Tottenham High Road Riots
7 aug 2011 second night of violence in london and this time it was organised.
Tottenham high road riots. The burning carpet store on tottenham high road was a symbol of the destruction caused by the riots and now. Riot police vans attended the scene of disturbances on tottenham high road. Reduced to a smouldering shell in one night by the rioters. How a peaceful vigil led to devastating carnage.
The tottenham landmark that survived the blitz. Later in the evening the riot spread with an aldi supermarket and a branch of allied carpets also destroyed by fire and widespread looting in nearby wood green shopping centre and the retail park at tottenham hale. The high road shop was on the corner with dowsett road. Riots in tottenham after mark duggan shooting protest.
A peaceful protest then suddenly all hell broke loose published. The growing body of rioters swarmed up the high road leaving the police officers grappling with their assailants. Construction work at the carpetright building which has risen up from the ashes. By midnight police managed to secure a 200 metre stretch of the tottenham high road.
Rioting occurred shortly after about 120 people marched from the broadwater farm estate to tottenham police station via the high road. 35 the spread of news and rumours about the previous evenings disturbances in tottenham sparked riots during the night of sunday 7 august in the london districts of brixton enfield islington and wood green and in oxford circus in the centre of london. In tottenham riot police patrol the streets in the early hours of sunday 7 august.