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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Clarendon Road, Hornsey Park, c1960

A poor quality copy of an original taken looking east towards the gas works. Thanks to John Glover for this image.

Below is roughly the same view in 2008 from Google Street View.

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Comment by Tony on May 19, 2021 at 16:36

You wouldn't think it was the same road would you.

I remember when Clarendon Road started in Turnpike Lane almost opposite the Unwin pub.

Comment by Bill South on May 21, 2021 at 0:43

My nan used to live in the last house, on the left, before the gasworks.

Comment by Hugh on May 21, 2021 at 7:43

Any family snaps or memories, Bill?

Comment by Bill South on May 21, 2021 at 15:13

Unfortunately, no photos. Some memories from around 1956 to 1960. I think Nan (Ivy) ran  a guest house, as I remember her always having lodgers. Grandad (George) worked for the Gas Board and I remember him letting us run around wearing his peaked cap. Nan raised chickens and, sometimes, at Christmas, we'd go and chose one, for dinner (although, being only 4 or 5, never quite understood how the chicken I liked, running about the garden, ended up on the table). I also remember sneaking through the back garden fence to pick up lumps of coal from the railway embankment. 

Comment by Hugh on May 21, 2021 at 15:22

So, if your grandparents lived in the last house on the left (no. 53), it looks like they had a nice big garden!

Was your grandfather George Percival Page?

Extract from 1952 OS map

Comment by Bill South on May 21, 2021 at 15:34

Yes, it was no. 53 and the garden was huge ( to a 4 yr old), also had a small pond in that we'd paddle in, but that did get filled in. 

Comment by Hugh on May 21, 2021 at 15:39

Pond, chickens, steam trains going by, coal to nab. Sounds like it was a exciting place for kids.

Comment by John Grover on January 13, 2023 at 13:41

I think the people that lived in the last house on the left were Mr&Mrs Gray 

Comment by John Grover on January 13, 2023 at 13:44

I was born and raised on Clarendon Road at #37 , I left there in 1968 and Emigrated to Ontario Canada .

Also I was an original member of Harringay Boys Club , great times then in Hornsey 

Comment by HoL Site Admin on January 13, 2023 at 13:52

What else do you remember about the road and of pre-redevelopment Turnpike Lane at the end of your road?

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