Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Wood Green on BBC Radio London

Just in case anyone's interested, I just turned on the Robert Elms programme and they're doing a special on Wood Green at the moment. They're talking about Shopping City now...

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Permalink Reply by SarahC on May 24, 2016 at 10:43

It's still on – I think it's the whole hour – though they seem to have gone on to something about Peckham Lido in between. They talked to the manager of the shopping centre about how it was built and what was there before, and the IRA bomb. There's supposed to be something about the Chocolate Factory, and theoretically people ringing in.

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Permalink Reply by Collage Arts on May 24, 2016 at 13:27

It was great hearing about Wood Green in the 40s.

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Permalink Reply by Collage Arts on May 24, 2016 at 13:34

Here's the recorded show, we're on at 01:39:37

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vdht3

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Permalink Reply by ingo pless on May 24, 2016 at 16:06

Thanks for sharing, pretty interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on May 24, 2016 at 16:37

Maxwell Hutchinson, the architect, was also on as he is nearly every Tuesday. He said that Haringey Council commissioned him in the early 1990s to produce a report giving reasons as to why Alexandra Palace should not become a listed building. The report went to Michael Heseltine who was running the Department of the Environment at the time: Heseltine had not seen Alexandra Palace, so he visited it - and promptly had it listed. Hutchinson also said the idea of a cable car from Wood Green to the Palace was his.