Wood Green
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Wood Green - or "the Green" as it is known to some of its residents - is a place in the London Borough of Haringey. It is a suburban development situated 6.1 miles (9.8 km) north of Charing Cross. It is one of ten major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan.
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History
In the latter half of the 19th century and before urbanisation it was part of Tottenham and covered by woodland called Tottenham Wood, hence the name of the area, Tottenham Wood Green.Governance
In 1894 Wood Green was created as an urban district, and later a municipal borough, of Middlesex. In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the Municipal Borough of Wood Green was abolished and its area merged with that of the Municipal Borough of Tottenham and the Municipal Borough of Hornsey to form the present-day London Borough of Haringey. Most of Wood Green is in the Hornsey and Wood Green parliamentary constituency.Television
Historically, Wood Green played a leading role in the development of both public service and commercial television in the UK. On 2 November 1936, the BBC opened its TV service at Alexandra Palace (a.k.a. Ally Pally) and in 1955 with the opening of Lew Grade's London weekend franchise Associated Television (ATV), the Wood Green Empire in Lymington Avenue was home to variety programmes on Independent Television (ITV), one of which was the 'Arthur Haynes Show', starring the host himself and his straight man Nicholas Parsons. Sadly, the Wood Green Empire no longer exists (it has been replaced by a shopping precinct) and all that is left of the halcyon days of BBC TV in Wood Green, is the familiar TV mast on Alexandra Palace. The ATV operations moved to Elstree and Borehamwood (now BBC studios) and the BBC News department, which was the only unit remaining at Ally Pally after BBC TV Centre was opened in the 1950's, moved to White City, west London in the early 1970's. Ally Pally was used for the production of joint BBC/Open University (OU) programmes for a while, but all OU programmes are now produced in Milton Keynes where the OU's headquarters are located.Today
It is an important local retail hub, with two cinemas, bars and a shopping centre - Shopping City - close to the tube station. The High Street, the main shopping spine, stretches from the Wood Green tube station to the next stop on the Piccadilly Line, Turnpike Lane. Wood Green Crown Court is a short distance along Lordship Lane.Schools
Primary:
- Earlham Primary
- Lordship Lane Primary
- Nightingale Primary
- Noel Park Primary
- St.Michael's CoE Primary
- St.Pauls RC Primary
Secondary:
- White Hart Lane
- St.Thomas More
- Hornsey
Nearest places
Transport Links
Tube stations
- Bounds Green (Piccadilly Line)
- Wood Green (Piccadilly Line)
- Turnpike Lane (Piccadilly Line)
Railway stations
- Bowes Park
- Alexandra Palace (formerly known as Wood Green Alexandra Park).
Buses
A bus station is located at Turnpike Lane, there are also many buses that stop outside Wood Green tube station.Current Affairs
On January 7 2003, British police announced details of the discovery of traces of the toxin ricin in a flat in Palmers Green near Wood Green but often mistakenly attributed in the media as being located in Wood Green in the wake of the arrest of 6 terrorist suspects. A massive search for their accomplices followed. However it was later revealed more accurate tests showed that no ricin was in fact present in the flat, see Wood Green no-ricin plot.External links
- http://www.woodgreenparish.com/
- http://www.urban75.org/vista/woodgreen.html
- http://www.woodgreen.org.uk/html/londonnews.htm
- [The First London Scalextric Club in London]
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