Outside 40 St Mary's Road, Hornsey, looking south-east, c1960
"Were these houses in poor repair when demolished like the ones on Park Road or would they have still been in good nick today?"
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There is an image on the Alexandra Palace website of the original 1873 building taken of the main front aspect - link/image below. I cannot work out what or where the foreground buildings are.…Back to Harringay Online
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"Fascinating as ever - but what was the big house on Crouch Hill where the parade of shops including the Floral Hall now stands and visble in the 1869 OS? And why was Park Chapel so huge when the local population was fairly small and the mass…"
Park Road and Crouch End Playing fields c1905
"Looks to be exactly on the footprint of the Malindi Court block of flats. "
Park Road and Crouch End Playing fields c1905
"What is the Addam's Family style house to the left of the terraced houses? Also where would the photographer have been standing - on the site of Hhigate Wood School?"
"Hugh
Fantastic. Thanks.
Robin Hardy"
Princess Alexandra Beer House, Park Road, Crouch End c1905
"Are there any post war, pre-redevelopment photos? Also any images of the shop fronts?"
"Was the garden of Lake Villa a public park before they pulled down all the buildings in the photo? Looks like someone with a pushchair coming towards the gates. Am I right in thinking that the council bought the land in the mid-1920s but didn't…"
"Did they survive until the town hall was built? Layout on the 1895 maps looking very different - did they have single story shops built in front of them?. Are there any photos?"
"What were the budings bewteen what is now Dunns and the Lake Villia? In the 1869 map it looks like two large villas?"
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"Below is an image of the Rectory followed by a flipped version of the large house in the photo. I’m pretty sure they’re not the same house."
"If it's not flipped, could it be these houses from the 1894 map? Looks like a long wall/narrow building a little to the South of Pembroke Road."
"Hi Richard,
I was there 1956 -62. As a stock standard 'O' Level lad, it should have been 1961 but I had to retake Maths! Bearing in mind I was the army cadet at the Drill Hall dinner and you were the Journal reporter,…"
"Hi Ken,
I recall that view from the physics and chem labs! I think we were contemporaries?"
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