Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Station Road Wood Green, 1972
Another photo from Derek Reynolds, looking west down Station Road.
It was supplied as a very dark image rendered almost unviewable by heavy camera shake. A few corrections later, viewed at full size, it's a very informative image.
In Derek's own words,"Poor image of Wood Green Library and the wooden hut in Station Road. The Fish & Chip shop was one of the two premises next door, and further along the REX Cinema, AKA ‘The Flea Pit’.
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Comment by Tim Fennell on April 2, 2021 at 17:26
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The green Hut, wasn't that the salvation army? I used to wait for the 233 on the way home from St.Michaels school at the bus stop next to it in the 60s.
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Comment by Hugh on April 2, 2021 at 18:15
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Thanks for flagging that, Tim.
It looks like the plot on the north of Station Road at the corner of the High Road wasn't built on until the Carnegie Library was built early in the twentieth century.
The 1869 OS map shows it as a field with a footpath crossing from north-east to south-west. In 1893 it's still a vacant plot. Then in 1907 the library was built on the eastern part of the plot with the western part remaining undeveloped. That remained the case right though to the second world war.
Then the 1944-70 map shows a building on the site labelled Club. That's the green building you'e pointed out in the photo above (also shown in this 1955 photo). I assume that was flattened when the demolished the old library in 1973.
I suspect that the entire corner plot was owned by Wood Green Council and various plans for the eatsern section were made and came to nought, until the development in the seventies.
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