Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

New River Path closed

Today the following notice appeared at the Wightman Road gate to the New River Path:

The contractor's man told me that repairs were needed on the bank just North of Hampden Road and they need to use the path just south of there to store/park/leave their materials while the work is in progress.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on September 13, 2024 at 4:03

Here are a couple of photos I took yesterday. The first shows a pontoon constructed behind the mosque. When I passed by the men seemed to be cutting out a length of the fence by Denmark Road. The second photo shows some strange looking construction materials, I assume for bank reinforcement.

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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on September 14, 2024 at 11:10

It looks to me as though they will be replacing the old wooden revetments that line the Eastern bank alongside the mosque site. I guess the pontoon is simply to allow the workers to cross over with the equipment and materials from the other bank where it is all stored.

Someone told me that fresh water crayfish get behind the rotting revetments and bore into the bank. That was a new one on me. I thought only voles and coypu (which we don't have around here) did damage of that sort.