page_title: History of Stroud Green
section_title: Dairy
hierarchical_section_title: History of Stroud Green / Interesting buildings / Dairy
caption_attribution_description: English: Sgraffito panels on the former Friern Manor Dairy. The image was taken with a Canon EOS D30 with a Sigma 70-300mm lens.
context_page_description: Stroud Green in London, England, is a suburb adjacent to Finsbury Park in the northern part of Greater London. While most of the area is in the London Borough of Haringey, a very small part is in the London Borough of Islington. The Stroud Green Road not only forms the boundary between the two boroughs but is also the area's principal thoroughfare and a busy local shopping street, with many popular restaurants and bars.
  The Stroud Green Road also represents a border between the ancient ecclesiastical parishes of Islington and Hornsey. At one time, this part of Hornsey parish, and thus Stroud Green, stretched into what is now Hackney, following the present-day Blackstock Road as far as the junction with Mountgrove Road, all beyond the Seven Sisters Road that today forms Stroud Green's eastern boundary. Here in that former part of Stroud Green was the site of the Eel Pie House, a tavern on the New River then the New River ran above ground at this point. This was originally in a wooden, lead-lined aqueduct - known locally as the Boarded River - but eventually that wooden construction was replaced by a raised earth embankment, atop which the river ran.
context_section_description: This building on the corner of Hanley Road and Crouch Hill, now a pub,  was once owned by the Friern Manor Dairy Company as a development of the site that they already owned.
  The minutes of the London County Council's Building Act Committee record:
  That the application of Mr J Young & Co, on behalf of the Friern Manor Dairy Farm Co Ltd, for the consent of the Council for the erection of an addition to the rear of number 127 Hanley Road, Stroud Green, to abut on Crouch Hill, be granted subject to the condition that the addition therein referred to be commenced within six months and completed within 18 months from the 30 day of September 1890.
   
  The exterior wall that faces onto Crouch Hill, comprises a remarkable set of seven, unique, anonymous sgraffito panels (c.1890), with picturesque illustrations of: Milk Delivery (ancient); Milk Delivery (modern); In the Country;  Milk Cooling; Making Butter; Milling; Grazing.
caption: The Old Dairy, Stroud Green, as seen in the summer of 2006
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