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History of Harringay and Neighbouring Areas
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The hidden industry on the Warner Estate
I was recently contacted by a local resident who was trying to find out more about a building which used to stand on her road. She wrote,On older maps and aerial photos from just after the war there is a large building or range of buildings where the 1980s development Wavel Mews now sits. On the…
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St Mary’s Priory on St Ann’s Road
Is there anyone here that went to St Mary’s Priory (Convent), opposite Avenue Road, when it was still a fee paying school? I was in the last Prep 4 in 1966, going on to St Angela’s at Wood Green…a school that fell far short of the standard of education and pastoral care that St Mary’s provided.The…
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Unique photos of Northumberland House circa 1900
This weekend I made HoL's latest local history acquisition with the purchase of a set of photos showing the exterior and interior of Northumberland House.For those who aren't familiar with Northumberland House, it was built as a private mental hospital in about 1830 on the bank of the New River by…
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Parkland Walk Featured in Country Life 1978
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The difficult birth and troubled life of North London's Hybrid tube-cum-train line to the City
Fig. 1: Great Northern and City Railway advertising postcard from 1906For many years my journey into work depended wholly or partly on a line that was inaugurated as the…
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A Forgotten Little Corner of Wood Green
It's odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again, even when I have no particular interest in it. When this happens, I tend to go with the flow and let fate take me where it will. Recently, I've been pulled…
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Hornsey Historical Society talks at Crouch End Festival
More information;on the the Festival website here and search for eventon the Hornsey…
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Where modern Harringay started - the birth of Endymion Road and the lost roads and houses of Harringay
1. Endymion Road from the former cricket pitch, late summer 2011. (Image Hugh Flouch)This article owes its existence to a photo taken in about 1910 of three ladies standing…
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Endymion Road, Part 2: a tale of one house and its fascinating occupants
1. Postcard showing three ladies standing outside the front door of 15 Endymion Road, Harringay, c1905-1910IntroductionLast week, in the…
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A Belated Happy 125th Birthday to The Salisbury
Built and designed by self-made millionaire builder, Scottish lock keeper's son John C. Hill, The Salisbury opened as a hotel just over 125 years ago in early March 1899, with the bars opening six months later in mid-September.Press reports of the new establishment were effusive, to say the…
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