Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hornsey Gasworks
I may have missed it but has there been a community discussion on the history of the gasworks and life and times of its community which was based around Hornsey Park.
Parkside Malvern RA gathered a fair amount of stuff over the years but the Association in its original form no longer exists to discuss and share what it knew.
We've probably lost the chance to speak with those who knew the Works when they were operational but perhaps across HoL there is a way to piece together a written social history as well as evidence of its architecture.
The archway entrance from Clarendon Road N8 is on the left of the photo from inside the Works.
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Admin for testingPermalink Reply by Hugh -
The photos are the first two at https://harringayonline.com/photo/photo/listTagged?tag=hornsey+park
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Permalink Reply by John Grover
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Coak was a by product of coal that was cooked to extract the gas that filled The Gasometers.
Clarendon Road was a close neighborhood of many street party's in the 1950s , sadly it was demolished in th70s
And its residents were put in council flats much to their disliking
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Permalink Reply by Max Wurr
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My great-grandfather Alec Hewitt Wurr grew up in Hornsey Park. His parents moved from Hackney to 49 Hornsey Park Road in early 1883, when the street was newly built. His father's brother Henry, also from further east, moved in to no. 34 around the same time. This was clearly an upwardly mobile move for the brothers, who were succeeding in middle class careers. Sadly Henry died tragically young soon afterwards, but the two families remained there until the 1900s. Alec married Annie Badcock who had grown up in the area in 1912. Her father Henry Pelham Badcock, my great-great-grandfather, lived in Rose Cottage in Clarendon Road from his teens until he married in the 1880s. His father, also Henry, who had moved up to London from Exeter in the mid-1800s, was employed by GNR, latterly as superintendent of their clothing store in Islington. He and his wife Emma were living in the clothing store by 1894 when Henry died, but had still been at Clarendon Road until not long before that. So yeah, lots of connections round there for me.
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