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UPDATED 7th MAY 2012

PLEASE NOTE: WEBSITE ADDRESS IS NOW

TOTTENHAM-SUMMERHILLROAD.COM

You will appreciate that our website is expanding all the time as we receive new stories, photographs and memories from residents past and present.  This section is therefore intended to highlight the most recent additions to the 'Summerhill Road' site.

Simply Click on the BUTTON alongside each entry for a direct link to the item. 

 

Item Description
LATEST ADDITIONS OR UPDATES - MAY 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Tottenham Memories from Australia - Steven Rowe                    MAY 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Forthcoming Events - TCS History Walk-  Palace Gates to Seven Sisters - Tottenham Railways

and Summer Programme - Bruce Castle Museum                             MAY 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Dr. Arnold Lynch - Wartime Code-Breaker - from Downhills Park to Bletchley Park

                                                                                         MARCH 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Seven Sisters Trees - A History                                  NEW FEATURE FEB 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Tottenham Hotspur - Historical Football Programmes    NEW FEATURE FEB 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Tottenham Hotspur Football Club - History                               UPDATED FEB 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Famous Daughters of Tottenham - Adele -Singer & Entertainer   FEBRUARY 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Old Photographs of Tottenham - Tottenham Carnival 1964-New photographs High Road

                                                                                                    FEB 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Harris Lebus & I - Tottenham Memories of Mark Bailey                     JAN 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Famous Sons of Tottenham - Dr Joseph Silk  - Astrophysicist            JAN 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Old Photographs of Tottenham - New Photographs - West Green Road     JAN 2012
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) The old Pubs of Tottenham - Nostalgic watering holes !                       DEC 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Lordship Recreation Ground and Model Traffic Area- page redesigned + New Photos

DEC 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Tottenham Memories - Peter Smith - High Road Shops                             DEC 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Tottenham Memories - Peter Smith - Recycling is nothing new !                DEC 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) The Early Railways of Tottenham                                                           NOV 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Famous Sons and Daughters Tottenham - Added Dr Arnold Lynch        NOV 2011  

NOTE: We plan to include a full feature on the work of Dr Lynch in the New Year
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Forthcoming Event - 'Vintage Fair' Bruce Castle Museum and Book Signing "Tottenham and Wood Green - Then & Now"
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Old Photographs of Tottenham -New Photographs Turnpike Lane
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Residents - Recollections of the Parrott Family- 48 Summerhill Road.
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) William Hobson of Markfield - Builder of the Martello Towers
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Clyde Road - Tottenham - A Perspective
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Forthcoming Events - Features on two BBC Programmes

'Reel History of Britain' and 'Songs of Praise'
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Summerhill Road Street Party - Royal Wedding Prince William & Kate Middleton
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Memorial to Luke & Mariabella Howard - May 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Forthcoming Events - Summer Programme  Bruce Castle Museum
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Photo Library - Old Photographs of Tottenham
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Downhills Park Tottenham - New collection of photographs added
 downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) SPURS - True Confessions - The Goal that never was !
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Forthcoming Events  - Memorial Ceremony - Luke & Mariabella Howard
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Borough of Tottenham - Coronation Events Handbook 1953
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Summerhill Road - Sample Street - Different Architectural Styles
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Fred Fisk - Local Historian, Bookseller and Photographer
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Memories of the old Imp (Imperial Cinema)  -  Alan Robinson
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Forthcoming Events - Memorial Service -Ralph Joscelyne

                  Victim of Tottenham Outrage
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Tottenham and THE SPURS - A New Historical Perspective
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Photographs SPURS History - Updated article plus Photographs
ADDITIONS AND UPDATES PRIOR TO MARCH 2011
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Philip Lane Tottenham - Wonderful New Photographs including Winter 1963
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Petroleum Transport Company - Updated article plus Photographs
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Annie Elizabeth Chase -Tottenham Memories - A Victorian childhood
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Old Cinemas of Tottenham & Saturday morning pictures- Memories & links
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Melvin Hurst - Writing an oral history of Tottenham - 'How Things Were'
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Kemp Family -Summerhill Road - Updated photographs & Information
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Joinery & Timber- West Green Road -Old Photographs
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Humorous Postcards - Tottenham Girls
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Julius Caesar - Born in Tottenham ?
downhi1.jpg (1887 bytes) Report - Downhills Shelter 70th Anniversary Commemoration event
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Note: We have recently made contact with Rosalie Spire the Granddaughter of Robert Spire who died in the Downhills Shelter Tragedy. We hope to feature her story in the near future. -   12/11/09 -    NOW PUBLISHED  13/01/10

  SEE NEW MENU PAGE  FOR OTHER DOWNHILLS SHELTER STORIES

        PREVIOUSLY ADDED FEATURES

Item

Description
NEW Photographs - Catastrophic Fire - Alexandra Palace - July 1980
NEW Mike Diprose- Just Reminiscing -Boyhood Engineer
NEW Updated links-Including Alan Stanton's-Tottenham FLICKR page -Photo's
NEW Memories of an Evacuee - Tony Palmer
NEW St Philips Church Boy Scouts - Alan Keighley
NEW Downhills Shelter Commemoration Ceremony

      

Downhills Shelter Update - We continue to seek information on this tragic event and frequently make appeals at events like the 'Local History Fair.' held at Bruce Castle Museum annually.  Furthermore it is encouraging to note that at a past meeting of the 'Lordship Rec Users Forum Meeting', it was generally agreed that as part of the River Moselle overhaul project consideration should be given to the construction of a memorial bridge.

A historic commemoration ceremony was held on Sunday 16th November 2008 when for the first time public recognition was give to the victims of the shelter tragedy. In addition to some survivors and relatives of the victims families,there were representatives from the Police, Fire Brigade and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.  The ceremony was also attended by the Mayor of Haringey and prayers were offered by the vicar of St Phillips Church. 

Since this time we have received three more eye-witness stories from survivors of the tragedy. Their stories can be found on the Downhills Shelter feature.               

You are reminded that the Downhills Park Air-Raid shelter tragedy occurred on the 19th Sept 1940 when many local people lost their lives. Sadly this tragic event has gone largely unmarked and no memorial was ever built as a lasting tribute to the victims and the heroic efforts of the emergency services. Hopefully we can help change that !

 

If you have any memories of this tragedy or can recall any other details that will help us to gather more information on the incident then please let either Ray Swain know or e-mail details to me at:                  Alan@SwainJones.Freeserve.co.uk

 

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