Smithson Road, N17

Smithson Road is a road in the N17 postcode area

Tower Gardens Estate end terrace house (2013)

Tower Gardens on the Wood Green/Tottenham borders was one of the first municipal ’cottage estates’ in the world. The estate consists of 954 houses arranged in 24 streets, each with its own architectural style.
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Kathleen

Spigurnell Road, N17

Added: 28 Jul 2021 08:59 GMT

Spigurnell Road, N17
I was born and lived in Spigurnell Road no 32 from 1951.My father George lived in Spigurnell Road from 1930’s.When he died in’76 we moved to number 3 until I got married in 1982 and moved to Edmonton.Spigurnell Road was a great place to live.Number 32 was 2 up 2 down toilet out the back council house in those days

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Great Cambridge Road Roundabout (1932) TUM image id: 1603467811 Licence:	Pymmes Park lake (2008) Credit: Wiki Commons/Northmetpit TUM image id: 1658789093 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hanger Farm, Hanger Lane (St Ann’s Road), March 1891 Credit: Charlotte Riddell (attributed) TUM image id: 1491306483 Licence:	Section of the Earl of Dorset’s 1619 map of the Parish of Tottenham, Middlesex. TUM image id: 1491308014 Licence:	Millfield Nursery TUM image id: 1490628737 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Clyde Road (c.1900) This Tottenham road commemorates Lord Clyde who was a significant figure in the Crimean War, the ’hero of Balaclava’ Credit: Bruce Castle Museum TUM image id: 1627732186 Licence:	Shopping in Green Lanes, Harringay (1960s) These early crossings were very distinctive - there was an animated “matchstick man” when you could cross who came to a standstill when you shouldn’t TUM image id: 1660661895 Licence:	Harringay Festival on Green Lanes (2009) Whilst it is undeniably an ancient thoroughfare, the age and origin of Green Lanes is somewhat uncertain. It possibly originated as a drovers’ road along which cattle were walked from Hertfordshire to London. But its origins may date back as far as the Roman period. Credit: Alan Stanton TUM image id: 1616512419 Licence:	Tottenham (1950s) Picture taken at the junction of Bruce Grove railway station with Tottenham High Road. Credit: Fred Ivey TUM image id: 1491314877 Licence:	High Road, Tottenham (1950s) Rather eccentrically, the Guinness advert on the hoarding is reversed, maybe for backward readers. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621938923 Licence:
Junction of Lordship Lane, Tottenham and Boreham Road, looking east (1908) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1614008555 Licence:	St Ann’s Road railway station was opened by the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway on 2 October 1882. It was at the corner of St Ann’s Road and Seven Sisters Road in N15. It comprised two wooden platforms, accessed by a footbridge and stairs, and a brick building. The service at the station was generally between St Pancras or Kentish Town and Barking or Southend. It was never well used, mainly as it was near South Tottenham and Seven Sisters stations, the latter gave a much faster link to The City. The station was closed on 9 August 1942 as a wartime austerity measure and never reopened. The station building survived as a newsagents until October 2012, when the building was demolished. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1616510328 Licence:	End of terrace house on the Arts and Crafts-inspired Risley Avenue on the Tower Gardens Estate, Tottenham. Two London County Council architects were credited with the layout and design of the estate: W.E. Riley and G. Topham Forrest. Credit: Geograph/Julian Osley TUM image id: 1614619254 Licence:	Summerhill Road (1914) By the 1850s, Summerhill Road had been constructed on 36 acres of meadow between Philip Lane and West Green Road. The first terraces of Summerhill Road were built in 1856 and 1859. TUM image id: 1582908280 Licence:

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Junction of Lordship Lane, Tottenham and Boreham Road, looking east (1908)
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End of terrace house on the Arts and Crafts-inspired Risley Avenue on the Tower Gardens Estate, Tottenham. Two London County Council architects were credited with the layout and design of the estate: W.E. Riley and G. Topham Forrest.
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