All Discussions Tagged 'harringay house' (13)

When Gray's family cleared out the attic......

Attached is a transcript of one of the sale adverts placed by Gray's executors for various bits and bobs. (If you'd like to read from the o…

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Harringay House mapped (almost) exactly on modern satellite pic

Liz asked me the other day about the exact position of Harringay House. I pretty much knew it, but wasn't sure exactly. So I took the 1883…

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A close match for Harringay House?

I came across an old video of Southgate in the 1950s today, It contains some footage of a house called Grovelands. The house was built by W…

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James McNeill Whistler & Harringay House

Seems like Whistler was a friend of Harringay House inhabitant Mrs Alexander, wife of banker William C Alexander of the City bankers Alex…

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Chapman awarded £4M compensation against Great Northern Railway for loss of privacy at Harringay House.

I've just stumbled across an article from the "The Legal observer, digest, and journal of jurisprudence" which informs us that the second o…

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Harringay House Hot Houses

The following is an extract from An Encyclopaedia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture & Arbo…

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Harringay House dovecote

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18th Century Chivalry indeed!

Checking on a reference to Edward Gray's marriage in a copy of the Gentleman magazine of 1794, I noticed this charming marriage announcemen…

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Edward Gray a Tottenham Boy?

Finding out much about Edward Gray is about as easy as coming up with a picture of Harringay House. However I have been able to root out a…

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