Last Sunday more than 40 spectators witnessed the sudden death of a young man under the boughs of the Minchenden Oak after hearing about a mysterious premonition of his untimely end.
Medieval knights in the Minchenden Oak Garden 
Actors near the Minchenden Oak performing a play by Alex WoolfFollowing this the people gathered in the Oak Garden watched a fight between two knights wearing full medieval armour, with a detailed explanation of how the armour was manufactured and how it protects the combatants.
The visitors seated in the Garden were there at the invitation of Southgate District Civic Trust, the Southgate Green Association, the Friends of Minchenden Oak Garden and several more local groups and companies involved in the first ever Southgate Civic Week.
The young man's death was played out by actors performing a short play written by local children's author Alex Woolf (who you may remember from the Palmers Scream Book of Spooky Stories). The knights in armour belong to Historia Normannis, a group that takes a very serious approach to reenacting the lives and deaths of people in 12th century England.