Woolworth Harringay c1930

I've finally tracked down this image and stumped up to have Historic England digitise it. It is reproduced here with their permission. 

A companion photo of the northern part of the parade, from just a few years laters is published here.

The image shows Woolworth's first Harringay store in the premises where Tesco is now based. If you compare the roofline of this photo with the roofline today, you'll see that the current roof projection is much bigger than the original one. I'm guessing that the current one dates from 1932 when both the Salon Bal, above Woolworth, along with Woolworth itself were pretty much gutted by fire.

Next door:
No. 7 was Mary Chester, Miliner
No. 6 was Rosse Ltd Ladies hairdressers

The Woolworth collection also includes photos of the second Woolworth store in the building where Iceland is now based, but I thought I'd hold off splashing any more cash. I have reference copies but I don't think those come with non-commercial repro permission. 

Some years back, I compared other Woolworth stores around the country and those set up at the same time as the second Harringay one have an almost identical architectural style. So, that resolved any residual doubts I had about why we have that mid-20th century block in the middle of Grand Parade. Woolworths dunnit.