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News, comment and features
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On 15th March North London Hospice will be launching its Health and Wellbeing Service and its day centre in Barrowell Green will become the Health and Wellbeing Centre. This isn't just a new name for its existing outpatient services - the Hospice is in the process of expanding the scale and range of services it offers to patients and carers, with a special focus on symptom management, rehabilitation, self-management, social, psychological and emotional wellbeing.
2018 is the centenary year of the extension of the right to vote to (some) women. In recognition of the fact that many leading campaigners for women's suffrage lived in and around Palmers Green, Southgate and Winchmore Hill and that local halls, churches and schools hosted campaign meetings, Enfield Council will next month be unveiling a plaque at Palmers Green Triangle.
The unveiling will take place at 10.30am on 8th March - International Women's Day. Palmers Green Triangle has been chosen.......
London's (probably the UK's?) only authentic Czech brewery has outgrown its premises in Bowes Park and is moving to a new and bigger home in Tottenham.
The Broomfield House Trust and Enfield Museum Service have agreed to hold a joint exhibition, "Hidden Treasures: Revealing Broomfield House", at the Dugdale Centre in Enfield from 23 July 2018 until 6 January 2019.
The Broomfield House Trust will be using donations and a grant from the Enfield Society to fund the restoration and display of the Minerva panel of the Lanscroon Murals, which will be the centre piece of the display. We are awaiting formal permission from Enfield Counci,l who "own".......
Palmers Green Writers Group are looking for new members.
We are a small group of writers living in the Palmers Green and Southgate area. We meet fortnightly to offer constructive feedback on each other’s work in a friendly, informal setting. We enjoy all forms of creative writing, including novels, short stories, poems and scripts.
Whether you’re starting out or well on the way to being published, so long as you’re serious about writing, you’ll be welcome.
Email Alex.......
Cathy Taylor of Friends of Broomfield Park ran a workshop last October to teach people how to use leaves from the park to make unique items of ceramic jewellery. Cathy has now fired the visitors' creations and, if you were one of the artists, you can now collect them from Broomfield Conservatory.
The Conservatory is open on Wednesday and Sundays only, between 2pm and 4pm. Just call in, admire the plants and collect your items of jewellery from the stewards on duty.
Cathy took.......
There have been further acts of vandalism and arson in Broomfield Park, culminating in the destruction of a "bug hotel" that had been created by children.
The burning out of the bug hotel in Broomfield Community Orchard follows an earlier incident, in which bags of waste material were set on fire. The fire was so fierce that the interior of a metal shed next to the bags was charred.
The orchard was targeted by vandals in January, when eight fruit trees were destroyed. There has.......
Better Streets for Enfield and Cycle Enfield are jointly hosting a celebratory ride along the newly completed bike lanes between Enfield Town and Palmers Green.
Riders will assemble outside Capitol House in Winchmore Hill at 2pm on 11th March.
Ride the A105!
On the afternoon of Sunday 11 March we’re gathering to ride the new cycle lanes along the A105!
Meet here in Winchmore Hill at 2pm on Sunday 11 March
Come one and all, whether you cycle every day or haven’t.......
This year's Haringey Local History Fair at Bruce Castle Museum promises a fascinating and very varied series of talks. Highlights include a talk about Holocaust survivor and local artist Moshe Galili and the story of the Gestetner factory (fascinating for me, because I use to use a Gestetner in the early 1960s to produce flyers for my mother's concerts).
Saturday 17 February 11.00am - 4.30pm
Haringey Local History Fair at Bruce Castle
Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, N17 8NU .......
Starting on Friday 23rd February the Night Overground service from New Cross Gate to Dalston Junction will be extended to Canonbury and Highbury & Islington. At Highbury passengers can catch a Night Tube on the Victoria Line and change at Finsbury Park onto the Piccadilly Line. To reach Palmers Green is then just a matter of taking the N29 from Wood Green - they run every 7-8 minutes and the journey time in the early hours is very short.
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The Enfield Society have published their quarterly newsletter for Spring 2018, and as always it's packed with interesting articles and news covering conservation matters and local history throughout Enfield borough.
To list just some of the articles:
Enfield's award-winning new council housing in Ponders End and Enfield Wash
The Local Heritage List for Enfield (to be read in conjunction with this earlier report on PGC)
Blocking of access to the historic Clarendon Arch
Planting trees in.......
The Mayor of London's consultation about measures to reduce levels of toxic air pollution originating from petrol and diesel vehicles ends on 28th February. If you, like me, think that the proposals won't provide adequate protection for people living outside the North and South Circular Roads - and will be even more injurious to the health of people living along those roads - you need to respond to the online consultation before that date.
The proposals are explained on the following page.......