TES News No 184 • Winter 2011 The newsletter of The Enfield Society Celebrate Enfield’s heritage in 2012 The Enfield Society is planning a series Although our first event is on Tuesday Heritage events in of events to celebrate Enfield’s heritage 21st February, there is an earlier joint in 2012 to coincide with the Queen’s meeting with Edmonton Hundred on Spring 2012 Jubilee year and the Olympics. The Friday 10th February in Edmonton on events will be open to all – members and Charles and Mary Lamb. This is Friday 10th February non-members of TES – and we hope they unticketed and promises to be a good start In the steps of Charles and Mary Lamb, will promote the Society and increase our to what I hope will be a most informative, by Helen Walton, at the Charities School, understanding and knowledge of interesting and busy year! Church Street, Edmonton, 7.30 for Enfield’s fascinating history. Most of the Other events planned for later in the year 8.00pm. Please just come along. events will be ticketed so we are not include walks around Winchmore Hill oversubscribed, though we plan that the Tuesday 21st February with Peter Hodge and the Royal Small The royal palaces of Enfield, an majority will be free and an SAE sent to Arms site with Ray Tuthill, as well as our Jubilee Hall will be all that is required. illustrated talk by Ian Jones, 7.30 for usual Enfield Town Heritage Walk in 8.00pm at Jubilee Hall. In March we have been extremely July and an event to celebrate the fortunate to get Alex Werner, Head of the reopening of Forty Hall later in the year. Admission by free ticket available to Historical Collection of the Museum of Ticketing arrangements for these events members and non-members on receipt of London and curator of the major Charles will be announced nearer the time. a stamped addressed envelope. Please send your application to Emma Halstead, Dickens exhibition.* This is to celebrate Meanwhile if you wish to come on the 200th year of the birth of Dickens and The Enfield Society, Jubilee Hall, Tuesday 21st February for a talk by Ian 2 Parsonage Lane, Enfield EN2 0AJ. will open at the Museum of London on Jones who will tell the story of the Royal 9th December and run through to June Palaces of Elsynge and Enfield and Wednesday 21st March 2012. He has some pictures of Enfield discuss the results of recent excavations, Dickens and London, an illustrated talk taken by William Attwood in the 1880s or to the Dugdale centre for the Dickens by Alex Werner, curator of the Museum and 1890s which will be shown as part of talk, then please send an SAE to Jubilee of London at the Dugdale Centre, 7.30 the talk. As we expect a lot of interest the Hall as below, with a cheque for £3 per for 8.00. Please send a SAE to Jubilee Dugdale centre has been booked for this ticket to reserve your place for Alex Hall as above with a cheque for £3 per talk and tickets will cost £3 to cover Werner’s Dickens talk. ticket, payable to “The Enfield Society”. expenses. Janet McQueen *www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Dickens.htm from Wikimediafrom Commons Imageby Jeremiah Gurney Charles Dickens Frontispiece of Charles Lamb Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb 1 Conservation Conservation Areas High wire in the woods In Enfield Town we learn that there is to Following investigation, the be no ice skating rink this year, as last Conservation Advisory Group were year’s operated at a loss. generally happy with the Aerial Trek (a John Davies and I have met with Jeremy high wire forest adventure network) Sturgess of the Trent Park Golf Club to proposed for Church Wood in Trent Park. consider draft proposals prior to a planning application to improve the Green Belt Clubhouse and main entrance of the golf The Society has objected to conversion of course. With the younger generation in a small barn and shed near to the mind, the proposals include a landscaped Whitewebbs Lane entrance to Guy Lodge mini golf area next to the Enfield Road Farm into a house on the grounds of and ten five a side football pitches. These inappropriate development in the Green would be floodlit, but we were happy Belt. We have no problems with a with the final scheme, which included proposal at the same farm for a bund sinking the pitches with additional Existing spillway at Grovelands lake, to along the M25 to safeguard livestock screening and planting and a much be widened to cope with floods from possible breaches in the motorway improved road entrance and changes to boundary fence. the elevation of the clubhouse. English Heritage has upgraded the listing Chris Jephcott of Arnos Grove and Oakwood Conservation Advisory Underground Stations, designed by Group Charles Henry Holden, to Grade ll*, the Clock House Parade in London Road. second highest to Grade l. This was Proposals to lower and set back the obviously very welcome and in answer to Trees Group prominent roof plant referred to in the an enquiry it was confirmed that the I must apologise for not updating my last News should resolve the problem. restoration of artefacts, such as the telephone number when requesting fragmented Art Deco cast iron railings at The CAG has been concerned with assistance with Trentwoodside Oakwood, would happen when funding proposals affecting the lakes in both allotment tree nursery. If there are any becomes available. We will keep up the Grovelands and Trent Park. Some years further volunteers willing to put in the pressure on this. ago spillways to accommodate possible occasional couple of hours, the number flooding were installed with listed on the back page of this modifications agreed to lessen the newsletter is now correct. environmental impact. Updated We have objected to the application to regulations mean that both lakes, which are classed as reservoirs because they replace the bungalow at 110 Bush Hill, have a dam, have to be upgraded to cope adjacent to the Golf Club, with two 5- with a 1,000 year flood risk. In bedroom houses filling most of the site Grovelands Park this means that the and involving the loss of most of the existing 1.7m wide spillway is totally numerous trees. Since the site reads as inadequate. An 80m wide one would now an extension of the woodland along the be needed! However, raising the wall Golf Club frontage this would be a along the dam by half a metre will allow major blow to the appearance of this the width of the new spillway to be attractive road. reduced to 20m and this is what is Also, we have objected to proposals for proposed. The result would be a section nine 4-bedroom houses by the Foyle of the asphalt path along the dam having Foundation at Gwalior House on the to be sunk by half a metre, to the level of corner of Chase Road and Avenue the spillway. One might feel that these Road N14. Outline permission for new requirements are over the top (no housing was granted on appeal some pun intended) but the committee report was for information only, as this is years ago. The land has now been permitted development not requiring found to be subject to a restrictive permission. covenant made in 1936 with Southgate Council, requiring it to be retained as A similar approach in Trent Park would private open space, but this is see the pathway along the edge of the apparently not a valid planning dam beside the Japanese Garden raised by an unclear amount to provide a level consideration. The mature trees all gravel path, with the 27.5 metre sunken around the open area on the corner in section for the spillway surfaced in York front of the existing flats are protected, stone. As in the case of Grovelands only but the plans involve the removal of a few medium sized trees on the Cast iron railings at Oakwood station, many of them. embankment would be removed. in need of restoration Chris Jephcott, Convener 2 Sales table photos and images and explore the Lea Valley and the growth of region’s rich heritage as the major businesses such as crucible of world industrial and Ediswan light bulbs and technological firsts. Gestetner copying machines; The previous six titles are: Ÿ From Eton Manor to the Ÿ From gunpowder to guns Olympics is concerned with the features the Royal Small Arms history of the region, much of it Factory and the Royal connected to the 2012 Gunpowder Mills; Olympics. Ÿ Water and waste documents These books cost £9.99 each and 400 years of improvements to they can all be purchased from the public health and the Sales Table at Jubilee Hall engineering feat of the New meetings or on Saturday morning River; 10th December from 10 am to 1 Ÿ p.m. when our full range of Battleships, buses and bombers publications will be available, describes the range of transport especially for those members who innovation pioneered in the cannot get to Jubilee Hall during The seventh, and final, book in Dr. region including A V Roe’s the week. Many smaller items Jim Lewis’ series on the the Lea historic flight at Walthamstow such as badges and maps make Valley was launched at Myddelton in 1909; good stocking fillers while books Ÿ house in September. Regeneration Weapons, wireless and world on the Enfield area are welcomed and innovation charts the changes wars explores the involvement by friends and family.