please empty your brain below
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5. I would hazard a guess that the font in question is Rockwell Bold Italic.
Tim W. | 10.02.26 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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Shakespeare House may well be Rockwell Bold Italic, but H Miller & Sons is something else.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.02.26 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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4) Now three-time European Cup winners Saracens spent a decade playing out of the Cherry Tree from 1904, the 1926 club history says:
A ground was obtained behind the "Cherry Tree," Southgate - that ancient establishment being the venue for ablutions and for many happy evenings. Several smoking concerts - arranged and impromptu - were held there.
TomH | 10.02.26 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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But is there a gate in Southgate?
All Over 2a | Homepage | 10.02.26 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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They might be minor A roads now, but there was enough traffic in the past to justify building a coaching inn, the LHRG books say that the 29 reached the Cherry Tree in 1912, with a 29A providing a daily service to Cockfosters in 1913
Still Anon | 10.02.26 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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5) Thank you for the typeface wormhole. Just the kind of wormhole I enjoy. I like That Nice 1950s Typeface in its many variants. My nearby Spiritualist Church uses it, and it has more character than some of the blander, more recent typefaces used on buildings. I wonder when it will become popular again?
JonathanC | 10.02.26 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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"A Summer Idyll Matching Tye/
At Havering-atte-Bower, the Stocks/
And cobbled pathways lead the eye/
To cottage doors and hollyhocks."
David B | 10.02.26 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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I think the typeface used in the H. Miller and Sons sign is "Festive", as in this specimen.
The R is quite distinctive, as are the serifs in general.
Rob Miller | Homepage | 10.02.26 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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6. A history trip back on Google Streetview suggests it set up at the High Street premises between 2016 and 2017, so a definite continuity gap unless it was somewhere else for a while?
Nico | 10.02.26 - 4:43 p.m. | #
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Bill Drummond lives in Southgate. Perhaps a future blue plaque.
Anyoldname | 10.02.26 - 5:35 p.m. | #
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6. It looks like they expanded the premises in 2024.
mclm | 10.02.26 - 8:41 p.m. | #
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You were in my manor, DG! :)
You might also like the lovely postwar font used on Broad House, down the road in Edmonton.
Auntie Doris | 10.02.26 - 10:00 p.m. | #
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There was indeed a gate there - the southern entrance to Enfield Chase (at the junction with Chase Side (the royal hunting ground, not the station that took its name from it), as the name might suggest) probably lost when the junction was remodelled
timbo | 11.02.26 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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Ah, a post prompting warm nostalgia as I spent some of my early twenties around Southgate. There used to be a sizeable function room behind Ye Old Cherry Tree where I attended many a party and a couple of wedding receptions.
Frank F | 11.02.26 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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