Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Gun shop (& Rifle Range) on Green lanes

I was telling my son that there used to be a gun shop on Green Lanes when I first moved to the area (1987). He was interested to know more about it, but I can't really remember anything more than that there was a figure in the window that moved a gun up and down.

Can anyone else tell me more?

There was also a funeral parlour nearby, and I used to tell people that Green Lanes had everything! Now it's mainly food and jewellry shops.

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Permalink Reply by james walsh on September 4, 2009 at 12:42

The gunshop on the corner toward the bottom of green lanes sold mostly 'working' firearms shotguns, .22 rifles and revolver pistols for controlling vermin. But not semi-autos like 9mm which are for shooting people in attack or defence.

I remember some idiot trying to rob ( ! ! ! ! !) the gunshop wearing a crash helmet. While they were threatening to shoot the owner they did not, because of the crash helmet, see another person (customer) come from behind and shoot them in the head, dead.

This was around the late 80's. There was also a gang of two that robbed all the banks on green lanes with guns using a motorcycle and harringay passage to escape. I came across them robbing Nationwide next to the post office one morning. It's next to the main bustop but the people continued waiting for their bus and ignored the robbery even though the robbers dropped a few hundred on the pavement escaping folk were more interested in getting to work. Remembering all this reminds me how quiet green lanes is these days in regard armed robbery, stabbing etc because of the cameras everywhere.
I would later move to new york to work in the gun industry but i wish i had taken more notice of this funny little shop with its full size manequin of a 'farmer' waving a shotgun up and down. Every kid loved it.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on September 11, 2009 at 13:22

Blast from the past. Used to supply local residence their Shotguns for Home Visit's. Did move the Shop to Gt Cambridge Road - for a while, but closed down for Several Years

Haringey's Only Gun - Air Gun Shop is Pax Gun's Archway Road -Haringey's Largest Exporter - As Manufactures Air Gun Pellets for Export and Home Market Place

www.paxguns.co.uknd that has one of those working puppets with a Gun in the left Window

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Permalink Reply by Keith Cunningham on September 13, 2009 at 19:54

The gun shop was at the bottom of Pemberton Road in what was forerly the London Co-operative green grocers shop. It caused consternation when it opened and was mainly patronised by the Greek Cypriot community. Goodness knows how it got a license