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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Looking for something quite different recently, I came across this interesting map showing what our roads were made of 120 years ago.

Bartholomew's road surface map of London and neighbourhood, John Bartholomew & Co, 1906.

There were four road surface types in our neighbourhood:

  • Creosoted deal wood (fir or pine) blocks (coloured yellow on the map)
  • Macadam (pink)
  • Cobblestone (blue)
  • unsurfaced (white).

The roads fringed in red were "Recommended approaches and main routes". 

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