Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Another Train Hanging off the Bridge at Finsbury Park, 1948

This picture in this snippet from The Sphere of 12 June 1948 shows a train hanging of the bridge. Ten years later something similar happened.

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Comment by Gordon T on December 15, 2017 at 12:04: The windows in the end of the carriage suggest it was an Alexandra Palace train, which operated sometimes on the push-pull system where the driver could control the train from the locomotive or from that end carriage.

Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on December 22, 2017 at 12:19: According to my 1948 Post Office Directory - Brown Alfd. Fruiterer. 149 Riversdale Road N5.

Comment by Richard Woods on December 22, 2017 at 15:46: Best bit of this pic is the horse and cart trotting past - 1948 please note. Anyone buy their fruit from Mr Brown?

Comment by Geraldine on December 22, 2017 at 22:30: Horses and carts were not at all unusual when I was seven years old in 1948, though I don't remember that particular one.

Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on December 23, 2017 at 7:54: Horse-drawn vehicles I remember well in those days - the rag & bone man where you could get a few pennies for a bundle of newspapers or a bit of scrap brass or copper.

Then the milkman, United Dairies. the horse trotting along slowly while the milkie collected the empties and put the full bottle on the step.

Our upstairs neighbour would often rush out and shovel up the dung to spread on the front garden.....

Comment by StephenBln on December 24, 2017 at 14:55: There was also an Albert Brown on St Ann's Road near Cissbury Road, who was a Rag & Bone Merchant. He still had a horse and cart in the early 1960s.

Comment by Hugh on December 24, 2017 at 15:22: What was his call? I remember one from my childhood in Surrey who also still used horse and cart. He always called what sounded like “yippur”. My brother and I could never work out what it meant.

Comment by Hugh on December 24, 2017 at 15:28: Just Googled this and after all this time I wondering if what we heard was simply “rag and bone”.

Comment by Mrs Eileen Corbitt on January 8, 2018 at 11:03: I remember our milkman and his horse and cart. When I was going home at lunchtime from North Harringay Primary, I would see him in Wightman Road and he would let me ride in front with him and drop me off at my home on Allison Road. It was so exciting but, in retrospect, how he ever managed the hill is amazing. I think his name was Arthur.

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