Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Grand Opening of Queens Wood 1898
Does anyone have any photos or accounts of this day?
Surely, something that big and important, should have some representation.
This is all I could find:
"The wood was opened to the public on the 23rd of July 1898 by the Duchess of Albany (Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont) and renamed as Queen’s Wood, to commemorate sixty years of Queen Victoria’s reign.
The occasion was marked by great show of municipal pomp and ceremony, including a parade through the decorated streets of Crouch End and Muswell Hill attended by the Middlesex Yeomanry Band. A reception was held in a tented pavilion to seat 1000 people erected on the ‘tent field’, the area of grassy land between the wood bank and Muswell Hill Road, formerly used as a strawberry field."
The History and Archaeology Of Queen’s Wood, Michael Hacker, 2017
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I have this article from about a year before, which I've been hanging on to. I wonder if John C Hill gave any money, given that his mansion was just down the road.
Click the image to open it in a new window then click it again to enlarge it.
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Those kids look abit sus. I wonder if they are the same, that was mentioned here.
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I compiled some clippings...
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