Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Eight Things I noticed on a Walk from the Bottom of Muswell Hill
1. The gates to the original entrance to Ally Pally. The existing road up from the bottom of Muswell Hill used to be the tramway. These gates opened on the the main road up the hill.
2. The Priory - a large late Victorian villa on Priory Road built in extensive grounds near the site of its rather grander regency-gothic forebear. Now used for sheltered housing.
3. A rather attractive terrace of Arts and Crafts houses on part of Priory Road set back from the main road.
4. A remnant of the old common land along Priory Road.
5. A lovely house that's seen better days but still oozes character. It's on what used to be called East Drive, set back from Priory Road. It looks uninhabited, but apparently is lived in by a long-term resident who is fiercely independent.
6. The former public toilets at the edge of Priory park. Whilst I was living nearby it was closed down as a public facility and for a while it stood empty. It then became the first ex-public toilet in the borough to be converted for re-use. Some years later it had a first floor added. I see that it's just grown a second floor too.
7. A strangely small and oddly isolated benchlet in the small park to the north of Hornsey High Street.
8. A new entrance and stairway up to the railway line just to the east of the Great Northern railway bridge on Turnpike Lane.
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Permalink Reply by Harringay Birder on
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Fascinating stuff Hugh - particularly the "benchlet".
Strangely I had never realised there was a footpath along the New River from Wightman Road until I stumbled upon it yesterday!
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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Great pictures and stories, thank you for sharing Hugh. I particularly like the Ally Pally gates.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Photo No.5: Muswell Hill estate agents will have their fastest ambulance chasers and hearse hunters in 24/7 practice for this one.
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You must be a flaneur, not unlike myself Hugh. Photo 5 - I knew someone well that lived in squalor in a 'mansion' seven minutes walk from CE Broadway, probably in much the same circumstances, sadly died about a year ago.
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Lovely. More 'flaneuring' please Hugh.
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No. 8 sounds very useful and interesting but I can't picture where it is. Where does the " new entrance and stairway up to the railway line" - go?
Answers on a postcard please.
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Thanks. Where does it lead?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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It's a keycode entry turnstile. So I guess it's a workers' entrance leading up to the various railway buildings up hat way. They recently built a huge new building just north of the bridge. It's probably an access for that.
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Oh, ok. I thought you meant it was a public entrance - secret new access to ally Pally station or some such. Thanks for all the info and the photos. x
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