Is this really in London?

Comment by Protheroe O'Shea on May 5, 2012 at 16:54

and it is so frustrating that the resideents of Lothair North and South cannot use the area.

Comment by phippsofacto on June 17, 2012 at 20:08

A very good book with lots of little gems, not least our own New River. I purchased it at a very reasonable price at the Big Green Bookshop. ;)

Comment by Justin Guest on June 17, 2012 at 21:06

What is the black thing mid frame behind the bridge? There is something similar near the bridge for Hampden Road to Hornsey Station.Cannot work it out. Is it a piece of lifting gear of some sort?

Comment by Hugh on June 17, 2012 at 21:18

Speed camera - those moorhens, no consideration for other river users.
Ahem, I stand ready to be corrected, but I think it's for hoisting the maintenance barges in and out..

Comment by John D on June 18, 2012 at 6:15

It is

Comment by Justin Guest on June 18, 2012 at 10:39

Ah, I thought as much. The reason I hesitated was because the bridges in both places are extremly low, so low that I was not sure they could even get a barge or something under them in the first place...

Comment by John Hough on March 3, 2015 at 20:26

I think its a winder mechanism for dragging the weeds, there a several of them along the New River. In the shorter runs, like just after the Tunnel at Park Avenue Wood Green they used to drag the bed by hand & it collected at a grill the other side of Station Road.

Comment by Robert Pike on March 4, 2015 at 21:31

Why can't the river be opened up? If not all but in parts like this where spaces are more generous? 

Comment by Nick G-T on March 4, 2015 at 23:13

Perhaps there aren't as many fearful residents on the Ladder nowadays and we could ask Thames Water to consult again?

Comment by Alan Stanton on March 5, 2015 at 9:19

Joe: "... would be happy to know the official reason though". Good idea.  Why not ask?

Several years ago a popular scheme called Alley-Gaters was funded by the Home Office in several cities.

In Haringey the Neighbourhood  Renewal Fund (NRF) was used. It gated alleys which had suffered from break-ins from rear gardens, fly-tipping and - in some cases - car burnings.

A further general point: people don't need access to the waterside to pollute a stream or river. They can do it far more seriously and covertly with misconnected sewer pipes. Or in some areas simply by pouring car oil or chemicals into some drain gullies. Many years ago, former councillor Peter Hillman and I got the Council to take action against a carwash which was draining its suds into the nearby River Lea.

The Environment Agency supports a fish stencil painting scheme which tries to raise awareness of these risks - including among children. Zena and I first came across it a short trip to Canada where it may have originated.

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