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Originally Posted by Zeno
You will be assimilated, Lastcard. Resistance is Futile.
I will be worrying about television? Campaigning against global warming? Joining the Methodists?
The theme of today’s walk will not untangle. It was going to be snobbery and class warfare. I grew up on sink estates but was educated alongside the middle classes. Then some public information near the beginning, in an open space between two golf courses, explained that this had been converted into a flood catchment area, to prevent water flooding down Salmons Brook onto those at the lower and poorer end of the Lea Valley. There has been a ton of rain recently, but I can’t see any catched water. Maybe that means it’s working. From then on, the detours that naturally present themselves to the enthusiastic walker were all water. Public footpath stretches of the New River and then more of the brook. And then, suddenly, the back streets of Lower Edmonton, which have a subtly unique and timeless ambience, perceptible only to those who are from there. These are my people. And then, in the unlikeliest of places, a
bona fide Blue Plaque, for one Charles Coward. A hero.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/...harles-coward/