Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

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The Day the Music Died - Harringay Crown Post Office Closes after 83 Years - what it Replaced in 1936 A post office in a stationers? Disgraceful.....and just like it was a hundred years ago. With the crown post office at 509 Green Lanes clos… Started by Hugh	6	Apr 21, 2019 Reply by Mags D
Wood Green or Woodgreen? According to Colonel Sir Henry James, Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey in the 1860s, Woodgreen/Wood Green in Tottenham (as it hen was)… Started by Hugh	1	Apr 19, 2019 Reply by Lydia Walter
Boy Scout's Rally - Alexandra Palace 1922 Seen on another site. Palace Gates Station: "There was not a lateness amounting in the aggregate to two minutes in the trains - 17 Specials… Started by StephenBln	2	Apr 13, 2019 Reply by Richard Matz
Cor Blimey, Ally Pally's on fire! The British Movietone video is embedded below. Started by EMC2	2	Apr 5, 2019 Reply by Renato B
Lost Pubs and The Bricklayers Arms, Edith Road (behind the Springfield Tavern) Local historian, Albert Pinching (doffs cap ), briefly mentions this pub on the estate behind The Springfield Tavern so your 'umble ob… Started by Richard Matz	7	Apr 1, 2019 Reply by Richard Matz
When Baldwin's Edwardian Predecessor Sold a Motor (1913) I'm not sure that the current proprietors of 469 Green Lanes would welcome the fact that their butcher's shop started off life as a funeral… Started by Hugh	3	Mar 30, 2019 Reply by Richard Woods
Harringay Great Train Robber Acquitted Coventry Evening Telegraph - 01 April 1964 Coventry Evening Telegraph - 14 July 1964 More on the detail of the charges: Birmingham Daily… Started by Hugh	0	Mar 30, 2019
All that's Left of James Sydney Beale of Harringay I came across the above image labelled First World War Death Plaque, James Sydney Beale, Harringay. I thought how awful for a family to b… Started by Hugh	4	Mar 26, 2019 Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton
Boundary Stone: Warwick Gardens > St Ann's Hospital 60 years after - 2018 & 1958 When I was last in London at the end of September, beginning of October. I tried once again to find the boundary stone which was once part… Started by StephenBln	3	Mar 25, 2019 Reply by Hugh
Finsbury Park Astoria, Movie Night 1930 Image Finsbury Park Astoria Started by John D	4	Mar 25, 2019 Reply by Hugh