Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Scotland Green, Tottenham c1905
I can't quite work out how this picture relates to the modern set-up or the old OS map, but the building in the right foreground looks like the one currently occupied by the Pride of Tottenham (and used to house a girl's school). However, the alignment doesn't quite match up with the 1893 OS map. So it may not be that building.
(Looking at the old map, I see that at the end of Scotland Green, a feature called "Carbuncle Ditch" is marked. I wonder how that got it's name. One of Charles's ancestors?).
Albums: Historical Images of Tottenham
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Comment by Alan Stanton on March 18, 2018 at 22:06
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A photo on this website is, I'm fairly certain, the same location looking westward. It was the Garbell Ditch in a map of 1619 and - once culverted - known as Carbuncle Alley.
Looking this up, I came across links to books and articles by Sylvia Caldicott, a creative local teacher and author who was a central figure in encouraging and showing the value of a multicultural education syllabus.
I wonder, is anyone in touch with her or know how I could contact her?
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P.S. Again Hugh, it seems fairly certain that the building with stepped gables in the photo you posted is the former "Blue Coat School".
According to Christine Protz's book Tottenham a History. It took up to 40 girls between the age of 7 and 14. They were taught reading, writing, knitting, needlework and 'a little arithmetic' . Chris writes that it opened in 1735, was rebuilt in 1833, and enlarged in 1876.
Google Street View in 2009 has an angle which seems to match the corner shown in the old photo.
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Comment by Hugh on March 18, 2018 at 23:53
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Thanks Alan.
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Comment by Richard Woods on March 23, 2018 at 12:14
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Is the eponymous Green now Hartington Park?
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