Tottenham in British Vogue

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Permalink Reply by kotkas on September 13, 2018 at 16:46

Good! Hopefully some of the glory will spill over to our corner of the borough. 

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Permalink Reply by Larklander on September 14, 2018 at 14:10

The assertion that North Tottenham is known to the locals as NoTo is laughable. We who live in Tottenham call it North Tottenham -- anything else is PR nonsense thrown about to attract the hipster gentrification crowd.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on September 14, 2018 at 14:29

Dont fret. Down here we live in HaHa (Harringay Haringey) and over to the west they're in MuHi.

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Permalink Reply by Larklander on September 14, 2018 at 14:34

But are those the terms used in British Vogue (or other publications of similar witlessness)?

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on September 14, 2018 at 14:44

But do you really care what Vogue say about Tottenham?

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Permalink Reply by Larklander on September 14, 2018 at 14:58

I don't much care what Vogue says (it's an expensive niche publication). But the terms "SoTo" and "NoTo" are appearing with increasing frequency in The Evening Standard (for one), and are also being used in the foreign press to sell sites at Tottenham Hale to the buy-to-leave foreign investment market. In contributes, in the longer term, to the inequality in housing (etc.) that already obtains in London.

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Permalink Reply by Bear Funny Comedy on September 14, 2018 at 18:20

Why No Go?

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Permalink Reply by PaulG on September 14, 2018 at 21:51

Sorry, Hugh, but you do call Hermitage Road the Harringay Warehouse District... ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on September 14, 2018 at 22:34

Well that area was an industrial area fringed by a few residential streets. So as a modern slightly transatlantic version, it’s not wholly inaccurate (and do remember there was already a move to name it Manor House Warehouse District before I got there. Some of the longer term residents of the ‘warehouses’ were happy to join me in trying to reassert the Harringay part of the name). 

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Permalink Reply by Tom Devine on September 14, 2018 at 22:36

You mean like it says on Google maps?HWD.png

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on September 14, 2018 at 23:13

Yup. Luckily I got to Google Maps before they closed off most neighbourhood editing to users. HWD was relatively straightforward. There were a few boundary edits after I added the area, but nothing unreasonable. For some reason, the real challenge was with Harringay.

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Permalink Reply by PaulG on September 14, 2018 at 21:52

Not sure why Tottenham getting a new stadium is good news for football fans..

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