Seven Sisters

Among six definitions given for 'seven sisters' in the Oxford English Dictionary is -

1. The Pleiades. Obs.

for which the final quotation given is -

1742 GRAY Propertius II. 35 Whence the seven Sisters' congregated fires.

In a publication entitled 'OLD LONDON: Paddington Green to Seven Sisters' by Edward Walford (The Village Press), this passage can be found -

'On the north-east side of the Holloway Road, and forming a continuation of Camden and Park roads, is the Seven Sisters' Road, which leads to Finsbury Park, and so on to Tottenham, leaving the Holloway reservoir of the New River Company on the right side of the road. The "Seven Sisters" was the sign of an old public-house at Tottenham, in the front of which were planted seven elms in a circle, with a walnut-tree in the middle. They were upwards of 500 years old, and the tradition ran that a martyr had been burnt on the spot where they stood. The trees were more recently to be seen at the entrance of the village from Page Green; and when they died off, a few years ago, they were replaced by others...'

"The Seven Sisters" in 1830.

A theatre across the road from Finsbury Park tube station, in the Seven Sisters Road, was known as The Odeon from the early 1960s onwards. The Beatles played there.

Located at 232-236 Seven Sisters Road, The Odeon was, on 26th December 1970, re-named
The Rainbow.

The Rainbow became known primarily as a venue for rock music, and David Bowie headlined concerts there in August and December 1972.

More recently, the old association between 'seven sisters' and the Pleiades star cluster was revived in a video, released in the 1990s, entitled 'The Pleiades Legacy.'
This video, which mentioned the Seven Sisters Road as an example of the 'legacy,' was based upon the premise that extraterrestrials originating from the Pleiades stars have been impacting upon terrestrial human culture for centuries.

Video released by Genesis 7 Ltd.

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