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©John Salmon
Dist:0.1km<br/>The School is in South Street next to [[681164]], and is one of the 147 Church of England schools supported by the London Diocesan Board for Schools. According to the white tablet in the front gable end the school was originally built as a National Infant School in MDCCCXC or 1890, some twelve years after the church. The Christian church motif of the cross is also replicated in the other gable end.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km<br/>The original church to the left was built of Kentish ragstone and completed in 1878. The chancel to the right was added in 1900. This is the Church Road frontage.
©Nigel Cox
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©CAbel-Opurum
Dist:0.2km<br/>Located in South Street opposite St Matthew's Church.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>Boundary Ditch marks the divide between Edmonton to the right and Ponders End to the left. The white bird flying along the ditch is a litte egret. The RSPB currently (in 2010) estimate that there are about 150 breeding pairs of these birds in the UK, with about 1,600 birds wintering, with the distribution mainly along the south and east coasts of England. To the photographer the number seems to be a gross underestimate, because they seem to be much commoner than that, while their distribution seems to be much more widespread to the extent that one would not be surprised to see one on any inland watercourse in south-eastern England anymore. Egrets are small herons and live on fish, and this one was feeding in the water before it was disturbed. The egret's presence here would also imply that the ditch is clean enough to support and sustain a healthy population of fish.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>These four massive tower blocks dominate the horizon in this grid square. In fact the most distant is actually in [[TQ3695]]. They are, in order from left to right, Curlew, Merlin, Cormorant, and Kestrel Houses. In the meantime the falcon on the inn sign in front of Merlin, and outside The Falcon PH to the right, watches over all of them.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>These arches at the entrance to the path alongside Boundary Ditch off the Hertford Road were created by the artist Jan Rosser in collaboration with young people from St Matthew's Primary School and Galliards Primary School in Enfield, and were inspired by the brook's natural environment and wildlife.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>This was taken looking across Ponders End High Street at the junction with South Street towards the parade of community shops. I trust that the Halifax will now make me an offer I cannot refuse...
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is one of three gasometers on the Woodall Road gas works site, and they are each large enough to justify being shown individually on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale mapping. The 1882 Ordnance Survey map shows a gasworks and a single gasometer more or less in this same location, but nearer the railway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Sedilia in sanctuary
©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km<br/>The railway through Ponders End was constructed in 1840, and this hotel next to the station on South Street followed shortly afterwards in 1841. The 1940s OS map shows the A110 road crossing the railway by a level crossing here, so the trade from the railway and the road must have been reasonable. However the road crossing has gone to be replaced by the Lea Valley Road bridge to the north, and the hotel itself is now closed and in a dilapidated vandalized state. The tablets either side of "The Railway" nameplate read "Watney Combe Reid", a reminder of a brewery that ceased to exist as long ago as 1958 when it merged with another concern to become Watney Mann.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Train services here are operated by One Railway, and there is a weekday half-hourly service to / from London Liverpool Street, scheduled to take between 20 and 25 minutes.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Typical terraced housing for this square
©Stephen Dawson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Built 1958
©John Salmon

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