - 11 April 1907.

A Londoner who travels much around the suburbs has made a collection of queer house names. He mentioned that in Harringay a small house bears the title of " The Nailbox."

Any ideas anyone?

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Could it be that very tiny house that went on sale last year - about the width of a double bed? Not sure where it was exactly, but somewhere in the borough.

I think you mean the narrow house on Glenwood Road, first flagged on HoL by PC Kelly and then again when it was in the Standard.

Same thought had occurred to me. Could be the one. 

But that building wasn't constructed until 1996....so it can't be the one mentioned in Pearson's Weekly in April 1907.

So you read the second article I linked to - smart move!

Apart from it also being the trade name of a fingernail company? Not back then of course but following the thought - ironmongers?

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