![]() So beware if you are here on a match day and are not a home supporter, because you will not get in. If you want to keep going and you can see the Wetherspoons pub, Gilpin’s Bell which also celebrates the story and is close to the site of the old Bell pub which was demolished in 1963.īy the way this pub is on the border with Tottenham, not so far from White Hart Lane football ground and it seems that on match days entry to this pub is restricted to home supporters. And the sculpture itself is not that well located and it seems to be getting a bit weathered but maybe that was the intention. And much the same thing happens on his return when he is carried past Edmonton back to the City.Īs an entertainment, this does seem rather tame by today’s standards. They become separated after Gilpin loses control of his horse, and is carried ten miles farther to the town of Ware. This is the story of Gilpin and his wife and children on a journey to the Bell Inn, Edmonton. ![]() It was inspired by a comic ballad from 1782 by William Cowper, entitled “The Diverting History of John Gilpin”. This is called Gilpin’s Bell and is by Angela Godfrey and dates from 1996. Well here is an odd thing to find along this nondescript shopping street. Turn left out of the Post Office and our first stop is a little way along just outside Fore Street Library which is at 109 -111 Fore Street. We start our walk at Upper Edmonton Post Office which is at 83 Fore Street, N18. N18 is Upper Edmonton which is squeezed between N9 Lower Edmonton and N17 Tottenham. ![]()
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