Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

St. Peter's Church Wightman Road, c1905

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Comment by Geraldine on April 21, 2017 at 3:34: 50 years later, I sang in the choir there. It looked much the same then. Nothing built to last any more. Lovely photo.

Comment by Richard Woods on April 21, 2017 at 22:00: Do you recall the Rev Peter (?) Bradford? He was vicar in the late 50s whenI was briefly a scout in the hall behind the church in Frobisher (oppositre side to this picture in Lausanne). Got sacked for smoking under the stage.

Comment by Geraldine on April 21, 2017 at 23:41: I didn't last long in the brownies. They wanted me to be a gnome and I rebelled. But yes, I remember Father Bradford. A bespectacled, affable bloke, he had a wife and baby when I was there. Thought his name was John but I could be wrong about that. Had a visit recently from an ex-choirboy at St Peter's, John Nichols. He is from your neck of the woods - Falkland or Frobisher. Maybe you knew him?

Comment by Richard Woods on April 22, 2017 at 14:20: John Nichols rings a vague bell - I think Falklands and possibly 'connected' with the people who ran the animal feeds store on the Green Lanes end - Flack?

Comment by john nichols on December 1, 2017 at 12:33: I was a member of the scouts and also the choir there. I lived 7 Effingham road till about 1965 remember father Bradford was also in youth club only name I remember is John Tonks.

I joined this site to see if there was any old class pics of North Harringay primary in 1954-ish.

Comment by Tony on March 18, 2018 at 1:34: I was christened in this church and my grandparents lived across the road from it. Also I remember a Mr & Mrs Tonks (Can't remember their first names) lived two doors up from my grandparents. This could be the John Tonks mentioned above.

Comment by Maureen Bamfield on January 20, 2022 at 23:06: Although I got married at St. Pauls the Rev Bradford married us as there wasn`t a vicar at St. Paul`s for some reason. That was in March 1958

Comment by Richard Woods on January 21, 2022 at 13:06: The Rev Bradford was vicar at St Peter's, top of my Road, Frobisher and a very stern and austere chap he was; high church too. I am guessing that there was what they call an interregnum at St Paul's in 1958; it may have been not long after that that the Rev Derek C Bond, of fond memory, took over at St Paul's

Comment by Geraldine on January 21, 2022 at 14:45: Fr Bradford was High Anglican and St Peter's was an Anglo-Catholic Church when I sang in the choir there around 1954-1957 (5 shillings a week and 7/6d for a wedding). I remember when I was about 15 telling him I was leaving to join an evangelical church in Tottenham. He said he was disappointed that I was not becoming a Catholic.

I looked for his name on the long list of priests who left the Church of England in the early 2000s to join the Catholic Church at the introduction of women priests but it was not there. Perhaps he didn't survive. Well, it was 50 years.

I am still in communication with John Nichols. He is better at sending emailed jokes than writing on this page.

Comment by Richard Woods on January 21, 2022 at 14:55: Did you go to North Harringay then? I was there 1948-53.

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