Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Odd Thing I just noticed on a 19th Century map of the area
The land now occupied by the Civic Centre was through the last half of the nineteenth century (and perhaps earlier) occupied by the Fishmongers' Asylum!
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Victorian London - Charities - Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to the London Charities, edited by John Lane, 1917
Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Institution and Asylum.; 1835; Leadenhall Market. Asylum at Wood Green, N.; To maintain 12 married couples in the asylum at Wood Green; to relieve by pensions of £20 a year 28 poor and aged members; and by occasional grants to other distressed members.
Link; scroll down in 'notes' to 'F' for above quote.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Is the pub there still called the the Fishmonger's Arms?
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Permalink Reply by Colin Marr on
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There were ‘alms houses’ on the site where the Civic Centre now is – they were demolished in 1958 to clear the site for the new Centre. I know because I was doing my A level GCE exams at the time in the school at the back of the Civic Centre (the school then being Trinity Grammar School) and the demolition work was a mighty distraction!
The pub on the corner of Trinity Road was the Fishmonger’s Arms, but I am not sure if there was a ‘fishmonger’ association with the alms houses. At the back of the Fishmongers pub there was a function room, the ‘Bourne Hall’, recently demolished to make way for housing. This was the venue for the Wood Green Jazz Club, which boomed in the late 1950s at the height of the traditional jazz revival era. It features in a film called “Momma don’t allow”, made by Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz – this is now recognised as an important film in the development of British cinema. You can see a clip from it on this link:
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/momma_dont_allow.html
Incidentally, there have been various attempts to get the Wood Green Civic Centre listed, but English Heritage have turned it down on the basis that there are other and better examples of 20th Century buildings of the this type. So, it’s doomed!
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Sorry, I made my last post without reading earlier responses. I wasn't aware of the "Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Institution and Asylum" from 1835. So, indeed is was!
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