JULY 2017

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Hello, and welcome to our JULY issue!

We were invited by the Face Front Theatre to watch rehearsals for The Originators and Sandwich Man. It was great to meet the artists involved in this fantastic work!

Monmouth Road Green has officially been opened to the public (12 June 2017), having been moved from a drab, unused open space to a peaceful, landscaped area of tranquility ​​ for local people to enjoy. If you get the chance to pay a visit, check out how fantastic this space is!

We are very happy to announce a series of articles by Joe Studman, who is a Local History Guide and Speaker.

In this edition, you will find coverage of some summer festivals that were celebrated in June, and information about some events that are slated for July!

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JULY 2017 CONTENTS

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10 Monmouth Road Green Officially opened

14 Breakout Youth Talent Contest

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By Joe Studman

20 Interview Kid Drop

24 The Lamb Festival 2017

26 CHAT Academies Summer Fair

28 ConnectUS @ Edmonton Networking Event

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30 Rehearsal - Face Front The Originators

34 Rehearsal - Face Front Sandwich Man

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Monmouth Road Green

Monmouth Road Green officially opened by Mayor of Enfield and special guests Monmouth Road Green has officially opened to the public (12 June 2017) having been transformed from a drab, unused open space to a peaceful, landscaped area of tranquillity for local people to enjoy. edmontongreenmag.co.uk

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The green was visited by the Mayor of Enfield along with the Leader of the Council and special guests including the children of St. Edmund’s Catholic Primary School of the Hertford Road, who helped to plant shrubs, flowers and other greenery.

The open space complements one of Edmonton’s most beautiful and historically significant residential area.

The land forms part of The Crescent Conservation Area in Edmonton, where Grade II listed buildings from the early 19 century form a crescent of terraced four-storey houses, unique in Enfield.

Enfield Council’s Leader, Cllr Doug Taylor, said: “This wonderful, public space complements the recent Council-led improvements to The Crescent to both private properties and those owned by our project partners Newlon Housing Trust.

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“The main triumph of this regeneration has been the participation of the community in this project. We want people to have access to green, open spaces and moreover, to have a say as to how their living areas are shaped.

Looking ahead, we anticipate further investment into the area which already is a thriving, cosmopolitan place to live, work and be educated in, leading to a strong community focus.”

The final design of the space was shaped by the local community during a public consultation which took place during the summer of 2016.

There is an arc of trees and curving footpath to mirror the shape of the historic crescent as well as a central paving feature, which will include an engraving taken from novelist and journalist Daniel Defoe’s writing about the area.

The project is designed to sustainably manage rainwater by allowing it to run off into surrounding flowerbeds. The flowers have been specially chosen to encourage bees and butterflies to visit the area. The gardening club of St. Edmund’s Catholic Primary School, comprised of yearfive and year-six students, helped with the planting and will enjoy the area for years to come along with other residents in the area. edmontongreenmag.co.uk

The work at Monmouth Road Green forms part of the Council’s growth and sustainability objective, to attract investment and support sustainable regeneration and growth, as well as to provide residents with access to green, open spaces.

The engraving of a quote by Daniel Defoe Students of St. Edmund’s Catholic Primary School

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On Saturday 24th June, Breakout Youth Talent Contest held their last set of auditions. With a staggering sixteen acts auditioning, it was a real show of how many talented young people we have in our community.

It is now down to the team to decide which acts will be going through to the final show on Saturday 26th August 2017!

Entry to the show is free, doors will open at 7:00pm for fun and refreshments.

Venue: 193/195 Fore Street Angel Place / Edmonton N18 2UD

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Lost Buildings of Edmonton JOE STUDMAN

Pymmes House We are fortunate indeed to have Pymmes Park on our doorstep.

Procured by the local authority in 1896 and opened in two stages.

The Northern section in July 1897 (120 years ago this month) and the Southern section on June 16th 1906.

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he purchase included a mansion that had its roots back as far as the fourteenth century when the land was sold by a William Pymme to, our then Lord of The Manor, Adam Francis.

Perhaps the most famous owner was William Cecil, Lord Burghley, chief advisor to Elizabeth 1st who seemingly purchased the estate for his daughter Anne and her new husband Edward De Vere. Unfortunately the marriage had a difficult start and the couple were separated for many years. Cecil’s son Robert spent his honeymoon here and refereed to it as “our little farm”. The Cecils probably rebuilt the house in the late 16th century and retained possession until 1704. Sometime during the eighteenth century the building was refaced and a Georgian portico was added. This was the building that survived until 1940.

A succession of owners held Pymmes Estate until the Ray family inherited in early 1800’s. They never lived here but leased it out to wealthy tenants including Sir Henry Tyler, the last tenant, who helped organise the Great Exhibition in 1851 in Hyde Park. edmontongreenmag.co.uk

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nother Victorian tenant was a Colonel Armitage who along with the headmaster at Latymer school, Vincent Dolbe formed the first Edmonton Cricket Club. There ground was where the lake is now located and the legend says that balls were often hit for six landing on the platform of Silver Street Station.

The most colourful resident however was Sayyid Mansur Ali Khan the Nawab of Bengal. He was a cricket fanatic and I like to think he would have played with Armstrong and Dolbe but I can find no evidence. The Nawab’s other hobby was women. He often swanned around London in a “ barouche full of prostitutes”.

Sayyid Mansur was descendent of Mir Jafar who was set up as Nawab

by Robert Clive after the battle of Plassey. He lived in Edmonton with his English wife Sarah Begum (from Barnet) and they had five children.

The Nawab came to London to appeal to Queen Vic to allow his sons to inherit his kingdom. His endeavours failed and he had to abdicate on a pension of £8,000 (he had wanted £24,000). He secured a pension for his son but not his daughters. Sarah Begum, one of over 20 wives ,was refused a pension by British Government.

Mansur Ali Khan sired a total of 101 children of whom 19 sons and 22 daughters survived him, which is both an impressive but sad statistic.

When Edmonton Urban District Council acquired the house it was used as a technical college in the early years of 20th century. Then it became a children’s clinic. In WW2 it was commandeered for auxiliary firemen but was burned down in 1940 in a fire unrelated to the war.

All that’s left is a walled garden restored in the 1930’s and occasionally open to the public. It was the kitchen garden of the house and if you get the chance do pay it a visit just to see the wonderful Thomas Angell water fountain moved here from Angel Road.

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INTERVIEW

When you are busy as a BEE!

Darya Paun, the founder of KidDrop, spoke to us about her innovative project

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idDrop is a unique community-based platform that connects busy parents and carers to share the load of dropping off and picking up their children to and from nursery, pre-school and school. This share system operates on the basis of exchangeable e-credits that users “earn” and “spend” by helping and being helped by other parents. There is also an option of choosing to leave your child at another child’s parent’s house before and after school/nursery in exchange.

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TELL US MORE ABOUT KIDDROP. KidDrop is a first of its kind social networking platform launched in the UK for busy parents. It has only been launched recently and over 500 parents have already signed up and are using the website. The main purpose of KidDrop is to help parents connect to new people at their children’s nurseries, pre-schools or schools and to get to know each other better. This platform will allow parents to meet other parents from not only their child’s class but from all across the school. Then once they meet and get to know each other, parents can start helping out one another with drop offs, pickups and looking after their kids

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for short periods of time. KidDrop’s aim is too make our communities stronger, which is especially important in the light of the recent events.

I believe KidDrop has a huge potential to make the lives of parents and kids in our communities better and easier by promoting mutual trust, strong relationships and an opportunity to help each other.

KidDrop also encourages parents to walk their children to school, which will also hopefully ease the overcrowding of cars on the roads leading to the schools, which often makes it dangerous for children to walk (at least this is the case on the roads leading to my son’s school).

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WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO CREATE KIDDROP? The idea of a social networking platform for busy parents came to me about a year back when I used to drive my son to his pre-school while tagging my tiny (at the time) daughter with me. She ended up being very tired as a result, and so often I wished I could exchange the task of dropping off and picking up my son with other parents at the pre-school. But everybody was so busy that I only got to meet two mothers during the whole year that my son attended the pre-school.

Once I came up with an idea of KidDrop, I had to do some market research, and the parents I spoke to regarding the idea loved the concept. Then an investor, Raj Dhonota, got interested and invested in KidDrop at the concept stage, and now, after a year of hard work, KidDrop has become a reality.

It is very important to point out that KidDrop is not a babysitting website. It is a new and unique social networking site for busy parents. So we can all enjoy expanding our circles and helping each other as friends!

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WHAT HAS KIDDROP ACHIEVED SO FAR? KidDrop has over 500 users across London in just about 1.5 months of its existence; something I am very proud of. Parents love the concept and the platform and I would like more parents in London and then in the UK to find out about KidDrop and its benefits to our communities, and register and use the platform. We have recently introduced KidFun pages for family-oriented businesses (circuses, theatres, zoo, etc.) to post information about their upcoming events, performances and shows. Parents in turn will be able to search the events by their child’s age and postcode.

HOW ARE PEOPLE ENGAGING ON THE WEBSITE AND WHAT ARE THE OUTCOMES? The overall aim of KidDrop is to help busy parents get to know other parents in their child’s school or nursery in a quick and efficient way. Once a parent joins a school or nursery community their child is attending, they will be able to see other parents registered in that community.

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Parents can also post pick up/drop off and babysitting ‘jobs’, and other parents can indicate their interest. Parents are also able to organise birthday parties, school fetes and other events with the help of the website and invite those they would like to invite from their community. And lots more!

HOW CAN PEOPLE JOIN? It is fast and easy to join. Once you have provided basic info for registration, an email will be sent to you from KidDrop admin to confirm your email address.

Then you will be re-directed to the website www.kiddrop.net and can finalise your profile, which should take no more than a couple of minutes. You are now ready to go and get to know other parents and make new friends!

“I believe KidDrop has a huge potential to make the lives of parents and kids in our communities better and easier by promoting mutual trust, strong relationships and an opportunity to help each other.”

If you haven’t joined already, go to:

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register and complete your profile.

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EVENTS IN EDMONTON

THE LAMB FESTIVAL 2017 The Lamb festival is held each year to celebrate the famous siblings who are buried in the churchyard in Edmonton, Charles and Mary Lamb.

What a double!

Lots of fun with the two presenters, Revd Stuart Owen and Paul Everitt.

The magnificent Tottenham Community Choir sang beautifully at the Lamb Festival Finale.

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Michael Ogbole won 2 prizes! One in the Photography competition and the other in the Poetry competition. Well done!

Composed at Midnight

by Michael Ogbole, Latymer All Saints Primary School Composed at midnight, a poem I wrote At first in rough, on lines of a note.

The night seems cruel, sombre and cold, As weird and sad as a ghoulish soul.

Some stay in bed while other leave, Could they be on their way to a midnight shift?

Some may have thought they could stand in line, but found of course, they ran out of time.

At midnight, stars twinkle in the sky, Seeming somehow, like the end is nigh.

Just then day strikes, hurray my friends, we survived the night.

The creepy crawlers have taken to flight!

The night for now has come to an end, Though soon enough, it comes again... oh fiend!

We have come to an end but I’ll see you again... old friends.

The flautist Jacquelyn Hynes accompanied by J Eoin have become firm favourites at the Lamb Festival. A highlight for the song “Mother tongue” played beautifully!

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EVENTS IN EDMONTON

CHAT ACADEMIES SUMMER FAIR More than 2,000 children and their families, teachers and local residents came to the annual Summer Fair held on the site of Woodpecker Hall Primary Academy on Nightingale Road.

CHAT Academies Chief Executive, Marino Charalambous said: “This was a record breaking year for us both in terms of the number of people who came and also the different and very varied activities we provided, including free activies. It was also great to see so many local residents as we consider our five schools to be very much part of the life of the local community.”

Highlights of the day included a dozen musical and theatrical performances, a wide range of games and other stalls, face painting, guess the name of the giant white rabbit, and a very popular cake competition.

There was also a boxing demonstration by local club Edmonton Eagles.

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Guests included, the Mayor of Enfield, Cllr Christine Hamilton, Leader of the Council, Cllr Doug Taylor, and the councillor for the ward, Cllr Bernie Lappage.

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The Mayor made a special trophy award to the Woodpecker Children’s Glee Club, recently crowned Glee champions of Edmonton.

More than 2,000 children and their families, teachers and local residents came to the annual Summer Fair of the Trust that runs five schools in the borough, held on the site of Woodpecker Hall Primary Academy on Nightingale Road.

CHAT Academies Chief Executive, Marino Charalambous said: “This was a record breaking year for us both in terms of the number of people who came and also the different and very varied activities we provided. It was also great to see so many local residents as we consider our five schools to be very much part of edmontongreenmag.co.uk

the life of the local community.”

Highlights of the day included a dozen musical and theatrical performances, a wide range of food, games and other stalls, face painting, guess the name of the giant white rabbit, and a very popular cake competition.

There was also a boxing demonstration by local club Enfield Eagles.

Guests included, the Mayor of Enfield, Cllr Christine Hamilton, Leader of the Council, Cllr Doug Taylor, and the councillor for the ward, Cllr Bernie Lappage.

The event was opened by Mrs Pauline Collison The Mayor made a special trophy award to the Woodpecker Children’s Glee Club, recently crowned Glee champions of Edmonton.

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EVENTS IN EDMONTON

CONNECTUS @ EDMONTON GREEN Locals get to know what’s on their doorstep This July was the launch of a ground breaking new monthly event.” ConnectUS at Edmonton Green” It is an idea of Jennifer Barker after realising that there was a need to encourage Edmonton Green community to shop local. She felt compelled to make it a reality. Local Community need to know what’s available on their doorstep. Businesses need to show case themselves. Locals and businesses meeting at ConnectUs at Edmonton Green is the solution.

Businesses that attended were the featured speakers. They provided an insight to what they could offer to local people. They were able to showcase their businesses. One visitor said that she was so glad that

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she came as she did not know that some of these businesses were so close to her and that she is looking forward to the next ConnectUS event.

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Local community get to make personal contacts with businesses and hear what is available to them first hand. They gain confidence and trust in the businesses they meet.

Business also formed contacts with other businesses in the area.

The event struck a chord with a business owner who remarked “we need something like this in Edmonton.” With the motivation from the local community and businesses, this was a great chance to interact, over refreshments in lively uplifting setting on the first floor of Market Square Edmonton Green shopping Centre - it was truly a day to remember.

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FACE FRONT Festival of Community Theatre

Rehearsal

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he Originators are immortal beings. Their role, over millions of years, is to create humans, populating worlds within parallel universes. They decide to make an unprecedented visit to observe their creations.

Landing in the Ponders End and Edmonton area, the Originators have come to investigate life in 2017. They are amazed at the human’s strength in adversity but are concerned at the direction their future seems to be taking.

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Exploring themes of immigration, isolation and the struggle for identity, the InterACTion drama group will take you on an entertaining, moving and unforgettable journey using humour, drama and original music.

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“All the members of the group have experienced challenges in the past.

After all the recent political happenings: the Brexit, Trump being elected as President of the USA and the rise in hate crimes and racism, the group came up with this idea, which showcases similar histories of their own experiences.

And I think that local people, and people from all over London should see what people who normally don’t have a voice, think.”

Annie Smol

Produced by Face Front Inclusive Theatre and Enfield Presents as part of the Face Front Festival of Community Theatre

For general enquiries contact Tracey: 020 8350 3461 or email: info@facefront.org

Start: July 27th End: July 28th Cost: £5 - £10

The originators

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FACE FRONT FESTIVAL 2017

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FACE FRONT Festival of Community Theatre Rehearsal

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n emergency summit has been called by politicians to find a solution to the global food shortage and they have turned to the most powerful beings on the planet – The Super Heroes. Meanwhile on the other side of town Bill runs a hostel for the hungry and homeless.

Will the Super Heroes provide the

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answers, or is Bill doing more to help the situation than all of the powerful and elite put together?

Broken Silence’s inclusive group of actors and musicians will transport you from the opulent Super Hero summit in a lavish hotel to Bill’s humble hostel and back again in their uplifting and moving new musical, ‘Sandwich Man’.

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“The group came up with the subject for the new play we are doing. For this particular play, The Sandwich Man, we were inspired by a story of one of the members of the group when he was homeless in his real life.

And Sandwich Man is his super hero super ego.

We might not be super heroes but we have super powers such as compassion or kindness or taking a moment to give someone a hand.”

Angie Wallis

Produced by Face Front Inclusive Theatre and Enfield Presents as part of the Face Front Festival of Community Theatre

For general enquiries contact Tracey: 020 8350 3461 or email: info@facefront.org

Start: July 13th End: July 14th Cost: £5 - £10

Sandwich Man

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FACE FRONT FESTIVAL 2017

13 & 14 July 2017

Dugdale Arts Centre 39 London Road Enfield EN2 6DS

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THE FRIENDS OF ALL SAINTS CHURCH EDMONTON Invite you to

ALL SAINTS CHURCH OPEN DAYS The Parish Church is open on the third Saturday afternoon of the month for visitors.

Come and view the interior of the oldest building in Edmonton Guide available

Dates for 2017 Saturday July 15th 2-5pm Saturday August 19th 2-5pm Saturday September 16th 2-5pm Saturday October 21st 2-5pm Saturday November 18th 2-5pm Saturday December 16th 2-5pm All Welcome No Charge www.allsaintsedmonton.org.uk/friends-scheme edmontongreenmag.co.uk

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