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Chester Road, LONDON, N17 6EF

from the heights of Alexandra Park. A new addition to the townscape is the new ground for Tottenham Hotspur.

Built 1925-1926. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp356-364

The estate was built between 1967 and 1973 in a style designed by Le Corbusier where no dwellings were at ground level because of the high water table of the Moselle River which is culverted under the estate. The warren of first floor concrete walkways offered opportunities for crime and anti-social behaviour and the consequent bad reputation of the estate long before the riot of 6 October 1985 which resulted in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock. Further information on the history of the estate can be found on Haringey Council's website here http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/community_and_leisure/neighbourhoods/broadwaterfarm/historyofbroadwaterfarm.htm The mural is on the end wall of Rochford block and features Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, Mahatma Gandhi, and John Lennon. See Image for another photo of the estate in an adjacent grid square.

"benezer Strict Baptist chapel, Napier Road, traced its origins to meetings held at Welbourne hall, near the high cross, in 1884. Worshippers moved to a site in the fork between Napier and Ranelagh roads, north of Philip Lane, in 1887. Ebenezer chapel, registered there in 1898, had Sunday attendances of 65 and 93 in 1903 and seating for 300 twenty-five years later. In 1972 it was a low yellow-brick building, with red-brick decoration." - https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp356-364#p37

The estate was built between 1967 and 1973 in a style designed by Le Corbusier where no dwellings were at ground level because of the high water table of the Moselle River which is culverted under the estate. The warren of first floor concrete walkways offered opportunities for crime and anti-social behaviour and the consequent bad reputation of the estate long before the riot of 6 October 1985 which resulted in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock. Further information on the history of the estate can be found on Haringey Council's website here http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/community_and_leisure/neighbourhoods/broadwaterfarm/historyofbroadwaterfarm.htm This is the Gloucester Road entrance to the estate. The mural on the end wall depicts a waterfall. I don't know if this is an image of an actual place or an idealized depiction of an idyllic rural scene. See Image for another photo of the estate in an adjacent grid square.

The setting sun softens the harshness of the two utilitarian tower blocks at the centre of the much debated Broadwater farm estate.