Harringay online2024-03-29T06:28:10ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorleyhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2057361858?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=07b89moulvu80&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhen Harringay's fifth cinema became Harringay's second motor vehicle producertag:harringayonline.com,2024-01-02:844301:Topic:15622542024-01-02T19:02:13.693ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>At the height of the cinema age, Harringay had five cinemas. The least known was at the western corner of Wightman Road and Turnpike Lane.</p>
<p>I first wrote about this cinema in my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_cinemas_in_Harringay" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Wikipedia article on Harringay's cinemas</a> back in 2008. Then two years later, in his book on Haringey's Cinemas, Jeremy Buck delighted me by turning up a photo of the building, shown below.</p>
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<p>At the height of the cinema age, Harringay had five cinemas. The least known was at the western corner of Wightman Road and Turnpike Lane.</p>
<p>I first wrote about this cinema in my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_cinemas_in_Harringay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia article on Harringay's cinemas</a> back in 2008. Then two years later, in his book on Haringey's Cinemas, Jeremy Buck delighted me by turning up a photo of the building, shown below.</p>
<p>According to various contemporary listings for and references to the cinema, it started life in 1912 as the <em>Grand Cinema.</em> By 1920, it was being referred to as the <em>Grand Picture House, </em>apparently reverting to the previous name by 1928. By 1931, it had become the <em>New Clarence</em> and it finished its life with less than a year as the <em>Regent</em> in 1933. This series of names followed frequent changes in ownership and suggests that no one really had any success in making any money from it.</p>
<p>The building was demolished as part of the Wightman/Turnpike/Hornsey Park crossroads <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/alignment-of-wightman-and-hornsey-park-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alignment in 1973/74</a>. You can see the cinema in context in <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/photo/harringay-from-the-air-1930s-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1930s aerial photo</a>. This image suggests that the either the building was rather larger than it looks in Jeremy's photo or the one pictured is the early 70s image is not the original cinema building.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>The Turnpike Lane / Wightman Road cinema building c1970 (looking south west)</em></span></p>
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<p>Jeremy's photo flushed out the identity of the occupants c1970, but that was all anyone knew about them. Then, a few weeks ago, I stumbled on more about them. Yesterday, I was reminded of this when was I was posting the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/found-image-of-north-end-wightman-road-towards-junction-with-turn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly discovered photo</a> of that end of Wightman Road in 1948 and I realised that you can just see the old cinema building.</p>
<p>CSM Motor Bodies, who moved in following the cinema’s demise, appear not to have been listed at the address until 1939. So, I'm assuming this to have been the date for their first occupation. In the absence of information, it has been assumed from their company name and our 21st century perspective that they were car body repairmen. It seems that they were in fact rather more than that.They apparently built vehicles there. </p>
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<p>Along with the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/photo/caledonian-motor-carriage-company-falkland-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caledonian Carriage Company</a> on Falkland Road, this discovery adds a second motor vehicle manufacturer for Harringay and underlines how very different vehicle manufacture was. Just up the road on Priory Road, we had the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/the-hidden-indusrty-on-the-warner-estate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Argyll Motor Company</a>.</p>
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<p></p> Where the Whittington Hospital came fromtag:harringayonline.com,2023-10-26:844301:Topic:15563452023-10-26T05:43:14.424ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>Earlier this week, HoL member Keith asked in a post on the forum if anyone could explain this object sitting in a courtyard at the Whittington Hospital. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 1: Keith's shot of a reic from a courtyard at Whittington Hospital</em></span></p>
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<p>Earlier this week, HoL member Keith asked in a post on the forum if anyone could explain this object sitting in a courtyard at the Whittington Hospital. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 1: Keith's shot of a reic from a courtyard at Whittington Hospital</em></span></p>
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<p>I knew it looked familiar and I eventually managed to dig out a couple of photos which showed that it was a gatepost that had belonged to one (or maybe more) of the older hospitals that used to stand on the site.</p>
<p>There's been a hospital on the site or nearby for over 500 years. I<span>n 1473, </span><span>St Anthony’s Chapel and Lazar House (hospital for lepers) were probably the first buildings. They may have been on the site now used by the Whittington, or elsewhere nearby, perhaps on the site to the north which is still today owned by the Catholic Church. (Today occupied by St Joseph's Church and St Joseph's Catholic School).</span></p>
<p>The hospital from which the gatepost originally comes was very probably the Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital built in 1848 when it was moved from its site in King's Cross for the station to be built. This new Highgate Hill hospital is shown in the line drawing in Fig. 2 and on the 1895 Ordnance Survey map in Fig. 3. The building still stands today as the Jenner* Wing of the Whittington Hospital, and is now a grade II listed building. Sadly, the tower shown in the drawing below is long gone.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 2: The Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital, Highgate, Middlesex. Line engraving by C. Simms after S.W. Daukes, 1848. - Wellcome Colletion used bu CC-BY-4.0 licence </em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 3:1895 Ordnance Survey Town Plan (from National Library of Scotland)</em></span></p>
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<p>Then at the end on the nineteenth century the Islington Board of Guardians acquired the hospital and its land and between <span>In 1898 and 1900 </span>built a new hospital for "the sick and poor". Opened by the Duke and Duchess of York in July 1900, it was called t<span>he St Mary’s Infirmary, but also referred to as the Islington Infirmary. The former Smallpox Hospital becme a nurses' home.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 4: The entrance of St Mary's Hospital c1905</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 5: Another rather grainy image of the entrance of St Mary's Hospital c1905</em></span></p>
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<p>When the NHS was established in 1948, <span>the hospital became the</span><span> St Mary’s Wing of the Whittington Hospital. As is widely understood, the Whittington name comes from the folkloric tale concerning poor-boy-made-good, medieval merchant and Mayor of London Richard Whittington. In the tale, Whittington fled London, but on hearing the sound of Bow bells which promised him he'd be mayor of London one day, he turned around. The famous Whittington Stone stands just down the hill from the hospital, supposedly marking the point at which Whittington 'turned'. On top of the stone is a cat, the sale of which to a rat-infested country is how, according to the story, he made his his fortune. Sadly, however, other than the fact that Whittington was a wealthy merchant who served as the mayor of London, none of the tale relates to any known facts and is generally considered to have originated in a ballad and a play from the early 1600's, over a century and a half after Whittington's death. </span></p>
<p><span>Getting back to the hospital, the western half of the St Mary's Infirmary is still standing as part of the Whittington Hospital. Only the eastern half was demolished to build the new section of the hospital with which many of us are familiar.</span></p>
<p><span>On the 1955 OS map below, the parts in green still stand, those in red were demolished in the second half of the last century and replace with today's building.</span> <span>Below it is a marked-up Google Satellite Bird's eye view (Looking from the north because it's the best view of the buildings- so you'll have to rotate in your mind's eye to match the map).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 6: Marked up extract of 1955 Ordnance Survey map, showing surviving and demolished parts of the Smallpox and St Mary's Hospitals (National Library of Scotland).</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig. 7: Marked up extract of Google birds-eye satellite view of Whittington Hospital, showing surviving and demolished parts of the Smallpox and St Mary's Hospitals which, although reversed, correlate with those marked in the map above. </font></em></span></p>
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<p><span>If you compare the 1955 map below with the earlier 1895 map above, you'll see that the building marked "Lodge" is showing on both maps. This is also shown in the line drawing in Fig. 2 and the photos at Fig.s 4 and 5. So, it looks probable that the whole entrance, including the surviving gatepost dates from 1848, rather than 1900. However, I suspect that all the gateposts, though originally from 1848, had the top third added when the St Mary's was built in 1900. </span></p>
<p><span>You can see all the old buildings in an aerial view of the hospital shot by the RAF on 10 May 1946.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 8: 1946 RAF aerial shot showing the old hospital buildings.</em></span></p>
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<p>In the 1970s, half of the old St Mary's was demolished and in 1977 a new block opened, containing the Accident and Emergency, Out-Patients and other departments. In 1992 the Great Northern building opened on the site.</p>
<p>Below is an image from Google Street View showing the location of the old entrance today. (Click it to go through to Google Street View).</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5671568,-0.1379502,3a,88.4y,215.88h,93.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbHmk9VBe_VRE-sQg3HM7iQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12263865488?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 9: Extract Google Street View showing the location of the old entrance to the Smallpox/St. Mary's Hospitals today. (Click it to go through to Google Street View).</em></span></p>
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<p>This afternoon I visited the hospital to see what I've learned about but never seen in the flesh. I asked a staff member just outside the Jenner Building if it would be possible to see inside, She took me to the Comms team, based in the building. Sadly, there's little left of the original building inside, but the team were very friendly and helpful and were thrilled to see the first part of this post. Apparently no one at the hospital had any idea what the old piece of stone standing forgotten in a modern hospital courtyard was. Now they do! So, many thanks Keith for noticing it and taking the time to ask your question. Between us, we've solved a mystery for them. </p>
<p>My visit this afternoon is shared below in a series of phone pics.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 10: South and east fronts of the old Smallpox Hospital. This is the view as you walk up from the 1970s A&E building</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 11: East Face of Jenner building (Smallpox Hospital). </em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 12: South front of the old Smallpox Hospital. The original stone name plate still survives below the clock.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig 13: Old name plate below the clock on the South front.</font></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig. 14: The hospital comms team told me that this basement entrance used to be set up as a slide for easily moving bodies into the morgue which was in the basement. The space later became a staff bar. Apparently if you visit, you can still see old Guinness signs and the like and toward the back, through a heavy iron door, the shelves for stacking bodies are still in situ. </font></em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 15: One of the surviving entrances to the old St Mary's Infirmary. Above the door the carved sign says "Female Receiving Ward".</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 17: Female Receiving Ward entrance interior with original stained glass preserved above the door. The entrance-way is now in use as a chapel. </em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 18: Surviving elevated walkways from the St Mary's infirmary. Now only in use as fire escapes.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 19: Commemorative stone still in situ by the "Jenner Entrance' in the St Mary's wing. </em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig, 20: South and west fronts of the old St Mary's Infirmary (now St. Mary's wing). From this perspective, the building looks to me every inch the solid Victorian institution for the "poor and sick" that it was designed to be. </em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">* I assume that the Jenner Wing is named after Edward Jenner (1749–1823), surgeon and pioneer of the smallpox vaccination. Jenner's former home was set up as the <a href="https://jennermuseum.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenner Museum</a> in 1985. It is based in Berkley between Bristol and Gloucester. REad Jenner's own account of the development of the vaccine <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5598692/pdf/medphysj68746-0010.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. </span></p>
<p></p> How history shaped the wide eastern end of Turnpike Lanetag:harringayonline.com,2023-09-10:844301:Topic:15518852023-09-10T11:12:58.283ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Looking east towards at the mid nineteenth century housing terrace on the site of Turnpike Lane tube station. From left to right, they were Pleasant Cottage, Kent Lodge and Just peeking in on the right) Newent Villa. Behind the was Pleasant Grove, what later became Langham…</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Looking east towards at the mid nineteenth century housing terrace on the site of Turnpike Lane tube station. From left to right, they were Pleasant Cottage, Kent Lodge and Just peeking in on the right) Newent Villa. Behind the was Pleasant Grove, what later became Langham Road.</em></span></p>
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<p>Looking earlier at the photo above, I wondered if Turnpike Lane had always been wide, or whether it had been widened to accommodate <a href="https://harringayonline.com/photo/photo/listTagged?tag=turnpike+lane+bus%2Ftram+islands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the tram/bus islands</a> in the early 1930s.</p>
<p>I looked over 150 years of maps that take us back to more than 200 years ago. They show that the wide mouth dates from at least the start of the nineteenth century. Back then it was still referred to as part of Tottenham Lane. When the turnpike keeper's cottage was demolished in 1872, the site was subsumed completely into the roadway and the southern part of Turnpike Lane was angled further to the south, giving us today's shape.</p>
<p>The "bar" shown on the 1815 map was the turnpike bar that didn't get lifted until you'd paid your toll. </p>
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<p>The maps produced in the first half of the century show the Turnpike keeper's cottage which stood until 1872, when it was demolished. The photo below was taken just before demolition.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 12%; margin-right: 12%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Turnpike keeper's house, Turnpike Lane, c 1872. I assume that this was taken from Green Lanes, looking west-north-west, with the door facing Green Lanes. </em></span></p> Braddock's record of a changing Turnpike Lane, 1899 - 1906tag:harringayonline.com,2023-07-12:844301:Topic:15449542023-07-12T10:33:17.498ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>Turn of the century Hornsey photographer photographer, <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/alfred-braddock-a-commercial-photographic-surveyor-and-recorder-o" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Alfred Braddock</a>, moved to the area in about 1890. He started off living in Alexandra Road, off Turnpike Lane and later lived at 120 Turnpike Lane for a few years. His photos provide one of the rare collections of early photos of the area. </p>
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<p>Turn of the century Hornsey photographer photographer, <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/alfred-braddock-a-commercial-photographic-surveyor-and-recorder-o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alfred Braddock</a>, moved to the area in about 1890. He started off living in Alexandra Road, off Turnpike Lane and later lived at 120 Turnpike Lane for a few years. His photos provide one of the rare collections of early photos of the area. </p>
<p>One of the most evocative locations he captured was Turnpike Lane's west end, between Wightman Road and the Great Northern Line, all of which was part of the Harringay House Estate during Edward Gray's stewardship. Then, first the land to the north of the road was sold after Gray's death, followed by the land to the south which was quickly developed when the estate was finally sold off in the 1880s. Nothing that was built on this stretch at the end of the last century survives today. </p>
<p>We start with an 1899 image of workmen at the railway tunnel.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig. 1: Braddock's photo of workmen at the Turnpike Lane railway bridge. Given the date. I assume this was related to the widening of the bridge <span>(see newspaper cutting below) which almost doubled the width of the bridge to the east of the existing one. The buildings in the background, further east on Turnpike Lane, are also in the next photo.The most distant house was <a href="https://harringayonline.com/photo/turnpike-lane-hornsey-park-road-junction-circa-1905" target="_blank" rel="noopener">122 Turnpike Lane</a>. This was next door to <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/alfred-braddock-a-commercial-photographic-surveyor-and-recorder-o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Braddock's home for a few years from about 1910</a>. The house was demolished in the middle of the century, when Hornsey Park Road was aligned with Wightman Road. </span></font></em></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12222465662?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12222465662?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="400" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig. 2: Holloway Press, 9 June 1899.</em></span></p>
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<p>Some years ago, I published Braddock's photo of the location taken in 1905, which I think best captures late Victorian Turnpike Lane best. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig. 3: Braddock's photo of Turnpike Lane, west end, marked by him as 1905. Shortly after this photo, the buildings which seem to be the main subject of the photo were demolished, (See caption for Braddock's 1906 photo below). </font></em></span></p>
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<p>Just out of the photo on the left, was the nursery that <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/the-gardens-at-harringay-house-the-place-the-plants-the-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gray's gardener George Press</a> started after his former employer died. Closer to the junction is Salmon's artists supply shop. On the right you can just see the Unwin Arms on the corner of Haringey Grove.</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2065051719?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2065051719?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Fig, 4: Unwin Arms and Turnpike Lane (Not identified as a Braddock).</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig. 5: Corner of Turnpike Lane and Hornsey Park Road, c1904. Salmons artists' supply shop is just out of the picture to the left</font> <span style="font-size: 8pt;">(Not identified as a Braddock)</span><font size="1">. This is one of the building demolished in 1906/06 for the widening of the road to accommodate tramways.</font></em></span></p>
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<p>Below is a 1906 Braddock photo that I've only recently found. This shows a similar view to the 1905 one, after most of the buildings on the north side of the road had been demolished to allow this ivreasingly bust tram route to be widended.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><font size="1">Fig. 6: Braddock's 1906 photo of Turnpike Lane, west end. The buildmgs on nortth side of the road between Clarendon Road and Hornsey Park Road had just recently been demolished to allow for the widening of the Tramways.(Hornsey Journal, May 4 1906, p2).</font></em></span></p>
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<p>Apparently, I have something of an obsession with this location. I've also written pieces on <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/changing-prospects-in-hornsey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prospect Place</a> and <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/goulding-court-turnpike-lane-and-another-local-builder-made-good?groupUrl=historyofharringay&" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goulding Court</a>.</p>
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<p></p> Shadbolt Exhibtion - well worth going to seetag:harringayonline.com,2023-07-07:844301:Topic:15441212023-07-07T10:32:37.242ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p><span>George Shadbolt (1819-1901) was a British writer, editor and photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of Hornsey and Tottenham during the 1850s-60s.</span></p>
<p><span>Bruce Castle is hosting an exhibition of their archive archive of these early prints showing the quiet rural landscapes of what is now Haringey.</span></p>
<p>More info in the forum…</p>
<p><span>George Shadbolt (1819-1901) was a British writer, editor and photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of Hornsey and Tottenham during the 1850s-60s.</span></p>
<p><span>Bruce Castle is hosting an exhibition of their archive archive of these early prints showing the quiet rural landscapes of what is now Haringey.</span></p>
<p>More info in the forum <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/exhibition-works-of-george-shadbolt-hornsey-s-earliest-photograph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
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<p></p> Talk: Evidence of Our Past: 100 Stories From The Archive, Crouch End, 8th July 2023tag:harringayonline.com,2023-07-07:844301:Topic:15443612023-07-07T01:13:33.296ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>From the Hornsey Historical Society:</p>
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<p>The past is endlessly fascinating and full of clues about how we connect to the history of our local areas – Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Harringay, Stroud Green, Alexandra Palace and Wood Green. All covered by Hornsey Historical Society.</p>
<p>This talk as part of the…</p>
<p>From the Hornsey Historical Society:</p>
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<p>The past is endlessly fascinating and full of clues about how we connect to the history of our local areas – Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Harringay, Stroud Green, Alexandra Palace and Wood Green. All covered by Hornsey Historical Society.</p>
<p>This talk as part of the Crouch End Festival, focuses on stories in the book and the intriguing ways in which they sometime come to the Society.</p>
<p>Come and find out about some of the people, places and events which have shaped our urban locality.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About the speaker</span></h2>
<p>Janet Owen is the editor of the “100 Stories from the Archive” book, the Publications Officer and also a member of the General Committee at the Hornsey Historical Society.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Event Details</strong></span></p>
<p>Hornsey Library<br/> Haringey Park <br/> London, N8 9JA</p>
<p>@ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm</p>
<p></p> Hornsey Historical Society is currently looking for volunteerstag:harringayonline.com,2023-04-26:844301:Topic:15367162023-04-26T08:43:22.162ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>Last year I was invited to join the Hornsey Historical Society (HHS) publications committee. Since joining the team, I have become very aware of a key challenge the society is facing. Like most organisations in our country who rely on volunteers, there is a simple lack of enough people putting themselves forward to help out.</p>
<p>Set up a little over fifty years ago, the HHS is one of many local history societies across the country, but it is a bit special in two ways. First, it has a…</p>
<p>Last year I was invited to join the Hornsey Historical Society (HHS) publications committee. Since joining the team, I have become very aware of a key challenge the society is facing. Like most organisations in our country who rely on volunteers, there is a simple lack of enough people putting themselves forward to help out.</p>
<p>Set up a little over fifty years ago, the HHS is one of many local history societies across the country, but it is a bit special in two ways. First, it has a building - very unusual - which means that it is able to maintain a physical archive. Secondly, it is very active in publishing high quality material and has a number of award winning publications in its stable. (And, after all, what's the point odf a locll history society if it isn's sharing what it knows!)</p>
<p>If you're interested in our local area, its heritage and history and like the sound of a friendly organisation guided by professional values, the I encourage you to read the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/hornsey-historical-society-is-currently-looking-for-volunteers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main post on this topic</a> in the forum and contact the society for a chat. </p>
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<p></p> Copy of Tottenham: a History, Christine Protz wantedtag:harringayonline.com,2023-03-31:844301:Topic:15344772023-03-31T20:35:54.576ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>Does anyone have an unwanted copy of Chrstine Protz's Tottenham book? If so, you have an interested party here.</p>
<p>Does anyone have an unwanted copy of Chrstine Protz's Tottenham book? If so, you have an interested party here.</p> The hidden industry on the Warner Estatetag:harringayonline.com,2023-03-18:844301:Topic:15324162023-03-18T00:59:13.999ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>I was recently contacted by a local resident who was trying to find out more about a building which used to stand on her road. She wrote,</p>
<blockquote>On older maps and aerial photos from just after the war there is a large building or range of buildings where the 1980s development Wavel Mews now sits. On the 1951 Ordnance Survey map, it is labelled No.71 Priory Road. Any insight as to what this building was?</blockquote>
<p>I’m not an expert, but just my sort of challenge.</p>
<p>I’ll…</p>
<p>I was recently contacted by a local resident who was trying to find out more about a building which used to stand on her road. She wrote,</p>
<blockquote>On older maps and aerial photos from just after the war there is a large building or range of buildings where the 1980s development Wavel Mews now sits. On the 1951 Ordnance Survey map, it is labelled No.71 Priory Road. Any insight as to what this building was?</blockquote>
<p>I’m not an expert, but just my sort of challenge.</p>
<p>I’ll start by pinpointing exactly where this site is: it’s on the south side of Priory Road, adjoining Priory Park to its east and south. To its north are five houses on Priory Road (now numbered 73 to 81). To its west are six houses on Park Avenue South (numbered 96 to 104).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 1: Ordnance Survey map surveyed 1910-11 (western section) 1893-94 (Eastern section) (National Library of Scotland)</em></span></p>
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<p>Directly to the north east, St George’s Church was built at the corner of Priory Road and Park Avenue South. Destroyed by bombing during the Second World War, it was replaced by Hornsey Fire Station some years later.</p>
<p>The first building on my interlocutor's site were erected in the first part of the early 1900s as the Warner estate was built up.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 2: St George’s Church, c1905</em></span></p>
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<p>The house in front of “number 71” was 73 Priory Road. Built as one of an unmatched pair of semi-detached houses, it was originally called <em>Avenue House</em>.</p>
<p> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999229264?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999229264?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 3: 73 and 75 Priory Road (Google Maps). Note the slight castellation of the top of the window bay.</em></span></p>
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<p>In 1904, Jessie bought the plot of land between the corner of Park Avenue South and Priory Park, part of the estate being sold off by the Warner family of <em>The Priory</em>. He built, or had built for himself number 73, and adjacent to it, four other houses. The corner plot was resold to the Church. As you can see from the contemporary photo above, number 73 was significantly larger than its neighbour. Since studying the development of our local area, time and time again, I've come across builders who have built one house larger and fancier than the others for themselves. It also seems to have been common that one feature builders would add to their own property was an adjacent yard for their own business use. For Jessie, this lay behind his house with a convenient driveway running alongside his house for access. He left the space behind his house, "number 71" for use as his contractor's yard.</p>
<p>Jessie was born in Crouch End in 1858. His father, Thomas, a labourer, lived with his family on Park Road. The property was on the edge of the small working class area developed in the 1860s on the triangle between Middle Lane and Park Road. </p>
<p>A decade after Jessie was born, the family moved round the corner to New Road and Thomas described his occupation as 'Contractor'. By the time of the 1881 census, Thomas was a 'Contractor and Corn Dealer', employing 22 men and living at 1 Park Road, on the corner of Middle Lane. 22-year-old Jessie was still living with his parents and his occupation was given as ‘shopman’. I assume he was helping out in the corn dealer's shop.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999230486?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999230486?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 4:Middle Lane from Park Road, c1900, probably after Thomas Dunmore’s time, but the building he occupied was still running as a corn dealer (Photo from the collection of Ken Stevens)</em></span></p>
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<p>Another ten years on and the 1891 census shows that Jessie's parents had moved to 32A Broadway, above what is now the hardware shop almost opposite Waitrose. Thomas was described as 'contractor and bricklayer'. Jessie and his young family had taken up residence at 9 Topsfield Road. By this point Jessie’s occupation was given, like his father’s as contractor.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig, 5: 9-17 Topsfield Road (Google Maps). Jessie and his family lived first and number 9 (far left) then moved to number 13.</em></span></p>
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<p>Behind 32 Broadway , Dunmore kept a large yard for his contractor's business. Below, 32A Broadway, the shop was leased by Hornsey architect, John Farrer, who was the architect responsible for the Warner Estate, built over the grounds of the Priory, to the west of Hornsey Village. Whether the colocation of Thomas Dunmore's premises and Farrer's was the result of a pre-existing relationship, or the making of one, we do not know, but it seems very unlikely that Jessie Dunmore's activity in and subsequent residence on Priory Road was did not come from that connection.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Fig. 6: 1893 Ordnance Survey map showing 32 Broadway and the large yard behind. (The entrance to the yard ran alongside number 32, by the letter 'D' of Broadway). (Image: National Library of Scotland)</em></p>
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<p>By 1901, things appear to have gone well for Thomas. The census of that year showed him at 70 Crouch Hall Road, working as a Road and Sewer contractor and ranked as an employer rather than a worker. A general servant was given as part of their household.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 7: Jessie's step-up in the world, his home in 1901, 70 Crouch Hall Road (Google Maps)</em></span></p>
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<p>Before the decade was out Jessie had moved to <em>Avenue House</em>, 73 Priory Road. </p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 8: Priory Road, c1905, looking west across the entrance to the park and towards Jessie Dunmore’s house. His boundary wall is just visible</em>.</span></p>
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<p>Some years later, as the First World War ended, Jessie turned 60 and retired. With more time on his hands, like so many builders before him, Jessie made the transition to local politics. Between 1919 and 1921, he served two terms as the Mayor of Hornsey.</p>
<p>With his yard no longer needed for business, Jessie lost no time in finding a tenant. By 1920, Argyll Motor Company had moved in. The company had two claims to fame. The first related to its heritage, the second to its association with another well-known Hornsey car company. </p>
<p>Argyll is said to have been born out of the collapse of Argyll Motors, Scotland’s largest early twentieth century car manufacturer, (I have to admit to having had no idea that Scotland ever had any car manufacturers, let alone a ‘largest’ one). The company had started in 1899 and within a decade had set up in a grand looking factory in Alexandria, West Dumbartonshire and was making fine motor cars like the Argyll <em>Flying Fifteen</em>.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999232875?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999232875?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig. 9: Argyll’s Dumbartonshire Motor Works (Photo: Lesley Mitchell, Wikipedia, used under Creative Commons licence)</em></span></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999233652?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999233652?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <em>Fig. 10: Argyll Flying Fifteen made from 1910, designed by John Meredith Rubury who was later to be associated with the Priory Road premises. (Photo: Wikipedia, used under Creative Commons licence)</em></span></p>
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<p>Sadly for Argyll, business didn’t progress well and by 1914 the company had been all but been wound up. I haven’t been able to find any evidence of a direct line between Argyll in Scotland and Argyll in Hornsey, but there’s that there was certainly more than a coincidence of names.</p>
<p><em>Automobiles of the World An Encyclopaedia of the Car</em> listed <em>Argyll (London) Motor and Engineering Company Ltd (Rubery Lindsay</em>” at Priory Road. John Meredith Rubury was the designef of Argyll’s <em>Flying Fifteen</em>.</p>
<p>In November, 1920, a journalist writing in <em>The Motor-Owner</em> magazine confirmed the link between Rubery Lindsay and Argyll when he wrote, “Here what’s this Rubery-Lindsay at £300? – It’s new to me. It is a new car not entirely unconnected, with the Great house of Argyll, late of golden dome fame. It has to be looked into.” So, there was some sort of link, but I suspect not one of direct commercial descent (but I’m happy to be proved wrong).</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Argyll Hornsey wasn’t just concerned with cars, however. According to former Argyll Hornsey employee Robert Rust, writing in a Hornsey Historical Society Bulletin, <em>“The main part of the enterprise was a large machine shop which occupied about three quarters of the building. This was involved in the manufacture of railway maintenance equipment.... It also made those trolleys that you see in old films where two men pumped handles up and down to propel them”.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999233874?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999233874?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fig, 11: <span style="font-size: 10pt;">St</span> George’s Church after the war. To the right of and behind the church, the 71 Priory Road premises are just visible.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Fig: 12: the premises in the immediate post-war period form the 1947 Ordnance Survey map. (National Library of Scotland).</i></p>
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<p>Argyll’s second claim to fame was its association with <em>Lotus Cars</em>. The nascent enterprise was set up by Colin Chapman and Colin Dare in a ramshackle premises behind the <em>Railway Hotel</em> pub on Tottenham Lane, run by Chapman’s father. In the early days of the business, Argyll bored out Austin 7 engines for the two young entrepreneurs to put into their Lotus vehicles.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999233899?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10999233899?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="500" class="align-center"/></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <em>Fig, 13: Advertisement from Kelly's Hornsey Directory, 1936. </em></span></p>
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<p>Argyll stayed in Hornsey until 1964. The following year an was made for the premises to be demolished and replaced with lock-up garages. However it appears from a map and a plan which are part of the records of the 1987 planning application in the archives of Haringey Planning that nothing much as changed on the site as far as structures are concerned since Argyll days. The records suggest that the main part of the site may have been in use as a car body repair shop by a company called Questcross Motors.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Fig. 14: Map from the 1987 planning application records.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><i>Fig. 15: Site plan from 1987 planning records, showing what was probably Argyll's building still in place on the eastern section of the site.</i></p>
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<p>In 1987, as housing prices rocketed, sixteen houses were built as Waverley Mews.</p>
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<p><em>You can read Robert Rust's memories of working at Argyll in the 1950s in the Hornsey Historical Society's Bulletin, No. 42, available as a back-copy for just £1.50 from the Old Schoolhouse on Tottenham Lane, or online at <a href="https://hornseyhistorical.org.uk/hhs-bulletin-42/" target="_self">hornseyhistorical.org.uk/hhs-bulletin-42</a>.</em></p>
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<p></p> The Christeys: from the 18th Century Fruit Stalls of Covent Garden, up to Crouch End and St James's Clublandtag:harringayonline.com,2023-02-23:844301:Topic:15293322023-02-23T19:43:58.378ZDave Whttps://harringayonline.com/profile/DaveWorley
<p>While looking at an early twentieth century photo of a local pub recently, I noticed a sign above the pub’s door showing a member of the Christey family as licensee. I’d come across the name before, whilst <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/unremembered-london-s-favourite-racecourse-at-alexandra-park" rel="noopener" target="_blank">researching the Alexandra Park Racecourse</a>, but I hadn’t found out more than the most basic of information.…</p>
<p>While looking at an early twentieth century photo of a local pub recently, I noticed a sign above the pub’s door showing a member of the Christey family as licensee. I’d come across the name before, whilst <a href="https://harringayonline.com/group/historyofharringay/forum/topics/unremembered-london-s-favourite-racecourse-at-alexandra-park" target="_blank" rel="noopener">researching the Alexandra Park Racecourse</a>, but I hadn’t found out more than the most basic of information.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Digging around a bit to see what I could find about the man, it wasn’t long before I’d become ensnared in the family’s story and, after doing some research, I’d traced a family’s journey from the eighteenth-century fruit stalls of Covent Garden up to Crouch End and the surrounding area and then back south again to the heart of establishment clubland.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>I’d come across an intriguing family that was a major force in Hornsey’s pub and club trade during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> As a bonus, in doing so, I also uncovered some of the untold story of Crouch End’s short-lived Opera House; I’d ferreted out Crouch End’s connection with Murray Mints (the-too-good-to-hurry-mints) and revealed Crouch End’s place in billiards history.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The furthest back I was able to trace the family was to Thomas Chickley Tiltman, a direct forebear in the paternal line, but, as, you may have spotted, with a surname that didn’t match that of his descendants.</p>
<p>As seems to have become my habit, I got rather carried away, so the intended article became too long to read directly on the web. As a result, it's attached below in what I hope is a much easier to access pdf format. </p>
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