Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Manor House Crossroads c1905

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Comment by andy h on January 18, 2020 at 13:30: Great photo. I really like the dapper chap " leaning on the lamppost " pale/grey suit and what look like white! Shoes. He looks casually confident.

I wonder what the close conversation was about? He obviously has a bob or two . Illicit Laudanum or cocaine deal? Although I think it was legal all back then.

How intriguing. Maybe he's just meeting 'a man about a dog'

Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on March 23, 2021 at 14:14: This is such a superb image. I've just bought a copy of this.

Looking with care I note the bearded policeman on duty outside park gate.

Three men relaxing.

The man second from the left may be holding a pole to reconnect the tram if the pole comes detached from the conductor line.

Horse-drawn delivery, ‘Batey’ a manufacturer of soft drinks.

On the side of the ‘bus, ‘Lena Ashwell The Shulamite’ (From Wiki: “… In 1906, Ashwell starred in The Shulamite, a melodrama about a South African woman in an unhappy marriage who falls in love with a visiting Englishman. The show ran for 45 performances at the Savoy Theatre between 12 May and 26 June 1906…”)

Intriguing, there is possibly a Robey or Sentinel steam wagon with a trailer fully loaded.

Comment by Hugh on March 24, 2021 at 9:07: Thanks you for that photographic analysis, Roy.

My focus is always on the built environment and I often miss the sort of details that you've painstakingly observed.

It does look like a steam wagon outside the Manor House Tavern - clearly rules of the road were much less important in those days since he's facing the wrong way!

Comment by Roy aka Smiffy on March 24, 2021 at 12:29: Looking at several images of Manor Gate, I wonder if that wooden hut between the park gateposts is an early police post? It seems that before the introduction in the 20’s of a standard blue box there were varied styles of wooden huts.

Later, next to the public toilets I remember the familiar blue box Police Call Box and pole with ‘our’ air-raid siren on top.

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