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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27 December 2013
Palmers Green has another new website! The latest addition is Palmers Green Tales, created by a project team led by Jenny Bourke and including Suzanne Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North fame.
Palmers Green Tales will be recording the history of Palmers Green in both oral and visual form - presenting local people's memories in words and, wherever possible, including video clips of the interviews.
All the Tales on the website will feature people who have spent time in and around Palmers.......
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29 July 2013
Three locally based organisations are cooperating on an aural history project designed to discover how the arrival of rock'n'roll in the UK sixty years ago affected life in Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill, Southgate and Enfield. The question being posed by Joe Studman of Jaywalks, Sue Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North and Southgate District Civic Trust is:
Do you remember the first days of rock and roll? How did it impact on you and your family? What did you wear and where did.......
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12 September 2020
In this year's Open House Festival (now longer than just one weekend) you'll have an opportunity to visit (in some cases, only virtually) ten buildings or groups of buildings in Enfield borough, plus to tour the 'daylighted' parts of the Moore Brook, find out about the masterplan for Meridian Water and follow a 'self-guided' itinerary.
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13 March 2022
Last week the news was that PG will be losing one landmark - the Intimate Theatre. This week we can report the restoration of an old landmark, the turret on the Fox pub, complete with weathercock - or should that be 'weatherfox'?
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11 August 2022
The Enfield Society has published two new local heritage walk booklets, for Southgate and Winchmore Hill, both produced with help from Southgate District Civic Voice.
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17 October 2020
The Enfield Poets are inviting people to send them poems about Enfield, past and present, to help create an interactive poetry map of the borough.
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08 November 2020
The unusual watercourse that flows through Palmers Green has a fascinating history, and this month there are two opportunities to trace its course from rural Hertfordshire to urban London and its history from the 17th to the 21st century.
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