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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Green Lanes & Williamson's Potteries, c1895

Looking north towards Harringay Park Station (Harringay Green Lanes Station).

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Tags (All lower case. Use " " for multiple word tags): potteries
Albums: Historical Images of Harringay from 1885 - 1918 | 2 of 3 (F)

Comment by Alison P on October 21, 2018 at 12:30

Great photo. I heard someone on the radio a few days talking about their family's involvement with pottery over the decades, and she mentioned that the word pothole derives from potters sneaking out to dig up clay patches exposed on the road. From a quick look I can't see much online to support this but I liked it as a theory. So Green Lanes' potholes perhaps are part of our heritage ...

Comment by Richard Woods on October 26, 2018 at 13:09

Great stuff - as an enthusiastic but unskilled collector of pots of all sorts I am humbled to find that  until now I did not know I had lived so close to a one!

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