Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Green Lanes 1918ish

Looking towards Stanhope Gdns.

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Comment by StephenBln on January 8, 2012 at 15:11: No, page 147 in the 1997 edition is about Theatres in London, but thanks for the link!

I'm not sure when the last wooden surfaces were removed. A colleague of mine at LT, once told me that Piccadilly was one of the last. Cobbled surfaces were still about in my childhood and the junction at Manor House was still cobbled well into the sixties.

Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on November 9, 2012 at 15:39: There were wooden blocks for a short stretch of Green Lanes between Woodberry Grove and Seven Sisters Road, outside the tram depot. They were removed when the tramlines were taken up.

They were laid with the end of the grain uppermost and heavily tarred. Hard-wearing and quiet, unlike the cobbles that then were laid on the Manor House junction.

When they were being removed my dear old dad thought they would be just the thing to put on the fire (no central heating then) so we got his trusty wheelbarrow loaded up and brought them home. With all that impregnated tar they burned very well!

Comment by Hugh on November 9, 2012 at 15:44: More on a recently rediscovered local wooden road here.

Comment by paddyk on November 9, 2012 at 15:48: Nice pics - i thought Green Lanes was going to be restored or renewed. whatever happened to that project that was made a big song and dance about?

Comment by StephenBln on November 9, 2012 at 17:33: Roy, I presume cobbles were more suitable at junctions. The wooden blocks were slippery in wet weather and therefore mostly found on straight stretches.

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