Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
St Paul's Harringay interior 1947 - the 'First All Electric Church in the Country'
There are plenty of pictures of the exterior of the old church (see tag, below right), but I hadn't seem one of the interior before. Earlier today, I happened to spot this grainy old photo in an electrician's trade magazine reporting on a new lighting installation.
According to an article published in the Hornsey Journal in the previous year, St Paul's was the 'First All Electric Church' in the country.
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Comment by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on November 4, 2020 at 16:51
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Was this perhaps the re-wiring job that caused the Great Fire of St Paul's some ?36 years later?
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Comment by Hugh on November 4, 2020 at 17:18
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The National Archives holds a bundle of papers detailing work undertaken on defective fluorescent lighting in the roof. So, who knows, Eddie, maybe it was!
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Comment by Bethany Burrow Atherton on November 4, 2020 at 17:23
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Hugh, I've got loads! There are tons in the LMA and I've got copies of some for the book I'm (still) writing about the church members in the First World War.
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I thought you may have, Bethany. Please feel free to share! I'm sure you can do better than this picture.
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I'd need to get copyright permission from the church (which shouldn't be a problem) - will see what I can do.
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Comment by man-thinking on November 5, 2020 at 23:32
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Wikipedia Commons image - https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paul%27s,_Harringay_(old_altar).gif
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Comment by Richard Woods on November 6, 2020 at 15:01
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A sense of shame came over me. From 1960 to 1964 I visited St Paul's regularly as a Harringay district reporter for the Hornsey Journal and was in fact quite friendly with the Rev Bond. And yet... I never knew this! Not much of a hack was I then?
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Comment by Maureen Bamfield on December 8, 2022 at 23:57
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Good old St Paul`s church where I got married in 1958. A great shame it got burnt down, the rebuild isn`t a bit like the old church:-(
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Please, this picture is dated when?
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