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Mirandola in the 60's yes yes yes
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Possible unknown fact about The Shaftsbury was that back in the mid - late sixties The S was the only Gay friendly pub in Nth London on Fridays nights and Sunday lunch times! (Jack Straws fell under NW).
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Anyone remember when SGR had its own Art House Cinema...The Scala (Cnr Lennox and SGR)?
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I can remember during the summer holidays in the early 60's when you could catch special trains here on a Sunday morning at 8.30am and it would run all the way to Westcliff on sea and then return at 4.30 pm arriving at CHS by 6pm! For some of the po…
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Hi, I am not sure how much of this you know? One of the reasons why Stroud Green was so late to be settled and developed as an area (not even a small village as at Hornsey or Muswell Hill) is because the land besides Finsbury Park (ex Hornsey Wood) …
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K, would love to come but a bit of a trek from Tasmania!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GmzyeeXnQ&list=RD-2GmzyeeXnQ
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Arkady/ gardener-joe, The picture you posted is on the Cnr of Upper Tollington Park & SG looking North. I blew the photo you posted and the shop at 108 is a fruit shop. I have a 1912 Ordnance Map that lists the shops and 108 is Ernest Baker, F…
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In Crouch Hill opposite the bus stop was an Indian Restaurant (the first in the area), a second hand furniture store, a double fronted, blue painted, car spares and such stuff shop and a butchers. Finally I have also remembered on more fo…
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The last 3 shops were a hardware shop, Johnson’s the Newsagents of whom I worked for as a paperboy from 1963-69. This was one quality guy who helped me a lot, especially during Guy Fawkes week when he used to let me put my guy outside his sho…
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The first to shops in what was once Stapleton Parade were a ladies and men’s hairdressers run by a husband and wife team from Cyprus. They were really nice people and later I played in the same football team as the owner. Then came a smaller …
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Between Osborne and Marquis stood the present row of Victorian houses, however at the back of where Philip Jones Court now stands was a row of council supplied garages. Marquis to Lorne had no shops. On the cnr of Lorne was the…
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In the late 60’s the old Osborne Pub closed and a new one was built (I think it is now a Nandos) but this was the pub where most of the people from the estate drank. Crossing over TPR you come to Charter Court with its shopping parade…
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The shops between there and Kings the bakers changed so often it seem like there was a new shop opening there every 3 months and none seeming to settle. Kings however was a different story. From around 1900 there has been a bakery here. Orig…
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Going back to our journey I shall continue up SGR from Woodstock to Ennis. There was a news agents 2 shops from the cnr and then the main Fish and Chip shop that everyone used called Morray’s. Run by a Greek Cypriot family, we always s…
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On a personal not if this was not hard enough for me at the time, I also had cousins living on the Wedmore Estate (which is off Holloway Rd) and for which I held a ‘related to membership’. The Wedmore was inhabited by many families who had va…
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Having said all this it is worth mentioning that other than the occasional peer group thumping of chest within these groups, very little internal violence ever took place, the leaders were normally those best at sport not fighting? However ha…
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Perhaps arriving at Woodstock Rd it may be of interest to some of you to explain how SG was territorially split up by the late 60’s and into 4 main groups which basically controlled the area. Sociologically speaking that is to say and just li…
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*For those that do not know, where the Tesco’s stands at the bottom of Endymion Rd/SS (next to the station), once stood Haringey Arena and Haringey Stadium. Haringey Arena held world championship boxing, Bruce Woodcock fought Lee Savold in De…
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in Part 2 I am travelling from S to N on the East Side Re tracing my journey back up Stroud Green Road, I shall diverse a little, this time starting at the bus stop for the 29 bus by the Finsbury Park entrance. Where the Lidel store now …
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On a separate note some of you may like to look through this I found its a murder trial from 1910 bout someone who was murdered for a great deal of money and who lived in Tollington Park Rd N4. Its long but its fascinating.http://gutenberg.net.au/eb…
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Arkady, if the history guy says Tesco's was only opened in 1980 and I went overseas then, well the houses could have been demolished in the late 70's which could put me out by a year, which I'll settle for. It is just that I could never remember a T…
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Hi miss annie, The strange thing with that part of Haringey Village was that up until the end of the 60's it was a vibrant area with a cosmopolitan population though many were Greek, then suddenly there was trouble. I think though unlike the recent …
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So many questions this is really great and thanks for the feed back. First munwin, its mainly my memory, but I did live in SG from 1960-80 and then again 1986-93 and have always regarded the place as my home town. Living in Tasmania also gives you t…
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Finally a quick mention of St Thomas’s St, before I sign off for today. It was here where Rock Street joined that Alex James the famous Arsenal footballer maintained a tobacconist for years. Hope this is of interest. WCB
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Opposite the Edwardian houses between Ennis and Perth lay another green grocer, a chemist and a exotic food importer / later a West Indian food specialist shop in double fronted property. On the corner of Lennox stood the Earl of Essex pub. Pretty i…
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For some reason I can’t remember many of the others shops until we came to Elkins which stood on the corner of SG/TP. Elkins (once Thomas Swann’s) was also the finest clothes, umbrella and hosiery shop in the district until you got to Jones Brothers…
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Turning into Tollington Park there was nothing on the nth side, so I shall start coming back from Everleigh St. @ # 148 was the most important shop in SG to any teenager, this was the record shop and where after school we would rush with our pocket …
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Those of you that arrived in the early 80’s will remember Radio Taxis who ran their main hub from an office a little bit further on. After that about equally between where Lorne / Albert join SGR and staying on the Islington side stood Boud’s (in th…
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Although technically not in SGR I will start my journey at around number 9 Crouch Hill, by the bus stop and where I caught the 212 (now W7?) to MH. Next to the bus stop stood a fine toys and model shop where you could by an Airfix model of a Lancast…