Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hornsey Rise (Other Side of Crouch End Hill), c1905
This is one of the views in the environs of N8 where the landscape has changed completely over the past hundred years. On this site (below the BP petrol station at the top of Crouch End Hill) now stands the Hornsey Rise medical centre.
The pub which was rebuilt in the first half of the twentieth was demolished circa 1995. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it was a very busy omnibus terminus for buses running from the Royal Exchange in the City. You can see the omnibuses lined up outside the pub in the picture.
The pub was also the venue where singer Matt Munroe made his first appearances in the 1950s after his shifts as a London bus driver.
At the time this photo was taken, just to the north west of this junction there stood, the Alexandra Orphanage, the Aged Pilgrims Asylum and the St Mary Islington Workhouse.
By the second half of the twentieth century, the Volunteer public house on Queensland Road N19 had been renamed and was also called "The Favourite". Both were hosts to the Irish music scene and to differentiate between the two, the Hornsey Rise establishment was nicknamed 'The Big Favourite'. The Queensland Road pub was referred to as 'The Little Favourite'. With the latter having been demolished during the construction of the Emirates Stadium, neither pub still exists.
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Comment by janice on February 9, 2018 at 17:43
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A lot of this area is N19. Love those houses on Beaumont Rise they would be worth a few million now.
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Comment by JoeW on February 9, 2018 at 19:24
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The pub was featured in an episode of the Professionals in 1979, you can see Bodie and Doyle on the left here:
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It also featured on an Irish music album but apparently that was a case of mistaken identity:
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This is really interesting, thanks! I have always wondered about The Favourite. The bus stop near there had "Hornsey Rise -The Favourite" written on it.
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Comment by Richard Woods on February 10, 2018 at 9:31
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Looking at it today (Google) I see a Haringey boundary sign - which like the bizarre dustbin med centre defines the location precisely!
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Thanks for linking to this from the discussion on The Rainbow where I asked about this pub, Hugh. But now I’m quite confused. The rebuild looks like it’s from the 1930’s and doesn’t seem to be advertising Meux at all: In the photo from The Professionals there’s a barrel sign over the right character’s head. I can’t remember what brewery that belonged to, but I don’t think it was Meux. Then in the photo from JoeW, the black and white box lamp above the door (the door that’s almost behind the letter box) is a Taylor Walker sign (There are clearer copies of the photoelsewhere on the Net, otherwise I’d never have spotted that!) But I distinctly remember seeing “Meux” on the pub as I so often passed it on the 210 on the wsy to school and back from around 1976.
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Joe H.........IF that's a red barrel then would be Watneys Brewery. Their 'Red Barrel' brew became really well known in the '60's and I think were one of the first (if not the first) to retail in 4 and 7 pint 'cans'. The larger cans were known as Party Sevens. A real popular seller.
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Thanks, John, you might be right. I saw it as vertical barrel, but it could well be the horizontal (red) barrel of Watney’s fame. Nonetheless, I’m still confused about having seen Meux advertised on the exterior.
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Comment by Straw Cat on September 10, 2024 at 0:13
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Watneys Red Barrel... yuk, one erason why CAMRA had to be formed. I remember the Favourite as a dark, cavernous and anonymous sort of place, just where Bodie and Doyle would meet a contact. I did once, as the sexist one - was it Doyle - would say, "score" there ...
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