Garage by Queens Head

Comment by Richard Woods on December 15, 2014 at 18:51

I worked at this spot in the late 50s/60s when it had petrol pumps selling the stuff! I "think" the road layout5 pre-dated the trams as the inn, before the Queens Head, was an 18th century coach stop on Green Lanes. Last one before the tolls at Tunpike Lane?

Comment by Lydia Walter on October 14, 2022 at 7:38

I remember the road layout from the 60s and 70s. It was free parking that, as the years went by, became increasingly impossible to access. Remember cars parked up on both sides in front of the pub, generally half up on the pavement. Seem to recall Harringay Council introducing No Pavement Parking across the borough which was never adhered to and rarely enforced. 

Comment by John McMullan on October 15, 2022 at 15:26

So what happened here that it looks how it does now? Enclosure by the car yard?

Comment by Hugh on October 15, 2022 at 16:18

It used all to be part of the pub. It was created after the pub was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century and the building was realigned so it was parallel with the road.

For a few decades, it was run as the Olympian Gardens and was the venue for a range of popular entertainment (I’ve written a short history of it in the forthcoming Hornsey Historical Society book). It fell out of use as plein-air entertainment lost popularity and was the front section was leased out.

Comment by Hugh on October 15, 2022 at 18:47

Present-day pictures of the space here.

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