The private improvement rate was made when the main works for the water supply and drainage were approaching completion. This the owner could either pay at once, and in that case was entitled to a reduction, or it could extend over a period not exceeding thirty years. All who were able to pay in one sum did so. Mr. Heath was the first clerk. He served the Board for nineteen years, and was succeeded in 1869 by Mr. Crowne, who still holds the office of Clerk to the Tottenham Urban District Council. When Mr. Crowne first came Tottenham and Wood Green were one parish. In 1888 they were separated, and Wood Green became a separate parish in 1894. Years ago there was so little postal work that only one postman was employed for the two parishes. “The Three Coneys” was the original name of what is now known as “The Bell and Hare.” Passing by Park-lane there were several good houses—one was called “The Cedars.” The name was given to it on account of two beautiful cedar trees in the garden, which were planted by Queen Elizabeth on one of her visits to Tottenham. The next house has been occupied by a doctor as long as I remember, and the adjoining house, lately called “The Vicarage,” was first used for that purpose when the Rev. J. G. Hale was Vicar of All Hallows; prior to this it was occupied by Capt. Goss, the first commanding officer of the local Volunteers. The title deeds of the next house, occupied by the late Mrs. Mudge, date back as far as the time of Charles I. It has a basement kitchen, with very low ceiling. The steps from the road lead into the sitting-room, and when one has passed through the door there is still a step to be taken to get on the floor; the windows extending below the level of the floor. In the small house, which came next, James Filsell, the Parish Clerk, lived. He had the care of the parish map; this is now kept in the vestry room at All Hallows. THE DIAL HOUSE, which has a sun dial on the side of the house, dated 1691, still stands to speak for itself. THE BLACK HOUSE was the peculiar name of a very old house which formerly stood opposite White Hart-lane. It was partly built of brick and partly of stone, with large iron gates before it. This house belonged to a favourite of Henry VIII., named Hynningham, whose family are buried in the church. Henry VIII. frequently came here. In one of the rooms was an inscription, “In this chamber King Henry VIII. hath often lyen.” The remains of this house were in 1631 part of the out-offices of Mr. Gerard Gore, in whose mansion Sir John Coke, Secretary of State, resided during the summer months. The same house was later on occupied by Sir Hugh Smithson, who on the death of his wife’s father became second Earl of Northumberland.