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Roseberry Gardens, LONDON, N4 1JH

At the junction with St Ann's Road. The retractable bollards are so that residents can access the road without going all the way onto Green Lanes. If there was open access to all vehicles the road would be used as a short cut to avoid the busy junction with Green Lanes.

This building on the corner of St Ann's Road and Cleveland Gardens was once a cafe called The Workers' Cafe. It has been closed for so many years I can't recall when it was last open. The rotting roof and water damaged brickwork suggest many years of abandonment. Of note is the long windowless wall to the building which I imagine makes the property very gloomy inside. Damp and gloomy; not an impressive selling point for a developer.

Corrugated iron and wooden buildings squashed between the road and the Gospel Oak to Barking railway line used as a church two days a week. Not really in a valley despite its name.The electrification works had yet to go up on the railway embankment behind the buildings.

This shop unit has been closed for so long now that although I remember it being open I can't recall what it sold. Even the housing above it seems unoccupied now although there is plenty of CCTV and barbed wire on the property protecting someone's interest therein. The clock in the transom above the entrance is stuck at three minutes past six. I suspect it will never be used again to tell the time, of which it is now a relic.

The Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway was planned to run from Tottenham Hale on the Great Eastern Railway to Gospel Oak on the Hampstead Junction section of the London & North Western Railway. It was worked by the North London Railway (NLR) from its opening in 1860, and in 1864 came under NLR control. On 21st July 1868 a new line opened from Tottenham Hale to Highgate Road. It was only in 1887 that an extension to Gospel Oak was achieved but as a passenger exchange not as a junction. On 9th July 1894, the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway was opened for through goods and passenger trains and had stations at Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow, Leyton, Leytonstone and Wanstead Park. Up to 1912 the line was a joint railway operated by the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway but from 1912 it was solely operated by the Midland. With the opening of the new line the Midland extended some of its South Tottenham trains to East Ham. The line which now ran between Kentish Town and Barking was considered for closure to passengers in 1963 as part of the Beeching Axe, but it remained open. Even so, it was allowed to fall into a poor state of repair and reliability, and by 1980 had been cut back to an hourly service between Kentish Town and Barking. The station canopies were gradually demolished, ticket offices closed and staff withdrawn from stations. The situation began to improve from 1981 when a new link to Gospel Oak was built and the hourly service from Kentish Town to Barking was replaced by the present route from Gospel Oak to Barking with two trains per hour. Now with it being taken over by Transport for London as part of the London Overground network the whole line has a new lease of life and new trains run every 15 minutes between Barking and Gospel Oak. This view from an estate on the south side looks across the line between Harringay Green Lanes and South Tottenham stations. The houses of Stanhope Gardens can be seen on the other side of the tracks.

The Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway was planned to run from Tottenham Hale on the Great Eastern Railway to Gospel Oak on the Hampstead Junction section of the London & North Western Railway. It was worked by the North London Railway (NLR) from its opening in 1860, and in 1864 came under NLR control. On 21st July 1868 a new line opened from Tottenham Hale to Highgate Road. It was only in 1887 that an extension to Gospel Oak was achieved but as a passenger exchange not as a junction. On 9th July 1894, the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway was opened for through goods and passenger trains and had stations at Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow, Leyton, Leytonstone and Wanstead Park. Up to 1912 the line was a joint railway operated by the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway but from 1912 it was solely operated by the Midland. With the opening of the new line the Midland extended some of its South Tottenham trains to East Ham. The line which now ran between Kentish Town and Barking was considered for closure to passengers in 1963 as part of the Beeching Axe, but it remained open. Even so, it was allowed to fall into a poor state of repair and reliability, and by 1980 had been cut back to an hourly service between Kentish Town and Barking. The station canopies were gradually demolished, ticket offices closed and staff withdrawn from stations. The situation began to improve from 1981 when a new link to Gospel Oak was built and the hourly service from Kentish Town to Barking was replaced by the present route from Gospel Oak to Barking with two trains per hour. Now with it being taken over by Transport for London as part of the London Overground network the whole line has a new lease of life and new trains run every 15 minutes between Barking and Gospel Oak. This view, from an estate on the south side, sees a train bound for Gospel Oak approaching Harringay Green Lanes station.