I need to research members of my family as recorded in the Enfild Gazette.

I am aware of many articles in the Gazette about my family over the last century and would like to research them

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There are photos of myself and brother on coronation day 1953 winning a fancy dress competition. Our mother spent hours dressing us the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. We won and would love to have a copy of that photo.

I am looking for a front page from Nov 73 which I want to include in a museum display, please where can I get a copy if not from the British Newspaper Archives ?

Please preserve the full archives

This must be preserved and presented for nostalgia

Takes me back.....

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We formed a band to compose and play background music for St Stephen's Youth Fellowship documentary about 1956: film director Graham Sergeant. It was submitted to Amateur Cine World Ten best Films - see Enfield Gazette(?) clip attached. It would be good to catch up with Graham, or any of the film crew, or know whether the film was included in the Ten Best Films, or if copies exist?

Please add this now defunct paper ASAP important for keeping our history records alive

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Can’t believe this hasn’t been added to your page

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My parents were married in 1939 and bought a new bungalow on the Laings Estate at 3, Silverdale, near Boxer's Lake at the western end of Enfield (nearer to Oakwood Tube Station than to Enfield Chase and Enfield Town). I was born in 1940, but the bungalow and adjoining properties were badly damaged by a stray German bomb later that year (I believe it was one of two that fell on the new estate that night, perhaps a jettison or the crew mistaking reflections off the lake for one of the Lea Valley reservoirs near Ponders End). Fortunately there were no casualties from our bomb, but it fell where an outdoor bomb shelter was due to be installed, so there might have been a fatal outcome if the incident had occurred only a few days later. We were displaced until the late 1940s when the bungalow was rebuilt under the War Damage scheme.
I would love to find a newspaper reference to the bombing incident so as to find out the actual date and read about the wider picture if any.
David Smyth

Palmers Green & Southgate Gazette, Enfield Gazette & Observer, should be digitised there’s a wealth of local history on those pages, that should be easily accessible to the public.
Meanwhile you can join the above Facebook group for local history, 1000s of historic photos of the area, including Enfield, Southgate, Oakwood, Edmonton, New Southgate and Wood Green.

Unfortunately folded in 2017. All the more reason to preserve it - it's history goes back well into the 19th century.

Norman scott
193 gladbeck way

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