Specialised Publications / Oakleaves - The Local History Bulletin of Southgate District Civic Voice.
An ongoing series providing writers of articles relevant to the history & heritage of the SDCV neighbourhood opportunity to publish where otherwise it might remain hidden.
A 20 page illustrated A4 booklet published in 1987 containing the following articles:
The Minchenden Oak by Marjorie Seward.
Leigh Hunt and some Local Contempories by Richard Bearne.
From Newspaper Round to Nursing: Half a Century in Southgate and Winchmore Hill. An account based on 50 years of memories recorded on tape by Arthur Pettifer born in 1898.
Further Memories of Broadfields. ...
A 24 page illustrated A4 booklet published in 1996 containing the following articles:
Sir Thomas Lipton: No Ordinary Man by Alan Dumayne.
Childhood Memories of Henry Cox by Helen Cox. Impressions of a childhood in early Victorian Winchmore Hill based on the autobiography of Henry Cox (born 1839 Edmonton – died 1935 Australia).
A Quaker Marriage by Peter Hodge. Peter rediscovers George ...
A 36 page illustrated A4 booklet published in 2004 containing the following articles:
Celebrating Stevie Smith: Palmers Green’s Eccentric Poet by Chris Evans.
New Southgate: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Suburb by Colin Barratt.
A Childhood in Winchmore Hill: Jane Ashley’s Memoir.
John Walker: A Southgate Philanthropist by Ruby Galili.
Walking the New River Path by Chris Roy...
A 40 page illustrated A4 booklet published in 2009 containing the following articles:
Those Intimate Nights by Geoff Bowden.
My Mother (and me) at the Intimate by Carola Hicks.
Margaret Gibson and Flora Robson: two leading actresses associated with Palmers Green by Richard Purver.
On Safari in Southgate by Christine Collins.
Gateway: Film-making Across the World by Graham Smart.
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A 60 page illustrated A4 booklet published in 2014 containing the following articles:
A Teenager in the Southgate Civic Trust by Stephen Potter.
The suffragettes of Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill and Southgate 1909-1916 by Ruby Galili.
Flora Robson’s Letters to Dolly and Mary Cleghorn by Richard Purver.
Protest from the Pews: An Anti-ritualist Revolt in Mid-Victorian Winchmore Hill b...