Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The original Ally Pally
There is an image on the Alexandra Palace website of the original 1873 building taken of the main front aspect - link/image below. I cannot work out what or where the foreground buildings are. Logically they must be somewhere towards the eastern end of Hornsey High Street if we are looking face on to the palace building but in that area we should be able to see St Mary's Church. Can anyone shed any light on what these buildings are?
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Permalink Reply by Ken Stevens on
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Hi Richard,
I was there 1956 -62. As a stock standard 'O' Level lad, it should have been 1961 but I had to retake Maths! Bearing in mind I was the army cadet at the Drill Hall dinner and you were the Journal reporter, presumably you were a couple years or so ahead of me. Were you in the 1958 or 1961 school photos?
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Whilst the building style is similar, I can't view these as the Newland Road terrace, as it's approx 90 degrees out of juxtaposition to the palace. Newland is more parallel to the Pally frontage but not directly ascross from it.
I'm still slightly tempted to the idea of this being a montage. That midline of trees looks more suspicious as a backdrop break each time I look at it!
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Montage suggestion 1: The Victoria, taken from part way up Muswell Hill, looking along Park Road, with a lush backdrop of trees from some other photo
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Permalink Reply by John Shulver on
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I tend to agree with you Ken. To me the original photo, flipped or not, looks superimposed, one photo on top of another. The tree line looks far too dark for it to be a single composition.But I do realise a lot of "touching up" went on in photographic studios. But .......what a minefield is opened up from one query eh. Typical HoL detective work. Wonderful stuff.
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Permalink Reply by man-thinking on
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Thanks everyone for all these musings.
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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
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If it's not flipped, could it be these houses from the 1894 map? Looks like a long wall/narrow building a little to the South of Pembroke Road.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Below is an image of the Rectory followed by a flipped version of the large house in the photo. I’m pretty sure they’re not the same house. Also we need to account for the bends in the road
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