Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Horse-drawn Meets Mechanical - Manor House Panorama, c1905
I love this changing-of-the-age shot. I wonder if that carriage in the middle of the picture has just been taking its owners for a turn round the park before returning home to one of the grand old house on Woodberry Down, perhaps.
I wonder where the Park Cafe was?
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Comment by Saddic on June 17, 2016 at 9:16
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It IS an amazing photo,
Does that read 'Park cafe' or 'Park gate'?
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Comment by Hugh on June 17, 2016 at 9:20
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Duh! Thank you. That makes a lot more sense!
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Comment by Geraldine on June 17, 2016 at 11:41
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Wheels on the cobbles made for a bumpy ride.
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Comment by Richard Woods on June 17, 2016 at 18:00
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Sensational picture. Interesting that in the world of commerce the horse hung on a long time - in the 40s and into the 50s our milk arrived on a horse drawn float (Ned he was); the bread man ditto and the fruit and veg man. The fish man had a motor van. Around 1950 or so Ned was retired and the electric float appeared. Funny old world - now we are going back to electric.
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Our milkman's horse in Seymour was a grey mare called Mary. And yes, this was into the 50s, so the horse did hang on a long time.
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I 'think' we had Express Dairy but it may have been United - maybe I am wrong about Ned?
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I am almost 100 per cent sure we had United Dairies. And wasn't there a United Dairies shop just around the corner in Green Lanes between Seymour and Hewitt? They were the first I remember to sell yogurt, to my mother's delight, back in the early 1950s.
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