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Incorporating the adjoining areas of Mercers and Tytherton Roads in North London
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Incorporating the adjoining areas of Mercers and Tytherton Roads in North London
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Meaning of the Name Gatcombe
. Gatecome 1086 (DB).
‘Valley where goats are kept’. gāt + cumb.
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To remove the soundtrack click here WARNING REGARDING SLOW DOWNLOADS If you are not connected by fast broadband three or four of the pages on this site will download very slowly. Some have music and video to download and some just have LOTS of pictures - so please be a little patient NEW FEATURE Watch the thieves in action on our Rogues Gallery
******25 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH******
Fly Tipping is back ! A few years ago we had a serious problem at the bottom of Gatcombe Road with tenanted properties in Mercers Road dumping and fly - tipping in our street. Improved street lighting helped a lot but with the recession the problem appears to have come back again. Packaging, old sofas and mattresses are the prime materials it seems and lt's to be hoped the culprits are caught and prosecuted as our council has a first class record on cleaning and will freely remove these items for residents if asked to do so - so no excuses CRIMINALS GOING UNPUNISHED DUE TO LACK OF POLICE INTEREST ? but we are publishing the videos of these thieves ....a note just received
"We have CCTV cameras on the front and side
of our house and one of our cameras part overlooks the end of Gatcombe Road -
for future reference - the cameras record 24/7 and if anything happens that
you would like us to take a look back over our cameras for, this will not be a
problem as long as you can give us a time-scale as we would obviously have to
look back in real time to see anything worth seeing. We can only see the end
of Gatcombe Road towards Tytherton Road, but sometime the culprits are seen
escaping down into our road which may be of help.
As an example, we were away for February
half term (10th - 17th February) and on our return we found that our van had
been broken into outside our house, consequently we had 7 days worth of
footage to go through to see who had done it - this took a considerable amount
of time, even on fast forward. To our surprise, during the playback, we
witnessed a very organised "gang" or party of four men with a car slowly
driving in the lead, looking under and around every car parked on either side
of Tytherton Road, for spare wheels. This happened on 14th February
(obviously a Valentines present LOL :) @ 11.25pm, also on the same footage @
3am there is a man struggling to carry a large Plasma TV (obviously stolen -
again must be a Valentine present!), walking past our house, in fact he stops
outside our house to check behind him and re-adjust his head and face covering
before walking off. Finally on 15th February @ 1pm in the broad daylight, we
capture the two men who break into our van (which incidentally is relatively
new, bought in October 2011 and has secure locks and central locking), they
take approximately 11 seconds to force the lock out and open the doors, but
fortunately the alarm goes off and they leave in the car that they pull up
in. Incidentally the dark car was parked further down in Gatcombe Road
between No's 1 - 5 I reckon, before pulling out and driving down to the front
of our van before the two men get out and break in.
Obviously we have contacted the police
regarding all three incidents and predictably, they do not seem very
interested, saying they may contact us and come by to pick up the footage, but
as yet we have not heard from them.
The reason I am passing this information on
is that some of the Gatcombe residents may have, in the past, had their spare
wheels from their vehicles taken, especially the sort of vehicles that keep
the spare wheels under the rear of the car as standard, I know I have, from my
new Ford KA within a week of it being parked outside our house (well when it
was new way back in December 2002).
I can send you the footage of all three
incidents if you would like to take a look, it also shows the angle of the
view from the camera that gets the end of Gatcombe Road in view - to be of
help in future."
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