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Traffic Control Experiment Harringay, 1963

2016-06-05T13:29:16.554Z

In 1963 Harringay was the site for a pioneering new approach to traffic control.

Transport Minister Ernest Marples visits Harringay to launch the pedestrian crossing experiment.

See this photo for more links on what was going on.

Many thanks to Rodney for pointing this video out to me.

This video was originally published on HoL in 2010, but I have republished due to racist comments being on the original YouTube posting. I have pasted the other original comments to the video below.

Jim Dale's 1950's Rock'n'Roll Ode to the Piccadilly Line

2011-06-25T11:40:34.828Z

Southgate in Colour in 1951 (and the Harringay connection)

2011-06-17T15:28:08.738Z

I couldn't quite resist the charms of this old film even though it's a bit of a ways off for us. It paints a very cosy picture of a relatively nearby area just 60 years ago and the scenes it shows probably give a good idea of around here some fifty years before that.

And I can almost be excused since there is a local connection. As luck has it, the building you see in the picture in the video thumbnail is the Friends Meeting House in Winchmore Hill. It was here where the parents of Edward Gray, the builder of Harringay House, are buried. (Though no grave marker remains). (Shows at about 21 mins).

Gray's brother, Walker Gray, owned a property in the area called Southgate Grove (also called Grovelands). (Shows at about 20 mins). Built by the same family and at about the same time as Harringay House, I fancy this house gives us some sense of what Harringay House looked like. It subsequently passed by marriage into the Taylor brewing family.

And the final part of my excuse is Arnos Park which belonged to the Walker family, Quaker brewers and cousins of the Gray family. (Shows at 9.30 mins).

The Taylors and the Walkers together formed Taylor-Walker brewers.

So there is a local connection after all you see. I do have an excuse!

Thanks here to Angela Burge with whom I collaborated virtually to build up the Gray family tree.

Music that launched every stock car event at Harringay Stadium

2011-03-02T11:21:55.638Z

March Of The Mods - Joe Loss Orchestra - 1964

Three Graces - Ford at Harringay Arena

2010-12-11T14:17:30.515Z

Shot at Harringay Arena in 1957, this short promotional film was made to announce the launch of the new Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac.