What Domesday Book tells us about Enfield and Edmonton
James Cracknell takes a closer look at the landmark 11th Century publication and how it informs our knowledge of...
Tag: history
Stay of execution for historic theatre
Planning committee demands theatre provision be included in new facility, reports James Cracknell Plans to demolish a historic theatre...
Temporary archive home ahead of permanent move
Enfield Local Studies Library and Archive had been housed at the Dugdale Centre for 13 years, reports Simon Allin,...
Wright’s at home
James Cracknell visits Wright’s Flour, which has been milling wheat in Ponders End for 154 years Enfield’s oldest business...
A century of Enfield Cenotaph
Richard Cowley shares memories from his grandfather who helped establish Enfield’s Grade 2-listed monument to casualties of war This...
Boxes on the beat
Paul Dykes recreates the locations of the borough’s former police boxes I’m a keen amateur photographer, London explorer, and...
Lighting the way
A new biography tells the story of an innovative businessman whose factories in Enfield and Edmonton employed thousands, writes...
Attack on the track
James Cracknell speaks to a 99-year-old former railway worker about the time a V2 rocket nearly hit her train...