Residents on Black Boy Lane have put signs of the road name, seemingly in protest to the name change today.

@albags_2002 Yeah, this has been a common speculation on the origin of the name

@albags_2002 @OliviaOWrites Yep, common tradition in North London of old was to have football matches Bakers vs Sweeps with ‘bakers’ covered in flour and ‘sweeps’ covered in soot. I expect that’s been banned now.

@albags_2002 @OliviaOWrites It doesn't matter if it is named after sweeps, or not. It's a very old name from a different time. The idea of removing heritage, on the basis of how offended we are, is nauseatingly childish.