Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Going, Going, Gone!
Tags for Forum Posts: 590-598 Green Lanes, demolition, hawes & curtis
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Permalink Reply by Sam R on
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Ha! Not for the full 96 hours these photos span no.
Went out for 15 mins each morning before work. Yes a bit sad especially as it was one of our local landmarks.
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on
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I didn't realise how big the site was until I saw it from the top deck of the bus today with the building demolished. Is the tube building on the right being kept?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Yes, I’m pretty sure that it still serves the function it was designed to.
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Permalink Reply by Geraldine B on
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Hey ho, does this now mean a new development for some more 'affordable' housing for Harringay?!
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Nice photos Sam. Was fun watching it come down. Saw the jaws of steel take down the flag pole ... in secs! Tbh the site needs developing for housing.
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What's coming should be good and is to be welcomed, but that doesn't mean it's not sad to see the old dutch-gabled building fall. It was built as a Laundry.
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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Shame, more architectural vandalism. Was there talk about the building on the right becoming an underground station?, I believe it was originally intended to be.
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No, that building was designed and built as and still functions as an air shaft for the Piccadilly Line. An earlier plan for an underground line was to have been sponsored by the Great Northern Railway, but it never saw the light of day. That underground line would have run under the mainline rail and used the mainline stations. Contrary to popular myth, which I was responsible for helping to spread for a while, there was never any plan to build a tube station on Green Lanes in Harringay. The only Harringay tube station ever envisaged would have been shared with Harringay mainline Station.
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