May 2014
let's use it!!
We now have had two new delicatessens to reinforce Domipol's appearance last year. Domipol is brilliant for hams and bacon and sausages: there is a Polish equivalent of Pancetta which is very good v…
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let's use it!!
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April 2014
Myddleton Road Planning Primer
Myddleton Road Planning Primer
April 2014
Hi everyone
A growing number of people have expressed an interest in understanding more about the planning process and what we as a community can do to p…
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Myddleton Road Planning Primer
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Come and support the shops on Myddleton Road
On Saturday 10 May We Love Myddleton Road is holding its first “cash mob” to help support the shops and businesses on the street.
What’s that?
It’s a simple way to use the community’s spending power…
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Come and support the shops on Myddleton Road
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Blossom, Nightingale Road
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Blossom, Nightingale Road
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Spring!
The bluebells are in Weald Country Park in Essex (taken yesterday) and the snake's head fritillary are in Darlands Nature Reserve in Barnet a couple of weeks ago:
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Spring!
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Red kite in Bounds Green
This afternoon my partner heard some crows mobbing a bird and expected to see a heron flying over our garden but it was a Red Kite! He managed to get one quick shot:
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Red kite in Bounds Green
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Myddleton Road -on the brink
Just back from a stroll along the road. Well! It is beginning to feel different; on the cusp of some change. The Greek deli, as reported, has some great stuff and very good value. I spoke to the woma…
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Myddleton Road -on the brink
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March 2014
Pls support this campaign to save one Sixth…
I am asking for your support with our campaign to save one of our Sixth Form students being deported next Tuesday. She was detained last Wednesday when she signed on at the Home Office and is current…
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Pls support this campaign to save one Sixth…
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One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
Ovi, the legendary egg-eating dinosaur of Myddleton Road has been removed in the past couple of days.
I snapped Ovi on Wednesday and today, to my dismay, I realised that he had been snatched.
Ovi…
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One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
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On a walk round the block I saw....
.... on Blake Road, the humble art of cementing elevated to a higher…
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On a walk round the block I saw....
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Burglary Arrests - York Road - 20th March
I just thought I would make the community aware for those of you who may of been awoken by the police helicopter in the early hours of the morning that two arrests were made including one from my bac…
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Burglary Arrests - York Road - 20th March
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Very Entertaining Programme About a Bus Trip Through North London
I have just been listening to a programme on Radio 4 Extra which is being repeated because one of the men in it, Alan Coren, has died recently. He was a great broadcaster.
The…
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Very Entertaining Programme About a Bus Trip Through North London
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February 2014
Working Horses make a return to Queens Wood…
Queens Wood contracted Iain Loasby of Rivenwood Coppice to do some coppice work in the ancient woodland remnant to continue the revitalisation of this old woodland management system. The wood consist…
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Working Horses make a return to Queens Wood…
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Wood Green Bowling Club Badge 1906
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Wood Green Bowling Club Badge 1906
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We Love Myddleton Road - actions & ideas
Hi everyone,Following Nell’s post on this site before Christmas and the Caroline Simpson’s resignation from the Myddleton Road Strategy group (see here), we saw a huge outpouring of positive energy f…
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We Love Myddleton Road - actions & ideas
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January 2014
Can You Find Your Place on this Victorian Map?
This week I found the most amazing Victorian map of London online. Virtually every sheet of the Ordnance Survey's 1893-6 "Five Feet to the Mile" scale series has been painstakingly layered on top…
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Can You Find Your Place on this Victorian Map?
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The Old Victorian Theatre at Alexandra Palace
Today I went on an organised tour around London's Alexandra Palace - 'back stage'.
The most interesting place for me was the old Victorian theatre which is…
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The Old Victorian Theatre at Alexandra Palace
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Whittington Road resident inventor of world's first security camera, 1933
Pete found this story and wrote about it on his website:
In 1933 Mr…
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Whittington Road resident inventor of world's first security camera, 1933
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New Year, new skill: learn a musical instrum…
North London Brass is a professionally-run brass band network with local projects in Muswell Hill and Enfield. We specialise in helping adult learners and in encouraging people to come back to playin…
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New Year, new skill: learn a musical instrum…
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December 2013
Final sunset of 2013
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Final sunset of 2013
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Finsbury Arms, 65 Truro Road
Every time I walk past this building on the corner of Finsbury Gardens I wonder about its history as a pub. Then I stumbled across this photo of it on Flickr and a link to the pubology website which…
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Finsbury Arms, 65 Truro Road
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