2003: Haringey, regalia and the Tottenham Pottery connection

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This page shows a newscutting is from the Wood Green Journal 4 September 2003 to mark a visit to the Civic Offices of Haringey. The purpose was to meet the then mayor, Councillor Erline Prescott and to view the ceremonial mace which was presented to the borough in the 1930s by Sidney Brandon Cole, its first mayor and then owner of the family pottery in White Hart Lane, Tottenham. 

The above photograph, which is courtesy of Bruce Castle Museum, shows the original presentation of the mace by Sid Cole.

The following is a close up of the inscription to his father, E G Cole, which reads:

Presented

to the

BOROUGH OF WOOD GREEN

by

Mr Councillor S. B. COLE

in memory of his father

THE LATE MR E. G. COLE

September 1933