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Autumnal.
The woodland walk is five miles long and follows the route of a former railway line which was last used by any train in 1970.
North London, England.
Black Boy Lane In Haringey..Named After The Black Boy Pub In 1690...Some Say The Pub Got Its Name From Charles 2nd Who Was Known As The Black Boy,Or Chimney Sweeps Perhaps A Racehorse...Even A Connection With Slavery!...Its Inconclusive....Haringey Council Put Forward A Proposal To Rename The 300 Year Old Road But Further Engagement Is Needed.....Strange But The Street Name Plates Are Vanishing And These Are The Only Ones Left....And The Chosen New Name Is La Rose Lane Who Was A Local Black Activist....
Black Boy Lane In Haringey..Named After The Black Boy Pub In 1690...Some Say The Pub Got Its Name From Charles 2nd Who Was Known As The Black Boy,Or Chimney Sweeps Perhaps A Racehorse...Even A Connection With Slavery!...Its Inconclusive....Haringey Council Put Forward A Proposal To Rename The 300 Year Old Road But Further Engagement Is Needed.....Strange But The Street Name Plates Are Vanishing And These Are The Only Ones Left....And The Chosen New Name Is La Rose Lane Who Was A Local Black Activist....
11 May 2009. I got another email from former councillor Harry Lister, until 13 May 2009 Chief Whip of Haringey Labour Group.
► This is the third instalment on this topic.
Click here for Part 1 ; and here for Part 2.
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The story so far.
Our hero, Hank Lister, former Marshal of Haringeyville, is tipped-off by the councillor-with-no-name that Al Stanton has bin a-postin' on the notorious Flickr website. Al is tellin' inconvenient truth an' askin' awkward questions about some fine upstandin' citizens & pillars of the local political community.
Stubbin' out his ceegar and loadin' up a top-secret report, Marshall Lister heads fer the Civic Centre and a showdown at High 7 pm.
§ Link to councillor-with-no-name theme music. (Updated 15 June 2012. Thanks to JS.)
§ Great version by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
(Yup Hank, pardner. Them's a-playin' yor toon.)
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From : Cllr Harry Lister, Chief Whip, Haringey Labour Group
To : Cllr Alan Stanton
Sent : Monday, May 11, 2009 1:08 PM
Subject : Special Group Meeting
Alan,
I urge you to attend the meeting on Tuesday at 7pm at which point you will get sight of the report. This is completely in accordance with the rules. I had hoped to discuss the matter in more detail on the 5th of May but this is an opportunity you declined to accept.
As you will see in Clause XIII (Breach of Rule), 3.A. of Chapter 13 of the Labour Party Rule Book, I am required to ensure that there is no party discussion on the proposed action outside the meeting with the group officers that I held last week. This is made especially hard because you have decided to make this process public. That is why you cannot expect me to be flexible with the rules and give you confidential, internal information when you are not entitled to it.
You are quite right that you will be allowed to speak either by way of rebutting my particular findings or in mitigation but contrary to what you might believe, there is no provision for you to have early sight of my report. I have laid out the rules that I think you have broken (the charges) on a number of occasions; I will present my evidence at the meeting as required and I look forward to seeing you there.
Regards,
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From : Alan Stanton
To : Cllr Harry Lister
cc : Labour Councillors
Sent : Monday, May 11, 2009 4:27 PM
Subject : Special Group Meeting
Cllr Lister
I got your email above. I note that you once again you refuse to give me the evidence for your 'charges'. And that I must wait until "Tuesday at 7pm at which point you will get sight of the report" .
Your 'explanation' that I am not entitled to it because it "contains confidential, internal information" is laughable. How "internal" and "confidential" can anything be which you say I've posted on a website or which has appeared in a newspaper?
Can I please refer you to Clause XI. 3.B of the Labour Party Rules which appears to say that the matter shall be determined with "evidence taken in writing, from the defendant and from witnesses as necessary".
Are you proposing that I attend the meeting tomorrow evening and write my evidence at the same time as I read your report and listen to you present it? And at the same time as I consider questions; and respond to questions from other people?
Even were you to email me your report this evening, I will not have time to read it and write my response.
I may indeed wish to call witnesses, but until I see your report and the evidence you base it on, I don't know which witnesses, if any, may be appropriate.
I've already explained why I didn't attend your investigatory meeting. Once again, for the record, you did not tell me the details of what you were investigating. In any case, I believe you have a conflict of interest, are not impartial, and should not have conducted any such investigation.
I realise that the principles of Natural Justice are sometimes a little inconvenient.
You are a full time official of UNISON, a union with a proud tradition for ensuring justice in the workplace. Would this process stand up to their / your scrutiny?
Haringey Box Cup
17th - 19th June 2016
The Box Cup is Europe’s largest amateur boxing event, which takes place over 3 consecutive days at Alexandra Palace, London each June. 500 male & female boxers from all over Europe compete at London’s most prestigious venue.
Alexandra Palace
Reported to Haringey Council through the free FixMyStreet website.
There are two graffiti tags - one on the glass door and one on the adjacent wall - of the rear door of Rigby House, Stoneleigh Road, Tottenham, London N17. It's near the corner with Albert Place.
As you will see from my photo, the building number sign above the door appears to be broken and slipping down - and it needs a minor repair.
Rigby House is converted into rented flats and the tenants were nominated by Haringey Council.
A few years ago the building was managed by Stadium Housing Association. This became Network Stadium. I cannot locate the current management organisation.
§ View on Google Street View with this link.
October 2015. Haringey Council, the elected body which runs our London borough, has a new logo.
It replaces two earlier logos which were based on the symbol for the TV mast at Alexandra PalaceL "which is one of oldest television transmission sites in the world. What was at the time called "high definition" (405-line) TV broadcasts on VHF were beamed from this mast from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II."
(Source: Wikipedia. Last accessed 3 October 2016.)
The original {below) was black and a sort of custard yellow. Its eight stylised zigzag lightning or electricity "bolts" represented the broadcast signals beaming out.
It was replaced in March 2007 with a a modification in new colours: dark green, deep saffron/orange and white. The electric bolts (also below) were flattened to the right. It was sometimes described as the "squashed spider" logo.
The 2015 one isn't actually a logo at all, but two words in different typefaces. One word, Haringey is in red, angular and jiggly lettering. The other - which may be something like Helvetica B - is the word London in block letters in black.
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§ The London Evening Standard newspaper 18 September 2015 described Haringey Council's "bizarre pitch" in justifying the need for the rebrand.
"cash-strapped Haringey Council spent £86,000 on a rebrand including a new logo that locals claim looks like it could have been made by a child”.
"The council is spending the money in a bid to create an identity that “communicates who we are today”, despite only adopting their last logo eight years ago."
"While planning £70 million of cuts, including to services for vulnerable people, a bizarre pitch in council papers argues the re-branding is needed to show Haringey is 'more than just a place. It is an attitude'."
A launch is planned for Monday at the start of a campaign seeking to promote the borough’s core values, one of which will be stated as: “We spend taxpayer money as carefully as we would our own.”
Some £20,000 of the budget is being spent on a film promoting the borough’s strengths.
The controversy comes after Haringey hiked cabinet members’ special allowances by an inflation-busting 6.6 per cent in May.
On its website the borough complains central government cut its budget by £117 million since 2010, with a further £70 million coming down the line.
§ Independent 19 September 2015. Council shells out £86,000 on new logo as part of 'more than just a place' re-brand.
§ PR Week Haringey Council rebrand ridiculed... as September 24, 2015. Article by Ian Griggs.
§ LocalGov.co.uk 17 September 2015.£86,000 for a new image: money well spent? Article by Mark Whitehead.
§ Discussion in Harringay Online community website. Haringey Council's new logo: Are you In?
Complaint to Haringey Council 15 August 2014
I've noticed the metal base of a broken column on the pavement in Parkhurst Road N17 near the junction with Dowsett Road N17. It is leaning and is an obstruction. It has been there at least since 18 February 2014 if not earlier.
I appreciate that such a broken column requires a specialist contractor to disconnect the electricity cables, make it safe, remove it and repair the pavement.
However, for several months I have observed no action at all. Then some days ago striped tape was wound round the column base and a traffic cone. In other words the Council has finally realised this is an obstacle which may pose dangers especially for someone who is elderly or has a visual handicap.
Action I would like from the Council
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1. Remove the broken column without further delay.
2. Make good by repairing the pavement.
3. Explain to me the reasons for this long delay.
4. Give me some firm assurance that the Council's (a) Reporting systems and (b) Highways repair systems have been improved so that these works are completed quickly and that such delays will not happen.
Additional information
Uploaded file: Photo of BrokenColumnBase13August2014.jpg
From: Haringey Council ingey.gov.uk [noreply@haringey.gov.uk]
Sent: 15 August 2014 13:27
Subject: Complaining about a Council Service e-form feedback Web reference number: HC-221249
Dear Mr Stanton,
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to investigate your complaint.
A site visit has confirmed that the post is the remains of a give way post that suffered vehicle impact. An order has been raised with our contractor to install a new post complete with sign light and a give way sign plate and also to transfer the electrical service. Once this work has been completed the old stump will be removed and the footway reinstated. This work will be completed by the end of September.
I have investigated why action was not taken sooner as your e-mail states the column has been in that condition since February. Unfortunately this does not appear to have been picked up by our Neighbourhood Action Team or bi-weekly scouting regime. I will be investigating this further with our contractor at our performance meeting and apologise for the delay in addressing this issue. I uphold your complaint and assure you that I will be seeking confirmation from our contractor that issues of this nature will not be overlooked in future as I agree they provide potential safety hazards for pedestrians.
I hope that I have resolved your concerns to your satisfaction.
If you are unhappy with my response, you can ask our Feedback and Information Governance Team to review your complaint. You should tell them what you remain dissatisfied about and what you want us to do to put things right. This normally has to be done within 12 months of this response. Their contact details are:
Feedback and Information Governance Team
7th Floor, River Park House
225 High Road
Wood Green
London N22 8HQ
Email: FIG@haringey.gov.uk
Yours sincerely,
Group Manager Sustainable Transport
Haringey Council
River Park House, 225 High Road, London N22 8HQ
[email address given]
Photographs taken in order to show site relationships for local community campaign with respect to the 500 White Hart Lane development, see Devonshire Hill Residents website. This shows the Screwfix building adjacent to the site.
I wince every time I see these grotesque wasteful signs around our borough.
Wall space in a library could and should be used for any number of attractive and pleasing purposes. Stroking the ego of a pompous local politician is not one of them.
To read more about the wasteful and unneeded logo / rebranding by cash-strapped Haringey Council click here.
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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
• It was the epoch of public relations and Newspeak; it was the epoch of public cynicism and incredulity.
• It was an autumn bonfire of other people's cash; before a winter of despair.
• It was the season of new logos when Haringey Council erected red white and black notices everywhere before us.
• It was the season of farce when our Council wasted £86,000 on a rebranding we neither want nor need.
• It was the age of deep cuts on vital services for children, for youth, for people with autism, for elderly and disabled people, and many many others.
• In short, the period was an age of extreme foolishness when a few local councillors threw public money around like desperate clowns aiming custard pies at a horrified circus audience.
(Original - Charles Dickens 'A Tale of Two Cities'. )
Crouch End, Hornsey, Haringey, 1978
16s41: shop, reflection,Haringey,
Like many images using reflections this one is a little difficult to sort out and recognise, especially as most of the businesses shown have gone out of business since 1978 and some buildings have been altered significantly. It was taken looking into the window of a junk shop opposite the junction of Park Rd and Middle Lane, roughly at the start of The Broadway.
Two buildings have the names of companies; Thames Tyre Co Ltd and Westerns. Thames Tyre have I think sunk without trace, but Westerns was a laundry company with several shops around North London and their laundry was a few years ago converted into an expensive restaurant in Drayton Park near Arsenal's ground. Westerns Laundries Ltd was founded during the first few years of the 20th century and by the 1960s was a part of the Sunlight group. The shops remained open until the 1980s. A faded sign can still be seen on the wall at the side of this branch, now Black Katz Lettings & Property Management, in Middle Lane. The Thames Tyre Co Ltd is now 'Monkey Nuts', a wine bar and steak house.
I was particularly interested in the mirror at the left with its birdcage - I think there are two other mirrors in the image, as well as a further reflection in the Tyre company window. There are five peope in this picture: I'm visible at the left of the picture (and blocking the reflection in the shop window make the mirror and birdcage and a long-haired man stand out. The mirror close to the centre of the picture brings in a woman standing on the pavement to my right; in front of the Tyre company is a woman adjusting the blankets in a pram and at the extreme right above the third mirror another face comes into the frame.
Film was expensive then, and I took only two frames, both with myself, the birdcage in the mirror and the woman and pram and the buildings in almost identical position.
425 turned up for this game with a healthy number from Haringey who still had an outside chance of automatic promotion.
Haringey started positively and were in front early after yet another defensive mix up from Bury. However Haringey lost their goalkeeper to injury and Increasingly Bury came into the game and it was no surprise when Ramadan scored an equaliser from the penalty just before half time. In the second half Haringey got on top and deserved their winning goal for a 2-1 win
"By the age of twenty, a child born in Tottenham
today will have a quality of life and access to the
same level of opportunity that is at least equal to
the best in London."
This "Future Vision for Tottenham" was one of several "exhibition boards" prepared in 2014 by the Haringey Communications Team (the Council's so-called information unit ). It pretended to residents and outsiders that things were getting better - despite Government and Council cuts.
This particular board made a breathtaking promise for the future.
On 14 January 2015 I went to a talk at the John McAslan + Partners Display Space, 451-453 High Road, N17. I photographed this display panel which was on one of their walls.
I've tried very hard to think of any way this "Vision" statement has some practical and honest meaning. Given what we know about growing inequality in our society, it hardly stands up as a prediction.
Jam in January 2035?
Or is it just one more upbeat aspiration? A hope for twenty years time? Not "jam today or jam tomorrow", but in January 2035 - an arbitrary date far enough into the future that nobody will remember; and many of us will be dead.
But in 2015 I wondered if any Haringey staff who wrote and approved this drivel read the best selling book The Spirit Level?
Do they pay any attention whatsoever to the research of people like Danny Dorling? Or Michael Marmot?
Worse, have they spent any significant time in Tottenham - and not only the High Road - with open eyes, ears and open minds?
Discussing Visions of the Future
I don't object to elected local Councils encouraging debate about the issues underlying their vision for improving society and the towns or areas they represent. But they should at least follow minimum standards of balance, objectivity and truthfulness.
Otherwise it is at best, pointless, ignorant and
stupid. At worst, it is despicable propaganda
and outright lying.
In Haringey in 2015 such debates and discussions needed to include factors which produce gross and growing inequality between different groups. Including unequal profiles of health; of diseases; of disability; and mental ill health. And wide differences in life expectancy.
There are issues of employment, unemployment and unequal access to jobs. And of the growing inequality of pay and the growth in part-time and zero-hour jobs.
There are questions about child care, and policies for education and training. What needs to be done about housing shortages, overcrowding and homelessness?
Vitally, such debates must include tensions being stoked-up concerning race, ethnicity and migration.
Most of the factors I've mentioned are beyond the control of a single borough Council. For things to change so profoundly by 2035 barriers would have to come down and policies change drastically - if not reverse.
I've yet to see any substantial evidence that Haringey Council's leaders have engaged openly and constructively in such debates with the borough's residents.
In my view the display panel is an attempt to "sell" a false prospectus - the promise of a fine future. But not until a time when most if not all the posturing politicians making the promise are no longer around.
Colluding with Political Propaganda
I'm disappointed that John McAslan and his colleagues were willing to display this Haringey Council propaganda on their walls - apparently without embarrassment. Surely they don't believe it?
Clearly, John McAslan + Partners are successful and experienced professionals, who work in many countries. Perhaps they take it for granted that local politicians may be vain and self-deluding. People they have to put up with, while working in the area.
In Haringey, McAslan are enjoying a freebie shop from the Council. So maybe they think it's diplomatic to display their benefactor's empty political slogans and posters?
If so, I suggest they read (reread?) Václav Havel for example on The Power of the Powerless. I've copied this description from the Wikipeda entry on Havel's essay. (Accessed on 1 February 2015.)
"Havel uses the example of a greengrocer who displays
in his shop the sign 'Workers of the World, Unite!'. Since
failure to display the sign could be seen as disloyalty,
he displays it and the sign becomes not a symbol of his
enthusiasm for the regime, but a symbol of both his
submission to it and humiliation by it."
Havel called this behaviour "living a lie" - hiding what someone believes and desires in order to be left alone by the powers-that-be. He contrasted it with "a life lived in truth".
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§ "For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme; how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you. Our country is not flourishing."
- Quotation from Václav Havel's first New Year's Address to the Nation as President of post-communist Czechoslovakia, 1st January 1990 (Source: ● Excerpt & links. ● Full Speech. English translation).
§ Other real Labour local councils have set better examples than the wretched nonentities running Haringey in 2015. Link to The Islington Fairness Commission which worked from June 2010 to June 2011.
§ Islington Fairness Commission's Final Report.
§ Trust for London website: London's Poverty Profile
§ The Marmot Review: 'Fair Society Healthy Lives' UCL Institute of Health Equity 2010.
§ The Health Gap : The Challenge of an Unequal World.
§ "It's very good jam", said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it", the Queen said. "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today."
The White Queen offers jam to Alice in: "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".
§ Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless.
§ Article by Natalie Nougayrède: A tip for Europe’s frustrated young radicals: reclaim the dissident spirit. The Guardian 12 June 2015.
§ Making the History of 1989. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University,
(Links checked 14 April 2017. Islington Fairness Commission links repaired.)
Street art along Parkland Walk, Haringey, London.
GOC Hertfordshire's walk on 9 July 2016, a 10.2-mile circular walk in London, from Alexandra Palace, visiting Highgate, Finsbury Park, West Green and Wood Green. Andy H led this walk, attended by 15 people. You can view my other photos of this event, read the original event report, find out more about the Gay Outdoor Club or see my collections.