Back to '93

Backdating this one as I missed my opportunity to blip yesterday.

A return to Tottenham four years after leaving for Bristol and a year after the riots. Some things never change and at first it felt as if I had last seen the High Road only last week.

Then the first gap, where the Post Office had stood, now a hoarded site enclosing the crushed remains of that building along with the buddleia and sun-bleached coke cans.

Next the building in which I used to work. Still upright, but hoarded off and quite obviously very empty.

I met some former colleagues at our favourite lunch spot, The Tottenham Star, and we drank bittersweet tea and shared adana, shish and doner. Tragically it seems that the Star may shut down as trade has almost dried up since the riots.

The photo posted refers to none of this. It's from Wards Corner, outside Seven Sisters Tube Station. The small underwear hoarding offers, among other garments, bumless pants. What is that all about?