Monday 15 January, 8.00 pm
EHHS Members' Meeting JOINT with Enfield Society
The Story of Enfield’s Telephones before smartphones
Talk by John Liffen
8.00 pm at Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).
The Telephone was introduced into Enfield in 1899 using an exchange in a small room at the side of a pub. Take up was initially slow but by the 1920’s large new exchanges were needed and were eventually automated. Now, however, the mobile phone and social media have almost supplanted the “landline” and new uses may need to be found for Enfield’s existing telephone exchanges. The talk will include recent photos taken by the author with images drawn from BT archives, Enfield Local Studies & Archive and The Science Museum Group.
Free to members of both organisations,
otherwise all welcome for just £1 per person payable on the night at Jubilee Hall.
Wednesday 20 December 2023
EHHS Members' Meeting
Cribs, Cards and Christingles
The Origins of Christmas Traditions and Customs
Speaker: Mark Lewis
Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).
Doors open 2 pm for seasonal refreshments, meeting starts at 2.30 pm
This meeting is open and free to visitors as well as members, but donations appreciated.
It would be a great present to yourself (!) to join the society at just £9 for a year of meetings, other events and our regular newsletters.
Wednesday 22 November 2023 at 3pm
Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).
Doors open 2.00 pm for refreshments, 2.30 pm for meeting.The Inspiring Mr Howard
Speaker: Margaret Burr
Celebrating the 250th Anniversary Year of Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds, Father of Meteorology and discoverer of the Urban Heat Island effect.by Tottenham historian Margaret Burr.
(Non-members welcome, no charge)
Wednesday 11 October 2023
Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).
Doors open 7.30 pm for refreshments. 8pm for meeting.London's Secret Canal - The River Lee Navigation
Speaker: Dr Jim Lewis
Dr Jim Lewis has published numerous books on the Lea Valley and its industrial history. He is a Consultant to Terry Farrell & Partners, and a researcher and broadcaster. In 2012, Dr Lewis was appointed Contributory International Professor by the Clark H Byrum School of Business, Marian University, Indianapolis.
(Non-members welcome, no charge)
Wednesday 20 September 2023
EHHS Open Meeting
Wood Green: A Spectrum of Life from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century
A talk by archaeologist Rosa Greco with Les Capon, AoC Project Manager
8pm, at Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).
Doors open 7.30 pm for refreshments. All welcome, no charge for visitors for this meeting.
In 2022 AoC Archaeology carried out excavations at 132 Station Road, Wood Green, in North London prior to development of the site for housing. It is believed this was once the site of 'The Grange', a house and gardens possibly dating from the 17th century. In June 2022 AoC held an open day to show what had been done and to interpret the finds.
Project Supervisor Rosa Greco gave an excellent, well-illustrated talk on the dig to CoLAS (City of London Archaeology Society), a hybrid talk intended to be viewed via zoom. In the event that didn't happen, but our events organiser was present at the talk and and has arranged a second hearing for EHHS about the site, which was part of the Edmonton Hundred.
Rosa Greco is an Italian archaeologist who specialised in Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum University) on Roman and post-Roman archaeological settlements. A former AoC Project Supervisor, she is now working with MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) as a Senior Archaeologist, currently on a site as Project Officer.
Les Capon is Project Manager of AoC Archaeology, and has previously given a talk for a joint meeting of EHHS and Enfield Archaeological Society.
