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Making a Song and Dance - Wood Green's Lost Piano Factory

This is the last of my three posts about Wood Green's Victorian Factories, occasioned by my curiosity about the vague outlines currently av…

Started by Hugh

1 Jun 15, 2018
Reply by John D

A Whiff of Tobacco - Wood Green's First Factory

The building of the Great Northern Railway and the opening of Wood Green Station in 1859 stimulated the start of both residential developme…

Started by Hugh

2 Jun 6, 2018
Reply by Hugh

Memories of Wood Green High Street Before the War - a Personal Story

I am attaching a personal narrative written by D.L. Hoy and originally published in Over the Counter, Occasional Paper no 49, by the Edmont…

Started by Hugh

2 May 21, 2018
Reply by Hugh

Hornsey Gasworks

Someone asked a question about Hornsey Gasworks in the comments on a photo I posted earlier today and I referred them to a page owned by th…

Started by Hugh

3 Apr 6, 2018
Reply by Hugh

When a Day at Downhills Came with a Doff of the Cap

East London Observer - Saturday 15 September 1860

Started by Hugh

1 Feb 10, 2018
Reply by Richard Woods

Croquet Ground in Finsbury Park

The Illustrated London News of 19th June 1869 tells us that the the part of Finsbury Park under which lies the water reservoir (that's the…

Started by Hugh

0 Jan 19, 2018

Harringay, Hornsey or Green Lanes? The 1888 view...

As we all know, there is a constant debate about whether our illustrious neighbourhood should be called Harringay, Green Lanes, Harringay G…

Started by Bethany Burrow Atherton

18 Jan 8, 2018
Reply by Lauren

Sad story of the last 10 years of T.S. Eliot's first wife in Harringay

Tom Eliot (T.S. Eliot) cut an impressive figure when he arrived in England. To Vivienne Haigh-Wood, meeting him for the first time in March…

Started by Hugh

5 Dec 29, 2017
Reply by Hugh

More on Northumberland House

Following my find of the photos of the interior of Northumberland House a few years ago, I've just come across an old sale description of t…

Started by Hugh

18 Dec 29, 2017
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Harringay Photographic Society, 1893

From The British Journal Of Photography, January 13, 1893 Harringay Photographic Society. January 5, Inaugural Meeting. The Chairman (Mr. D…

Started by Hugh

3 Dec 21, 2017
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