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The dying days of south Mayes Road
A few years back I wrote a piece about the origins of Mayes Road. Searching for something else this morning, I came across the seventies BBC news report on the problems surrounding the development of Shopping City and realised that this added to the Mayes Road story.
I must have watched the report many times in the past, but perhaps never paid attention closely enough. Watching it again the other day, I realised that it had two sections that had been shot along the now demolished section of Mayes Road which ran directly into the High Road.
Building Shopping City - a story in pictures
Posted by Hugh on April 25, 2021 at 11:32 in History of Harringay
Shopping City.
Most of the images are very much the record of a building company. But, some show a little local life and hint at how locals might have been reacting to the development.
Google search results suggest that Shopping City was built between 1976 and 1981. However, as you ll see below in Image 2 dated October 1976, the red brick seventies development to the east of the High Road looks to be complete to as far north as where the bridge across the road was to be built. There is then a gap, I assume for the bridge, before the new buildings continue on the far left of the photo.
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