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Beaconsfield Road, LONDON, N15 4SQ

Our local council urge us to walk and cycle to shop local but as this photo shows, the days of the back street parade of shops is long past. All are now housing. The people who live here doubtless commute from the nearby Seven Sisters station and shop elsewhere. Clyde Road and Beaconsfield Road shown here are almost deserted throughout the day. Of interest is the yellow American Ford left hand drive van. Its number plate suggests it is at least 52 years old. Its width exceeds the UK parking bay size.

This beautiful old property boasts marvellous octagonal windows, and architraves around the others. It is one of a pair of buildings in the area which have lost their gardens to housing and have been turned into flats which gives them a rather hemmed in appearance. The slate roof on this one looks like it is going to need some attendance.

Clyde Circus is seen here from Clyde Road. Clyde Circus has a circular group of houses in the middle with small back gardens and what looks like a central communal area. The central feature is Clyde Circus itself laid out in the late 18th century as the centre piece of a grand approach from Tottenham Green to the east to the former Downhills House to the west. The very interesting Haringey Council web site about the Conservation Area (of which Clyde Circus is the centre piece) has a series of Ordnance Survey Maps which show that although the Circus was here much earlier the houses were not built at the time of the 1894-96 Ordnance Survey Map but appeared on the 1915 Ordnance Survey Map.

Clyde Circus is seen here from Clyde Road. Clyde Circus has a circular group of houses in the middle with small back gardens and what looks like a central communal area. The central feature is Clyde Circus itself laid out in the late 18th century as the centre piece of a grand approach from Tottenham Green to the east to the former Downhills House to the west. The very interesting Haringey Council web site about the Conservation Area (of which Clyde Circus is the centre piece) has a series of Ordnance Survey Maps which show that although the Circus was here much earlier the houses were not built at the time of the 1894-96 Ordnance Survey Map but appeared on the 1915 Ordnance Survey Map.

As seen from Philip Lane roadbridge. This line leads from Bruce Grove. The train passes under the Clyde Road.

My 1964 A-Z tells me that there was once a hospital and a technical school on a road called Eagle Avenue where now stands the Bernie Grant Arts Centre. Might the chimney that survives have been for burning hospital waste? It is April 2021 and some can still be seen wearing face masks to prevent the spread of Covid 19.

On Town Hall Approach Road. It is also used by Marcus Garvey Library.