Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Ever Ready Central Labs

Not a great shot, but the only one I can find of the Ever Ready building on the corner of St Ann's Rd and Warwick Gardens. Dated 1971.

Notes: from admin:

See also the discussion here

This was the centre of the company's research. Originally know Central Laboratories, it was later referred to as Group Technical Centre.

The company spent heavily on research and development: 250 people worked in the Harringay laboratory.

It was closed in 1984, as part of the far-reaching cuts after the takeover by Hanson plc.

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Comment by Andy on August 22, 2021 at 20:54: Sorry that is his old art profile. This is the right one

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1451019854

Comment by Christine Yates on August 22, 2021 at 22:04: Thanks Andy, I can’t find George on facebook at all x

Comment by Andy on August 22, 2021 at 22:06: that link should take you straight to him I just tried it

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1451019854

Comment by Geoffrey Walker on December 24, 2021 at 21:43: I worked there from August 1965 to January 1969 when the department I worked in (Quality Control - Customer Complaints) moved to Forest Road factory. Ground floor = typing pool, mechanical workshop, toilets, offices. First floor = Quality Control, offices, Conference room, battery testing. Second floor = Chemistry labs. canteen.

Comment by Maureen Bamfield on May 20, 2022 at 7:52: Wow what a memory this picture brings back, I walked past this every day on my way to school. Many thanks for all the photos

Comment by John Shulver on January 4, 2025 at 18:48: Oh yes, memories ! I too walked past Ever Ready Factory twice a day, to and from Harringay Road, to my schools (Woodlands Park Infants and Juniors and then South Grove Secondary Modern, between years 1954-64. The corner premises on right, behind street lamp, was Doll's Cafe, her speciality being 'dripping doorsteps'. Hand sliced loaf (must've been an inch thick) topped off with thick dripping ! Luxury. And the bread was always precision perfect sliced. But a workforce of 250 ......wow !!

Comment by Christine Yates on January 10, 2025 at 15:08: Number 2 to 18 Warwick Gardens had their fronts blown off during the war when the houses opposite (numbers 1-11)were bombed, likewise at the corner of Roseberry Gardens and at the top of Warwick Gardens. The raid was aiming for the railway lines. There were three pre-fab sites up until the early sixties when the maisonettes were built.

My Dad’s uncle and aunt were evacuated to Leicestershire whilst the fronts were rebuilt with the awful Crittal windows. My parents lived at number 8 from 1952 until they sold up in 1976. Number 8 is the only one of those houses that hasn’t had the wonderful original yellow bricks painted red, and I think the couple who bought it in ‘76 still live there. The new extension to the Ever Ready was built in the 60s.

Comment by Geoffrey Walker on January 10, 2025 at 18:10: I left school (North Harringay Sec. Mod.) in late July 1965 and two weeks later started as a lab. technician in the Quality Control section as part of a team of 5 headed by Mr. James Briscoe and Mr. John Mallaby located on the 1st. floor, on the inside of the corridor that seperated us from the conference room & library that were on the outside - the windows leading to the corner mark their location. The larger block on the left contained the staircase. The rest of the middle floor belonged to radio room and battery testing rooms. The ground floor windows belonged to the typing pool (remember them?), personell and managers offices. Internally were the machine shop, goods inwards, despatch and toilets. The top floor windows belonged to the chemistry labs. & managers offices, and canteen. I saw a lot of personell changes during my time there and I was transferred to Forest Road customer complaints section in February 1969.

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