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Hallo Everybody, Im Bob-O.  Im new to the Group and would like to introduce myself. I moved into Harringay in 1941, aged five, with my Mum & Dad and…

Not a great shot, but the only one I can find of the Ever Ready building on the corner of St Anns Rd and Warwick Gardens. Dated 1971. Notes: from admin: See…

Not a great shot, but the only one I can find of the Ever Ready building on the corner of St Anns Rd and Warwick Gardens. Dated 1971. Notes: from admin: See…

“I dey for house now? Where I for dey?” “I actually thought you had gone to a court somewhere to do amebo. You know you like to poke-nose into other people’s matters? And yesterday was a special, historic day, with four court cases that generations yet unborn will read about” “You have started again. You are actually the real Mr. Amebo of Nigeria. Every little thing you are ever-ready like Ever Ready Battery to do chor chor chor. Don’t you ever get tired?” “Ever Ready Battery....

Right: Gert Sellheim,  Australia: For Sun and Surf (Melbourne: Australian National Travel Association, 1930s), ©Nik Sellheim, courtesy Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney. The lone, glamorously dressed Ceylonese tea-picker above was a feature of Bushells advertising over quite a long period in the early 1900s. Spending the day picking only the upper-most leaves of Camellia sinensis appears exotic, glamorous and thoroughly relaxing, and presumably this is the feeling we’re meant to believe is ...

Prefab 1945/46 Although this photo was not taken in Harringay. The prefab shown here on display at Duxford in 1993 is of the same type as those provided by Tottenham Borough Council and erected on the 3 bomb sites on Warwick Gardens, as well as Woodlands Park Road, Effingham and Fairfax Road. The prefabs on Ritches Road were of the Central door type. Although austere, the prefabs offered a standard not found in many pre-war houses in the area. They had fitted kitchens with gas powered refrigera...