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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Thanks to Liz for posting the newspaper adverts from about 100 years for "Rest Cartwright" organ builders. When I see stuff like this, I always want to go and check what a location looks like in the present day.

Looking for 41 Park Road threw up a number of questions I hadn't looked at before. I couldn't find it on Google Street View. On one side I could find 31 and up; on the other 42 and up. So I dug out my trusty 1913 Bartholomew's Street Atlas and found that the road layout of the whole area just to the north east of Harringay has been changed since WWII. I guess I had a vague awareness of there being a Seventies redevelopment there but I hadn't really ever given it much thought or taken much notice to be honest.

So below, I've added an extract from 1913 Bartholomew's and a shot of Google Maps with the missing roads drawn in. I think Rest Cartwright's would have been on the southern side of Park Road, just to the east of where it used to cross Harringay Road. (If you zoom in on Google maps, you'll see that today that part of the road is no longer called Park Road. It's now Hallam Road.)

Click on the maps and click again to zoom:



You can also see (if not very well) something of what that bit was like from the composite picture I made of 1943 RAF pictures of Harringay.


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I did have a vague notion of wandering over to Park Road today to see if I could see any signs of 41. Obviously I would have had a wasted journey!

Another example of how our historical landscape changes all the time and how interesting it is to track it.

I have in my possession most of the remaining company records for the firm of Rest Cartwright which I would be happy to share with anyone interested.  There is some material on their original Works in Park Road, later to become a Laundry. 

Contact me by email: richard.hadingham@googlemail.com  

It seems that this building wasn't in Park Road after all, but in Colina Mews, just off Park Road. It survives to this day.

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