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secret foraging tip - just after Rose supermarket on Waltheof Avenue is a little alleyway to the left. At the end of it is a massive fig tree. It fed me and my family for the last few summers :thumbs:
 
blossie33 said:
What was there before, do you know?
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Hollis said:
I think the railway line and Noel Park station took up a large part of it on the East side... it cut across what is now Shopping City..
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I don't know the patch well (Wood Green to me is a very distant place that the 141 bus occasionally used to run through to from the Catford region) but have you met the National Library of Scotland's map collection?

Includes large scale OS maps from pre-1914 and post-1945, and options including side by side view

This is post-1945 / current Open Street Map, but other options are available
 
Puddy_Tat said:
I don't know the patch well (Wood Green to me is a very distant place that the 141 bus occasionally used to run through to from the Catford region) but have you met the National Library of Scotland's map collection?

Includes large scale OS maps from pre-1914 and post-1945, and options including side by side view

This is post-1945 / current Open Street Map, but other options are available
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Thanks, yes I did know about that map, I've used it myself so I don't know why I didn't think about it and had a look for Wood Green :rolleyes: :D
 
Tottenham is great for parks and green spaces. Downhills, Lord Rec, Bruce Park and Tott cemetery all pretty much adjacent to each other. Then there are the marshes, the lee, woodberry, etc etc.
 
Not quite Wood Green but near....just seen this on the BBC website regarding the change of name of Black Boy Lane.

I hadn't heard about the intention to change it although I can understand why.
I understand that the name actually refered to King Charles II.

www.bbc.co.uk

Black Boy Lane poster installed behind new La Rose Lane sign

The poster was put up days after a north London road was renamed following concerns about racial connotations.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
blossie33 said:
Not quite Wood Green but near....just seen this on the BBC website regarding the change of name of Black Boy Lane.

I hadn't heard about the intention to change it although I can understand why.
I understand that the name actually refered to King Charles II.

www.bbc.co.uk

Black Boy Lane poster installed behind new La Rose Lane sign

The poster was put up days after a north London road was renamed following concerns about racial connotations.
www.bbc.co.uk
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This is just around the corner from me.

I'm not that surprised that you hadn't heard about it, because there seems to have been very little local consultation, almost as if they were trying to keep it quiet...

What with this and the very unpopular LTNs they've introduced recently, Haringey Council seem to be happy to go ahead and piss off large numbers of local residents. Will be interesting to see if there are any electoral consequences, though I suspect not.

I see that the one person quoted as being against the re-naming is apparently the founder of some campaign group called "Save Our Statues", with no reported local connection, so I'm not inclined to take his opinions too seriously, but by making this sort of empty gesture in this way, Haringey Council simply give these twats more ammunition.
 
There was a pub in Reading called the Black Boy which was renamed a few years ago. Forget the origin of the name but it was not a racist one, however the name had become one of those things that’s better to change.

There were a lot of trolls on the local paper website bemoaning it as you’d expect.

Having read the bbc story about this road its surely better to have a road named after a local person who has notable achievements rather than a long-dead royal parasite
 
If I remember rightly, there was a pub opposite the top of the road which was called The Black Boy and had a picture of Charles II on the sign - been closed over 20 years now I guess.
 
blossie33 said:
If I remember rightly, there was a pub opposite the top of the road which was called The Black Boy and had a picture of Charles II on the sign - been closed over 20 years now I guess.
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It's closed now, but I think it was open more recently than 20 years ago. The sign I remember had a picture of a dirty-faced sweep and his brush sticking out of a chimney.
 
According to The Lost Pubs Project

the Black Boy was situated at 268 West Green Road. This pub was known as The Black Grape at time of closure in 2012.
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n15_blackboy.jpg

 
andysays said:
It's closed now, but I think it was open more recently than 20 years ago. The sign I remember had a picture of a dirty-faced sweep and his brush sticking out of a chimney.
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Ah right, my memory fails me :D
There was a club in the smaller building on the left of the picture at one time I think?
 
Apologies for blundering in here
Does anyone know of a clean/reasonable b and b or budget hotel in NW London for 3 nights from tomorrow please?
Many thanks in hope
 
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