Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Harringay house colour
What's with all the burgundy coloured houses is Harringay? There must be a reason...Are they council owned?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Just shows how tastes vary - I hate the fake Cotswold facade but I like the burgundy paint jobs
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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There' actually something Stan Ogden I like about the stone clad one.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Bailey on
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Ahh yes - a time machine. Fitting a flux capacitor to the car this afternoon and will then go for a test drive to see if it can reach the required 88mph - should probably use the Gardens as they apparently have a speedway I can use!
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You live in the Gardens too? It's terrible isn't it, I'm amazed a child hasn't been knocked down. It's unbelievably reckless!
Good luck with the flux capacitor!
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It's the same colour as the brick beneath.
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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That's true actually Anne - if you go to any of the local hardware/DIY shops to get doorstep paint (for example) then you're unlikely to get a choice of more than red and black. You can get more choice online and at bigger shops, of course, but 10 or 15 years ago there wasn't that choice and a lot of people probably don't repaint the whole house that often.
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This sounds reasonable but why Harringay? I haven't noticed this colour in other boroughs...
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Permalink Reply by linka on
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John C Hill & the London Brick Co (the red 'fletton' stuff):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Brick_Company
He reportedly built the Gardens as well as Grand Parade.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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He did indeed. See my Wikipedia article about him (written after correspondence with his descendants - but you cant cite that on Wikipedia without running into the self-appointed wiki-police - and believe me, that just ain't worth the trouble!).
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My house is still the original unpainted brick and I'm not sure it's that different from any other house of it's period in London. It certainly isn't uniformly red brick.
I'm imagining some kind of Harringay Del boy character selling cheap red paint door to door.
Or maybe the houses that were originally painted were at one time council owned and they had a job lot of cheap red paint?
Maybe people just copied their neighbours?
Does anyone have a history of when the houses were first painted?
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London houses in the late 19th Century tended to be built with one of two colours - red stock and yellow stock. Often red was used for the front and yellow for the back.
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Our house has the familiar burgundy paint on the front, but we can do little about it until we gear up for a full-blown brick 'n' render restoration project (repainting is not an option, for various reasons).
It seems to have been painted by the old guy who owned the house between the '50s and the 90s. It was recently repainted by the cheapskate landlord from whom we bought it, who didn't want to go to the trouble of restoring some badly-eroded bricks or of changing the colour. The house next door is council-owned, but has not been painted. So I suspect (from our limited sample!) that the pattern of council-ownership and burgundy paint doesn't match up.
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