Enfield
Like many of the outer boroughs, Enfield has an industrial half and a more suburban half. The industrial area takes in Edmonton and parts of Enfield, with the more suburban area between Southgate and Grange Park. Architecturally, Enfield has many interesting modernist buildings, particularly those built for the public good; schools, libraries, health clinics and tube stations. Indeed, in the Piccadilly Line stations, Arnos Grove and Southgate, it has two of the best modernist buildings in the country. Elsewhere are great examples of the work of Curtis and Burchett for Middlesex County Council between the wars, of which Enfield was the Eastern boundary until 1965.
Post World War II, Curtis and Burchett’s work was continued by C.G. Stillman who designed a number of schools in the borough. The pre-1965 Edmonton Borough Architects Department under T.A. Wilkinson was also quite radical for its time, building new housing in precast concrete panels with a direct labour organisation, something that boroughs like Camden would take on in the 1960’s and 1970s. There are also some good examples of the differing scales of post war modernism; a monolithic concrete water tower in Cockfosters by the firm of Scherrer & Hicks, and nearby on a smaller scale, some flat roofed houses in Hadley Wood by Douglas & Mary Craig.
Post World War II, Curtis and Burchett’s work was continued by C.G. Stillman who designed a number of schools in the borough. The pre-1965 Edmonton Borough Architects Department under T.A. Wilkinson was also quite radical for its time, building new housing in precast concrete panels with a direct labour organisation, something that boroughs like Camden would take on in the 1960’s and 1970s. There are also some good examples of the differing scales of post war modernism; a monolithic concrete water tower in Cockfosters by the firm of Scherrer & Hicks, and nearby on a smaller scale, some flat roofed houses in Hadley Wood by Douglas & Mary Craig.