Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Concern over our Library's future
SGRA (a residents association) will hold a meeting at 7pm tomorrow night (Thursday) at Stroud Green Library - which may well be the nearest library for many people in Harringay ward - and one of the issues we will be discussing is setting up or re-forming a 'Friends of Stroud Green Library' group as we are alarmed at the possible threat to this library of Budget cuts.
Everyone welcome - please come along and join us.
Tags for Forum Posts: libraries, public spending cuts, stroud green and harringay library
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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239 Wightman looks like an ordinary terraced house. No reason however that it couldn't have served as an auxiliary library, particularly during the War. There's no sign of bomb damage though: it's pretty dilapidated but that's probably because it seems to be in multi-occupancy and is sadly in need of maintenance.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I just came across this discussion again and I agree, John D: 239 Wightman doesn't look to have been bomb-damaged. I wonder if John miswrote the street number. In 1939 number 239 was home to six residents with what look like working class occupations.
It's not clear to me why a house in multiple occupation would have been given over to use as a sub-branch of a library only about five or ten minutes walk away at a time and in a city where housing was increasingly in short supply.
234 was bomb damaged. If there was a short-lived Wightman library, could that have been the houss?
I looked for references in John Hinshelwood's potted history, but the author didn't provide any. So it's difficult for anyone by them to re-check.
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