Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Have people noticed how low the New River's got?
Last week the water went black for a few days which we thought was the wash from cleaning the weeds at the bottom. This week the water level is really low - just about ankle deep instead of the usual 4-5 foot- when this happens it usually comes back in a day or so - not this time! Any thoughts?
Russell
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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One of the traders at the market yesterday moved in to one of the houses at the north western end of Denmark Road when they repaced the tower blocks which used to be there. She'd previously lived just the other side of the tracks for some time. She seemed fairly confident that where the mosque now stands had been an empty plot previously. A bomb site perhaps? If you think about it all the buildings in that whole section bounded by the railway, Turnpike Lane, Wightman and Hampden, are all post war.
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Here's the photo of the cinema that used to stand on the corner of Wightman and Turnpike.
I've checked my 1910 Bartholomews and see that Denmark Road used to turn south and run parallel to Wightman up to Hampden. It looks like it was housing. The presence of a garage opposite where the mosque is where a V2 rocket hit. Given the explosive payload of V2s it's highly likely that the houses in the mosque plot were pretty much obliterated or badly enough damaged so they would have had to be pulled down. So the empty plot / bomb site theory looks good.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I didn't think there was a V2 that close to the Mosque site. there was one over the other side of the railway on Tottenham lane where the community centre is now. And there was one on Sydney Rd
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Just going by the map which I think the author made by reference to the official bomb map in the Metropolitan Archives.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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They were the only two John. Sydney Road & the other which I think was known as the Hornsey Goods Yard incident.
I mentioned before somewhere that my dad told me that they found a detatched woman's arm still clutching a handbag after the Goods Yard one.. not sure whether on Tottenham Lane or Wightman Road.
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Just a point, the V2s were frigtening because nobody heard them coming. In fact, the V1s carried more explosive and were therefore more devastating.
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Full sized version of this painting now posted in the gallery.
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My map of 1912 shows, on the west side of Wightman, a row of houses or possibly shops, perhaps like the east side today, stretching from Turnpike Lane up to half way between Hampden and Raleigh and the site of the Mosque is shown as open space. I've done an image search on Google but turned up nothing more interesting than a picture of one Hugh Flouch :)
It's really annoying that I can't remember what was there before but I'll ask the owner of the ex-off-licence who is normally a mine of information.
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Love it.....
The Planning officer who dealt with the application to build the mosque was called Oliver Christian.
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You're right, J. I looked at the bomb map I linked to again, but enlarged it by clicking under the picture this time. It too suggests open space.
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Thanks to Hob, this 1930 picture suggests the empty plot theory rather than the bombsite one is correct:
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I can vaguely recall that area being demolished approx 1969/70.. I can't remember what was there tho' - it was just a little outside my 'area of major interest' and I didn't register all the changes in my head.
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