EPW056662 ENGLAND (1938). Ashley Road and environs, Upper Holloway, 1938

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Title [EPW056662] Ashley Road and environs, Upper Holloway, 1938
Reference EPW056662
Date 30-March-1938
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Place name UPPER HOLLOWAY
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 530244, 187529
Longitude / Latitude -0.12044766550725, 51.571091595947
National Grid Reference TQ302875

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Telephone Exchange

Mark
Tuesday 9th of February 2021 06:05:19 PM
Courtauld Road

Ant
Monday 18th of January 2021 08:18:55 PM
The Favourite under construction

AnthonyN8
Tuesday 14th of July 2020 01:50:31 PM
This would be the former Hornsey Road Station, it opened in 1872 and closed in 1943. No sign of it now survives. It is at the bottom of the attached map. Only Crouch Hill of the four stations shown now survives in use.

Leslie B
Sunday 2nd of September 2018 05:04:18 PM
St Peter's RC Church

ChristopherD
Tuesday 2nd of February 2016 01:55:54 AM
This was the northern terminus for the No. 14 bus. You would get off here and the empty bus would loop around to Beaumont Road, right outside "The Favourite". From there it would go on to Putney or sometimes Hamp ton Court.

ChristopherD
Friday 16th of January 2015 12:16:02 AM
Tottenham Lane

ChristopherD
Friday 26th of September 2014 01:27:41 AM
Tottenham Lane

ChristopherD
Friday 26th of September 2014 01:27:36 AM
Crouch Hall Road

ChristopherD
Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 02:44:15 AM
Church that later became the recording studio where the Eurythmics recorded "Sweet Dreams"

ChristopherD
Tuesday 15th of July 2014 04:04:49 AM
Britains Toys original premises were in Lambton Road in 1912. The attached photo, taken from a book called "The British Toy Business" by Kenneth D Brown, seems to match this building.

melgibbs
Wednesday 4th of June 2014 08:17:34 PM
This photo seems to have been widely shared on the webs. I think it's taken from Kenneth Brown's 1996 book, "The British Toy Business A History Since 1700". Sadly, I don't think it has any more to do with the Britains Lambton Road premises other than being in the same road.

The building shown was the first house on the left as you enter Lambton Road from Hornsey Road. The house with the pitched roof is still standing (though the flat-roofed one next to it has been replaced by housing) - https://goo.gl/maps/psBmC8HtS9cjdj4E8. The house was just round the corner from Horney Road. On the gate is an advert for William Appleton's grocery store at number 518. (Three up from the corner in the terrace shown in the photo in the background).

The cart belonged to V Collins. During most of the first decade of the 20th century 512 Hornsey Road had been a greengrocer's. ButI can't confirm that this was V Collins trade. I think it's mentioned in the Brown book if anyone has a copy. What does he say?

hjuk
Tuesday 31st of August 2021 02:10:16 PM
Shaftesbury Road......The Shaftesbury Tavern was on the corner with Hornsey Rise, still is, I believe. The picture is my mother on the steps at No. 15, in 1955

ChristopherD
Friday 25th of April 2014 08:24:33 PM
Hi I am living now at 15 Shaftebry Road. Great to see this photo, do you have any more pictures of the road. Do you have any information on who lived here over the years. It's is now split into 4 flats like many old houses in the area. The Shaftesbury Tavern is still in business and changed little in terms of interior.

clee66
Saturday 17th of October 2015 09:57:13 AM
Hi I am living now at 15 Shaftebry Road. Great to see this photo, do you have any more pictures of the road. Do you have any information on who lived here over the years. It's is now split into 4 flats like many old houses in the area. The Shaftesbury Tavern is still in business and changed little in terms of interior.

clee66
Saturday 17th of October 2015 09:57:18 AM
clee66....thank you for your interest. I have a few pictures from my life at #15. Film and developing was expensive then and we had to take few pictures. Where would you like me to send the few I have?

ChristopherD
Friday 8th of January 2016 12:18:05 AM
The 1939 A-Z map shows this as Grenville Road, but the 1863 map shows it as Granville Road.

melgibbs
Wednesday 23rd of April 2014 01:54:19 PM

melgibbs
Wednesday 23rd of April 2014 01:52:10 PM

melgibbs
Tuesday 22nd of April 2014 07:17:45 PM
Hornsey Rise Gardens

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:57:26 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:56:28 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:54:39 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:54:06 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:45:59 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:45:19 PM
Hazelville Road

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:43:36 PM
I think this is Elthorne Road

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:43:01 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:39:31 PM

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:39:12 PM
William Britain, founder of Britains Toys, lived in a house called Nugent House, somewhere in Lambton Road. I guess it was near the factory shown in Spears Road. Anybody know where it was?

melgibbs
Saturday 19th of April 2014 07:32:45 PM
This was Britains Toy Soldier factory. It closed around 1966 and the building was then split into small factory units. Some of those included Cypriot dress making companies as well as a double glazing company that featured on Bernard Braden's TV show because of its sharp practices! This was Window Seal Double Glazing - it went bust around 1969 owing substantial sums!

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 03:37:47 PM
Thanks again for marking this as my great great grand uncle was William Britain, the founder of Britains Toys.

melgibbs
Sunday 13th of April 2014 04:56:07 PM
Well that explains a big childhood mystery...I could hear a stamping machine sometimes running until 11PM from the direction of Lambton Road. ( I lived on Shaftesbury Rd.)They were making toy soldiers!

ChristopherD
Friday 25th of April 2014 08:27:49 PM
St. Mary's Church

southtate69
Saturday 24th of August 2013 02:20:23 PM
Crouch End Railway Station

southtate69
Saturday 24th of August 2013 02:18:35 PM
I'm not sure about this station. There is no station shown here on my 1968 A-Z guide. Crouch Hill Station is south of here so it is not that one. This railway line looks like the one that runs between Highgate and Finsbury Park - and there is no station shown here as noted above. However, this does look like a station!

Coventry kid
Sunday 5th of January 2014 04:03:02 PM
There actually was a railway station there, in what was later turned into Parkland Walk. It may have been a proposed extension of the Underground before the war.

ChristopherD
Saturday 26th of April 2014 03:58:34 AM
For further detail about the station and the railway, see http://underground-history.co.uk/northernh.php

ChristopherD
Tuesday 20th of May 2014 04:54:30 AM
Hornsey Town Hall Opened in 1935.

southtate69
Saturday 24th of August 2013 02:17:05 PM

User Comment Contributions

Before the land around Lambton Road, Ormond Road, Holland Road, etc, was developed, it was owned by The National Land Society as shown circled in red on the attached scan of part of an 1863 map of North West London.

melgibbs
Tuesday 22nd of April 2014 07:22:45 PM