Photo from the lost past

Arkady

<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/141557883477?item=141557883477&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466&rmvSB=true</span></font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">This picture appears to have been taken at 118 Stroud Green Road, which I believe stood where Charter Court is now.</span></font></div>

Sutent

They don't look very happy in the photo..

krappyrubsnif

I have a Lee of Stroud Green card of my own on my mantelpiece.....it's of my great great-ancestor, Walter Wilkinson.  There was a photographer's studio in the (now disappeared) house at 118 Stroud Green Road.  The photo I have wasn't taken in the studio, but in a cemetery somewhere, some time after 1889 (I can tell from the tombstones).<div><br></div><div>It is quite spooky to imagine my great great grandfather trundling up the Stroud Green Road o an open-tup horse drawn bus 120 years ago to see the photographer. (I don't have any particular family connections here - he came from Enfield, Walthamstow, or the City of London).<div><br></div><div>These were kind of Victorian calling cards, there's a name for them.   There are sites on the Internet where you can do the research, and Lee's comes up at that address.<span style="font-size: 10pt;">    Look it up.</span></div></div>

krappyrubsnif

<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UMB5CQw9b6g/VMqgJf_mNqI/AAAAAAAABNw/2BJ9sc8SdeA/s1600/unidentified+laying+flowers+copy.jpg"><div>Here we go.    I've blogged at <a href="http://krappyrubsnif.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/heres-strange-link-between-my-familys.html">http://krappyrubsnif.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/heres-strange-link-between-my-familys.html</a></div>;

Arkady

While we're on the subject of old photos, this great one of the Finsbury Park Empire just popped up - I don't think I've seen thsi one before.<div><br></div><div><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8bO3RWCUAAb9AY.jpg"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now, of course, the hideous tower block opposite Finsbury Park Mosque.</div>

Arkady

<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Compare with Google Street View:</span><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">https://goo.gl/maps/CXeYi</span></div>;

Arkady

Hadn't seen this one before. These are the never-finished platforms that were meant to carry the Northern Heights line (now the Parkland Walk) platforms, which were meant to be intended to be part of the Northern Line. Hitler got in the way. The Northern Heights had until that time used some of the existing station platforms (I'm a little hazy on the details).<div><br></div><div>Eventually demolished to create the current Station Place concourse. You can make out the Silver Bullet on the left.<br><div><br></div><div><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-HBKgeIcAAMzPg.jpg"><br></div></div>

Sutent

@Thanks Arkady. What an amazing picture...