Tottenham is our home. It's worth connecting with it.
Good piece here in The Guardian, thought I'd share.
Good piece here in The Guardian, thought I'd share.
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Plenty of pride still there Billy. I don't see much of them these days but I occasionally meet up with some old mates who still live on Broadwater Farm and neighbouring roads, there is still a very strong community. Actually, it takes something like the riots to bring it closer and tighter but that too might mean the gap between old bill and them is larger not closer.Broke my heart walking up the High Street seeing all the burnt down buildings and utter carnage..
A big piece of Tottenham was lost during these riots, and I'm not just talking about bricks and mortar..
It's a soulless area these days which is such a shame..
I don't know the name given to them nowadays but it was a specialist squad, under cover that was tailing him. Again, different tactics for different situations but it's usually one may be two cars of this unit, so 4-8 who are armed, backed up by couple of other uniformed police who are unarmed. No idea of the actual numbers involved in this situation but basically the numbers that are armed are strategic rather than every officer and in cases like the one that happened they are undercover, so guns are concealed.So it's not just the police in America that shoot unarmed black men. I thought your cops didn't carry guns?
Tottenham is our home. It's worth connecting with it.
Good piece here in The Guardian, thought I'd share.
I do wonder what impact there might be on the area when Spurs don't play their home matches there for a year. I would think this is going to hit the pubs, fast food shops and match day vans and stalls quite hard. On the plus side, at the end of it there will be a 50% bigger crowd in future, but it might require an understanding bank manager in the interim.
You're probably right. I can imagine a problem might be how big the area that it covered would be, and whether it would apply to all businesses or have some kind of impact test assessment.The businesses should lobby Lammy to get a business rates suspension for shops for 12 months - they probably aren't clued up enough to do so though.
You're probably right. I can imagine a problem might be how big the area that it covered would be, and whether it would apply to all businesses or have some kind of impact test assessment.
What makes you think it's soulless?Broke my heart walking up the High Street seeing all the burnt down buildings and utter carnage..
A big piece of Tottenham was lost during these riots, and I'm not just talking about bricks and mortar..
It's a soulless area these days which is such a shame..
What makes you think it's soulless?
Very subjective, but soulless would be one of the last adjectives I would use. It ain't pretty (except along some parts of the lea) but it's alive. And there is definitely a community spirit here.
Gentrification is definitely an issue where I live in South Tottenham. When I moved in here, 3.5 years ago, I would often be the only white face on my tube carriage beyond Finsbury Park- except on match days of course. Nowadays it's about 50-50, only partly due to a lot of East Europeans in the area, and there's hipster pizza and coffee places, plus the Beehive serving pulled pork and having a yoga night. As the article says, most of the locals get lost in this, I guess most will have to live with their mum until they're fifty or move out of London. North Tottenham still retains its character though.
What makes you think it's soulless?
Very subjective, but soulless would be one of the last adjectives I would use. It ain't pretty (except along some parts of the lea) but it's alive. And there is definitely a community spirit here.
Gentrification is definitely an issue where I live in South Tottenham. When I moved in here, 3.5 years ago, I would often be the only white face on my tube carriage beyond Finsbury Park- except on match days of course. Nowadays it's about 50-50, only partly due to a lot of East Europeans in the area, and there's hipster pizza and coffee places, plus the Beehive serving pulled pork and having a yoga night. As the article says, most of the locals get lost in this, I guess most will have to live with their mum until they're fifty or move out of London. North Tottenham still retains its character though.
I was referring to the high road in particular.. I remember as a boy walking up the High Road and many Old Boys would be in their gardens saying "enjoy the game Boy" or asking you what the score was going to be.. Now you walk up the High Road and barely one person could give a toss if there was a match or not. It's nothing like it used to be.
I would say I get asked the result by a local on the walk back every second game
I can understand that. I can't imagine it being like that, have never known it.I was referring to the high road in particular.. I remember as a boy walking up the High Road and many Old Boys would be in their gardens saying "enjoy the game Boy" or asking you what the score was going to be.. Now you walk up the High Road and barely one person could give a toss if there was a match or not. It's nothing like it used to be.