Alan Moore: Telling it how it is: The shame of Double Cross Street.
Please excuse me, but I need to vent:
The Spring Boroughs area of Northampton is one of the oldest areas of the county town. Actually, at one time, it was virtually the whole of the town. This is a fact then, that makes it all the more unseemly when you realize just how the residents of this area have been failed, and by many different administrations, down through the years.
The Boroughs, or 'Burrows', so called because of the narrow streets and tightly packed houses, is an area steeped in English history, both locally and nationally. Yet, rather than preserving and maintaining this historic part of the town, it as been allowed to exist as an area of growing destitution.
It is a disgrace for which Northampton Borough Council should be ashamed.
In 2012, Northampton Borough Council announced the 'temporary closure' of a two-storey block of flats in Little Cross Street, Spring Boroughs, Northampton. Over the following months families were moved out by the council, because it deemed the balconies and walkways unsafe.
Two years on, and the site is still boarded up with no date being offered by the council for the completion of the promised repairs.
This is just a further step in the denigration of this historic area of the town.
Alan Moore, one of Northampton's favorite sons, and himself a former resident of the Boroughs, overcame a serious case of man-flu to return to his roots for the 'mock' renaming ceremony.
Alan gave a fifteen minute speech, during which he was able to confirm the severity of this particularly virulent brand of 'more-than-man-flu'. Thankfully he remained well enough to complete the proceedings, which also included speeches by Tony Clark, former MP, Northampton South, and campaigner Norman Adams, of Northampton Defend Council Housing.
Mr Clark said that the residents of the Boroughs needed to 'band together', and continue to 'make themselves heard', as the current Councilors are 'puppets' who 'tell lies'. Mr Adams said that if he was 'to go down' then he would 'go down fighting'.
The proceedings culminated with Little Cross Street being renamed as Double Cross Street in reference to the Council's consistently (less than) sterling work.
As for Alan Moore, well, let's hope he's soon feeling better, because he has an awful lot of editing to get through over the next several months. Click on the link to see Alan Moore at The Boroughs: Northampton.
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The Spring Boroughs area of Northampton is one of the oldest areas of the county town. Actually, at one time, it was virtually the whole of the town. This is a fact then, that makes it all the more unseemly when you realize just how the residents of this area have been failed, and by many different administrations, down through the years.
The Boroughs, or 'Burrows', so called because of the narrow streets and tightly packed houses, is an area steeped in English history, both locally and nationally. Yet, rather than preserving and maintaining this historic part of the town, it as been allowed to exist as an area of growing destitution.
It is a disgrace for which Northampton Borough Council should be ashamed.
In 2012, Northampton Borough Council announced the 'temporary closure' of a two-storey block of flats in Little Cross Street, Spring Boroughs, Northampton. Over the following months families were moved out by the council, because it deemed the balconies and walkways unsafe.
Two years on, and the site is still boarded up with no date being offered by the council for the completion of the promised repairs.
This is just a further step in the denigration of this historic area of the town.
Alan Moore, one of Northampton's favorite sons, and himself a former resident of the Boroughs, overcame a serious case of man-flu to return to his roots for the 'mock' renaming ceremony.
Alan gave a fifteen minute speech, during which he was able to confirm the severity of this particularly virulent brand of 'more-than-man-flu'. Thankfully he remained well enough to complete the proceedings, which also included speeches by Tony Clark, former MP, Northampton South, and campaigner Norman Adams, of Northampton Defend Council Housing.
Mr Clark said that the residents of the Boroughs needed to 'band together', and continue to 'make themselves heard', as the current Councilors are 'puppets' who 'tell lies'. Mr Adams said that if he was 'to go down' then he would 'go down fighting'.
The proceedings culminated with Little Cross Street being renamed as Double Cross Street in reference to the Council's consistently (less than) sterling work.
As for Alan Moore, well, let's hope he's soon feeling better, because he has an awful lot of editing to get through over the next several months. Click on the link to see Alan Moore at The Boroughs: Northampton.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=...
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