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My boyfriend and I have just moved into a flat in Florence Road and we love the area. Parkland Walk is wonderful. And I still can't get over the fact that we can get our milk and papers delivered. It's really been great living here so far.
Have been looking through some of your posts and was wondering whether any of you had ever done any research into the history of your home? Apparently an accountant used to live in our building, with his family, in 1891. So strange, thinking someone with a completely different sort of life actually lived within the same four walls!
My boyfriend and I have just moved into a flat in Florence Road and we love the area. Parkland Walk is wonderful. And I still can't get over the fact that we can get our milk and papers delivered. It's really been great living here so far.
Have been looking through some of your posts and was wondering whether any of you had ever done any research into the history of your home? Apparently an accountant used to live in our building, with his family, in 1891. So strange, thinking someone with a completely different sort of life actually lived within the same four walls!
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The area is great, the house on the corner of Lorne Road/Florence Road used to be a school in the days when there were private tutors.
There's quite a bit of work going on at the Parkland Walk at the moment so you've come at a good time.
I get our milk delivered too but walk to the shop for my papers. I need to get out sometimes. The simple things in life.
Welcome to the area.
We did - we googled it, and a few years ago there was a shooting in the White Lion. The assailant ran into our block.
On a brighter note, it dates back to 1947, and the architect won an award for it.
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How do you go about arranging this?
Our neighbours get their papers delivered by the newsagents on the same side of Londis.
We heard the milkman going past one day - and I ran after him in my dressing gown! He must have had a fright... I've just checked the bill and it's also Dairy Crest in Edmonton. The phone number is 0208 360 1133. We moved in about three months ago and so far they've been great.
That's so interesting about Florence Road/Lorne Road - which house was it, number 66 or 68? In 1901 apparently we had a school teacher living in our building so I wonder if he was connected with it?
I looked up the history of the building on this site:
http://www.1901censusonline.com/search.asp?wci=ad_search
It's a bit fiddly - you can type your address a million different ways - I typed 'Florence' where it says road and then 'Stroud Green' and that seemed to work though.
PS I promise not to feed the tosscat... :)
It goes on to say that on the side bordering Lorne Road there was a tradesmen's entrance where a wooden shelter had been built for the boys to hang their coats. Many years later he noticed a mark on the side of the house and that the dividing wall between the gardens was of different brickwork.
The old maps of the borough are also good. They tell you what businesses were on Stroud Green Road.
I'm Shaun, and am hoping/ planning to move to Stroud Green in the near future, so this website has been a great help in finding out more about the area. I currently live in Tottenham, and have lived in different parts of North London all my life. I'm guessing from the posts here that on the whole you would recommend SG as a place to live - for us (me, wife and 2 girls 10 & 8), the park and transport are a big draw. Cafes, restaurants etc also seem great though if we do make this move we'll be so poor we'll just have to enjoy knowing they're there!