Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Northumberland House photos
The book and photos are wonderful. Have you shown them to Hackney Archives and Bruce Castle Archives? They look like a valuable local history resource. Certainly the group which produced 'Woodberry Down Memories' would have loved to have been able to include a reference and image. That was nearly 25 years ago when all we could find as an illustration were the gates of Northumberland House with the Percy lion on top of the arch.
Joanna
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks Joanna.
I have told BC, but they didn't seem particularly interested. I did think about Hackney Archives, but, no, I hadn't told them - but you've just prompted me to and I've dropped them a line with a link.
Is there a still a record of the 'Woodberry Down Memories'?
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Permalink Reply by Joanna Bornat on
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I have a last few copies of the book and recently tried to persuade Hackney Archives to scan it and put it online but they're resisting, claiming copyright problems because we reproduced newspaper cuttings from 1947, 'Slumdwellers Paradise' was one. Copyright in these is apparently difficult to track down. I think HA are being overcautious They may put up something about it eventually. It's a problem, because although the book came out of a group meeting at WBD in the 1980s, when people see it they want to read it. Recently, Tom Hunter the Hackney photographer who made a film about WBD in 2011, and I were interviewed for the journal <Oral History>, comparing our two approaches and pondering the situation for social housing today.
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I'll be happy to scan it for you and we can find a place you're comfortable with putting it online. Happy to host it here if you'd like.
BTW, a few more images of Northumberland House are in the gallery. I guess one of them is the picture you referred to with the lion.
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