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In the 1970s the whole area was buzzing with ideas
• GILLIAN Arnold makes a good point (Address the cultural, not just knife problems, July 17).
Anyone who lived round Talacre in the early to mid-1970s will remember perhaps what was actually based in Dalby Street.
At number 10, a bike workshop; at number eight, an offshoot of InterAction given over to young people. InterAction itself was based in the factory in Talacre and dedicated to providing exciting activities with and for local young people.
The whole area buzzed with initiatives. There was the neighbourhood advice centre producing Kite, the local paper, several playgroups; a play park; art studios; a film co-op; Action Space, inflatables.
All of this was swept away along with a whole terrace of good houses (pictured) in Prince of Wales Road in 1978. The houses were demolished to enlarge the park.
I think it is an outrage that public land on which much-needed housing had stood has now been sold to an offshore developer to build this private development.
Surely that land, if built on, should be used for greater provision for people in the area, to replace all that has been taken in the past 30 years.
Anything less is a scandal.
LIZ JELLINEK
Upper Park Road
NW3
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