Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Harringay's 'Library'

A couple of years later Mays was acting as travel agent

Mays in around 1910

In 1964, the business was still running under a different name (Thanks to Con at London Catholic Worker for the 1964 'Souvenir Brochure' of St Augustine's church that contained this ad)

473 Green Lanes today. (To see on map, click 'Show on Map', below right).

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Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on November 27, 2020 at 14:48: I can remember several commercial lending libraries just after the war. Sometimes called circulating libraries.

My dad was a customer of Bendell’s at 39 Green Lanes. The cost of borrowing was just a few pence a week per book.

Listed in my 1948 Post Office Directory as 39 Green Lanes. Bendell Fredk. Wilson, Lending library.
Now the premises are occupied by an estate agent.

The shop must have at some short time later diversified as I remember the shop selling toys, the library being in the back half of the shop.

When the new and free Public Library (now gone) opened on the Woodberry Down Estate we went there.