TES News No 172 • Winter 2008 The newsletter of The Enfield Society New conservation areas announced
At last! Enfield Council has announced proposals for four new conservation areas. As forecast these are Grange Park, Meadway, Southgate Circus and The Crescent, Hertford Road, Edmonton. Grange Park, comprising the distinctive Arts and Crafts housing along The Chine and Old Park Ridings, together with The The Chine, Grange Park The Crescent, Edmonton Grangeway, is the one that most directly concerns The Enfield Society and was high on our ‘wish list’. Fortunately most of the houses have been well and sympathetically maintained, but treatment of the forecourts and boundary walls has been less sympathetic. The Crescent Conservation Area will encompass the area immediately around the Listed terrace and could enable efforts to replace the out of keeping petrol station where the terrace was never completed at the Southgate Circus Bourne Avenue, Meadway northern end, as well as upgrading the run down immediate surroundings. It The two large residential areas will be It has enabled a comprehensive is not proposed to reinstate the front covered by blanket Article 4(2) attempt to clarify the guidelines for carriage drive. directions to prevent the further loss of designating conservation areas and a the original detail on buildings – study of all the potential areas on the Southgate Circus has apparently been windows, boundary walls, materials, ‘long list’ put forward over the years. included to facilitate access to funding conversion of front gardens into hard Areas are rated according to five which will allow the replacement of standing, etc. Planning permission will heritage and design criteria with the ‘Heritage’ street furniture with be required for this otherwise possible scores up to 30. Of the 26 something more in keeping with the permitted development. These will not total areas, 12 have scores over 20 and outstanding Holden station. be needed for the Terrace, which is are considered conservation area The second large area, the Meadway Listed, nor for the commercial material. Top were Grange Park and Estate, including Bourne Avenue, premises at Southgate Circus which do The Chine with scores of 28 and 29 Greenway and Parkway, is also in the not have permitted development respectively, now to be combined into sphere of interest of the Southgate rights. a single area. The Crescent comes next District Civic Trust. The houses have An Enfield Design Guide, to be with 28. Meadway with 24 is below typical features of the better, produced as a Development Plan the Beaconsfield and Hyde Estates in speculative, inter-war development, Document, will contain appropriate Edmonton at 26 and 25 and Southgate enhanced by the informal road layout guidance to inform residents, business Circus only rates 21. Options available and verge planting, with generous rear owners and tenants of the most for protecting those not selected or gardens. Problems include the use of sympathetic ways of caring for their scoring below 20 will be considered as front gardens for parking, use of properties. There will also be an part of the preparation of the Local inappropriate modern materials and Enfield Streetscape Manual and a Development Framework. inappropriate extensions. Poor quality revised Highways Trees Management Consultation on all the draft replacement paving is noted, so Strategy – a lot to look out for. documents ran until 28th October and they can be viewed on the Council hopefully upgrading will end the The new conservation areas are the website at http://tinyurl.com/6LSGAS. unfortunate practice of spot outcome of the perceptive Borough replacement of the pink paving stones Characterisation Study which the Paul Chris Jephcott with white ones. Drury Partnership has now completed. 1 Civic environment Conservation and planning Before and after photos of the junction of Church Silver Street, Enfield Street and Winchester Road, An application for 14 flats over 3 Edmonton. business units has now been submitted for the car park site referred to in the last News. In a traditional style echoing the fenestration of the Lloyds Bank next door, it is more acceptable than the previous designs we have seen, though overly symmetrical and bulky at 4/5 storeys when the mansard is included. We feel generally a pastiche is safer than a mediocre An example of the clutter modern design. caused by “Fly-boarding”. These estate agents’ boards Cecil Road car park had been in situ well beyond the agreed two weeks time Designs for the Evangelical Free limits. A local resident, with Church come and go. The latest, the assistance of the Council’s with a low pitch, pyramidal roof over Envirocrime Section, worked the church/auditorium to the rear and together and the pictures a flat roof to the office and ancillary show the result. A nicely facilities in front. is probably the best tidied up street corner. so far but there is still considered to Dave Cockle be room for improvement. Chris Jephcott
Have your say on our discussion list The Enfield Society discussion list on allows you to participate from the Ÿ The future of the Enfield Gazette. Yahoo! Groups provides an opportunity comfort of your own chair, at a time that Ÿ How to get effective action on litter, for all members to join in discussion of suits you, as much or as little as you overhanging hedges and leaking fire any relevant topic, particularly around wish. The list currently has 81 members, hydrants. the object of the Society, which is “the some of the most active being Enfield Ÿ The length of the perimeter of the Town conservation and enhancement of the “exiles” now living in distant parts of the Park (if you’re thinking of running civic and natural environments of world. About 20 messages are sent per round it!) Enfield”, its main aims being to defend month, which is not enough to be a Ÿ Forthcoming lectures, meetings and the integrity of the Green Belt; conserve burden but means that there is often broadcasts of local interest and enhance buildings and groups of something new and interesting to read. Ÿ buildings of architectural quality or The origin of street and suburb names Recent topics have included: Ÿ historic interest; protect and improve Building and development proposals Ÿ Questions about Enfield’s oldest church open spaces and views; ensure that new causing concern (All Saints, Church Street, Edmonton, Ÿ The length of time it takes to create a developments are environmentally or St. Andrew’s – both 14th/15th zebra crossing sound, well designed and take account of century); oldest tree (Forty Hall cedar, Ÿ the relevant interests of all sections of Minchenden oak, Theobald’s Park oak? Preservation of a historical shop sign the community; and assist in the – 250-400 years); oldest road (Ermine removed for redevelopment preservation and maintenance of Street, Bull’s Cross) and oldest railway Ÿ History of The Moon Under Water footpaths, commons and rights of way. station (Ponders End and Angel Road), Chase Side (a school, a United Dairy We would like to encourage all members and oldest school (Grammar). depot, then the original Wetherspoons who have Internet access to join, as this Ÿ The effect of the Sustainable pub). will not only allow us to let you know of Communities Act, which “gives local If any of these topics intrigues you, then developments between issues of our government and local communities the do go to the list’s Web page at quarterly newsletter, but also, more power to drive central government http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnfieldSociety/, importantly, will allow you to share policy and action on reversing where you can read all the messages. If ideas and questions with each other. We community decline and promoting your pet topic has not already been have a wealth of knowledge and sustainable communities”. raised, there are lots of people waiting to experience in the almost 2000 members Ÿ The re-use in Church Lane of bricks hear from you. of the Society, and email discussion and railings from Fir Tree Lodge. Leonard Will 2 Green Belt The President’s column
Spurs It does appear as though the recent additional Director The appeal against the Council’s change of name has halted the gradual in charge of ‘Place decision not to confirm a right of way decline in our membership numbers. Shaping’. We across the land at Bulls Cross has still The total was up at 1969 on our latest hope the new set up will work in not been decided by the Department count, compared with a low of 1941 . practice. Conservation will be under for Environment, Food and Rural It is too soon to be certain, but the Place Shaping, divorced from planning Affairs. This is still in the hands of trend is encouraging. and development control under the Department’s National Rights of We are pleased that Ian Davis, Environment and Street Scene, so a Way Casework Team in Newcastle. successor to John Pryor as Director of degree of flexibility will be needed. Until a decision is made, Spurs will Environment and Street Scene at We were encouraged by his evident not sign up to the proposed lease of the Enfield Council, has continued the commitment to enhancing the civic land owned by the Council; and until regular meetings with Enfield Society environment, starting with a joint walk then the Society is not in a position to representatives. At our first meeting round Enfield Town to identify decide whether to challenge the lease last week Mr Davis explained the problems and opportunities. by applying for a Judicial Review. latest reorganisation of the Chris Jephcott Colin Pointer environment department, now with an Forty Hall gets support What shape is your place? from the Heritage “Place-shaping” is the newest • building and shaping local identity; Lottery Fund. fashionable term introduced to describe • representing the community; what I always thought local government Members will be aware of the hard • regulating harmful and disruptive should do anyway. It comes from Place- behaviours; work and lobbying that has been shaping: a shared ambition for the carried out over many years by the • maintaining the cohesiveness of the future of local government, the report of community and supporting debate within it, Society to try to make sure that the the Lyons inquiry into local government, ensuring smaller voices are heard; Council and other partners support and by Sir Michael Lyons, 2007. • helping to resolve disagreements; take care of Forty Hall and its Estate. http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document The Council put in a bid for £2m to the /other/9780119898552/9780119898552.pdf • working to make the local economy more successful while being sensitive to pressures Heritage Lottery Fund last March to Sir Michael writes: on the environment; support a major £4.6m project to “Throughout my work, I have promoted a • understanding local needs and preferences restore, conserve, and develop access wider, strategic role for local government, and making sure that the right services are at the Hall. The Heritage Lottery Fund which I have termed ‘place-shaping’ – the provided to local people; and (HLF) agrees with everyone that Forty creative use of powers and influence to promote the general well-being of a • working with other bodies to response to Hall is the jewel in Enfield’s crown. complex challenges such as natural disasters On the 4th November the HLF community and its citizens. It includes the following components: and other emergencies.” announced that the grant of £2m has Leonard Will been awarded to the Council on condition that the project is worked up in detail to their satisfaction and within Diary dates their guidelines. 17th-18th November 6th December - 4th January 2009 We welcome this as a turning point in Seasonal wreath-making workshop, The lion, the witch and the wardrobe Forty Hall’s fortunes and we urge the Forty Hall. (Adults only) experience, Forty Hall. An exhibition Council to ensure that every condition Booking essential. For cost and details for families based on C. S. Lewis’s is met. The Society, the Forty Hill and see note* below. classic story. Children will also have Bulls Cross Study Group, the Friends an opportunity to visit Santa in his 23rd November, 3 pm - 5.30 pm of Forty Hall Park and residents have grotto at weekends and from 22nd- Jazz concert by The Hot Orange Big been consulted and have all supported 24th December. For details see note* Band. St Luke’s Church, Phipps Hatch this bid for the Hall. We have also below supported a second bid for the Park Lane. EN2 0HG. Presented by Friends of Hilly Fields, in 4 February – 1 March and Estate which was submitted to the Exhibition by Paul Rocca: Life and HLF at the end of September. The aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Suggested donations of £4 adults.£3 landscape in line and colour. Forty Council should hear the outcome of Hall Gallery. See note* below. this bid in March 2009. We will be seniors/students. Children free. kept informed of the progress of both Refreshments will be available during the 10th February, 7.30 for 8 pm these bids and the planning of the interval, kindly sponsored by Data The buildings and people of the Lea works that will follow. If all goes well Connection. Valley industries by Reg Hart. Joint the two projects will have been 4th December meeting with Edmonton Hundred completed ready for a re-launch in the Drop in evening, Jubilee Hall. 7-9 pm Historical Society, Charity School spring of 2012, just in time to catch the (see page 7) Hall, 24 Church Street, Edmonton. anticipated wave of visitor interest in London in advance of the Olympic Note:* Forty Hall is usually open from Wednesday to Sunday and details of events Games. held there can be obtained from
These early 19th century former farm cottages in Cecil Road later became Laing's garage before being demolished in 1979 for the Palace Gardens shopping precinct. The 1924 Enfield Arms in Genotin Road in 2003 shortly before the new one-way Christ Church manse in Chase Side was system was introduced. built for the minister and his family in 1887. It was replaced by a care home in 1995.
Emmanuel Baptist Church of 1852 in Baker Street in 1970. The church itself was demolished in 1977 and the hall behind it Viewed from Chase Side, the former now belongs to Enfield Evangelical Free workhouse built in 1826, on the site of an Church. earlier building. later became St Michael's The Queen's Hall cinema of 1911 was Hospital. It was demolished in 1995 reopened in 1947 as the Florida and, after following a fire and blocks of flats were closure in 1976, was converted into the built on part of the site. Townhouse nightclub. It is shown as it was in 2003 before Genotin Road was extended
Fir Tree House in Silver Street was built to replace a Georgian house after the First World War. It was pulled down for the extension to the Civic Centre which was Early 19th century cottages in Church opened in 1975. The decorative iron gate Lane shortly before their removal for the and railings in front of Fir Tree House Council's proposed ring road scheme. This The former Chase Side Chapel, rebuilt in were re-used to form an entrance to St was rejected by the government Minister 1830, was demolished in 1963. Behind is Andrew’s churchyard at the suggestion of of Housing in 1967 after a campaign led by Christ Church United Reformed Church, the Enfield Preservation Society the Enfield Preservation Society. opened in 1875 on the site of Zion Chapel.
The old Enfield Gas Company offices of The Cecil Cafe in Cecil Road in 1969. The 1897 and 1906 in Sydney Road being The 300 year old farm bothy in site is now part of the Palace Exchange demolished in 1969. The site is now part of Gentleman's Row was replaced in 1970 by shopping precinct. the Palace Exchange shopping precinct. a neo-Georgian house. 4 Historic buildings Discovering historic buildings in Edmonton, Enfield Lock heritage Winchmore Hill and Southgate walk The London Borough of Enfield has about 500 buildings from the 12th to the 20th On the 13th September Colin centuries which are nationally listed Grade I, II* or II, or locally listed by the Council Pointer and Monica Smith expertly because of their architectural or historical interest, including churches, houses, public guided groups around Enfield houses, schools and underground railway stations. This listing gives them some of protection from demolition, unsympathetic alteration or the destruction of their Lock. This was the last in a series settings. Many are to be found in conservation areas and the planning restrictions of all six of the walks in the which come with conservation area status enable the Council to protect and enhance Society's book Heritage walks in their special character and appearance. The lists may be downloaded from the the London Borough of Enfield Council’s Web site at
Lock Keeper’s cottage
Grovelands (now the Priory Hospital), The Bourne, Southgate Government Row and the by John Nash, 1797 River Lea Navigation
Among the buildings pointed out were Lea House of 1792, the 19th century Lock Keeper’s House and Lock Cottage beside the Lee Navigation and Government Row Cottages built between 1854 and 1858 to house workers at the Royal Small Arms Factory. We also saw the various surviving buildings of the former Royal Small Arms Factory, including the machine shop completed in 1856, pattern room, water tower, factory manager's office and police station, Salisbury House, Charity School, Charles Lamb’s Cottage Bury Street West Church Street, Edmonton Church Street, which now form part of Island Late 16th/early 17th C. 1784 Edmonton Village. Late 16th/early 17th C. Stephen Gilburt 5 Either travel with Dave from Enfield Museum of London (food available). Future walks Chase Station on the 10.09am train, or Details: 8360 0282. Leader: Roy join the group at Highbury & Islington Nicholls Note: Train details are correct at press (London Overground platform) for the Mon 9 Feb. From Village to County date but we cannot accept responsibility 10.39am train or be at Hackney Wick Town. Meet 10.34am Bayford Station for last minute changes. Station by 10.51am. Return via DLR. (10.21am train from Enfield Chase) or Details: 8366 2242 or 07948 204025. Enquiries: for operating train 10.45am in Bayford Village for car Leader: Dave Cockle companies’ enquiries and times ring drivers (but please park considerately) 08457 48 49 50; for TFL London area Sat 13 Dec. Parkland Walk & Ancient for about 7 mile circular walk. Lunch Tube, DLR, London Overground and Woodlands. Meet 10.17am Platform 1 stop and option to end early in Hertford bus details, ring 020 7222 1234. Finsbury Park mainline station (9.59am after about 4 miles. Bring lunch or food train from Enfield Chase) for about 6 to available. Leaders: Carol Cope & Kinu Reduced price train travel: GroupSave 7 mile linear walk exploring some of Ohki Cheap Day Return tickets allow 3 or 4 north London’s few remaining ancient Sat 14 Feb. Beyond the Lea. Meet adults to travel together for the price of woodlands. Bring lunch or food 2 adults on First Capital Connect, 10.30am at Enfield Lock Village (at available. Walk ends in the East main river bridge where 121 bus enters London Midland, Chiltern or National Finchley and Muswell Hill area but Express East Anglia. Even for travel to the village) for 8 to 9 mile circular walk many shorter options. Leader: Norman via Waltham Abbey and High Beach. the start of linear walks, GroupSave Day Coles Return tickets are normally cheaper Bring lunch or pub food available. than buying a standard price single but Sat 27 Dec. Rural London. Meet Leader: Christine Fookes you must travel as a group, not 10.30am outside front door to Kenwood Sat 28 Feb. Epping Forest. Meet separately. House, Hampstead Lane, NW3 (210 bus 10.25am at public car park on Honey from Finsbury Park Station) for about 7 Please wear walking boots or stout Lane/Woodridden Hill (A121) near mile circular walk across Hampstead Volunteer PH (but opposite The walking shoes – trainers are not usually Heath and environs, including further suitable, even for London parks. Woodbine Inn) - about 0.25mile east of hidden parts of Hampstead Village M25 junction 26 towards Wake Sat 15 Nov. Green Chain. Meet Roy at (lunch stop). Shorter options. Walking Arms/City Limits roundabout. 9 mile either 9.55am Kings Cross Mainline boots essential. Bring lunch or food circular walk via Connaught Water, Station Platform 9 (9.29am train from available. To avoid high parking charges Strawberry Pond and Wake Valley with Enfield Chase) or be at Blackfriars in Kenwood’s West Lodge car park, lunch stop at The Owl PH, Lippitts Hill. Mainline Station (on the concourse next suggest use nearby roads off Hampstead Bring lunch or pub food available. to the Southeastern Trains platforms) by Lane. Leader: Stuart Mills Public transport: 250 bus from Waltham 10.05am and then travel with Roy by Sat 3 Jan. Inner London Scenes. Meet Cross bus station at 9.55am (journey train to Ravensbourne. Roy will be 10.25am Platform 9 Kings Cross time 17 mins). Details: 8364 0300. leading a 7 mile walk using parts of the mainline station (9.59am train from Leader: Colin Adams Green Chain Walk through contrasting Enfield Chase) for a linear walk through Stuart Mills parts of south-east London, including the Central London squares, parks, and country’s largest public golf-course. beside The Thames, including some less Many shorter options. Bring lunch or well-known features. Up to about 7 New members food available. Details: 8360 0282. miles but, obviously, many shorter We warmly welcome the following new Leader: Roy Nicholls options. Lunch stop will probably be at members: Wed 19 Nov. Old Cheshunt. Meet the Southbank Centre (food available or Miss V. Batson, Ms. T. Boyden, Mrs. J. 10.20am in Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, bring own). Leader: Stuart Mills Bromberg, Miss L Buxton, Mr. & Mrs. outside the main entrance gates to Capel Wed 14 Jan. Forty Hall. Meet 10.15am J Chalkley, Mrs. A. Clabburn, Mrs. H. Manor (about 5 mins from the 317 & outside the front door to Forty Hall Clark, Miss B. Clayton, Mr. M. Collins, Ms. A. Courcha, Mrs. J. Crang, Mr. N. 217 bus stop on Gt Cambridge Road) for Mansion for 2.5 to 3 hour circular walk Demetri, Mr. Dang, Ms. T. Dyson, 2.5 to 3 hour circular walk via New through the Forty Hall & Whitewebbs River path, historic Churchgate and the Mrs. S. Fagg, Mr. & Mrs. D. Gardner, Estate. Leader: Ken Cooper Mrs. E. Gazder, Ms. B. Hart, Ms. A. site of Temple Bar before it was returned Sat 17 Jan. River Lea & Ware. Meet Hastings, Mrs. E. Hill, Ms. D. Holtry, to London. Leader: Brenda Brown 10.38am Hertford North Station Mrs. A. Jordan, Mrs. R. Kernot, Ms. N. Sat 29 Nov. Stort Valley. Meet (10.19am train from Enfield Chase) for Kasilembo, Ms. L. Koh, Mrs. P. 10.26am Roydon Station (9.44am train about 7 mile circular walk via Bengeo, Lathlean, Mr. & Mrs J. Lombard, Mr. from Southbury changing at Cheshunt River Lea, Ware and New River. Option & Mrs. B. Lyne, Mrs. T. Malavouna, Dr. L. Marzano, Mr. R. Metcalf, Mr. R. for the 9.55am or 10.18am trains) for 7 to leave after about 4 miles at the lunch mile circular walk with lunch stop at Moorwood, Mr. Moynihan, Mr B. stop in Ware. Food available or bring Muskett, Ms. J. Nunns, Mr. & Mrs. P. Dobbs Weir. Bring lunch or pub food lunch. Leader: Brian Wragg available. Leader: Christine Fookes Padwick, Mr. & Mrs. A. Palmar, Ms. J. Sat 31 Jan. City of London. Meet Parry, Mr. T. Pearse, Ms. L. Price Rea, Wed 3 Dec. Capital Ring (Part 2). As a 10.30am at Liverpool Street mainline Dr. & Mrs. A. Redman, Mrs. S. further stage in ultimately completing station (at entrance to Platform 1). The Robertson, Mr. T. Shimada, Mr. M. this route, today Dave covers the 5.25 route includes part of the Silver Jubilee Sleath, Ms. Y. Smyth, Miss K. mile section from Hackney Wick to Walk and Roy will highlight some of the Stapleton, Mrs. P. Thompson, Mrs. J. Tumbridge, Mr. & Mrs. C. West, Mrs. Beckton District Park via the River Lea, many changes that have occurred in the Greenway and Abbey Mills, including S. Younger City since his original walk in 1996. Olive Sharman views of the Olympics development. Many shorter options. Lunch stop at the 6 Jubilee Hall Edmonton Sales table meetings The Edmonton Group were pleased Jubilee Hall drop-in that two of its parks, Pymmes and evening Tuesday mornings 10 for 10.30 am Jubilee, received Green Flag Awards 25th November this year and are now considering Thursday 4th December, Singing and dancing, feasts and how other open spaces, particularly in 7 to 9 pm celebrations by Joanna Van Straaten Upper Edmonton, might be improved Drop in, not for medical advice, but (with slides) and made more attractive to residents. to view and purchase the items 16th December The main event of the winter will be available from the Society’s Sales Quiz and mince pies the joint meeting with Edmonton Table. Every sale adds to our funds 27 January Hundred Historical Society on and the profit on publications over The Historic City of St. Albans by Pam Tuesday 10th February, 7.30 for 8 pm the past thirty years (over £100,000) Wright (with slides) at the Charity School Hall, 24 Church is one of the principal reasons the 24 February Street, Edmonton. The speaker will membership fee has been kept so Encounters with animals by Monica be Reg Hart, a regular columnist in low. We are aware that many Smith (with slides) the Enfield Gazette and the topic members cannot visit Jubilee Hall at 31 March “People and Buildings of the Lea the time of scheduled meetings so The removal of Temple Bar back to Valley Industries”. All members and this is an opportunity to buy London, and other stories by Brenda friends welcome. Christmas cards and presents and Brown (with slides) Edmonton members brought to my small items such as badges, pens and pencils which are useful stocking Thursday evenings 7.30 for 8 pm attention the Enfield Freecycle initiative – see page 8. fillers. 20th November Monica Smith Bees and honey by Pete Burling Monica Smith December No meeting Trees Group Heritage Walks 15th January 2009 Discovering historic buildings in Enfield A start has been made in clearing the Wanted – more by Stephen Gilburt, with slides overgrown new allotment tree 19th February nursery at Trentwoodside. guides! Bats: an illustrated talk by Mrs P. Enfield’s street tree planting As I have previously said, the Briggs, with slides programme last season appears to success of our Heritage Walks 19th March have been a success, with the The music of Barbara Streisand by majority surviving and growing well. is due to the guides – but I do Maurice Franklin A further thousand are planned for need some more, please. At 16th April next year, with 350 along the present it is the same people The Intimate Theatre. Joint meeting with Hertford Road. This reminds me of who do all the walks. the Enfield Hundred Historical Society, our Hertford Road planting campaign with slides of the 1960s. Quite a few of the trees Would you like to be a guide? 21st May planted then are still to be seen if you If so, please contact me at The Titanic by Steve Jennings know where to look. Jubilee Hall and I will be in Less encouraging is the wholesale touch with you. Scripts will be Rotary Club of Enfield clearance of the tall trees along the provided, and I can arrange for railway embankment to the south of you to “shadow” a guide at first On the 29th September the Club Winchmore Hill Station. The fact that celebrated the 80th anniversary of the this is within the Conservation Area if you would like. I don’t grant of its charter in 1928. Seven has made no difference and we have expect you to do all the walks; years later leading members of the been told that Network Rail, which just one that you may be Rotary Club of Enfield were the seems to be a law unto itself, intends particularly interested in and prime movers in forming the Enfield to extend this treatment throughout know about will be helpful. Preservation Society in response to the system. The stumps have been Council proposals to build a town poisoned to prevent regrowth and We have about 2000 members hall on Chase Green – the last vestige presumably to avoid maintenance in the Society so I hope that of the old Enfield Chase. costs. We consider Network Rail, as a someone will come forth and In recognition of the debt our Society publicly owned company, does have help me by becoming a guide. owes to the vision of those early a responsibility not merely to run an Rotarians we were represented at the efficient service but also to ensure Please, please think about this the celebratory dinner and offered that its linesides are sustainably valuable contribution you could our congratulations and best wishes managed and visually pleasing, not a make to our Society. to the Club. litter strewn wasteland. Sadie Isaksson Colin Pointer Chris Jephcott, Convener 7 TES Directory Newsletter contributions President: Dr C.J.A. Jephcott Contributions to the newsletter from Enfield Freecycle was set up in 2006 Chairman: Colin Pointer members are most welcome, and may and is part of a Network with 4609 be in the form of letters, articles, news Hon. Secretary: Richard Stones groups and 581,400 members items, responses to previous articles, Hon. Treasurer: David James worldwide (4000 of them in Enfield). opinion pieces or photographs. We Free community events have been held Office: 2 Parsonage Lane, Enfield, cannot undertake to publish Middlesex, EN2 0AJ. in the past year in Arnos Grove, Upper everything, and we reserve the right to Telephone: 020 8363 9495 Edmonton, Hilly Fields and North shorten or edit items before Enfield and have included music, When there is nobody in the office, messages publication. Copy in electronic form is left on the answering machine will be dealt entertainment, arts & crafts workshops most convenient, and can be sent as an with as promptly as possible. and other attractions. We will hope to email attachment to publish future dates and locations. Website: www.enfieldsociety.org.uk [email protected], but The objectives are to reduce the items on paper can also be accepted. Helplines: number of reusable goods going into Contact the Newsletter Editor, For information on TES activities or to landfill sites by offering them in Leonard Will, at the above email report matters you think need exchange, free of charge, and, address or by telephone at 020 8372 investigation or action, please phone the secondly, on the principle that “One appropriate number below: 0092 if you have any questions about man’s rubbish is another man’s making a contribution. The copy date Architecture and Planning treasure”, to enable people to obtain a for the next issue is 16th January 2009, 020 8363 7707 (John Davies) wide variety of goods, at no cost, and but items can be sent at any time and Coach Outings at the same time dispose of unwanted having them in advance is most 020 8360 8974 (Jim Deamer) items. Besides stalls at the community helpful. 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