Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Mural
I noticed this morning what looks like a newish mural on a south facing wall of at the Wightman Road end of Seymour Road. The image is of a Rhinoceros hornbill and I would say it is a worthy adornment to brighten up our area. Not a Banksy perhaps but nonetheless welcome.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I saw that too yesterday- love it.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Michaels on
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It's the second one in the area by James Straffon. His work has moved down from to the southern part of the Ladder.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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Thanks for this Mark.
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Permalink Reply by Clare Heal on
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Love his stuff. Thank for the link - didn't know there was a map.
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Permalink Reply by PaulG on
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Thanks - the map is brilliant. But where are the Turnpike Lane Bullfinch, and the Etherley Road bison? Surely the Bullfinch is by the same artist, if not both works?
Re the Robin, its nickname "Redbreast" derives from a time when there was no word in English for the colour "orange", else it might conceivably have been called "Robin Orangebreast" instead - albeit it's a far less catchy moniker!
Oh, and re the Sirdar Road mural: it would be truly wonderful to see a Tree Sparrow in the area - in the company of Chaffinches or otherwise - but as the species is now long gone from the London area, it is but a fond hope!
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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Nice to see this pic, because I overheard two people talking about it while walking down the Harringay Passage the other day. They must have just walked past the robin mural and it sparked a thought - one said to the other that there was a new mural on the Wightman end of one of the ladder roads. Then they said it's great, it's a dodo! I'm going to guess that there is not in fact a new dodo mural as well.
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They must have just walked past the robin mural[....]
I should clarify that Straffon references to the robin as "pettirosso" as that is the word for "robin" in Italian (literally "red breast"). That was the name the homeowners gave it when they set up the commission.
He doesn't always do commissions and it relatively unusual for him to do a non exotic or non endangered animal, but I believe that certain circumstances were helpful at the time. The paintbrush the robin stands on was his idea and a nod to the fact that the homeowner is another local artist.
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