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Hornsey & Crouch End Playing Fields
A Memory of Hornsey.
1890's to 1920s Alfred Baker & his family lived in The Grove, which became Lynton road and was few roads away from this photo's location. He worked as a groundsman at Crouch Hill Playing Fields, at first to look after the cricket pitch & fields, then later the Tennis Club. He had 9 daughters who all were big tennis fans & one of them, Mrs Bessie Burgiss competed in the Evening Standard London Tennis Competition in 1939. Her husband Walter Burgiss was also a member of the Hampstead Football and Sports club in 1931.
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