Grand Stroud Green Photo Quiz
  • Detritus

    temper temper the old dairy

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    NO ! ! !  

  • Misscara

    The Park Tavern?

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    Ooooh Misscara you do have beady eyes.    I think it's gone now.

  • Misscara

    I do think I remember it, but having said that it's a painting of a park so it had to be the Park Tavern didn't it?

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    Misscara, I thought you were more familiar with the insides of pubs than the outsides.

    Rather a sweet, 1950-ish painting I thought.

    Anyone else have a picture?


  • Misscara

    Pot. Kettle...

  • poxy

    Not a picture, but...

    Where and what are/were Gilbert & How?

    If I had a photo it would give the game away.

  • ChangN4N6

    Park Tavern Pic is of Detritus and Muss Annie in there younger dayz

  • ChangN4N6

    G&h - department store.

  • poxy

    Nope.

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    Photographers studio in SG Road

  • poxy

    Nope.

  • andy

    Was that the name of a furniture shop? Possibly now sainsburys local?

  • kreuzkav

    John Jones.

  • Misscara

    Was it the shop on the corner opposite Nandos? A gentlemens outfitters?

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    No, that was Elkins Bros.  Brilliant for underpants.

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    This has to have come from one of the photos in the back room of the Shaftesbury - it could have been a butchers or a greengrocers

  • odd stewartodd stewart

    This thread is cool. Can anyone add a pic or do we get the last one first?

  • poxy

    The evidence of Gilbert and How is still visible in situ.

  • mapsa

    Auctioneers - next door to the Old Dairy.

  • poxy

    Not next door. The dining room.

    Fully G&H were Auctioneers, Estate Agents and Surveyors.

  • Fstrthnthspdflght

    Really like this thread - haven't a clue about some of photos or comments...but know that I will be looking for that red brick and all the other stuff I've just discovered on the next 4 pages!

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    Glad you could stop by, Fstrthnthspdflght.    Fancy starting a Slow Party branch here?   Slwrthnslth

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    Next question. Where is this gable, and what's the connection between it......

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    ....and these?

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  • Ali

    Mr Bassett live there  above Doc surgery I think ?

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    Nearly right!   It's the building where Sainsbury's is now (used to be Woody's).    It was once the home of George Osborne Barratt, founder of the confectionery company that made Liquorice Allsorts, Aniseed Balls, Jelly Babies, Dolly Mixtures, and Sherbet Fountain.  The building is now little Sainsbury's at the top of Stroud Green Road.   

    According to this website George Barratt lived at number 175 in the 1880s.    The firm he started produced sweets in Wood Green until the 1970s.    It's now part of Cadbury's.     (The old Chocolate Factory in Wood Green has now got a restaurant and arts centre and stuff in it.)

    Apparently old George Barratt was a good employer and built a little model village in Wood Green for his employees - some of the houses are still there.


  • charliepcharliep

    loving this thread - really interesting. I've been taking a lot more interest in local ... what would you call it, trivia? ... lately after reading up on the history of Parkland Walk. and the green man! and then discovering that Stephen King wrote a short story inspired by said walk/green man called 'Crouch End'. keep em coming, krappyrubsnif!

  • ADGS

    The Stephen King story is excellent. The TV adaptation...isn't. But is almost worth watching for how thoroughly wrong it gets, well, everything.

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