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Hyde Way, LONDON, N9 9RT

Image depicting the frontage and forecourt of London Fire Brigade Edmonton Fire Station including 4 London fire appliances.

Three blocks of large Victorian townhouses can be seen on the north side of Church Street between Stanley Road and Arthur Road. The terracotta coloured tablet in the side wall of the nearest group has the date 1881.

The fire station is at 99 Church Street, N9, and is operated by the LFB (London Fire Brigade), who themselves are run by the LFEPA (London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority).

Built in 1941 to designs prepared in the Edmonton Architects' Department. (Ref: The Buildings of England. 4: North (1998), p. 425).

This is another view of the former Institute looking at the other end of the building and in the opposite direction to Image Of interest at the far left of the photograph is a pair of unusual four storey Victorian townhouses.

One would expect to find a building like this in Oxford or Cambridge, but not in Edmonton! However this is the former Charles Lamb Institute founded in 1908 to commemorate the writer, who lived in Church Street from about 1828 until his death here in 1834. The building is now used by the Tower Gym. The memorial stone records the architect as J[ohn]S[amuel] Alder.

Grave of Charles Lamb

Gravestone of Charles Lamb

All Saints Church was founded in 1136 by Geoffrey de Mandeville. The west tower dates from the 15th century, as does much of the interior, including the nave roof. However, there is still evidence of the earlier 12th century church here as there are fragments of a Norman doorway and other pieces of Norman evidence built into the west wall. This part of the churchyard to the south-west of the main churchyard is separated by railings and also contains old tombs, as well as gravestones which have been removed and lined up against the wall.