EPW061331 ENGLAND (1939). East Barnet and Southgate, Cockfosters, from the north-west, 1939

Hampden Square

Osidge Primary School, Chase Side, London N14 5HD

Bramley Road, parallel to the A110, features an Edward VIII Royal Mail pillar box. Fairly rare but in keeping with the age of the houses in this road.

Osidge Lane.

Avenue Road.

The De Bohun clock had a carillon that chimed "Boys & Girls Come Out to Play". Along with all tower bells it was silenced during the War, but not restarted after. Is it working these days?

"Grt North London Cemetery".

Hampden Way.

Ferney Road.

Brookside South.

Osidge Lane.

Woodfield Drive.

"Oak Hill Park".

Church Hill Road.

Russel Lane.

Brunswick Park Road.

Brownlow Road.

"Ritz Cinema". A406. Bowes Road. Located in the north London district of Southgate. Built and designed by Major W.J. King as one of several Ritz Cinemas planned for a small chain, the project was sold to Associated British Cinemas (ABC) prior to completion. It opened as the Ritz Cinema on 21st December 1933 with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in “The Narrow Corner” and John Wayne in “His Private Secretary”. Styled in a rather plain Art Deco style, the auditorium runs parallel to the main Bowes Road (which today is part of the North Circular Road around London) and was hidden from view by a parade of shops. Inside the auditorium, the main features were a central dome in the ceiling and abstract decorative designs on the splay walls each side of the proscenium. The Ritz Cinema was equipped with a Compton 3Manual/10Rank theatre organ which was opened by Alex Taylor. Additional facilities included a cafe and a large car park. It was re-named ABC from 1969 and in April 1970 it was fitted out as a ‘Luxury Lounge’ cinema with new spacious seating and carpeting in the stalls area which now contained 588 seats, while the balcony became un-used. The ABC closed on 16th February 1974 with Brigitte Bardot in “The Legend of Frenchie King” (Les Petroleuses) and Leslie Phillips in “Not Now Darling”. It lay empty for a while and was then purchased by Jehovah’s Witnesses who now use it as an Assembly Hall. It has been well maintained and restored to near original condition. Located in the north London district of Southgate. Built and designed by Major W.J. King as one of several Ritz Cinemas planned for a small chain, the project was sold to Associated British Cinemas (ABC) prior to completion. It opened as the Ritz Cinema on 21st December 1933 with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in “The Narrow Corner” and John Wayne in “His Private Secretary”. Styled in a rather plain Art Deco style, the auditorium runs parallel to the main Bowes Road (which today is part of the North Circular Road around London) and was hidden from view by a parade of shops. Inside the auditorium, the main features were a central dome in the ceiling and abstract decorative designs on the splay walls each side of the proscenium. The Ritz Cinema was equipped with a Compton 3Manual/10Rank theatre organ which was opened by Alex Taylor. Additional facilities included a cafe and a large car park. It was re-named ABC from 1969 and in April 1970 it was fitted out as a ‘Luxury Lounge’ cinema with new spacious seating and carpeting in the stalls area which now contained 588 seats, while the balcony became un-used. The ABC closed on 16th February 1974 with Brigitte Bardot in “The Legend of Frenchie King” (Les Petroleuses) and Leslie Phillips in “Not Now Darling”. It lay empty for a while and was then purchased by Jehovah’s Witnesses who now use it as an Assembly Hall. It has been well maintained and restored to near original condition.

Powys Lane.

Wilmer Way.

Morton Way.

"Viaduct". As seen from Waterfall Rd, junction with Hampden Way, on right. / Morton Way, on Left.

"Arnos Park".

Waterfall Road.

A1110. Bowes Road.

Betstyle Road.

Ravenscraig Road.

Brookdale.

"Arnos Grove Station". The station was opened on 19 September 1932 as the most northerly on the first section of the Piccadilly line extension from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters. It was the terminus of the line until services were further extended to Oakwood on 13 March 1933. Its name was chosen after public deliberation: alternatives were "Arnos Park", "Bowes Road" and "Southgate". Like the other stations Charles Holden designed for the extension, Arnos Grove was built in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete and basic geometric shapes. A circular drum-like ticket hall of brick and glass panels rises from a low single-storey structure and is capped by a flat concrete roof. The design was inspired by the Stockholm City Library and Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. A similar design was employed by Holden for the rebuilding of Chiswick Park on the District line (also in 1932), although the drum there is supplemented with an adjacent brick tower. The centre of the ticket hall is occupied by a disused ticket office (a passimeter in London Underground parlance) which houses an exhibition on the station and the line. In July 2011 Arnos Grove became a Grade II* listed building.[7] The building is one of the 12 "Great Modern Buildings" profiled in The Guardian during October 2007,[8] and was summarised by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey as "...truly what German art historians would describe as a gesamtkunstwerk, a total and entire work of art."

A1004. Cannon Hill.

"Christ Church, Southgate". A1003. The Green. / Waterfall Road.

"Oakwood Underground Station". The station opened on 13 March 1933 as part of the Cockfosters extension, its original name being Enfield West. The station did not appear on the original plans to extend the Piccadilly line beyond Finsbury Park, which only provided for seven additional stations, however it served as the line's terminus for a brief period before Cockfosters station was opened. The station building is a fine example of the architecture Charles Holden built for the Piccadilly line extensions, with a large and imposing box-shaped ticket hall surrounded by lower structures containing shops. The ceiling of the booking hall is particularly monumental and bold. The whole design mirrors proportions found in classical architecture, albeit in a distinctly 20th century structure. The dimensions of the ticket hall are approximately a "double-cube" (its front elevation is roughly twice its height and width). The station is similar to Holden's slightly earlier designs for Sudbury Town and Acton Town stations at the western end of Piccadilly line. Oakwood Station is a Grade II* listed building. Like other extensions of the London Underground lines, the opening of the Cockfosters extension stimulated the rapid development of new suburbs and much of the open countryside that existed in 1930 when construction started was quickly covered by new housing developments.

Queen Elizabeths Drive.

Raleigh Way.

St Thomas Road.

Winchmore Hill Road.

The Vale.

Mayfair Terrace. "Viaduct between Oakwood Station and Southgate".

Lakenheath.

Kenwood Ave.

Carlton Ave.

Shouth Lodge.

Grosvenor Grds.

Belgrave Grds.

"Oakwood Park".

"St Thomas's Church C of E". St Thomas's is a modern Anglican church established in the 1930s as the suburb of Oakwood grew with the extension of the Piccadilly underground line to Cockfosters. Building stopped with the outbreak of the Second World War, and the church was not finished until the 1950s. The architect was Romilly Craze. Later a parish hall was added, and a distinctive tall green spire. There is a guide hut on the grounds across the car park from the main building. Late in 2010 the spire was found to be unsafe and removed, however this was replaced at the beginning of 2012.

Sheringham Ave.

Prince George Ave.

Chase Road.

Green Road.

Reservoir Road.

The Bourne.

"Southgate Methodist Church": The Bourne

Fox Lane.

"Odeon Cinema Southgate": The Bourne. A view of the cinema under construction in 1935. It was designed by Bertie Crewe and cost £26,163 to build.

"Cockfosters Station". The station opened on 31 July 1933, the last of the stations on the extension of the line from Finsbury Park to do so and four months after Oakwood station (then called Enfield West) opened. Prior to its opening, "Trent Park" and "Cock Fosters" (an early spelling of the area's name) were suggested as alternative station names. The original site hoarding displayed the name as a single word. The station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete. Compared with the other new stations Holden designed for the extension, Cockfosters' street buildings are modest in scale, lacking the mass of Oakwood or Arnos Grove or the avant-garde flourish of Southgate. Holden's early design sketches show the station with two towers. The most striking feature of the station is the tall concrete and glass trainshed roof and platform canopies which are supported by portal frames of narrow blade-like concrete columns and beams rising from the platforms and spanning across the tracks. The trainshed roof constructed at Uxbridge in 1937-38 was built to a similar design. Cockfosters station is a Grade II listed building. The station has three tracks with platforms number 1 to 4; the centre track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3. This is an example of the so-called Spanish solution. Most eastbound Piccadilly trains terminate here although some terminate at Oakwood or Arnos Grove, particularly in peak hours or in the evenings. Cockfosters depot is located between Oakwood and Cockfosters and trains can access or leave it from either direction.

"Southgate Underground Station". Southgate station opened on 13 March 1933 with Oakwood on the second phase of the northern extension of the Piccadilly line from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters. Prior to the station's opening, alternative names were suggested including "Chase Side" and "Southgate Central". On opening, local residents were given a free return ticket to Piccadilly Circus.

A111. Chase Side.

"De Bohn School": Green Road.

Wood Ave.

Trent Grds.

De Bohnun Ave.

Green Road.

A110. Bramley Road.

"Christ Church Cockfosters": Chalk Lane.

"Later became": Edgeworth Road.

Park Road.

Lakeside Cres.

Daneland.

Freston Grds.

Heddon Court Ave.

Heddon Road.

Ashurst Road.

Cat Hill.

"East Barnet School".

Ridgeway Ave.

Belmont Ave.

Belmont Ave.

Mount Pleasant.

Mount Pleasant.

A111. Cockfosters Road.

"Trent Park Gates".

A111. Cockfosters Road.

Kent Drive.

Gloucester Grds.

Sussex Way.

Westpole Ave.

Approach Road.