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Gardiner Close, ENFIELD, EN3 4GH

This is one of three gasometers on the Woodall Road gas works site, and they are each large enough to justify being shown individually on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping. The 1882 Ordnance Survey map shows a gasworks and a single gasometer more or less in this same location, but nearer the railway.

These four massive tower blocks dominate the horizon in this grid square. In fact the most distant is actually in Image They are, in order from left to right, Curlew, Merlin, Cormorant, and Kestrel Houses. In the meantime the falcon on the inn sign in front of Merlin, and outside The Falcon PH to the right, watches over all of them.

These tower blocks totally dominate the area to the west of Ponders End station, although judging by a nearby poster Enfield Council has big plans for the area. This looks across South Street.

These tower blocks totally dominate the area to the west of Ponders End station, although judging by a nearby poster Enfield Council has big plans for the area. This looks across South Street.

Train services here are operated by One Railway, and there is a weekday half-hourly service to / from London Liverpool Street, scheduled to take between 20 and 25 minutes.

The railway through Ponders End was constructed in 1840, and this hotel next to the station on South Street followed shortly afterwards in 1841. The 1940s OS map shows the A110 road crossing the railway by a level crossing here, so the trade from the railway and the road must have been reasonable. However the road crossing has gone to be replaced by the Lea Valley Road bridge to the north, and the hotel itself is now closed and in a dilapidated vandalized state. The tablets either side of "The Railway" nameplate read "Watney Combe Reid", a reminder of a brewery that ceased to exist as long ago as 1958 when it merged with another concern to become Watney Mann. Update October 2018 Reviewing Streetview imagery it is evident that the building had been demolished by November 2009, but the site was then unchanged up to September 2015.

One of four large tower blocks on the Alma Road estate near Ponders End Station. They are colour coded, with different stripes on the side. This is Merlin, the blue one. The one nearest the station has recently been demolished.