SGR Quiz

tomp

On here..

I'll start

Q. What is the significance of the time 5.41 ?
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TollingtonTom

It's the time in minutes and seconds EXACTLY it takes Vitor to backcomb a beehive hairdo.

Donna

It was the time that Stroud green road was bombed in the blitz

krappyrubsnif

It's Stroud Green Time on one of the clocks....either above Davies & Davies or on the house on the back way to the tube.

Four Eyes

I'll second krappy. It's the time it's been permanently on the clock above D&D for years.

graeme

The average time in seconds since the offending post that it takes Tosscat to do a corrective "yawn" hyperlink.

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4039/ericayawn200305211.jpg

tosscat

[yawn](http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4039/ericayawn200305211.jpg )

poxy

<iframe width="562" height="314" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=stroud+green+road&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stroud+Green+Rd,+Greater+London+N4+3,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.568601,-0.110716&panoid=_JLlT_ULSVYioUsLq7kAtg&cbp=13,156.05,,3,-9.34&ll=51.561291,-0.106602&spn=0.016755,0.048237&z=14&source=embed&output=svembed"></iframe><br />Except it's not 5:41; it's <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=stroud+green+road&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stroud+Green+Rd,+Greater+London+N4+3,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.568601,-0.110716&panoid=_JLlT_ULSVYioUsLq7kAtg&cbp=13,156.05,,3,-9.34&ll=51.561291,-0.106602&spn=0.016755,0.048237&z=14&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">8:20</a>

Well, it was when the googlemobile went past .

ShaunG

maybe the little one in Charteris Rd? (can't find it on streetview)

Ian

The little clock on the outside of the house on Charteris Road [has gone](http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=tollington+park&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=tollington+park&hnear=Islington&cid=0,0,14050821943309969843&ll=51.567985,-0.110924&spn=0.003748,0.011362&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.567985,-0.110924&panoid=xi2F8yrZFZVf51gfNgtUrQ&cbp=12,290.22,,0,-6.81). It has been a victim of the council house refurbishment. I meant to bring everyone's attention to this outrage. I know it only told the right time on one side; but it was there, constantly incorrect, willing me to work and bidding me a safe journey home.

taff bach

Ian, don't dis the clock. It was, for years, absolutely correct twice a day.

tomp

Correctamundo @KRS

@poxy- maybe was 8.20 in 2008/9 or whenever google did streetview, but now its 5.41

krappyrubsnif

Q. What was in the corner room of the Old Dairy before it became a pub?

theolddairy

a cow?

Ali

Be more precise which on do you define as the corner room ?

krappyrubsnif

It's on a bloody great corner. Next to the traffic lights.

andy

Was it a Dairy?

Ali

Penny has dropped you mean the corner as view from outside the pub ! Thought you might have been standing inside ! It was original the Dairy shop but it’s last occupant was the Hardware shop with the large Cypriot guy and the guy with the funny hat that moved it to near to the K Bar when the pub opened. It went bust a couple of years ago and the Iranian guy who seems to have just shut down bought up his old stock. Spent a many happy hour browsing the man with the hat shop. Can’t remember the name but think it began with a C

Ali

Does anyone know what stood in the space that is Tescos before that block was redeveloped ? I have no idea

Arkady

ADGS and I saw some heartbreaking pictures of the pre-Luftwaffe buildings. Similar style to the rest of SGR, and curiously following the same profile as the current ugly building that Tesco partly occupies.

Thomas

@Arkady - where did you see those pictures? Always interested to see what the area used to look like. You can make out the bomb damage when you look at the Luftwaffe aerial photos of the area.

Four Eyes

Venture to the back of the White Lion if you dare for Olde Worlde pictures of Stroude Greene.

Ali

It is perfectly respectable the back of WLM on a Friday night. You will find students, a card school and what is left of the LibDem party (ie Councilors and hanger ons) ready the Daily Telegraph.

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ADGS

Thomas - we saw the pictures at a local history talk in Stroud Green Library a few months back, though I don't recall the historian's name.

I've always found the back of the WLM to be the quietest bit, simply because it used to be the non-smoking area and, even all this time later, a lot of the regulars still have their same tables in what was the smoking area. The only problem is when that bloody lacrosse team come in.

Ali

Didn’t realise that he was a casualty of the last council elections shame as he is quite clever but still has his hat in the ring in Bounds Green and as a parliamentary candidate in Kilmarnock

ShaunG

As of last night (9:30ish) the D&D clock seemed to be on the right time. Has someone fixed it?

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Ali

Four Eyes Had a look in WLM at the Stroud Green Rd photos. They don’t seem to cover the Tesco’s part of the Road but are more taken from outside the Stapleton looking down the SG Road or from the corner of Perth Road looking up ?

Billy Bookcase

local bomb damage in Regina Rd is seen briefly towards the end of this short clip.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=13244

twinspark

Didn't Busby, post pics of SGR Tesco's site on here some time back?

The hardware shop in the Old Dairy was owned by Chryssos and the man in hat was Michael who had worked there since leaving school.
Chryssos had a disabled son who required 24/7 attention and I think they moved back to Cyprus. Michael used to run a Stroud Green under 12's football team and was a really nice fella. [ not a great businessman though]

Who knows was on WLM site before the pub?

What is the connection between the Sainsbury's site and the Boer War?