Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Mountview Road Before Chettle Court

"That end House" now stands where the entrance to the monstrous Chettle Court is. I wonder if Mrs C was Mrs Chettle?

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Comment by rosyrose on February 14, 2012 at 21:41: What is Chettle Court exactly? You're right, it is monstrous, and also a bit mysterious. To me at least.

Comment by Hugh on February 14, 2012 at 22:40: As far as I'm aware it was built as a block of council flats. I believe that some are now in private hands.

Comment by Dick Harris on February 14, 2012 at 22:47: Looking at old maps of the area, it seems that there used to be a pair of large (10 or 12 rooms) semi-detached houses built across the corner of Mountview Road and Ferme Park Road. They were called Hillcrest and Mountview House. They must have been built about 1898 when Kelly's directory shows that Hillcrest was occupied by William Cutland (sic) and Mountview House by Hugo Hempel. However, William died in December 1989 and in 1901 his wife Elizabeth Isaline Cutland was living there as a widow and was still there in 1911 by which time her house was number 191 Mountview Road and Hempel's house was 193. She may have remained there until she died in 1940. It seems that the family name may have actually have been Cutlan and this is the spelling recorded for both their deaths and also for the name of her husband's Joinery business. The houses must have been demolished about 1968, just before Chettle Court was built.

Chettle is a pretty uncommon name but there was a man by that name living at 76 Ridge Road in 1911 so perhaps there is a local connection.

It's a fair bet that Mrs C on the postcard was Mrs Cutlan (1861-1940).

Comment by Joanna Bornat on February 15, 2012 at 17:07: My understanding it that Chettle Court was built by a Housing Association and later taken over by Haringey Council but tenants there will be better informed than I am.

Comment by Hugh on June 3, 2012 at 9:27: Another view of the two houses that once stood on the Chettle Court site just added here.

Comment by Alan on November 18, 2018 at 22:47: In my young days. 50s & 60s there was a footpath that led along the side of the railway embankment from Harringay West station to Ridge Rd behind the houses. It is blocked off at H [W] now. It was popular with steam-train spotters.

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