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    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2008 edited
     
    So looked like the beginnings of scaffolding and a refurb for the huge red dilapidated building just south of John Jones this morning. Anyone know what's going down? In my head when they got round to doing something on that site it would just be flattened but scaffolding suggests otherwise?
    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2008
     
    That's not a refurb scaffold it's a demolition scaffold.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2008
     

    is that the one that used to be a cinema, back in the day?

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2008
     

    I think this may all be part of the "area action plan" - that we very nearly discussed properly back in the day.

    Can one of the Councillors enlighten us?

    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2008
     

    @ Andy, yes it is the cinema.

    I got a cab home the other day, and the driver grew up on Blackstock Road. He was telling me that Rowans and everything behind it (mainly Lidl's, I think) used to be a massive bingo hall which drew crowds from miles around due to its 'night sky' ceiling. He didn't know anything about the old cinema though.

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2008
     

    Was the cab driven by Busby?

    • CommentAuthorEmma
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    The scaffolding they've put up, which forces everyone into the street, is a complete hazard! This morning I saw a woman with a buggy coming up the road directly in the path of a bus coming the other direction - hairy stuff. They should just close the pavement off completely and force a diversion round the back street, surely.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     

    You can walk through the scaffolding..? It's like a tunnel?

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     
    That 'tunnel' will need boarding out. Access will be prevented whilst the walls and ceiling are installed.
    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    She (and everyone else) could have done what the signs suggest - use the path on the other side of the road.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    I don't understand. Did a sign go up/access prevented later this morning? I walked through it again, along with all the other pedestrians about 8.30am.
    • CommentAuthorEmma
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    The scaffolding tunnel was tied off with red/white tape this morning at about 8:50. The problem with going on the other side of the road is, you can't get to the station. They need at least some signposting suggesting that though, yes - but I think even better would be to direct pedestrains round the back streets (not sure how practical this is). It was all a bit Krypton Factor this morning, is all.
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     

    It doesn't sound very Krypton Factor, it sounds a bit more Gladiators!

    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     
    I don't understand - surely you just cross over the road until you've got past the scaffolding, then cross back to get to the station? It's not rocket surgery!

    The signs were up last week when I went down there - just stayed on Haringey side till I got past.
    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    Sorry if I'm sounding cumudgeonly - I'm a bit sleep deprived.
    • CommentAuthorEmma
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    But then aren't you crossing a main road with no pedestrian crossing? Unless you go all the way down to the lights by the bus station I s'pose.
    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    @ katiejane - what's rocket surgery?
    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     
    @ Colette - a cross between rocket science and brain surgery. Mixed metaphor if you like.
    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     
    @ Emma - think I'd rather cross the road using Green Cross Code than push my buggy into the path of oncoming buses, but maybe that's just me....
    • CommentAuthordonnaw
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    When I was walking to the station this morning at about 9:10am, they were cutting down a tree. Well I say 'they' - one person was cutting it down and two people were watching him, and two people were watching the people watching him...
    Why is it being torn down and what will be put up in its place, does anyone know?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     

    Let's speculate wildly:

    Finsbury Park Mosque II

    South Fork Pak

    Wig Universe

    Simon Pegg's Believe it or not museum.

    • CommentAuthorflembo
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    The trees are normally cut down when they cause subsidence to the surrounding houses. Before we moved in, a tree had to be removed as it had caused damage. We now have a new one after about 3 years.
    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008 edited
     
    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2008
     
    34 flats? I must be reading this wrong.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2008 edited
     

    The A3 commercial premises is an obvious move but six storey flats (I don't see how four plus 2 but a curved roof is any different from six) is just, well, dull. Considering the current market and how old that application is I reckon they've just moved to get it underway before expiration and we're in for a few years of scaffolding and not much else.

    Dull and predictable.

    • CommentAuthorjandb
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2008
     

    I would pay good money to visit Simon Pegg's Believe it or not museum

    • CommentAuthorjandb
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2008
     

    ... oh and a big lorryload of wood arrived this morning.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
     

    Simon Pegg's Stroud Green Laserquest?

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
     

    Did anyone ever go to the Archway Laserquest?

    They have a free Knifequest in Archway now I believe.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
     

    Archway Laserquest has fixed bayonets.

    It's a very different experience to normal laserquest, though not that different to most underpasses in the area.

    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
     
    I went to a birthday party there once, when I was about 10. It was scary back then too.
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    there's a staircase up the side of the scaffolding which seems to be protected overnight by a bit of red and white warning tape and not much else. adventure?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2008
     

    I think we've agreed that even looking at what is happening to BNTJJ is dangerous enough, un.

    If you want something adventurous to do, go see the new Indiana Jones film. I dare you not to think it's utter, utter shit.

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2008 edited
     

    Hmm. I've read that the height of fashion at the moment is thinking exactly that.

    I'm a fan of the series, and even hired out a The Phoenix in Finchley for my 30th to show Raiders. None of them are Oscar worthy, they're all slapstick and don't take themselves seriously.

    Just good fun, really.

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2008
     

    The latest isn't fun. At all.

    • CommentAuthorIan
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2008
     
    Rubbish. Borderline unwatchable I didn't know whether to leave, fall asleep or watch the full horror unfurl. I unwisely chose the latter. 2hours 20 minutes I will never get back.
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2008
     

    I kept turning round to look at the people behind me, much more interesting.

    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2008 edited
     

    See, I know it will be shit but I'll still probably go see it, chuckle at the bad jokes, cliches and dadisms. I'll know I should be watching the better film next door but hey, its Indiana Jones. I'm with Matt, its doesn't take itself seriously and neither should the viewer.

    Bit of a confession here, but talking about captivating shit movies has reminded me of Petra and I's dark, dark addiction to Swayze's Roadhouse. Everytime its on we just can't help ourselves. We drop everything we're doing and watch it right through to the credits.

    I'm currently captivated by Superman 2 on Five.

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2008 edited
     

    Went to Indy it at Vue last night, enjoyed it. My typical Indy movie suspicions were confirmed.

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
     

    Goodness I must sound like a snob, but really I'm not - Showgirls is one of my favourites, and recently I quite enjoyed What Happens in Vegas.

    • CommentAuthorunaesthetic
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2008 edited
     

    well the commies don't like it:

    "It's rubbish... In 1957 the communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the US."

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7418727.stm

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    signs up on the hoardings around the site warn of "deep excavations"... what could they be excavating?


    crystal skulls?

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