Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Ersan Video Corner
Hi all.
Has anyone else noticed how horrific the images are on a constant loop being beamed out of the windows of Ersan & Co opposite the Salisbury?
When it was first being refurbished, it was a mystery as to what it was going to be, then as the 'PERSONAL INJURY, 'ACCIDENT CLAIMS' and 'MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE' banners were unveiled it became clear that it is a ambulance chaser megamart.
So what right? These [sort of firms*] have to be based somewhere.
My gripe is that they show videos on a constant loop of all of the worst things which can happen. There is one video in particular which features an awful car accident where a car crosses into the oncoming lane and is obliterated by a truck. I have been in a couple of car accidents, and they are no joke, and it struck me that this is particularly inappropriate footage to be broadcasting to the general public 24 hours a day.
Also the monitors seem to be beaming these out at about a million lumens, they illuminate the whole street, thankfully my bedroom is not on the street side or I would need blackout curtains.
Who can I complain to? (Besides you lot...)
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Permalink Reply by Geoff on
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24 March: The screen facing Green Lanes is on again ...
The sheer inappropriateness of this most unwelcome intrusion on to the local streetscape of the screens in Ersan's windows is no better demonstrated by the ludicrous inanity of the 24/7 rolling repetition of the film of the opening reception of the company's offices (did they have a licence to hold an event which took place on the public highway, one asks?).
This mute looped film, repeated endlessly, is enough to drive anybody insane, and makes the case almost better than anything else that we've been unwillingly subjected to from these misguidedly erected, street-facing screens, for their immediate, complete removal - not just a switching off. There is no place for such a blatent intrusion in to the neighbourhood streetscape, and the groundswell of opinion evidenced in this HoL thread attests to this.
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Permalink Reply by ChrisTofer on
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Yep, garish, vulgar, nonsensical and antisocial: that about sums it up.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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ChrisTofer,
I took some general shots earlier in the week (click to enlarge):
Façade on Green Lanes, showing video running
THE main entrance. I imagine most of the £23,000 of public money spent on Ersan street frontage (thanks to the GLA's Outer London Fund), was spent on the corner. Ersan contributed 10% of the total. There was no door on the corner before.
THE big video screen in the left window is currently off. This is the St Anns Road elevation. Nowadays, the argument made for some buildings on prominent corners, is that they are a statement, signature, landmark or Gateway building (even though this can sound silly to sensible ears).
(NB, I have heard that building X or Y would "Hold" a corner and even "Celebrate" a corner. I wish I was making up this stuff ... )
If similar nomenclature were applied here, this corner might be thought of as the Gateway to St Anns, with ACCIDENT CLAIMS and MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE being the message on the Gateway.
When Ersan & Co. first moved in, many in the community were relieved that there would not be yet another betting shop, that had been threatened.
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Evening Pav,
IF YOU haven't already seen it, the attached file may help ("Green Lanes Shopfront Improvement Scheme")
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Would have been nice if someone had called an ambulance
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Injurylawyers4U are another participant in an industry that is history in New Zealand.
Because of the high cost, the delays and the adversarial nature of accident litigation, an NZ government in the early 1970s created a universal no-fault accidental injury scheme.
You'll probably think of me as an old-fashioned socialist, but I think it's a good idea.
It's the Accident Compensation Corporation.
Employers pay a levy to it, as to those who buy motor car insurance. Victims of accidents receive compensation, on a no-fault basis, without one side having to prove negligence and the other side often feeling obliged to resist admitting negligence or responsibilty. A parasitical element is largely absent.
Thus, most of the expensive arguing is done away with. Lawyers do not favour it – should we be surprised?!
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Sadly, no - but my reply seems to have got lost in the system. I'll respond again in the morning.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I went past here on Sunday and saw the video screens turned off, but I also saw this the day before in the Blackwall Tunnel.
It might not bee too clear because of the contrast, but it was a cab with a fin like TV screen on the top flashing out bright adverts...
Welcome to the future!
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Not a Planning issue ... but could be a traffic regulation issue. Even though the sign is arranged longitudinally and mainly seen from the sides, it's also visible from the three quarter angle, such as in this shot: and there's potential for confusion with the legally required lights.
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