Bowes Park
Bowes Park (
The population for the Enfield ward at the 2011 Census was 14,051.[1]
History
The district developed in the 1880s and is named after an old manor called Bowes 1396, marked as Bowes Farm and Bowes (Manor) on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1822 and 1877, respectively. This is 'estate of a family called Bowes' ; one John de Arcubus (Latin for 'of the bows or arches') occurs in a local document from 1274.[2] John de Arcubus was one of many de Arcubi who lived around St Mary-le-Bow ("Sancta Maria de arcubus") church in the City of London.[3]
Community and grassroots campaigns
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Bowes Park is a small community centred around Myddleton Road, which houses a number of shops. There has been a strong local grassroots campaign to rejuvenate the street. The local action group "We Love Myddleton Road" meet several times a year and work with the police and local council to encourage regeneration and business development in the area. English Heritage recently put forward funding for a number shopfronts to be restored in a traditional timber framed style.[citation needed]
As of 2016, businesses and shops on Myddleton Road included a cafe and bar; an interior design and gifts shop; a Greek bakery; a Greek deli; an Italian deli; a local community space offering children's activities and yoga, amongst other things; a gym; a vintage interiors shop; a barber shop; and a piano shop and café.
The Bowes Park community also hosts the regular Myddleton Road market and the Bowes Park Summer Festival.
The road is named after
Transport
Bowes Park is served by mainline rail through Bowes Park station with trains to Moorgate via Finsbury Park and Highbury and Islington, London Underground through Bounds Green tube and bus services along Green Lanes to Wood Green underground station.
Demography
The Bowes Park ward covers areas just south of North Circular Road, but not the rail station. The 2011 census showed that the ward's population was 62% white (30% British, 29% Other, 3% Irish), and 8% was Indian.[4]
Places of worship
The Anglican St Michael at Bowes Church, and Trinity at Bowes Methodist Church, lie at the northern end of Palmerston Road.
Shaftesbury Hall is a rare example of a 19th-century
In popular culture
The shops in Myddleton Road featured in the first episode of the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. Myddleton Road (outside a menswear shop) makes another brief appearance in a flashback sequence in episode 4 of the first series. The series Director Edgar Wright used to live in a Myddleton Road flat.[citation needed]
Some of the exterior sequences featuring Omid Djalili for the David Baddiel scripted film The Infidel were shot in Thorold Road.[6]
Myddleton Road is included in some of the interior and exterior locations in the music video made by Free Seed Films for The Blockheads "Express Yourself" the first single from their 2013 album 'Same Horse Different Jockey'. The album was recorded at the Cowshed Studio in Myddleton Road Bowes Park.[7]
Notable people associated with Bowes Park
- Eagle and Ladybird Books,[8]was born in Bowes Park.
- inventor, lived at 88 Nightingale Road, Bowes Park, from 1946 with his brother Fred Clarke and Fred's wife Dorothy.[9]
- the House of Lords.
- Donald MacCadie, inventor of the electrical AVOmeter, lived at 190 Bowes Road at the corner of Moffat Road. For a time he rented Shaftesbury Hall, a pre-fabricated corrugated iron chapel or tin tabernacle on Herbert Road, as an assembly shop for his invention.[10]
References
- ^ "Enfield Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ISBN 0-19-860957-4
- ^ 'St. Mary le Bow 104/10', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 243
- ^ "Bowes – UK Census Data 2011".
- ^ Robert Mason. "Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society". Glias.org.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ^ "Local Film Locations – Bowes and Bounds Connected". Bowesandbounds.org. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ^ "The Blockheads – Express Yourself – Bowes and Bounds Connected". Bowesandbounds.org. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ^ "Robert Ayton". Bear Alley. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ^ "Damn good thing it's not whiskey I smell, sir!". Infolanka.com. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ^ Robert Mason. "Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society". Glias.org.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2016.