History of Harringay and Neighbouring Areas Discussions (401)

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…

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Yobs fined for obstructing railway line

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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'…

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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…

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Boyd Piano Factory, Warwick Gardens (and the roots of the Decca Record Company)

I've been aware for some time that there seems to be something of a history of piano making in Harringay. The names Eavestaff, Challen, Bra…

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