Clarendon Road, Hornsey Park, c1960

Comment by Tony on May 19, 2021 at 16:36

You wouldn't think it was the same road would you.

I remember when Clarendon Road started in Turnpike Lane almost opposite the Unwin pub.

Comment by Bill South on May 21, 2021 at 0:43

My nan used to live in the last house, on the left, before the gasworks.

Comment by Hugh on May 21, 2021 at 7:43

Any family snaps or memories, Bill?

Comment by Bill South on May 21, 2021 at 15:13

Unfortunately, no photos. Some memories from around 1956 to 1960. I think Nan (Ivy) ran  a guest house, as I remember her always having lodgers. Grandad (George) worked for the Gas Board and I remember him letting us run around wearing his peaked cap. Nan raised chickens and, sometimes, at Christmas, we'd go and chose one, for dinner (although, being only 4 or 5, never quite understood how the chicken I liked, running about the garden, ended up on the table). I also remember sneaking through the back garden fence to pick up lumps of coal from the railway embankment. 

Comment by Hugh on May 21, 2021 at 15:22

So, if your grandparents lived in the last house on the left (no. 53), it looks like they had a nice big garden!

Was your grandfather George Percival Page?

Extract from 1952 OS map

Comment by Bill South on May 21, 2021 at 15:34

Yes, it was no. 53 and the garden was huge ( to a 4 yr old), also had a small pond in that we'd paddle in, but that did get filled in. 

Comment by Hugh on May 21, 2021 at 15:39

Pond, chickens, steam trains going by, coal to nab. Sounds like it was a exciting place for kids.

Comment by John Grover on January 13, 2023 at 13:41

I think the people that lived in the last house on the left were Mr&Mrs Gray 

Comment by John Grover on January 13, 2023 at 13:44

I was born and raised on Clarendon Road at #37 , I left there in 1968 and Emigrated to Ontario Canada .

Also I was an original member of Harringay Boys Club , great times then in Hornsey 

Comment by HoL Site Admin on January 13, 2023 at 13:52

What else do you remember about the road and of pre-redevelopment Turnpike Lane at the end of your road?

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