Seven Sisters Highway: on Sunday 1st October 1989 I took the Victoria Line tube to Finsbury Park (a few footage right here) and walked by means of the park to its most easterly nook, the junction between Inexperienced Lanes and Seven Sisters Highway at Manor Home.
A view from beside the wall to Finsbury Park by the gate. This space was know as Woodberry Down earlier than the Manor Home Tavern was first constructed right here on 1830-4 on the crossroads with Inexperienced Lanes, a turnpike or toll highway, after a 1829 Act of Parliament had allowed the constructing of Seven Sisters Highway.
Native builder Thomas Widdows had owned and lived in a cottage on the location and noticed a enterprise alternative, although it’s unclear why it was given the identify Manor Home – in all probability as a result of it sounded posh.
It opened as a ‘public home and tea-gardens’ in 1834 and its first landlord marketed it, writing “The Grounds adjoining are admirably calculated for Cricket, Entice-ball, or some other amusement requiring area. There may be likewise a big Backyard and Bowling inexperienced, good Stabling, lock-up Coach-houses, &c. Dinners for Public and Personal Events.
The unique pub was demolished in 1930 when the highway was widened and the Piccadilly line Manor Home station constructed right here, and changed by this engaging Flemish model constructing with only a trace of Artwork Deco. The pub and tube station led to the world changing into often known as Manor Home, with the identify Woodberry Down being revived for the big post-war housing property constructed slightly to the east by the LCC from 1948-62.
You possibly can be taught extra about its fascinating historical past and ranging clientele – together with its time as a significant Blues venue within the Nineteen Sixties – within the Wikipedia article cited. The pub closed round 2000 and its floor ground turned a grocery store in 2004.
Finsbury Park was a somewhat run-down space in 1989 and a few associates had been frightened about my security as I walked across the space carrying a bag full of high-priced digicam gear, however I had no issues. Folks had been pleasant although typically clearly thought I used to be mad to be taking images of their streets and retailers.
At left is KYPRIAKON KAFENEION, proven extra clearly in my subsequent image. Between the retailers are embellished pillars and above them somewhat odd embellished stone balls. I feel the retailers had been in all probability added just a few years later to the mid-Victorian homes behind.
You possibly can nonetheless see this row of retailers on Seven Sisters Highway, within the parade between Yonge Park and Medina Highway, and I feel this Cypriot cafe is now a dentists. In 1989 there have been many Cypriot companies within the space, however the space is now extra numerous and has a big Muslim neighborhood. Not one of the companies in my earlier image are nonetheless current.
Sisters Robes, just a few yards down Coleridge Highway was additionally clearly a Cypriot enterprise, and one in every of many clothes producers within the space, which has now turn out to be one in every of London’s most vibrant trend areas, significantly round close by Fonthill Highway.
This doorway may nonetheless be seen iin a derelict constructing n 2008, however the entire nook web site was demolished quickly after, though the location was nonetheless empty in 2022.
I feel this busts and our bodies had been for wale together with different items of apparatus to be used in store shows, nevertheless it regarded to me like some type of kinky torture chamber. Although looking for garments is commonly a torture, significantly when accompanying others who’re searching for them. I’m unsure what the soccer is doing right here.
An especially motley assortment of buildings from totally different intervals, together with BANGS, established in 1907, however I feel the frontage at the least is from the Nineteen Thirties.
Slightly to my shock, these buildings are nonetheless there, although the retailers have modified and under BANGS somewhat than JANE CAST LTD is now a Tesco. Even the constructing on the proper of the row which appeared in my {photograph} to haven’t any seen help continues to be there in addition to the pub surrounded by scaffolding have survived. The Eaglet, inbuilt 1869, was apparently badly broken by a Zeppelin in 1917 however recovered and continues to be open.
In-built 1938 as North London Material Retailer this Artwork Deco retailer was broken within the battle. In 1989 it was utilized by a wide range of companies together with London Worldwide Faculty. It has not too long ago been transformed to supply 118 costly flats, with retailers on the bottom ground.
In line with ‘Streets With A Story‘, “Robert Enkel from 1830-49 owned property and
occupied the nursery till 1834 when Cornelius Crastin and his household took over and continued as nurserymen till at the least 1890. The road identify disappears by 1975.” Enkel’s household got here from Holland and his identify was given to the road which dated from round 1875-6. As you’ll be able to see the road identify was really nonetheless there in 1989.
There may be nonetheless an Enkel Arms pub just a few yards away on Seven Sisters Roadm however Enkel Road disappeared with the event of the Nags Head Procuring Centre in 1992. And there’s a Nags Head Market indoors at 22 Seven Sisters Highway, apparently since 1975.
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