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In that regard Shopping City seems to me to have gone downhill in recent years - it used to have two 'proper' indoor markets (one food, the other wares), a good but not excessive range of the usual names, and the 'square' in the middle always had something of interest in it - nowadays it's overkeen guys in suits trying to flog you Sky TV. When "The Mall" (owners of a multitude of B-grade shopping malls across the country) got their hands on it they gaudified the place to the point where I'm loath to step foot in the place. The more useful shops are to be found on the High Road itself, now. |
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It also has an Iceland, Ladbrokes, William Hill, Pizza Hut, KFC, Barclays, Threshers, Abbey and some other bank I can't remember. Bland does not begin to describe Shopping City. |
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Re: Shopping City. I remember my mum used to take me here when it was fairly new, and I loved it as it had a free giant wooden frog for children to climb on, with a slide chute that whooshed out of its mouth. Parents would leave their kids there, and go off and browse the shops. I think there was an attendant in a booth to keep an eye on the kids, but I was so busy climbing and whooshing that I'm not totally sure about that! |
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Apparently the Turkish heroin trade was masterminded unglamorously but effectively from the back of a fruit and veg shop in Green Lanes. The fellow who was sent down for it is now languishing in HMP Belmarsh. |
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Yes I'd heard that also when I used to work at Finsbury park partnership. Our end of green lanes was heroin, the end nearer to newington green was coke. You do wonder how so many greengrocers and gold shops make a living crushed together like that! |
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And a cake shop where ants used to live in the iced window display (wedding cakes) |
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Re: the confusion over name have a look at the BBC h2g2 page on Harringay which was written by local amateur historians and explains the confusion. Incidentally, Harringay came first and comprises the area from Finsbury park to Ducketts common taking in Wightman Road, the Ladder and Gardens and part of Green Lanes which of course is actually a very long road. The area has a lot of local history and was the home of the famous Arena and Stadium (see Wikipedia for much more) 'Harringay, Haringey so good they named it twice' can be found here http://is.gd/gdE1 |
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