Based on my favourite postcards and other photos. Music by John Barry, use of his copyrighted material for this educational video gratefully acknowledged.
Lovely memories, thanks so much :). I lived further down Colney Hatch Lane on Wilton Road as a kid, but each weekend would hop on a 134 bus to Tottenham Court Road to find adventure in the West End, passing through Muswell Hill Broadway each time, and riding round that oddly placed but somehow magical roundabout….
I feel so homesick, I wish I had a time machine, To go back in time to exiperence the way it was would be absolutely a dream come true- I grew up in Muswell Hill, worked on Fortis Green Road, a little shop called Zu, also another lovely shop called, One Foot in the Door, J'Zan and The Gallery on the Broadway and Diva Art. The best and happiest days of my young life, so many wonderful characters, lovely old benches and beauitful churches , always somewhere to sit and soak up the beauty of a very very beauitful place!! 🌟 Thank you for this wonderful heartwarming video the music so touching and sweet. X
Thank you so much for this vision of the past...I used to go every day to school at William Grimshaws at the same time with Rod Stewart and most of the Kinks. Walk every day from a Bus from Crouch End...lovely walk I though!...I think now that the cars should be done in for! O well times change!....doesn't they?
Thank you for this amazing video! It's such ashame to seee so many historic and beautiful buildings that have gone, like the J.sainburys dome and clock (which is now gone) and the old ball room atheneum which is now some ugly flats!, again. Thank you!
My pleasure, fellow Whovian! You know that the Council got rid of the Tardis at the bottom of Muswell Hill as well, don't you (see the MH 1959-60 video)? Let's hope the Doctor got away safely or God forbid, they might even bring him back as as woman! Absolutely re the dome and clock at Sainsbury's former site, there was no reason whatsoever to get rid of them. Other domes and spires built by the creator of the Muswell Hill shopping parades have also been removed by the Council for no other reason other than that they thought them to be outdated and/or were unwilling to pay for their maintenance. The sale and demolition of the Athenaeum was one of the most shocking decisions ever by a Council (then the Borough of Hornsey), as it was given to the people of MH for community services. It was not theirs to sell but they did it so quietly that nobody noticed until it was gone. The official reason was that they were no longer willing to pay the maintenance costs on a virtually empty all year round building.
Muswell Hillbilly that's shocking! And it's such a shame that they took the police box away, it would've been such a popular icon and it would definitely get a large amount of visitors because of its recurring and popular appearance in doctor who! The atheneum should be brought back, do you have any pictures of the atheneum being demolished or the interior of it? I would greatly appreciate it if you would be able to find a few pictures or videos from the 1960's when it was at it's demolition age. Hope you can make more of these videos! -cheers!
Don't know if this will work but if you're on FaceBook you'll find a discussion thread in Henry Wong's page facebook.com/groups/muswellhillandfriends/?multi_permalinks=1656629597681511¬if_t=like¬if_id=1502466087611222 with a photo of 1 of only 2 ever known to be taken inside the Athenaeum. Unfortunately there are no photos that I know of of its demolition. You know how they just board up or cover a building completely while they somehow manage to knock it down bit by bit and then somehow get rid of all the rubble. It still amazes me how they managed to do it without closing off that part of Fortis Green Road, but somehow they did it. Next thing we knew, we had a shiny new monstrosity with Sainsbury's on the ground floor and flats above it. Wouldn't mind doing more videos but I've now used most of the best old MH postcards and there's not much by way of new online material. Most of the photos in my books on MH were printed on such poor quality paper that very few of them would photograph or scan well enough to be used in a RU-vid video.
Muswell Hillbilly oh, and unfortunately I don't have face book, so would you mind taking a picture of it or something? and also, there was a cinema/theatre called the ritz (you may have heard of it) and I think you should make a video on its history (one like this video) it's an amazing piece of architecture!
You should just create a temporary FaceBook account so you can view Henry's and other people's posts. You don't have to give any personal info about yourself and no one will know who you are unless you comment on or post your own stuff on Facebook. Re the Ritz cinema in MH, I'm afraid I don't have anything that's not already available online, or know enough about its history to do any kind of video. I presume you will have seen this about 5 1936 ABC cinemas which says just about all that is known about the Ritz. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DRqfzulVPpg.html Yes, I loved it as well but it went the same way as just about all other cinemas in this country. Only the i-Max's and multi-screen cinemas in big city and town centres can survive now, it would seem...
The Sainsbury's building is spectacular. I've been a Muswell hill boy for 40+ years and have often wondered what used to be where that ugly rectangle now is. Now I know. Thanks
Interesting, even though I have visited Muswell Hill once the once, to go to the (Odeon, I think) cinema, back in 1977. But tell me please what is the music played, it rings of familiarity for me.
