Cemetery, Synagogue & Snooker continues my stroll on Sunday eighth October 1989 which had begun at Seven Sisters Station. The earlier put up Stoke Newington Retailers – 1989 had ended with me reverse the gates of Abney Park Cemetery, which I had visited on a stroll the week earlier than, Abney Park & South Tottenham, and I wrote extra in regards to the cemetery there.
The cemetery has an enormous assortment of memorials and I photographed a number of of them, together with this angel, maybe a reasonably typical depiction, with comparable angels in memorials throughout the nation. It additionally provides an concept of the wilderness which the cemetery had turn out to be by 1989.
One other angel erected by a husband in sacred reminiscence of his spouse Elizabeth who “departed this life” solely 28 years outdated in 1865. This can be a moderately extra uncommon monument and I puzzled if it would maybe resemble this younger lady who might nicely like lots of the time have died in childbirth. There are two cherubs on the plinth and under them a moderately unusual pipe with maybe shoots rising at each ends. I believe somebody might know the importance of this. I can not fairly make out the identify of her husband, though somebody had clearly eliminated the creeper from the stone in an effort to reveal it.
The textual content on the monument on the proper of this image is evident, and that is the Grade II listed memorial to John Swan (1787-1869), the inventor of the screw propellor to be used on ships, and likewise of the self performing chain messenger which apparently saved the nation round £70,000 a 12 months, for which he “by no means acquired the slightest remuneration.”
I took round 20 photos within the cemetery and have solely digitised seven of them – yow will discover 4 not included on this put up on Flickr.
Constructed as a Primitive Methodist Chapel in 1875, this constructing was purchased by members of the Beth Hamedrash Ohel Yisrael Synagogue as “extra appropriate and commodious premises” than their earlier synagogue at 46 Brooke Rd in 1953 and consecrated in 1955. It grew to become often known as Beit Knesset Ohel Yisrael or Northwold Highway Synagogue.
The synagogue closed the month earlier than I made this image. The constructing at 16 Northwold Highway grew to become the Sunstone Girls Solely Gymnasium and is now the Tower Theatre.
Northwold Highway begins reverse Abney Cemetery gates and its first secition nonetheless contains numerous attention-grabbing buildings in addition to the previous synagogue, however these on the north facet of the highway reverse it have been changed by a big gray six-storey block of housing.
The flats at proper re part of the George Downing Property on Alkham Highway and are on the opposite facet of the railwa line.
Grade II* listed together with its neighbours 189 and 191, that is a part of what the itemizing textual content describes as “an Early C18 massive scale composition of three homes, the centre one projecting, touching at corners”. (It truly says proecting, however this constructing has a big yard in entrance and 189 has its porch nearly on the road,)
This home was inbuilt 1712 for Silk service provider John Wilmer (1696-1773), a rich Quaker. It later grew to become ‘The Invalid Asylum for the Restoration of the Well being of Respectable Girls’. Considerably rebuilt in 1983 it’s now the Yum Yum Thai Restaurant.
Arduous to recollect why I cropped this so tightly as to take away the S from Snooker and the SLI of Slindon Courtroom, however in all probability it was simply to make what I felt was a extra passable composition. I had beforehand photographed this in color with a barely wider view.
Slindon Courtroom is now the doorway to a gated mews growth behind the retailers right here.
The ultimate put up on this stroll continues to be to come back.
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