Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
A Wander Along Park Road of Old (and Less Old)
For several centuries, Park Road was named Maynard Street, after a landowner of olden days. It got renamed as being the road to the new Alexandra Palace and Park
The first picture is a common postcard view from the Middle Lane junction
This image is older and shows the lefthand shops in closer detail
Just across on the right is a newsagents shop.
These shops are just along from the newsagents.
Back on the left again, that cafe must have been handy while waiting for your car to be servived at the Cleveland garage.
Next door along was Stone Cottage.
Across the road were some small shops.
Across on the left again, this is a view back towards the Broadway.
Now looking forward again
Don't get dizzy looking backwards yet again from further along! Note that splendid cafe on the near right, The China Cup.
Another look towards the end of the terrace, ending in Pax Hall.
Now for some refreshment at the Maynard Arms, presumably named after the erstwhile street.
Looking back towards The Maynard Arms.
A more distant look back to the Maynard Arms from opposite the corner of Palace Road. The old Princess Alexandra is prominent in the centre. The old Alex will become Veryan Court and the houses on the left will become the modern Princess Alexandra, once a few decades and WW2 bombs have taken their toll!
Facing that junction was Palace Motors. "The Esso sign means happy motoring" etc went the advertising jingle when the only alternative to BBC TV was ITV. Gosh a choice of two channels - a 100% increase on before.
It was a bit more built-up prior to Palace Motors. This terrace included the original Bird in Hand pub.
The Bird in Hand of modern times was a somewhat diminished building but a great pub, with ex-footballer Jock Weir in charge. This was a last-day photo by Sean Kavanagh. The site is now a small apartment block.
Across the road still stands Kelland Close
Bunty's was almost opposite the swimming pool and is remembered under various guises according to age. I recall it as the Venna Bar, with froffee coffee and a juke box playing "Alley Oop".
Park Road swimming pool of fond memory of many over several decades - unless for school swimming lessons on a chilly day. I just remember it as long hot summers, latterly including frantic revision on the paved area prior to GCEs.
Next door was the Cottage Hospital, where many a tonsil vanished under the ether!
Over the road from the hospital is Ramsay Court.
Finally we arrive at The Victoria. Muswell Hill climbs up leftwards, Ally Pally approach is up half-right and around the bend to the right is the end of Priory Road.
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Permalink Reply by Ken Stevens on
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Thank you,Hugh. I reckoned that 60s period was timeles ,though I suppose we all think that about our era!
Aside from a brief interlude in the 70s, when I should have known better at my age, my style is broadly along the same lines as my younger days, with just a little more weight and a little less hair to go round.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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Memories of the Bird in Hand include Alex Weir being an out of hours bank for several HJ hacks; necessary then with banks only open from 10 am to 3 pm! We lunched late (usually extending into after hours (then only 12-2pm I recall) so a trip to queue to cash a cheque was unthinkable! The likes of 'Bud' Flanagan, Brian Devine, Terry ???, John Netherwood, Lesley Downes. Frances Farrow, Mike Pearce, Danny Nelson, David Emanuel, Roy Rainbird and more come to mind.
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Nowadays called "Cashback"!
Every Saturday as a youngster Mum would send me to the greengrocers in the High Street - Dunmalls - with a cheque filled out for a higher amount than needed. I would hand it over to pay for the greenery and Mr D would give me the change, which constituted Mum's cash for the week
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Permalink Reply by John Shulver on
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Apart from the last incident Richard...........enjoyed your recollections and witty comments.
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Wonderful set of pics Ken accompanied by your comments. And to have you and Richard captured in that same photo ALL those years ago. Must be the first snap to capture two future HoL members together from last century.
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It was a bit of a shock, John. I wasn't even sure that I'd identified the HJ guy correctly, so to find out that he was one & the same was fantastic!
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Nice record of Park Road. In the second picture, to the right of the hat shop, is number 5, A FORSYTH, a sweetshop. Andrew & Lydia Georgina Forsyth were aunt and uncle to my father. They were living there when their daughter was baptised in 1899, and at the census in 1901, but moved on soon after, so we can date the photograph to 1900, more or less. I remember them in the 1940s at 362 Caledonian Road, also a sweetshop.
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History alive!
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Just!
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I have one other connection in that my great-great-grandfather John Newman, carpenter, and family lived in Maynard Street from about 1829 to at least 1835, and perhaps later. He came from Sussex and his wife Ann (Burton) was from Hants.
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