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Buildings and Areas of Interest Around Tottenham
We have a gallery of photographs of notable Tottenham Buildings, from grand eighteenth century properties both under threat and restored with the help of English Heritage to the secular and domestic architecture of the late twentieth century -- and all points in between. It's all archived on our Flickr photosite, and added to whenever we can find the time (or remember to take our cameras with us when we go out). If you have a digital camera, like taking photographs of buildings, and think you could contribute to our documentation of Tottenham's architecture, please get in touch. Email us at: TCS at tottenhamcivicsociety dot org dot uk. The Society's Chair also has some pictures of local interest on his Flickr photosite. Featured building: the Beehive Public House
There was a public house called the Beehive on the north side of Stoneleigh Road since the late 1870s. The present public house was designed in the Olde English Style known as "Brewers Tudor" which was popular in the interwar years and seems to have been intended to capture romantic notions of Merrie England -- perhaps as an antidote to the modernity which was perceived as responsible for the slaughter of the First World War. As can be seen from our photograph, it is a two-storey structure with a half-timbered first floor, a central gable, tall brick chimney stacks, and square timber casement windows. The bracket bearing the pub sign has a date of 1927. The interior Has many surviving original features, including Tudor-style small-square panelling, lead-paned windows, brick chimney pieces, an L-shaped panelled counter in the public bar, a mirrored bar back, and brass light fittings. In addition, the doors marked Public Bar, Off-Licence, Saloon & Lounge, Luncheon Room and Self Service Room all seem to have been numbered -- the numbering of rooms in a pub was standard practice for Customs & Excise control purposes until the 1960s, but this is the only known example of numbering for each door. Fuller information about the public house (from which the above has been extracted) can be found here. The most important point to note about the Beehive Inn is that -- because it is such a unique survival of the interwar years, with so many of its original fittings -- it is nationally listed as Grade II: a building of real importance! For lots more photographs of Tottenham's buildings of interest, visit the Tottenham Civic Society's Flickr photosite. Web pages copyright 2009-2010 by Ann Robertson and Joseph Nicholas |
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