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This weekend one of the volunteers who help run Talkies Community Cinema will be giving a Talk of her own. Ruth Tosha Mulandi will be giving a lecture on behalf of WEA Enfield & Southgate entitled Down the Rabbit Hole: Cinematic Tales of the Fantastic.
8th August 10:00-12:15DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE: CINEMATIC TALES OF THE FANTASTIC
150 years of Alice and then 130 years of cinema that continued the tradition of nonsense and fantasy.
WEA tutor Ruth Tosha Mulandi.......
If you'd like to have a stall at the 2015 Palmers Green Festival, you'll need to move fast. It's already too late for food and catering stalls, but there are ten days to go before booking closes for everything.
If you do take a stall, you'll be joining an eclectic collection of organisations large and small. The current list of stallholders is on the Festival website.
As always, the Festival organisers depend on teams of volunteers to run this big event. You too could.......
LYDS-TV, the YouTube channel created by the Love Your Doorstep website, has recorded an interview with Fiona Jackson, who has been the Director of Chase Farm Hospital since its takeover by the Royal Free last year.
Ms Jackson explains the background to the relocation of the urgent care centre and other services, describes the parking arrangements and talks about the future of the rebuilt hospital. She also mentions the new school and housing that will be built on land that currently forms.......
As we confidently forecast in the weekly newsletter, last Sunday was hot and sunny and people turned out in droves to listen to the Broomfield Blues in Broomfield Park. They also stopped by at the Community Orchard to admire the wildflowers, see how the apples were coming on, drink home-made apple wine and observe the insects in their bug hotel, the Bugsingham Palace. A few visitors even tried their hand at croquet on the former bowling green. And there were chilli plants on.......
A vacancy has arisen in one of the alms houses in Christ Church Southgate parish. The flat is in one of seven Baird Memorial Cottages in Balaams Lane. To be eligible, applications must hold assets valued less than £16,000, be over 45 years of age, and live in or have a strong connection to the geographical area of the former parish of Southgate.
For more details, see the Christ Church Southgate.......
The photograph below was taken by David March in Waterfall Road on Tuesday morning.
Considering the speed at which many drivers descend the hill, a similar incident was probably inevitable sooner or later.
It's only a few weeks since a driver turned his car over in Park Avenue, which is an entirely residential side street, not a race track.
Incidents of dangerous driving by "boy racers" occur frequently, probably several times a day. Why do we let them get away with it?.......
The Pinkham Way Alliance, which is campaigning against industrial use of a nature conservation site adjacent to the North Circular Road, is participating in a London-wide study into air quality. If the monitoring confirms that the air near this stretch of the A406 is already very seriously polluted, this will help strengthen the campaigners' arguments against use of the site for processing household and industrial waste, which would inevitably result in even more lorry traffic along the.......
Enfield Council has issued the following information about giant hogweed.
Giant Hogweed Awareness
The Plant – Giant Hogweed may grow 5 metres tall. Stems are 2-8cm in diameter and are marked with dark purplish blotches and raised nodules. Numerous white flowers form a flat topped, umbrella shaped head up to 75cm across.
Dangers - Giant Hogweed is one of a handful of plants that can cause a significant reaction, if sap from a broken stem or crushed leaf comes into contact with the skin........
The Friends of Firs Farm have provided a copy of a document setting out the proposals for the creation of a wetlands area in the park. The detailed information in the document is the subject of a consultation exercise in which Enfield Council are seeking the views of people living near the playing fields and park.
The wetlands project is being funded by Enfield Council, Thames Water, the Environment Agency and the GLA. It will achieve a whole range of objectives, including.......
In recent months rail services serving both the west and east of Enfield borough have seen changes of operator, promises of improved services but, so far at least, precious few signs of improvements, and in some the service has actually deteriorated. In this article we report on what has occurred so far and what the future holds........
The new Sainsbury's Local shop in Green Lanes, Palmers Green, is currently being stocked with goods and will open next Monday, 27th July.
An official opening ceremony will be held at 9am on Monday. Special guests will include local councillors and Costas Georgiou, Chairman of the Green Lanes Business Association.
Sainsbury's have stated that the new shop will provide employment for 18 local people. Opening hours will be 7am to 11pm, including Sundays........
To enable construction of the new buildings at Chase Farm Hospital, some services have been or are about to be temporarily relocated. They include the Urgent Care Centre, which will relocate on 4th August.
The table below sets out what services are due to move, where they will move, and when:
ServiceNew locationDate of move
Older person's assessment unit
Highlands wing
20 July 2015
Sleep and lung function clinic
Highlands wing
22 July 2015
Rheumatology.......