This photo was taken by K Stewart and placed on Flickr on July 8th 2008. It shows the wonderful old original pub name board. See also this related discussion
Thanks to Kari for her permission to repost this photo here.
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I know this post is 2 years late!! but have just come across the photo of The Mortimer Arms and thought I would post as I worked in the Mortimer when it first opened. Looking through my diary the Mortimer Arms opened in September 1986. It was previously a car showroom.
Memory does'nt serve me that well (more interesting things to write in my diary) but all i know was that it served a damn fine pint of what I call Waddies 6 (Wadworth 6X) Being a Devizes born gal I was able to teach the lanlord a thing or two about looking after his pipes and therefore serving the best pint in Harringay.
That sign still lives, now it says More Time, saved from the skip, like all the doors in my house
this might add a bit..
My great grandparents were running a pie and mash shop here around the 40s/50s. From what I understand there were previously three sections and were using the doors on Burgoyne Road. I don't have any pictures but from my mum's memory and some research it seems they were 405a, 405b and 405c. Below is the street directory from 1950.
Thanks for that, Andrea. Here's a snippet from the 1952 OS map. I wonder if your great grandfather's shop was the one running across the back of 405's garden. If so, the front part of it would be where this shed is today. Or, perhaps it was the one alongside 405a and 405b was the address of the flat above the shop?
Rather oddly, none of numbers 401, 403 or 405 are listed. Despite what the OS map shows us (and I'd tend to go with that), your Kelly's suggests that 405a and 405C are on the north side of Burgoyne.
The 1948 directory does show occupants for 401 and 403 but still none for 405. It also suggests that 405A is on the north side of Burgoyne.
The 1937 Version shows 405 occupied and two listings for 405A - both on the south side of Burgoyne.
For a few years after 1912, there was a coffee house in what I suspect was your grandfather's premises. It was first run by a Mrs Susannah Carter and then by Jospeh Bennyworth. But that seems to have gone by 1920.
Thanks for the additional information! I had come across this map and shared with my Mum but she wasn't certain how it was exactly laid out from memory. I did also expect the numbers to fall between Umfreville and Burgoyne on the street directory but I think that's probably just a mistake. Looking on Google maps my mum was quite confident it was actually the final door on the pub. I found a somewhat modern picture of the pub among my late grandmother's possession which doesn't seem to go that far down the road but she had also said it was on Burgoyne Road not Green Lanes. I also found a bit of information relating to Wetherspoons on Companies House that references those numbers.
You can see further down in the street view link I provided in my last comment. Your mum's comments an Kelly's both imply that it was one of the two premises I suggested.
Yes I think you're right. I'm not sure exactly when they moved there or when they left but I know they were living in a different area on the 1939 register. They actually lived on Umfreville Road when they had this shop.
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