Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Road, Wood Green c. 1910
This photo shows a part of Finsbury Road that no longer exists. It was shot from outside the still extant St Barnabas Church, looking north to the crossroads with Commercial Road and beyond.
The shop at the crossroads on the right, with the Julien Tobacco advert, was G. Bear Hairdresser. That building still stands. On the opposite corner, on the left of the road was Elizabeth Mills Drapers. That building along with all the houses on the east side between Commercial Road and Nightingale Road were demolished in the Sixties.
Below is the Ordnance Survey Map from 1955 showing the old road layout. St Barnabas Church is marked a "Catholic Apostolic Church'.
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Comment by timothy moynihan on July 12, 2024 at 7:31
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I used to walk that road to Primary School from Palmerston across Bounds Green Road and down Park Avenue. The first shop on left was a bustling newsagents. The church was derelict then before the Greek Orthodox ‘resurrection’. There weee a few shops further down sweet shops a furriers bakers Greenwoods Garage. Commerce Road was still partly cobbled then bit the commercial activity had long moved elsewhere by then mid 1960s.
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Such an evocative photo. My family was one of the first to move into the new blocks of flats that were built in Commerce Road. My mother used to say it was the day of Princess Alexandra's wedding - 24 April 1963. We signed-up with a newsagents in the parade of shops on the left - it was owned by Mrs Smith. Could that have been the "first shop on left" referred to in Timothy Moynihan's comment? Are there any photos of Commerce Road before the demolition of the old buildings took place? I have vague recollections of them. I suspect they all went by the mid-1960s. This stretch of Finsbury Road and Commerce Road between the crossroads and Bounds Green Road remained for a while longer.
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Comment by Hugh on July 18, 2024 at 10:54
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Harvey, your wish.......
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