The sun shone on Palmers Green Festival on Sunday, and the local community turned up in huge numbers to enjoy this annual event in Broomfield Park.

Festival founder Phillip Chard said, “The Festival has continued to grow year on year, and demonstrates that local people want to get together and celebrate our diverse community. We estimate that approaching…

This week's Talkies Community Cinema screening celebrated 50 years since the release of the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night".…

This Blog Post has been submitted by Zander Sabbagh - of Everyone's Climbing Tree - Zander explains the Amazing Writing Machine which will make its debut at the AP & Beyond festival next weekend…

Theo Thomas, from the Thames 21 clean water campaign group Love The Lea, has provided this blog post explaining the background to the pollution of several local water courses - and the action underway to rectify the problems.

Enfield has the most rivers of any London Borough and some of…

Following her fascinating article on the New River Tunnel Caroline Simpson is rapidly becoming our expert urban archeology correspondent. Caroline has been looking down another hole to sharing an equally interesting story:

Look down the hole!

Men with diggers and shovels are at work replacing ancient gas pipes and…

I have heard several times the description of Bowes Park as
"Wood Green with its Sunday best on" so I thought I'd pursue the original quote and see if the author had anything else to say about our area ... and what a delight I discovered!



It's from Thomas Burke's book -…

This delightful sequence of photographs was taken by site member Richard Ainsworth in May / June 1999 They are reprinted here with Richard's original captions.

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Find more photos like this on Bowes and Bounds…

The recent news that the Victorian Gas Holder Hornsey No 1 is  threatened with demoliition as part of the Haringey Heartlands regeneration has unearthed the following fascinating article and inspiring image from site member Kathleen…

The Bowes Park Community Garden is located in Myddleton Road.  It is run by a sub-group of the Bowes Park

Community Association.  We have a gardening session on the first Saturday of the month from 11am when we tidy, prune and plant to make sure that this tranquil garden is an attractive place for relaxation and enjoyment.



In July 2010 we were awarded a Green…