Seven Sisters and Walthamstow Excessive St: On Sunday twenty fourth September 1989 I returned to north-east London to proceed my walks, this time beginning a bit of to the west on the Middlesex facet of the River Lea at Seven Sisters in Haringey. The Lea (or Lee), London’s second largest river, has been a major boundary no less than for the reason that Iron Age when it separated the Catuvellauni from the Trinovantes, later the Center Saxons from the East Saxons, then England from the Danelaw and till 1965 Middlesex from Essex (although a few of Middlesex by then was within the County of London.) It nonetheless separates Haringey on the west from Waltham Forest on the east.
I can’t keep in mind now why I acquired off the Victoria Line at Seven Sisters and took a brief stroll from there on my approach to Walthamstow, however probably there was a brief downside on the Victoria Line which terminated My practice there. However I discovered this part-demolished home, as soon as fairly grand, at 176 St Ann’s Rd in South Tottenham.
The signal above the door is for N Nicolau who had manufactured clothes, jackets, skirts and slacks right here, although I believe the commercial for vacancies for machinists, finishers and pressers was reasonably old-fashioned. There have been nonetheless loads of clothes sweatshops within the space, and plenty of had been Greek or Cypriot run firms.
This home has been rebuilt in a reasonably plainer style, however there are nonetheless another homes of an analogous age on the road, largely developed within the later Victorian interval. That is now within the St Ann’s conservation space across the church which was consecrated in 1861. The brand new constructing right here is talked about; “constructed of London inventory brick … white rendered sq. bays and a slate roof and respects the character and look of this a part of the Conservation Space.“
I favored the PIANOS signal surrounded by keyboards, although the 13 octaves on each high and backside appeared extreme – our Broadwood manages with solely seven and some additional keys.
J Reid Pianos was established in 1928 and are nonetheless in enterprise at 184 St Ann’s Street. You should buy a Reid Sohn piano from them, although these are actually made in Indonesia, and so they promote different makers too, with the “largesst collection of high quality pianos in London“. They’ve additionally restored many pianos from “Barraud, Bechstein, Bell, Bernstein, Bluthner, Bosendorfer, Boston, Brinsmead, Broadwood, Carl Schiller, Challen, Challen, D’Este, Erard, Fazioli, Fenner, Feurich, Gaveau, Gebruder, Grotrian, Hoffman, Ibach, Kawai, Kemble, Knake, Knight, Lipp, Matz, Pleyel, Pleyel, Reid-Sohn, Ronisch (Rönisch), Sames, Samick, Sauter, Schiedmayer, Schimmel, Seiler, Squire, Steck, Steinmayer, Steinway (Steinway & Sons), Steinweg, Thurma, Weber, Welmar, Yamaha.“
Mannequin cottages had been an early type of social housing for the working class and started with the assistance of Prince Albert who was the President of Society for Bettering the Situations of the Labouring Courses. He was unable to influence the commissioners of the 1851 Nice Exhibition in Hyde Park to incorporate the mannequin cottages designed by the SICLC within the exhibition as they had been felt to be too political however he had them constructed subsequent door at Knightsbridge Barracks – and later they had been rebuilt the place they nonetheless are in Kennington Park.
Following this, lots of the housing societies arrange within the Victorian period to supply comparatively low cost and first rate properties for the working class constructed mannequin cottages at varied websites throughout London. Rents had been set at ranges these in guide work might afford however nonetheless gave a good return to the corporate buyers.
These Grade II listed Mannequin Cottages are a number of the earliest to be constructed and had been maybe an area initiative linked with the neighbouring St Ann’s Faculty and church. They’ve been restored since I took this image, and the doorway at left now has a reasonably austere lady’s head above it – maybe a contemporary model of a Mercer Maiden?
The subsequent image, Automotive, Home, Leaves, Bedford Rd, 148, West Inexperienced Rd, West Inexperienced, Haringey, 1989 89-9c-32, was a kind of included with textual content in my e book ‘1989‘.
Lastly I acquired again onto the Victoria Line to Walthamstow Central and walked to the Excessive St, a really completely different scene on a Sunday Morning that the crowded market I had photographed just lately on a Saturday afternoon.
I favored the font used for BEAU.BAGGAGE in addition to the STOP PRESS across the window promoting the top of season sale. There was additionally the three indicators on the high proper of the store which by some means appeared joined collectively. Then there was the road furnishings – the ready man on the site visitors lights, the phone unbox at left and a lamp submit with a ‘No Entry’ signal at proper.
All very rigorously positioned in my body with in all probability a bit of assist from the 35mm shift lens which enabled me to decide on my place after which slide the lens and examine a bit of to the suitable or left (and up or down) to place the body edges the place I needed them. A lot of the images I took had been made with this lens.
One other image of retailers on the Excessive Road, displaying post-war and doubtless late Victorian buildings. At left is the Cakemaker’s Centre, with its image of a stability and I believe the identify EASY WEIGH and within the centre the doorway to The Walthamstow Working Males’s Membership & Institute.
The membership celebrated its a hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 2012 and claims to be the oldest surviving working males’s membership within the nation. It was based in 1862 by Lord Henry Solly (1813-1903), British Unitarian minister, social reformer, and instigator & founding father of the Working Males’s Membership motion, the Charity Organisation, and the Backyard Metropolis Motion.
This was a temperance membership, with the goal to teach working males and free them from alcoholism. It had a library, a video games room and a dialogue room. The membership is proscribed to 50 members and in 2012 all had been nonetheless males. They stated nothing prevented ladies becoming a member of however none had utilized. It’s nonetheless a temperance membership, although members may typically deliver a can of beer in, and as it’s affiliated to the CIU, members can go to many different golf equipment throughout the nation (together with I believe a pair in Walthamstow) and purchase a beer.
In contrast to most different working mens golf equipment which depend on bar gross sales this membership will get an revenue from a number of of the retailers whose premises it owns – I believe together with some in my image.
Extra from Walthamstow on this stroll in a later submit.
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