Weekly Update, 8th June 2012

Neighbourhood & community News

• Sign of the times: thieves target Cafe Lemon again
• Council insist on last minute change to Harringay Bridge banner
• Wifi at Manor House and Finsbury Park stations
• Come along to Park View Parkstock on the 28th!
• Gardens streets get £350,000 to slow traffic and improve streets
• Magpies
• Flooding

better city living

• Who owns my neighbourhood?
• New website to help local people with neighbourhood planning
• Safe Havens

Local shops / businesses / trades / services

• floorboards needing repairs
• Local cab firms that don't suck
• CG Gas
• Dry cleaners
• Highly recommended painter, plasterer, decorator and carpenter
• Has anyone used one of the local restaurants (or another local business) for event catering?
• Looking for someone to (hopefully) repair my guitar!
• Seeking... A plumber who has experience fitting toilets and can cope with iron pipes
• Wrought iron window bars

NEWS FROM AROUND THE BOROUGH & NEARBY

• Funding secured for wetlands scheme
• Derelict Shop on Clinton Rd N15
• 21% drop in membership at Hornsey LibDem Party
• Hornsey Town Hall wins Heritage Lottery Funding

London-wide

• Police Medics to patrol the Tube

Sunday magazine

• Linked in passwords hacked
• For sale - The Queen
• Have you ever had an impression that your computer has been running slower and slower?

council services

• Is 'Bin Alley' the best solution for our recycling?
• One too many parties for noisy students

bubblers from previous weeks

• Great response from Sainsbury's to cycle theft problem
• People coming to door offering free loft insulation from the Council
• Kitten found
• LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) Social Evening
• New green bins
• Trying to request a small wheelie bin for recycling
• Great Northern Railway Tavern Hornsey High St - it's been refurbed.. And is ACE go visit!
• Looking for a room...
• Looking for a short term room to rent (End of May until early Sept)
• Tabby Cat
• Sainsbury supermarket to open at Wards Corner, will this affect the demolition application
• Black Cat Duckett Rd/Cavendish Rd back gardens
• Poundland - it's great!
• Train wheel screeching on railway behind Wightman Road.

entertainment / leisuretime

• Ducketts Common officially celebrating our new outdoor gym and courts ... everyone welcome!
• Ally Pally Sunset Sessions

pets lost / found / needing homes

• Anyone lost a black cat?
• Two lovely cats in need of a new home

crime & Policing

• Air Ambulance at the School in Falkland Road

offered

• FREE Mamas and Papas Pushchair
• Nice(Ektorp) IKEA 3 person sofa - going to a good home for £50, was £500 when bought!
• Mirror for sale
• Black bin bag full of bubble wrap

help wanted

• Party wall fence?
• Delivery service?
• Where can I buy freshly roasted coffee beans?

• The Queen at Harringay Arena, 1957
• Stroud Green & Harringay Library, 1914ish
• Prince Phillip arriving at Harringay Stadium, 1960's
• Circus Clowns' Harringay tour, 1948
• Greyhound racing at Harringay Stadium, 1968, 1
• Greyhound racing at Harringay Stadium, 1968, 2
• Stuart Grainger & Jean Simmons at Harringay Arena
• Stroud Green Road, 1905
• Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, circa 1910
• Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, 1914ish
• Victoria Road, Stroud Green 1914ish
• Nelson Road 1914ish
• Stapleton Hall Road 1914ish

• Ducketts Common new gym and courts celebration
• Dads' drinks
• Euroart's 10th Anniversary Open Studios weekend 8/10 June 2012‏
• Alan Warner Band at Moors Bar

• London Green Fair
• Open Garden Squares Weekend
• Dr Bike at The Salisbury
• Baby First Aid with NCT Haringey
  
• Consultation Open Day - Proposed changes to track, gym and tennis facilities and extended opening hours in Finsbury Park
• Sunset Session: Reggae Roast

• Mini-tennis coaching for 5-12 year olds, in Fairland Park
• Sunset Session: Live acoustic sessions

• Gardens Residents Association (GRA)

• Songs For Little People
• Yoga LEVEL 1 Course

Friday

• Live Music - Breathe @ The Step

• Muswellathon
• Muswell Hill Market
• Green Box Collection Point
• Jolly Market at St Mary's with St George Hornsey Parish Church Hall
• Fair in the Square
• "SPOIL SPORTS" An afternoon of fun and silly sports rejected by the official olympics.
• Alan Davies hosts - A Night of Comedy for Freightliners Farm
• Jolly Market at St Mary's with St George Hornsey Parish Church Hall
• Jolly Market at St Mary's with St George Hornsey Parish Church Hall
• Free Dog Training Clinic
• South Haringey Schools Fun Run
• Mini-tennis coaching for 5-12 year olds, in Fairland Park
• Noel Park Big Local Meeting
• Songs For Little People
• Twelfth Night Fever
• Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• London Festival of Architecture 2012: The Playful City
• AP & Beyond Art and Music Festival
  
• Summer on the Green
• Tottenham Community Festival and Carnival 2012
• Vintage & Handmade Market
• Consultation Open Day - Proposed Changes to Opening Hours and Sports Provision in Finsbury Park
• Consultation Open Day - Proposed Changes to Opening Hours and Sports Provision in Finsbury Park
• Palace Gates Neighbourhood Fete
• Mini-tennis coaching for 5-12 year olds, in Fairland Park
• What Lies Above?
• The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
• WESTON PARK SCHOOL CAR BOOT SALE
• BABY & CHILDREN FIRST AID COURSE
• Friends of Railway Fields monthly conservation
• Tree grafting and plant identification
• 3rd Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading 2012