Bermondsey Riverside stretches one and a half miles from London Bridge to the edge of Rotherhithe at King's Stairs Gardens. The regeneration of the area was not led by major investment in physical infrastructure, site preparation and land disposals. This was partly because very little land was vested in the LDDC, and also because Bermondsey Riverside differed from most other parts of London Docklands in that it already had a basic road infrastructure, so that site preparation costs were low: they mainly involved site clearance, river wall works to the vested land and archaeological excavation. To find viable new roles for the area, and uses through which to recycle vacant land and buildings, the LDDC drew up a broad usage pattern for Bermondsey Riverside. This meant: first, mainly office redevelopment in the central area between London Bridge and Tower Bridge; second, the encouragement of mixed use redevelopment for the Butlers Wharf area; and third, the improvement and expansion of the existing mainly residential environment to the east of St Saviours Dock.
Limehouse:
In the case of Limehouse, the breakthrough came in 1993 with the opening of the Limehouse Link. Before then, Limehouse had been a victim of traffic clogging up streets that had never been intended for such volumes. In the few short years since the Link took all that traffic underground, Limehouse has become a highly attractive and desirable place to live.
The name itself comes from the lime oasts or kilns established there in the 14th Century and used to produce quick lime for building mortar. Pottery manufacture followed. In 1660, Samuel Pepys visited a porcelain factory in Duke's Shore, Narrow Street, whilst the Limehouse Pottery, on the site of today's Limekiln Wharf, was established in the 1740s as England's first soft paste porcelain factory. During the excavations for the Limehouse Link Tunnel, the dual carriageway road which has transformed access in London Docklands, a pottery kiln was found at Dunbar Wharf.
In November 1982, the LDDC published its Limehouse Area Development Strategy. This built on existing plans for Limehouse Basin, and offered a discussion framework for future development, housing refurbishment and environmental improvements across the whole of Limehouse. It was based on four major projects: Limehouse Basin, Free Trade Wharf, what was then known as the Light Rapid Transit Route (DLR) and the Docklands Northern Relief Road, a road corridor between The Highway and East India Dock across the north of the Isle of Dogs.
The building of the Limehouse Link in 1933 directly affected 169 homes, largely at St Vincent's Estate and the Barley Mow Estate. Under The Accord agreed with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1988, the LDDC rehoused people from an additional 296 units and a number of families who were sharing homes. In total 556 households were rehoused. Most of the families were offered new housing association homes, mainly on the Isle of Dogs and some opted for refurbished Council homes. The LDDC also agreed to fund a £35 million package of social, economic and community initiatives to benefit Tower Hamlets residents.
The Isle of Dogs: - The Isle of Dogs was de-designated on 10 October 1997. Since its creation in 1981, the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) has been based on the island; and while we have paid equal attention to every part of the eight and a half square miles of the London Docklands Urban Development Area, our presence on the spot has enabled us to witness, day by day, the total transformation of the Isle of Dogs - a transformation in which the Corporation has played a leading role.
The earliest reference to the area as the Isle of Dogs is on a map of 1588. This makes it possible that one of the attributions for the origin of its name, as the place where Henry VIII kept his hunting dogs, could be true. On the other hand, it could equally well have been a dismissive term. At any rate this early mention rules out another theory, which is that the name comes from the dykes and windmills erected by Dutch engineers in the 17th Century to drain the marsh. Although they were successful, people were not in a hurry to move to the Isle of Dogs and the Chapel House Farm was probably the only building on it in the 18th Century, other than a pub which is believed to have been established on the site of today's Ferry House pub at Island Gardens. The pub served the needs of people travelling across to Greenwich in the ferry which plied the Thames from here until it was made redundant by the opening of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel in 1902.
The Isle of Dogs has undergone two depopulations in the 20th Century: the first through wartime bombing, and the second with the wind down and eventual closure of the docks, when those who could moved out. In 1981 the population was 15,472. By October 1997 it was estimated to have risen to 23,000 - in excess of the 1901 level. Over the same period the number of households is estimated to have increased from 5,687 to 9,300.
The Enterprise Zone was formally designated on 26th April 1982 for ten years. Initial activity in the Enterprise Zone involved relatively small scale industrial and commercial development either side of Millwall Inner Dock and on what is now Marsh Wall, Millharbour, Mastmakers Road and Limeharbour. Limehouse Studios, designed by Terry Farrell, was built in a converted warehouse at the eastern end of Canary Wharf. Higher density office development followed with buildings like Nicholas Lacey Jobst and Hyett's bright and cheerful buildings on Heron Quays, as well as Richard Seifert's South Quay Plaza on Marsh Wall. However, the breakthrough came with the vision for a financial services centre on Canary Wharf.
The Royal Docks: - The history of London's docks is a story of obsolescence. In Wapping and Limehouse, the docks became obsolete almost as soon as they were dug, unable to cope with the ever larger ships made possible by the age of steam. By contrast, the Royal Docks were at the forefront of technology for a good many years and enjoyed a period of great prosperity before the end came suddenly in 1981.
Royal Victoria Dock, the first of the Royals group, was opened by Prince Albert during the Crimean War in 1855. It incorporated a whole range of firsts: it was the first dock to use the new railways, the first designed to take the new iron steamships, and the first to use hydraulic cranes and lifts to raise ships in a pontoon dock. Its success led to an extension to the east and the construction of Royal Albert Dock, which opened in 1880. Finally came King George V Dock, begun in 1912 and, after delays caused by the First World War, opened in 1921. Marsh land to the north, which is now Beckton, was earmarked for further expansion of the dock system. The time needed to regenerate the Royal Docks can be illustrated by statistics. For example, the population increased by less than 1%, between 1981 and 1991: from 4,178 to 4,211 (although households had increased by 17% from 1,571 to 1,846). The improvements that have characterised the 1990s are demonstrated by a population rise to 4,800 by 1997: a rise of 15% since 1981.
London City Airport was the Royals' first major success. The prevailing winds in London mean that the correct alignment for airport runways is 280 degrees. It was in 1982 that it was noticed that, by happy coincidence, the quay space between Royal Albert and King George V Docks followed this same alignment and an airport was proposed. London City Airport is the first entirely new airport built in the UK for 40 years. As the 1990s progressed, it became Europe's fastest growing airport, with features such as the ten minute check-in, making it extremely popular with business people. More and more routes are being added all the time, and the airport is now dealing with more than one million passengers a year, serving 20 UK and European destinations. The airport has also become a major local employer, providing jobs for some 736 people, a visible symbol of the Royals' regeneration, and a crucial factor in attracting developments such as the ExCeL exhibition centre to the area.
The Surrey Docks: - The LDDC has much to be proud of in the Surrey Docks. Today it is a balanced community with some of London's most attractive housing and more green space than most other parts of the capital. It has an excellent shopping centre which not only serves a large catchment area south of the river but also provides many local jobs. The opening of the Jubilee Line Extension with its station at Canada Water, by the end of 1998, along with the current and planned expansion of shopping and leisure facilities on the peninsula, will complete the development jigsaw in what is now a most sought after residential location in London.
The pre-dock history of Surrey Docks peninsula lies in the historic village of Rotherhithe, a name which probably comes from the Saxon redhra (sailor) hyth (haven). Certainly, it has provided a haven for plenty of sailors over the centuries. It was also at times called Redriffe: Samuel Pepys refers to it as such, and Redriffe is also the fictitious home of Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's travels. The word comes from the distinctive red gravel visible at low tide in the Thames, which was originally called red reed. Rotherhithe Street, on the western side of the peninsula, is one of London's longest streets. The street was a wall against the river, and probably begun in Roman times.
When the London Docklands Development Corporation was set up in 1981, it faced an enormous challenge in the Surrey Docks. The overall appearance of the area reflected its isolation from the mainstream economy and life of London. The population was 5,923, living in 2,346 homes, only 42 of which were owner occupied: 81% of households rented their homes from the Council, and 17% privately or from a housing association. 63% of households did not have a car.
History of Becton
Throughout most of its history, much of Beckton was flat, low lying marshland. In the 19th Century, when the east of London was used to serve the needs of the west, the Gas Light and Coke Company bought 540 acres in the area and in 1870 opened Europe's largest gas works, serving the whole of London. In honour of the event, the whole district was named after Simon Adams Beck, the Governor of the Company. What became today's GMB Trade Union was founded at these works, which stopped making gas in 1969 after the introduction of natural gas.
Beckton's other historic service to London was in drainage. In 1875, Joseph Bazalgette's monumental drainage system for the metropolitan area was completed. It ended cholera in London and led to the development of the modern flush toilet. It also gave Beckton the distinction of being the destination for all of the sewage of London north of the Thames, and of having the largest sewage treatment works n Europe.
The starting point for the LDDC's work in Beckton was the 1980 Beckton District Plan, the only up-to-date statutory plan in London Docklands at the time the Corporation was set up. Well before a Memorandum of Agreement was signed with the London Borough of Newham in 1987, there was close co-operation on numerous projects, for example, the house building programme and the creation of the Beckton Alps, now a dry ski slope. The Corporation implemented a number of community projects in the 1980 Beckton District Plan such as the West Beckton Children's Centre, shops, flats and a community centre at Cyprus and many landscaping and public amenity schemes. The Memorandum of Agreement made provision for local people to benefit from new developments in the Royal Docks. The Council for its part agreed to co- operate with the Corporation in the highway schemes to serve the Royal Docks and to give support for the large developments planned for the area.
This early success set the tone, not just for Beckton but for the whole of London Docklands. The LDDC started releasing more land. Areas closer to the centre of London such as Wapping and Surrey Docks, also hitherto treated with suspicion by builders and developers, benefited from the lead taken by Beckton. The 1982/83 LDDC Annual Report noted that work had started on six sites containing some 936 homes, about two thirds in Newham and the remainder in Southwark and that it was about to start on the building of 954 further homes in west and mid-Beckton, the Isle of Dogs, Southwark and Wapping. And so it continued, with the result that during the first ten years of the LDDC, owner occupation in Beckton increased from 20% of all housing to 55% - the largest figure in the entire UDA. During the same period, rented social housing decreased from 64% to 37%, although of course it rose in numerical terms.
Housing in Beckton
Beckton has a mixture of housing with different types of tenure. The first low cost private housing schemes began in 1981 at Savage Gardens. As well as private schemes there is housing owned by local authorities and housing associations for rent. There are also interesting variations such as shared ownership where the purchaser buys a share in the property and pays rent on the remainder. This allows residents a stake in their homes at an entry price to suit many more budgets and can also result in lower maintenance costs as the tenant/owner takes a greater interest in the property. At Winsor Park a consortium of seven housing associations built over 500 homes for rent or shared ownership between 1990 and 1996. This process continued with the construction of more private housing on the site of the former gasworks since 1999. This has involved the use of land that was once considered too toxic to be used for residential purposes and required much environmental cleansing before it could be used.
In addition to the new homes that have been built on this former wasteland it now has a fully developed district shopping centre, a retail and business park served by the Docklands Light Railway. It also has a wide range of community amenities including its own bowling alley an equestrian centre and an urban farm. In addition it has a park, a lake, a golf driving range and many cycleways. Unfortunately the dry ski slope has recently been closed and vandalism is increasingly evident in the park.
Beckton District
Shopping Cenre
The Asda Superstore opened in 1983. The range of shopping facilities began to be enhanced through the development of the Beckton Retail Park adjoining the London Industrial Park. This comprised a DIY store and eight other units. These changes, already revolutionary when compared to what the area had known before, moved to even greater importance with the arrival of the Sainsbury's Savacentre on a site next to the A13 in 1993. This not only secured the regeneration of the last major site owned by the LDDC in the area of north-east Beckton, but more important created 700 local jobs. The arrival of B&Q and others such as McDonald's on adjoining land has further enhanced this process. The London Industrial Park, now almost fully developed, provides local jobs in manufacturing, warehousing and distribution in modern, purpose built premises.
Beckton Bus Routes
Pie Chart showing the variety of shops
In the Beckton District Shopping Centre.
Becton Retail Park
Beckton ski-slope and
Former Gas works
The Alp is a heap of industrial waste. It is all that remains of a vast gasmaking plant. The London Docklands Development Corporation created this monument to an extinct industry in 1983.
Simon Adams Beck was governor of the largest gas works in Europe when it opened in 1870. When fully developed the works ran all the way from where the alp now stands down to the river covering an area greater than the City of London.
In those days gas was manufactured by heating coal. It was a dirty, smelly business. Like all industries of this kind it was based in the east end so that the smoke and fumes were carried away from the fashionable west end of London by the prevailing winds.
The Gas Light and Coke Company's chose to build the huge Beckton gasworks just to the west of Barking Creek because it was close to the new docks. The Victoria Dock had opened in 1855 and the Albert Dock in 1880. The steam colliers bringing coal from mines in the North-East of England were able to unload their cargo with the help of hydraulic cranes instead of an army of dockers.
Heating coal produces a tarry mixture of chemicals as well as gas. By 1876 the nearby company, Burt, Boulton and Haywood were distilling each year 12 million gallons of coal tar to manufacture many chemicals which could then be turned into disinfectant, insecticide and dyes. Sulfur from the gas works was the raw material for local manufacturers of sulfuric acid needed by other nearby companies producing products such as fertilizers.
The discovery of natural gas in the North Sea meant that manufactured gas became uncompetitive.
The Beckton works finally closed in 1967.
From 1989 to 2001 a dry ski slope ran down the Beckton alp. This has now been swept away and is being replaced by a modern Snowdome with real snow.
Analysis on Beckton
I think that Becton has overall is successful, but some aspects haven’t been successful, not meeting its criteria. To help me to determine the success of Beckton I will look at the plan and the aim published in 1976 by the Beckton District:
- Low density mix of parkland, housing and industry
- Combination of private and public investment
- District Centre on the Spine Road
- Industrial development of former gas works land
Looking at these aims we can see that most of them have been achieved or are in the process. Looking at the District Centre on the spine road we know that it was later opened in 1997. Looking at the aim stating the industrial development on the former gas work land we know that it was used to create the Beckton Alps even though it did not turn out to be successful itself.
I conclude that Beckton is a success, as we know that it has tried to achieve its aims and it is still trying as it is under redevelopment at the moment.
History of Wapping
The original Saxon settlement of "Waeppa's people" was probably in the vicinity of today's junction of The Highway and Cannon Street Road. The more recent history and character of Wapping is closely bound up with the Port of London, and in particular with the development that began during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. For example in the 1530s the pub on Wapping High Street which is today known as the "Town of Ramsgate" was called the "Red Cow" in an allusion to the still rural nature of the area. By 1750, the pub was just one of 36 along the High Street alone, serving the needs of the shipyards and wharves that made Wapping one of the busiest parts of London.
Wapping is located closed to the city of London and where some redevelopment had begun in the 1970s (at St Katherine’s Dock, for example). A great deal of the development here has been residential. Including both new building and conversations of riverside warehouses.
Wapping presented a very mixed picture in 1981. The Port of London Authority, and subsequent[y Tower Hamlets Council, had started to fill in the docks to avoid the costs of looking after dock estates. Similarly, a large number of 19th and early 20th Century warehouses had been demolished during the 1970s. By 1981 Tower Hamlets Council had made a significant start in regenerating the area with new housing around the former Eastern Dock. It had also made a start to reclaiming the Western Dock and providing a sports centre, open spaces and a health centre.
In early 1983 the LDDC published its development framework, "The Future for Wapping". Public exhibitions were held at which the ideas were explained and people could express their views. The aim was to create a diverse development appropriate to the inner city, but also emphasising its flexibility and openness to change. With over 90% of the existing housing stock in local authority ownership, more private housing was seen as a key to creating a balanced community and to provide choice. In addition, the old disused warehouses along Wapping High Street and Wapping Wall were identified as highly suitable for residential conversion. There was already commercial development, with News International and the World Trade Centre, and the framework anticipated further such development at the western end of the area round St Katharine Docks and along The Highway. The new distributor road was proposed to serve the major development sites and link The Highway and Wapping High Street.
Housing in Wapping
Dellow House
Reardon Road
This road has a contrast of housing. One end containing newly developed housing and the other of grotty council flats.
Lea Valley
History and Information on
The Lea Valley
The River Lea or Lee runs from Luton in Bedfordshire to the River Thames in east London. Evidence of Bronze and Iron Age settlements have been found along the length of the river and the Romans built Ermine Street parallel to the Lee shortly after they arrived in Britain around two thousand years ago.
During the 9th century the river formed part of the boundary between Saxon England to the west and the invading Vikings to the east, led by King Alfred the Great and Guthrum respectively. It is said that when the Danes sailed up the river in around 895AD and established a base near Ware, Alfred stranded them there by reducing the level of the river. He did this by building an embankment and weir near the Thames, and dividing the river just above Waltham Abbey. How true this is we do not know, but the remains of Viking ships have been found near Hertford and Stanstead Abbots, the river does split into three near Waltham Abbey and the names Kings Weir and Blackwall date back to these times.
The waters of the Lee powered many mills producing flour, gunpowder and also England's first paper mill in c1494. As early as 1424 parliament passed an act allowing works to improve navigation, and the Lee was for centuries an important goods highway into London. Malt, flour, coal and gunpowder were all transported in large quantities to the capital. During the mid 1700's the navigation was much improved with new cuts and locks. Even after the arrival of the railways, imported timber was still transported along the Lee to yards and factories at Walthamstow and Tottenham, while coal was also taken up river to power stations at Hackney, Brimsdown and Rye House. The land surrounding the Lee near Stratford was ideally placed for industries that London did not want right on it's doorstep, such as slaughterhouses or gas works, but did want products from. By all accounts it was not hard to see (or smell) where the early bone china produced at Bow in the 1700's got it's bones from! Many new industries later grew up around Edmonton and Ponders End, including firms manufacturing the world's first radio valves and vacuum flasks. At Enfield Lock, the Royal Small Arms Factory was the major supplier of arms for the British Army for over a century, and the "Matchbox" toys of every 60's schoolboy were made in factories on the Lee at Hackney. While there is still industry in the Lee Valley, the nature of much of it has changed over the past fifty years or so. Some of the older traditional sites remain along the navigation, but many have been replaced by smaller industrial estates bringing new light and service industries to the region.
As well as manufacturing industry, the Lee Valley became one of the largest areas in the country for horticulture. By the 1930's almost half the glasshouses in England were here, growing a variety of fruit, vegetables and flowers. The towns of Cheshunt and Broxbourne were by this time almost surrounded by glasshouses. This was due to the quality of soil, good water supply, easy access to the markets of London and the availability of seasonal labour from the capital. Although greatly diminished, there are still many glasshouses around Enfield and north of Waltham Abbey, growing not only fruit and vegetables, but also plants and shrubs for the many garden centres around London. The extraction of good quality gravel, deposited in the valley during the ice age, also became a major activity, particularly between Waltham Cross and Ware Although there are still some working sites, most have now been returned to nature, many as lakes used for fishing and water sports.
First trains, then lorries took the remaining bulk cargos away from the navigation. The railways were also responsible for encouraging large housing developments aimed at London's first commuters, to start with in Walthamstow and Leyton, but then further out at places such as Chingford and even Hoddesdon. In 1967, an act of parliament established the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority to develop the areas along the Lee, many of them by now derelict, for recreation and wildlife. Today it is mainly pleasure boats and waterbirds that travel up and down the river in place of the barges carrying grain or coal.
Compared to the industrial and suburban southern half of the Lee, the river takes on a different character north of Hertford, running through fields and countryside past Hatfield House and the Hertfordshire towns of Wheathampstead and Harpenden. Although not navigable here, the river has always had an important role to play, providing power for the many small mills that were constructed along it's route, some of which are still standing today. It is possible to walk the entire length of the river by following The Lea Valley Walk from Luton to the Thames.
Lee or Lea?
The original spelling was Ley - but since 1570 all acts of parliament say Lee. As a result, most official names have been spelt Lee, e.g. Lee Conservancy Board (1868), Lee Valley Regional Park (1967), etc. The first occurance of Lea was probably on a map dated 1576, and most maps since have continued to call the river the Lea, but refer to the canalised sections as the Lee Navigation. North of Hertford, the river is therefore nearly always known as the Lea. South of Hertford, although the Lee Navigation and River Lea are often two separate channels running side by side, they often join up for a distance, and most maps now say "River Lea or Lee" to cover both possibilities!
The "correct" spelling is open to debate and can be the cause of many heated discussions, none ever reaching a conclusion. Throughout this site you will find both spellings, but the latest Ordnance Survey map of the district (Explorer 174) is titled "Epping Forest & Lee Valley". In general though, it is equally acceptable to refer to the Lea Valley district, just as it is to visit the Lee Valley Trading Estate, but it is wrong to write about the Lea Valley Park - that should be spelt Lee!
The Lee Valley is a place where the residents of North-East London, Essex and Hertfordshire can enjoy a wide variety of leisure activities from fishing on the Lee to football on the marshes. Many ideas for places to go or things to do can be found in our leisure pages, together with links to pages outlining the history of the region and what the various different towns along the valley have to offer the visitor of today. Despite the more recent shift towards leisure and recreation, the Lee Valley is still an important industrial area with many small businesses along it's length. The online business pages give smaller companies in the region the chance to gain an internet presence in an easy and cost-effective way.
Lea Valleys Water Supply
The River Lea rises at Leagrave Bedfordshire and flows into the River Thames at Bow Creek. In essence the Lea is a short river less than 50 miles long. It emerges as a small stream from the chalk hills of the Chilterns and flows east through Luton. At Hertford it turns south and continues to flow broadly in that direction until it reaches the Thames at Bow Creek near Blackwall. The river is fed by 7 main tributaries: R. Beane, R. Quin, R. Ash , R. Stort, R.Mimram, Cobbins Brook and Cuffley Brook. The valley is rich in gravel much of which has been excavated for building materials leaving disused flooded pits which have often been allowed to revert to nature reserves for wildlife.
For over 1000 years the Lea valley has provided water, land for growing food, a sources of power, transportation links and work which have helped to enrich the quality of life in North London. Even today it provides drinking water for the capital through a complex system of reservoirs, filter beds and pumping stations. Today it is no longer a single river but been diverted into a series of cuts and diversions so that it can be made better use of by man. Its valley has been the home of many industries making anything from armaments and explosives to musical instruments and porcelain. Since the 1970’s the region has declined and is by European Union standards now considered to be socially and economically deprived. It has therefore been granted Objective 2 status which means that funds are available for projects which will initiate social and economic regeneration in the area and this has contributed to the changes in Land use that have occurred over the past 30 years.
Railway lines of the
Lea Valley
The main Lea Valley route was started as early as 1840 when the Northern & Eastern Railway opened it's line from Stratford to Broxbourne, continuing on to Harlow the following year and Bishops Stortford in 1842, on a route that would eventually reach Cambridge. Initially built to 5ft gauge, within a few years it was converted to the standard 4ft 8½in and taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway, whose line it joined at Stratford. A branch north of Broxbourne to Hertford followed in 1843, to a station on the edge of the town, which was replaced in 1888 by the present Hertford East. After another branch to Enfield Town in 1849 there was a gap of some twenty years before the rest of the network that exists today started to appear, due in part to the financial problems of the Great Eastern Railway which had been formed in 1862 from among others the Eastern Counties.
Initially served by horse buses from Lea Bridge station on the 1840 built line, Walthamstow got it's own stations when a further branch was opened in 1870. Three years later this was extended to Chingford, and linked back to the new GER line coming out of London via Hackney. This new line also went north through Seven Sisters to join the Enfield branch north of Edmonton. A
second Edmonton Green station was built on the new line and the Enfield branch was widened to double track north of the new junction and even merited the building of a proper station at Enfield Town to replace the former mansion that had until then been used as the station. The old Edmonton station became Edmonton Low Level and even received a second platform at the turn
of the century, as the original single track branch continued to be served by workmen's trains until 1939, and did not finally lose until the 1960's.
The 1960 electrification project saw new 3 and 4 car electric trains introduced on the Enfield Town and Chingford lines, as well as along the Southbury loop to Cheshunt and on to Hertford East. The main Lea Valley line south of Cheshunt was not electrified at this time, although this too followed in 1969.
The 1960's and 70's also saw the destruction of many of the original stations and their replacement with concrete and glass boxes, which today appear run down and cold. Fortunately this trend was reversed during the 1980's and restoration work at stations such as St. Margarets and Ware has saved these towns from the same style of building inflicted upon Broxbourne and Waltham Cross.A line from Welwyn to Hertford was opened in 1858 terminating at Cowbridge station, which was next to McMullen's brewery in the centre of the town. The line became freight only when Hertford North station opened, eventually closing in the mid 1960's. Approximately 2½ miles of the trackbed now forms part of the Lea Valley Walk between Cole Green and the viaduct
carrying the Hertford North line. The rest of the line on into Hertford can still be traced, ending at new industrial units which now occupy the Cowbridge site. A short spur also linked this route with the Liverpool Street line near Hertford East station.
The Midland Railway built it's Tottenham and Forest Gate line through Walthamstow and Leyton in 1894. The line still exists today thanks to its importance as a freight route around London, rather than due to the small number of passengers who use the non-electrified Barking to Gospel Oak trains.
A 14 mile long branch from the Hertford East line to Buntingford was started in 1859, finally opening in 1863. Passenger services ran from St. Margarets station until November 1964, with the last goods train operating the following year. It is possible to walk former parts of this line, around Amwell Quarry Wildlife Reserve (See: Walk 11 - Haileybury and Gt. Amwell).
Enfield Town Retail
Enfield Town has an excellent range of stores. In fact it has over 150, 178 to be precise. Enfield Town is used by most locals for services such as banks and the wide selection of stores featured there. However, the stores selling high order goods, that have more recently become popular, are situated on the outskirts of town. The location of Enfield Town means it can have more customers, as there are plenty of car parks situated around the town. Enfield Town has a high street, which is filled with big name stores, which attract the public. It also has a precinct, which is filled with high street stores. Inside the precinct it is well pedestrianised so the public can easily do their shopping in comfort. If you look at the bottom photograph on page 36 you can see a picture of the precinct. It is also well decorated to attract the public and make them feel more welcome. The nearest place to do shopping other than at the town is Enfield retail - park. I think that the public would rather shop in Enfield Town because the shops are nice and small so you are not hunting around the store for an item for a long period of time. Also the Retail Park only has 9 shops (including restaurants) whilst Enfield Town has close to 180 shops.
People visit Enfield Town to do shopping in a more homely atmosphere. The shops in Enfield Town are all closely combined and they are all fairly small. This is so it is easier for people to pick things up and the don’t have to endlessly stroll around large stores. Also as the shops are smaller, this means the staff have less area to cover in their work and so they will be less stressed and more careful with their customers.
The main reason for people visiting the Town is in fact shopping. People enjoy visiting big name stores as they are advertised and appear to have the cheapest prices. There are shops like JJB Sports, Pearsons and WHSmith. JJB Sports is a very popular shop as it has advertised cheap prices whilst Pearsons and WHSmiths are two of the largest shops in area in the whole of Enfield town so they can store a large capacity of the public.
Enfield Town is situated on a high road and is easy for motorists to travel along fairly quickly. There are traffic lights all over Enfield Town so motorists can travel through the town quickly and safely. The traffic lights also enable the members of the public shopping in Enfield Town to cross the road easily and safely.
Enfield Town has three main forms of public transport to reach it. For example you can reach Enfield Town by train, bus, and by Cab. Bus stations are situated all over the town so it is easy to get home by bus. There is a train station and inside the station is a cab firm so if it is late and your train doesn’t turn up you can always catch a cab.
Enfield Town has many things to offer the public so it needs a lot of forms of transport to reach it. The main forms of transport are car, train, bus and cab. When people do a lot of shopping they need something to transport it home in. Also they could be travelling from quite far away to visit Enfield Town’s wide range of high street stores.
Bus is the second most popular form of transport. This is probably because there are many bus stops all over Enfield Town and people find it easy to take the bus.
Train is the third most popular form of transport. This is because they are quick to use and they run on a regular basis. It is also easy to carry larger forms of shopping on the train rather than the bus.
Enfield Town is an enormous success with many attractions highlighted .Its success is down to the enormous amounts of shops throughout the Town. The retail park is good for buying in bulk, but traditional shopping centres like Enfield Town will always remain more popular with the public.
Enfield Retail Park
Pie Chart
Using Census Data
Comparing %H/H with >1 person per room with %H/H with no central heating.
r= spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
r= 1 – 6 d² r= 1 - 6 x 1059.5 =0.5393 n³-n 24³-24
( this shows good positive correlation )
a= rejection level
a= 100 – 95 = 0.05
100
t = r n – 2 t = 0.5393 24 - 2
1 – r² 1 – 0.5393²
= 16.7306
df= degrees of freedom
df= n - 2 df= 24 – 2 = 22
df = 10
rejection level = 0.05 .
therefore the critical value of t = 8.2194 .
The critical value is less than our t-value (16.7306). We can therefore conclude that there is a significant correlation between %H/H with >1 person per room and %H/H with no central heating.
This graph shows the correlation more clearly
Using Census Data
For an area in Enfield
Comparing %H/H with >1 person per room with %H/H with no central heating.
r= spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
r= 1 – 6 d² r= 1 - 6 x 1062.5 =-0.096 n³-n 18³-18
( this shows very little to no negative correlation )
a= rejection level
a= 100 – 95 = 0.05
100
t = r n – 2 t = -0.096 18 – 2
1 – r² 1 + .096²
= -1.522
df= degrees of freedom
df= n – 2 df= 18 – 2 = 16
df = 16
rejection level = 0.05 .
therefore the critical value of t = 20.472 .
The critical value is not less than our t-value (-1.522). We can therefore conclude that there is not a significant correlation between %H/H with >1 person per room and %H/H with no central heating.
This graph shows the lack of correlation more clearly
Comparing an area in Enfield and Shadwell
Using Census
We can see that there is good correlation between the two areas in the percentage of household with up to 1 person per room as they have peaks in the same areas.
We can see that there is not very good correlation between the two areas in the percentage of households with no central heating.