Seven Sisters

[Finesse]

Hello to you who reads this.....

I have a question for you english people who may know....

Is seven sisters a subway station in London? If it is, has it anything to do with Chelsea (the football club)?

Or something to do with Headhunters or other casuals?
Or am I totally wrong?

Anyway, COME ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!

Hugs
Finesse

[Crazyhorse]

Hi Finesse.

Seven Sisters is a station on the Victoria line underground, but it has nothing to do with Chelsea FC as it is in north London. In fact I think technically the station is in Stoke Newington and is not far from White Hart Lane (Tottenham Hotspur FC). There is also an interchange with the full size railway run by West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN).

I hope this helps.

[Finesse]

Hi Crazyhorse!

Thanks for your reply.
I have a follow-up question, you (and Holly on the wetting board) said it was really close to White Hart Lane, it cant be close to Millwall (since I know Tottenham is posh and Millwall is not) or am I totally wrong?

And another question as well, has it anything to do with casuals / "hooligans"?

Or is it something that make Seven Sisters station famous? And why name a station "Seven Sisters"

Mysterious questions, I know, but well.....I just want to know....

Thanks again, Crazyhorse, didnt really think people read the off-topic board :roll: :oops:

Hugs
Finesse, the owl.....

[Crazyhorse]

The Seven Sisters were seven trees that grew on a local village green many centuries ago when the Tottenham area was in the coutryside.

I wouldn't call Tottenham posh, but then I dont live there. As for Millwall, that is nowhere near this area. Millwall is down by the Thames near the Isle of Dogs.

I have no idea if Seven Sisters station has any link with hooligans, but I would imagine that if rival football fans are heading for an away match at White Hart Lane, then one of their arrival points would be the station, and an obvious point for home fans to wait for a fight.

Millwall are well known for their hooligan element, but then all football clubs have a nasty minority who go to games looking for trouble rather than to watch the match.

[Anna78]

Seven Sisters is a station on the Victoria Line of the London Underground (opened 1 July 1968) and British Rail (opened 22 July 1872) in Zone 3. On the Victoria Line it lies between Finsbury Park and Tottenham Hale (formerly known as Tottenham, renamed on 1st september 1968), and on British Rail between Stamford Hill and Bruce Grove.

It is named after a group of trees.

Seven sisters road runs from Tottenham to join the A1 in Islington.

greets
Anna

[Finesse]

Crazyhorse:
Thanks for explaining about the seven trees:) I know it was something about a name like that:)

I have no idea if Tottenham is posh, but I know the spurs is looked at as a "richer" club....and Millwall is the opposite....So I just thought the area around spurs also was posh.

Okay, but from what I know casuals/"hooligans" dont fight near the arena anymore (at least not in sweden) but I ge your point about Seven Sisters station.

yeah, Millwall is famous for it (I wrote an essay in school ones about casuals / "hooligans"

Thanks again for the reply:)


To Anna78:

Thanks for your reply. If I ever visit London maybe I will see the station in real life.....it would be fun......I saw a movie once and it had a station called Shadwell and then it really existed to (which I didnt think) but I did so maybe I will visit that one to hehe....

Hugs to both
Finesse
PS come on owls!!!!

[Crazyhorse]

My goodness, that was a quick reply.

I think you may need the following web page.

http://map.tfl.gov.uk/map.asp

It is interactive, so you can click on a station and see all of the radiating bus/rail routes etc.

[Estelle]

Hi Finesse

Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees
Dancing to the rhythms of "The Guns Of Navarone"
Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale station
I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road

A punk classic!

Estelle

PS I just saw this is my 400th post!

[Crazyhorse]

Congratulations on your 400th Estelle, and by way of a celebration I rummaged around and thought you might like to read a page from Hansard, concerning the goings-on in parliament.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm040421/debtext/40421-30.htm

It just shows how well our taxes are spent. :roll:

I seem to have passed 900 a little while back.

[Finesse]

Hi Crazyhorse

Thanks for the map-link it was fun to read:)

Now I know a little bit mote about London anyway;)


To Estelle
Okay, that was nice to know.....who did the song then of whats the name of the song? I will download it:)

Anyway, has seven sisters station anything to do with punk?

Thanks for throwing away your 400 post on me;)

Hugs to both
Finesse

[Estelle]

The song was by a band called The Leyton Buzzards. The band's name was itself a pun - Leyton is a suburb of East London and I suspect they came from there. Leighton Buzzard is a suburban town to the north of London. "Leyton and "Leighton" are pronounced the same.

The song was called "Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees" and it was a celebration of getting drunk in cheap Saturday night clubs as a teenager with nowhere else to go. Very much a boys' point of view but amusing and poignant as well. I could relate to it in my early 20's as a girl looking for girls, even though I never really had that experience!!

Eddie Coleman slows things down
You ask a girl to dance but you get turned down
Maybe it's just not your day
What d'you want for five bob anyway?
I was cool drinking rum and black
And then I felt sick on the journey back
I got soaked right through in the pouring rain
But next week I'm going back again!

Saturday night beneath .... etc

Five bob - a cheap entrance fee!

Seven Sisters is just another dead end place in London - or so the song says!

I will be very surprised if you find it to download. It's 25 years old and was only a hit among late seventies punks and New Wave fans. It's the sort of thing you come across if that music appeals to you (as it does to me!!!). I discoved 70's Punk and New Wave by tracking back from Riot Grrrl music.

Estelle

[Finesse]

Hi!

Yah...youre going to kill me for knowing so much about football but isnt it a team called leyton orients or something? I didnt know it was a suburb I thought it was a part of London.....

I will try and search for some songs.......strange how you always tips me in music....and I am not that much for punk......Have you got the songs? Ever thought on laying them out on kaazaa or DC or something for others do download?

Yeah, about that they are singing about liking girls and finding girls, but that goes for like almost all music nowdays to about love......its easy to feel the same way like the person who is male and sings from a male perspective, because it is about liking girls, and finding a girl, just like you said.

Since it is off-topic, do you like oi? I know it is part of punk but a little different......I dont know so much about it, but some friends have som old songs before it got political and extreme right, before it was more ordinary punk.....

Please correct me if i am wrong...I dont know really, but thats what I heard.......

Hugs
Finesse

[Crazyhorse]

The more women who follow football the better, as far as I'm concerned.
However, I must admit to being a supporter of Liverpool FC for the last 35 years, and not any clubs from the Bristol area. I am only there because that is where I am working from. So I would love to be closer to Anfield, but have to content myself with a few visits each season, when I can afford it. Unfortunately, there is a long, long queue for season ticket allocations, so most home games are sold out straight away.

I hope you support a club in Sweden, although I dont know a great deal about the game there, except for Sven who has done a good job with the England team, even if they do lack a bit of style.

I'm not sure if Leyton is counted as part of London or not, but there was a time when they wanted just to call the team Orient, but maybe that has been quietly dropped.

[Finesse]

Okay, where is Leyton if it isnt a suburb? ANd isnt suburbs counted in in London? It is in Stockholm, in a way. Not in a way to, so, well, I dont know. But I read the book by Nick Hornby (dont remember the name now) and in it arsenal met Leyton Orient, and from what I got there, it was counted as a London-club......

Hugs
Finesse

[skymouse]

I can't believe I missed the original question in this thread.

I used to live literally one minute away from Seven Sisters tube station. Seven Sisters is an area in North London, between Stamford Hill and South Tottenham.


SM

[Finesse]

Skymouse>>>

Cool.....seven sisters is famous for many things......for me, in the start I just knew it had something to do with hooligans/casuals (dont know exactly why yet :?:) but it sounds like a nice place, and I hope you enjoyed living there?

Hugs
Finesse

[Indigo]

Leyton is out East. (Hence Leyton Orient ... )

WAAAAY out East.

It's in Essex.

Holly country.

You travel to it on the central line. But you've got to remember not to get off at Stratford, or you'll never get there. It's sort of where the Central Line finally stops being underground for good. Or is that Leytonstone? I can never remember which is which. And somewhere between the two there's this HUUUGE cemetary which backs onto the railway.

Anyway, one way and another there's an awful lot of Essex that's connected to London by that there red line.