My dad had his picture taking out side golden hive green street off enfeild highway was three gents in kilts the middle gent is my dad in that picture the a big silvercross pram which I was in , it was in a local paper around boxing day 1973, please if anyone can get a copy let me know, I would be so grateful. Thank you

looking for Harry Ambrose who was living in Shooters Road, Lavender Hill, Enfield in 1963. Any details would be welcome.

I wonder if anyone has any information about Maud Alice Robinson b.1880 in Enfield.Her parents were John William Hooper and Ann. The Hoopers lived at Blossoms Avenue Enfield. Maud married Albert Robinson in 1903 and had a daughter Joyce Maud in 1908 also in Enfield.In the 1911 census they had an adopted son George Nelson. Sometime in the 1920's they emigrated to Canada. I have found a record of Joyce visiting the U.S. in 1949 from Toronto,but can find no record of her parents. Any info would be most helpful. Thanks

Can anyone remember a toy shop at the bottom of windmill hill, I think it was called Newsons Gallery?
This is going back to 1960s - 70s when I was a small child.
Would really appreciate some information

hi my mothers was known best as kay burbidge, im am looking for the person who i belive to be my father which i have never meet in the 28 years i have been around i have also got a brother called john. i have been told afew things about him but while trying to find him i keep coming to dead ends the one main lead i have though is that he work on a farm on the a10 i have also been told he has been married twice ( second wife im sad to say has passed away) and ive also been told he has for children all older than me i was born on june 14 1975 and was told he did come to see me in chase farm hospital my father was known has bill (william) and the surname i was told was aylott ( but not sure due to the fact that some truth was held back), and he has a brother if anyone can help me PLEASE

I have enjoyed a long relationship with Cheshunt. I attended a private school which I believe was situated at the bottom end of Churchfields Path. The opposite end the Whitherne Park. I then attended Robert Dewhurst primary where I seem to remember the head's name was Gray. Then moved on to St. Mary's High School at the end of Lordship Lane.

Looking for long lost school pal DAWN SPICE
last known at Bouvier Road Enfield Wash
Dawn has 1 brother Roy and 3 sisters Julie,Wendy and Kim
Mum and Dad are Bob and Eve.
Not heard from Dawn since she worked at Toys R Us in Edmonton in 1993/1994

I started work in the plant room as one of the engineers in the centre in 1967 with the rest of the staff and the direction of Ken Farraway,Chief Engineer and Bob Finch, assistant Chief Engnineer.
After a time Bob Finch left the civic and the council ofered me the position of assistant Chief Engineer, I remained Ken's assistant up to 1992. I enjoyed working with Ken all those years till 92 but then I took early retirement. At the time I worked at the civic I lived at Crofton Way on the Ridgeway and in 1993 I moved to Norfolk near Kings Lynn. To all the staff I knew at the civic, best wishes to you all from Ron Arrowsmith.

We lived at the bottom of Lavender Hill and went to St Michael's School. Hilly Fields, Whitewebbs, Stapleton's farm, Tinky Tops, Flash Lane; they were all our stamping ground. My brother Bob also used to run along the tops of the 14 arches. We were forbidden to go there but of course we did! I thought that my sisters and I were the only people who could remember jumping dags. What a lot of memories this website has conjured up! We were terrified of Ted Slarke, poor chap.

My mum had a sweet shop on the Hertford Rd and we lived above the shop. Our neighbours were the Silverman family and I remember Philip Silverman well - I think I had a crush on him. Another neighbour (the Barber) killed himself, it was awful. I cannot remember the poor man's name.
I went to Enfield Highway School as did my two younger brothers. I still have the reference my teacher gave me when I left, handwritten in pencil!

My dad was born in Hoe Lane, in one of the Williams Cottages, in 1918. He remembered the orchards and farms that were in Hoe Lane then. I would love to hear from anyone who has photos of that time, taken either in Hoe Lane (Hertford Road End), or of The Bell pub.

I remember one day I was with my mother just walking to the station to get the train to Bush Hill Park where we lived and hearing the loud Putt Putt noise of a doodle bug.We and all the people around looked up and watched it fly over us to the vicinity of Enfield Highway descending rapidly,then the silence as the engine stopped,everyone waiting for the bang. I heard that it dropped on a school but I cannot be sure

My family had our greengrocer's stall in the front of the Saturday market facing Pearson's department shop. We were there for years, first my granddad, dad and uncle and then my brother, Thompson's greengrocery. Brings back memories of loading and unloading the horse and cart and later the lorry. come rain or shine.

When I was about ten years old or so I remember going to Liverpool St. station lots of times on the steam train with my dad. We would leave Enfield town about 4 a.m. to do the buying at Spitalfields and Covent Garden markets for our greengrocery shop. On the days we took the train the produce would be delivered to our shop by lorry later that morning. The huge steam engine would chug and puff out big steam clouds across the platform.

I am researching for a book and need any information on Haywards of Enfield. Who were glaziers and manufacturer of iron goods. Of particular interest are the years between 1934-51. Any information no matter how small e.g where their factory was sited, would be a great help. Thank you

I can remember walking through Enfield Town as a young boy The Town then had shops like Ketts The electrical shop that sold Radios, Portable Reel to Reel taperecorders, Radiograms, and Record players , then left of that was The Copshop, Right of that was Woolworths,That sold nearly anything , but on the front of the shop inside was a counter that sold very warm salted peanuts, and they were gorgeous, next to Woolies was a Supermarket with one of the first automatic opening doors, a iron post that came out of the ground about 4 ft High as soon as anyone went past it the door opened , so you would stand there waving your hand infront of it , just for pure devilment, back down towards Ketts along Cecil Road There was The Cecil Road Cafe, that was like a large restaurant that sold soft drinks and tea and cakes and Hot meals like egg and chips etc. further down Cecil Road was a road called Palace Gardens and there was the Palace Cafe , that sold cups of tea and terrific rolls and sarnies, and plain crisps , further down cecil road was a Pub called The Duke Of Abercorn very quiet pub ,even the landlord went out for a pint, on the corner of cecil road was Lyons Corner House that sold hot meals and buns and fresh cream cakes and soft drinks and tea. Across the road was Enfield Town Market and behind that was a pub called the Kings Head, next door to that was another Cafe called The ABC ,That was a smaller verion of Lyons Corner house , i remember all the women used to leave their pushchairs and prams under the stairs , next door to that was a pub called Heneky's, a pub where all the teeneger's used to meet up and then go on from there , in front of that was a huge big fountain where on a hot day you used to drink from, just to stop yourself from burning up . The town then had some character !

I was born at no. 2a Elizabeth Cottage in Hoe Lane in 1949.Left there about 1953, but have no photos of the cottage.I know it was demolished around the mid 60's, and replaced by flats.My sister who was born there in 1946 remembers Robo's shop on the opposite corner.Would love to see a photo of my birthplace, if anyone can help please.The cottage was rented, and the family who owned the property were the Hales.My maiden name is Hill.My dad worked at Harry Stone's grocers shop.His name was John Hill and my mum was Florence.My sister is Irene.

I was born in 1953 at home which was a prefab 23 Links Side Enfield. Situated at the bottom of Windmill Hill on the way to Oakwood with the Jolly Farmers Pub on the corner. Links Side was a very nice road mainly houses on one side and bungalows on the other. I seem to remember that the last part of the road was taken over by the Council and about 15 prefabs put up. I can remember the road was cinder, which is how I learnt to ride a bike quickly, I didn't want to fall off a second time. There was a brook at the bottom of the garden and a footpath that came to a small bridge we called the White Bridge, Fishing in Boxers Lake on a warm summer day, school at Merryhills. Life seemed so much less complicated then.

A group of my young friends would meet up at the end of Willow Road and cross over Southbury Road. Quite safe as in the late 40’s there was very little traffic only the odd bus. Then into the Savoy Cinema to the ABC Minors. We always went to the Savoy even though in the town near the market square was the Rialto Cinema and the Saturday morning the Rialto Rovers. The fllams we watched were Dick Barton, a Roy Rogers and cartoon films like Mickey Mouse about two hours and all for 6old pence !
During the summer we would walk along Southbury Road to the Swimming Pool I can still recall the creocete smells of the changing rooms and the pool water. All of these buildings Savoy Cinema, the. Swimming Pool andinncluding the Enfield Town Football Stadium have been cleared away the ABC Cinema to a Tesco supermarket the Rialto Became a Bigo hall and the Swimming Pool and Football Stadium an out of town multi screen Cinema. Even where I took my apprentaship in Ferguson television factory (Thorn Electrical Industries) and the Thorn office block with a fountain on the corner between Southbury. Road and the Cambridge Road (A10) have been whipped out for out of town shops.
How Enfield has changed since I moved to Rochford in 1961 When I got married.
Peter Frier a once Enfield Towner living in 200 Willow Road from the 1938through the war years and then on to 1961.

I lived in Gardenia road as a child and my father used to go here on a Thursday night as they had some sort of gun club. a relic from the war I think. They also always had a fish stall on a Sunday Lunch time . Winkles and shrimps. I also had a Saturday job in the snack bar in the pool one Summer I couldn’t have been very old, I was there with the Webb girls from Leighton Road. How the time has flown.