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Decoding a Watercolour of Eighteenth Century Crouch End Broadway

Fig 1: John Bewick watercolour of Tottenham Lane, c 1791. (Click the image for a larger version) I've had a  digital copy of the above ima…

Started by Hugh

14 Sep 30, 2021
Reply by Agabus

Old Crouch Hall, Linslade House and Colquon (Holne House)

Fig. 1: Old Crouch Hall, c1885 in its guise as the Old Crouch Hall School Old Crouch Hall was on the east side of Tottenham Lane (now Cro…

Started by Hugh

18 Sep 23, 2021
Reply by Hugh

A whiff of scandal, the chink of coin, a dose of mismanagement and the Grand Old Man of Cricket: Harringay Cricket Field in the Golden Age of Cricket

I'm neither a cricketer not a cricket fan and I've never given much of a thought to Harringay's former cricket ground in the north eastern…

Started by Hugh

14 Sep 18, 2021
Reply by Geoffrey Walker

The Victorians of Falkland Road (from the 1901 Census) - part 1

My daughter goes to North Harringay Primary School on Falkland Road, and for a school project on the Victorians, we looked at all the peopl…

Started by Helen1

12 Sep 10, 2021
Reply by Barrie Birch

Fly through Elizabethan London

Back in 2013, a group of De Montfort university students entered a competition at the British Library and ended up creating a fascinating…

Started by Hugh

0 Aug 18, 2021

A short history of Harringay's manufacturing area

Harringay's manufacturing area, 1951 (marked for cropping for original publication). The view is looking east. Left to right are Hermitage…

Started by Hugh

12 Aug 13, 2021
Reply by Hugh

The 'Magic Electric Bottle' and other Hewitt Road specialities

130 Hewitt Road, and the houses behind it in the passage at the back the shops, may be best known to those who pass it these days for the…

Started by Hugh

7 Aug 13, 2021
Reply by Geraldine

The State of Harringay's Hermitage Brook & the Desire for its Culverting

I noticed an interesting short light-humoured article with a serious message in a 1903 copy of the London North Mercury & Crouch End Ob…

Started by Hugh

30 Aug 8, 2021
Reply by Richard Ross

The Saving of Queen's Wood

Something of the story of the saving of Churchyard Bottom Wood (since renamed Queen's Wood) is told in this contemporary magazine artic…

Started by Hugh

8 Jul 30, 2021
Reply by Hugh

Alexandra Park Open Air Swimming Bath

Open-air swimming baths were quite popular in the three old boroughs that now make up Haringey. But the first to be opened was in Alexandra…

Started by Hugh

23 Jul 24, 2021
Reply by Hugh

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