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.
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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.......
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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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14 July 2014
Locally based history walks guide Joe Studman will be running his course on the history of Enfield, Southgate and Edmonton for the third time, starting in September. Details are given below, or you can visit the Jaywalks website for further information about Joe's walks and courses.
An Introduction to the history of Enfield, Southgate & Edmonton This six-week course will introduce the student to the history of the London Borough of Enfield.
No previous knowledge required.
Each.......
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27 May 2014
Saturday sees the start of the first ever Lamb Festival, a week of free events in All Saints Church, Edmonton, to commemorate the lives and work of Edmonton's most celebrated literary siblings - Charles and Mary Lamb.
All the events are free (though donations are welcomed). They include:
a new puppet play about the Lambs
a recital of music produced by composers who struggled with their mental health. With Anna Tilbrook and three members of the Keats Quartet.
an illustrated talk
a.......
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07 May 2014
Myddleton Road Thentake the train one stop to Bowes Park, turn left at the top of the stairs, and you find yourself in Myddleton Road. A once thriving shopping street and community hub, neglected for many years and very shabby, only retaining some of its Victorian shopfronts, with many shops empty or used as illegal houses in multiple occupation - in some places resembling a ghost street. But despite this it's a special street, heart of a conservation area, and it's slowly coming back to life,.......
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07 May 2014
Waitrose Palmers Green has chosen to support the restoration of the Garden of Remembrance in Broomfield park as one of its three charities for the month of May. If you are shopping in Waitrose please place your green tokens in our box so that we can get the maximum amount from the £500 pot of money to be distributed between the three charities for May.
Opening of Broomfield Park garden of remembrance in 1929The Friends of Broomfield Park are planning to use the money towards funding a visitor.......
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29 April 2014
Betty Wright was born in Southgate Town Hall in 1927 and grew up there. She would love to see its interior again before the developers get to work turning it into flats. Someone trying to help her achieve that ambition is Suzanne Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North, who recently wrote an open letter to a number of Enfield councillors asking them to try to arrange this, pointing out that she had earlier written to the then Mayor making the same request, but after a promising.......
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11 February 2014
A new locally based arts festival is running essay and photographic competitions which will be open only to Enfield residents or students at schools in the borough.
Grave of Charles and Mary Lamb in the churchyard of All Saints EdmontonThe week-long Lamb Festival will be held at All Saints Church in Edmonton starting on 31st May. It will celebrate two of Edmonton's most famous residents - the 18th Century essayist and poet Charles Lamb and his sister Mary, who was also a writer and collaborated.......
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22 January 2014
Joe Studman of Jaywalks will be reprising his course on the history of Enfield, Edmonton and Southgate in March. The course, run in conjunction with the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, will be held on six Monday evenings at the Dugdale Centre, starting on 3rd March, at a cost of £50.
Each week's class will be divided into two halves, the first presenting a chronological history from earliest times to the 20th century, the second exploring a particular location (eg Enfield Town) and its.......
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