All Discussions Tagged 'Harringay boundaries' - Harringay online2024-03-28T19:40:47Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Harringay+boundaries&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTime to Revisit Harringay's Boundaries?tag:harringayonline.com,2009-05-14:844301:Topic:1091502009-05-14T17:56:33.438ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
Over on one of the events pages, <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/profile/LizaMessing">Liza Messing</a> wrote the following:<br />
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<hr></hr>Hi there. I won't be coming to the meeting but am pleased to see WPRA on this site as I think its a really good site. I am concerned however that we - as members of WPRA- come under the 'other' rather than expected members and wonder if the group should liase with HOL about this. It seems to me HOL works best if it includes all communities with an active…
Over on one of the events pages, <a href="http://www.harringayonline.com/profile/LizaMessing">Liza Messing</a> wrote the following:<br />
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Hi there. I won't be coming to the meeting but am pleased to see WPRA on this site as I think its a really good site. I am concerned however that we - as members of WPRA- come under the 'other' rather than expected members and wonder if the group should liase with HOL about this. It seems to me HOL works best if it includes all communities with an active interest and commitment to a small geographical area around green lanes - Harringay - which certainly includes me on Avondale Road. It is much nearer for me to walk to green lanes than it would be for someone at the top end of one of the ladder roads. I think that in going with the current 'gardens/ladders' definition of the site - it is using an estate agents/post code based view of the area, rather than one based on commitment to a geographical area and so real world community. Which is after all what HOL is supposed to be about. I have many friends on the ladders and gardens roads, they send their kids to Woodlands Park Nursery (if they are lucky enought o get a place!) and our kids cross over in terms of the schools they go to. i would welcome a dialogue about this - in terms of defining membership and a sense of being invited and expected to contribute - to a radius around green lanes rather the current ladder/gardens which can feel divisive. any thoughts anyone ?<br />
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Had a look at the sites map of Harringay - and it looks as though on that basis half of my road (Avondale) is in Harringay and half isn't... I live in the Harringay bit. This is a bit bonkers and makes me think that a geographical radius around GL is still the best way to proceed....<br />
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<hr/>Excuse me for moving your comments Liza, but I think this is probably a better place to have a discussion than on Geoff's Event notice. Who says we are not in the Gardens? Don't leave us out in the cold!tag:harringayonline.com,2009-02-25:844301:Topic:940822009-02-25T09:52:22.237ZSapphirebluehttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Sapphireblue
At a recent event where we all turned up in the snow(yes David Lammy) I was shown a map of which roads are covered by the Gardens Resident Association/group/whatever its called. I was looking at the leaflet and then when I said I lived on Harringay Gardens - outside the boundary of the Gardens map, well to my surprise the leaflet was removed from my hand and I was told Harringay Gardens did not qualify. We are to be isolated, shunted out in the cold, we don't qualify, even though we are in the…
At a recent event where we all turned up in the snow(yes David Lammy) I was shown a map of which roads are covered by the Gardens Resident Association/group/whatever its called. I was looking at the leaflet and then when I said I lived on Harringay Gardens - outside the boundary of the Gardens map, well to my surprise the leaflet was removed from my hand and I was told Harringay Gardens did not qualify. We are to be isolated, shunted out in the cold, we don't qualify, even though we are in the Harringay town area and our road is called Harringay GARDENS.<br />
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This is terrible - who made these rules? And the maps that are shown of this area often have our road shown (as it is small and a cul-de-sac) as no name/blank/who cares/dismiss. On every count then we are to be isolated, kept on the fringes, ignored, rejected......what is going on...?<br />
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Before I commit hari-kari with my useless life, before the final 'delete' button is pressed, someone tell me - where does Harringay Gardens belong...???? H's amazing map!tag:harringayonline.com,2008-11-12:844301:Topic:760142008-11-12T08:24:46.183Zbashleyhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/bashley
It's amazing to a foreign onlooker like me (Canadian), that the London boroughs, Harringay included, each hold such a distinct, discrete, unique, local, political flavour. The google map on the home page, for me, is dizzying and disorienting, a dense maze of what looks like blended, overlapping, tangled, interconnected, web of urban humanity. How did these political borders happen? Is this history entrenched? Are they challenged? Is rivalry friendly? Do political borders run down the middle of…
It's amazing to a foreign onlooker like me (Canadian), that the London boroughs, Harringay included, each hold such a distinct, discrete, unique, local, political flavour. The google map on the home page, for me, is dizzying and disorienting, a dense maze of what looks like blended, overlapping, tangled, interconnected, web of urban humanity. How did these political borders happen? Is this history entrenched? Are they challenged? Is rivalry friendly? Do political borders run down the middle of a street?<br />
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It's quite fascinating, quite exotic, to this faraway onlooker.<br />
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bob Finsbury Park's in Harringay Ward, but it doesn't feel like it..........tag:harringayonline.com,2008-03-27:844301:Topic:333132008-03-27T18:12:03.724ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
.......(yes, I am it again).<br />
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Well, look, it's just that the whole park's in our ward, supposedly in our manor, on our patch, but what do we get by way of entry access? A little gateway right on the edge of the borough boundary on Green Lanes.<br />
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I suppose it's because the north eastern part of the park is separated from the rest by the new river and that part is used as a baseball pitch.<br />
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Call me an old loon, do, but I think we'd feel much more like the park was in our manor if we had a…
.......(yes, I am it again).<br />
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Well, look, it's just that the whole park's in our ward, supposedly in our manor, on our patch, but what do we get by way of entry access? A little gateway right on the edge of the borough boundary on Green Lanes.<br />
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I suppose it's because the north eastern part of the park is separated from the rest by the new river and that part is used as a baseball pitch.<br />
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Call me an old loon, do, but I think we'd feel much more like the park was in our manor if we had a Harringay entrance. I've often said that it's a shame that we have no major public space in Harringay. So, having grumbled to myself about how there ought to be a Harrringay Gate, I thought about that baseball bit of the park on the corner of Endymion. I don't want the guys to lose their pitch, but it could easly be resited and then we could create a public space for Harringay in that corner........maybe a nice little bridge over the river - now much of it's open to the public anyway, there's no need to keep it fenced off any more.<br />
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So, am I just a loon or does this idea appeal to anyone else? Is Harringay in Tottenham?tag:harringayonline.com,2008-02-06:844301:Topic:229872008-02-06T08:36:41.238ZHelen1https://harringayonline.com/profile/Helen
The latest edition of the free paper "First Tottenham" has just been delivered. The first article on the front page reads:<br />
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Do you live in Tottenham?<br />
When we delivered our preview edition at the beginning of last December, we had a few telephone calls from people who could not understand why they were receiving a Tottenham paper, because they thought they lived somewhere else - Hornsey, Wood Green or even Hackney..."<br />
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They provide a map of Tottenham (on p.7) which they show as reaching as far…
The latest edition of the free paper "First Tottenham" has just been delivered. The first article on the front page reads:<br />
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Do you live in Tottenham?<br />
When we delivered our preview edition at the beginning of last December, we had a few telephone calls from people who could not understand why they were receiving a Tottenham paper, because they thought they lived somewhere else - Hornsey, Wood Green or even Hackney..."<br />
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They provide a map of Tottenham (on p.7) which they show as reaching as far west as Wightman Road and the New River.<br />
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Are Harringay and Hornsey part of Tottenham?