An area with a very diverse population. The Seven Sisters Ward has the largest proportion of Jewish residents among Haringey wards, at 18.1%. At Gladesmore Community School on Crowland Road, two-fifths of pupils are of black Caribbean or black African descent and a tenth are white British. However, these figures do not necessarily mirror the local demographics as a large proportion of pupils travel long distances to this increasingly popular school.

The events of the day were dominated by two deaths. The first was that of Cynthia Jarrett, an Afro-Caribbean woman who died the previous day due to heart failureduring a police search at her home. It was one of the main triggers of the riot, in a context where tensions between local black youth and the largely white Metropolitan Police were already high, due to a combination of local issues and the aftermath of the 1985 Brixton riot which had occurred the previous week, following the shooting of a black woman, Cherry Groce, during another police search.^[1][2][3][4] The second death was the murder of Keith Blakelock, the third police officer since 1833 to be killed in a riot in Britain.^[5][6][7]

And a former healthy chicken restaurant, has been lost, as well!. Fire station. Built 1905 by A S Taylor and R Jemmett. English bond red brick with Portland stone bands and dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick stack with moulded stone cap. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Half-glazed panelled double doors set in square-headed rusticated architraves with pronounced Keystones. Segmental open pediments and pulvinated friezes over tripartite sashes with glazing bars and balustraded aprons; similar tripartite sashes to attic storey, beneath modillioned cornice; original rainwater heads with modillioned cornices and ball pendants. One of 3 municipal buildings, originally interlinked by iron gateways, built by A S Taylor and R Jemmett for Tottenham Borough Council. (The Builder, April 14 1904).

The foundation stone for the new facility was laid on 6 October 1904.^[2] The building was designed by Arnold Taylor and Rutherford Jemmett in the Baroque style; it was officially opened by the Chairman of the Council, T H Camp, on 2 November 1905.^[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Town Hall Approach Road; the central section of five bays featured a doorway with a stone surround flanked by Tuscan order pilasters on the ground floor; there were tall rounded-headed windows with Gibbs surround arches flanked with Ionic order columns in the centre and Ionic order pilasters beyond on the first floor; there was a cupola with a clock at roof level.^[1] The principal room was the council chamber on the first floor.^[1]

Now, part of the COLLEGE

STONES OF HARINGEY has a lovely site about it! 

Although this building is not as old as others, which I will be showing, I think that it has a place here as an example of late Victorian architecture built at the same time as the Municipal buildings in Town Hall Approach Road. It was built in a pleasing style, which added grandeur to the High Road. This was Tottenham’s largest library, which I remember using with fond affection. When the new library was built, the building was converted into flats in 1990 and called Library Court.

Windus was an eminent businessman from an established family firm of coachmakers and a director of Globe Insurance.

He was one of a new class of patrons with wealth and interest who succeeded the landed aristocracy in the patronage of the arts .  He started acquiring watercolours around 1820 and by 1840 had over 200 works by JMW Turner in his collection.  Passionate about the work of Turner he extended his home adding a library to accommodate his growing collection of pictures. These were framed in gold and mounted in a manner of which Turner approved

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member "Brotherhood" partly modelled on the Nazarene movement.^[1] The Brotherhood was only ever a loose association and their principles were shared by other artists of the time, including Ford Madox Brown, Arthur Hughes and Marie Spartali Stillman. Later followers of the principles of the Brotherhood included Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris and John William Waterhouse.

The group sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. They rejected what they regarded as the mechanistic approach first adopted by Manneristartists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. The Brotherhood believed the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite".

John Constable, the Romantic painter, travelled to Tottenham Green in April 1799 to visit Priscilla Wakefield who lived to the east of the High Road.  She records a meeting with Constable, presumably at her home in Tottenham:
Mr Constable paid me an unexpected visit to dinner and tea.

A well-connected Quaker, famous in her life time, Priscilla Wakefield, led a life pursuing social reform. She was actively engaged in social action and the alleviation of poverty in Tottenham focussing on charities concerned with women and children founding the Lying-in Charity for Women and the School of Industry for girls. She founded a Frugality Savings Bank in Tottenham and as a result she is widely acknowledged as the founder of the first Savings Bank in England..

She was well-read with an enthusiam for education and learning as well as the economic emancipation of women, political issues of the day and the topics of science, history and geography.  Her books, written in later life as a result of financial difficulties in her family, reflected her wide range of interests.

She was involved in the Quaker led campaigns for the abolition of slavery and prison reform.

Holy Trinity Church was the second church to be built in Tottenham and it was consecrated as Holy Trinity Chapel on 26 May 1830. The Anglican church was built between 1828 – 1830 funded through public subscription and a Parliamentary grant. The church, designed by James Savage, was one of a number of ‘Commissioners’ Churches’ built as a result of the Church Building Act 1818 and related acts. It was modelled on King’s College chapel, Cambridge.  Holy Trinity  was assigned a district chapelry from the parish of All Hallows, Tottenham in December 1844.

Many people wrongly think that this monument was built to commemorate where the funeral cortege of Queen Eleanor in 1290 stopped on its way to London. However this site is now thought to be where the Romans placed a marker, when they were building the road. In time this marker was then replaced by a wooden structure and then eventually the stone monument that we see today. It was formally made of wood and in 1580 had four spurs to support it the pointed top was covered in lead. Apparently it had sundials on its west and south sides. In 1809 the cross was repaired and covered with cement in the form you see it today. After a period of time the monument began to lean. Later in the 1970’s when the surrounding roads were re-configured the Council took the opportunity to create an island for the Monument, it was then straightened, cleaned then lights were placed around to floodlight at night.

A reconverted  1920s public convenience 

The picture was taken when the houses were occupied by the BRITISH LEGION

This fine building was built in 1848, there is a plaque on the north side which bears a carving which was originally on the Millhouse Almhouses, which was previously on this site. The Millhouse Company was later incorporated with the Drapers Almshouses and a magnificent parade of almshouses was built in Bruce Grove. See above.
The school closed down in 1980’s after been joined with the Gladesmore community school. The building has now been sensitively restored and houses many flats. The extensive school playing fields are now a Council housing estate. The wonderful ‘ Felvus’ hall a separate building on the High Road which housed the school assembly hall and science laboratories have now been sold by the Drapers Company to a church going by the splendid name of the Christ Apostolic Church.

Former theatre and cinema, later used as a bingo hall, now a church.

If you go up to the platform, their canopies seem to have survived in their original form, including their wooden fascia boards.

Off the HIGH ROAD,  BRUCE GROVE carries the A10 towards SOUTHBURY, near ENFIELD ENFIELD. The HIGH ROAD becomes the A1010. Historically, of course, this is the important one, a ROMAN way,  ERMINE STREET for the Anglo-Saxons.

The cinema here first opened in July 1921 and was operated by a local independent company, Tottenham Cinema and Entertainment Co. Ltd, according to the Cinema Treasures site.

The building was reconstructed in August and September 1933. Externally it was modernised and the original domed tower feature was removed. The auditorium was Art Deco style.

In 1962 the cinema was taken over the Star Cinemas Ltd of Leeds who closed it in August 1963 and converted it into a Star Bingo Club. At some time the building was spilt with the stalls area becoming a snooker club and the former balcony extended forward to the proscenium to remain a bingo club for a few more years.

Bingo upstairs closed in May 1983 and the space was empty until 1986. It was used for two short lived ventures (an indoor cricket pavilion and a “Quazar” laser shooting gallery). Then in the early 1990s it was converted into a church, known as the Freedom’s Ark. Snooker continued in the former stalls area, together with a Caribbean restaurant.

In May 2011, the Freedom’s Ark church vacated the building and moved elsewhere in Tottenham. But there seems to be a church in here again now but I am not sure what the rest of the whole building is being used for.

In 1923, the owners of the Bruce Grove cinema commissioned the cinema’s architect (Charles E. Blackbourn) to design a ballroom, to add to the cinema’s amenities.

It opened in 1923 as the Bruce Grove Ballroom, with the ballroom upstairs at first floor level, and shops on the ground floor.

The Star Cinemas chain seems to have acquired this at the same time as the cinema and continued to operate the ballroom until 1974, when they converted it into a four-screen cinema, opening in July 1974 as Studios 5,6,7,8 – not sure where Studios 1, 2 3 or 4 were. These operated until December 1981. The building was then empty for a couple of years until it was returned to a single space and reopened as the Regency Banqueting Suite in 1984, which is what it is today.

This is the Blue School, this school is thought to have got its name from the distinctive colour of the uniform worn by the girls who attended the school.This school was originally built by public subscription; this was the earliest charity school in Tottenham founded in 1735. This building was replaced in 1833 by the present building, which was enlarged in 1876, by unsympathetic first floor extension at the back. The school closed in the 1930’s. The back extension then became a dress factory and the front was converted, in my estimation, badly, into a row of tawdry shops. Thankfully these shops are closed, the site boarded prior to restoration.This is the Blue School, this school is thought to have got its name from the distinctive colour of the uniform worn by the girls who attended the school.

RHEOLA CLOSE

This building was completely gutted by fire during the so called ENGLISH RIOTS in 2011.

Buses 243, 123 and 318 stop by the Museum in either Lordship Lane, Bruce Grove or The Roundway. The bus announcement or bus indicator says to alight for ‘Bruce Castle Park and Museum’.

1812

Former  HOME & COLONIAL TRAINING SCHOOL, and then Gas company HQ

Former WHITBREAD BELL BREWERY

Gripper Brothers Bell Brewery was established in Tottenham in 1760 and was acquired by Whitbread and Company in 1896. Whitbread turned it into a bottling depot later the same year although some of the older brewery buildings on the east side of the High Road were still in use in 1924.

By the way, talking about breweries… you will be shocked, later on!.

POLES and other EAST-EUROPEAN people live in the area…

Early C19 pair, each 3 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Stock brick, with lost cornice and renewed stuccoed parapet. Ground floor stuccoed. Gauged flat brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars and original shutters. Basement plinth.

Double doors of 4 panels under patterned radial fanlights. Doric porches with fluted columns. 

This house forms part of a terrace and is now flats and offices. The front of the building still has the impressive rainwater head, dated 1817. At the end of this terrace is an imposing house owned by Windsor and Co Solicitors, they have been in residence for more than 100 years. Inside,  this building  still contains many of its original features.

LEDLEY KING, SPURS, and only SPURS, player

As far as  it has been ascertained, this house was built in 1714. At one time it was a school kept by the Misses Lindsey as an establishment for ‘young ladies’.

This house lies well back from the road with a shared carriage drive. The reason for this house and the house next door laying so far back from the road is because the MOSELLE STREAM runs in front of the house, this stream is now CULVERTED and out of sight.
The house is well proportioned and has a proud plaque stating its name for all to see. Unlike many other houses in the High Road the entrance is on the side in Church Road. Internally the house retains most of its decorative plaster ceiling features, plus the windows still have internal wooden shutters.

This house was built in 1828; it is shadowed by the building next door, which was built immediately onto it, jutting out approximately 30feet, and spoiled the look of the house. Tottenham Hotspurs now owns this house. They have re-developed this part of the High Road, restoring  this house to its previous prominence.
This house in my opinion should have Blue Plaque on it, as this is the house that J.A.PRESTWICH was born in. The building that was the FACTORY  where Mr Prestwich produced his famous motor cycles is still in existence nearby in Tarriff Road.

This building was erected to serve the poor with medical advice and medicine. A committee was set up and the local Vicar chaired the meetings. At one time Dr Laseron was involved, about that time he was actively raising funds to build a hospital at Tottenham Green, which became known as the Prince of Wales.
The building is now locally listed because of its history also due to the fact that it has a fine stone ground floor entrance enriched by a Doric door case which echo the Tottenham Baptist church opposite.

William ‘Billy’ Mudge lived at no.778 High Road on the site of the current Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. He was one of Tottenham’s first motorists.

After Tottenham Hotspur lifted the FA Cup in 1901, Billy Mudge drove a four-horse carriage to St Pancras station to bring home the victorious team. He was met by a huge crowd of delighted supporters and later said ‘They wouldn’t let me drive the Spurs team home. The supporters took away the horse and pushed the carriage and team back to Tottenham’

Yes, WHITE HART LANE, popularly “THE LANE”, was the name of the old stadium.

The home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club from 1899 to 2017. Its capacity varied over the years; when changed to all-seater it had a capacity of 36,284.^[3] The stadium was fully demolished after the end of the 2016–17 season.^[4

Percy House is synonymous with the history of Tottenham Hotspur. The building was commissioned by Sir Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, the inheritor of the fortune and lands of the Percy family of Northumberland in the early 1740s. His ancestor, Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as ‘Harry Hotspur’ inspired Tottenham Hotspur’s name and its famous cockerel emblem

The building was fully renovated with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and sits at the heart of the re-development of North Tottenham, providing a permanent home to the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation - the Club’s official charitable body, that has been creating life-changing opportunities for local people

In its current form, Percy House acts as a major community, enterprise, and skills hub for the community, providing a range of employment advice services to deliver jobs locally. Over 4,000 jobs for local people have been delivered across a range of sectors as a direct result of the stadium development

Through the gated arch at 800 High Road, you will find a series of information boards illustrating the historic, social, and architectural significance of Northumberland Terrace. These boards provide an introduction to the people of Tottenham High Road, the residents of Northumberland Terrace, and the history of creativity across the community.

This forms part of what will soon become Paxton17, which will embrace the historic connection of Tottenham to art, photography, and music, bringing new life and creative flair to N17. The vision is for a vibrant commercial quarter where an infrastructure of restored and new buildings facilities the development of a creative eco-system

Mainly comprising Pretoria Road, Durban Road, and Lorenco Road (west of the railway line between Silver Street and White Hart Lane), this area had become known as "Little Russia" in the early 20th century due to the influx of immigrants from the TZARIST EMPIRE. Immigration peaked when a large number of “Russians” settled there after fleeing the 1917 Russian Revolution.

It developed into one of the toughest areas of North London and the local constabulary usually only policed the area in pairs.

In fact they were JEWISH LATVIAN ANARCHIST and the violence was politically motivated. The TOTTENHAM OUTRAGE and the SIDNEY STREET SIEGE are linked by the same thread: EAST END JEWISH ANARCHISM!.

The area was mostly redeveloped in the 1970s. And I thank again WIKIPEDIA!.