Salvation, Statuettes, a Attractive Mannequin, Spendel & Extra: Persevering with my stroll on Sunday fifth November 1989 from Inexperienced Lanes the place the earlier submit, Stroud Inexperienced to Grand Parade had ended I walked a way down West Inexperienced Street earlier than taking my subsequent image.
The Salvation Military constructing remains to be there on Terront Street although I believe now not in use by them. I used to be clearly attracted each by this constructing and by the automotive on a trailer to its left, fairly dramatically marked with giant Xs.
I puzzled if this automotive may be linked with the clearance of the Harringay stadium web site, a couple of kilometre away. Inventory automotive racing and Banger racing have been among the many occasions held at Harringay Stadium from the Fifties on. The stadium had opened as Britain’s third greyhound racing stadium in 1927, including speedway the next yr. The stadium lastly closed in 1987 and was acquired by Haringey council and a few years later demolished for housing and a Sainsbury’s superstore.
It was solely the fifth November so the Salvation Military have been maybe getting in fairly early with promoting a Christmas Bazaar to be held on 18th Novemeber.
And maybe this pair of Greek statuettes have been the best Christmas Present for somebody, although I believe it must be somebody you didn’t like. However as you may inform from the worth label they have been fairly small, and at £2.49 undoubtedly a present.
I made a decision to not make a terrific effort to appropriate the general flare which renders their higher areas fairly diffuse when making this digital copy from the unique unfavourable.
My stroll was coming to an finish and I walked again in direction of Turnpike Lane station discovering one other store window which caught my curiosity on Inexperienced Lanes. There was one thing unusually actual about this closely made-up model, wig, pose, and clothes, a sexual vitality whose spell was solely actually damaged by the clearly seen joint on her decrease left arm and a fairly porcelain high quality to the highlights. I believe this was most likely within the window of a store promoting marriage ceremony attire.
I took quite a lot of footage of this shopfront, which was I believe a part of the in depth station and bus station improvement. Most have been in color aside from this and a barely tighter cropped black and white picture. At the very least one of many color photos – additionally on Flickr – reveals the your complete shopfront dominated on the high by the massive phrase ‘HAIRDRESSER‘. In very small kind on the high of the window it states ‘GENTS SALOON’ and scattered on the floor on the base of the home windows in entrance of the shutters are packing containers containing tubes of associated merchandise together with Ingram shaving cream.
The window at left of the doorway incorporates two fairly unhealthy trying pot plans and behind them is a poster for the pantomime Aladdin starring Michael Barrymore and Frank Bruno.
My stroll on fifth November ended at Turnpike Lane, the place I caught the Piccadilly Line to make my means in direction of residence. However every week later I used to be again in the identical space, returning first to Walthamstow – a simple journey on the Victoria Line earlier than returning to Turnpike Street. I believe I had gone again to Walthamstow to retake some color photos, hoping to seek out higher gentle.
I’d photographed a big angel on my earlier stroll within the cemetery and this time I took an image of a fairly smaller one, however my fundamental curiosity was within the shadows solid on a few the stones, one in all my head and shoulders as I made the image together with the fence and to the best a transparent cross on a fairly much less clear fence shadow. I believe I used to be most likely standing exterior the cemetery fence trying in.
The Shandar Take Away Restaurant at 65 on the nook of Queen’s Street and Lansdowne Street had a vibrant mural alongside its Lansdowne Street aspect, and a lot of the footage I took of it have been in color, however I stood a bit of additional away on Queen’s Street to make this image together with a van with an open rear door parked on the pavement in entrance of a store on the alternative nook.
Shandar is a reputation utilized by quite a lot of Indian eating places, a Hindi phrase implying excellence or prime quality, which may very well be translated as ‘Splendid’ or ‘Grand’.
Extra from my stroll on twelfth November in a later submit.
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