Michael Cordwell James's Likes

June 2022

Swifts! You may have seen there are lots of swifts swirling around Myddleton Road. If you can accommodate a nestbox for these beautiful birds, there's information about how to do so on the swift conservation… Discussion Swifts! 1 Like

January 2016

New 'affordable' Wood Green hotel for actors… <a href="https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2015/the-green-rooms-actors-hotel-checks-in-to-wood-green-london/">https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2015/the-green-rooms-actors-hotel-checks-in-to-wood-green-london/</a> Just came across this story - apparently it's opening in spring 2016 across the road from the tube s… Discussion New 'affordable' Wood Green hotel for actors… 2 Likes

October 2015

A lament for the lost bizarre bits of Bowes Park

Noticing yesterday that the Naxos girl had…

Blog A lament for the lost bizarre bits of Bowes Park 4 Likes

August 2015

Woodside Park Jazz Picnic 2015

event Woodside Park Jazz Picnic 2015 1 Like

February 2015

Kernow at Karamel: Dalla and Red River Singe…

event Kernow at Karamel: Dalla and Red River Singe… 1 Like Everyone's Climbing Tree

video Everyone's Climbing Tree 1 Like

October 2014

Ruby's Cave - cracking new business on Myddl… Just wanted to draw people's attention to a great new antiques shop on Myddleton Road, just opposite Vrisaki. It is called Ruby's Cave and the guys behind it are great hunter-gatherering-wheeler-deal… Discussion Ruby's Cave - cracking new business on Myddl… 6 Likes

August 2013

Woodside Park Jazz Picnic

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July 2013

What to do with Ritz Parade on North Circula… Went through all the different forum threads on this site tonight and the common theme is the exact same worry as the one troubling us day in day out as Bowes councillors: too much development in an… Discussion What to do with Ritz Parade on North Circula… 1 Like

June 2013

Myddleton Road market I have just come back from the market and I want to say a really big THANK YOU to the organisers, especially Lucy who I believe was the moving force behind it. Thank you Lucy, and everyone, for stick… Discussion Myddleton Road market 1 Like

May 2013

Myddleton Rd Market leaflets Can anyone else help? We'll be doing a mass door drop of leaflets next month for the Myddleton Road Market on 16th June, and have already got some very kind offers of help across Bowes Park and Boun… Discussion Myddleton Rd Market leaflets 1 Like

March 2013

A rather large urban fox in Wood Green

Blog A rather large urban fox in Wood Green 4 Likes

October 2012

Follow the Wooden Brick Road

Following her fascinating article on the New River Tunnel Caroline Simpson…

Blog Follow the Wooden Brick Road 4 Likes The Passmore Edwards Centennial In June 1895 the Wood Green Cottage Hospital was opened by Mrs Eleanor Edwards, the wife of John Passmore Edwards, who provided the funding. Edwards also funded the Willesden Green Cottage Hospital a… Discussion The Passmore Edwards Centennial 1 Like

August 2012

I have a peeping tom....

...and he's quite creepy....…

Blog I have a peeping tom.... 1 Like

July 2012

Did you spot this flying machine on Friday 1… There was an unusually loud sound on Friday around mid-day. I looked up to see what can only have been an Osprey V-22 tiltrotor plane flying low across Bounds Green in a northerly direction. It too… Discussion Did you spot this flying machine on Friday 1… 1 Like Our Musical Heritage: Wood Green Jazz Club

Elvis Costello is quoted as saying: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do." but…

Blog Our Musical Heritage: Wood Green Jazz Club 6 Likes

May 2012

Wood Green Parish Boundary Marker

photo Wood Green Parish Boundary Marker 2 Likes

March 2012

The Gruesome Death of Chung Ling Soo

The Wood…

Blog The Gruesome Death of Chung Ling Soo 7 Likes A Biblical Plague in Bounds Green? Odd reports this evening of a plague of frogs in Bounds Green ... well at least 10 frogs - or toads (does that qualify as a plague?) Bounds Green Councillor Matt Cooke has been reporting via his Twit… Discussion A Biblical Plague in Bounds Green? 6 Likes

January 2012

Architectural features on Myddleton Road Since I moved to the area, I've loved spotting quirky architectural features on Myddleton Road. Have you seen the roof geese? Or the pretty tiles on some doorways? Discussion Architectural features on Myddleton Road 1 Like