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I have driven along that a few times, as an ex used to live up that way.
It’s a classic bit of Victorian suburbia…
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 13.03.22 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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In the early 1980s, I went to look at a house in Hornsey Park Road. I liked it but the survey was alarming. Bulging exterior walls and a roof that had moved. The surveyor said that it was likely caused by the shock waves from bombing of the railway line.
Scientist | 13.03.22 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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I hope you do make it as far as the B151 and further, as I am enjoying this series
Ian | 13.03.22 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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I used Wightman Road in the late 60s as a route towards central London from Alexandra Park, avoiding Green Lanes which was busier. I think I succeeded in memorising all the Ladder street names, in order. But the list is well buried in my head, and would require much hypnosis to unearth. Umfreyville did stand out though.
Malcolm of Kent | 13.03.22 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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Always been on the cusp of my sphere of life having lived in Stroud Green, Crouch End and Hornsey; always the other side of the tracks.
Scientist - many of the houses in that part of north london have structural issues due to a combination of geology and the fact large numbers of houses were built without foundations.
David | 13.03.22 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Went to Street view to see the stone statues! Different!!
Cornish Cockney | 13.03.22 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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When I used to live in Wood Green, the B138 was my walk to the baseball field, very close to where you started off.
Though at times I did use Harringay Passage instead.
Guess you’ll be passing by on the B150 whilst we’re playing ;P
Jacques | 13.03.22 - 11:28 a.m. | #
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I see that a 3-bed, end terrace property in Umfreville Road (the bottom of the ladder?) can be yours for £1,1m. A special feature appears to be that you are heavily overlooked by other residents.
Stuart R | 13.03.22 - 11:54 a.m. | #
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Loving these link-dense episodes, especially today as the teenage me I used to walk this route to Highbury Stadium from home, some 4 or so miles distant. My entirely fallible memory suggests that buses used to travel along Wightman Road at some point in '70s.
I was present at the opening of Wood Green Shopping City, and still recall being shocked that The Queen was such a diminutive figure.
Frank F | 13.03.22 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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Yes, that church certainly is amazing, though I suspect would be classed as post-modern rather than modern. The bulbous, blue sculpture is more up my street.
cau1khead | 13.03.22 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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In the early 1950s, living in Highbury, we used Wightman Road to cycle to Broxbourne Common (long since covered with a housing estate). Father would ride the tandem with me stoking and younger brother in a child seat on the back, and mother on her solo. We turned right onto Frobisher Road and across Green Lanes to avoid the busy crossroads at Turnpike Lane and make our way to The Roundway, and on to the Great Cambridge Road (A10); at that time there was a separate cycle path all the way to Broxbourne.
Keith | 13.03.22 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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The road number not matching the adjacent roads is because it came later (about 1930). The original lot in 1922 allocated B100-B149 to London, but only got as far as B125 before restarting at B150 outside the boundary (then jumping from B189 to B1000 after the 39 roads were allocated, leaving just 10 spare in that range).
Additional roads were added sequentially and they were a bit looser with the boundary of where London ended as they had rather more spare numbers under 49 than 50-99, and quite a bit of demand for new B roads in the growing suburbia.
Si | 13.03.22 - 3:51 p.m. | #
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OpenStreetMap calls the area where Clarendon is being built "Haringey Heartlands"... only without the inverted commas...
Matt | Homepage | 13.03.22 - 4:47 p.m. | #
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That church - the exterior design is OK I suppose, but the almost windowless and featureless interior looks oppressive - more like a detention centre than a place of worship, built to the glory of God. Did they run out of money?
Timbo | 13.03.22 - 8:26 p.m. | #
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Haringey Heartlands seems to be the name of the general area regeneration, rather than the name of that development
Mikey C | 13.03.22 - 8:58 p.m. | #
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There was an extended closure of Wightman Road in 2016, which resulted in lots of comments on the local harringayonline forum under the title 'Imagining Possible Futures for Wightman Road'.
Bob L-S | 13.03.22 - 9:31 p.m. | #
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Genuine wow at the interior of St Paul's. Cycled up here a million times during lockdowns but the outside doesn't seem to have made an impression on my memory.
Gunnersaurus | 14.03.22 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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In the last photo, it's a shame that we give over pavements to the parking of private cars.
Mona | 14.03.22 - 9:38 p.m. | #
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Oooh, quite near my house
Johnny Topaz | 14.03.22 - 10:54 p.m. | #
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My usual route in the Ladder (when not on the 29 bus in Green Lanes) was to walk Harringay / Haringey Passage* - great fun but annoyingly doesn’t quite make it to Finsbury Park.
* yes it’s called both - in one place the two names on the same wall
Stephen | 15.03.22 - 12:20 a.m. | #
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Sad to say that I never spotted the graffiti when walking the passage a few times. Interesting stuff here.
Gunnersaurus | 15.03.22 - 12:36 p.m. | #
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