Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Green Lanes, Harringay, by the Queen's Head, 1904
The photo didn't come marked, but I'm fairly certain of the date. Firstly, the Metropolitan Electric Tramways service from Finsbury Park to Green Lanes started in 1904. So it can't have been any earlier. Second, in the background, Wordsworth Parade looks like it's just being completed and has only one occupant, in the final premises of the terrace. Zooming in. it's possible to make out the words 'Estate Age...' on the shop front. This matches with Kelly's directory for 1904. In the same year, they show only 6 Wordsworth Parade occupied. The tenant was Stanley Parkes & Brown, Auctioneers & Estate Agents. The following year, the whole parade is shown as occupied.
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Comment by Harry Carson on April 1, 2022 at 13:13
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Well done on dating the photo. I appreciate the method and the success. As a genealogist this is a journey I've often taken.... not usually with such forensic success.
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Comment by StephenBln on August 5, 2025 at 10:49
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The doubled-armed traction poles for the tramway's overhead wires, originally positioned in the middle of the road between the tracks (seen here), didn't survive for very long as they were soon found to be in the way of other traffic. They were all gone by 1910, replaced by double traction poles on either side of the roadway.
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