Along Tottenham High Road
As the cricket was called off today, I decided to go to IKEA today, as I needed to check out a few ideas.
The 341 bus, that I take goes along the Tottenham High Road, which was badly affected by the riots last week.
It looked to me, that apart from one or two notable exceptions, the damage wasn’t as bad as it had been painted by the media.
One of the pictures shows the entrance to the garage, where I used to bike for half-a-crown to see Spurs in the early 1960s. It doesn’t look to have been done up at all since.
The Tottenham area of Haringey was never the best, and as the pictures show, there are very few quality buildings except for White Hart Lane Stadium and that is too small and parts of it were built in the 1930s.
Spurs say they intend to build a new much larger stadium on the land north of the existing stadium, but whether they will is open to question. The stadium has always suffered from access problems, but then so has Chelsea and West Ham.
But developing the football club and the surrounding area could be a stimulus to the whole area, especially, if the Lea Valley Lines were upgraded.
The Anonymous Widower 
Your Opening remark about the Media . . .
Another case of the Media trying to make the News, rather than report the News.
Sensationalism cost the Murdoch Press the NTW . . . and maybe a lot more.
It was worth watching Rupert being quizzed by Parliament . . .
His remarks about letting down his father Sir Keith & Dame Elisabeth, was right on the mark . . . his Mother is alive & kicking {over 100 years & active} . . . rightly gave him a scolding . . .
Rupert is a great Newspaper man . . . maybe his underlings were never able to meet Rupert’s great achievements & did anything to try to win his accolades.
Comment by Steam Lover | August 19, 2011 |
Some of properties on Tottenham High Road should have been pulled down years ago. The trouble is that the roads and train lines through that area are not up to standard and of the four stations in the area, only one is modern with good links anywhere. So everybody relies on buses. You wouldn’t put any serious office investment in the area. There are some retail parks like IKEA, but the transport links to it are bad.
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