From Trooper to Copper - an Edwardian life of service in Wood Green Posted by Hugh on April 9, 2021 at 21:09 in History of Harringay Pictured above is Alfred John Fennell, an Wood Green Edwardian who served in both the British Army and the Metropolitan Police Force. Alfred was born in Blackheath on 1 April 1879. Before he'd reached his first birthday, his father Henry George and his mother Eliza Harriet had moved from Harriet's hometown of Blackheath where they'd lived since they married in 1863. They set up home at 1 Henrietta Villas in Winkfield Road, Wood Green (later 1, Winkfield Road) where Alfred spent the rest of his childhood.