ery secure, but the pre-war prestige had been lost.
London Transport made huge efforts after the war to improve services, the first priority being the replacement of worn-out buses and the remainder of the trams. With limited finances, no opportunuty was seen to re-start the pre-war (1935) Undeground extension scheme and in fact, some half-built and proposed extensions were scrapped, including the Finsbury Park - Alexandra Palace extension of the Northern Line.
The 1948 Olympics also put a short term strain on services.…
Spring the Evening Standard reported that homeowners in south-east London are demanding up to £10,000 a week in rent. The rents being asked - four times higher than normal - are the first signs of the expected accommodation gold rush near the main Games venues.
The most expensive "Olympics-only" property the paper had found being offered for rent was a five-bedroom house in Blackheath billed as "perfect" for corporate hospitality and "a minute away" from the entrance to Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events are taking place.
The owners wanted £10,850 a week, the sort of rate usually associated only with property in Chelsea or Kensington.
At the other end of the scale, the owner of a one-bedroom flat in Greenwich is asking for £1,692 a week, considerably more than it could usually command in a month. Average rents in Greenwich are £1,229 a month.
Interested? A quick Google will turn up plenty of agencies and websites.…
ney at it, are anything to go by I think we will probably get our moneys' worth.
Also who the hell wants to watch the Olympics in Somalia or Afghanistan anyway, of course only wealthy or communist countries can host the Olympics, (In fact all the best ones were held in Communist ones...) But, I'm glad to hear you are a 'fan' of the Olympics... Personally, I'm with you and wish 2012 had been held in the same spirit of 1948, all rationing and powdered egg. Those were the days... but Clive, one has to face up to the realities of the real world and accept that everything from The Eurovision Song Contest to the Horse of the Year Show has become bloated and overblown... Did you go to the darts at Ally pally? No, of course you didn't, but if you had, you would have found a simple working man's game turned into a magniloquent parody of itself... The world can't stay in the 1970's however much you close your eyes and wish it...…
s, the Horse of the Year Show for its first ten years, and to post-war classical music festivals It was also where Alicia Markova made her debut in the West. Lots of photos here and here and click the "harringay arena" tag under the video to see more Harringay Arena Videos.…
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The kids from Welbourne Primary School took over from Waltham Forest schoolchildren who had completed their leg of the race.
However, no-one bargained on the gusty winds which took some of the children by surprise. But they were determined to do their bit to get into the Guinness Book of World Records and gamely took charge of the blazing torches.
The Welbourne kids passed on the torches to children from Lordship Lane Primary school who then walked one mile to the borough boundary and passed them on to children from Enfield.
Over the next four weeks around 30,000 children as well as Olympic Gold Medallist and double World Champion rower Mark Hunter MBE and Victoria Ohuruogu, GB youth athlete from Havering, will take part in the walking event.
The event is part of a month of 2012 Games-themed walking activity and forms this year's annual Big WoW walking event for primary school children.
The TfL-sponsored annual Big WoW aims to encourage children to walk to school and to make walking part of their lifestyle from an early age.
Note: The Basketball competition for the 1948 Olympics was held at Harringay Arena.
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d/live action portrait of Olympic gymnast and good posture advocate George Weedon.
MY DAD & SPIKE
dir. Murat Kebir
In a suburban London street, lives 7 year old Ali, his Mum, Dad and fish Spike. All his life Ali has been comforted by the sound of his Dad's loud snoring at night. But one day the snoring stops.
SWIPE
dir. Max Blustin
A lazy young man asks his girlfriend if he can borrow some money. When she refuses, he resorts to other means...
TRANSMISSION FOR YEAR 0
dir.Geoff Sautner / Emily McMehen
A radio broadcast received by decaying buildings acts as a call to arms to free themselves from their human uses and achieve their true potential. Emancipating mammoths, they will now hulk across sea and earth, mutating and disseminating the original broadcast.
COMEDY SHORTS FROM NAOMI GROSSMAN & RED MEAT ENTERTAINMENT:
"MEN AT WORK"
"READY TO SETTLE>…
in the Sixties.
As I discovered via Twitter the other day, the firm sent one of its sons south five years back. Walsh's promoter, Tim, is now a Harringay boy and counts The Salisbury as his local. Tim describes himself as "virtually indigenous to Harringay".
If you'd like to get a closer look at shoes from what is probably the last casual shoe firm manufacturing in the UK, you'll find Tim at Sunday UpMarket in The Old Truman Brewery. Or, alternatively, catch him in The Salisbury and I'm sure he'll be persuaded to tell you all about Walsh.
The tweeted picture that led me to Walsh: "Down our Local. Sam at the Salisbury Hotel, Harringay. Lancashire expat sporting Walsh T-shirt!"
Attached is a copy of a recent mention of Walsh Casual in the Telegraph.
Walsh on the web:
www.walshcasual.com
Walsh Casual on Twitter
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s earliest performances in the West, the London Music Festival which made classical music accessible to the masses for the first time, Tom Arnold's famous circuses, Ice shows, roller speedway derbies, the basketball competition for the 1948 Olympics, the Horse of the Year Show for its first ten years, the England Badminton championships, the European Netball championships, and of course boxing (at the time it closed the Arena held the UK record for hosting he highest number of world title fights)......and more.
28th October 2008 would be a great day for us to celebrate one aspect of what was great about Harringay in the past and have a bit of party and look forward to the future.
I contacted our councillors, local residents’ groups and Wildmoor properties about this idea around 5 weeks ago. So far I have had replies from the LCSP, the GRA, Councillors Baker & Alexander and Wildmoor Properties (who own and manage the Arena shopping Centre). All were positive and offered their support. It’s a shame that I’ve not yet heard back from the other ward councillors. I’m sure they’ve been busy. I will follow them up.
I don’t have a clear plan of what we’d do – at one level it could be a stand in the corner of the car park with some limp balloons and a few bottles of Tizer. At the other end we could try and entice some of the Arena’s former users back – for example the Horse of the Year Show people are out on the web fishing for past stories of Harringay Arena days. The limit is our imagination, energy, time and of course money.
But what do you guys think? Should we do it? A chance to create a positive buzz?
If you're in the mood, look here at some old photos of the Arena and here at old programmes.…