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By Simon Allin @SimonAllin3 Local Democracy Reporter, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey
Albert Road Recreation Ground (Image: Google Maps) A recreation ground could be renamed after a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner who lived nearby for more than two decades. Haringey Council plans to rename Albert Road Recreation Ground in Muswell Hill after Oliver Reginald Tambo – a South African anti-apartheid activist who was president of the African National Congress between 1967 and 1991. If councillors give their approval at a meeting next week, the park will become known as O.R. Tambo Recreation Ground. Although the proposal is not part of a review of monument, building, place and street names in Haringey announced following the Black Lives Matter demonstrations last summer, a council report states that it is being considered “under the same ethos for change”.