Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Green Lanes, St Ann's Road Junction, circa 1925
I love the detail in this picture. I've published a similar picture previously, but, looking at this one next to it, I think the other must have been taken on a Sunday or early closing day.
Fascinating little details on this image include, for example evidence that 4 Grand Parade seems to have been a Chemist right from the earliest days. Also, you can just make out a dentist sign on 1 Grand Parade. I know that some surgeons and dentists show as having been in the flats above the shops. I'd always assumed that they'd just been resident there. However, this sign may suggest that these individuals might have been practising their professions form the flats. On the other hand the sign might be related to the ground floor premises. I know that the main part of the ground floor was a Tobacconist. I've posted an old document relating to the shop elsewhere. On the other photo I mentioned above, you can see a Kensitas ad. So if the dentist was on the ground floor along with the tobacconist, it means that the ground floor was split in two from the earliest days.
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Comment by anne-marie on June 8, 2016 at 22:10
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What is the building on the other st anns corner, where the solicitors is now? I can't make out the name on the top of the building.
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Comment by Hugh on June 8, 2016 at 22:23
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If you click on "View Full Size" under the text beneath the picture, you'll be able to read the name. It was the Coliseum Cinema.
Harringay used to have five cinemas about which I've written an article on Wikipedia. You can see more Coliseum pics here.
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Ah I see, thanks!
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I also rather like the kid in front of the Times furniture store. Such as its possible to tell, his body language makes me wonder if he's running an errand about which he's rather fed up.
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Comment by Geraldine on June 10, 2016 at 9:10
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Fascinating picture. The chemist at No. 4 was J M Pirie in the 40s and 50s. We always addressed the old pharmacist as 'Mr Pirie'. He never corrected us so perhaps it was a family business and passed from father to son or he was indeed as old as he appeared to be. Lovely shot of the Coliseum. None of us had much money in those days but we could always scrape together 9d to escape the harsh reality of post-war life.
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Comment by David Pitt on June 10, 2016 at 10:45
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I live on Warham Road, can there prints be bought?
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Comment by Richard Woods on June 13, 2016 at 16:35
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Geraldine makes the point too that although other cinemas changed their names the Colly ws the Colly right into the 60s. Even if we did call it the flea pit...
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Fabulous lanterns outside the Salisbury; what a pity they couldn't have been replaced in the recent re-light and sprucing-up of the exterior. Apart from that, Green Lanes looks a bit devoid of street lighting in general: even on the full-size version I can see lots of tram wire poles but only the tall lamp-post outside the Coliseum and a smaller one on the left, by the corner of Seymour Road. 1925 seems quite late for there not to have been general street lighting - or was this the norm, even then?
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What a great old pic of what will always be my "home territory". I remember the chemists and tobacconists being there. If I recall correctly I used to walk through or alongside the tobacconists to get to a barber shop there in 50s/60s. But in my mind it was a tanner to get into The Colly, that of course would be kids price ! Lovely !
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