"Yes my thought too as to the specific route to the cafe, though the wider point is well taken.
This former cyclist in that location chose to tuck in behind the buses on the left of the two lanes: bus drivers are several cuts above the average in…"
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Harringay new street trees - watered in this dry spell by Haringey
Started this discussion. Last reply by Clive Carter Jun 10, 2025. 9 Replies 2 Likes
Our Ladder street has half a dozen new trees planted in February this year. Today there was a loud humming sound outside which I found was coming from a water pump mounted on a flatbed truck. After a…Back to Harringay Online
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Specsavers in Sainsbury's closes 28th April
Started Apr 22, 2025 0 Replies 1 Like
Records are being transferred to the Wood Green business at Unit 2, 88-96 Wood Green High Road N22 6YD (at the southern end of The Mall complex, next to River Island and facing the junction with…Back to Harringay Online
Tags for Forum Posts: eye tests, eyetests, opticians, specsavers
COVID jabs at Bounds Green Health Centre - no access from Bounds Green Rd - cameras+fine
Started this discussion. Last reply by Paul Soper Oct 20, 2024. 10 Replies 1 Like
The Centre is on Gordon Road just north of the Tube station, and we've used it for a couple of years for COVID jabs, we can't be the only such people in Harringay. Vehicles turning into Gordon Road…Back to Harringay Online
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Piccadilly line closure Sat 17 - Sun 1 Sep, Wood Green to Cockfosters
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And reduced service level on the rest of the line - Peak hours: every 4 minutes Off-peak hours and weekends: every 5 minutesAt best, I'd say.Back to Harringay Online
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"Plenty of aerial views of/from Alexandra Palace available free on HoL!
Put "aerial view" or "tim p" or "McFly" into the search box on the left side of the home screen."
"Th e Wood Green Customer Service Centre is still open, apparently:
https://haringey.gov.uk/contact/contact-us-person/wood-green ;
The other one at Marcus Garvey in Tottenham is currently closed, though."
"Neil, Galina Vishnevskaya's memoir? Oxfam Online Bookshop has it: : https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/galina/product/HD_302701006?sku=HD_...
Yours for a tenner plus postage. You're welcome."
Station Place, Finsbury Park, 1994
"Thank you Jeremy, yes I wondered about that. On 'have to be red', these days a lot of buses are hiding their red livery underneath all-over vinyl wrap advertising. [Insert optional 'alas' here...]"
"It looked to me that they both had pressure-washer lances or the like.
Seen while waiting at the Endymion Rd traffic lights.
Google Earth shows the roof has rooflights."
"The 136 in the chart are newly identified since 2020 (some of which will since have been fixed).
The 161 in the text are all of those that remain to be fixed, whenever they were identified, even 16 years ago.
Searching 'moselle' on HoL…"
"Habitat changes, too: on Umfreville by the New River bridge there was a large shrub full of sparrows a decade ago. It was severely pruned, and has now regrown somewhat, but the sparrows haven't come back."
"And now they have cancelled the annual Lambeth Country Show. Revenge, eh?"
"Tesco's website - extract:
Product complaintsPublished 28 February, 2024 Updated 11 November, 2025If any of our products fall below the high quality you’d expect, please bring them back to store within 30 days, together…"
"Frequency - we get four trains an hour off-peak. Pre-Covid it was six. Great Northern could have restored the extra services, they claim passenger numbers don't require it. There are plenty of trains available and not fully used, to…"
Air Raid Shelter at 68 Woodlands Park Road, c1967
"Yes:
"When installed underground, they were buried 1.2 metres (4 ft) deep in the soil and then covered with a minimum of 38 centimetres (15 in) of soil above the roof." [Wikipedia].
But post 1945, and re-excavated after only a…"
The train to Herford North at Finsbury Park, 1976
"Well, it was a building site in 1976! The square white sign on the building states 'No Entry for Plant'.
This was during the late stages of electrifying the lines from Moorgate and King's Cross to Hertford North and Welwyn Garden…"
SHORT NOTICE - Sunday 16 Nov about 1435 - steam southbound at Harringay
Bit of an odd one this.Normally after passengers have left the train at Kings Cross the locomotive, empty carriages and diesel reverse as far as Hornsey, then reverse again and go on their way back to the base at Southall. Tonight this can't happen (don't know why, probably an overnight line closure) so the train will continue to Welwyn.Sunday late lunchtime it will complete the 'last leg'. Accurate times here - …See More
"Well there's also the 67 bus (Wood Green - St Ann's Rd - Stoke Newington - Dalston) for links to Tube and Overground. And there used to be St Ann's Road station on the Barking - Gospel Oak line, though I don't think TfL have it…"
"Thank you Paul, it's now clear what the situation is."
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- At 13:53 on April 9, 2019,
Hugh said…
Apologies - only just notice Konrad's comment about your observation on this picture. Have just replied.
- At 0:26 on May 5, 2018,
Not at all - thanks for digging up the additional data - but you see what you've got me started on!
- At 23:08 on July 4, 2013,
Hi Gordon,
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