A History of Enfield Volume 3 1914-1939 - A Desirable Neighbourhood

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Crowds in the Town waved Union Jacks and cheered as our lads marched up Windmill Hill to board trains which were to take them to a war which few of them would survive. The postwar years saw endemic unemployment, made worse by the rapid closure of the war industries. Nevertheless, the shoots of a more prosperous future were already emerging in the growth of the new electrical industries like Ediswans, Cosmos, Bellings and Enfield Cable. There was a chronic shortage of housing, yet for most people in Enfield life steadily improved.

In the years before the Second World War much of Enfield was being rapidly covered by new estates of homes for sale, the uncontrolled spread of which was limited at last by the creation of a Green Belt. The cinema and wireless provided entertainment. men drank less and had smaller families, and some working-class parents were able to send their children to grammar school.

Hardback with dust jacket. Enfield : Enfield Preservation Society, 1992; 368 pages. ISBN 0 907318 12 6