I was born in Tottenham and lived with my parents and brother and two sisters at 461, Seven Sisters Road. This was in a long row of early Victorian three storey terraced house divided mainly into separate flats all over shops or business premises. Beneath our house there was a doctor's surgery, The doctor was Dr Smulion (No idea of correct spelling) Next door conveniently an undertakers. Our house was somewhere opposite the Stamford Hill Bakery. My nan lived close to us at number 433. When I was about five years of age, in 1937, we moved to live in a flat over a club in Finsbury Park where my dad was employed as head steward. In 1941 at the outbreak of war we children were evacuated to St.Ives in Huntingdonshire. We were later joined by our parents and the family then settled in St.Ives and we never returned to London. I know that my dad Clyde, had several siblings and relations still living in and around Islington and Edmonton but we have no idea who they are now or where they are as we lost touch very many years ago. Would be nice to trace some of them. This is a photograph of the bill for conveying my mum and dad from my nans house at 433 Seven Sisters Road to St.Anns church for their wedding in 1946

Did anyone work at Jameson’s chocolates in the 1970s good times

I am researching the Skinners Almshouses and came across reference to them on your great website. I was wondering if you might have any additional information on the almshouses, can recommend any other websites. Thanks very much.

This is a great site – well done and keep up the good work. A couple of thoughts about the page: while the establishment of the other churches is noted, I miss any reference to St John’s. Given the interest at the moment in the First World War and remembrance, perhaps also worth noting the dates of the establishment of the war memorial in front on St John’s and the Garden of Remembrance in Broomfield Park. Finally, when the school in Fox Lane closed and was sold for housing, it was not Southgate County any more. That school had moved to its new site in Cockfosters in the 1960s – for its last 20 years the Fox Lane School was part of Minchenden School.
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Hi! I lived in PalmersGreen From when I was 2 in 1937 until I married in 1954 then again 1963 to 68. Have so much knowledge of the area I wouldn’t know where to start.

Im trying to trace my grandmother's parents Donald Bell & Alice Maud Bell(nee Woodhouse). They lived at 83, Park Rd, Hornsey, Edmonton when she was born, Joyce Iris Bell, 25 Mar 1934. (She was actually born at 77 Bridport Rd, Edmonton). Donald was a Blacksmith (journeyman)& it is believed in the family that his family were Scottish, but unsure if that is fact or simply deduced from the name? Any info about any of these people or their families & origins would be very welcome.

I am looking for information about my great grandfather Joseph Day(b1849) who married a Emma Taplin(b1850) who originated from Kent also my grandfather Joseph Day(b1873) who married a Nellie Huggins, they had 2 sons Edward George(b1911)and Joseph (b1913) both sons were born in Hornsey. my grandfather Joseph had 2 sisters Caroline Day who married a George Saunders, the last known address for them is in Hornsey and Emma Day who married a Benjamin Cochrane last known address was in Wood Green, there was also a brother Edward who died aged 44 in 1941. if anyone has these names in their family tree would you please contact me.

Alfred Harding b.1883 Edmonton was a soldier in 1923 and his family lived 1 Westleigh London Road, Edmonton.
And Myddleton Road, Hornsey

I am now trying to find Raymond A Hatchett born 1945 in edmonton son of Louisa (nee Daniels) and Alan Hatchett. My original entry reads: I am trying to find any decedents of the late Leonard Maurice Daniels born Nov 1904 in clerkenwell. On the 1911 census it was recorded that he lived on Cornwallis Grove Edmonton with his father Sydney, mother Rebecca both born 1872 and his 7 siblings. He married Emily Cotton in 1923 and they had a daughter Joyce in 1925. there are possibly further children of the marriage as I have been told that my father also had 2 sons. Before moving to Nottingham around 1940 my dad lived in Percy House, High Cross Rd and Bruce Grove Tottenham . If you have any information please contact me. Thank you

Will this ever get added? Too much emphasis on Scotland

Has anyone any info on the Dunlop Raincoat Factory that was in Tottenham in the 1930`s - 60s where it was, who worked there, etc

Loved reading this review, reminded me of my childhood days in Tottenham and the Nelly Sergeant dancing school I went to in Lordship Lane.

Does any one else remember going there or have any photo's.

I remember most the concerts and pantomine's we used to take part in..

Looking for more details -at the end of the road is the rec. MARKFIELD ROAD RECREATION GROUND. the football pitches were turned into allotments during the war. crowland road had its own football team. i am now 80 years old married with 4 sons 6 grand children. HERE ARE SOME NAMES -barry hARPER. ALAN TURNER. ERIC WALTERS.DEREK WATTS. JOHNNY DARE.RAYMOND USHER.KENNY DAVIDSON. THELMA HARPER. BETTY COLLINS. JOAN TURNER.OLIVE STREET.(her brother used to take me to watch spurs play in the 1940s).david-rosie?.my husband and i moved to spain in may 2004. gerald stacey.the shortest one but the oldest one

I now live in the USA but went to school at St Francis De Sales opposite the Spurs ground.Every day we would catch the bus on the High Road at Northumberland Park (we walked back one stop to avoid the crowds), There was a shop and in the window a glass dome that had a dog about 1 to 2 inches high. It said this is a real dog. Everyone thinks I am mad only my sister and her hairdresser can remember this dog. Help prove Im not mad. What was the shop? Where is the dog? I left school over 50 yrs ago and its driving me mad.The Tottenham museum at Bruce Castle Park dont and cant find out anything. HELP

Did you attend saint Ignatius school. corner of saint annes road Stamford hill. in the 1940s. some names come to mind. PETER SCALES/GINGER TURNER/ALAN TURNER/BRIAN HANNIFORD/TERRY MURPHY. HIS DAD RAN THE PUB AT LUDGATE CIRCUS. CORNER OF FLEET STREET. VICTOR LUKERINY?

I spent from 1952 to 1968 living on the Noel Parl Estate. I was at Noel Park School from 1953 to 1958.

The estate was run by a private company in the early 50s an interview was required to see if you were eligible to rent a house on the estate.

Morley Ave had a tree in the middle! Russel Park was a bit barren, All in all it was a decent place to grow up.

On Saturday mornings there were showmen on spouters corner, fire eaters, a guy with a whip, a woman who made doves appear from a hat.

Sunday the Sally Army Band marched up and down the avenues..

I suppose it is natural that I think of parents and times long gone, as I sit in the family house in Tottenham, North London, waiting for some people to come and view it. It will be a wrench to leave, as I was born here and have been around the place, one way or another, for fifty five years or more. I remember old friends and neighbours; some long dead, others just lost - as is the way of life. Looking out over the garden, I can see the neat paths, lawns, borders and rose bushes that were my father’s pride. Carnations, flocks, pansies, peonies, marigolds and chrysanthemums were separated from the vegetable plots by his greenhouse. But it only takes a blink of the eyes and they are gone; replaced by the chaos of the long, uneven grass and the nettles and brambles, which hang on so tenaciously, overshadowed by the elder trees and the spreading hop vines.

Looking out of the front room window, I can see Mr Perkins walking up to the shops leaning heavily on his stick; his daughter Janet goes off to work on her bicycle with the basket on the front handlebars. I remember Jack the pigman shouting and chasing a huge sow down the road towards West Green. It escaped from its’ pen at the piggery in the middle of Summerhill Road, after deciding to decline Jacks’ hospitality and to refuse the invitation to visit the slaughter house in Philip Lane. Other times, Jack can be seen driving cattle up to Philip Lane from the pens; strangely rural sights, only a couple of miles or so from the centre of London, in the 1950s and early 1960s.

i lived in arnold road n15 and used to drink in the swan and the rose and crown, blacks and whites all got on together mostly unfortunately those days are long gone, the last time i drove through tottenham i hardly recognised the place but i suppose it is laughingly called progress

Please extend the records of the herald coverage

HI, i went to lordship lane school.Ilived up in the prefabs on white hart lane,and walked through elland rd. to school.I started at the infants in 1950 or 51.and went right through juniors,and seniors.sorry my memory is not so good on names,perhaps you could help? like to here some more as i dont live in london now.