A new locally based arts festival is running essay and photographic competitions which will be open only to Enfield residents or students at schools in the borough.
Grave of Charles and Mary Lamb in the churchyard of All Saints EdmontonThe week-long Lamb Festival will be held at All Saints Church in Edmonton starting on 31st May. It will celebrate two of Edmonton's most famous residents - the 18th Century essayist and poet Charles Lamb and his sister Mary, who was also a writer and collaborated.......
Following the end of our online opinion survey about the proposed clock for Palmers Green Triangle, Costas Georgiou of the Green Lanes Business Association has provided us with further design documents, which include more details of some of the design features. The pictures in this article are just four of many large illustrations which can be viewed in the new documents which the GLBA has supplied.
You can view the following documents in PDF format:
Clock Design
Design Statement.......
In the run-up to this year's London borough elections the Enfield branch of the London Cycling Campaign has set up an online survey to help focus and promote its contribution to the London-wide Space for Cycling campaign. Information supplied by members of the public about local cycle-friendly priorities will be passed on to every candidate in every ward prior to the May elections.
Adrian Lauchlan is Borough Coordinator for the Enfield Cycling Campaign:
"The London Cycling Campaign.......
Lottery funded ‘Stroke and PAT’ project offers highly innovative, and motivating, therapeutic opportunities for stroke survivors to incorporate PAT dogs into their rehabilitation treatment programme. It is a collaborative venture between the national charity Pets As Therapy, founding Director of Stroke Rehab Dogs, Sallie Bollans, and the Ruth Winston Centre, London N13........
The online opinion survey about the proposed new clock for Palmers Green Triangle has now finished. Many thanks to everyone who participated.
The survey revealed mixed views. Two out of three of respondents liked the idea of erecting a clock, though only around 50 per cent were keen on the proposed design. There was near unamiity, however, on the question of whether or not the triangular traffic island should remain - 59 out of 63 people would not like it to be removed, as recommended by a.......
For the second year running a Palmers Green shop will be one of the businesses featured in the ITV series Britain's Best Bakery.
Last year Aroma Patisserie in Green Lanes was a competitor, making it through to the Southern Regional Finals. This year it's the turn of Yasar Halim in Hedge Lane, which incorporates a bakery that turns out a large range of savoury and sweet products, mostly with a Turkish flavour. Yasar Halim will feature in the programme to be broadcast at 4pm on.......
A residents’ group which helps preserve the character of Palmers Green’s Edwardian heritage is seeking new members.
If Palmers Green is a “Jewel in the North”, one of the main reasons is its beautiful Edwardian housing stock, and the area with the richest collection of such houses is the Lakes Estate, which experts have rightly referred to as “the quintessence of middle-class Edwardian suburbia". In 2010 it received official recognition with the setting up of the.......
Thanks to everyone who has filled in our online survey about the proposed clock for Palmers Green Triangle. If you haven't done so yet, you still have until the end of the month. In the meantime, some information about what people have said so far.
At the time of writing (11pm on Wednesday) 39 people have responded. There has been near unanimity about a wish to retain the triangle island, but opinions about the clock have been far more mixed........
The Enfield Independent has reported that a campaign has been launched to improve safety for pedestrians crossing Green Lanes at the Fox Lane junction. This is just one of several hazardous crossing points facing pedestrians in Palmers Green........
The next Talkies Community Cinema event at the Fox is an evening of short comedy films on 29th January.
Wizards, mime artists, baristas and estate agents are among the comic delights contained in the ten short films making up Ha! Comedy Shorts.
Organised by Kate and Gem from Short Sighted Cinema, the evening will bring London's short film glitterati to Palmers Green, where the audience will have an opportunity to talk to them about their work.
Ha! Comedy Shorts is part of the LOCO London.......
Joe Studman of Jaywalks will be reprising his course on the history of Enfield, Edmonton and Southgate in March. The course, run in conjunction with the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, will be held on six Monday evenings at the Dugdale Centre, starting on 3rd March, at a cost of £50.
Each week's class will be divided into two halves, the first presenting a chronological history from earliest times to the 20th century, the second exploring a particular location (eg Enfield Town) and its.......
