Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Dylan Thomas House, Turnpike Lane
This tower block was the larger of two built by Hornsey Council in the mid-Sixties as part of the 182 dwelling Haringey Grove redevelopment project. The project involved the demolition of the Victorian housing and streets that stood on the triangle of land between Turnpike Lane, Wightman Road and the New River. The name of Haringey Grove was commemorated through the name of the single storey community building standing at the corner of Wightman and Denmark Roads. Not that anyone knows it, but the building is called the Haringey Grove Community Centre.
Building started in 1964, one year before Hornsey Council was subsumed into Haringey. Sixteen stories high, it contained 90 flats and stood almost next to the railway, just to the east of the railway bridge. Also developed were the one-storey Hollam House and forty-two houses. Both the tower blocks were completed by 1966.
According to the Municipal Journal, the two towers were known as the 50-week flats after the very short building time estimated for their complete construction. This might explain why the whole development was demolished just over thirty years later, in 1998, to make way for the low rise housing currently standing.
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Comment by rowena young on October 12, 2019 at 15:07
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My in laws lived on the first floor from new in this block.
They were good size flats with two good bedrooms, lounge, kitchen with balcony access.
As you weren’t allowed to put washing out on the balcony’s they supplied airing cupboards.
They were very happy there until they had to go into a home.
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I remember that block of flats for sad reasons my brother's best friend unfortunately commited suicide in the underground carpark in the mid sixties RIP Roy. I do have better memories before it was built I had friends whose parents had shops on that site in Turnpike Lane Raymond Bird and Trevor Aubrey and i once worked at the back of the shops in an engineering firm that made the wire dartboard fronts.i also had a friend that lived in Denmark Road it was a dead end road his name Johnny Daniels ah those were the days
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