Hornsey In The 60s

A Memory of Hornsey.

I was brought up in Hornsey from 1964 to 1972.
We moved from Hornsey when they had to replace our road with new homes and eventually a senior school which I attended when it first opened in 1980, joining St Davids all boys from Hornsey High Street and St Katherines from Pretoia Road, Tottenham.
I went to Roskley Infants and Juniors. It was great back then, in the days Hornsey was a very quiet place to live. I lived in St Annes Road, our house used to back on to St Marys school. There was a lot of derelict buildings that we used to play in, also a huge rubble dump ground that we had a caravan on to play in. I can remember walking through the reservoirs at the back of the old Railway Tavern that would bring you out to Maynards, the sweet factory and Wood Green swimming baths.

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