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A Forgotten Little Corner of Wood Green Posted by Hugh on August 12, 2020 at 10:40 in History of Harringay It's odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again, even when I have no particular interest in it. When this happens, I tend to go with the flow and let fate take me where it will.  Recently, I've been pulled back a number of times the block of land between Wood Green High Road and Lordship Lane. First I wrote a piece about the Chesser Blacksmithing family then a few months later, I found myself jus...

A Forgotten Little Corner of Wood Green Posted by Hugh on August 12, 2020 at 10:40 in History of Harringay It's odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again, even when I have no particular interest in it. When this happens, I tend to go with the flow and let fate take me where it will.  Recently, I've been pulled back a number of times the block of land between Wood Green High Road and Lordship Lane. First I wrote a piece about the Chesser Blacksmithing family then a few months later, I found myself jus...

It's odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again, even when I have no…

Where did West Green's Black Boy Name Come From? In a current discussion about Haringey Council's  Review on monuments, building, place and street names in Haringey, a comment was made about the origin of the name of the former Black Boy pub on West Green Road. Eager to understand as much as possible about the facts on this issue, I emailed Bruce Castle Museum to ask what they could tell me. It is with many thanks that I publish below, with their permission, their response to me drawn together from known original archival sources and past research for exhibitions and books. I'm enormously g...

Or using photographs to make measurements. >> brunn's experts needed a map of the accident scene with the skid marks to conduct their investigation. kayfetz's job was to reproduce the mark on the road in the exact position so a surveyor could map its location. he began by making a 35-milimeter negative of schneider's photograph showing the skid mark. >> i put it into a special camera that i take back to the scene. i locate the exact point from which he took his photograph, and looking through my camera, i can re-mark the position of the skid mark on the ground and have a surveyor record it. >>...