Edith's Streets

Pymmes Brook Pymmes Brook flows south east Post to the west Oakleigh Park Post to the south Brunswick Park Avenue Road Hollybush House Church Army Hostel – this site is now modern housing Brunswick Park Road Osidge Library Chase Side Salcombe ‘Preparatory’ school . The school dates from 1916 and was initially in Hornsey for "well-to-do" children. It then moved to Avenue Road.   In 1917 during the zeppelin raids the school was moved to a staff member’s country house called Salcombe House. In 1990 they were taken over and again in 2004 and other sited acquired. East Walk Flanks a green area along Pymmes Brook Hampden Square Traffic roundabout with shops Osidge Arms Pub Hampden Way Hampden Way School Knoll Drive Monkfrith School – one of the schools with architecture that made Hertfordshire County Council famous after the Second World War.   Built 1949-50 by their Architect's Department and it makes use of a modified form of the Hills 8-ft 3-in. s...

Pymmes Brook Pymmes Brook flows south east through Oak Hill Park Post to the north East Barnet Post to the east Osidge Post to the west Whetstone Burlington Rise Church Farm School.    This was an industrial school, established in 1860 for destitute boys which had been originally in Euston Road, St Pancras. It was bought by Colonel William Gillum, a patron of William Morris circle, and he employed Philip Webb to build here. It eventually became an approved school under the Approved Schools Act in 1933, when industrial schools were merged with reformatory schools for boys. It eventually closed in 1938, and moved to Godstone, Church Farm Special School for children with behavioural difficulties opened on the Church Farm site and closed in 2000 following a damming Ofsted report. Oak Hill Campus on the site of Church Farm School which is part of Mill Hill County High School. The campus caters for students with emotional and behavioural difficulties and was opened in ...

Pymmes Brook Pymmes Brook continues to flow south east Urban area and part of Barnet, some industry and the remains of woodland Post to the north Cockfosters Post to the south Oakleigh Park 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 Leona...

Pymmes Brook Pymmes Brook flows south, and then south east TQ 27307 96330 Suburban area of between the wars housing which feels like the edge of London, but which is actually the edge of Trent Park. Remains of strange folk museum. 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 Sch...

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 200...

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 Green...

M onken Mead Brook Monken Mead Brook flows southwards. It is joined by Green Brook from the east TQ 27659 97162 Upmarket golf course and parkland on the site of an old estate. The site includes a fishing lake 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 1 9 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...