Calls for a Harringay Entrance to Finsbury Park Echo Edwardian Demands

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Permalink Reply by Helen on July 31, 2017 at 10:45

I've been banging on about an entrance there for ages too - I'm the other end of the park but would love to be able to walk through the park to the shops by Homebase without having to duck onto Endymion Road and breathe in all the fumes.  Our Councillor always just says there are enough entrances.   Annoying. 

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 31, 2017 at 12:53

"Our Councillor" <- which one?

Permalink Reply by Helen on July 31, 2017 at 14:00

Sorry, I meant the one for my ward - Stroud Green. His name is Tim Gallagher. I can't remember exactly but I think he'd said he'd raised it and that was the collective view. I mentioned it on the stroudgreen.org site once and there was a mixed response.

Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on July 31, 2017 at 14:17

I think the baseball crew will vociferously reject any public entrance. They get jolly upset when my son plays football there.

Permalink Reply by Helen on July 31, 2017 at 14:26

Even if it was closed off when the pitch was in use it'd be useful when it's not

Permalink Reply by Hugh on July 31, 2017 at 14:58

Take a small corner of the park which they never use as a public space and, as Helen says, close off the way through the park when the baseball field is in use.

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 31, 2017 at 19:45

Unlike Messrs Chigwell, Malone J.P. and Green I can understand the LCC's solicitude in protecting the sacred sanctuary of the Cricket Match Ground from casual trespassers. But what possible justification can there be for allowing a foreign games pitch to impede the legitimate comings and goings of Harringay's residents, or even of the occasional Stroud Green shopper? Time for the successors of the LCC or of Tottenham District Councillors to step up to the plate, if you will excuse this foreign game's ubiquitous barbarism, and restore this entrance gate. If we do not protest over this loss of our rights-of-way through our ancestral lands, our fate will be worse than that of the Chagossians whom a Yanqui-arse-licking British government evicted half a century ago from their archipelago to allow the Yanks to turn Diego Garcia into yet another base(ball pitch).