epw010336 ENGLAND (1924). Chase Side and environs, Southgate, 1924. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.

Methodist Chapel, shown on 1894-95 maps, in use until 1929. Subsequently used as a Sunday schoolroom.

Alpine House: the distinctive gabled roof with finials can be identified in many old photographs. H W Newby pointed out that the gabled roof (and so perhaps much of the building) survived behind the modern shop front. It seems to have gone now in redevelopment for Pizza Express.

Ice pond. In the latter half of the 1800s Abraham Simmons dammed Houndsden Gutter to form ponds from which, in winter, he collected ice for storage in ice wells. This he would sell to London fishmongers, hence the nearby Fishmonger's Arms. In the attached picture can be seen Ivy Stores and houses in Chase Road.

Trees in leaf and the sun shining, but the first half of April 1924 was cold and snow fell on six separate days. On this day, I think, there had been a light fall of snow overnight which had frozen on colder surfaces. Only on Chase Side and the High Street had motor vehicles made their mark.

Entrance to Grovelands, a hospital since 1916.

The Lawns.

Queen Elizabeth's Lodge: From before 1850 an academy for young men destined for military or public service. From 1904, when it gained its name, the building housed a girls preparatory school. In 1913 it became a Church Army reformatory for girls.

Crocodile of children crossing from Chase Road to the High Street.

The Grange.

In 1884 the Baptists built this corrugated iron chapel. When they moved to Chase Side in 1894 it was retained for Sunday School.

High Street. Bunkers the wheelwrights were replaced in 1897 by a row of four shops (see attached picture). The wooden cottages had gone when the aerial picture was taken.

Church of England schools: Boys from 1887, Infants from 1895.

College House boarding school for 45 boys. Active before 1828 until about 1895. It may have been associated with the nearby Independent Chapel.

Southgate Smithy, the corner of the roof can be seen in the aerial photo. The smithy had been on this site for some 300 years. The attached photo was taken in 1932 when it was about to be demolished for the underground railway. The Lawns can be seen beyond.

White Hart, Chase Road.

Church, on OS maps 1913 and 1937. Denomination?

Baptist Chapel. The site of a building erected in 1809 by a society for the promotion of Sunday Schools for children. In 1815 this was taken over by the Independents who, in the 1860s, rebuilt it with the square tower and steeple we see here. It was sold to the Baptists in 1894.

The Crown, erected 1895 to replace a much older building. To the rear of the car park can be seen the formal garden. With my parents there one summer evening before the War I observed, as a child would, that the paths were edged with beer bottles set at an angle.

Crown Lane followed the edge of Enfield Chase, which was also the boundary between Middlesex and Hertfordshire. Early buildings on the north side of the lane, including the Crown Inn, were an encroachment on the chase. Travellers too were inclined to cut across the corner of the chase rather than follow Crown Lane. Some of the cottages visible in the aerial picture still survive.

Fishmonger's Arms, Winchmore Hill Road.

Houndsden Gutter follows the hedge line here. It rises near to the junction of Bramley Road and Chase Side, goes under Avenue Road and Chase Road, and flows off the top of this picture to join the Salmon Brook at Grange Park.

Frederick Lee, Post Office and grocery store.

Future Site of Southgate station (Circa 1933)On The Piccadily Line