Hornsey Road, 1948
1948 · Hornsey Road
Hornsey Road 1948
Posted on the Voices of Kingstanding page for Hornsey Grove, with the memories of Mr H Boughton: “My father’s mum, Hannah Boughton lived in Hornsey Grove, off Hornsey Road.”
Notes
The picture file was named “hornsey grove 1948” and its first caption read “Hornsey Grove 1948”; the page now captions it “Hornsey Road 1948”, and a reader who lived on Hornsey Road recognised his house in it, so it is taken to show Hornsey Road.
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“Third tree up on the right is where we moved to in 1964 … from Milton street Aston, right opposite the main gate of Kings Rise school which is where I didn’t want to go initially. But my dear old Ma talked me into it I don’t think she could have afforded the bus fare back to Cowper street school for me everyday anyway.”
“We moved to … Hornsey road in 1964 from Milton street, Aston. I can remember looking out of the back of the removal van when it was driving up the hill on Kingstanding road. Which was then a single carriageway up to Crossway Lane and thinking! I’d never seen so much green. Then moving into the house in Hornsey road, which was directly opposite the main gate into Kings Rise school. … I liked it, “eventually” and did so up until I left in 1970.”
“I used to stay on hornsey rd as a kid on holiday from Dublin in a house right beside the school I drove up there two years ago and the school is gone”
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