Talk:Noel Park

message: The content of this article appears to be copied unchanged from http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/community_and_leisure/neighbourhoods/noelparkneighbourhood/historyofnoelpark.htm and so may be in breach of copyright. -Arb. (talk) 15:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh crap, I didn't see this before editing the article. It appears you are right. In any case, it is less of a copyvio now, but may need to be rewritten from scratch when I can get my hands on some source material. At least the structure makes sense now... Brilliantine (talk) 00:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: (Belatedly) rewritten… – iridescent 22:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to all who have made this a brilliant article.  I grew up in Wood Green 50-odd years ago and never knew half this stuff... this is what a great encyclopaedia should be like.  seglea (talk) 23:28, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this kind of article is what wikipedia is great at, and what drew me to the project in the first place. It's very easy to find quality information on "important" topics like evolution, for instance, but not nearly so easy to find out about the history of the place you were born in, or live in. --Malleus Fatuorum 22:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: *From the lead: "It was one of the earliest garden suburbs in the world". It's as well to provide citations for extraordinary claims like that, even in the lead, where I don't normally like to see citations. --Malleus Fatuorum 22:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: Anybody know what this place was originally? -Arb. (talk) 20:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know. It's the red brick building in this photo (click to zoom) if that helps anyone. – iridescent 14:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. Useful photo. Looks like a cross on top of the "tower". Hadn't noticed that before. Old Salvation Army building perhaps? -Arb. (talk) 19:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Gardner Court, old mission building" according to this map on Haringey Council's website. Appears from this that it's now a block of flats. – iridescent 19:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a sign on Russell Avenue http://www.flickr.com/photos/oh_simone/2497902472/ pointing to the building as the Walsham-How mission hall. It's flats now, but you can see its former use clearly in the bell-tower, etc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/oh_simone/2573633564/. I don't know anything more about this building, but I'd like to. I know that the Shropshire Hall on Lymington was a mission hall as well, but this one I'm not so familiar with.ohsimone (talk) 17:28, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That makes sense, despite directly contradicting Welch who says the existing Shropshire Hall is a renaming of the original 1913 Walsham-How Hall. The buildings are architecturally similar enough that it's hard to be 100% sure, but the current hall has a tower which would have had to have been demolished if they are the same building, whereas the existing building looks virtually identical to the 1913 drawing (please don't add the 1913 drawing to the article, incidentally - the quality is awful). We may be in one of those weird only-on-Wikipedia moments, where because a Reliable Source says something we have to treat it as true even when fairly sure it isn't, as there's no source to contradict it. Pevsner, although he does cover Noel Park, doesn't mention either. – iridescent 18:20, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done a very careful rewording of the paragraph in question to make it deliberately ambiguous; every single statement is now citable and undoubtedly correct, but the paragraph is now correct whether the current Shropshire Hall is the former Walsham-How hall or not. I'm more and more convinced that the current Shropshire Hall is not the original Walsham-How hall, though – the existing hall isn't shown on the 1920 Ordnance Survey map. It does seem very strange, though; I cannot imagine the Shropshire Mission would have built two mission halls of about the same size a few yards away from each other. – iridescent 18:33, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If any of you live near the place, going round the building with a camera might clear this up.  If it was a mission hall, there will almost certainly be foundation stones which will establish its history (unless they've been sandblasted out in a renovation).  And I think a photograph is the one kind of Original Research which does not fall foul of Wikipedia rules.  Sorry I can't volunteer to do this, I no longer have any family in Wood Green so never visit.  seglea (talk) 22:41, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Will try, although I suspect "hanging round a children's centre with a camera" might cause an unfortunate misunderstanding. – iridescent 23:01, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmentioned building 

message: iridescent wrote (above): "the existing hall isn't shown on the 1920 Ordnance Survey map". That is interesting. What scale is that? Any chance of you uploading a scan to Commons? -Arb. (talk) 13:31, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure of the scale – it's the one reproduced on p42 of Welch. (Bruce Castle or the little shop next to the church on Tottenham Lane will certainly be happy to sell you a copy, if you don't have it.) Looking at the footnote more closely, although it was published 1920, the survey itself was carried out 1910-1913, so the hall may not have been built yet – although it does show houses on the corner of Darwin Avenue, and it seems odd that they'd have demolished housing to build a hall so soon after building, with so much empty space along Westbury Avenue to play with. – iridescent 15:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1920 OS map 

message: :Category:London Borough of Haringey is itself a category within :Category:Districts of London. — Robert Greer (talk) 17:16, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it shouldn't be as far as I'm concerned. This particular district happens to fall within one borough, but borough boundaries have nothing to do with district boundaries, which can easily straddle multiple boroughs (as with Finsbury Park, London, covered by Hackney, Haringey and Islington, for example) – iridescent 12:30, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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