Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
History of Harringay and Neighbouring Areas Discussions (418)
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Guys Calculating Machines, Wood GreenBased at the Truro Works in Truro Road, Wood Green, Guy's Calculating Machines Ltd was set up by Frank Guy. The company patented their fi… Started by Hugh |
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Old Crouch End SchoolCrouch End School shown on the 1869 Ordnance Survey Map. By 1869 its address was Park Road, but from 1500 (or perhaps earlier) until 1856,… Started by Hugh |
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Portuguese High Society In Late Georgian Woodberry DownCintra Cottage photographed in 1865 Cintra Cottage was one of the first dwellings built on Woodberry Down. I'm not certain exactly where… Started by Hugh |
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Aug 14, 2018 Reply by Hugh |
Was Green Lanes a Setting for the Pickwick Papers?Writing in The Echo on January 1 1901, Victorian journalist and theatre Impresario John Holingshead wrote that the Manor House Tavern and G… Started by Hugh |
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Jul 4, 2018 Reply by Hugh |
Memories of 1860 Harringay, Stroud Green & Hornsey - recalled in 1910London Evening News June 21 1910 Started by Hugh |
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Jun 30, 2018 Reply by Hugh |
Names of Roads on the Harringay LadderThere is a wide spread popular belief that all roads on the Harringey Ladder between Green Lanes and Wightman Road are named after famous m… Started by John Hinshelwood |
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Jun 23, 2018 Reply by Hugh |
A Lesson from our Georgian Forebears on How to Treat Penniless Refugees on Green LanesStamford Mercury, 14 June 1722 Started by Hugh |
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Topsfield Hall & V & A Featured Local Edwardian PhotographerTopsfield hall stood on the point of land just north of where today the Clocktower stands, between Middle Lane and Broadway. Historicall… Started by Hugh |
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Jun 20, 2018 Reply by Hugh |
Making a Song and Dance - Wood Green's Lost Piano FactoryThis 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 |
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Jun 15, 2018 Reply by John D |
A Whiff of Tobacco - Wood Green's First FactoryThe 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 |
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Jun 6, 2018 Reply by Hugh |
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