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Harringay Fifties Livecasts

From the 1954 Billy Graham Crusade recollections of 100 year old George Beverley: "The Harringay arena seated some 12,000 and it was fill…

Started by Hugh

0 Jan 31, 2009

St Paul's Harringay - a short history 1883-1975

In December 1883 an iron mission church was opened in Burgoyne Road, Harringay which seated 200 people in a district still thinly populated…

Started by Liz

3 Jan 20, 2009
Reply by Liz

More Harringay Inventions

And a few more Harringay inventions, I thought you just had to know about!

Started by Hugh

0 Jan 12, 2009

Harringay at the centre of World History - a Harringay Comb Case Patent Application and other goodies!!

Who said that Harringay wasn't at the centre of world events. See attached for comb case and other world changing events - invented here i…

Started by Hugh

0 Jan 12, 2009

1899: Alexandra Palace and the curse of Muswell Hill

Is Ally Pally jinxed by an old local tradition that nothing on the top of Muswell Hill could ever flourish? Note the reference to the rap…

Started by Liz

0 Dec 26, 2008

1890: Lady Wolseley lays the foundation stone for St Paul's, Harringay

The Times June 2nd 1890

Started by Liz

2 Dec 9, 2008
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1938: Miss Cecila Colledge at the Harringay Arena

It seems that the great and the good could be seen at the Harringay Arena in the 1930s. Typical of charity events staged is this one ment…

Started by Liz

0 Dec 8, 2008

More Memories of Harringay

A collection of Harringay memories: Growing up in Harringay on the 1920s I was born in Hornsey in 1923, and spent the first 10 years of my…

Started by Hugh

2 Dec 1, 2008
Reply by Liz

"I remember it as a surreal image, these silent masses trudging........."

Snippet from a London memories site: That was the name of the nearest tube station and the big pub on the corner of Green Lanes and Seven…

Started by Hugh

1 Nov 30, 2008
Reply by Liz

Your Harringay memories are our heritage

Heritage isn't just bricks and mortar, objects in museums, it's also memories, photos and their stories, the names of things that are gone…

Started by Liz

1 Nov 3, 2008
Reply by StephenBln

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