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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

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Comment by andy h on June 16, 2019 at 12:59

Wow, striking Photo, very atmospheric.

Comment by Hugh on June 16, 2019 at 13:41

Indeed it is. Sadly I don't know who the photographer was.

Comment by Don on June 21, 2019 at 13:42

An online search suggests it may be a little earlier – 1950 – and perhaps from "Picture Post", as it's in the Hulton archive. The credit is "Stringer", but I suspect this is the generic term (as in newspaper "stringers" or local reporters for national titles), not actually the photographer's name. Rather bizarrely, it also features as the background image on the cover of one edition of a novel about Thugees, set partly in Victorian London ("The Thing about Thugs", by Tabish Khair); I suppose the gaslamps attracted the designer, though the figures would be completely wrong. It's a fab photo anyway.

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