Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Fairfax Road c1905

Taken, I believe about outside number 22, looking east.

If you click View Full Size, below right, you'll be able to see what looks for all the world like an aerial at the end of the road. However, given that this is 1905, probably not that. Any ideas as to what it might be?

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Comment by Richard Woods on July 22, 2019 at 11:58: We are very fortunate that for some reason the builders of the late 19th and early 20th century built what were for the time vary wide roads. It sounds silly in this age to say that there was no real reason for them being wide enough for two, let alone three lanes of traffic. These houses had no trap house and were not expected to have their own carriages.

Out in the country lanes like this were built well under 14 feet wide and block instantly if anything larger than a family car uses them.

Comment by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 22, 2019 at 17:57: I wonder whether a Wightman Road horse & trap of the 1890s parked with two hooves & a wheel on the kerb or footway and two & a wheel on the carriageway. Any pictorial evidence, Hugh? Old parking habits die hard and slowly, apparently.