{"id":17645,"date":"2025-07-23T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17645"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:18:38","slug":"ponders-end-brimsdown-enfield-wash-waltham-cross-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17645","title":{"rendered":"Ponders End, Brimsdown, Enfield Wash & Waltham Cross – 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In March 1994 I spent some time photographing in the London Borough of Enfield, and going a little beyond its borders into Waltham Cross. Mostly I was taking black and white pictures – some of which you can see on Flickr in the album 1994 London Photos<\/a> – but I did also take some in colour, including a few colour panormas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Builders<\/a>
Builders Mate, Builders Merchants, The Arena, Mollison Avenue, Brimsdown, Enfield, 1994, 94-03-3-53<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mollison Avenue in Brimsdown is a busy road running roughly parallel to and between a railway line and the Lea Navigation with the area between these crammed with industrial and commercial sites. Now much of it is occupied by delivery centres and I think there are rather more fences than in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a picture largely about shapes and as with many olds getting the colours to look natural is a problem – as you can see particulary in the foliage here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bridge,<\/a>
Bridge, Pipe Bridge, Lea Navigation, <\/em>Brimsdown, Enfield, 1994, 94-03-3-31<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The colour is rather better in this image of a large pipe bridge, possibly carrying gas, over the navigation. The view here looks rather rural, but as usual there is a line of tall pilons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I made use of the curvature from the swing-lens camera – as well as the obvious pipe there is a second interlocking curve with the bridge, the grass bank and the towpath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Columbia<\/a>
Columbia Wharf, Ponders End, Enfield, 1994, 94-03-3-23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Columbia Wharf was now a wharf in name only, with lorries now delivering carpets. This is now a part of ‘Ponders End Waterfront’. I think this picture was taken from Wharf Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Launderette,<\/a>
Launderette, Enfield Wash, Enfield, 1994, 94-03-1-63<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enfield Wash is close to Enfield Lock station which I used several times to walk around the area. I have a small suspicion that this launderette may really have been in an area that locals would call Enfield Lock, but I decided given the subject that Enfield Wash was more appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Launderette, Enfield Wash, Enfield, 1994, 94-03-1-64<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I still can’t decide whether I preferred the landscape or portrait version of this launderette interior – taken through the window when it was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cross,<\/a>
Shops and Cross, Waltham Cross, Broxbourne, 1994, 94-03-1-61<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From Enfield Lock Station a short walk took me to the Lee Navigation towpath which is also the Lea Valley Walk and a couple of kilometres north uder the M25 I was out of Greater London and in Waltham Cross. At right is the Eleanor Cross, one of twelve built to the orders of King Edward I to mark the overnight resting places of his wife Eleanor of Castile who died near Lincoln in 1290 as her body was en route to Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much restored it now sits in the pedestrianised shopping centre, one of only 3 surviving Eleanor Crosses. The one in front of Charing Cross Station is a Victorian 1865 recreation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More from Enfield in a later post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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