Park Rd, Crouch End, c1905

Comment by steven trautner on May 12, 2018 at 22:29

Any idea when the terraced houses were knocked down? 

Comment by Hugh on May 12, 2018 at 22:47

I'm not sure, I'm afraid. The replacements look 1960s. So it was either as a result of bomb damage in the war or other 'modernisation' in the Sixties. There were a couple of high explosive bombs dropped just opposite this terrace in October 1940. So it may well have been bomb damage. 

Comment by Hugh on May 28, 2018 at 0:46

I've just added another image from a bit further down the road towards Muswell Hill. In adding that I found that the Princess Alexandra was destroyed by a Bomb during the War. So it's likely that the houses went at the same time. 

Comment by Alan on August 23, 2019 at 19:13

If I re call from my younger days, the corner opposite the Maynard ph was Berry Pianos, which in turn became a cigarette place [HO & WD Wills?]  This row appears in 'Beauty in the Borough' i think.

Comment by Hugh on August 23, 2019 at 19:20

That's right. Berry's had moved from Harringay.

Comment by Hugh on February 17, 2023 at 8:04

A recent research project led me to finding out a bit more about the houses you asked about, Steven. In fact, the houses on Park Road (Maynard Street as was till about 1870) and running off it are an interesting part of Crouch End's history. They were in the first of five developments of working-class housing in Crouch End and Hornsey, built from about 1850 to the end of the nineteenth century. Together the areas were the beginning of the area's urbanisation. The housing in all five was poorly maintained, and within about a hundred years all had been compulsorily purchased and demolished and, in the main replaced with public housing. 

The extract below, from an 1869 sewerage map of Hornsey, shows the tight Maynard Street cluster amongst the villas of Crouch End.

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