This walk is part of the Enfield at War Project. It is a very easy walk, no hills and takes about 30 minutes. It takes in sites of significance for Enfield during the First World War.The leaflets are available at the Enfield Local Studies Archive and Library, First Floor, Thomas Hardy House, 39 London Road, EN2 6DS. E-mail: local.history@enfield.gov.uk. Tel 020 8379 2724. We will be sending copies to all Enfield Libraries shortly. Here are some of the photos in the leaflet:
Here at Enfield Local Studies we have been busy scanning more glass slides. With the help of our volunteers these are being made available for the first time. These are all from the Second World War showing bomb damage and one from a Home Guard exercise. Nearly 400 people were killed and about 20,000 injured in Enfield during the Second World War. Hundreds of houses were destroyed and thousands more damaged. Many factories were also destroyed or damaged.
As part of the Enfield at War project we have purchased a hand held scanner. This enables us to scan pictures from photo albums and items such as maps and newspapers which are too big or too fragile to place on the flatbed scanner. Some of the first ones to be scanned were from an album of photos of Morson’s Chemical Factory, Ponders End. During the First World War Morson’s were supposed to have been the first manufacturers of mustard gas in the country. We haven’t been able to prove this. So if anyone has evidence to say they did we would love to hear from you.
As part of the Enfield at War project volunteers have been scanning glass negatives which have been hidden for over 40 years. In the past it was much too expensive to convert these delicate negatives into a usable format. Now thanks to new technology they can be seen. Here are a few of them. We will be adding more to the blog in the weeks to come. If there are particular areas you are interested in please let us know and we will see what we can find.
Our new Enfield at War Walk will also be coming out next week. We will keep you posted.
The Enfield at War Open Day took place on the 10th January at the Local Studies Archive in London Road. About 150 people attended to view our photos and other war time material such as bomb maps, ARP records, newspapers, diaries and other ephemera. The large bomb maps proved to be of particular interest.
More people were identified who are willing to be interviewed about their memories of Enfield in the Second World War.
Over 50 people saw Colin from Spectrum Drama give his performance as Cecil Arnold a reporter who saw the Cuffley airship shot down. It was also the last weekend of Enfield Museum’s First World War exhibition on the the ground floor of The Dugdale Centre.
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