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            BPCA - Its demise?
            Can anyone tell me what is happening to the BPCA ( Bowes Park CommunityAssociation) which has done such sterling work over the past 25 years?  There were suggestions that it should lose the…
            
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                BPCA - Its demise?
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                    March 2019
            
                        
            Vintage and Flea Market at Shaftesbury Hall
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                Vintage and Flea Market at Shaftesbury Hall
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                Vintage and Flea Market at Shaftesbury Hall
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                    July 2018
            
                        
            Civic Centre
            Great News.  I've just heard that the Historic England have listed the Civic Centre as a Grade 2 Bulding.
            
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                Civic Centre
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                    April 2018
            
                        
            Finsbury Fun!
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                Finsbury Fun!
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                Finsbury Fun!
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                    March 2018
            
                        
            All hands on deck w/e March 17 and 18 please
            We shall do our Bowes Park Spring Clean on March 17th, 2-4pm, meet on the Myddleton/Marlborough crossroad. Gloves and pickers and bags provided, but do bring your own if you have them.  Families welc…
            
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                All hands on deck w/e March 17 and 18 please
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                    July 2017
            
                        
            Proposed Demolition of Civic Centre
            I wonder if everyone is aware that Haringey's new Development Plan includes plans to demolish the Civic Centre and build houses/flats on the Council land . The Civic Centre is a rare example of Moder…
            
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                Proposed Demolition of Civic Centre
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            Table top sale and auction for the Samaritan…
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                Table top sale and auction for the Samaritan…
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                Table top sale and auction for the Samaritan…
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                    June 2017
            
                        
            Samaritans Calling @ Karamel Club, London Su…
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                Samaritans Calling @ Karamel Club, London Su…
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            Myddleton Road Photography Competition
            
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                Samaritans Calling @ Karamel Club, London Su…
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            Myddleton Road Photography Competition
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                Myddleton Road Photography Competition
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            The Bounds Green Road Obelisk
            I found this postcard on eBay - a snip at £2.50! It shows an uninterrupted view down Finsbury Road from the corner of Park Avenue across the Bounds Green Road. The vendor dated the picture as 1910 bu…
            
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                The Bounds Green Road Obelisk
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                Myddleton Road Photography Competition
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            The Bounds Green Road Obelisk
            I found this postcard on eBay - a snip at £2.50! It shows an uninterrupted view down Finsbury Road from the corner of Park Avenue across the Bounds Green Road. The vendor dated the picture as 1910 bu…
            
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                The Bounds Green Road Obelisk
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                    March 2017
            
                        
            Good News Flowers
            10 years ago I wrote a short piece for some friends about daffodils and Bounds Green. I was deleting a load of old files and found it.  As it is daffodil time again, and there are even more people…
            
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                Good News Flowers
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            Tidy Bowes Park Day
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                Tidy Bowes Park Day
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            Lovely meal at The Step
            Had a lovely meal at The Step on Sunday - best mushroom soup I've ever had, and delicious sea bass with toasted hazelnuts.  If you haven't been for a while, grab some mates, find something to celebra…
            
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                Lovely meal at The Step
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                Tidy Bowes Park Day
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            Lovely meal at The Step
            Had a lovely meal at The Step on Sunday - best mushroom soup I've ever had, and delicious sea bass with toasted hazelnuts.  If you haven't been for a while, grab some mates, find something to celebra…
            
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                Lovely meal at The Step
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                    January 2017
            
                        
            An exhibition of Myddleton Road at bruce Cas…
            Dear all,
Some of you may remember I had an exhibition about my street in Bounds Green at the Geffrye Museum last year. As a result I was invited to do an exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, and I dec…
            
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                An exhibition of Myddleton Road at bruce Cas…
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            Bounds Green CPZ  enlargement- Delay and Pro…
            The new CPZ that is being put into the Nightingale/Truro/Clarence Road area has apparently been resheduled.  There are signs on the lamposts saying it will start on 23rd January but it has been put b…
            
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                Bounds Green CPZ  enlargement- Delay and Pro…
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                    October 2016
            
                        
            Myddleton Road shortlisted for Great British…
            Myddleton Road, in the heart of Bowes Park, has today been named as one of the country’s best high streets by being shortlisted in the third annual Great British High Street competition.
The competit…
            
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                Myddleton Road shortlisted for Great British…
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                    September 2016
            
                        
            Big Lottery Answers Call for Help from Samaritans
            September 29th 2016
The Big Lottery has confirmed that it has granted funds to North London Samaritans, which earlier this year was praised for its work by local resident, actor Neil…
            
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                Big Lottery Answers Call for Help from Samaritans
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            Reminder:  we're hoping for a sunny day for…
            Come and join us at Fins Feste 2016 (in Finsbury Gardens, at the end of Truro and Nightingale Roads) this Saturday, 17th September between 2 and 5.30pm for a fun afternoon.   Everyone is welcome:  w…
            
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                Reminder:  we're hoping for a sunny day for…
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                    July 2016
            
                        
            The Prince Public House is opening 8th July.
            Not sure if everyone got the e-mail regarding the opening of the Prince Public House on the 8th July  (this Friday). 
It does not state what time it will open, just states on the night,  but it does…
            
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                The Prince Public House is opening 8th July.
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            Finsbury Gardens - please come and help
            Finsbury Gardens is very busy with kids, parents and grandparents these days.  Great.  A far cry from a decade or so ago when it was dark and deserted.
The Friends of Finsbury Gardens, a part of the…
            
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                Finsbury Gardens - please come and help
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