South Harringay School and the Passage from Pemberton Road, c 1910

Comment by Barrie Maskell on October 25, 2025 at 11:13

Christine, I believe Mr Lincoln was the music teacher. He played the organ at the Church in Crouch End. Also remember Miss Winter and Miss Mathewson (an Autralian).

Comment by Harry Carson on October 25, 2025 at 11:33

Those staff names I remember ( 57 to 64 roughly)...

Junior school: Mr Edmondson ( Head), Mr Smith ( Smuts...a nickname relic from the Anglo-Boer conflict), Miss Cosgrove ( took us to Clevedon for a week....I had to attend Mass and she took me...she was surprised that there were two collections during the service.... imagine...my parents insisting I went to Mass while on the annual school trip). Infant staff....no immediate recollection.

Comment by Christine Killick on October 25, 2025 at 15:23

Geraldine I do not remember a school by the alleyways in Seymour Road.  My only recollection were of houses.  My Grandparents lived in Seymour at number 45 and I would have walked past the alley ways nearly every day.  I will have to ask my sister as being older than me she may remember more.

Comment by Christine Killick on October 25, 2025 at 15:26

Wow Harry you have a good memory.  Yes I remember all those names.  Mr Smith took us to the Isle of Wight in my last year.

Comment by Harry Carson on October 25, 2025 at 15:44

Christine, I believe my elder brother, Sean, visited the Isle of Wight, accompanied by Smuts, and possibly the same year as you. He was born August '49...... would that have made him the youngest or eldest? Youngest I think.

I also think I have a photograph he left me showing a group seated around a monument. Unfortunately it's pretty useless but may trigger something.

Comment by Harry Carson on October 25, 2025 at 15:56

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You mentioned Nick Neofitou, a while back. Here he is, on the left. Me on the right . I've been on the left ever since. I can't remember the name of the taller lad in the middle. Taken c1960/61 on the top step of our house at 21 Pemberton.

Comment by StephenBln on October 25, 2025 at 16:02

I had a school friend George Neofetou b.53/54 who lived 64 Warwick Gardens. He def had an older sister. Was he perhaps the younger brother pof your friend? 

Comment by Harry Carson on October 25, 2025 at 16:07

I know Nick Neofitou had cousins nearby... address unknown but quite likely. The family at No.11 Nick. 2 sisters, Lorraine and Athena. Parents Michael and Rose. But certainly cousins somewhere on the ladder I think.

Comment by Geraldine on October 25, 2025 at 22:21

Hugh, thanks.  The Alpha House photos are extraordinary in their quality.  It's curious the way time concertinas.  This was only 40 years before I was at the school yet looking at the people and their dress it could have been centuries.  I will google the other Alpha House as you suggest.

Comment by Geraldine on October 25, 2025 at 22:24

Christine, thanks re Alpha House School for asking your sister.  It didn't look like a school.  It was just a house.  But I remember a notice board in the front garden with "Alpha House School" and the Misses Wainwright.  She might remember that.

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