Old Maps

helen

fascinating. you can also see all the housing that was in place on woodstock and ennis road before they realised they needed a school, knocked the houses down and put Stroud Green Primary there. All the playground drainage problems are as a result of the old house foundations the school was built on.

Arkady

Is that so! Fascinating.<div>One thing I hadn't noticed before is how Sparsholt Road used to connect to Grenville Road before a particularly inept bit of post-war planning.</div>

Papa

That's a wonderfully detailed map. <div><br></div><div>Shows that the Hopsmiths / Noble was once a Post Office.</div><div><br></div><div>Would love to have seen what some of those big houses up the top of Crouch Hill / Ferme Park Road looked like Womersley House, Holland House, Crouch Hill House.</div><div><br></div><div>Also looked like the Holly Park estate had some big houses too.</div><div><br></div>

NorthNineteen

@Arkady<;br><br>At least the post-war planning joined up Ormond Road and Hanley Road.<br><br>I love the transition of what is now Tesco from School to Dairy!<br><br>I'm too fascinated by the houses on Holly Park, such a constrast with what is there now, the big houses are still there in the 1950s map!<br><br>Btw, I treated myself to a book of all the Blitz Damage maps, would anyone be interested in seeing maps of Stroud Green? Not sure of the best place to host a high resolution image?<br>

Arkady

@NorthNineteen - yeah, it rather looks like someone screwed up the end of Osborne Road way back then! The empty plot is in the wrong place.<div><br></div><div>I don't think there are any extant pictures of any of those old houses (except for Wormsley). I'd especially like to have seen what Holly Park looked like.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to see those bomb damage pictures. Photobucket's not bad for hosting.</div>

miss annie

That Bomb Damage Maps book is excellent (even better with 50% staff discount!).

gardener-joe

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