Bruce Grove railway station is on the Seven Sisters branch of the East Anglia route. There are two platforms with steps down to the ticket office and exits at street level.
What's immediately outside the station? The old station buildings, which for some reason are on the other side of the road from the actual station itself. Maybe the station was originally there, but was later moved to bring it closer to the railway...?
There's road called Bruce Grove, which seemed to have tractors driving along it when I visited. No, I don't know why.
The road is home to imaginatively named shops like Bruce Grove Fish Market, Bruce Grove Cosmetics, and Bruce Grove Supermarket & Meat Market...
...and the Tottenham Trades Hall. However, since it's boarded up, I assume trade wasn't so good. Maybe it would've been more successful if they called it Bruce Grove Trades Hall instead.
Did anyone called Bruce Grove ever live there? I don't think so, but according to a blue plaque on the boarded-up Trade Hall, someone called “Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds,” lived there. It turns out that “Namer of Clouds” is a description of
his work as a meteorologist, and not a Native American tribal name!
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Tractors? Very odd! Good to see pictures of the place though, I go through Bruce Grove on my way to see family further up the line. I'm surprised there's even something as interesting as a blue plaque there really!
"The Man who Named Clouds" is a book about the fellow whose name you saw on the blue plaque. Stumbled on book recently in Sacramento California at the Discovery Museum. Small World.
There are also a very pretty italian restaurant San Marco, just outside the station (strangely you haven't noticed that) and a 16th century mansion house in the middle of Bruce Castle Park (there the name is from). and by the way Bruce Grove has been here since 1790s(if you interested)...
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