Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Frobisher Stump
A recent exchange on Twitter led me to digging in to HoL's recent archives and unearthing Ant's wonderful work on what he once referred to as the "Frobisher Tree Stump".
The tree stump platform was born as a result of last year's Ladder tree cull and and as a result the posts about it have lived on a thread about that aboricidal episode. Having come back to it, I'm still taken by what Ant did and I think it warrants its own thread. Intriguing to imagine the Frobisher Tree Stump as Harringay's 'fourth plinth'. (Ant's trials and tribulations with vandals notwithstanding).
So, above and below are the various guises of the Frobisher Stump that I'm aware of:
And finally the picture on Twitter in Notting Hill that sent me back to Ant's work:
Picture: @philiblack
Tags for Forum Posts: frobisher stump, street art
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Permalink Reply by Vicki on
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We have lived on Frobisher for many years, and we are delighted by the arrival of this ever changing art work. It was sad to lose the tree but this more than makes up for it. Keep up the good work, Thank you
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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Hi - Joy for me as the stump is virtually outside my old home at 86 (46-64) - indeed it may even be the tree that was planted when I was a boy; it would need to be about 50 years old (any arborealists out there?). At that time and adjacent to it was an old fashioned gas street lamp with a mokey bar as well called the place where the lamplighters ladder rested. Anyway they were close enough to form the end of various rope structures olutside our house. The tree doubled as a bike rack and later as a motorbike prop (busted sidestand).
Of course the trees qwere deciduous and their popularity waned as they got bigger and as more people got cars. Some were lime and the results were predictable. In fact this one looks like it might be lime.
In our time it was hit once or twice by cars as the junctions with Willoughby was not ever safe. And my father backed into it in about 58 - the tree I recall was unmoved but his back bumper was, along with his ill-temper!
I love the chair - we would have used it every day!
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Just noticed the picture was taken by a phil black - too much that it might be a relative of Roger Black who lived I think in Falklands, next along south.
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Two things only of note - one, a family called Flack lived near the Green Lanes end and his dad ran a dry goods store. Top of the road, where the prefabs were, lived a family with a young lad suffering from what was then called spasticism - Robert Farrant I think; he was a local hero. very brave. Did lots of work raising money for the Sunshine Home scheme. That's it I am afraid.
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