THE HORNSEY ROAD

Full-on post zombie apocalypse complete with rotting ephemera: When/if it becomes a living shop again I hope they don't throw away the s...

Independent shops make life more interesting. If I walk past a Tesco or a Costa either I don't notice it or my mind is sent d...

This is Kay. He's opened a deli where Hornsey Road meets Tollington Way, i.e. across the road from Tesco 's and down a bit. ...

Update: I've since heard from Kay-of-the-organic-stall that it's a conversion into offices and all legit. Excellent news and I must...

I can never decide if the best thing about cycling is gliding round corners without using your hands or how bikes look. Even humdrum ones a...

I've been past the Savewell Supermarket (corner of Tollington Park, opposite Tesco's) dozens of times since Inkie painted his Much...

The independent supermarkets opposite the new Tesco 's have looked forlorn since it opened. Then this happened:  It turns...

So I was cycling home with a friend the other day and we had one of those disjointed conversations where you catch five words before th...

The Hua Run chinese supermarket on the Hornsey Road/Seven Sisters corner I wrote about it here . sells t...

Empty shops should hide behind shutters; there's something indecent about the ones that don't. They're flaunting failure, letti...

1) This is what it looks like inside :   2) All the books are £1 or ten for £9.  3) This isn't an opening gambit, it'...

This is the shop next to Hamlet . It was empty for a very long time. Then Conny-who-reads-this-blog noticed something happ...

Sometimes I act like I'm blind. I walked past the launderette at 450 Hornsey Road dozens of times before I could see how good...

Once upon a time Blackall's the greengrocer was next door to W. Plumb the butcher.   Image thanks to Sludgegulper on Flickr. ...

Hornsey Road circa 2008 It was raining and I didn't want to look like a lost trainspotter clutching a notebook while the drizzl...

I carted postcards, prints, photocopies, pages torn from magazines and exhibition posters from rented flat to rented flat for years thinki...