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Broadwater Farm, often referred to simply as "The Farm", is an area in Tottenham, north London, straddling the River Moselle. [1]

106 relations: Aerodrome, Alexander Dennis Enviro200, Alice Coleman, Allotment (gardening), Arrears, Articulated bus, Assault, Association football, Barricade, Bernie Grant, Birmingham, Black people, Bob Marley, British African-Caribbean people, Broadwater Farm riot, Bruce Castle, Bruce Grove railway station, Burglary, Cabrini–Green Homes, City of London, Closed-circuit television, Concierge, Concrete, Constable, Council house, Culvert, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Depression (geology), Diana, Princess of Wales, Double-decker bus, Firefighter, Flood, George Young, Baron Young of Cookham, Grenfell Tower, Grenfell Tower fire, Haringey London Borough Council, High Street, Housing estate, Independent News & Media, Jobi McAnuff, John Lennon, Jude Stirling, Kurds, Le Corbusier, Levee, Light industry, Lionel Morgan (footballer), List of large council estates in the UK, London, ..., London Borough of Haringey, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Underground, Lordship Lane, Haringey, Lordship Recreation Ground, Machete, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Martin Luther King Jr., Metropolitan Police Service, Minority group, Mortar joint, Myocardial infarction, Newsagent's shop, North London, Park, Parking lot, Pipeline transport, Plattenbau, Police station, Population density, Powers of the police in England and Wales, Primary education, Renting, River Moselle (London), Robbery, Ronan Point, Rowland Hill, Royal Air Force, Royal Institute of British Architects, Saturation patrol, Somalis, Southwark, Special Patrol Group, Street crime, Taylor Woodrow, The Independent, The Mall Wood Green, Tottenham, Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency), Tottenham Cemetery, Tottenham High Road, Turnpike Lane tube station, Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Urban renewal, Vehicle licence, Waterlogging (agriculture), White people, Winston Silcott, Wood Green, Woodside High School, Wood Green, World War II, Ziggurat, 1985 Brixton riot, 1985 Handsworth riots, 999 (emergency telephone number). Expand index (56 more) »

Aerodrome

An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither.

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Alexander Dennis Enviro200

The Alexander Dennis Enviro200 (previously known as the TransBus Enviro200) is a bus manufactured by TransBus International and later Alexander Dennis since 2003.

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Alice Coleman

Alice Mary Coleman (born June 8, 1923) is emerita professor of geography at King's College London.

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Allotment (gardening)

An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants.

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Arrears

Arrears (or arrearage) is a legal term for the part of a debt that is overdue after missing one or more required payments.

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Articulated bus

An articulated bus (either a motor bus or trolleybus) is an articulated vehicle used in public transportation.

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Assault

An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Barricade

Barricade, from the French barrique (barrel), is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction.

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Bernie Grant

Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 – 8 April 2000), known simply as Bernie Grant, was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham from 1987 to his death in 2000.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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British African-Caribbean people

British African Caribbean (or Afro-Caribbean) people are residents of the United Kingdom whose ancestors were primarily indigenous to Africa.

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Broadwater Farm riot

The Broadwater Farm riot occurred around the Broadwater Farm estates area of Tottenham, North London, on 6 October 1985.

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Bruce Castle

Bruce Castle (formerly the Lordship House) is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London.

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Bruce Grove railway station

Bruce Grove is a London Overground station on the Lea Valley lines located in central Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey, north London.

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Burglary

Burglary (also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking) is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence.

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Cabrini–Green Homes

Cabrini–Green Homes, which comprised the Frances Cabrini Row-houses and William Green Homes, was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Concierge

A concierge is an employee of an apartment building, hotel, airport, or office building.

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Concrete

Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.

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Constable

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in criminal law enforcement.

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Council house

A council house is a form of public or social housing built by local municipalities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Culvert

A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Depression (geology)

A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Double-decker bus

A double-decker bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks.

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Firefighter

A firefighter is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten life, property and the environment as well as to rescue people and animals from dangerous situations.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

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George Young, Baron Young of Cookham

George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire since 1997 and Ealing Acton prior to that.

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Grenfell Tower

Grenfell Tower is a fire-ravaged 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England.

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Grenfell Tower fire

The Grenfell Tower fire broke out on 14 June 2017 in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, United Kingdom.

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Haringey London Borough Council

Haringey London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Haringey in Greater London, England.

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High Street

High Street (or the High Street, also High Road) is a metonym for the concept (and frequently the street name) of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.

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Housing estate

A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development.

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Independent News & Media

Independent News & Media plc (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, and operating across several countries.

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Jobi McAnuff

Joel Joshua Frederick Melvin "Jobi" McAnuff (born 9 November 1981) is a professional footballer who plays for Leyton Orient.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Jude Stirling

Jude Barrington Stirling (born 29 June 1982) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Brimsdown.

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Kurds

The Kurds (rtl, Kurd) or the Kurdish people (rtl, Gelî kurd), are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan).

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Levee

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Light industry

Light industry is industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industry and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as it typically produces smaller consumer goods.

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Lionel Morgan (footballer)

Lionel Anthony Morgan (born 17 February 1983) is an English former footballer who played as a winger for Wimbledon before injury forced him to retire from the game at the age of just 21.

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List of large council estates in the UK

This list of large council estates in the United Kingdom includes estates generally considered to have a population in excess of 10,000 (although population figures are not compiled for many estates, as they do not usually correspond to local government units).

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Borough of Haringey

The London Borough of Haringey (pronounced, same as Harringay) is a London borough in North London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London.

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London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London Borough in East London which covers much of the traditional East End.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Lordship Lane, Haringey

Lordship Lane connects Wood Green (N22) with Tottenham High Road (N17).

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Lordship Recreation Ground

Lordship Recreation Ground is a public park in Tottenham, London Borough of Haringey.

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Machete

A machete is a broad blade used either as an implement like an axe, or in combat like a short sword.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Minority group

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.

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Mortar joint

In masonry, mortar joints are the spaces between bricks, concrete blocks, or glass blocks, that are filled with mortar or grout.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Newsagent's shop

A newsagent's shop or simply newsagent's (British English), newsagency (Australian English) or newsstand (American and Canadian English) is a business that sells newspapers, magazines, cigarettes, snacks and often items of local interest.

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North London

North London is the northern part of London, England.

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Park

A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles.

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Pipeline transport

Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods or material through a pipe.

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Plattenbau

Plattenbau (plural: Plattenbauten, Platte: panel/ slab; Bau: building/ construction) is a building constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs.

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Police station

A police station (sometimes called a "station house" in the US) is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Powers of the police in England and Wales

The powers of the police in England and Wales are defined largely by statute law, with the main sources of power being the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police Act 1996.

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Primary education

Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).

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Renting

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another.

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River Moselle (London)

The River Moselle, also referred to as Moselle Brook, is in North London and flows through Tottenham towards the Lea Valley.

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Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.

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Ronan Point

Ronan Point was a 21-storey tower block in Canning Town in Newham, East London, which partly collapsed on 16 May 1968, only two months after it had opened.

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Rowland Hill

Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.

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Saturation patrol

A saturation patrol is a police or military patrol tactic wherein a large number of officers are concentrated into a small geographic area.

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Somalis

Somalis (Soomaali, صوماليون) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula).

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Southwark

Southwark is a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

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Special Patrol Group

The Special Patrol Group (SPG) was a unit of Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for providing a centrally-based mobile capability for combating serious public disorder and crime that could not be dealt with by local divisions.

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Street crime

Street crime is a loose term for any criminal offense in a public place.

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Taylor Woodrow

Taylor Woodrow was one of the largest housebuilding and general construction companies in Britain.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Mall Wood Green

The Mall Wood Green is a large shopping centre and residential complex in Wood Green, north London.

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Tottenham

Tottenham is a district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.

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Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Tottenham is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Rt Hon David Lammy, a member of the Labour Party.

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Tottenham Cemetery

Tottenham Cemetery is a large burial ground in Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey, in north London, England.

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Tottenham High Road

Tottenham High Road is the main thoroughfare through the district of Tottenham, in the London Borough of Haringey.

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Turnpike Lane tube station

Turnpike Lane is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, between Manor House and Wood Green, in Travelcard Zone 3.

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Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)

In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom, urban renewal or urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay.

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Vehicle licence

A vehicle licence (also called a vehicle registration certificate in some jurisdictions) is issued by a motor registration authority in a jurisdiction in respect of a particular motor vehicle.

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Waterlogging (agriculture)

Waterlogging refers to the saturation of soil with water.

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White people

White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.

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Winston Silcott

Winston Silcott (born 1959) (BBC News, 20 October 2003) is a British citizen of African-Caribbean (Montserrat) parents, who, as one of the "Tottenham Three", was convicted in March 1987 for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock on the night of 6 October 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riot in north London, despite not having been near the scene.

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Wood Green

Wood Green is a suburban district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.

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Woodside High School, Wood Green

Woodside High School is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive school located in the Wood Green area of the London Borough of Haringey, England.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Ziggurat

A ziggurat (Akkadian: ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqāru "to build on a raised area") is a type of massive stone structure built in ancient Mesopotamia.

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1985 Brixton riot

The Brixton riot of 1985 started on 28 September in Lambeth in South London.

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1985 Handsworth riots

The second Handsworth riots took place in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, West Midlands, from 9 to 11 September 1985.

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999 (emergency telephone number)

999 is an official emergency telephone number in a number of countries which allows the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwater_Farm

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