Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Burgoyne Road showing parish room c1910

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Comment by SarahC on October 5, 2014 at 11:26: I think you can see the church on this picture, next to the flag that says Burgoyne Road.

I've always wondered exactly when (and why) windows started being generally painted white (post-war?). It's the one thing that stands out when you look at old photos – apart from the fact that people cleaned the streets properly.

Comment by SarahC on October 5, 2014 at 11:29: Ah, having reread the earlier posts properly I see it'll have been the parish hall at that date.

Comment by Hugh on October 5, 2014 at 11:38: That looks to be correct, Sarah.

I think the Iron Church and the parish room are one and the same thing. As I understand it, the Iron Church was converted into a parish room, not rebuilt. Going by the age of the trees, I'm pretty sure the picture above was taken prior to 1925 which would make the building the Iron Church / Parish room.

Comment by Hugh on October 5, 2014 at 11:42: Purple Brown sounds gross, but unless it's a very different colour to the one that you used to see everywhere on old buildings, it was a kind of mundane mid-brown - or at least that's what it always looked like by the time I was born. It's possible of course that before fading it had a brighter hue with a purplish tinge.

Comment by Charlotte on October 5, 2014 at 11:46: Yiikes - dont like brown painted woodwork. Black maybe although the white is lovely but so very hard to maintain

Comment by Geraldine on October 5, 2014 at 12:08: If you Google the images for Brunswick Green and Purple Bown the colours aren't quite as awful as they're painted. When we moved into Seymour Road in the early 1940s, there were still vestiges of both, either on the surface or they could be seen underneath when paintwork was chipped. Two wars had put paid to much renovation. If only they had kept those railings though ... sigh.

Comment by SarahC on October 5, 2014 at 12:13: The aerial photo is dated February 1930 and your previous National Archives quote says "In 1925 a new parish hall was opened in Burgoyne Road on the site of the demolished parish room" – that's why I didn't write parish room Mind you, both pics seem to be the same building and look like an iron church to me! (Good pics of others here).

Comment by Bethany Burrow Atherton on October 5, 2014 at 13:04: Just to confuse matters further, there was a parish room, a parish hall, a church room and a church hall - some of these were on the site of the main brick-built church at the Wightman Road end of Burgoyne and Cavendish, and Parish Room, which morphed into the Parish Hall were on the site of the Iron Church on Burgoyne Road. There was also a "Mission Church Room" on Stanhope Gardens, which was effectively a satellite church for the main one (kind of an overflow serving mainly the gardens area). Simples, no? ALL of these buildings, would have been use all day on a Sunday - Sunday school was in the afternoons, and there were separate classes for young men, young women, children, women in service, men in service, "lads" and probably others. There was typically around 60 in the Young Men's Bible Class in 1914. I suppose there was no TV and the pubs might've been shut...

Comment by Hugh on October 5, 2014 at 13:04: I agree, Sarah. Both look the same.

(My underlining wasn't aimed at you - it was there for clarification for the wider group.)

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