Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
449 Green Lanes, c1910
This photo was added to my page by member Geoff Baker with the following message:
I am attaching the photo of my Great Grandfather’s shop 449/451 Green Lanes Harringay (bottom of Duckett).
Samuel Gent Baker started the shop in 1896 (+/- 2 years) and my grandfather - Ernest Guy Baker took it on until his death in 1936 then May Helen Helen Baker continued on until her retirement
If you have access to any other Baker references I would be really keen to know
Thanks
Geoff Baker
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Comment by matt on March 28, 2009 at 10:40
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Love those lamps.
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Comment by StephenBln on March 28, 2009 at 11:35
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Judging by the ladies hats, I would think it's earlier than the 1930s.. A rough guess ca. 1921.
It seems strange today that the shop windows had to be illuminated from outside - rather than inside..
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Comment by Hugh on March 28, 2009 at 11:44
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Thanks Steve. I was hoping you'd come on and do your forensic analysis. Perhaps Geoff will be able to confirm that for us.
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Comment by Anette on March 28, 2009 at 13:20
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Love it - it's really beautiful. What's on that corner today? Oh, imagine Grand Parade fully restored to what must be it's former glory. Now, that would be something to work towards!
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Comment by Arthur Astrop on April 2, 2009 at 20:56
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Yes, I think 1920s also. I seem to recall my mother 'window shopping' that splendid emporium in the late 1920s.
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Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on April 4, 2009 at 15:40
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The 1948 Post Office Street Directory lists 449 Green Lanes as Barclays Motors, motor car dealers and 451 as Alfred H Warner, draper.
Roy
(Smiffy)
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@Arthur - Window shopping eh? BTW, that isn't by any chance you in the white outfit on this photo?
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Comment by alistairj on April 7, 2009 at 19:23
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To answer your question, Anette - it has now lost all its detailing and become the Erbiller Jewellery shop.
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Well, I'm thinking -from the scooter pics, this building would later become Coburn & Hughes motorbike shop/repairs ?? Just a thought. Somewhere near Greenaways stationers?
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Geoff, I can find your family's shop listed from 1902 to 1937. I'm missing the directories for 1899-1901 and 1938-1940. So it may extend a year or two at either end of that range.
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