Can anyone tell us more about this historic Parkland Walk protest march against a motorway?

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Permalink Reply by anne barwick on April 5, 2023 at 15:50

The motorway proposal was a GLC thing, it would have gone up Cromartie Rd when it left the Parkland Walk going west (or possibly that was a slip road). I worked on some of the houses on Cromartie Rd in the mid/late eighties so that scheme was dead by then. Might have been called the inner ring road?

There was also another,  later scheme, more housing based but with roads included, which prompted the first huge Friends of Parkland Walk protest, organised by John Fry.  I was on that march.

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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on April 5, 2023 at 16:18

I guess it would have been this

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/londons-lost-mega-m...

Although a bit earlier than the 80s

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Permalink Reply by Giovanna iozzi on April 5, 2023 at 17:55

These are amazing Vaughan, can I share them with our tree protectors group? What is your full name so I give you a credit?

We have of course been protesting against tree fellings on the PW in recent years as the Haringey Tree Protectors.

Best wishes

Gio

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Permalink Reply by anne barwick on April 5, 2023 at 23:46

Just looking at the clothes and the street names (there were street reps for every street affected) I think this is the late 80's protest mentioned here: https://www.parkland-walk.org.uk/history
So I was there, somewhere....

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Permalink Reply by Julie W on April 11, 2023 at 23:02

Got all excited thinking I might be in the photos but I'm not! Can't remember much about it but somewhere I have a photo of my then 5 year old son holding up a placard, I think it said 'Save the parkland walk'. When I come across it I'll put it up

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