Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
A Battered Finsbury Park after another Haringey Hire
Photos of the Steel Yard event from 26th May. Photos of the battered Bandstand Field on 3rd June 2019 (Flickr photos embedded below - click image to go to Flick album).
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Permalink Reply by DTW on
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Think we have very different views of battered. The ground still looks perfectly stable and the grass will regrow very quickly. You would hardly notice in a couple of weeks
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That's true as in a couple of weeks they'll be setting up for the Community festival so you won't be able to see it at all.
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I agree completely. In fact, I can't remember ever seeing that area so completely devoid of litter. Well done to the Parks Team and Steel Yard for an excellent clean up job.
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Hi Martin,
Do you know anything about the dog poo bins being removed from Down Lane Park?
Con
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Permalink Reply by Jane on
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'Bandstand Field' sums it up, when was it last used for that? Perhaps we need to move with the times.
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the only reason the park team are litter picking and improving the park is thanks to the Friends of Finsbury Park - the council has had money from concerts for several years now, and only spent the bare minimum on Finsbury Park, the rest of the money being used elsewhere. Thanks to the Friends, there is now a ruling that all money raised by events being held in the park is to be spent on the park, so at long last there are staff to pick up litter!
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Well, Finsbury Park, and Freinds of, are going to have access to a hugely wealthy fund in a couple of years. I'm sure the park will be amazing. Replanting of all the Victorian flower beds, replacing some tree avenues, tennis courts, basket ball courts, resurfacing the road (although I think it would be nicer in a fine gravel) . It'll have one of the finest children's play areas in north London, a full complement of park staff back at Victorian levels and the lake will be a haven of wildlife, no doubt!.
I wonder if after all that is sorted out (10 to 20 years I'm assuming) the 'friends of' will allow a few pennies in the form of grants to other parks and green spaces in haringey (not Islington or Hackney) which I think will be sad dry abandoned dust bowls by then. Or maybe not. Who knows.
Haringey has used the park as a cash cow to pay for every green space in the borough (that is the truth) to the deteriment of the Finsbury Park, but having grabbed all the proceeds, I really don't expect to feel the love for the rest of the borough from the friends.
A cinical perspective, I know. Maybe I'll be proved wrong.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I think the point is - if all the income from FP events goes to FP, then perhaps it can be run with fewer damaging and disruptive events.
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To the detriment of all other green spaces in haringey that aren't attractive enough to event organisers or large enough to put on events that can pay for the upkeep of themselves or smaller green spaces.
I'm not saying that 'The Freinds' are wrong but I don't think they're, as an organisation, totally haringey. A bit like that area forum that wants to annex the park that are based in Islington.
Just saying, not judging, particularly.
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Permalink Reply by michaela rourke on
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Sorry to disappoint but grass is very resilient - bit of sun, bit of rain, you'll find it grows back perfectly happily.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Harding on
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summer is definitely ruined
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The damage to the grass is one thing, but the constant comings and goings of construction vehicles is quite another.
I’ve never cared about using the vast space of FP for concerts. But I drew the line at the temporary 747 hangar they built a couple of weeks ago - that thing was insanely big.
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