Tottenham Fox just off the High Rd N17 22/10/24 (picture Keith Flett)
New Year’s Day saw the screening on BBC1 of a programme presented by David Attenborough in his centennial year. He has lived in London for 75 years and the programme might well have been subtitled Maybe its because I’m a Londoner.
Attenborough looked at a London not of the fevered imaginations of Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin but the London that is the greenest major city in the world.
He looks at rewilding in West London with the reintroduction of beavers after hundreds of years, of the 30,000 parakeets now in the Capital (noting that they were probably not introduced by Jimi Hendrix) and something very familiar to myself- Tottenham foxes.
Tottenham with its marsh and allotments but also its High Rd has the right mix for foxes. They make their dens in greenery and then head up to the High Rd for a meal of discarded chips, kebabs and burgers.
A world of which Nigel Farage has no conception not least because there is no Tottenham Hunt
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Hi – I am a long time Tottenham resident but couldn’t work out where that was filmed. Do you have any ideas? Westbury Avenue is my best guess…
West Green & Mannock Rd allotments. Foxes can definitely also be found around Tottenham Marsh & Ferry Lane and further up in Northumberland Park allotments
Saw my first London fox outside Edgware Road tube station (the one opposite the nansions) in the late 90s/early 00s. As I stood watching in disbelief, a man got out of his car and came to ask me if I’d seen it, so I guess he was as surprised as I was.
I was bus-hopping but went into the station to ask the ticket collector about it. At first, he was guarded but opened up, when he saw I was delighted telling me that they travelled in along the tube and rail lines.
Of course subsequently I saw lots. They even used to play with my neighbours’ kittens.