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Good to see that Highgate Library is still there. As a teenager many years ago I worked every Saturday, mostly at Hornsey Library, but occasionally at other branches in the borough. At Highgate there was only the librarian, Alan, and me, so while Alan had his lunch break, I was in charge! What a responsibility!
It was, maybe still is, a sweet little building.
Malcolm | 23.12.19 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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More of an Avenging Angel than a heavenly one!
Cornish Cockney | 23.12.19 - 2:57 p.m. | #
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I used to use Angel Road regularly in the late 70s and early 80s, often when visiting the outdoor Edmonton Sunday Market to buy close facsimiles of current fashionable threads.
Whether or not there was a frosty wind, I can assure you that it was just as bleak back then as it is in mid-winter now.
Frank F | 23.12.19 - 5:17 p.m. | #
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Also - until you mentioned the roundabout of the same name, I had entirely forgotten the long-gone Cooks Ferry Inn on Angel Road. Back in my day it was an undistinguished Berni (or Beefeater?) steakhouse but, so my older siblings attested, had been a notable live music venue in the 1950s and 60s.
Frank F | 23.12.19 - 5:40 p.m. | #
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I spotted the post from Frank F, but then Christmas got in the way.
I used to go to the Blue Opera Club in the basement of Cooks Ferry Inn on Mondays: the R&B night. I still have three listings from Autumn 1965 that include: Spencer Davis, Georgie Fame, The Steam Packet, Bo Diddley, Graham Bond, and others. I also remember John Mayall, The Cream, and possibly The Animals there.
I think we missed the night a car drove out of the car park straight across the towpath into the River Lea.
Thanks for prompting the memories.
g.chingford | 29.12.19 - 3:35 p.m. | #
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