Side Streets, Buildings, Parks, Etc.
North Side, West to East Wood Green High Road (A105) to Perth Road •
Junction with A105 Wood Green High Road: The parade of shops shown in the old photograph turns the corner from Wood Green High Road on the left into Lordship Lane on the right. The leftmost of these (up to the bank) were demolished in 1931 to make way for Wood Green tube station. The bank remains but has a more imposing façade and is now a branch of Barclays. The trees are on what was then a small green and is now a concrete plaza called Spouters Corner. •
Wood Green Crown Court: In 1857 the
Royal Masonic School for Boys, for the sons of deceased and needy
Freemasons, was founded on this site in the former Lordship Lodge on an estate of . Originally catering for 70 boys, the old house was replaced in 1865 by a substantial Gothic building with accommodation for 200. In 1898 the site was sold to the
Home and Colonial School Society, which opened a Training College for Schoolmistresses in 1904. This ran until 1930 when the site was sold to the Tottenham District Gas Company, and the building renamed Woodall House after its chairman, Sir Colbert Woodall. It later became the offices of Eastern Gas until 1974 when the site was acquired by Haringey Council. The building was modernised and became the Wood Green Crown Court and Remand Centre with the rest of the site developed for housing. The building was struck by arson in c1989 and promptly rebuilt with a new and assertive roof. •
The Lordship Pub: Formerly the Rat & Carrot. Originally His Lordship's Tavern opened by 1875.
Perth Road to The Roundway (A1080) •
Chapmans Green: A small park in traditional style with bowls and tennis. It holds a
Green Flag Award. • Two buildings, Pickering Court and an unnamed court occupy the site of a
co-op grocery store that was destroyed by the only significant bomb strike to Lordship Lane during
World War II. •
Two pairs of semi-detached houses: Numbers 578 to 584. The 1950s style house grafted onto the end of a Victorian terrace is a consequence of the only significant bomb strike to Lordship Lane during
World War II. The estate is now a
conservation area. •
Edge of the Peabody Tottenham estate: Numbers 80 to 86, entrance, 88 to 124, entrance, 126 to 130. One hundred and fifty four terraced cottages were built in 1907 by the
Peabody Trust, a
philanthropic Model Dwellings Company funded by a trust set up by
George Peabody to build housing for the needy
working class. In 2006 the estate buildings facing Lordship Lane were auctioned off for refurbishment by private individuals. •
A10, the
Roundway.
The Roundway (A10) to Tottenham High Road (A1010) •
Church Lane: Leads to
All Hallows (Tottenham's Parish Church) and
Tottenham Cemetery. The church is reputed to have been bestowed to Tottenham by
David I of Scotland in 1134. Its tower is 14th century, and much of the rest is original. •
Railway Bridge: Formerly carried the
Great Eastern Railway line from
Liverpool Street Station to
Enfield, now operated by
Network Rail. •
Terrace: Numbers 8 to 18. Dated 1826. "Bruce Terrace, a modest yellow-brick row, stands neglected by the railway line in Lordship Lane; it was built by an early 19th-century
iron founder, Thomas Finney, and some of the houses retain iron steps which were laid at the gate-ways instead of stone slabs."
Moselle Avenue to Wood Green High Road (A105) •
Mecca Bingo: From the 1920s the site of the former City Bus company depot. After
Nationalisation in 1947, the depot and starting point of the
Eastern National routes to
Southend and
Westcliff. The building and forecourt were used for the non-studio scenes in the 1970s
British TV series
On the Buses. Services ceased in the early 1980s and the building was redeveloped as a
W H Smith 'Do-it-all' centre. In the 1990s this was converted into the Bingo Hall. •
Hollywood Green Showcase Cinema: For most of the twentieth century the Lordship Lane frontage of this site accommodated the Cinematograph Theatre building and Burridge and Company, undertakers. The Cinematograph was a purpose-built cinema. It opened in 1910 and closed in the late 1920s. The building then became Garner's furniture depository and housed Harry Boult's School of Dancing on the first floor. In more recent years it became an indoor market hall. Both buildings were demolished in 1999 to make way for
Hollywood Green a six-screen cinema. Also visible in the old photograph is H. D. Chesser, Farrier (or Blacksmith) which survived as a going concern from 1770 to the 1920s. There has been a building at the far west of the lane since at least 1619
M02]. •
Spouters Corner: Was first used for a political meeting in 1867 by the
Reform League. By the end of the nineteenth century the
common land here had become a venue for
stump orators and political gatherings, thereby acquiring its name. Its significance increased during the First World War and the inter-war years. It was also an assembly point for contracting local labour before Labour Exchanges were introduced in 1910. In the post-war years, it attracted both local and national political figures and saw CND meetings in the late 1950s and 1960s. In more recent years its use has waned as political speakers have favoured the forecourt of the Central Library. But it accommodates a large fir tree each Christmas. ==Transport==