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Green Lanes at Clissold Park, Circa 1905

I'm having trouble pinpointing where this photo was taken circa 1905.

The title says 'Clissold Park', so I'm assuming its south of Seven Sisters. It's taken on an incline steep enough for the railing support wall on the right to be stepped. There's a turning on the left and a tram line running along the road. Looking at Google Streetview and an 1893 OS map, the only place that seems to fit id the corner of Green Lanes and Seven Sisters, but then if you look at the photos of that spot here from around the same time, it doesn't match.

For all it doesn't fit, I thought initially that the railings might be the ones opposite the Climbing Tower, but they're not stepped.

I'm probably missing the obvious. Any ideas anyone?

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Comment by linka on April 16, 2016 at 13:35

A little further on than the viewpoint in this shot on Google Maps - that left turn must be Riversdale Rod The buildings on the left have gone...

https://goo.gl/maps/vJ9o78JEDjr

Comment by Hugh on April 16, 2016 at 13:57

That's looks like it. Well done you! Thank you.

Comment by linka on April 17, 2016 at 0:00

Repeated cycling ingrains the lay of the land in the brain!

Comment by StephenBln on April 17, 2016 at 8:19
Comment by Hugh on April 17, 2016 at 12:25

Good link. Thanks Stephen.

Comment by Richard Woods on April 22, 2016 at 15:42

Good stuff - but it must be after July 1947 cos this petrol head knows the Standard Vanguard behind the tram was introduced that month.

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