Chase Side Memories
The original Chase Side Secondary School shared premises with the Chase Side Primary, although we had separate play grounds. Next to the school was the Birkbeck Hygenic Laundry with a huge chimney and a steam siren that sounded the lunch break. The old Workhouse that eventually became a home for elderly women and later became abandoned. The War Memorial Hospital, where I had my tonsils out in 1952, which was later demolished to make way for town houses. The cenotaph at the town end of Chase Side where every November a huge bonfire would be built for Guy Fawkes day. Gentlemans Row and Lambs Walk, named after Charles Lamb who resided there. The sound of steam trains passing between Enfield Chase Station and Gordon Hill. Yes a lovely era fondly remembered.
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RE: RE: Chase Side Memories
Wow, thanks so much for sharing this, Roger! As it happens, I am currently living in one of the flats where that Laundry used to be located. And a couple of other residents on my street have told me about the huge chimney of the laundry. However I was wondering where the Workhouse and War Memorial Hospital were located exactly. It's stories like yours which remind me of how lovely it is to be living in Enfield, yet sad that such lovely experiences are disappearing thick and fast! Please do share more stories! I'd love to learn more about what life was like and what things have disappeared from the neighbourhood that I live in now. For example I've been told about the piggery pens that most people today don't even give a second's thought to while walking/driving past it on Chase Side, but what a special part of the town's history it is!
Comment from Hari R on Monday, 1st February 2010.
RE: RE: Chase Side Memories
The War Memorial Hospital was down on the Northern end of Chase Side and you will see the new town houses on the left hand side where it used to be. I had my tonsils out there as a young lad. The buses that plied Chase Side were the 231 and the 144B. 1d (about 1/2p) for a child to ride from Lancaster Road to Enfield Town. As children, we all trooped off to either the Rialto Cinema or the Savoy for the Saturday morning movies. Cartoons, Laurel and Hardy, Flash Gordon and sometimes a feature film. 6d entrance (about 3p) for 2 hours of fun.
Comment from Roger Davis on Monday, 1st February 2010.
RE: RE: Chase Side Memories
There was also a dairy just at the bottom of Trinity Street. I used to walk to school every day down Gordon Hill (we lived opposite the station, and I remember the steam trains, too) and along Chase Side. There were pig bins then, on the hill, where people put scraps and leftovers, though I don't remember pig pens on Chase Side. I'm talking about 1951 to 1956. Chase Side Junior School was a very happy place for me. I remember the headmaster, Mr. Casson, very well, and Mr. Davies, and Mrs. Herringshaw, who wore wonderful full circle skirts. And the boys in my class: Albert Collison, Alan Cornish, Richard Spenceley. Afterwards, when I went on to Enfield County School, I still took the same route but went on along Parsonage Lane.
Comment from Valerie Large on Thursday, 3rd May 2012.