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Heard about all these phone thefts? - posted by Karl Brown
31 Mar 2025
With phone thefts frequently in the news and London numbers measured in the tens of thousands pa, you may well be careful and feel prepared should the worst happen to yours. I did, until recently. My son is 25, smart[…]
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Selling at your door and trying your car - posted by Karl Brown
31 Mar 2025
A couple of incidents this week gives the opportunity to pass on police advice to a wider audience. “Nottingham Knockers”, door-to-door cold callers typically selling cleaning goods, are encountered a few times per year in my street. The first contact[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Adrian Day
22 Mar 2025
Meanwhile in Harry Potter World, Florida if the Palmers Green train from King’s Cross to Watton at Stone is cancelled there’s another to Cuffley in 3 minutes!
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided
20 Mar 2025
My earlier message had an incorrect link to information about the Alexandra Palace Station step-free plans. Now corrected in the earlier message. The correct link is https://alexandraparkneighbours.org.uk/forum/update-on-alexandra-palace-station-refurbishment . Thanks for Bill for pointing this out.
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Basil Clarke
20 Mar 2025
I asked Dave Cockle from the Enfield Society, who's something of an expert on public transport in the borough, if he had any news. He didn't, though he thinks that the station will be made step-free eventually. He did think[…]
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Neil Littman
17 Mar 2025
It is extraordinary how far they got with the planning before realising it wasn't possible. It is the same situation with Winchmore Hill Station and several more stations further up the line but they haven't wasted any resources on proposals[…]
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Julius
16 Mar 2025
Thanks for this response – albeit, disappointing news. Based on my experience of asking receiving information from Network Rail (or, e.g., local councils), I think your reading is probably right. They are unlikely to say, simply, we've ditched it.
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Colin Younger
14 Mar 2025
Look at the history of this. It's not going to happen.
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Alex L
14 Mar 2025
I chased up Network rail earlier this month out of curiosity given the project seems to be the most complex engineering project in history given progress. The update wasn't good news: 'I am sorry I am unable to provide you[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Karl Brown
13 Mar 2025
Agree, minimum 3 per hour off-peak, ideally back to pre-Covid's 4, and a dream result of the once-claimed objective of 6. Separately, I remain baffled by TfL's refusal to include our train line, and several equivalents, on their transport in[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Neil Littman
13 Mar 2025
I have been using the line regularly since I moved to the area in 2014 and it is a very useful route. Initially, I was commuting to work most days but since the pandemic have worked from home and use[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Julius
13 Mar 2025
Thanks, Basil, for this comprehensive and, dare I say, slightly optimistic overview/answer.
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Basil Clarke
12 Mar 2025
Straightforward questions, but no straightforward answers. I'll do my best to introduce Julius and other recent arrivals about the recent troubled history of our trains services, but I'm sure others will have things to add. First, my brief answers to[…]
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As a woman, do you feel safe in Southgate town centre? Join the Safer Neighbourhood Team for a Walk, Talk and Do initiative - posted by Neil Littman
7 Mar 2025
I think it is interesting that this post doesn't say why we got to this situation of needing the survey in the first place. It is a bit of an 'elephant in the room' and understand fully why this has[…]
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Julius
6 Mar 2025
What happened to this proposal?
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Julius
6 Mar 2025
Thanks for sharing the following story in PG Community Newsletter: . I'm new to Palmers Green and likely to use the train from its station regularly. To me, it seems like good news that trains stopping at our station will be[…]
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As a woman, do you feel safe in Southgate town centre? Join the Safer Neighbourhood Team for a Walk, Talk and Do initiative
5 Mar 2025
[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here The Southgate Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team, together with the council's Journeys and Places Team and the Met Police, are running an event on 14th March to find out women's feelings about their[…]
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Forum topic: Come and check out the new Wildlife Pond...

Come and check out the new Wildlife Pond...

22 May 2016 14:41 #2206

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The ducks already have, and they seem to like it.

wildlife pond 22nd may

The Broomfield Orchard team will be working on the pond on Sunday afternoons - 2pm to 4.30pm. And they're always on the lookout for more volunteers - contact growingspace@friendsofbroomfieldpark.org.

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21 Jul 2016 08:46 #2207

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It's about time Broomfield Park was given a positive recognition, and we have still a long way to go until more new ideas are put in place! Wildlife Pond is just the beginning, we need to make immediate new our burnt down Heritage building which has remained in a terrible state since for more then 20 years!

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21 Jul 2016 11:39 #2208

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The House is so obviously the centrepiece of the park that local residents have been campaigning over many years to get it restored and reopened. In spite of setbacks, we haven’t given up. Please check out www.broomfieldhouse.org to see what is currently happening about Broomfield House and the associated stableyard.

Activity is being coordinated through the Broomfield House Partnership Board, which is chaired by Councillor Bambos Charalambous. The Friends of Broomfield Park and the Broomfield House Trust (which I chair) and Historic England (among others) are represented on the Board.

The Board meets next on 26 July, after which, and depending on the discussions, I hope to update our website and also post something on PGC.

This is a complex and expensive project, with no easy answers, but we are determined to push for the maximum public and community benefit.

The Trust is working in parallel on a bid for funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a digitised history of the House and local area, and for some trial reconstruction of sections of the Lanscroon Murals. The Trust is hoping to have a stall at the Palmers Green Festival to promote all this activity and engage directly with visitors.

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14 Oct 2016 13:03 #2321

Kaye Castanheira

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I would like to know what is happening to the Pond in Broomfield Park since May when the Pond made there has been no water nor birds, so why are we been told on local sites to go and see the pond with the birds??

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14 Oct 2016 13:36 - 14 Oct 2016 22:36 #2322

Colin Younger

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There has been a problem with water retention. A digger has been at work this week reshaping the pond so that a liner can be installed later this autumn. See the photo attached

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15 Oct 2016 13:36 #2323

Karl Brown

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"liner" aka mortar. We were warned....

We must thank the good Palmers (pilgrims) for their guidance and help. Thirteen they were and after drowning they took the bodies of the witches, tied great weights to them and sunk them in the lake of the Broomfield, there to stay drowned.

They told us to build mortar on top and then put more water on top of that.

Outstanding contingency planning by the Friends.

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12 Feb 2017 21:11 - 13 Feb 2017 00:55 #2738

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Check out the new wildlife pond . . . It's now done . . Good and proper . . !!@

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12 Feb 2017 21:14 - 13 Feb 2017 00:56 #2739

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You won't believe it . . . Time for a bit of a celebration . .we will be finishing it on Thursday morning this week!

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