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Food Health History Palmers Green Shops Uncategorized

Have you tried the new helium bread?

Helium bread was one of the exciting delicacies offered at Goodall’s in Park Parade Palmers Green in the first years of the 1900s.

Leading medics of the day were testifying to its health benefits, including the King’s physician. And if you hadn’t tried it you were missing out, declared The Recorder in the housewives column of its first issue in November 1907.

I tried a four days’ old loaf the other day, and found it as moist as a few hours’ old household. There is no crust, merely a thin crisp coating. The shape of the loaf is such, that delightful pieces of toast can be made.

It was perfect for afternoon tea too, and look! no waste:

There is one thing about the bread: there never will be any waste; no odd crusts to throw to the birds.

Goodall’s version with added currants was, apparently, was particularly tasty.

 Neither of Goodall’s loaves were the best thing since sliced bread however. That wasnt invented until 1912.

  • The Recorder was published from 1907 to 1916. A searchable disc containing all 170 issues is now available  from Southgate District Civic Trust
An advertisement for Goodalls from the first issue of The Recorder, November 1907, reproduced by kind permission of David Cooper/Southgate Civic Trust

 

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Art and Culture Comedy Palmers Green

Roscommon erm…London N13

1970s Ireland comes to Palmers Green

Moone Boy is Chris O Dowd’s new comedy series about a 12 year old boy from a small town in Ireland who has an imaginary friend. Filmed in Roscommon, the  series began life as a comedy short as part of the Little Crackers series, and is partly based on O Dowd’s childhood. But the location for this trailer might be a little familiar…

Moone boy trailer

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Community Food Palmers Green Planning and open spaces Uncategorized

Home grown fun!

Broomfield Community Orchard’s Summer Picnic this year included a scarecrow, apple bobbing, local honey, a tug o’ war and country dancing.

Up for some home grown country style fun? The next Community Orchard event is Apple Day, 2-5 on 21 October. For more information about the orchard, visit http://friendsofbroomfieldpark.org/friendsofbroomfieldpark/orchard.html

The fantastic summer picnic scarecrow. Image: Broomfield Community Orchard

 

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Community Food Palmers Green Planning and open spaces Uncategorized

Council opens door for new community cafe in Broomfield Park

The realisation of plans to create a new community café in Broomfield Park is one step closer.

A first sketch of how the new cafe will look (image by kind permission of The Palmers Greenery)

Last week Enfield Council placed an advert in local press inviting expressions of interest for the provision of a ‘Community Facility’ in the park. Meanwhile an architects drawing of how the new café might look has been unveiled by the Palmers Greenery team.

Enfield’s advert paves the way for the Palmers Greenery group to make a formal application to open a new café in the park and is an important milestone in a community project initiated and led by local Palmers Green residents in association with the Friends of Broomfield Park.

Over the last year, the Palmers Greenery team has been working to develop a business plan, engage with local stakeholders, and establish a positive working relationship with London Borough of Enfield. Importantly, they have also been able to secure the ring fencing of £35,000 to cover start-up costs from the Enfield Residents Priority Fund.

The intention is that the Palmers Greenery will be child-friendly and serve affordable, healthy and, where possible, locally sourced food. All surplus generated by the Palmers Greenery will be re-invested directly back into Broomfield Park for park enhancing purposes.

“We welcome LBE’s willingness to embrace new ways of working collaboratively with the community”, says Sarah Cotton of the Palmers Greenery team.

“This project is a real opportunity for LBE to demonstrate that it is listening and responding to local people. We will be working very hard over the next few months to ensure our submission is as robust as possible.”

If you have any specific expertise that you think will be helpful to the Palmers Greenery team as they put the final tweaks to the business plan, please get in touch .

 

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Community Music Palmers Green

Did we mention the Palmers Green festival…?

The weather is set to ‘sun’, and all the planning is done. This Sunday’s Palmers Green Festival is set to be huge. Held in Broomfield Park, it runs from 12-7, and music from the festival is is being streamed live on Tropical FM. Why not plan your visit with the help of this brilliant map from Pauline Hazelwood (www.paulinehazelwood.co.uk) and the festival website http://www.palmersgreenfestival.org.uk/Festival/welcome.html

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Palmers Green

Burrowes takes up The Woodman’s cause

Enfield MP David Burrowes has raised the issue of The Woodman and tenanted pubs in general with Ministers following local dismay at the pub’s closure.

The Woodman closed its doors just a few days after the Olympic torch passed by at the end of July. Since then it has been open for the odd evening to run down stock, while negotiations continue with the brewery, Marstons.

The Woodman is the oldest pub continuously occupying the same building in Palmers Green, and began life in 1727 as a pair of cottages. It has been a pub since 1868. There is more on the history of our pubs, old, new, and now lost, at http://www.palmersgreenn13.com/places-2/inns-and-pubs/