South Tottenham & Stamford Hill: Persevering with my stroll on Sunday eighth October which had begun at Seven Sisters Station from the place I had walked south down the Excessive Highway – the photographs begin a way down my publish Abney Park & South Tottenham.
On the Excessive Highway in South Tottenham I discovered one other of the 20 photographs which had been part of my web page and ebook ‘1989’, ISBN: 978-1-909363-01-4, and above is the web page from that.
I turned from the Excessive Highway into St Ann’s Highway and a brief means down got here to this signal for the Emerald Bar. Now disappeared this was clearly an Irish bar (the Shamrock in addition to the title was a clue!) and solely a brief stroll from St Ignatius Catholic Church on the Excessive Highway. It seemed to be in part of the yard of St Ignatius Main College.
The brickwork on the entrance and the reasonably curious design of the signal each had a curiously beginner really feel. On the big noticeboard under the bar’s title I might simply make out the phrases STRIPPER and HERE; there have been just a few different letters however nothing I might make sense of.
I took one other image on St Ann’s Highway (not on-line) however quickly returned to the Excessive Highway and continued south, the place this highway turns into Stamford Hill, previous Phililp Kosher Butcher at 292 (image not on-line) crossing the busy highway to {photograph} some reasonably grander homes which I feel are literally at 11-15 Excessive Highway on the border of Haringey and Hackney.
Again on the opposite aspect of the road was the turning into Ravensdale Rd the place above Beeny’s Recent Fish continues to be considered one of London’s best-known ‘ghost indicators’. After I made this image a lot of the indicators for Yager’s Costumes had been coated by two giant billboards and solely the YAGER’S, BUY YOUR WINTER COATS HERE AND SAVE MONEY and THE HOUSE OF VALUE may very well be learn.
I feel the Yagers who owned Yager’s Costumes had been most likely part of the Yager household, Jews with Austrian/Romanian dad and mom who got here to England at a while earlier than the 1901 census. By 1911 they had been residing not far-off in Downs Park Highway Hackney. Harry Yager began quite a lot of companies together with a timber retailers and Park Royal Coachworks. He had a corridor named after him at Stamford Hill Synagogue. However the household historical past has no point out of a clothes firm.
An organization, Yager’s (Stamford Hill) Ltd, Firm quantity 23013, was apparently registered in 1928 however dissolved by 1932 however Firms Home data obtainable on-line don’t return far sufficient to seek out info.
Benny’s Recent Fish is now a store providing shoe repairs and key chopping and the remainder of the store is a café.
I continued down Stamford Hill after which turned east alongside Clapton Frequent. On reaching the grass and bushes I went to there left alongside Castlewood Highway the place after some reasonably dreary postwar blocks I got here to this high quality Nineteen Thirties block of flats, Rookwood Court docket, on the nook of Rookwood Rd. These personal flats with a view (for some) throughout the frequent had been inbuilt round 1936. New home windows put in round 2011-12 likely make the flats extra comfy however have misplaced among the enchantment of the constructing.
Subsequent door to them you’ll be able to see the tower and spire of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rookwood Highway, now the Georgian Orthodox Church. Extra about that within the subsequent publish.
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