Grand Stroud Green Photo Quiz

Four Eyes

I like this Guess Where SG thread. Like Guess Where London on Flickr. I must have a few I can dig out...

krappyrubsnif

Picture 005

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Part of a surviving painted wall ad from the 1930s or 40s, I'd guess. Where is it, what is it selling, what was the name of the company .... and, blimey, who were they appointed to?

krappyrubsnif

Oooh - and what was the full Latin derivation of this famous brand?

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Arkady

On Hanley Road facing the crossroads, behind the Old Dairy.

Arkady

My grandmother, shortly before her death, suggested to me that my generation would be the last to see those old painted signs. To refurbish them would be a bit fake, somehow. Somewhat melancholic.

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krappyrubsnif

J T TURNER
BAKER & CONFECTIONER
SHOPS & SCHOOLS SUPPLIED
HOVIS
BREAD
SUPPLIED TO HM THE KING

Overpainted at least once. I wonder if the loaves were sold in the Dairy, or the shop next door?

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Apparently there are loads of 'ghost signs' in N4.....Blackstock Road....Mount Pleasant Crescent...Quernmore Road...Fonthill Road...Rock Street....

These are too easy. Harder next time.

Rebecca B

Ooh brilliant, this thread is great. I only got the fingers one, so learning a lot! I can't be that observant!

krappyrubsnif

@Four Eyes - bring it on!

Picture 006

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Where?

andy

I thought these were supposed to be getting harder.

Arkady

Yes, too easy!

WillM

Wells Terrace bus stop?

Don't know what's worse - how long it took, or that I'm not 100% certain...

krappyrubsnif

Hmmm...........

WillM

Hmmm?

krappyrubsnif

Yes, they're indeed the lights at the Wells Terrace bus station. Well done all!

My musing is because I am thinking I'm going to have to make this a *lot* harder to catch any of you out. There are obviously a lot of people on this board who are either (a) extremely observant and knowledgeable (b) have a lot of time on their hands or (c) have a lot of time on their hands and are pretty smart with manipulating Google Streetview.

Next up.......wait and see.

krappyrubsnif

Picture 007

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Right, smartarses of Stroud Green. Identify this brick and explain its historical significance.

Arkady

Fook, that's a tough one. Shoddy red-brick infill in an otherwise yellow london-stock brick wall after WWII bomb-damage?

krappyrubsnif

Quite definitely not the case with this particular brick. Further clues will follow if Stroud Green's finest can't get it yet.

missisclack

Your house, you were born there...yeah, I'm sure it's not, I just wanted to join in.

krappyrubsnif

No. This brick is part of a bit of decorative brickwork that has associations with the entertainment industry.

dorothy

Is it on the the wall of 91 Lancaster Road? Not sure about the entertainment industry link. Was it a film set?

krappyrubsnif

What on earth is 91 Lancaster Road? I think we should be told. Not a film set, but getting warm.

andy

Is this the old Decca Studio? Or something to do with Dave Stewart?

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norn iron

Something to do with the old cinema in Stroud Green Road? - now the John Jones building site - used to be 'Peter Phillips' clothing factory. Was apparently called the Scala and opened in 1914. Yes?

krappyrubsnif

@norn iron - warm! But not quite. Here's a bit more of the bricks.

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It's not so much the brickwork as what it overlooks, really. A significant event in British cultural history took place here. It was also a big year for the Queen Mother, Charlton Heston, Hitler and King Tut.

ShaunG

So that'll be 1923 but I'm no nearer.

Arkady

I think I know that brickwork - it's on the shop next to Lidl. Now didn't Lidl used to be this: <http://www.englishheritageimages.com/image/finsbury_park_cinema_1923_bl26835_4050961.jpg>; ...a picture taken, as it happens, in 1923

krappyrubsnif

Correct! 269 Seven Sisters Road, opened in 1909 as Pyke's Cinematograph Theatre then rebuilt as the entrance foyer of the Rink Cinema (now Rowan's). On 14th June 1923 it was the first cinema in Britain to give a demonstration of the talkies - the De Forest Phonofilms 'sound on film' system, which later became Fox 'Movietone'. Now a Lidl.

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In 1915

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In 1923

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In 1923

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In 1960s

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