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Baroness Summerskill's early political life in Harringay

Dr Edith Summerskill, Labour politician and feminist, began her political life in Harringay. She entered active politics almost by chance…

Started by Liz

2 Mar 9, 2012
Reply by StephenBln

Pub drinker attacks policeman

Started by Hugh

5 Feb 2, 2012
Reply by Ruth

Story from the Salisbury in 1950's / 60's

Copied from another post:   By Charles Cairns Hadfield  My Father worked in the Salisbury in the late 50's early 60's, he did an evening sh…

Started by HoL Site Admin

5 Jan 31, 2012
Reply by linka

Yobs fined for obstructing railway line

Started by Hugh

0 Jan 30, 2012

St Paul's Church, Harringay bans use of confetti

  This article seems to have been syndicated across several regional papers so I'm assuming that it must have caused something of a stir i…

Started by Hugh

0 Jan 21, 2012

Henny Bario, performer at Tom Arnold's Harringay circus, dies at 88

The death of Henny Bario, aged 88, in France at Christmas and her obituary in the Telegraph reveals a little more about the history of Tom…

Started by Liz

0 Jan 16, 2012

Post-war regeneration of West Green / Harringay border area

Thanks to Liz for posting the newspaper adverts from about 100 years for "Rest Cartwright" organ builders. When I see stuff like this, I al…

Started by Hugh

3 Jan 6, 2012
Reply by Hugh

Local Co-ops - where were they?

For personal reasons, I have a great interest in the history of the Co-operative Society and so was delighted to recently discover the Bish…

Started by Liz

20 Nov 21, 2011
Reply by Liz

Estate agents sued for injury by noticeboard

In another plus ca change moment, I recently stumbled across this little gem, from The Estate Gazette of 1914, showing that estate agents'…

Started by Hugh

0 Sep 24, 2011

Stunned at quite how well the 1619 map correlates with Google map

Earlier I was trying to sort out some bits and pieces about the Ever-ready that used to stand on the corner of Warwick Gardens & St Ann…

Started by Hugh

5 Sep 9, 2011
Reply by StephenBln

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