Wood Green chitter-chatter..
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Hollis
bloody furious
Stroll along the High Road tonight... couple more fast food type restaurants opening up including Wendy's, and another gym.. Compared to 5-10 years ago the High Road is booming! Still don't get the business model, as there aren't actually many/any new shops opening up... how does that work.. 
klang
klang
It's lovely there atm! Vanning through it regularly atm, me and my colleague been observing / discussing exactly this. How it seems to have more of a buzz about it than other comparable areas...
klang
klang
Cafe and casual snack culture is alive and kicking, from wood green all the way to finsbury park. Gets people socialising.Still don't get the business model, as there aren't actually many/any new shops opening up... how does that work..
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
there seems to be a growing trend on anti-social media (i don't do farcebook but still do tweeter now and then) to use historic photos as a cover for 'look how much better everything was before all these [minorities] were here/ visible'
i have blocked one or two on tweeter where i could hear the dog whistles...
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
looks like about here - tram would have been turning right from Bounds Green Road to head south towards central London (i went on to street view at exactly the right place, which doesn't happen often)
tram service 21 is ancestor of the 221 bus route, at this time it ran North Finchley - Wood Green - Holborn, it became trolleybus 521 / 621 in the later 30s and then to bus in about 1961 (i'd have to go and look up the exact dates)
photo is from mid 30s - tram is in London Transport livery (so late 1933 onwards) and before it went to trolleybuses. This type of tram was new in 1931, and would have been running from the tram depot that's now arriva's wood green garage. these trams got transferred to south london (and were based at Brixton) and most were sold on to Leeds when south london's trams went in the early 50s.
there is one survivor at the london transport museum depot at acton (and another survivor in america but it's in a heck of a state, and a prototype version at the museum at crich.)
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Turnpike Lane, looking futuristic, in 1961..
the 'mushroom shelter' was part of the kit in 1932. some of the stations on the cockfosters line (southgate especially) must have looked like something from outer space when they were built in early 30's suburban middlesex...
photo from 1934 here.
there's a couple of now disused passages (i have looked but can't see the join from booking hall level) at turnpike lane underground that connected to ground level tram stops - understand they were in use in to the early 70s for buses. 'under construction' photo from LT Museum collection (they have quite a few of Turnpike lane under construction / as built)
manor house station had a similar arrangement for trams, but it got taken out of use a lot earlier
Hollis
bloody furious
the 'mushroom shelter' was part of the kit in 1932. some of the stations on the cockfosters line (southgate especially) must have looked like something from outer space when they were built in early 30's suburban middlesex...
photo from 1934 here.
there's a couple of now disused passages (i have looked but can't see the join from booking hall level) at turnpike lane underground that connected to ground level tram stops - understand they were in use in to the early 70s for buses. 'under construction' photo from LT Museum collection (they have quite a few of Turnpike lane under construction / as built)
manor house station had a similar arrangement for trams, but it got taken out of use a lot earlier
In my dreams I'd love to see trams going the full length of Green Lanes from Enfield into Islington, also trams along Lordship Lane from Wood Green to Tottenham... it'll never happen.
Hollis
bloody furious
This is V2 bomb damage on Gladstone Avenue - 13th February 1945 - (Interestingly, the same night as the Dresden bombing) I think Moselle Avenue is straight centre- with Gladstone Avenue left/right across the photo.. so the photo's taken where the house used to be..
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The flats on the left are I assume what they built post-war on the site.
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bThe flats on the left are I assume what they built post-war on the site.
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Every now and again I toy with the idea of walking the length of Green Lanes. Tbf, I've probably already walked a large chunk of it in various pieces over the years.
One day...
Or not
I did this a few years ago! I'd also done a lot of it but not all at once. And not the bit north of Wood Green on foot.Every now and again I toy with the idea of walking the length of Green Lanes. Tbf, I've probably already walked a large chunk of it in various pieces over the years.
One day...
Or not
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I lived in Hornsey when I first moved to London so was familiar with the WG down to Finsbury Park bit. Then living in Hackney, I'd done the NG to Clissold Park section loads and sometimes up to Turnpike Lane. But never the northern bit and never all at once until I fulfilled my walking all of GL ambition.
(This could be an idea for an Urban walk combined with N London drinks...?
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I'd be up for that.
There's a good walk from Wood Green up to Broomfield Park and Arnos Grove... but the issue I think may be getting South Londoners to cross the river.
(Who needs South Londoners anyway...)
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Alas, I am now south of the river. I've made the opposite journey from my mum, who grew up South, now lives North.
Which is not to say I don't venture north, just that I cannot claim to be a current inhabitant.
Which is not to say I don't venture north, just that I cannot claim to be a current inhabitant.
I'm sure you'd be very welcome, despite your dubious southern ways...
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