Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Garden, c.1960

Our garden in Roseberry showing house backs in Rutland Gardens.

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Comment by Christine Yates on October 17, 2014 at 19:49: Hello Peter,
I lived in Warwick Gardens, and had a friendp:Delia Hobbs and her sister Sandra who lived at 91 Roseberry Gardens.

Comment by Peter John Morris on October 17, 2014 at 21:06: Hello Christine, I remember Delia (but not her surname!). I didn't go to school with her, if I remember rightly her family were Catholic and sent to a different place of education. We became friendly when I became a 'mod', bought a scooter and became one of the Roseberry Hooligans!

Comment by Christine Yates on October 18, 2014 at 10:51: Hello Peter, Delia was 3 years older than me. We went to St Mary''s Priory, then at 11 she went to St Thomas More and I went on to St Angela's. Did you know Chrissy Fowl? He lived in the flats next to the Ever Ready but I think he was more of a greaser than a mod.
Delia married in 1974 and moved to Sandy, so I haven't seen her for forty years.

Comment by Peter John Morris on October 18, 2014 at 16:32: Hello Christine, yes I knew Chris Fowl; we were quite good pals at one time. The 'rocker' bit was a 90cc Honda! Just before I got to know him he went out with a girl from Hewitt Road called Linda Knight. To cut a long and tedious story short I later went on to marry her and we had two daughters. Chris's other claim to 'fame' was being a driver in the infamous 'Harringay Teddy Bears' Banger Racing team.
The house I was brought up in belonged to my Grandparents, we moved to Enfield in 1968, but I still went back for quite a while due to my love interest! I had a good time and look back fondly at my childhood.

Comment by Christine Yates on October 18, 2014 at 17:04: Hello Peter,
Delia went out with Chris for a couple of years on and off. My Dad's aunt and uncle lived at 8 Warwick Gardens when the Ever Ready was hit during the war. It blew the fronts off numbers 2-18, and numbers 1-11 were destroyed. His aunt and uncle had to move out for a year whilst the houses were repaired which was why they no longer had the Edwardian fronts. They moved to Wales in 1950 when mum and dad took over the flat, before buying the house in 1961. They sold up and moved to Hertford in 1976, and I haved lived here since 1977.
Did you know Reggie Everest who lived at 14 Warwick Gardens, and Alan Springall who lived just round the corner in St Ann's Road!

Comment by Peter John Morris on October 18, 2014 at 18:52: Delia and Chris together rings a bell. I have some recollection of the Everest name, but that's about it. My pal for many years was Vic Fifield (poss 115). The Fifields consisted of Rose and Eric and four kids, Vic, Pauline, Marion and Steven in the top floor above the Newburys who had two Girls Jaquieline and Janice. A busy house; they were re-housed somewhere off White Hart Lane in the sixties. The other kids around at the time were Chris and Jackie Morris (no relation) who lived near Delia, and Mick Frost who lived in the very last house, next door bar one to the Fifields. Now I'm going to give my brain a rest!

Comment by Christine Yates on October 18, 2014 at 20:53: Well done! I only knew Delia in Riseberry Gardens and she was older than me. My friends lived in Stanhope Gardens and St Ann's Road.
I had a great childhood and lovely memories of growing up there.

Comment by Peter John Morris on October 18, 2014 at 21:44: I'm on a roll now, Christine - Lydia Beckwith in St.Ann's Road, almost opposite Warwick Gardens. She moved to USA a few years ago. My best mate for years lived in Stanhope, his name was Alan Sanders; Mum and Dad Bess and Don, he had a younger brother called Jimmy. I used to plod up and down Warwick and St.Ann's daily on my way to Woodlands Park School. There was a Cafe on the corner with a load of Kinloch and Nabisco lorries parked in Warwick Gardens. I decided then that I wanted to drive a lorry and sit in Cafés...

Comment by Christine Yates on October 18, 2014 at 22:27: That's right, I remember the lorries. The cafe became a betting shop. Mrs Richards had the dairy on the other corner, and I used to get sent to the papershop or off licence for sweets.
Did you know Paul Saar at 313 St Ann's just along from the dairy? He went to Woodlands/Chestnut school. Did you know the triplets in the prefabs on Warwick: Kelvin, Jeith and Pauline! Their dad was a policeman. Keith died age 9, I think of leukaemia. I remember watching the hearse with his little white coffin. I was only 5.
Happy days playing on the street outside or hanging upside down from the fast spinning umbrella in the park.....how I was never killed/seriously injured is beyond me. All the kids my age were boys, so if I wanted to play with anyone I had to be a tomboy.

Comment by John Shulver on May 3, 2020 at 9:40: Christine Yates......referring to your comment Oct 18 2014 !! Old I know but I've only just seen it !?

I went to school (South Grove Secondary, 60-64) with the Everest brothers, was the other one Teddy ?, and Alan Springall. Blasts from the past and what fabulous tales you're recounting here.

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