The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day 154
Had a request today so we find ourselves in Broad Lane, Seven Sisters and Tony’s Dry Cleaners. Apparently as well as cracking service he has a female mannequin in the shop that has been dressed the same for at least 4 years. So here’s from Martyn championing his local community. The name Seven Sisters is derived from seven elms which were planted in a circle with a walnut tree at their centre on an area of common land known as Page Green. The clump was known as the Seven Sisters by 1732.
In his early seventeenth-century work, Brief Description of Tottenham, local vicar and historian William Bedwell singled out the walnut tree for particular mention. He wrote of it as a local ‘arboreal wonder’ which ‘flourished without growing bigger’. He described it as popularly associated with the burning of an unknown Protestant.[5] There is also speculation that the tree was ancient, possibly going back as far as Roman times, perhaps standing in a sacred grove or pagan place of worship.
97 Broad Lane, Seven Sisters, South Tottenham N15 4DW
©Barnaby Barford 2014
Would love to see something from Commercial Road.