Hermitage Lane looking towards Green Lanes June 1883

A bucolic view of Harringay in 1883 depicted by water-colourist Harold Lawes. The picture shows the view looking west along Hermitage Road towards Green Lanes. On the left is Vale House. At this point its occupants were retired vet Edward Higgs, his wife Louisa and their twenty-one year old son Edward. Over the artist's left shoulder was Hermitage House, in the grounds of which its owner (also the owner of Kettners Restaurant in Soho) kept an emu. On the right in the distance is one of the kilns of the Williamson Potteries. Although most of the Hermitage Brook to the west of Harringay had already be covered over, its eastern stretch still flowed. Its course is marked in the painting by the line of trees on the extreme right of the picture.

This colour version replaces a smaller black and white version first added in 2007.