Hornsey Borough Council Building Remnant
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The photograph on this page of Hornsey Borough Council Building Remnant by John Kingdon as part of the Geograph project.
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Hornsey Borough Council Building Remnant
Image: © John Kingdon Taken: 1 Aug 2024
This structure which bears the Arms of Hornsey Borough Council is all that remains of the 1930's Hornsey Public Baths and Washhouse demolished for the new housing and Sainsbury's store development. This small remnant was taken down and rebuilt in this position and seems now to house an electricity transformer. The Arms bears the inscription Fortior Quo Paratior, Latin for the better prepared, the stronger. The building stands in the lowest point in the immediate area and is where once the New River flowed as it followed the contours of the landscape until the 1850's when it was rerouted alongside the new railway that is now the east coast mainline.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.588257
Longitude
-0.11753