As the Old Schoolhouse is closed for the time being, we thought we’d share some extracts from HHS publications on over the coming weeks and months. [Read more…] about A Vision of Middlesex-Part One
River Park House, a tall modern office block, has been home to Haringey Council since 2005. It stands on the corner of the Jolly Butcher’s Hill section of Wood Green High Road and Station Road, opposite Wood Green tube station. What stood on this prime position before it? [Read more…] about Before River Park House: Wood Green’s Carnegie Library
This building in Earlham Grove, Wood Green, serves all sections of the local Cypriot community, providing vital community services and facilities.The land it stands on has a long history, having been the site of a family home and educational establishment. What story has it to tell?[Read more…] about Before the Cypriot Community Centre
We regret to have to report the death of Mr Geo. Osborne Barratt, who passed away on Wednesday last, at 2.30pm, at the age of 78, at his residence, “Holly Mount” Crouch Hill. [Read more…] about DEATH OF G. O. BARRATT
Greenridings House, a modern office block in the High Road Wood Green, houses a British Telecom switching centre. The building which stood on this site previously had a much more interesting appearance and history, as almshouses.
Wood Green was at the geographical centre of the 1965 local authority amalgamation which created the Borough of Haringey. So the new Civic Centre was located in the High Road opposite the turning to White Hart Lane. This site had a long history.
Chesser’s Forge, 1924 on the site of Spouters Corner by J E Savery
It is very difficult to imagine that central Wood Green with its cinema complex, shops, road junction and busy traffic was ever peaceful countryside with the New River meandering through. So what was Hollywood Green before? [Read more…] about Hollywood Green, Wood Green: What was there before?
