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I'd also think that Topic Records might be included as behind the rather grubby exterior is a very rich history (and well-used recording studio) of the english folk movement
Someone mentioned the Coach House at 92 Stapleton Hall Road. It used to be a stables. Apparently there were loads of stables in the area for the horses that pulled people's carriages. It was a car repair shop when I moved next door 14 years ago and in its original form. It's now been extended on 3 sides with slightly dubious architecture but it's still a lovely hidden house. I know the people that live there well.
An ancient cast iron sign at pavement height on the wall outside no. 3 SHR marking the border of Haringey.
The decorative end-of-terrace brickwork above the Mind Shop overlooking SHR with 1887 date.
The bell at Stroud Green School - in fact Stroud Green School itself.
[ Bob Hoskins hated it there and can't be tempted back btw.]
The flat on Sparsholt road -above garage & opposite Noble - where Pepsi & Shirley lived when they were in Wham!
The Jai Krishna
The terrace on SGR for mansion flats above the new Sainsburys where a Magic Lantern show was given and projected on to buildings opposite to celebrate the end of the Boer War.
btw. Japan House in J.Cres. is very nice inside, it's our friends house, but you do have to put up with trains at bottom of garden.
All the various stables mentioned at 92 and on Ossian were in fact workshops making doors, windows, staircases etc. for builders of the exploitative Victorian housing that flooded SG in the late 1800's. [ the boss of whom had Ivy Lodge in Lancaster Rd. built for himself] There was another workshop in the corner of Beatrice Rd. that was Supertune for years -much to the annoyance of Lord Toby Harris - and is now exploitative housing!
Actually - I'm going to put it on foursquare and be mayor of it.
I knew the owner of Supertune he serviced our Rover 100 for years and it was his research over years that exposed the 'stable myth' after Haringey tried to prevent an extractor outlet being attached to the workshop exterior. [egged on by near neighbour Lord Harris no doubt ] There were stables near Stapleton Tavern as it was a livery stop.
The hidden entrance to parkland walk on Florence.
The high-security house on SHR. (who lives there?)
'..The 92 SHR plot could have been subdivided just as easily as any other..' Well there was always a gap between the houses there and clearly it wasn't a bomb site as on Quernmore etc. I think the land to the rear of houses at that section of SHR quickly falls away to railway banking. A friend lives just along from 92 and their huge garden looks down on the railway where as the rear of 92 is a lot closer. The railway co. may have had some influence at the time on how close you could build?
There were certainly templates for house design a,b or c etc. that builder/developers used - I think workshops evolving to serve more than one co. makes sense. e.g Beatrice road workshop was quite small and would have served building there and in Dagmar Road etc. but couldn't have served right over to SHR I doubt. Research not easily recoverable - The aformentioned garage owner retired some time ago but his permission to sell Supertune plot with planning for houses hinged on overturning the stable myth and his architecht came up with with several sites of non-stables ie.workshops, in the area to support his case.
Is the Upper East Side from Crouch Hill to Ferme Park or Ferme Park to railway? Can't see the similarity in those houses - I'll need to walk up and look- but on Mountview they are quite different to first houses on SHR by Crouch Hill which don't have full cellars or a lower ground floor with exterior access or steps up to front door. We have two sets of friends with houses on Mountview and they are big places - also at various bits of SHR which are still big but narrower.