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Bow
Village hall
Kingsley Hall was a shelter and soup kitchen for workers during the general strike. Today’s activities: ‘drumming session open to youth’. Probably no bring-and-buy sales, then. 6/10
Cricket pitch
There is a cricket pitch at Mile End stadium, but it’s not exactly a small local facility. 6/10
Village green
At the junction of Stroudley Walk and Bromley High Street, there is a triangle of litter-covered tarmac with the post office on one side alongside the Bow Fish Bar and a Ladbrokes. 3/10
Local pub
Traditional East End boozer the Bow Bells (116 Bow Road, E3, 020 8981 7317). 10/10
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Post office
A large but shabby one on Stroudley Walk. 6/10
Church
Bow Church, parts of which date back to 1311, sits like a desolate island bang in the middle of Bow Road. It’s one of the churches in the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’. 4/10
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Local bobby
‘You’re jokin,’ retorts Bow Bells landlady Barbara Thompson, 53. ‘They’re all flyin’ around in cars these days. I’ve never seen a foot copper at all.’ 1/10
Annual fête
There’s a Bow Festival where local performance artists re-enact the Jarrow Hunger March with recycled tyres and that sort of thing. 3/10
Village idiot
MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, George Galloway. 11/10
Village people
‘People are from all walks of life, but there are a lot of City people coming in and the prices are sky-high. It’s losing its old working-class, Labour people.’ John Ayres, Bow Bells regular 6/10
Local's verdict
‘These days you don’t know who your neighbours are from one day to the next, the area’s changing that quickly. But there’s still enough of us old-timers around to keep the area from getting too up itself.’ Ron Smallwood, Bow resident
Total 56/100
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18 comments
How horrible of you to call Lenny the village idiot. He is well known and liked in Enfield. He'll talk to you about anything and has a wicked sense of humour. Good luck with the record Lenny!!!
Lenny is by all means NOT an idiot - he is our friend! He has been around since my sister was my age (12) and she is now 21. I hope he is around for many more years!
And Enfield is the best so don't try and beat us the rest of you - or ELSE!!! dum dum DUM!
Also don't forget the great free New River Festival on the 7th July on the banks of the Enfield Town New River loop (opposite Central Library).
Great arts event for all to enjoy.
It's great to hear you all like the Enfield Autumn Show so much.
Just to let you all know it will be on again on 8-9 September 2007. We've got even more great live music and spectacular events planned.
If you are interested in participating in the event (with a stand etc) email me on evan.kypreos@enfield.gov.uk putting Timeout - EAS in the subject bar.
Thanks
Lenny is not an idiot! His knowledge for music and T.V from the 60's & 70's is second to none! He even knows of the new music and how poor it is compared to the old! He knows everything thats going on in the town and probably knows more about the history of Enfield Town than any other person living there. A charismatic and witty guy he is, you'd love his jokes!
If you're looking for a decent bar in the area- FORM opposite the town station is surely the best??- Fab cocktails, good music and pretty special decor. highly recommendable.
Has Time Out got an agenda in voting George Galloway 'village idiot'? I suppose the more than 15,000 people who voted him in as their MP are also idiots? I think you should have left politics out of this - most people share Mr Galloway's views on the important issues such as Iraq and Tony Blair (just look at the polls).
Lenny is the eyes and ears of Enfield and always knows 'whats going down' before it appears in the local papers. His knowlege of punk music is second to none and is very articulate and witty. The only idiot is the talentless hack calling Lenny one.
Glad to see Enfield is finally getting some recognition, after years of dismissal and merciless heckling at the hands of Guardian journalists and Radio 4 commentators ('Enfield is the only place in Britain where stone cladding adds value to your house')
How could you not have found out about the Enfield Town Show?! It's fabulous! And Lenny is not an idiot.
Where is dear old Muswell Hill? It is surely the quintessential London village with fine locals, a cricket pitch, a handful of little churches, woodland areas, a high street geared towards sole traders (mainly), and one of the village church halls has a local Am Dram Society! Go there and watch a naff old play and have old biddies serve you tea and biscuits in the interval. Muswell Hill has a butcher, a baker, and no candlestick maker. visit the village with the mossy well and all within zone 3! blimey!
Enfield is a great place to live. But no fete, eh? Then what about the Enfield Autumn Show in the Town park, Sept. each year, this year 9-10 Sept. A super day out. (And Lenny is by no means an idiot. That was mean of you!)
How can you have missed out Ealing's Brentham Estate? It's a perfect example of a garden suburb! I grew up there and returned recently (15 years later) to find it as beautiful as I remembered.
Disappointed with result as in the past it was top village in your mag. We still have the arts club running and a writers' group. Can I just post these two links to the events in the area? www.walthamstowfestival.com
www.e17arttrail.co.uk
Please advertise them, in this current climate we need good vibes. Simone, a resident since 2002
What about Hampstead Garden Suburb? That's an area of london which was practically designed to be a village!
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