Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The 'Magic Electric Bottle' and other Hewitt Road specialities
130 Hewitt Road, and the houses behind it in the passage at the back the shops, may be best known to those who pass it these days for the amazing accumulation of rubbish they daily manage. But, back in the day, it was apparently a hive of industry.
This short post offers no deep insights, but is of passing interest as a glimpse into the lives of those who lived on the Ladder before us.
For its first twenty years 130 Hewitt appears to have been let as a house with stables to the rear. You can see from the Ordnance Survey map above, that the house seems to have been built without a back addition to accommodate the stable building.
Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald, 1 November 1901
From about 1913, the stable block was let to Bowes Park residents, Henry and Jane Rose for use as a small factory. From it they sold Rose Potted Dainties. (Potted dainties seem to have been potted meats, fish and vegetables, produced in jars as a sort of early convenience food).
From around the same time, newly-weds Richard and Mabel Addison, moved into the house. Richard had worked as a photographer, but by the 1920s, (by which time he was in his mid-forties), he seems to have been making his living by a range of fantastical means.
Both of the following adverts are from 1924.
These ads might suggest that Richard was struggling. Sadly he died, aged 54, just six years after they were placed.
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Permalink Reply by Geraldine on
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My mother used to paint photographs in water colours. When I was a child, I thought it rather an ugly thing to do with a photograph. Later I recognised they were quite charming.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I found this video which tells us something about hand colouring of photos: apparently still popular in the 1950s. In it we hear 83-year-old New Zelander, Grace Rawson, a professional colorist from the 1950s.
No doubt this was something Richard Addison picked up during his time as a jobbing photographer. -
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Lovely video. Thanks, Hugh. We were keen photographers in our teens. I've one photo taken with friends where we all of us are wearing cameras. In my photo album the first colour photos appear in the late 50s. Before then, everything was black and white.
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The Hovis advert is on the back wall a bakers that used to be in the corner shop at 553 Green Lanes.
The earliest record I can find of the property is of a conveyance of 18th Oct 1893 between the British Land Company and Albert William Woods Page and George Way. I assume that one ofr both of the latter parties was/were a builder/builders.
The bakers I have been able to track down were:
- John Peter Backer 1896
- Christian Kehl 1902
- Ludwig Wilhelm Henkel 1904-1905
- Chris Stevens - 1906
- William McSievwright - 1906
- J Crisp Baker 1920
- Harry Crisp Baker 1922
- Harry Crisp & Co 1925-1948
You can just make out that the ghost sign still there is for Crisp & Co.
After this 1948, until 1984, I have only phone directories as a reference source. All I can say is that either Crisps had no phone in 1948 or their remaining time in the shop, or they moved out.
By 1978 (possibly 1977) the premises had become the M&O General Store. Ey, the plannimg history suggests that the bakery may have lasted longer.
Oct 1986 - Change of use from storage to bakery at rear.
Jun 2007 - Change of use from bakery to residential to form 1 x 2 bed unit
Sep 2007 - Change of use from bakery to residential to form single dwelling house.
Apr 2012 - Certificate of lawfulness for use of property as Restaurant (A3)A planning application in 1987, uses the business name 'Domestic Appliances'.
In this 1940 photo of Green Lanes, you can just make out the Crisps shopfront on the extreme right of the image.
Yes, it looks like the original stable block/factory unit is still standing and extended a little to the north (the section with the set of four roof-lights, closest to the house).
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