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Tottenham Green

Luke Howard lived at several addresses in Tottenham where he moved to in 1813.  He first lived in a house on Tottenham Green and then later at different addresses on Bruce Grove.

Luke Howard’s house on Tottenham Green had only just been built as one of two houses which replaced Reynardson’s House, the mansion of Sir Abraham Reynardson, an alderman and Lord Mayor of London born in 1590.  His house and estate had been sold by his heirs to William Forster in 1751 and became a boarding school until the house was demolished in 1809.  These later houses were then demolished nearly 100 years later and replaced with a row of shops.

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Philip Lane, Tottenham Green: finding his first home in Tottenham
8.2.1812      Went to Will Forster’s, Tottenham to breakfast, treated with freehold about his house
11.2.1812    Walked to Stamford Hill to meet W Forster about house, returned with him and sister to town
18.2.1812    To Stamford Hill to meet Sewell and Burnell at 12. Surveyed the premises with them
25.9.1812    Went with M H (Mariabella Howard) to Tottenham about a house of Will Forsters
28.9.1812    Went to Tottenham with M H to view a house on the Green
30.9.1812    Met Coar at the house on the green engaged yesterday of W Forster. Also the carpenter and bricklayer
3.10.1812    Went to Tottenham with W H to inspect fitting up of new house
7.10.1812    Went to Breammers Tottenham Court Road about chimney pieces (made of marble)
8.10.1812    To Tottenham. Ordered laundry fastening of J Pearsons
15.10.1812  Met Hopwood and W Cumber and gave sundry directions about the house
2.11.1812    Saw W Forster about Insurance and earth for garden
8.11.1812    Plan greenhouse at Tottenham to be treated by dung
3.12.1812    To Tottenham; returned to dinner. Packed and got ready sundry things to go to new house at Tottenham
7.12.1812    To London with M W about paper hangings
21.12.1812  To Tottenham to meet B Reid about papering the house
28.12.1812  Chiefly occupied in packing up chemicals for removal to Tottenham
4.2.1813      Removed with family most part of our goods to Tottenham
4.3.1813      Evening visited by Will Forster, wife and family
22.3.1813    Occupied at home on Balance Sheet and planting garden
30.4.1813    At home (indisposed) occupied in arranging chemical closet
Diary entries: Lost Houses of Haringey, Hornsey Historical Society, 1986

The lease for the house, signed on 6 November 1812, was for 21 years from Christmas 1812 to Christmas 1833. The lease listed the ‘dwelling house with coach-house, stable and outbuildings with garden and adjoining parcel of land’.  The lease was transferred to “Alfred Janson of Tottenham, gent.” on 22 March 1828 when Luke Howard and his family moved to Yorkshire.

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    • Carol Ann Duffy
    • Goethe discovers Luke Howard >
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    • JMW Turner
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    • Art and Poetry in Tottenham >
      • Painting
      • Poetry
      • Photographs (in homage)
      • Weather Report 2016 Tottenham
      • Weather Report 2017 New River
    • Cloud Garden
    • 7 Bruce Grove Campaign