Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Who lived in your house in 1935?
When we first moved into our house, we found a Kelly's post office directory from 1935 in the attic which I unearthed again today. It lists all the addresses in the then Hornsey borough and who was the head of household.
Our house was occupied by Arthur Jackson for instance. What is also fascinating is that there was a synagogue on Wightman Road (the current church opposite the mosque) and a lot of residents with German or jewish names living on the ladder (remember, this was 1935).
The unfortunate resident of 26 Priory Gardens N6 was one Mrs Hitler, who I'm sure changed her name by 1939.
If you want to know who lived in your house or anyother address in 1935, just let me know.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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That's interesting - not perhaps the notoriety we need for the area - but interesting.
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Permalink Reply by aidan on
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Yes -- I read this recently too, in the Hornsey Gazette I think, but just googled and got this
Paddy Hitler, 26 Priory Gardens, N6 - The Times
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Good find. Thanks for that. Have added the ref to the Wikipedia article on Highgate.
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Permalink Reply by Lydia R on
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This is a quotation from the Times Online-Dec 15th 2007.
As it happens, for many years some of Hitler's closest relations were living in Britain. Keen to make a name in the safety-razor trade, his half-brother, Alois, moved to Liverpool. He set up home with Brigid, his Irish wife, in Toxteth. It was there, in 1911, that their son, William Patrick Hitler, was born. Sadly, Alois, who apparently had a bit of a temper, deserted his family. Returning to Germany, he married bigamously and while his sibling was ordering Europe around, Alois was running a tearoom in Berlin.
Between 1930 and 1939, home for Brigid and her son Pat was 26 Priory Gardens, Highgate. Those who knew “the Hitlers at No 26” spoke well of them. Even as Europe's skies darkened in 1938, the Führer's sister-in-law was cheerfully assuring The Daily Express: “Nowadays it's a bit embarrassing to be Mrs Hitler, but the people who know me don't mind, and the others don't matter.”
As late as 1972, The Times could confirm: “The Hitlers were good and friendly neighbours, according to people who still remember them in Highgate.” By then though, they had long since departed North London. Mrs H pre-empted a court summons for non-payment of rent set for the day that her brother-in-law invaded Poland by emigrating to New York. From there, she helped out with the British War Relief Society.
Pat Hitler also arrived in the United States, denounced “My Uncle Adolf” and served in the US Navy. But he had previously hoped to cash in on the Führer's fame in Germany rather than notoriety abroad. Moving to the Reich in 1933 and becoming a car salesman, he repeatedly approached his uncle hoping for preferment. When he was rebuffed and told to renounce his British nationality, he threatened to allege to the press that the family had Jewish antecedents. Soon persuaded that this would be unwise, he packed his bags and departed Germany.
After the war, the Hitlers settled in Long Island and opted for anonymity under an assumed name. Brigid died in 1969 and Pat in 1987, leaving behind his German-born wife and three children, Alex, Louis and Brian. None of these sons became fathers.
Only two mysteries remain. What possessed Pat Hitler to have his son Alex christened in 1949 with the middle name Adolf? And, given the Führer's admiration for the racial theorist, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, was it not unfortunate that the family adopted as its new surname Stuart-Houston?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I am blown away by your research!
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Permalink Reply by Flower on
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Michael, could you let me know who lived at 58, 60 and 62 Beresford please?
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58 - Mrs E Townsend
60 - William Thomas Keats
62 - Mrs Warne
Down at the Green Lanes end, Frances William Lawrence looked after your fruit and veg needs at 138
You also had Mrs Parrot, Miss Sparrow, Mr Hooten and Mrs Peacock, living nearby. A vertitable aviary!
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Was the Mrs Parrot by any chance a school teacher?
There was a Mrs Parrott at Woodlands Park Primary School in the late 1950s early 1960s..
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Many thanks Michael. I certainly remember Mr Keats in later years when we helped him get pears down from his tree!
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The rather wonderfully named Theophilus Haygreen. At the other end of the road (no 93a) was The Cleaning Waste Supply Company - rag merchants. Obvious a very up market area in the 30's!
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Permalink Reply by John Shulver on
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Oh Michael, now you're talking. Stanley Road : Dad's schoolmate lived at 43/49 (name of Wakeling), Dad's mum and kids lived 12C (horrible old tenement type block, 3 blocks, 4 flats each) and No.11 opposite, our old Aunty Ann along with others there. Dad and family moved from Elizabeth Road at some time.
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