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

The Times June 2nd 1890

Started by Liz

2 Dec 9, 2008
Reply by StephenBln

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

Memories of wartime in Harringay

From the BBC archive, WW2 People's War archive are these two remarkable eyewitness accounts of wartime experiences in Harringay Bombs over…

Started by Liz

8 Oct 6, 2008
Reply by Liz

"Dog Fight", from Time Magazine, Monday, Aug 05, 1946

Two sleek greyhounds, Ballymack Border and Rossbane Dasher, were running neck & neck down the stretch. Suddenly Ballymack Border did wh…

Started by Hugh

1 Oct 5, 2008

Images of England database from English heritage

Images of England is English Heritage's ‘point in time’ photographic library of England’s listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21s…

Started by Liz

0 Oct 4, 2008

What a crying shame it would be to lose the opportunity to connect with first hand witnesses to half of Harringay's local history

Walking back up the hill from getting some milk this morning, I thought I'd call on Carole (who gave me the Hewitt Road Coronation Party ph…

Started by Hugh

1 Oct 3, 2008
Reply by Liz

Wartime relics found in bomb shelters are now on display at Bruce Castle Musuem

" A treasure trove of wartime relics discovered in air raid shelters in Tottenham has been unveiled. The items were found under the Hale V…

Started by Liz

1 Oct 3, 2008
Reply by StephenBln

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