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East Duck Lees Lane, ENFIELD, EN3 7SP

Now pretty in pink The Granville once served a small neighbourhood of houses where workers at the Ponders End jute mill at the end of Duck Lees Lane lived. The jute mill was short-lived and in 1886 the Ediswan Company (formed by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan) took over the building and converted it into a factory manufacturing electric light bulbs. The factory continued production until 1969, and was demolished shortly afterwards. Today all the Victorian workers' houses in Northampton Road, to the right of the pub in the photograph, and Alpha Road at the end of the Screwfix building, have gone, the area having being swallowed up by the Ponders End Industrial Estate development, leaving the Victorian Granville as a sole reminder of an aspect of Enfield's industrial past. The pub was briefly closed in 2008 and 2009 but is now open again.

The channel ahead branches off the River Lee Navigation (which flows out to the left hand side of the image).

This overflow channel has been built alongside the River Lee Navigation (itself a man-made waterway) at Ponders End.

The River Lee Navigation at Ponders End, in North London's outer suburbs. Industrial units line the far bank of the waterway. The towpath is shared by walkers and cyclists. It forms part of National Cycle Network route 1.

This view is from the towpath of the River Lee Navigation. This seems to be a flood relief channel as from here it follows a course between the Lee Navigation and the western embankment of the William Girling reservoir before swinging round to the south of the reservoir and flowing into the River Lea Flood Relief Channel just before the North Circular Road is reached. Judging by the vegetation growing here it would seem to have been some time since the overflow was needed. A photograph of the River Lea Flood Relief Channel can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5349232 and more detail is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Lee_Flood_Relief_Channel Behind here is the embankment of King George's Reservoir. The excavation and building of the surrounding embankment of the reservoir, nearly five miles in length, was carried out almost entirely by a manual labour force of 1,000 navvies, and the surplus excavated clay was spread over part of Hackney Marsh. In 1913 King George Vth and Queen Mary named the reservoir and pressed the buttons allowing water from the River Lea to start flowing into the storage bowl.