Pymmes Brook - East Barnet

Pymmes Brook
Pymmes Brook continues to flow south east

Post to the north Cockfosters

Bohun Road
Named for Bohun Lodge, now the Middlesex University site.

Brookhill Road
38 Royal British Legion
43-45 Day Plant Hire. Buildings of Oakleigh Park Laundry
Brookhill Nursery School
30 Currie Motors. Previously Clockhouse Garage and Clockhouse. Engineering and Instrument Co. Hydraulic and Pneumatic Control Equipment
85 East Barnet Library
77-79 Ludlow Court. Flats on the site of the Lancaster Electrical Company Works. Claude Lane was an electrical engineer with a business in Lancaster Road in 1931 and moved here to produce light electric traction vehicles and also sold domestic electrical equipment.  In the 1940s he built and designed a small miniature tramway on ground at the back of the works and took it to local fetes and fairs. He set a line up in St Leonards, Hastings, as a seaside. Attraction but this failed and eventually they moved to Eastbourne, and the Barnet works closed. Some Barnet built trams remain in use on the Seaton tramway.


Cat Hill
Pymmes Brook Bridge. The bridge here was Katebrygge in 1406. A settlement grew up round this area and was known as East Barnet from the 13^th.
Littlegrove. On the brow of the hill was a large house by 1291 originally called Danegrove. By the mid-16^th it was called Littlegrove and in 1719 it was changed again to New Place but reverted to Littlegrove by the early 1800s. Later a chapel and a lake were added. It was demolished in 1932 but some parts of the grounds remain in Cat Hill gardens.
Clockhouse. Large house on the site now covered by the parade. Demolished in 1925. In the 17th this was Dudmans, and home of the keeper of the lions at the Tower.
East Barnet War Memorial. Unveiled in 1920 in the centre of the road junction until c.1970 when it was moved in front of the Methodist church. Second World War names added in 2010
The Cat Inn. Burned down in 1955. Beer from Sedgwick’s Brewery, Watford.
Brookside Methodist Church. Opened in 1967.
Church Hall. A new Wesleyan Methodist Church was opened in East Barnet adjoining an iron church opened in 1915. The new building was opened by the Hon Mrs J Arthur Rank.
Clockhouse Parade. Neo-Georgian shops built in 1926.  The clock tower from Clock house was reused as the centrepiece.
East Barnet Vet's Surgery in what was The Drum Pub. This was previously the Kings Head on site since at least the mid 18^th. It was known locally as The Drum and the name changed to that. It was a Beskins house and closed in 2009.

Chestnut Road
East Barnet School is a secondary ‘academy’ with various specialisms. It opened as a Modern School in 1937 with students transferred from other schools. Soon after the name changed to East Barnet Grammar School. There were additions in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. It was transferred to the London Borough of Barnet in 1965 and became comprehensive in 1971 as East Barnet Senior High School, with a junior branch in the old John Hampden School in Westbrook Crescent. The schools were combined in 1976. In 2010 the buildings at Chestnut Grove were demolished and a new school provided here in 2010 following various disputes over planning.

Church Hill
The road name dates to at least the 16^th
Parish Hall in the national school of 1871. An Anglican National School had been established in 1822, and these buildings were financed by a Mr. Thornton.
2 Prince of Wales. Pub

Littlegrove
The road is named for Littlegrove House which stood in Cat Hill.
St.Marys Church of England Primary School

East Barnet Road
East Barnet followed the valley along Pymmes Brook which belonged to St.Alban's Abbey in the Middle Ages. It was a southern peninsula of Hertfordshire until 1965. Until the suburbs began to expand in the late 19^th there was little more here than the church and some big houses.
East Barnet Baptist Church. Founded in May 1910, this met in a 'tin tabernacle. The current corner site was used for a new church built in traditional style in 1931. This was burnt down in 1980, leaving only the church hall and the church was the rebuilt.

Heddon Court Avenue
The road is the site of a house called Belmont, which was owned by Elias Ashmole, and which was called Mount Pleasant in the 17^th. In the 1890s it was called Heddon Court at which Sir John Betjeman once taught and during the Great War it was a private school, scout masters were trained here in the 1920s but it was demolished in the 1930s.

Jackson Road
First suburban road in the area built in 1889 with plain brick pairs of houses built by William Jackson, licensee of the Prince of Wales.

Oak Hill Woods Nature Reserve
Oak Hill Woods are a local nature reserve in the wider Oak Hill Park. They can be dated to before the 11th when they were in the ownership of the manor of Chipping and East Barnet, itself owned by St Albans Abbey. After the dissolution, the area was incorporated into Oak Hill Estate owned by the Barings from the 1860s until 1928. It was eventually taken over in the 20^th by East Barnet Council. The woods, which were declared a Local Nature Reserve by the London Borough of Barnet in 1997. There are ancient wood indicators - oak, hornbeam, ash and Wild Service Tree and Victorian plantings - cedar of Lebanon, London Plane. The Pymmes Brook, which runs through the park, is bordered by willows, and there are two small tributaries. There is an ancient wood bank and ditch along the northern edge and that is dominated by ash.

Ridgeway Avenue
Danegrove School. Formerly Littlegrove Junior School and Oaklands Infant School. This school’s design is said to have made Hertfordshire County Council famous by use in 1950 of the Architects Co-Partnership. Makes use of a modified form of a steel frame with precast concrete panels and coloured panel infill, on Hills 8' 3" system. It buildings are on a green slope, with a tall assembly hall facing the entrance. The hall had a mural by Fred Fred Millett.

 

Pymmes Brook Cockfosters

Pymmes Brook
Pymmes Brook flows south, and then south east

Post to the east Cockfosters
Post to the north Beech Hill Park
Post to the west New Barnet
Post to the south East Barnet

Chalk Lane
West Farm Court – once called West Farm Place. At one time Electricity Board offices Low rendered building early 19^th with tall ground floor windows and high white chimney stacks. Now flats.
Wall round the house and gardens clearly old
Christ Church. The church was paid for by Robert Cooper Lee Bevan of Trent Park and built in 1839 by E. Kendall. It is in stock brick like many Commissioners' churches, but it is not symmetrical and the orientation is reversed. Additions and extensions by Blomfield in 1898
Church Hall. Built in 1931, with triple-arched entrance. 
Hadley Field. Southgate Old Scholars’ Association Cricket and Hockey Club. The field has been leased to Southgate County School Old Boys’ Cricket Club since 1950. The club, founded in 1921, played at a number of sites until the Second World War and then searched for somewhere else. Finally, in 1950, the new ground and club headquarters was established and an old wooden pavilion was transferred from Firs Lane, Winchmore Hill.
Cockfosters Bowling Club. This is a six rink lawn bowls club formed in 1919. It had a location alongside the cricket and football grounds
D’Acre Field. Cockfosters Football Club was originally formed in 1921 by local residents and the ground allocated to the Club by Lady Bevan. The first league entered was the local Barnet League and the Club moved through the lower divisions and have since reached the Premier division of the Spartan South Midlands League
Cockfosters Cricket Club.

Church Way
Trent Church of England Primary School. 19^th church school

Cockfosters Road
Entrance to Trent Park. On either side of the gateway are seven stone bollards with domed tops
West Lodge. Built 1898 by John T. Lee for Francis Bevan in red brick with flint panels and timber-framed upper floor
325-335 6 estate cottages from the 19^th in cream brick
War memorial on D’Acre Field. The inscription reads 'Peace and Love brings Joy'

Games Road
Old maps show the original centre of Cockfosters village as the junction between Games and Chalk roads. The road is the relic of a bridleway between Monken Hadley and Cockfosters.
2 - 8 long, thin building used as offices in red brick. The original building has an extension with an earlier stone arched door surround. The original building dates from the 1930s. The ground floor was a café with flats and storage above converted to offices in the 1960s. There are two lime trees in front of the offices
10- 18 terrace of cottages, built in 1750.
Gate - one of five wooden gates at access points to The Common. This dates from 1824, is white painted, has five bars and a kissing gate
Cheyne House is a modern red brick building which looks like one house but is actually three houses in a terrace
The Grange is a modern block of flats on the site of an older house.
Ludgrove Hall. This is mentioned as Ludgrove Farm before 1422, and it passed to the Crown in 1542. The current building dates from the 1830s and was a private house.  It was a boys' preparatory school in the 19^th where pupils included Douglas-Home and Osbert Sitwell. It was and sold for housing in the 1930s.
Ludgrove Playing Fields – used by a variety of sports clubs.

Gatcombe Way
Area developed for housing in the 1990s using the grounds of West Farm Place

Grove Road
New Barnet Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant
The Jester pub

Park Road
89, a large stuccoed house, used as a folk museum before the Second World War.  Now sometimes called Abbey Arts Centre and It was owned by William Ohley, of the Berkley Galleries in Davies Street.  It was home to many Australian artists 1947 – 1951,
Barn. Medieval timber-framed from Birchington in Kent which is now the Abbey Church of Christ the King.
Abbey Folk Park and Museum.  This, the first open-air museum in England, included a “Prehistoric “Village of seven huts, a 16^TH Witch's cottage and much else. This was set up in 1934 by John Ward who also seems to have founded his own church.  The collection is now in Australia
Film studio of Lotte Reiniger who with her husband Carl Koch pioneered the development of the animated film in Berlin before coming to England in 1934. She worked from her studio in New Barnet for many years.

Verwood Drive
Area developed for housing in the 1990s using the grounds of West Farm Place
The Gate House & 4-12 1990s to match the style of West Farm Court.
Cock and Dragon pub built in 1915 on the site of an earlier pub originally called The Cock Inn.  It is a characteristic 1930s roadhouse by J. C. F. James for Benskins Brewery. It is a plain, symmetrical building with a green pantiled roof and clock tower plus a weather vane. The front car park was once used as a terminus for the 29 bus.

Pymmes Brook New Barnet

Pymmes Brook
Pymmes Brook flows south and east and is joined by the Shirebourne from the west

Post to the north Hadley Wood

Post to the east Cockfosters

Station Approach
Development spread out from New Barnet station after 1850.
New Barnet Station.  Opened in 1850 it now lies Between Hadley Wood and Oakleigh Park stations on the East Coast Main Line Railway from Kings Cross, on which it was one of the original stations.  It was opened as 'Barnet' in an isolated area a mile from the town centre and with staggered platforms.  It was not until 1875 and the start of the service from Finsbury Park that the area began to develop. It was enlarged in 1867 and 1876, renamed New Barnet in 1884, and then completely rebuilt in 1896. The station was refurbished in the late 1980s leaving the original station booking office on the overbridge between the platforms. This was however burnt down in a fire caused by a thunderstorm in 1989. It has been refurbished again in 2006.
Signal boxes – there was a box at the south end 1895-1971, and one at the north end 1895-1924 and New Barnet North signal box  which was the last survivor. This was used as a temporary panel before King's Cross Power Box took control. It was painted in cream and white. Closed in 1976.
Goods yard and shed.  This was provided when the station became busier in the 1970s. The shed still stood on the up side in the Seventies, but has since been demolished to provide a site for the station car park.
Sidings, once stretched back towards Oakleigh Park, have gone, and have been redeveloped for housing.

Albert Road
Gas holder for Barnet Gas Works.  Built by the Barnet and District Gas & Water Co.  which later became the North Middlesex Gas Co. It is a moderate sized 1920s gasholder with a distinctive Cutler's Patent guide frame, using double-helical girders. The company’s works was on this site.
Builders Arms. Set back from the main road. It Is a Greene King tied house with a rear garden and live music at weekends.
Salvation Army. Hall built 1886.

Baring Road
Livingstone Primary school.  Built 1952-3 by James Cubitt & Partners for Hertfordshire County Council.

Boleyn Way
Housing Estate on site of Maw’s factory. Maw had been founded in the City of London in 1807 by George Maw with a surgical plaster factory.  They diversified into pharmaceuticals and were based in Aldersgate.  The factory here was opened after in 1921 and closed in 1982

Bulwer Road
5 Constable House. Police station converted to flats. Built 1907
Anchor Hall. Finchley Boxing Club. Gym and training base

Cromer Road
Cromer Road Primary School. Dates from the 1930s

East Barnet Road
13 Railway Bell. Wetherspoon's pub with railway memorabilia on the walls and trains going by.  
23 East Barnet Valley United Services Club
49 Lord Kitchener
St.James Church. Built 1911 by W. Charles Waymouth.
Kingdom Hall

Leicester Road
Telephone Exchange
New Barnet Friends Meeting House. Built in the 1930s

Lytton Road
24 The Village Greek – this was the Lytton Arms also known as the Wishing Well and later as The Stables.
Flats on the site of the Fire Station

Margaret Road
Children’s Centre in premises of Margaret Road Infant School – in one of the oldest school buildings in the area

Park Road
Victoria Recreation Ground. A Victorian park with wide open south sloping grassland areas and a formal rose garden

Plantagenet road
Brethren’s Meeting Room

Station Road
War memorial, slim, by Newbury Abbott Trent.  It has a 109-foot high bronze figure representing “Victory” and a carving in stone over the western panel which shows the victory of the “British Lion” over the “German Eagle”. It remembers the 278 men of New Barnet who gave their lives in the Great War. It was unveiled in 1921 by Viscount Hampden.
32 Formerly East Barnet Valley Local Board Offices. A brick-and-stone Italianate building built in 1891-2 following an open competition in 1889 won by Frederick Shenton.  Put up for sale in 1988 it was converted in 1996 into a restaurant. The change of uses being signified by the replacement of the gable clock with a Roman statue. Now flats.
The Railway Tavern

Tudor Sports Ground
Public park with a golf course, but has other sports facilities and a children's playground
Tudor Park golf course. Nine hole 'pitch and pay'

Victoria Road
20-26 Optex House
48/50 New Barnet Community Association. Formed in the 1970s they leased the former annexe of John Hampden School in 1983 and run a community base from it.
John Hampden School. This mixed secondary modern school was burnt down in the early 1960s. Barnet College of Further Education was later on the site which had formerly been South Herts College of Further Education

Westbrook Crescent
John Hampden School moved here from Victoria Road in the 1960s as a mixed comprehensive. East Barnet Modern School, later Grammar School were based in Chestnut Grove from the 1930s. In 1971 both schools became comprehensive with the Westbrook Crescent site becoming East Barnet Junior High School and by 1976 were the same school on two sites. In 2010 the school moved to Chestnut Grove and Westbrook Crescent became the Jewish Community Secondary School.

Green Brook - Hadley Wood

Green Brook
Green Brook flows eastwards to Monken Mead Brook joined by small tributaries from the north and south

Post to the west Monken Hadley
Post to the north Hadley Wood
Post to the east Beech Hill Park
Post to the south New Barnet
Bakers Hill

Camlet Way
It has been suggested that this is a Roman Road going to Colchester = called Camulodumum
St.Paul’s Church. Built in 1911 by A. E. Kingswell.
Covert Way
Covert Way Field. A triangular nature reserve on old pasture land close to the railway and now covered in scrub. Set up in 1975 by the local authority with the Hadley Wood Association. The main tree species is ash with oak and hawthorn.

Railway .

The Great Northern Railway opened its line through what is now Hadley Wood in 1850. Hadley Wood South Tunnels are 384 yards long. .  In the mid-1950s a second set of tunnels was bored to the west of the 1950s tunnels and lined with concrete segments,
Greenwood lay on the area of line south of Camlet Way
Greenwood signal box. This was opened in 1876 and at first called Hadley.  It was to control the up goods line to Barnet - but which became the up slow line. Until 1959 this is where the four line track ended.  Its interior featured on a British rail poster in 1948. Called On Early Shift Terence Cuneo. The box closed when work was done on the tunnels in the 1950s.

Monken Hadley Common

The Common is often called "Hadley Woods", or "Hadley Common".  It was created as a common by an Act of Parliament of 1777 which enclosed Enfield Chase.  It is now the only remaining unenclosed fragment of the Chase and the freehold is vested in the church wardens at the parish church.

Newmans Hill

Bridge over the railway

Monken Mead Brook Beech Hill Park

Monken Mead Brook
Monken Mead Brook flows southwards. It is joined by Green Brook from the east

Post to the north West Lodge
Post to the west Hadley Wood
Post to the south Cockfosters

Beech Hill Park

Beech Hill Park. Hadley Wood Golf Club. This was opened on 1922. After the First World War developers bought up the remaining part of Beech Hill Park and built the golf course. They converted the mansion as the club house.
Beech Hill Park House was built for Francis Russell, secretary to the Duchy of Lancaster in 1795, following the enclosure of Enfield Chase in 1777. It has a seven-bay brick front with a 19^th extension of a billiard room and conservatory which is now part of the reception room areas. The remains of an older house appear to be enveloped in the new building. After Russell’s death the estate was taken over by Archibald Paris who farmed it until 1850 when Charles Jack took over, who also farmed here.
Stables.  A U-shaped 19th brick building of 2 storeys.
Beech Hill Lakes. The three lakes were created some time in the 1880s Charles Jack, who owned Beech Hill House, although it is thought there has been some form of lake since the 17^th. The top two lakes are part of Hadley Wood Golf Club
Jack's Lake is the bottom lake. From the 19^th into the 1960w it was used as a boating lake. It was later used for fishing but became overgrown. It was taken over by Hadley Angling and Preservation society from 1982. It is said to be called Jack’s Lake after Charles Jack or for its reputation of having numbers of young pike.  

Cockfosters Road

Brimsdown Ditch Edmonton

Brimsdown Ditch
Brimsdown Ditch flows southwards

Post to the east Picketts Lock
Post to the south Marsh Side
Post to the north Ponders End

Cuckoo Hall Lane
Low-rise council houses in Edmonton's first post-war development, 1947-50, on a greenfield site.    
Seventh Day Adventists church, Advent church, a plain pebble dashed building was registered by Seventh Day Adventists in 1939
Cuckoo Hall Primary. Opened 1939. Has recently become an academy, whatever that means. Salisbury Upper School was also on the site but has been demolished.
Woodpecker Hall Primary. This is one of these 'free' schools and is sited inside Cuckoo Hall School.

Eldon Road
Eldon Road School built by Edmonton School Board School and opened in 1899. The infants were housed separately from mixed juniors who were in adjoining building. The school continues
Enfield Secondary Tuition Centre. This provides education for young people otherwise excluded from school

Meridian Way_­
Conduit Lane was a predecessor road here.
Enfield Sewage Works. A sewage farm was built in 1877 at Cuckoo Hill Farm by Enfield local authority. It was enlarged by 1911 and taken over by Middlesex County Council in 1938.  From the 1960s work was being transferred to the adjacent works at Deephams Farm. The site is now part of the golf course
Picketts Lock Lee Valley Leisure Complex.  One of the recreational centres developed for the Lee Valley Regional Park from 1973. Three large white boxes around a swimming pool. Designed by Williamson Partnership. In 1993-4: a restaurant, cafe and cinema were added plus an entrance block by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners.  There is a multi-purpose sports hall with badminton, basketball, football, hockey, netball and volleyball, a Gym and Spa, table tennis and squash courts.
Odeon Cinema.

Nightingale Road
Nightingale Academy. This is what was Salisbury Upper School. This originally opened in 1952 as Cuckoo Hall Secondary Modern school but was later re-named Mandeville School. It became comprehensive in 1967, merging with the Houndsfield and Eldon secondary modern schools. A new lower school was opened at Turin Road in 1982. The school was then re-named Salisbury School.
Delta City Learning Centre

Tramway Avenue
Housing on the site of the Bus Garage
Bus garage. This was opened as a horse tram depot in 1881 by London Suburban Tramways Co, which operated steam trams from 1895-1891. It was converted to overhead electric traction in 1905 by Metropolitan Electric Tramways and then for trolleybus operation in 1938. Both trams and trolleybuses continued to operate from here until 1961.

 

Brimsdown Ditch - Ponders End

Edith says – Up until the early 1990s there were many sites in the High Street and side streets which were in industrial use. It was neglect on my part that I didn’t write down what they were.  What took me to Ponders End then were seminars on the industrial history of the Lea Valley in what was then the campus of Middlesex University – what happened to the material put forward at those seminars and the database which was allegedly being prepared?????

 

Post to the east Ponders End

Post to the south Edmonton

Brimsdown Ditch

Brimsdown Ditch flows southwards and is met by Boundary Ditch from the west

Alma Road
Alma Primary School. Alma Road board school opened in1897
Horse and Dray. Derelict pub once called The Hand and Hind

College Court
Ponders End Library. Single storey L shaped brick building behind the main line of the street.  Built in 1962.
Ponders End United Reform Church. Including Orc and Goblin Stronghold. Built as a congregational church replacing a church of 1768 which was bombed in 1940.

Derby Road
4-6 Ponders End Conservative Club. Built 1950 and derelict since 2006. Now housing.

Gardner Close
Robins Hall, Middlesex University Halls of Residence.

Hertford Road
Boundary House. This pub is on the Enfield side of the boundary ditch.
St Alphege's Church. Built in 1958 designed by Edward Maufe. The church was first a tin church from 1897 in a different site.

High Street
40 BT Exchange.
79 John Wilkes House. Enfield council offices and homelessness projects
114 The Picture Palace pub. This was a cinema which had opened in 1913 as the Ponders End Picture Palace. Typical purpose built cinema of the period with a central pay box and doors either side leading directly into the auditorium. Inside the screen curtains were opened by a member of the projection staff pulling a rope on the side of the screen and it was gas lit all the time it was a cinema. From 1938 it was managed by Davies and was called The Plaza. In 1939 all cinemas in the UK were closed at outbreak of war but the Plaza never re-opened. During the war it was used as a store for aircraft parts and the front as a shop. Later it became a dance hall and then a community centre called Howard's Hall which closed in the mid-1990's. It became a Wetherspoon's pub in 2001.
Hoarding site corner of South Street. This was the site of the Two Brewers pub first recorded in 1716 as the Royal Oak. Bombed in 1940 with great loss of life.
198 Tara kindergarten in an old works office block
204-214 The Police Station, late 20th century building set back from the pavement line.  Soon to be out of police use.
216 Beef and Barrel aka The Swan pub. Now demolished although the sign was left for a bit.
218-221 Swan Annex Enfield Youth and Social Services. Municipal Georgian, built as a Technical Institute by Middlesex County Council in 1911. During the Great War provided training for boys going into munitions factories but had been established for pre-apprenticeship training in engineering,. Entrance was by examination for which competition was stiff. 
228 Jalaliah Jamme Masjeed. Ponders End Mosque. Established in 1977 but the building is much more recent.
237 off-licence since demolished was faced with green glazed tiles adverting “Ales & Stouts”, “Wines & Spirits” and “Draught & Bottled Beers and plinth with a black eagle and “Truman’s Beers”.
250 The Goat. Greene King pub.
Ponders End Park.  This was once called Ryan's Park and then Ponders End Recreation Ground”  bandstand
ASDA site, this was previously a Netto. The site was at one time a motor works.

Lea Valley Road
The original Nags Head Road was been renamed Southbury Road before 1896 and the name Nags Head Road was given to a new road extending from it and  running eastward from Hertford Road  to the Lea. By 1972 it was extended onto a bridge railway and the Lea Valley Road, to form a major east-west route

Lincoln Road
This was previously Bungeys Lane
Lincoln House. 19^th stucco villa used as offices

Wickham House. 19^th stucco villa used as offices

Lincoln road chapel. An Assemblies of God fellowship in a brick church purpose built in 1949.

Queensway
The road is on the line of Goat Lane
Industrial buildings of the 1920s onwards – these are clearly all built to a common style, although some have now been demolished.
Tesco

South Street
St.Matthew. Built from 1877 in Kentish Rag by H.J. Paull, with
St Matthews Church of England Primary School. St. Matthew's National School for Infants, was opened in South Street in 1840.Within thirty years it ws a mixed school.  Now It  is a one form entry Church of England Primary School
115 The Falcon. In 1794, The Society of Good Fellowship met here.  On the wall are some old Charrington’s plaques.
Bangladeshi Welfare Association of Enfield
Enfield Youth Centre
Ponders End Working Mens Social Club
 Grout and Baylis' crape factory. They had opened in Norwich in 1807  andA London warehouse was opened to serve the large market in the capital and in 1809 a factory was built here for dyeing and finishing crape before dispatch to London. it had deep wells in the chalk gacew clean wafter and a stream carried away the dye - Hence Black Dyke Works. There was an increase in the demand for black crape, worn as part deep mourning. silk was taken from London to East Anglia whwere it was woven into cloth, and then taken to Ponders End where it was crimped, dyed and given a waterproof finish. After crimping, the cloth was steeped in a liquor made from valonia to set the embossed figure. The cloth was then dyed, using logwood. In the late 1880s the market in crape began to slump with a less rigid attitude towards mourning. In 1894 Grout Baylis sold out to local businessmen in Yarmouth anmd machinery and equipment were there,
United Flexible Metal Tubing. Took over the crape factory. flexible metal tubing tubing had been invtend in france in 1885 and the rightrs takebn up by Frederick Walton, who was vcery axtrice elsewhere with linoleum and much else. . He took over the Grout and Baylis crape mil. Ways of usinf dflexible tubing grew rapidly and the ocmahgy priopsered. The factory at Ponders End was biombd by a land mine in 1941 and by a V1 in 1944. The company became part of the T.I.Group in 1969.
The main factory block used by Grouts was damaged in Second Wrpodl War and  replaced in 1962.  On the Scotland Green/ soutjh street corner John Baylis's residence remained as the company manager's house up till 1935. A three-storey building, which housed a unique braiding machine, and a  low range of buildings with small cast-iron framed windows on the corner also remained. One of thw wells remained iunopend and was used as an emergency public water supply. All of this site is now modern housikngf

Woodall Road
Ponders End Gas Works. Built by the Enfield Gas Co. which dated from 1867 and built this works at Ponders End.  Taken over by Alexander Angus Croll who was building up an empire in Tottenham and Edmonton. His company took over the Enfield Gas Co in 1913. The company was nationalised in 1949. The ceased production in 1972 with the introduction of natural gas. There is a gasholder from the 1920s which is Lattice framed with Paddon wind ties and two mid-twentieth century, spiral guided gasholders.