Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Cinematograph Cinema Lordship Lane, Wood Green 1913
This cinema was about 100 yards to the east of Wood Green High Road. Opened on 1st January, 1910, its new frontage wasn't completed until the Spring of the same year.
On the far right of the picture you can see Chesser's forge which had been set up in 1770.
Next to the building was Alsford's saw mill.
In the 1920s, the building became Garner's furniture depository and housed Harry Boult's School of Dancing on the first floor. In more recent years it became an indoor market hall.
Both buildings were demolished in 1999 to make way for a new six screen cinema.
NB: Spouters Corner was first used for a political meeting in 1867 by the Reform League. By the end of the nineteenth century the common land there had become a venue for stump orators and political gatherings, thereby acquiring its name. Its significance increased during the First World War and the inter-war years. It was also an assembly point for contracting local labour before Labour Exchanges were introduced in 1910. In the post war years it attracted both local and national political figures and saw CND meetings in the late 1950s and 1960s.
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Comment by Jeremyb on November 23, 2018 at 10:37
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The cinema later became a dance hall, then a bingo club, then used as a garage to house motor coaches, then briefly a market hall. Then demolished for "Hollywood Green" development, part of which is the Vue cinema. So films can still be seen on roughly the same spot 105 years later...!
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Comment by Hugh on November 23, 2018 at 11:00
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Thanks Jeremy. I see that this cinema was covered more fully in your book, Cinemas of Haringey.
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Comment by Derek Reynolds on February 12, 2020 at 18:59
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I remember Harry Boult's Dance Hall, and 'Cream Coaches' having a small boarding and booking area beneath. A little further along was Alsfords wood yard, where for sixpence I could get a carrier bag full of sawdust for my Guinea pigs pen. To the right of Burridges (they dealt with Granddad and Nan) was Willis's, a nurseryman with extensive stalls of plants and seedlings - in this shot Chessers.
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Jeremy, looks like the cinema was a repurposed saw mill!
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