11 September 2015
Enfield residents are being invited to comment on proposed changes to the Council's "heritage resources" which are intended primarily as a cost-cutting measure, but at the same time would provide increased online access to these resources.
The Council is proposing to digitise the materials stored at the Local Studies Centre in Thomas Hardy House and make them available online. The current Monday to Friday drop-in access to the Local Studies Centre would cease and visitors wishing to see.......
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05 September 2015
As autumn approaches there is always a new term "back to school" feeling in the air so its a perfect time to sign up for a course of evening meetings and discussions on the history of Enfield
Led by Joe Studman, a professional local history guide and speaker, the twelve week introductory course will chart the history of Enfield, Edmonton and Southgate.
The course will be held at Jubilee Hall, 2 Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ from Tuesday September 29th 7:15 - 8:45pm.
Each week will consist.......
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12 August 2015
An 18th century stone boundary marker destroyed by council workmen years ago and left in ruins has been rebuilt by local conservation group Southgate Green Association. Local stonemasons Abacus Stone were awarded the task of piecing together the obelisk using methods adopted to restore the temple ruins at Karnak, Egypt. The obelisk is one of two remaining in Enfield.
The obelisk is located on Waterfall Road down the road from The Green, set back from the kerb on the bend and hidden from view.......
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06 August 2015
BFI Player, the online video streaming service run by the British Film Institute, recently launched a channel called Britain on Film, featuring footage from across the years and across the country.
Among the local films that can be viewed for free are two featuring Palmers Green in the 1950s:
Southgate Celebrates the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Southgate's New Running Track, Broomfield Park
The Coronation film is fascinating for many reasons, not least for the sheer number of people.......
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13 July 2015
The video below, released in connection with an exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, is a beautifully filmed and soberly narrated tour of the architectural and artistic delights to be found within churches in Tottenham, Hornsey, Stamford Hill, Noel Park and Harringay. The buildings date from the middle ages right through to the 1990s - but the modern buildings contain some astounding items salvaged from demolished buildings.
Well worth spending half an hour watching (I could have done.......
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05 June 2015
Among the events being organised by Enfield Council to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the present-day London boroughs is a series of free local history walks led by Joe Studman. They start on 16th June and run through to March 2016, criss-crossing the borough and taking in every part of Enfield, examining its rich, varied and fascinating history and characters..
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10 April 2015
We have obtained photographic evidence that the "old document" discovered by workmen in the former Southgate Town Hall does exist and its content is, to say the least, extraordinary.
The photographs, supplied by an anonymous source, show an old scroll that appears to have been found in a small wooden case. There are also photographs of the writing.......
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25 February 2015
On Thursday 12th March, from 1pm to 4pm, Enfield Town Market will play host to an unusual visitor - a KinoVan (or should that be "the KinoVan"?)
The KinoVan - a "cinema on wheels" - will be showing cine clips illustrating how the borough has changed over the past hundred years. And various experts, such as film archivist Louise Pankhurst, will be there to tell people about the borough's film history.
The KinoVan belongs to Film London - London's Film Archives and its visit is part of a.......
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25 February 2015
The Enfield Society has just published the fourth volume in its series A History of Enfield.
"A Time of Change", covers the period 1939 -1969. It includes chapters on life in Enfield, Edmonton and Southgate during the war, the austerity of the late Forties, the difficult Fifties and the swinging Sixties.
Written by Monica Smith, this hardback book with over 200 illustrations costs £18.50. It is available from Waterstones in Enfield town, online at www.enfieldsociety.org.uk and at.......
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08 February 2015
Artist and Enfield resident John Salmon (see his YouTube channel here) has put together a fascinating and ingenious slide show of early photographs of Enfield Town, accompanied by sound track of contemporary background noises.
John adds the following written comments:
Experience what life may have been like in Enfield Town once photography was able to record interesting details and events which make our town what it is today.
I’ve been collecting local photographs from the internet for.......
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28 November 2014
In the same week that Southgate District CivicTrust placed a blue plaque on the former home in Winchmore Hill of wildlife photographer and author Oliver Pike, their members celebrated winning the Local History Publications Award for Best Journal 2014 for the latest edition of their local history bulletin, Oakleaves. The.......
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20 November 2014
Truro House is a Grade ll listed building on the corner of Green Lanes and Oakthorpe Road which is on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register. The entry reads, “Early to mid C19 detached villa with C19 stable block. Enfield have written to owners with a suggested schedule for repair works, awaiting timetable. A residential scheme was agreed in 2009 and the legal agreement remains to be concluded.”
In the Truro House section of Palmers Green Community we shall be publishing news.......
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06 November 2014
Long delayed plans to restore one of Palmers Greens' most notable buildings - Truro House, located on the corner of Green Lanes and Oakthorpe Road - are finally set to move ahead after agreement was reached between its owners and Enfield Council.
The project involves restoration of the main house as single dwelling, conversion of the coach house into a dwelling, and the construction of two apartment blocks comprising 25 flats in total.
The redevelopment project was stalled for several.......
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01 November 2014
Southgate District Civic Trust and Enfield Grammar School are combining to place a local blue plaque on the house where pioneer wildlife photographer Oliver Pike (1877-1963) lived with his family from 1882 to 1914, 96 Green Dragon Lane in Winchmore Hill, which was the location for his early natural history photographs and books. The plaque will be unveiled on 16 November 2014 at 2pm by two of Oliver Pike’s grandsons, Jonathan and Richard Dollimore.
Oliver Pike was probably the first.......
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11 October 2014
If you travel to Bowes Park station, walk up the stairs from the platform and turn right (towards Bounds Green), the first building you encounter when leaving the station is Shaftesbury Hall, a former chapel now known locally as the "Tin Tabernacle". It's a rare survivor of a type of metal self-assembly church that sprang up the Victorian era, but is now in a state of disrepair.
Shaftesbury Hall aka the Tin TabernacleSince 1974 the Tin Tabernacle has belonged to North London.......
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06 October 2014
In the centenary year of the outbreak of World War One, the Friends of Broomfield Park are hoping that money will be made available for the restoration of the Park's Garden of Remembrance, which has fallen into serious disrepair.
Remembrance Garden pond with fountain (1930s)The bid for money is a joint project by the Friends and Enfield Council. At the request of the Friends the Council last month applied to the War Memorials Trust for a grant of up to £30,000 to restore the.......
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05 August 2014
The centenary of the outbreak of World War One was commemorated by Enfield Council at a ceremony held in Broomfield Park on Monday 4th August.
The Last Post is sounded in Broomfield ParkThe ceremony took place in the Garden of Remembrance, where the Mayor of Enfield, Councillor Ali Bakir, unveiled a visitor information board prepared by the Friends of Broomfield Park.
The Friends of Broomfield Park website has more photographs taken at the WW1 commemoration as well as photographs of the.......
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27 July 2014
Winchmore Hill & Palmers Green Memories - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory
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27 July 2014
The Historical Association - North London Branch - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory
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