Wandering from Highbury Fields to Crouch Hill last month I thought I'd take a couple of detours to check on the elephants.
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| Ambler/Romilly March 2020 |
In August last year,
there was a piece in the Gazette about these elephants providing a hiding place for druggies. The following week it was reported that the hedge had been damaged – one elephant had
lost its head in a car accident. Hmmm. Seems a bit odd to me how a driver managed to lose control in a backstreet within a borough that already had a 20mph speed limit.
It's worth noting that just up the road at the next junction there is another excellent example of hedgemanship where a swathe of dense foliage offers far better cover for illicit proceedings.
A long row of castelltions curves around the corner:
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| Longer, deeper, wider, thicker |
I continued my stroll past Finsbury Park station, up Stroud Green Road then right at The Dairy where the old Hovis ghostsign is now mostly scrubbed away due to graffiti removal, past the flippin' flipped letters on the gates into Mount Pleasant Crescent... and... damn, a van was in the way, but the elephant is intact.
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| Jumbotastic |
See the street here.
And re the ther things mentioned above:
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| The Old Dairy – HOVIS ghostsign 2008 and 2020 |
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| Gates in the Japan Crescent area – letters attached incorrectly. I am flipped out! |
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