{"id":10959,"date":"2020-06-09T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2020-06-08T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:41:19","slug":"romeo-heads-etc-tq30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10959","title":{"rendered":"Romeo & Heads etc – TQ30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Grid reference TQ30 continues north of Kings Cross and Pentonville up through Lower Holloway, Holloway and Upper Holloway and on to Hornsey, taking in a few areas to the side on its way. You can see my colour pictures from this strip of North London on page 4 of TQ30 London Cross-section<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Romeo<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think it was largely the name which attracted me to the rather run-down premises of the Romeo Trading Co Ltd which gave no indication of what their business had entailed, and I could only speculate. Perhaps its name was connected with its address which was on Roman Way. The company still exists, though now in Edmonton and has a web site which includes the following text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Since its establishment in 1941, forming strong roots in military surplus, Romeo Trading Co Ltd has developed into a company with a manufacturing facility for all military and casual wear, together with its related products.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Hornsey Rd had a number of interesting shops and provided some examples for various series of shops I was working on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Hairdresser,<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of these was collecting heads, and this Hairdressers shop window had a couple of fine examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"TQ3088-005\"<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

and there was another further north in Hornsey itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Clothes,<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fytos Fashion was another business that attracted me in part because of its name, which I read it as ‘Photos’ (but is really a Cypriot name.) But there was also the rather strangely bagged garments hanging in the window (no doubt to protect them from dust) and the large text below ‘WE SELL RETAIL BRIDALS, BRIDESMAIDS, CHRISTENING, HOLY COMMUNION’. Unfortunately you can no longer buy a bridesmaid here as this is now a nail care shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Cafe,<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another series I was taking was of caf\u00e9s, and there was another fine example further north on Hornsey Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Shoe<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And some really odd reflections in a shop offering shoe repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are just a few of the pictures on the page, which also includes a number of factory and workshop premises – mainly in a block now occupied by new flats, shopfronts and shop windows, houses, a view of north London rooftops, and ends with a distant view of Alexandra Palace and a less distant view of a gasholder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page 4 of TQ30 London Cross-section<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grid reference TQ30 continues north of Kings Cross and Pentonville up through Lower Holloway, Holloway and Upper Holloway and on to Hornsey, taking in a few areas to the side on its way. You can see my colour pictures from this strip of North London on page 4 of TQ30 London Cross-section. I think … Continue reading Romeo & Heads etc – TQ30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[28,1737,2124,2120,2123,2081,1343,2122,2085,2121],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-colour","tag-colour-photographs","tag-en-prints","tag-holloway","tag-hornsey","tag-london-cross-section","tag-london-photos","tag-lower-holloway","tag-tq30","tag-upper-holloway"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}