Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Hermitage Road, circa 1905

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Comment by Tom Devine on June 23, 2016 at 12:21: Fantastic! Looking at Google Maps, the two gentlemen on the right are standing outside no.3.

Comment by Geraldine B on June 23, 2016 at 23:34: This is a great picture - thanks Hugh. Is the entrance to the building on the right topped off with giant pineapples?

Comment by Hugh on June 23, 2016 at 23:50: It is indeed. Pineapples were a high status item. In the late 18th Century a pineapple cost the equivalent of £5,000 today. This was one reason that thee pinerie at Harringay House was so revered.

Comment by matthew cuthbert on June 28, 2016 at 3:55: Exquisite, the beautiful cast iron dumped in the sea, and not used for the war effort. The iron wasn't of the quality needed for ship building, but was it used for ballast? someone will know better than me.

Comment by matthew cuthbert on June 28, 2016 at 3:57: Was the road surface gravel? I can see a few corregations.

Comment by Hugh on March 21, 2019 at 13:38: I just came across a 1902 advert for 2 Hermitage Road, the first house on the right as you enter from Green Lanes. It's a double-fronted house still standing today. Apparently it used to be called Boston House and its garden ran all the way down to the New River, from where the view would have been this.

You can see the wall in front of the house on the right of the photo above. The gate to pathway to the house and the gate for driveway are edged with brick posts topped with pineapples. The house, sadly, is just out of shot.

From The Standard, March 25 1902

Ordnance Survey Map 1944

Comment by John Shulver on August 16, 2020 at 12:33: Another excellent pic . And wow what a garden Boston House boasted ! I wonder if the bearded bowler hatted gentleman on the left was a doctor ? Looks to me like he is carrying a doctors bag.

I worked down Hermitage Road between '69 -'72 time at a factory called United Flexible Metallic Tubing Co Ltd, part of the TI (Tube Investments Group), as a trainee draughtsman. The site was further down on right out of this shot and possibly later addition.

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