Wood Green Carnival, 1906 (Braddock)

This image by local photographer Alfred Braddock shows a sbnap of local tradespeople taking part in the Carnival in July1906. The event started in 1900 as The Grand Patriotic Carnival of Harringay, Hornsey & Wood Green. It was  one of many round the country held to support the widows of men dying the Boer War. (I wrote about the 1900 event in one of my ten articles about Harringay in the Hornsey Historical Society's A Hundred Stories from the Archive).

The 1906 event was held in aid of the Wood Green Hospital, but it seemd unable to repeat the success of the earlier event. A journalist wrote in the Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald a few days after the event that, 

"The Wood Green Carnival seems to have lost its hold on the public.... It is disappointing to the gentlemen (and ladies) who work so hard to make the show a success o think that they cannot attain to the sums raised is former years: but there is this to be said—Tottenham has abandoned Carnivals altogether."

You can read more about Alfred Braddock in a piece originally published on Harringay Online and published in significantly updated form in last year's Bulletin from the Hornsey Historical Society.

A big HoL rosette to the person who can identify the photo's location.