History of Stroud Green's streets

NorthNineteen

<font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Lots of very interesting information on the below links.  The author is going through every square on an ordanance survey map of London researching local history. Pretty amazing project.</font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">http://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/gospel-oak-to-barking-railway-crouch.html</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">http://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/gospel-oak-to-barking-railway-finsbury.html</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">Well worth a read.</font></div>

gardener-joe

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Ali

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Ali

I did see a suggestion that the FP Tank could become a great space for an Art Gallery.<br>

Ali

soem interesting background on the park here<br><br>http://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/finsbury-park-history-of-community.html<br><br><br>;

gardener-joe

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conformable_kate

gardener-joe: my thought exactly!

gardener-joe

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Ali

Great pictures.  The one  up at Mountview muct look the similar <br>

Mirandola

Thank you for this. V. interesting.

Marquis

Yes indeed, thank you very much!

Donna

Best line (about Parkland Walk): <span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 243, 219);">After the line closed it was used by a white-robed Goat Man, who herded his goats along the line.</span><br style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 243, 219);">

Jonathan

My highlight was: "a semi-circular hollow on the site of an earlier bandstand which had been destroyed by an elephant."

Arkady

Wonderful stuff - thanks Ali. I had no idea those were under there.

Abs

Wow

conformable_kate

It isn't SG, of course, but the Gentle Author who blogs about Spitalfields has just put up a piece about the defence of an old street of weavers' cottages in 1977 and how the same company is after it now - with lots of pictures including one of me being young and dedicated to conservation on the steps of one of the houses! (I was one of about five people living in Spitalfields at the time, at least that was how it felt.) Depressing though that these things have to be fought again and again.<div><br></div><div>No goats or elephants. A pity.</div>

miss annie

I got a mention on the Gentle Author's 'Birds of Spitalfields' post. One of my proudest recent moments

Arkady

Another image of the Finsbury Park reservoir in this book: http://londonist.com/2014/09/subterranean-london-exposed-in-new-book.php?showpage=4#gallery-1<div><br></div><div> <img src="http://londonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Finsbury-Park-627x500.png" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;"></div>

krappyrubsnif

Is this under the scruffy bit of grass where my dog poos?