Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hornsey Lane Bridge Anti-Suicide Campaign - revisited
Though I live "at the heart of Tottenham" (OK, Wightman Road heartstrings have to be fairly flexible) I do have some connections west even of Stroud Green. For a quarter-century I taught in classrooms-cum year rooms-cum dinner halls directly overlooking "Suicide Bridge". I have a clear memory, from my first weeks of teaching there in September 1979, of vainly struggling to persuade thirty 5th Year boys (Year 11) to please get down from the window sills from where, in chorus, they were rhythmically encouraging an obviously distressed young fellow on the bridge's southern ledge to "Jump! Jump!". Fortunately, the police and ambulance people in attendance persuaded him not to heed my charges' well-intentioned counselling, so we returned to the excitement of our Latin grammar.
Monday's Inside Out London, BBC1 brought back my 1979 memory. Have a look at Miriam Stoppard on http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b017gt3p/ . It starts at 10.07 mins in approx. Available 3 more days, or on iplayer.
Near the end of the clip we get a revealing insight into the 'thinking' and priorities of both Haringey Council and English Heritage.
The Campaign Petition (now at 600 but aiming for 2400 to get a Council Hearing) is at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/anti-suicide-measures-at-the-ho...
The rest of that Inside Out London has the (ubiquitous) William Atkinson on new school exclusion appeals rules; and using Olympics to sell London.
Tags for Forum Posts: Hornsey Lane Bridge Campaign, Suicide Bridge, suicide prevention
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Have signed. But it strikes me that LBoH are missing something here. Surely LBoH could pay for this and raise some well needed revenue by having the net and wall surrounding the Samaritans phone adorned in advertising?
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Their "thinking", backed by English Heritage "philosophy", is that that might be a bridge too far from which even Hawes & Curtis adornments might detract. It's "listed".
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A listed building? That should not stop Paul Simon from advertising on it.
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I rest my case.
out of hospital(at much greater expense to both patient and council)
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