WHAT'S NEW ? N15 |
UPDATED 10th DECEMBER 2024 PLEASE NOTE: WEBSITE ADDRESS 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. |
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INTRODUCED TWO NEW QUICK LINKS TO TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO THE WEBSITE PAGES
THAT FEATURE ALL OF THE FAVOURITE LOCATIONS, METHODS OF TRANSPORT AND
PLACES OF WORK AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM TOTTENHAM IN THE PAST.CLICK BELOW
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Tottenham Nostalgia - Interesting places and memories from the past. |
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Tottenham - Interesting Snippets from our local history. |
FOR ROUTINE WHAT'S NEW ARTICLES AND FEATURES USE TABLE BELOW
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| LATEST ADDITIONS OR UPDATES - DECEMBER 2024 | |
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NEW DNA Journey -Sir William Prescott MP - TV Programme Disclosure DEC 2024 |
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NEW Challen Pianos - Harringay - The World's Largest Piano DEC 2024 |
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UPDATED WW1 West Green Memorial - Photos - Remembrance Day 2024 DEC 2024 |
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NEW Autobiography - Ray Kemp - From The Shadows of War- Tottenham Memories OCT 2024 |
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WW1 West Green Memorial - Tragic
profile Sylvester Charles Knell NOV 2024 SCROLL DOWN on page - ALPHABETICAL List |
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NEW Tottenham Underground Stations - A History NOV 2024 |
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UPDATED John Williams (1796-1839) South Seas Missionery - A life ! NOV 2024 |
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NEW Reference Book - Tottenham Walks by Mareeni Raymond and Edward Richards MAY 2024 |
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NEW A Life of Song and Dance -The Career of Tottenham Girl Marianne Price JAN 2024 |
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NEW The 'TWO WILLIAMS' Exhibition - Bruce Castle Museum JAN 2024 |
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UPDATE Famous Sons and Daughters of Tottenham. New Additions JAN 2024 |
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UPDATE Street Games - The games we once played in Tottenham's Streets. JAN 2024 |
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NEW All Hallows Church - Commemorative Clock - Rev Augustin Starey 1883 DEC 2023 |
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NEW Henry Tracey Coxwell - Pioneering balloonist and Aeronaut DEC 2023 |
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NEW Mysterious Spurs Shield - Presented in December 1967 DEC 2023 |
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UPDATE William Thomas Reed Atkinson - Grave Restoration Ceremony Oct 2023 NOV 2023 |
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UPDATE West Green Memorial - Remembrance Day Nov 2023 NOV 2023 |
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NEW Harold Charles Kenworthy - Prominent Role - WW2 Codebreaking Bletchley Park APR 2023 |
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NEW Cecil VictorShadbolt - Pioneer Aerial Photographer AUG 2023 |
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NEW OBITUARY -John Giggins - Former steward upon the Royal Train AUG 2023 |
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NEW The West Green Road Murder 1913 APR 2023 |
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NEW The Lea Valley Sailing Club - Update Origin of 'FLY' Class APR 2023 |
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NEW Coronation Memories -Alan Swain - UPDATED APR 2023 |
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NEW The River Lea - Tottenham - Update -New maps and photos APR 2023 |
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NEW Philip Lane, Tottenham - UPDATED - History and Photos APR 2023 |
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Moubray Family - Fife Scotland - Interesting Tottenham Connections MAR 2023 |
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Dr John Louis Sykes (1871-1948) -Former Spurs Player, Vice President and all round sportsman FEB 2023 |
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Thomas William Moy (1822-1905) Aeronautical
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Geoffrey John Hall - Artist - Born Tottenham JAN 2023 |
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LIST OF INTERSTING WEBSITE ADDITIONS PRIOR TO 2023 |
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Samuel Goldstein- Holocaust Survivor -West Green Road OCT 2022 |
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Alfred H Coleman-Resident Summerhill Road -Asst Secretary at Spurs (1909 -1926) SEPT 2022 |
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Updated Version of 'Allen Al Cullens' Hand-Drawn MAP of Tottenham AUG 2022 |
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The Swinging 60's - Live Music 'The Swan' Tottenham- John Maskell MAY 2022 |
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Obituary - Brian Clifford - celebrated son of Tottenham MAY 2022 |
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Eagle House School Tottenham Green & 'Stitching The World' FEB 2022 |
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Local History reference books; Loving Lebus and Old Cafes of Tottenham FEB 2022 |
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From Normandy to the Elbe - WW2 Experiences - John.W.C Robinson FEB 2022 |
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UPDATED Tottenham Royal & Memories of David Clinch FEB 2022 |
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Famous Sons & Daughters Tottenham- Chris Cross and Martin Benson DEC 2021 |
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Dicky Bird's Ice-Cream Shop- Tottenham High Road DEC 2021 |
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Doug Bruton - WW2 Hero - Wartime Experiences DEC 2021 |
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Tottenham Pubs -SUB-MENU: New articles 'Historic Pubs' and 'Martin Carlton Collection' DEC 2021 |
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Tottenham Grammar School - Booklet dating back to 1931 OCT 2021 |
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Horseshoe Coaches - Tottenham ( List of Publications -History) OCT 2021 |
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Tottenham Industrial Heritage - ADDED Weber Footwear OCT 2021 |
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In Memorium- Brenda Stanford (nee Woodward- Summerhill Road OCT 2021 |
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Commemorative Plaque - William Thomas Reed Atkinson - Unveiling Ceremony OCT 2021 |
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Peter Brown - Handwritten and illustrated booklets -Tottenham AUG 2021 |
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Old Maps of Tottenham (UPDATED) AUG 2021 |
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In Memorium - Stewart Green (1944-2021) J.E Green Builders Merchants AUG 2021 |
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Auger Fishing Tackle - Local Business- Summerhill Road -Tottenham AUG 2021 |
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Famous Sons of Tottenham - Bobby Buckle FEB 2021 |
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NEW Local History reference books; Harris Lebus and Bobby Buckle FEB 2021 |
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Ralph Barwick - Hero of Korean War- Recogniton fron Gen MacArthur FEB 2021 |
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Harringay Arena and Stadium- A History FEB 2021 |
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Reminiscences of the Phillips Family - Cholera Outbreak London 1866 FEB 2021 UPDATED JUNE 2021 |
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Tottenham to Cottenham - My Tottenham Childhood - Barbara Phillips JAN 2021 |
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Harby's Greengrocers- Summerhll Road- The story behind the photograph UPDATED FEB 2021 |
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A House Through Time - House Detective- Summerhill Road JAN 2021 |
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Memories of Tottenham - Jean Walters JAN 2021 |
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Famous Sons and Daughters- ADDED Eileen Atkins JAN 2021 |
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Old Photo's of Tottenham - Tottenham Carnival 1972 & 1976 - Ken Haynes DEC 2020 |
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Memories of John Dickinson's -Fountayne Road- Ken Clarke DEC 2020 |
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May Queen Celebrations - Seven Sisters School Rhoda Manning Photos DEC 2020 |
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Tottenham Street Parties- V.E Day & Coronation- NEW Additions - DEC 2020 |
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Tottenham's Industrial Heritage- AdditionTottenham & District Gas Co DEC 2020 |
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E.C Ambridge - Historic Ironmongers and hardware store Tottenham High Road JULY 2019 |
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Tottenham Hotspur Experience - Tour of New Stadium JULY 2019 |
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Tottenham Photographs - Jim Clark Collection (Obituary & New Photos) FEB 2019 |
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Bruce Castle Museum - BBC Your Paintings Collection (Additional Paintings) FEB 2019 |
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Memorial to Ray Swain - Local Historian and Co-Founder of Website DEC 2018 |
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WW1 West Green Memorial - Armistice Centenary ceremony DEC 2018 |
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Old Pubs of Tottenham - Old photograph of 'The Dagmar' Cornwall Road added - DEC 2018 |
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Philip Lane Tottenham - New collection of photograhs added DEC 2018 |
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Talbot Baines Reed - Victorian Author of Boys Books AUG 2018 |
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James Smithson -Founder of the Smithsonion Institution AUG 2018 |
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Don Vale -Recollections of Clyde Road and the early Dave Clark Five AUG 2018 |
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Percy House Tottenham - Home to the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation AUG 2018 |
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Janet Roberts -Photographs of the 'SMALL' family from Summerhill Road. AUG 2018 |
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MEMORIES -
SPURS SUPPORTERS CLUB WARMINGTON HOUSE' BY JANICE
McKEIRNAN APR 2018 |
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A Child of The Blitz- WW2 Memories of Jim Hepting. MAR 2018 |
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Henry Hunnings - Inventor of the carbon granule telephone transmitter - MAR 2018 |
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New book releases - Rev Henry Hunnings MA & Glory, Glory Lane MAR 2018 |
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Tottenham Grammar School- Duchess of Somerset Ceremony - Westminster
Abbey MAR 2018 |
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Memorial to Ron Jones - 1937-2017- Former Resident of Summerhill Road JAN 2018 |
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Living in Clyde Road 1950's - Sue Rowe (nee Bray) NOV 2017 |
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WW1 War Memorial - West Green New Victims Profiles - Ellis Sibley Gill and Charles Edward Gerrie NOV 2017 |
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Arthur Blakie Purvis - Tottenham Man - WW2 Chief of Supply OCT 2017 |
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'Glory, Glory Lane' Spurs Book by Mike Donovan OCT 2017 |
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The Origin of the name Tottenham - Our Local History JULY 2017 |
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'THE FINALE' A fond farewell to the historic Spurs stadium. MAY 2017 |
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Local History Fair-Bruce Castle Museum 17th Feb 2017 |
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Julia Maria Holt (Verstraete) - Wartime Heroine DEC 2016 |
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West Green Road Memories - Denningtons Bakery 1920s DEC 2016 |
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There's No Place Like Home - Susie Macey (Mayes)- Emigrated to
America 1892 DEC 2016 |
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Obituary-
Queenie Rawle - Survivor of Downhills Shelter Tragedy Sept 1940 DEC 2016 |
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WW1 War Memorial - West Green - In this centenery year of the Battle of the Somme discover the research findings on over 420 local men who lost their lives and lived within one Mile of this sadly neglected Memorial -Now includes interesting Profile of Sydney Elphich Sanders AUG 2016 |
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Tottenham Coronation
& VE Day Street Party's Antill Road Beaconsfield Road Brereton Road Colsterworth Road Durban Road Harris Lebus Glenwood Road Sutherland Road The Avenue Whitehall Street Winchelsea Road - Greyhound Road V.E Day added AUG 2016 |
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Old Tottenham Photo
Collection - Steve Rowe (New Images) AUGUST 2016 |
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Tottenham Street Traders
and Doorstep Service Providers JUN 2016 |
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Summerhill Road Census returns- Updated to include 1911 Census. A view of all the occupents: Names, age,and occupations. 1861 to 1911 MAY 2016 |
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The Parks of Tottenham MAY 2016 |
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The old Schools of Tottenham MAY 2016 |
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Priscilla Wakefield- Author and Philanthropist 1751-1832 DEC 2015 |
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Ben Robson - Tottenham Sketches by local artist Additional sketches included OCT 2015 |
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Old Photographs of Tottenham - Steve Rowe SEPT 2015 |
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Benjamin Godfrey Windus- Art Collector - Tottenham Green JULY 2015 |
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Walter How - Member of Shackleton's Antarctica Expedition MAY 2015 |
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Daphne
Bradley - Tottenham Memories 1940s & 50s MAY 2015 |
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William Atkinson (1851-1929) - Violin Maker in Tottenham MAY 2015 |
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Gestetners- Dorothy Hadlingham Photograph MAY 2015 |
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Luke Howard - Barometrographia Plates & New Portrait MAY 2015 |
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Downhills Shelter Tragedy -New memorial photographs- MAY 2015 |
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The Rifleman Pub - Birthplace of Matchbox Toys FEB 2015 |
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New
Tottenham Photographs- Dixon Scott Collection National Archives NOV 2014 |
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Myall's
Shoe Shop -West Green Road Tottenham NOW COMPLETED OCT 2014 |
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Petroleum
Transport Company - UPDATE Featured in BBC series 'SURVIVOR' 1975 OCT 2014 |
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Book Release: The Pubs of Tottenham High Road - Norrie Doyle JULY 2014 |
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Bruce Castle Museum - BBC Your Paintings Collection JUNE 2014 |
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Gadsdon's - Linking Spitalfields to Tottenham APRIL 2014 |
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Tottenham Parish Church - All Hallows APRIL 2014 |
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Photographs of Tottenham-Jim Clark Collection FEB 2014 |
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The Swap Shop - West Green Road Tottenham FEB 2014 |
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The Tottenham Royal-and Famous Performers FEB 2014 |
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Wartime Evacuee- Oh Mr Attlee what do you do ? - Joe Hewlett FEB 2014 |
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Clyde Road - Tottenham - Residents Menu Including Malcolm Hall and Paul Wooller memories DEC 2013 |
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Bill Nicholson - Mr Spurs MAY 2013 |
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Memories of an Evacuee - John Harvey FEBRUARY 2013 |
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The River Lea - Tottenham - A Brief History JANUARY 2013 |
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Trolleybus's Buses of Tottenham- Linda Bonner - Metropolitan Tramway photographs NOVEMBER 2012 |
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Tottenham Memories from Australia - Steven Rowe MAY 2012 |
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Dr. Arnold Lynch - Wartime Code-Breaker - from Downhills Park to Bletchley
Park MARCH 2012 |
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Seven Sisters Trees - A History NEW FEATURE FEB 2012 |
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Tottenham Memories - Peter Smith - High Road Shops DEC 2011 |
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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 |
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PREVIOUSLY ADDED FEATURES
| Downhills Shelter Update BREAKING NEWS We are pleased to announce that a conservation officer has eventually been assigned to this project and we understand a contract has now been issued for the restoration of the memorial and replacement of missing 'Lead Lettering' to help ensure the victims names can be fully identified. We now have every expectation that this work will be completed ahead of the Armistice Centenary Commemorations in November 2018. ************************************************************ 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 ! Following many years of Research and fundraising we are pleased to announce that a permanent memorial to the victims was eventually dedicated in Lordship Recreation Ground in July 2014 |
| 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 me know and e-mail details to me at: AlanswaiN17@virginmedia.com |
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