Harringay New Park

By John Hinshelwood and Stephen Rigg

In 1880 builders started to develop a new road called Harringay Road on Harringay New Park. The first developments were southwards from West Green Road and the road was only fully developed by the end of the century. The name of Harringay New Park does not seem to have lasted, perhaps because of competition and confusion with the British Land Company’s Harringay Park Estate.

Harringay Road is no longer a through road but is interrupted at Park Road which originally ran straight across Harringay Road, but today the continuation is called Hallam Road. This name change and altered road layout is one of many in this section of Harringay.

Colina Road that runs from Green Lanes into Harringay Road was a development by Arthur Vanscolina, a builder of New Southgate, who laid out the new road for a terrace of houses in1881. These houses, still to be seen, only stood on one side of the road as the back garden of a large villa on Green Lanes occupied the opposite side. When the Piccadilly line was extended in 1932 a ventilating plant was built where the garden used to be and the Oakwood Laundry stood beside it; now the Hawes and Curtis Outlet store.

Further east, the Woodlands Park Estate and Woodlands Park Road take their names from a large house ‘The Woodlands’ which stood on the northern side of West Green Road, in Linden Road; it was home to the builder Edward Hodson, a younger brother better known William Hodson, of Downhills, who laid out the British Land Company’s estates in Harringay. ‘The Woodlands’ was auctioned off in 1888 and the development of its land gave rise to the most eastern part of Harringay in 1900

A view towards the Salisbury Public House along Harringay Road on Harringay New Park with the old cinema building on the right.