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 parlour. 

From London North Mercury and Crouch End Observer, Dec 2, 1899
(Sadly I can find no picture of the shop itself)

The business was run by Charles Crossley who appears to have set up business on Green Lanes in 1898. As was often the case those days, he lived above the shop with his family. By 1911, the household included Charles, his wife, two daughters (aged 9 and 10), a 24 year old cousin and a young servant. It seems that life was good. Two years later, on March 15 1913, the following advert appeared in the London Evening News.

This is what was being sold. One wonders if it was used in connection with his business (in which case it certainly wouldn't have been bright red!), or whether he had the means to run it for pleasure.