Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Bomb damage to old footbridge at Hornsey station. Nov 1940

Looking north-west from near Hampden Road.

The old staircase to the bridge, viewed from Hampden Road is shown here in a painting done in the 1970s.

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Comment by John Shulver on February 18, 2022 at 17:09: Frightening ! Can't imagine living through those times. I came along eight and a half years later.

Comment by Peter Balding on Tuesday: I've heard that the bomb that got the bridge was supposedly aimed for the Gas Works at the end of Clarendon Road.

Comment by Richard Albert Watson 7 hours ago: I was born in Palmers Green 7.1.40. although obviously too young to remember at that time the family were bombed out twice which resulted in damage to my right eye for which I was operated on when I was 9 to correct my vision. My older Brother and sister 14 and 12 years older were working in the early forties. My sister in the west end. She had a very lucky escape. She had just got off the bus to walk home and when she was about 30 yards from the bus an incendiary bomb hit it and most on board killed. I did hear when I was older that a bomb had destroyed a dancehall in the area of the Cock Tavern. I think it was on the junction of Bowes Road Green Lanes. Does anybody have information on this? As a kid growing up in the war in London I can honestly say that I was never scared even when the sirens went off and we had to shelter and the doodlebugs were going over. We had the indoor Morrison shelter. My parents must have been terrified with 4 kids to worry about and having been bombed out twice though they never let us kids know it. When the war finished I really missed the barrage balloons as they had been a feature in my life.

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