"Harringey Broadway" (sic), circa 1905

Comment by brian granville on March 31, 2013 at 5:44

hello:

i lived at 5a grand parade from 1951 to 1979.  now in USA.  I worked selling newsppaers for Mr. Fone outside the Salisbury Pub.  Lived over Tescos.  Went to woodlands park school.  mr.hobson was my teacher - terrific fellow.  followed Spurs -who else!  love to hear from anyonre.  Brian

Comment by Hugh on March 31, 2013 at 11:16

Thanks Brian. Do you have any idea why the three shops where Iceland now is were demolished and developed as Iceland (the more modern building in the newer picture beneath the old one)?

Comment by brian granville on April 1, 2013 at 0:38

Hugh.  No 'fraid not.  I can remember the shops on my block, that is 1 to 10 Grand Parade.  After Salisbury Road there was a jewellers, Knight I think.  Then Gunners (horrible word) then after a couple of other shops was Coopers a ladies dress shop (2 shops actually) where my Mum worked.

Comment by brian granville on April 1, 2013 at 0:41

Just remembered Woolworths stood where Coopers was.  It moved from a parade of shops beyond the Coliseum (the Colley) picture house.  I remember my brother seeing his first X film there around 1953.  He was 14 but they didn't care.  Thre manager of the Colley also ran a little cafe on the other side of Grand Parade, opposite Coopers

Comment by Hugh on April 3, 2013 at 16:10

On the Iceland block, I've yet to find any record of a bomb falling on any building on Green Lanes. So, I had wondered if it was simply 1960s development, as happened with the Budgens building in Crouch End

Comment by Hugh on April 4, 2013 at 0:45

The Crouch End store was Wilson's. There's an excellent article on it by Janet Owen in Issue 53 of the Hornsey Historical Society's Bulletin.

Comment by Alan on October 27, 2013 at 0:15

I remember  'The Noted Egg Merchant' in Green Lanes -sold only eggs, piled up neatly on the counter & Martin Fayers ironmongers on the left going towards the collisium..

Comment by Alan on October 27, 2013 at 0:17

Bartons I think was the dept store in Wood Green. Fads preceeded Tesco in Crouch End.

Comment by Robert Glover on March 13, 2014 at 14:18

I too remember that egg shop in Grn. lanes. The lady had fine white hair tied back in a bun, and the floor of the open shuttered shop was a checkerboard of small black and white tiles. It was always spotlessly clean.
Further towards the bridge I remember Haans the Bakers, where we would shop for proper hand made hot cross buns. Only available once a year, at the appropiate religeous time on the calender- just like Easter Eggs. Have you noticed you can buy both products all year round, in our ever over consuming society. Even Christmas day if one wanted??

Comment by Robert Glover on March 13, 2014 at 22:12

Ian Mccoll' observations stirred up fond memories of Greenways.With its creaking floorboards. I used to love looking at the rows of fountain pens,promising myself that one day i would have one.
Esp.the famous 'Parker 51' an icon of design where the nib was covered over and streamlined just like Sir Nigel Gresley's famous locomotive- 'Mallard'.of which I would often see from the 'Hogs Back' next to Harringay West Station. Which brings me to the freedom we all had in those days. I can vividly recall be invited by the train drivers to hop aboard a steam locomotive and be shown all the dials and levers, and the ultimate thrill of seeing the fire box opened to see the roaring heart of the engine. Health n Safety,-Yea Right!!

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