Services

This list has been compiled by residents as a guide to providers of services who, based upon previous experience, are seen as worth recommending. Details of other providers whose services could be recommended would be gratefully received and incorporated into the list. These could include other categories such as cleaners, dog-walkers, cat-sitters and professions such …

Yesterday and Today: Compare the differences on Southgate Road

It's illuminating to look at the same places with one hundred years or so in between then-and-there and here-and-now. Here are some of the historic pictures in the two walks-into-the-past on other pages, juxtaposed with the same view this summer, 2018: LOOKING NORTH TO OCKENDON ROAD (first left after the pub) AT THE JOLLY FARMERS, …

Yesterday and Today: Compare the difference on Essex Road

It's illuminating to look at the same places with one hundred years or so between there-and-then and here-and-now. Here are some of the historic pictures in the two walks into the past on other pages, juxtaposed with the same view this summer: 2018. (In summer, of course, the trees tend to obscure the differences, even …

Flaming June 2018

A late June afternoon: blazing sun, the tree gardens in constant danger of drought, but some wonderful flowers. Why not come out and water the garden nearest to you? It's a sure way to change the weather!   

Getting Together 2018!

  In 2017 a film crew blocked off a goodly portion of the Road to film a TV drama in one of the houses, authorised by Islington Council. Residents complained they were being denied their parking rights, and eventually the Council Film Office was persuaded by Peter Streatfield to donate the sum of £500 to …

Web weavers

This site could not exist without Alan Peake, who started it as http://www.orra.org.uk/ and nurtured it for years. Rachel Thomas refurbished and renamed it https://ockendonroad.wordpress.com using much of the original material. Very many thanks to both of them. And to Louise Blenkinsop and other contributors, up to now and into the future. Ideas and contributions welcome …

How the trees got their gardens

Like most things, it was a happy accident..and an awful lot of hard work. In 1992, Romee's sister in Switzerland gave her one or two sunflower plants. Romee's garden faced north, so in a hurry to keep them alive she planted them in the space left around  the crab apple tree in front of No. …