Burgoyne Road showing parish room c1910

Comment by Charlotte on October 3, 2014 at 7:28

Keep them coming.  Wow look at those railings - and no mattresses, giant plastic bins etc in sight

Comment by Antoinette on October 3, 2014 at 11:32

Has the hill shrunk???!!

Comment by Geraldine on October 4, 2014 at 1:07

I was just thinking the same as CharlotteF.  How clean the streets were; that is, apart from what appears to be a bit of horse manure in the road.  Can anyone else remember when milk was delivered on a cart drawn by a grey horse named Mary?  This would have been in the late 1940s, I suppose.

Comment by Kotoko OS on October 4, 2014 at 7:58

Just trying to locate which bit of the road I am looking at. Seeing the bungalow like house in the middle which I believe is no longer present suggests that maybe it is around the NHS clinic?

Comment by Hugh on October 4, 2014 at 11:24

Good question. I think it's the mysterious "Iron Church", which was a kind of Ecclesiastical Victorian Prefab in use to serve the growing local population whilst St Paul's was being built.

From the National Archives:

In December 1883 an iron mission church was opened in Burgoyne Road, Harringay which seated 200 people in a district still thinly populated within the parish of Hornsey. In 1887, the Reverend J. H. Greaves became priest of this temporary church in place of the Reverend J. Stanley, who had acted as mission priest since 1833 (sic). By 1887 the population of the area had grown to such an extent that the iron church had to be enlarged and the committee formed several years before for building a permanent church decided to dissolve itself in favor of a larger committee, constituted in 1888.

The foundation stone of the new church was laid on 31 May 1890, and the nave consecrated by the Bishop of London in October 1891. The old iron church was then converted into a parish room and an additional church room was opened in Cavendish Road in 1895.

In 1902 St Paul, Harringay became a parish in its own right with the Reverend J. H. Greaves as its first vicar, and between 1902 and 1903 the chancel and vicarage were constructed. The parish was enlarged in 1903 by the addition of a portion of the parish of St Ann, Tottenham on the east side of Greenlands and a mission room was built there and dedicated in 1904.

In 1925 a new parish hall was opened in Burgoyne Road on the site of the demolished parish room and in 1975 the church room in Cavendish Road was replaced by a new church hall/community centre.

Comment by John D on October 4, 2014 at 11:38

And today -

Comment by Hugh on October 4, 2014 at 11:42

It looks like the plot next to the Iron Church site was incorporated into the seventies building. Bomb damage? Compulsory purchase?

Comment by John D on October 4, 2014 at 11:50

I looked at the bomb map but I don't see anything for Burgoyne.

Comment by Charlotte on October 4, 2014 at 14:01

Interesting to see the black window frames.  I have just had all mine painted white but I might consider black next time.  Looks pretty good.

Comment by Hugh on October 4, 2014 at 23:46

I think around this time, the colour palette would have most commonly been brown or green (I've just google dot check I'm not talking complete twaddle and apparently Brunswick Green and Purple Brown were indeed the most common exterior colours). See here for more.

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