Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Fairfax Road c1905
Taken, I believe about outside number 22, looking east.
If you click View Full Size, below right, you'll be able to see what looks for all the world like an aerial at the end of the road. However, given that this is 1905, probably not that. Any ideas as to what it might be?
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Comment by Richard Woods on July 22, 2019 at 11:58
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We are very fortunate that for some reason the builders of the late 19th and early 20th century built what were for the time vary wide roads. It sounds silly in this age to say that there was no real reason for them being wide enough for two, let alone three lanes of traffic. These houses had no trap house and were not expected to have their own carriages.
Out in the country lanes like this were built well under 14 feet wide and block instantly if anything larger than a family car uses them.
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Comment by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 22, 2019 at 17:57
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I wonder whether a Wightman Road horse & trap of the 1890s parked with two hooves & a wheel on the kerb or footway and two & a wheel on the carriageway. Any pictorial evidence, Hugh? Old parking habits die hard and slowly, apparently.
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Comment by Hugh on July 22, 2019 at 18:36
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The top photo of Fairfax Road shows the old gas street lamp just past the young ladies on the right-hand side, they were still there and in use when I was child in the 1950's. I remember the man used to come round every night to light them and come back in the morning to turn them off. If my memory serves me correctly they had a rocking type lever with a ring at each end and the man had a pole with a hook on that he used to turn on and off.
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Absolutely right. He would turn on and light the gas at night; then simply turn the gas off in the morning. They are just disappearing when I was a kid. We used to climb up and swing on the cross bar against which his ladder could be rested.
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I am assuming the park now at the top of Fairfax is a gift from Herr Hitler? This area took quite a pounding I believe.
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Yes all of the top of Fairfax Road and some houses on the top left and Frobisher Road in Wightman Road. Also almost over half way down Fairfax Road on left and right hand side into Effingham Road were wiped out. You can find an arial map taken by the RAF from just after the war showing where the bombs hit.
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My old mate, Colin Phillips, lived at 144 Fairfax Road, (on left going from Green Lanes). But Hugh, referring back to your original photo text and "aerial". Might that have been an airship mast in Ally Pally by any chance ???
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