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Alma Road, ENFIELD, EN3 7UE

Or at least the photographer thinks that this is what this derelict building was in 2007. Certainly the Ordnance Survey mapping of 1896, and later editions, show a Mission Room here on this site, although the tin sheet structure seen here must be a later building. (The co-ordinates are taken from the Where's the Path satellite imagery, not the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping, which is badly distorted here to accommodate the dual carriageway A110 Lea Valley Road, so that the subject and photographer locations appear to be in the middle of the road!) Update October 2018 Reviewing images on Streetview shows that by August 2008 the tilting tower had gone completely, and by September 2011 the whole building had been demolished, but nothing significant had then changed on the site by April 2018.

Part of the complex of paths that carry pedestrians and cyclists under and around the large roundabout

The A110 is carried over Alma Road, railway and canal on a raised viaduct.

A decorative roundabout on a major crossing of north/south and east/west roads

Part of the complex of paths that carry pedestrians and cyclists under and around the large roundabout

Viewed looking towards Brimsdown station from the Duck Lees Lane footbridge, the Brimsdown industrial area is to the right, allotments to the left.

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 A110 runs from Woodford to the A1000 at Barnet, crossing the river Lea at this spot.

Built between 1921 and 1924 to a design by architect Joseph Goldie.

The railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne via Waltham Cross was opened by the Northern & Eastern Railway on 15th September 1840. Ponders End station opened on the same day. The lines through Ponders End were electrified on 5th May 1969. This is the view from the down platform. The next station in this direction is Brimsdown.