Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Finsbury Road, Wood Green c. 1910

This photo shows a part of Finsbury Road that no longer exists. It was shot from outside the still extant St Barnabas Church, looking north to the crossroads with Commercial Road and beyond.

The shop at the crossroads on the right, with the Julien Tobacco advert, was G. Bear Hairdresser. That building still stands. On the opposite corner, on the left of the road was Elizabeth Mills Drapers. That building along with all the houses on the east side between Commercial Road and Nightingale Road were demolished in the Sixties.

Below is the Ordnance Survey Map from 1955 showing the old road layout. St Barnabas Church is marked a "Catholic Apostolic Church'.

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Comment by timothy moynihan on Friday: I used to walk that road to Primary School from Palmerston across Bounds Green Road and down Park Avenue. The first shop on left was a bustling newsagents. The church was derelict then before the Greek Orthodox ‘resurrection’. There weee a few shops further down sweet shops a furriers bakers Greenwoods Garage. Commerce Road was still partly cobbled then bit the commercial activity had long moved elsewhere by then mid 1960s.