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There was a time - before Dunn's - when Hovis was the only brown bread available in the whole of the UK. But even that wasn't PROPER brown bread as some of us now know...
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Can't claim a record - we lived in Florence Road from 1945 till 1953. But... At that time there was still gas lighting in the road and every evening the gas-lighter-man came along on his bike with a long pole and put the flame to the lamp (actually…
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Thanks for remembering me David, however I have to say that the last time I was in Fonthill Road was about 1949. Looking at the road now in GSV doesn't awaken any sign of recognition. Then it was a dump, really.
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Then I'm the only one who remembers Ronaldshay as a bombsite, The Ally-Pally Push and Pull, Saturday Morning Pictures at the Rank cinema, The Finsbury Park Empire, Cycle races around Finsbury Park, Wall's icecream in the cafe in FP, The Tuck shop in…
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Married a Swiss girl in 1962 and have been in Zurich now for 42 years but love to meander around Stroud Green when I'm in London.
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The most dastardly robbery I can recall during my time living in Florence Road (1945-53) was when, one Saturday morning, about 1947, on my way back from Saturday Morning Pictures in the old Rank cinema down at Finsbury Park my mates and I were 'atta…
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There appears to be a hole here so maybe someone would like a little bit of history again. In the December of 1945 I, 7 years old, was returning home by foot, (of course), from Saturday Morning Pictures at the Rank Cinema down past Finsbury Park …
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Well, andy, I'm always popping in but my Stroud Green is the SG of the 40s and 50s so there's not much to hang my hat on.
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Other anagrams are: enrage host; erase thong; rehang toes; one gathers - the oranges; strange hoe; horse agent; honest rage and many others!!!!!
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Just for the sake of it: When I was growing up in Florence Road - from 1945-1953, the rent my parents paid for a middle 'flat' was 17 shillings and sixpence per week. I know this because it was one of my duties to take the rent to the landlord every…
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I don't know about costs per mile, but that doesn't seem very important to me if the other traffic flows so that other costs, nerves, time and energies are put to better things. I have to laugh when I read of the problems there are today getting t…
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It's me again, with my memories. London once had trams, as a lad I travelled on them quite a bit. That must have been in the late forties. The tram tunnel running under High Holborn, by Holborn underground station is used today by normal traffic…
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During the post-war years of the 40s, we (children of about 7-10 years of age) went every Saturday to 'Saturday Morning Pictures'. In our case this was a Saturday morning spent in the Rank Cinema on the corner - more or less - of Stroud Green Road a…
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I hope no-one minds me butting in. I went to SG Secodary Modern (as it was then called) from 1945 - 1953. The school was divided into Infants; Juniors; Seniors. All classes were large - about 40 children, it was pretty well-behaved. Lots of spor…
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I'm afraid I'm not all that local nowadays matt, but I'll willingly add bits and pieces as we go along.
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Here's something else that you probably don't know. If you go to the end of Dagmar Road you'll come to a wall separating the railway from the road. To the left there is, or was, a door or a bricked-up gateway. (I haven't been there for donkey's …
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It's nice to be missed. In fact I hadn't realised that there was anyone really taking notes of my musings... My sons bought me a new PC, so, thinking that I'd need to start again (so to speak) I threw out all my favourites and only today did I se…
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I've just seen the photo's of Finsbury Park on the welcome page and the two commentaries about the road through the park and cycling on it. Did you know that during the late forties and the fifties this road was a well-used cycle-racing road hol…
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That's a photo that brings back memories. I lived, as a lad, in Florence Road, (backing onto the railway embankment) from 1945 until 1953 so Stroud Green Station was a frequented spot in my young life. As it happens I was a keen trainspotter (as …
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We've had car sharing in all its forms here in Switzerland for years, (which also answers tosscat's question) but even though successful to a certain degree most people still want the freedom of having their own car. The small percentage of road spa…
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Two things: For me, who lived in Florence Road from 1945-1953, a road just like Victoria Road, it is unbelievable that there can be such problems. During those years there was only ONE car parked on the road. (I live abroad so haven't seen Victor…
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As I said, I haven't been there for 41 years, so things will have changed. But, it used to be as I have described - I can't imagine it any different!
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Fonthill Road! Well I never! I always like to get my oar in when I can having been a Stroud Greener before most of you were born. After the war, and until as far as I remember, Fonthill Road was looked upon as being on the edge of hell. This w…
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You're right: I remember how proud I was when the 'Scone Stone' was stolen from Westminster Abbey (I think!), this was about 1950. As the 'papers mentioned that it had been taken up Stroud Green Road on its journey back to Scotland - how about that …
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This is all soooo thrilling. Isn't life wonderfull !!!!
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I didn't take enough care when reading the first part of this thread, that's why I talked about what I now know to be the wrong guns. Never mind, we've added a little bit to the history of Finsbury Park. So here's something else. In about 1947/8…
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I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing here. But Finsbury Park itself was an AA-Gun site during the second world war. These guns were stationed near the railway, there was a footbridge (maybe still there) crossing the railway lines from…
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I'm not actually interested in where you may have put your tongue in the past, andy, I was simply trying to point out the imbalance that exists between value for money and hot air.