Science, Society and Creativity at
Middlesex University
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A Middlesex University history by Andrew Roberts, with the help of many
others
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Tottenham
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Hornsey
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Trained Nurses Institute
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an Act
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Lambeth
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Enfield
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an aunt in teaching
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superman the engineer
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Berridge House
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1911
expanding Ponders End
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industry and Enfield
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teaching and Hornsey
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expanding Hornsey
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1936
Hornsey prospectus and women's crafts
1937
Hendon
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1939
war distorts
1940
1941
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1945
post war opportunities
1946
1947
Trent Park
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1953
growth
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1956
Technical Education
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engineering degrees
1960
Southbury Station
1961
1962
technology
1963
first six
1964
Enfield staff explosion and
prospectus
1965
1966
1967
1968
revolution
1969
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Polytechnic
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development plan
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pre-digital toast
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University
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mission
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web site
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marketing
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engineering morphs into computing
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branding
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What is now Middlesex University was originally a vision for a People's
University: A
polytechnic
that would unite science, society and creativity,
theory and practice,
gas engineers and sociologists. The
dynamic centre for
this vision was
Enfield College of Technology, a cluster of utilitarian
buildings hidden behind houses, factories, shops and public houses on
Hertford Road at Ponders End.
Enfield Council now propose to convert the site
into
"The Electric Quarter", remembering "the essence of Enfield's
industrial heritage" and, notably, the
incandescent "electric light
bulb". John Carr and I called our 1998 history
"Sparks Flying. The History of the Enfield Campus of Middlesex University"
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suggesting a series of incandescent visions of science, society and
creativity in the creation of Middlesex University.
Many of the men and women in whom these visions glowed
were brought together by
George Brosan" (1921-2001) a maverick entrepreneur
and educator who was willing to break
rules
(innovate) and gather
together enemies in the cause.
The picture is from a 1967 article by Brosan about "The Psychology of
Industrial Training". Brosan was against separating
vocation and intellect
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I was a student at Enfield in the Brosan
years and my view of Middlesex University's history centres on Enfield,
Joseph Swan (1828-1914) and George Brosan. Brosan inspired me
when I first
met him
and I remember a presentation he made in which he showed different views of
the same object to illustrate that we had come to learn, appreciate and
contest different perspectives, not to be taught one dogma. This will be my
perspective on Middlesex's history. I hope you will disagree with it and
write your own!
The web history is under construction. I began it on 1.11.2012 by beginning
to move online a chronological analysis that I made of oral histories and
other material in
1998. I will continue doing this and relating this to other
research of my own and other people.
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My own location in history is the main reason why this history is centred
on the Enfield industrial revolution rather than the
Hornsey cultural revolution, or any of the other dynamics of
change. However, my claim that Enfield was the dynamo that drove the
creation of the Polytechnic appears valid. Hornsey's revolution contributed
much to the new Polytechnic, but it was originally
a revolution against the
idea of a Polytechnic.
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My original research (1970s to 2008) was heavily
focused on what was
Enfield Campus. I have been integrating this, first of all, with
the histories of the two institutions, at
Hornsey and
Hendon, that joined
(rather reluctantly) in the Polytechnic of
1973. The history of the other components is now being added.
The main other components are: two teacher training colleges
(Tottenham and
Trent Park), plus the smaller
London College of Dance
and the
New College of Speech and Drama,
which, like Enfield, Hendon and Hornsey had their
own independent history -
Bounds Green, which was established by Middlesex Polytechnic to
rationalise its engineering provision - The
hospital campuses and
Middlesex overseas
Some
sociological
annotations
Vocation and
intellect
Subjects
Nursing
[at Middlesex]
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Industry -
Teaching [at
Middlesex] -
Art and design [at
Middlesex] -
Domestic Science [at Middlesex] -
Technology -
Engineering
[at Middlesex]
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Commercial and
Business Studies
[at Middlesex]
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Geography -
Social
Science - Humanities -
Theatre [at Middlesex] - Music - Dance
[The subjects are listed roughly in the chronological order of their
becoming part of this history.]
Sociology of clothes
Revolution in the
margins: "Parochial academic institutions"
(Mulholland and Porteus 2010) -
"revolution... located in the margins of the social order"
(The Hornsey
Affair 1969, p.11) - The maker cannot be separated from the
thinker -
We
are all
intellectuals (Antonio Gramsci) - There are those who remember
hearing "I have a dream" when it was fresh - and there are those
who are still fresh -
The kingdom of evil
- But
what is the centre?
"Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that
sort of place" (Straker 1903). - "fixed, fast-frozen relations
.. prejudices and opinions are swept away"
(Marx and Engels
1848, paragraph 1.18) - "it has no centre ... it is a decentred
structure."
(Althusser) -
A torque convertor transmits power in a variable way. Based on Farady's
disc,
Bishop and Brosan's convertor did so, theoretically, in an
`infinitely variable' way.
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Science,
engineering
and
technology
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The history of the Enfield site begins with the history of photography,
electric light,
wireless and computers. In
1901,
Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) bought a
house in Ponders End High Street that became the Ediswan Institute.
Joseph Swan and Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) were (separately) the
British and American inventors of the electric light bulb. They formed a
joint company in
1883. Swan was also an early pioneer of modern
photographic materials.
The invention of the thermionic valve, by Professor
Ambrose Fleming (below) in
1904, began as a project for
Joseph Swan in Ponders End,
and was completed whilst he was also working for the Marconi Wireless
Company in Chelmsford.
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During the second world war 1,500 thermionic valves were used to construct
Colossus, the world's first electronic computer. This secret
British
invention cracked the German "Enigma" code, and helped to win the war.
War is the dark shadow behind Enfield's history. This story begins much
earlier with government education systems at Woolwich Arsenal and Enfield
Small Arms Factory. In the run-up to the first world war, the Ediswan
Institute became the Ponders End Institute, specialising not only in
electrical wiring but in the precision engineering of small arms.
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Apprenticeships
1886:
Ediswan Factory
1901 -
Location map of the Ediswan Institute in relation to the Ediswan Factory
1905: Middlesex
County buy the Institute
September 1905 Enfield Technical Instruction Committee run
classes at four centres in Enfield Urban District
September 1906 Enfield Technical Instruction Committee run
classes at five centres in Enfield Urban Distirct. Classes in Mathematics,
Machine Construction, Geometery and Elementary Science were to be taken by
Mr. A. J. Crofts, B.Sc.,
"At the Ponders End Technical Institute will, be special
classes, for instruction in electric lighting and power transmission, a
subject which lias increased importance now that electric mains have been
laid throughout the district."
December 1908 Colonel
Henry Bowles (of Forty Hall), Chair
of the Enfield Technical Education Committee, laid the foundation stones of
the new Technical Institute and of a new Secondary School for Girls.
1910 Report
recommends experimental trade schools for boys and girls
1911 The Ponders
End Technical Institute and Enfield Trade School
According to the
(Victoria County History) and
a Wikipedia entry), the Trade School developed into Ponders End
Junior Technical School sometime after the first world war (See
1928). It moved to Enfield
Technical College, Queensway, in 1941 and was renamed
Enfield Secondary Technical School in
1944. It was renamed Ambrose Fleming School in
1959 and moved to
Collinwood Avenue in
1962. It became an all-age
comprehensive school in
1967. It had 1,000 boys and
girls in 1971.
27.5.1914 Death of Joseph Wilson Swan (aged 85) at his home in
Godstone, Surrey
June/July 1915
Schoolboys at war
1924
extension
1926 Birth of
Audrey (became
Hardwick) (as she became). By
this time, Arthur Crofts Principal
1927
1928
1933
Enfield 0497
1936 Ripaults
1936 and the purchase of the
Queensway site
1937
1937
1938 to 1940 - First phase of the Queensway building
The names Ponders End Technical Institute (School
etc) appear to have been used whilst they were on the east side of
Ponders End High Street. When they moved to the Queensway site,
(after 1939)
they became
Enfield Technical Institute
(School etc) or (then or before
1945)
Enfield Technical College
(School etc).
1941
Henry Winterbottom
Broadbent appointed -
1942 -
1943: Electricity sparks
entertainment
1945 -
1948
Nationalised electricity
1949 Nationalised
gas
26.4.1949 aerial view of Queensway site and a 2014
satellite view.
1950
Roderick McCrae appointed
1953 -
1955 -
Enfield statistics 1953-1956
1957
1959
Enfield statistics 1959-1960
1960
Ambrose Fleming School
planning permission
1961
1962 Enfield
College of Technology
George Brosan
appointed
Ambrose Fleming
School
From 1962 onwards: arts and technology - social science joins
engineering
1963
1964
The cherry trees in
flower
Aide Memoire
Prospectus
Courses
Industry and Enfield
1965
1966
1967
The Enfield sharks
1968 -
November 1968 student
liaison
1969
1970 -
John O'Neil
apponted
1971 -
1972 -
By 1985 engineering
laboratories had left Enfield.
2000 Enfield
listed
2008
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Art
In one way, the history of Hornsey College of Art began with the
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in
1851, because it was this that provided the funds for government
funded art education in Britain and Ireland.
In more immediate terms, the history of Hornsey College of Art began in
1882 when Charles Swinstead
(1815-1890), an artist and art teacher, opened a purpose-built private
school of art, Hornsey School of
Art, with teaching
studios and an adjacent headmaster's house at Crouch End Hill,
north London.
The Hornsey School was a mixture of private and public. Local residents of
standing supported it, it belonged to the headmaster (Charles Swinstead)
and was run by his family, students were charged on a scale related to
class and means, and the Government's
Department of Science and Art
provided support in the form (probably) of grants for the purchase of
equipment, prizes, medals and other forms of support"
Ashwin 1982, pp 10-11)
At first the School was only open on three mornings and three evenings a
week, later extended to a five-day week and Saturday mornings. Subjects
taught included drawing, oil painting, watercolour painting, geometry and
perspective. Ashwin
1982, p.13)
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society was formed in London in
1887. Hornsey became a school of Arts and Crafts about
1931. In the 1960s it was Hornsey College of Art and then
(1969) Hornsey College of Art and Design.
Charles Swinstead's role was gradually taken over by his son, Frank
Hillyard Swinstead, who became headmaster on his father's death in
1890. Frank Swinstead appointed the three women teachers,
Edith Lindquist,
Sheila MacEwan and
Elsie Davenport.
They all started as students and, as teachers, specialised in what were
later called women's
crafts. Sheila MacEwan was first appointed to a secretarial role
to support her studies.
1882 Modern
location map and description of the original building.
21.6.1884 Birth in Walton-on-Thames of
John Charles Moody
who, in 1927, became
the
first Principal of Hornsey who was not a member of the Swinstead family.
See 1890s
picture
and public funds
1911 Miss Robinson, instructor in Art Needlework at Hornsey was
commissioned to execute the design for the robe and shoes worn by Queen
Mary at the coronation of George Fifth (22.6.1911)
(Clive Ashwin 1982
p.21). The firm of Reville and Rossiter (London) who designed and made the
robe and shoes started in 1905 and were appointed court dressmaker to Queen
Mary in 1910. "Rossiter" was a "Miss" and she is said to have administered
the company (not designed), but contemporary press reports say she designed
the robes. The robe has been descrbed as a "positive riot of bullion
embroidery". The embroidery was done by members of the Ladies' Work Society
(31 Sloane Street, London, SW) - "Ladies who are compelled by circumstances
to employ their time remuneratively".
1913
Board of Education
scheme for full-time Arts Studies. This
developed into the A.T.D.
(Art Teacher's
Diploma)
in 1933
"Then it was called 'An Artistic Academy for the Sons and Daughters of
Gentlemen", and local prejudice against anything so wicked as an art school
required it to be built as a gentleman's residence with a school attached!
Discreetly attached!! In fact, so much discretion was required that
permission to build a modelling room was given only if it could be designed
to look like a conservatory!!!"
(Sheila MacEwan)
Hornsey women teachers
Edith Lindquist
Edith Catharina Elizabeth Lindquist baptised
11.8.1877 St. Andrews, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her father (Oskar Magnus
Lindquist) was from Sweden and her
mother (Alice) from Newcastle. By 1881 they lived in Walthamstow, Essex.
Oskar Magnus was a Timber Salesman whose work took him away from home. He
died at the Royal Hotel Esbjerg Denmark on 12.5.1908
In 1901, living in Highgate. Edith (23) shown as "Art school pupil
teacher". Her
father is not listed (although inferred as head). Her mother (Alice) died
aged 52 in the summer of 1902.
about 1900 Design for a medallion by Edith Lindquist
(Ashwin 1982 p.4).
Figure from shown right.
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25.12.1903 SKETCH CLUB AWARDS. Figure - Hilda Grylls. Landscape-
Edith Lindquist. Junior-Janie Callaway. London North Mercury And
Crouch End
Observer.
Edith set up home with her younger brother, Erik Lancelot Lindquist, at 9
Ingram Road, East Finchley. They were there in 1911 through to 1951, when
Edith died. In 1911, Edith (aged 33) is described as "Art Mistress.
Government School of Art. Private school". Erik (21) was a Commercial
Traveller in wiring and
electrical
installations.
Edith taught needlework at Hornsey School of Art and art at a small private
school at 14
Bisham Gardens, N6.
One of her pupils at Bisham Gardens was
Sheila MacEwan.
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In
1920
Edith Lindquist
(Miss) was one of three full time members of staff at Hornsey. She
specialised in embroidery and textiles. The other two full time staff
members were the principal (a term gradually replacing headmaster), Frank
Swinstead, and
Sheila MacEwan. At
this time, most of the students were fee-paying women. [Two full-time male
staff were added in September 1920].
See
Hornsey group
Edith was 60 in 1927.
She
died in a nursing home on 17.6.1951, when she was 73 years old.
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Sheila MacEwan
Euphemia Sheila MacEwan, born
20.11.1895 to
Peter MacEwan and Euphemia Thomson. Peter MacEwan was editor of the journal
the Chemist and Druggist (founded 1857) for twenty five years before
his sudden death on
16.5.1917.
September 1913
Sheila MacEwan (Miss) came to Hornsey as a student and remained as a
member
of staff until
1956.
(Clive Ashwin 1982 p.24 and
Sheila's retirement speech 21.3.1956). She
was given full time secretarial responsibilities in
1917, to support her training as a teacher, and then combined
these with teaching drawing and embroidery. She became responsible for
staff and student timetables in
1927 and trained in dressmaking. She built up the
"Department of Women's Crafts", one of the five that
existed in
1936/1937. The department was still called that when she retired
in 1956, becoming Textiles/Fashion sometime later.
Elsie Davenport
10.2.1901 Elsie Grace
[Victoria]
Davenport born in Wood Green. The only child of Mary Ann and
Frederick John Davenport. Frederick was a furniture salesman specialising
in bedsteads. The family moved to Southgate before 1911. The parents lived
in the same house from then until 1956 (or later) and Elsie lived with them
until about 1928/1929, after which she lived with Sheila MacEwan
later).
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Elsie Davenport and Sheila MacEwan
1917 Sheila full time school secretary and trainee
teacher. She began teaching before 1919.
1919 Elsie Davenport (18) joined the school as a student.
Sheila
asked to befriend her
1925 Guessed date of
group staff photograph with Sheila and Elsie
1927 Elsie made to leave the school by the
new Principal and Sheila's roles changed.
Elsie lived with
Sheila MacEwan from about 1928 (they lived together for 47 years).
Addresses traced from 1932. They lived in Stroud Green
before the second world war, Hendon afterwards (until 1956)
3.1.1930 Date on a weaving record kept by Elsie. In 1948 she said
her methods were developed from traditional methods over nearly twenty
years.
1936 Sheila preserved
Prospectus?
1943 Sheila,
Joseph McCrum and
John Gerald Platt rescue the art education of
Gerard Hoffnung
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After the
second world war, the Sylvan Press published a series of three books by
Elsie Davenport:
Your Handweaving (1948),
Your
Handspinning
(1953)
and
Your Yarn Dyeing: A book for handweavers and spinners
(1955) in
their
"Your home crafts"
series.
In the same series (both published 1950)
appeared
Your Pattern
Cutting
by
Euphemia Sheila MacEwan and
A Handbook of your
Children's
Crafts, by various authors, edited by Euphemia Sheila
MacEwan.
1950:
Guilds of Weavers Spinners and Dyers
June 1955
Hornsey dress show
Sheila retired from Hornsey in March 1956.
Sheila (60) and Elsie (56) moved to the Bideford area of Devon in 1956.
Elsie's mother died (89) in Bideford in the spring of 1958.
Elsie's father died (92) on 16.9.1960 at Bideford and District Hospital
Elsie died (74) in Bideford in the autumn of 1975.
Sheila died (aged 86) in Bideford, Devon, on
12.5.1982. Before she died, she contributed
her memories and archives to the history of Hornsey. "The archive
includes memorabilia collected by Sheila MacEwan relating to her teaching
work at the School, [...], notably printed books by MacEwan and
others
[Elsie Davenport] relating to crafts, programmes, press cuttings
and photographs of
students, staff and teaching methods;
AIM catalogue -
[See the box HCA/3/2/1-6]
1920 -
1927
Frank Swinstead retired.
John Moody
Principal.
1928 -
Hornsey School of Arts and
Crafts at time of
1931 building
1936/1937 Prospectus
- Fine Art - Pictorial and advertising design - Industrial
applied art -
Women's
crafts
- Training art teachers
1946
Art Crafts and Design
1947 John Moody retired. John Platt (born 1892) Principal
The annexes of satellite sites
2 Waverley Road became the base for the Women's Crafts
Department
1955 - Hornsey College of
Arts and Crafts.
1957 John Platt retired. Harold Herbert Shelton (born 1913)
Principal
1960 Teacher
Training
moved to an annexe
1961 Graphic
design to
Bowes Road
1962
1963 Fine
Art moved to Alexandra Palace and part of Graphic Design to South Grove.
The original college now used for Three Dimensional Design, Visual
Research and Advanced Studies.
1963 Diploma in
Art and Design
1965
1967
In
1968 a student revolution put Hornsey College of
Art in the
international spotlight in a debate about design and society. The slogan
Freedom to Create was, in part, a protest against the proposal to
chain the
Hornsey artists to the engineers of
Enfield
and
Hendon
in a new
Polytechnic.
November 1968 student
liaison
From
1969 Hornsey College of Art and Design appears as the
title.
1969 Industrial
and Interior Design and Environmental technology established at the Jaxa
Works in South Grove.
1970
Low morale
1970 Cat Hill phase one opened for textiles and fashion
and three-dimensional design. Three-dimensional design moved from the
original college at Crouch
End and textiles/fashion from its separate site nearby in
Waverley Road
Darrell Viner studied
at Hornsey College of Art (Cat Hill) from (September?) 1971 to the summer
of 1974,
1.1.1973 Polytechnic formed and, ironically, it was the
artists
who flourished and the engineers
who withered (in 2003). The
end of Hornsey, in 1979/1981, by contrast, was a rebirth
in new premises at
Cat Hill, followed by a
second rebirth in the
Grove Building in
2011.
John Vince began
teaching at Cat Hill after it became part of the Polytechnic. Through him
Darrell Viner (above) first used computers in the sense of learning to
write cards in computer code for Vince to run through the Enfield computer.
Viner encouraged Vince to develop 'Rough' and 'Sketch' features for PICASO,
which "transformed clinical computer generated plottings into believable
hand-drawn lines".
location map for Cat Hill phase one and two
1980
Phil Shaw
Hornsey Century preparation
1982 A Century of
Art Education 1882-1982. The exhibition committee members were
Peter Green (chair),
Clive Ashwin, Richard Beaumont, Morley Bury, David Cheshire, Sid
Day, Roberta de
Joia, Jeremy Eldridge, Tom Robb, Roy Fleming, Jim Hill. Many
people helped by contributing information and by the loan or gift of
documents or other materials. Thanks were acknowledged in print to: Mrs
Nancy Carline, Miss Gwyn Cowing, Miss D. Freeman, Mrs
Annetta Hoffnung,
Miss
Sheila MacEwan, Mr
Frederick J.Mitchell, Mr Ian Murray, Mrs Joan Schwitzer, Mr Jack
Shaw, Miss
Clare Tarjen, Dr David Thistelewood, and Mr
Frank Winter.
Euphemia Sheila MacEwan died in 1982. A buiding at Cat Hill
(phase one?) was named Sheila MacEwan
(see map) at some time, and the Hornsey
archives contain "memorabilia collected by Sheila MacEwan relating to her
teaching work at the School, [1913-1957], notably printed books by MacEwan
and others relating to crafts, programmes, press cuttings and photographs
of students, staff and teaching methods". Euphemia S. MacEwan and
Elsie G. Davenport lived at 8 Chatham Close, NW11, Hendon in
1951.
Paul Brown's C.V. says:
1984 to 1987 Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Design, Middlesex
Polytechnic
1985 to 1987 Founder and Head, National Centre for Computer Aided Art
and Design
1986 to 1987 Founder and Head, Centre for Advanced Studies in Computer
Aided Art and Design
1984 or 1985 Middlesex became the "National Centre for
Computer Aided Art and Design" under Paul Brown. Later became:
Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University
Cat Hill, Barnet
Hertfordshire, EN4 8HT
1986 Middlesex set up the UK's first MSc [MA ??] course in Computer
Graphics.
1987/1988 Handbook Diary: Dean of Art and Design:
Peter Green. Head
of School of Communication Design: Clive Ashwin. Course Leader MA
Computing in Design: Paul Brown [All at Cat Hill]
19.5.2011 Party at Cat Hill for staff and students to say goodbye to
the Campus.
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Teacher training - Tottenham and elsewhere
Religious education and
domestic science
The history of teacher training at Middlesex is linked to the two great
expansions in English state-funded education: that following from
1870 and that following from
1944. Teacher Training was developed at three of the
Universities main component sites: Tottenham and
Hornsey (post 1870)
and
Trent Park (post
1944).
Pupil teachers The early system of training teachers started by
their serving an
apprenticeship as pupil teachers for some years. They
might then seek a scholarship for college training.
St Katharine's provided
college training for women pupil teachers from
Church of England schools. [See
A brief history of Church of England Schools
and foundation governors] In 1877
a man was needed to set up and run the college for women. This was, at
least in part, a religious issue, and in part a social issue: Rules and
Regulations set out in
1879 explain that "The Principal shall be in
Priest's Orders" and "The Lady Superintendent shall engage and dismiss all
domestic servants". The man chosen was the Reverend Edwin Hobson, who
continued as Principal for over forty years. After his retirement in 1919,
he wrote "soon the Man Principal of a Woman's College will be as extinct as
the Dodo". But not in 1877.
The chapel altar
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In
1878 St Katharine's College, Tottenham was founded by the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [and the National Society?].
Concerned mainly with general
teaching
(by women) in Church of England schools. A student who left in
1880 recalled (1957) that students had studied Holy Scripture,
Shakespeare,
Arithmetic, Needlework, Geography, History, School Management, Botany,
Music and Drill.
(Graham Handley p.27)
St Katharine of Alexandria, a woman of great learning who chose
not to marry, was converted to Christianity, taught others in the face of
persecution, and was martyred in 307 AD.
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The indications are that St Katharine's was established in the high church
tradition which developed in the Church of England as an assertion that the
source of the church's authority lay in religion, not state
edict.
1878/1880 -
Location map - Practising schools
1879 The first Lady
Superintendent of St Katharine's resigned. Miss Lucy Gee was selected from
61 applicants to succeed her. She served to
1898
and maintained contact afterwards.
(Handley, 1978
pp. 4-5 and 8).
1880
Practising schools "firmly established" with 109 girls in the
infants, 60 in the elementary, and 99 in the upper (p.9)
1881
Census St Katharine's staff in residence:
Teaching:
Lucy Gee 41. Superintendent: Born about 1840. Retired 1898. Died
1909
Sarah J. Hale 30 Governess
Elizabeth Walsh 24 Governess
Sarah Stourton 22 Governess
Alice M. Virgo 20 Schoolmistress
Alice M. Beavan 20 Governess
Servants
Kate Edwards 23
Emma Fincham 16
Annie Watkins 18
Elizh. Watkins 56 Cook
Eliza Daniels 18
Maggie Ludlam 18
1888
St Katharine's College Chapel
Graham Handley, writing from a secular perspective, emphasises
that his history of St Katharine's is about a
community, and the spirit it bequeathed. Elements of the
original community were residential living, religious observance
(see the students' timetable) and the
magazine (below) that kept ex-students and staff as part of St Katharine's.
1890s
St Katharine's Magazine
"Croquet and cycling obviously formed part of college life during the
1890s"
(Handley, 1978
p.10).
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1893
The National Society's Training School of Cookery.
Lambeth Road in South East London established.
This moved to the
Albert Institute of Blackfriars Road in 1899 and to
Berridge House in West
Hampstead in 1908.
Lambeth and Berridge House were concerned with domestic science
, not just cookery.
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1895
Students' timetable at St Katharine's
1898
Alice B. Hogg succeeded
Lucy Gee as Lady
Superintendent of St Katharine's. She left in 1907.
Miss
Agnes Lumsden Hall Turnbull succeded Miss
Underwood Waugh at the Cookery School. She remained in charge until
1926.
Previously she had been at the Salisbury Training School of Cookery (Part
of a Church of England training school).
1901
Census St Katharine's staff in residence:
Teaching:
Alice B Hogg 49
Elizabeth Pallot 37
Charlotte M Austin 39
Berthe L Sells 31
Alice M Barnes 28 [born Blechingley, Surrey]
Annie Dovey 23
Marion Brady 27
Servants:
Rosa A Allinson 19
Frances M Bradley 19
Julia Cattley 24
Lucy A B Coombe 40
Sarah Fincham 25
Ethel M Kemp 20
Edith J Mercer 20
Florence R Taylor 22
1902: An aunt in
training and a
degree of public control
1906: Inter-denominational pressures.
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December 1908
Berridge House, Hampstead, founded by the National
Society for Promoting Religious Education.
1909 First edition of the
Berridge House Recipe
Book. This is for school use. At about the same time
May Little was
publishing for the housewife market.
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1909 Margaret Isabel Skilton
succeeded
Alice B. Hogg as Lady
Superintendent of St Katharine's. She left in 1914.
[S Katharine's Collage, Field House, White Hart Lane, Tottenham established
at some time]
1911
Census St Katharine's staff in residence:
Teaching:
Margaret Isabel Skilton 41 Lady Superintendent
Elizabeth Pollot 47 Senior Governess
Jane Croudace Glen Bott 32 Governess
Mary Louisa Clow 26 Governess
Maude Dupere 26 Governess
Alice Mary Barnes 38 Governess in Charge at Field House
Servants
Alice Pring (married) 36 Housekeeper (domestic) at Field House [She had
three children somewhere]
1911 Elizabeth Pallot resigned after 26 year's [1885?]
and Charlotte M Austin after 24.5 years [1887?] (p.12).
Edith Mary Gowan
joined the staff as Head Governess and Mistress of Method. Alice Barnes
took over editorship (1912) of St Katharine's Magazine from Elizabeth
Pallot (p.14)
1914 Margaret Isabel Skilton left to become a nurse
(p.13)
1915 "In the foreword to 1915 the Principal referred to
the war and to the appointment of Miss Gowan as Vice-Principal" (p.14)
1919
Edwin Hobson retired and Edith Gowan became the Principal of St Katharine's.
Short afterwards,
Alice Barnes retired after 28 years [1892?] and died in December
1921. (p.17)
1922 staff included Fanny Moore Mosley and
Jane Cronadee Glen Bott
1926 Electoral register for St Katharine's
Edith Annie Chubb
Mary Louisa Clout
Jane Crondace Glenn Bott
Edith Mary Gowan
Dorothea Barbara Nickal
Eleanor Mary Parkes
Eveline Parrott
Lelia Grace Studman
Frances Jennie Woodman
1926
Electricity installed in St Katharine's
In
1928 Hornsey School of Art was recognised as a centre for
Art Teacher Training
1929 Votes for lots more
women
1931 Occupational analysis of the
1931 Census including
domestic work and teaching in relation to gender.
November 1933 Farewell gathering on the retirement of Edith Gowan
January 1934
Miss Agnes M. Ottley
succeeded Edith Gowan
as Principal St Katharine's. Dorothea Nickal moved to Berridge House. [Mary
Clout became Vice Principal] p.21
"The old,
paternalistic régime gave way to significant
changes; compulsory
chapel attendance and chapel 'head-covering' alike became
optional"
(Handley 1978
p.21) [See
1895 timetable]
December 1934 Death of Edith Gowan
December 1936 Death of
Edwin Hobson whose ashes were interred in
Tottenham cemetery close to All Hallows Church (p.21)
1938 Miss Chubb (music) to retire after 27 years.
(Graham Handley
pp. 22 and 23)
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1939 - 1940:
Miss Ottley' Report at the start of the war -
staff list and electoral register.
1941 -1945
St Katharine's in Devon
. During the war it was difficult to recruit students: "Miss
Ottley appealed
to old students to recommend people for entry to the college, since
applications were so sparse"
(Handley, 1978
p. 23).
Graham Handley says that St Katharine's recognised the value of
"mature students" whilst in Devon, and when it returned to Tottenham there
was an "important contingent of mature students" in the new intake. In the
context of a women only college, this probably means married women.
[See 1939]
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1942 Nationally, there were 83 recognised teacher training colleges
(like St Katharine' and Berridge House), 22 university training
departments, and 16 specialist colleges for art teachers (like Hornsey).
May 1944
Teachers and Youth Leaders: Report of the Committee appointed by the
President of the Board of Education to consider the Supply, Recruitment and
Training of Teachers and Youth Leaders. Amongst those who
gave evidence to this was
"Miss E. A. Chubb, formerly of Tottenham, St.
Katharine's Training College".
August 1944
Education Act. In the period from here to 1950, training
colleges were over-crowded.
December 1944 an initial emergency scheme aimed at
training ex-
services people as teachers attracted many applicants. It was opened to
all men and women who had served at least a year in HM
Forces or in a war industry in June 1945 and 5000 a month were
applying by December 1945.
November 1945 St Katharine's
returned to Tottenham
1946 Announced that all teachers would require to be qualified.
[Which would mean having a Teacher's Certificate if they were not
graduates]. Uncertified teachers with less than five years experience would
require the full two years training. Those with 5-15 years' experience
could do a shorter course. Those with over 15 years experience would be
certified without further study if the reports on their work were
satisfactory. [The two year course became three years in 1960]
Trent Park was established in
1947 and became part of Middlesex Polytechnic in
1974
1950-1955 Period when the supply of trainee teachers was down as
entrants from HM Forces and the war industries stopped and
too few boys and girls were staying on at school to get the required entry
qualifications.
In
1960
teacher training courses were extended from two years to three.
In
1964 St Katherine's and Berridge House united to form The
College of All Saints
1972 The
James Report and
A Framework for Expansion
In
1978 All Saints became part of Middlesex Polytechnic.
The
All Saints Educational Trust was established with the proceeds
of this sale. Amongst other things, the Trust makes grants to people
training to be teachers "with a particular bias towards individual awards
for teachers of Religious Education and Home Economics".
"The Trust is based broadly on the object of the College of All
Saints which had been to train teachers within a Christian foundation.
Whilst St Katharine's College had been concerned mainly with general
teaching, Berridge House had been established primarily to train teachers
of
Domestic Science
(now known as Home Economics)."
All Saints Campus
All Saints was no longer a
Teacher Training College, but the
Campus for Humanities (who moved there from Enfield). In the late 1980s,
Tottenham was closed (but not
disposed of) and staff and students (and All Saints Bookshop) moved to
Enfield in
September 1989. Enfield was redesigned with a new library.
Tottenham Campus
The move was short lived. Middlesex changed its mind and staff, students
and books moved back to Tottenham in 1992. Its official opening was
celebrated on
Sunday 1.1.1992. Eventually it closed in
2005 See email
4.12.2003
Lee Valley Campus: Never happened
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1853
The Science and Art Department, a government
body (1853 to 1899) "was responsible for
administering grant-aid to
art schools (from 1856) and to schools of design
and technical schools (from 1868)".
1854
At the time of the
Crimean War there were three Royal munitions factories:
the Woolwich Arsenal, the
Enfield Small Arms Factory (1816-1988) and the Waltham Abbey
Gun Powder Factory.
These government factories had there own internal education system.
(See below)
Woolwich and Enfield had
apprenticeships. "In the earlier part of the 19th
century apprentices were indentured to individual apprentice masters. They
were expected to help the master craftsman with his work and in return he,
rather than the factory, was personally responsible for paying the
apprentice". Such an apprenticeship record for 1843 survives.
"Some time between 1856 and 1886, the practice changed and from then on
apprentices were indentured to the factory, in the name of the
Superintendent, instead of individual apprentice master" See
Apprentices 1915
and
Small Arms Factory Apprentices Association
1919
1856
Machine shop at the
Enfield Small Arms Factory built on American mass-
production lines. See
1895
1862
About 1862: Birth in Macclesfield, Cheshire of
Edwin Grimshaw who became the first Principal of the (1911-)
Ponders End Technical Institute. He and his family moved to
Enfield in the
autumn of 1911 [1914 photo]. He was previously a Head Teacher in
Willesden.
See 1914.
He died (aged 58) in the summer of
1920 and may have been succeded as Principal by
Arthur James Crofts.
1866
The firm of Reeves had made water based colours for artists since the
middle of the 18th century. In the 19th century they added oils in
collapsible tubes to their range. They also manufactured a wide range of
other artists' materials.
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Reeves and Sons Ltd were at
113 Cheapside from 1845 to
1940
18 Ashwin Street, Dalston from 1868 to 1954 [See
1940]
Lincoln Road, Enfield, Middlesex from
1921 to 1982 [See
1948]
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George Shiells was managing director of
Reeves when he first became a Governor of Enfield College of Technology in
the late 1960s. [??]
1868
1868 Jane Dunwoody, who had trained at St George's Hospital, was
appointed as a head nurse at the
Royal Free Hospital. She may have been the
first trained nurse in the hospital.
1870
A
series of Acts between 1870 and 1918 made
education free and compulsory
for children from five years old to ten, then to eleven, then to fourteen,
thus creating an increasing demand for
teacher training.
June 1870 National Union of Elementary Teachers formed. It became
the National Union of Teachers in 1888. See
Enfield branch
1870 The
Royal Free Hospital made an agreement with the
British Nursing
Association (BNA), who supplied a Superintendent and 18 nurses
at the cost
of £276 a year. The BNA trained its staff on the wards, and when the
Association was dissolved in 1884 the hospital was left without any form of
training, although most of the nurses stayed on.
1870 Most education in Enfield was provided in Church of England
Schools. An exception was the Royal Small Arms factory school, financed by
the government, opened within the factory for juniors and infants in 1846.
In 1870 evening as well as day classes were held there. In the same
year, a separate infants' school was built. In 1893 there was a total
attendance of 501 but by 1899 the pupils had been transferred to the new
Chesterfield Road board school. The original building then became a police
station guarding the entrance to the factory. (Victoria County
History, using material from Kelly's 1870 Directory and other sources)
1875
Clive Ashwin (1982,
p.17.) speaks of "a steady shift of authority from the centre, in the form
the
Department of Science and Art, to the local regions" during the
"last quarter" of the nineteenth century. The shift he documents, however,
took place in the
late 1880s
1876
City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical
Education founded to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians,
technologists, and engineers.
1877-1879 The Archway Road Infirmary, Highgate was erected at the
west side of Archway Road, in Highgate. In 1998 the hospital became the
Archway Campus of Middlesex University
1877 Arthur James Crofts born in Sneiton, Nottinghamshire. He
became a science teacher in Nottingham and then Enfield where,
in 1906 he
taught classes in mathematics, machine construction, geometry and
elementary science. At this time he was B.Sc.
On 10.6.1905, in Staffordshire, he married Ethel Elizabeth Hancocks, the
daughter of a headmaster and herself a teacher. In
1908 Mrs Crofts sang
at the annual presentation of certificates to successful students in
Enfield Technical Classes. They lived at 2 Bedford Villas, Southbury Road,
Enfield in 1911. Later (at least until 1938) they lived at 113 Southbury
Road. Arthur Crofts became the (last)
Principal of Ponders End Technical Institution before it became Enfield
Technical College. He may have succeeded
Edwin Grimshaw
. See
1926 -
1937 -
1941.
In 1946, Mr and
Mrs Crofts were made life members of the newly formed
"Old Students' Association of Enfield Technical School and
College". Ethel's death, aged 74, was registered in Edmonton in
the autumn of 1953. Arthur died in
the Tiverton area (Somerset/Devon) in 1963,
aged 86.
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1878 A training college in
Tottenham
founded by the Society for
Promoting
Christian Knowledge. Initially at the corner of Lordship Lane (the road
south of Bruce Castle Museum on this 1984 map) and Tottenham High Road.
1880 New building opened at the White Hart Lane site (St Katharine's
College)
Building at the White Hart Lane site included Practising schools. (upper
grade, elementary and
infants). Haringey archive services have
inspector's reports on the infants and girls departments for 1924
and 1929 and on the senior girl's department for 1936. The St
Katharine's Practising School became a senior girls' school about
1937,
providing only secondary education. Haringey archive services have an
inspector's reports on the secondary school for
1954.
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1879
In the first part of the nineteenth century electric light could be created
by sending a stream of electricity through the air in an arc between two
carbon rods. (An arc light). At first the power was supplied by batteries
but, from the late 1870s the development of generators led to attempts at
ambitious lighting scheme such as the lighting at the Paris Opera.
Joseph Wilson Swan's idea was that light might be created by
making a thin thread
of carbon incandescent by sending the electricity through that rather than
making it jump through the air. Swan's idea required the glowing metal to
be in a vacuum, provide within an electric light bulb.
Swan created the Electric Carbon Filament Bulb in 1879. He
was the first to demonstrate it (in Newcastle), but not the first to patent
it. It
was patented by the American, Thomas Alva Edison. After legal battles, the
two inventors decided to form a combined business: the Edison Swan Electric
Light Company, although they probably never met. Information about this is
kept in Tyne and Wear Museum, Newcastle.
February 1879 Swan demonstrated his lamp at the Newcastle Literary
and Philosophical Society.
1880
1881
Horse tramway from Stamford Hill to
Ponders End with a depot at Tramway Avenue, just south of
Ponders End.
Tottenham on this route. There was a temporary conversion to
steam trams from 1887 to 1891. Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd
established in
1901.
1882 Charles Swinstead founded
Hornsey School of Art at
Crouch End
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School sited somewhere between Crouch End Hill and Waverley Road on this
present day Open Street map.
Crouch End Hill is the main road out of Crouch
End (which is south). Ashwin says the school was at the crest of the hill,
on the edge of the built up area, near the railway station. (p.9)
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The main gate of the school was at the northern corner of Crouch End Hill
with Waverley Road. The studios with their tall windows faced north. (p.13)
From Crouch End Hill the school, at this time, looked "rather like a large
rambling private house". Trees separated it from the road (photo 1890) and,
in time, ivy grew over it. The headmaster had a house to the south, with
its entrance and front door on Crouch End hill (p.13)
There was little
"industry" in or near
Hornsey. The
school's initial part time
morning and evening classes were for
Ladies only morning classes in drawing (£1.11.6p a
quarter),
water
colour or oil painting (£2.12.6p a quarter).
Ladies and Gentlemen evening school.
In "special rooms"
Teachers and
artisans classes in free hand, model drawing,
geometry
and perspective. (7 shillings and sixpence a quarter)
1882 London Jute Works Company factory on the Navigation at Ponders
End (established 1866) closed. Replaced by "the Ediswan factory in
1886.
1884
21.6.1884 Birth in Walton-on-Thames of John Charles Moody
(RI, RE, PSGA) who,
in
1927, became the first
Principal of
Hornsey
who was not a member of the Swinstead family.
Moody had studied art at London, Paris, Antwerp and Italy. On
24.12.1915, in St James, Muswell Hill, he married Dorothy Margaret Bennet,
who had been a student at Hornsey School of Art.
He was full-time
art master at Hornsey from
1920, and became Frank
Swinstead's second in command before succeeding him in 1927.
[See Hornsey group]
Moody was
a painter and
etcher of landscapes, figures and architectural subjects who
also produced posters for LNER and then British Rail. He
retired from Hornsey in
1947. He was President of the
Society of Sussex Artists in 1954 and at sometime President of the Society
of Graphic Artists. He died in
1962.
1885
In 1885, Channing House (school for girls) was opened in Highgate by
Unitarians.
About
1899 (when she was four),
Sheila MacEwan began her school education in a kindergarten at
Channing run on Frobel principles by a Miss Ruhig. Frobel teachers use
structure play with coloured blocks and other objects to develop children's
abilities and Sheila later suggested that the methods had taught her much
about visual measuring and proportion. Miss Ruhig was sacked by Channing
and set up a small private school at 4 Bisham Gardens, N6, which
Sheila
attended until she was
almost 18. Miss Ruhig's friendliness and popularity
with pupils appears to have inspired Sheila in her own teaching. At the end
of her life she told
Peter Green
that Miss Ruhig had been sacked from Channing "because all the children
liked going to say good morning to her every day. This continued when they
moved into the senior school. The children disobeyed the head and continued
to go and see Miss Ruhig so she was sacked!" [4.8.1981 interview in
HCA/3/2/4]
1886
In 1886
Joseph Wilson Swan
moved his lamp factory from South Benwell in the north east of England to
a site beside the River Lee at Ponders End.
Over the
years the factory was enlarged, eventually covering 11.50 acres (4.65 ha),
and employing many people, notably girls, from the area. Ediswan produced
electric lamps, and the factory was colloquially known as The
Lamp."
Wikipedia - See the
Lamptech Museum for detailed history.
On this site, see
-
Enfield District Manufacturers Association
1921 -
Eddie Bassett who became an apprentice about
1923 -
Malcolm Farrell
who became an apprentice about 1948 -
Siemens Edison Swan 1956
-
Brian Frank Gardner who became an apprentice
in 1958. - 1959
- 1961 -
December 1964 -
1966-1967 -
Professor
Ambrose Fleming was invited to join the Ediswan company as a
consultant to investigate the blackening on the inside of light bulbs, the
so-called `Edison Effect'. Fleming had the Ponders End laboratory make a
number of experimental lamps with an extra electrode (anode). After
completing his work, Fleming took an extra consultancy with the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph company. (Jim Lewis, North Circular, 9.5.1996)
Church End - The old parts of
Hendon
Model Dairy Farm built in the late 1880s on land
immediately to the north of Church End Farm's yards. Church End' Farm yards
followed an approximate east-west axis, opening off
Church End above the present position of Rose Cottage to the south of
Church House [That appear's to be where the
Williams Building and car par are now]
(HADAS Report
15.2.2005)
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On the late nineteenth century map below, the farmstead track of Church End
Farm can be seen as a lane between the old buildings, beneath what is now
Williams Building.
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1887
A Trained Nurses
Institute established at the
Royal Free Hospital by the Matron, Eugenie Barton.
During 1888-1889 Miss Barton set up a training programme, and the first
Probationers and Lady Probationers commenced training. Probationers were
aged between 23-35 years and served a 3 year training, after which they
received the Hospital Certificate; they then served a 4th year as a Staff
Nurse. They were provided with free board, lodging, uniform and laundry.
Lady or Special Probationers were of a higher educational standard. Their
training was not less than six months. They were required to pay for their
training, and also their uniform and laundry.
About 1887 Dorothea Barbara Nickal born in Deptford. Her father
(John Nickal) was a London County Council Inspector of Schools (1911) and,
in the same year, Dorothea was a teacher in a London County Council school.
She
wrote a "scrapbook" of
St Katharine's College for 1919-1933 which begins
"In the days before everyone became a psychologist and when
educationalist had less to do with statistics, it is said that an Inspector
of Schools reported of a teacher: 'Miss X's memory has failed and
imaginations has taken its place'"
(Handley 1978 p.22).
1887 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society formed in London.
1888
Until 1889, Middlesex, like all other English Counties, was governed by its
magistrates in Quarter Sessions.
The
1888 Local Government Act created London
County Council and an elected Middlesex County Council. The main built area
of the old Middlesex became the main part of London. Middlesex was the
rural crescent around north London. By the time Middlesex was absorbed into
London in
1965, it had already been almost completely covered with
buildings.
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The County Council Coat of Arms was reused in the re-branding of Middlesex
University in September
2012
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1888 Dedication service for the Chapel at
St Katharine'e College, Tottenham
Morning and evening service, following the
Book of Common Prayer of 1662 were the
start and the end of the
weekday life of students in the college.
Before
the chapel opened, prayers were said in one of the college rooms.
"We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep,"... "Lighten our
darkness... defend us from all perils and dangers of this night"
Chapel attendance (with a covered head) was compulsory until
the 1930s
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1889
1889 and 1891 Technical Instruction Acts empowered
local authorities to finance technical education from the rates.
Middlesex County Council Technical Education Committee established. It
set up a scholarship scheme for boys to attend secondary schools in
Middlesex and neighbouring counties. It established polytechnics,
institutes, and secondary schools and became heavily
involved in running independent schools and institutes. It merged into the
Middlesex County Council Education Committee in
1903.
(London Metropolian Archives Leaflet 27)
See
Benjamin Scaife Gott
and
Edward William Maples -
1907 -
1912 -
1915
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1889 Henry Ferryman Bowles (19.12.1858 - 14.10.1943), Conservative,
elected to the new Middlesex County Council as member for Enfield West.
In
March of the same year he was elected as Member of Parliament for Enfield.
Photographed by John Benjamin Stone outside the Houses of Parliament in
June 1899.
Copyright National Portrait Gallery
He was Vice-Chair of the
Middlesex
Technical Education
Committee
from
at least 1902.
See
November 1908
-
December 1908 -
January 1914
Henry Bowles' family home was Myddelton House, now famous because of the
crocuses that his younger brother bred. In 1894, however, his father
bought
for him Forty Hall, just south of Myddelton House.
In an essay called "God Bless
the Squire", writing about his youth in Forty Hill, Enfield towards the
start and during the first world war, Norman Lewis says:
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"The land and its hamlets were owned and ruled by Colonel Sir Henry
Ferryman Bowles, a sporadically benevolent tyrant"
The land was agricultural. The modern sketch map (left) is bisected by the
Great Cambridge Road, built across agricultural land in the
1920s. The
nearest industry was along the banks of the River Lea to the east of the
Hertford Road where the main employer was the
Royal Small Arms Factory.
Many of Henry Bowles' questions in Parliament concerned the production of
small arms and the welfare of the small arms workers.
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1890
Beginning of the eighteen nineties
St Katharine's Magazine started. First editor: Miss
Pallot. (p.8)
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1890 (About). An early photograph of "Hornsey School of Art"
(notice board in the photograph), "from the north-west" (caption in
Ashwin 1982, p.8).
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This
was the then main entrance, situated at the corner with Waverley Road, a
quiet side street.
The main road face (west side) of the college looked
like a "rambling private house" until the new main entrance was opened in
1931. The tall windows of the studios were on the north side.
Ashwin 1982, p.13.
Summer 1890 Birth in Dartmouth, Devon, of
Reginald William Walls who became the first Principal of
Hendon Technical College. His father was the local Gentleman's
outfitter and Tailor and, after his father's death, his mother ran a
boarding house. In 1911 Reginald was clerk to a coal merchant.
He married Margaret Le G Short in the Totnes district (which includes
Dartmouth) in 1916.
In
1947 Walls was
a Bacelor of Science (Economics), Bachelor of Commerce,
A.L.A.A., [Accountant and Auditor] and
A.C.I.S. [Institute of Chartered Secretaries]
He may have obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree at
Manchester University. Three of their children (including twins) were born
in Prescot, Lancashire, in 1926 and 1929. Assuming that Reginald Walls was
Principal of Hendon
at the opening of the college, his first five years were war
years. The family lived in a large house in Sunny Gardens Road, north of
the college, on the steep hill that goes down to RAF Hendon. (Electoral
Registers 1951 - 1953). He arrears on
a photograph of a
Handley Page prize giving in 1954.
During
this period relations with the
Handley Page
factory at Cricklewood were important and may have stimulated
the
Hendon Block Release Scheme in 1952.
Emrys Williams replaced Reginald Walls as
Principal on 1.1.1955.
1891
Hornsey School of Art Committee requested financial support from
Middlesex County Council. First grant
1894.
1892
7.3.1892
Hansard Enfield Small Arms said to be the
only source of industrial employment in the neighbourhood.
The birth of Mary Alice Wolstencroft was recorded in Oldham in the
September quarter of 1892. She worked in cotton mill, as her family did.
On
11.12.1918 she married
Henry W. Broadbent
1892 John Gerald Platt 1892-1975. Born Bolton, Lancs. studied at
Leicester School of Art. Drawing Master at Kingston School of Art and
master wood-engraver at Goldsmiths College. ARE 1924. Principal of
Harrow Technical College and Art School 1930. Principal of
Hornsey
1947. Died 1975.
Women's studies or "ladies desirous"
Gender and class
As far as I know,
domestic studies (those
focused on the home) are not taught at Middlesex University,
but these and other "women's studies" have played an important part in the
genesis of the University.
Nursing and
teaching were almost exclusively
women's studies in the early years and much of
arts and crafts was dominated
by women students.
Engineering
and Enfield were almost exclusively male.
The gender distinction corresponds with a class distinction in that Enfield
drew many students from skilled working class backgrounds whose were paid
for by the council or their firms, whilst the women students in domestic
studies, nursing, teaching and arts and crafts appear to have included a
high proportion of fee-paying middle class women.
In the history of Middlesex, the teaching of domestic studies
began in the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury in
1893. The National Society's Training School of Cookery.
Lambeth Road in South East London was established the "disused brew
house"
of Lambeth Palace [It is possible that this refers to the vaulted
undercroft once used to store beer and wine and now used as a chapel.]
Guardian 30.5.1894 p.46 and other dates
"There are a few vacancies
for students. The training lasts six months or a year, and consists of a
thorough training In
artisan, plain, and superior household cookery,
scullery-work,
housekeeping,
marketing, and
general management. Diplomas
are granted which are recognised by tho Education Department as qualifying
the holders to teach cookery In public elementary schools. Ladies who aro
desirous of taking short courses in plain or superior cooking can do so by
arrangement. For further particulars apply to the Lady-Superintendent Miss
Underwood Waugh."
21.8.1895: "Students are trained in scullery-work, artisan, plain, and
superior cookery, also in housekeeping, scale of wages, elementary
physiology, and chemistry of food."
It was said of
Agnes Turnbull that she "did much to further the cause of
domestic subjects in the teaching world" (Handley, p.33)
By
the 1970s the term women's studies related not to domestic
subjects but to reflecting on why women were domestic subjects and how that
could be changed
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1893
Spring 1893 Birth in St Pancras of Margery Maughan, the second
daughter of Annie and James, James being a medical practitioner. In 1901
the family lived at 56 Albany Street, Regents Park, and had a governess, a
cook and a housemaid. In 1911 the live-in servants had gone, Annie was a
"housewife", Dorothy (22), the eldest daughter, a student of pharmacy;
Margery (18) a student of "domestic subjects" and James Douglas Maughan
(14) was at school.
Berridge House had opened in Hampstead in December 1908. At some
time, Margery was a student there
(Graham Handley p.33).
She published from
Kings College for Women in
1920.
Margery (no one
else) was still living with her parents at 56 Albany Street in 1924 and
1925. In
1925 she was
appointed as Vice-Principal of Berridge House, and in 1926 Principal,
See research on Posture.
She
died 31.3.1950, leaving £9,800 to her brother and brother-in-law.
1894
[Hornsey] Along with regular annual grants from
Middlesex County Council, the management structure of the
School changed. School's
Committee was replaced and a joint committee with
Middlesex County Council ran the newly financed school. The Joint Committee
acquired greater responsibility, and was soon answerable for most aspects
of the running of the School.
The
"curriculum
was expanded to include subjects which were regarded as being of more
practical or industrial value, such as Modelling,
Designing and Wood
Carving" Ashwin 1982,
p.13.)
Students' timetable
St Katharine's 1895
6.30am rising bell
7-8 private study
8-9 breakfast interval
9-9.30
chapel
9.30-12 lectures
12pm-1pm a walk (not in the town)
1-2 dinner interval
2-5 lectures
5-6 tea interval
6-8.30 private study
8.30-9
chapel
9--9.30 supper
9.30-10 preparation for bed
10 silence bell
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1895 National Union of Women Workers founded.
"By 1900 the Union had set up a number of Special Committees"
(web history).
It became the National
Council of Women in Great Britain in
1918. At some stage a
Research Sub-Committee was established.
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1895 The
Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the British
Army's standard rifle from 1895 to
1957. The Enfield part of its name came from its manufacture at
the
Enfield Small Arms Factory. Enfield Small Arms also made
the bayonets.
The early history of Enfield
College is linked to educating the factory workers.
Stanley
Millward (1940s) found that the college was mainly for students
from Enfield Small Arms and
Enfield Cables. The
Enfield Society has a
collection of relevant photographs on
its website under commerce and industry.
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15.5.1895 Birth of Henry Winterbottom Broadbent, the
first Principal of Enfield Technical College Born Oldham,
Lancashire.
The son of a trade union secretary. He was at elementary school from 1900
to
1907 and secondary school from 1907 to 1909 (when he was 14),
Apprenticeships
first as a commercial clerk in a spinning company and then
in the drawing office at a civil engineers enabled him to study and gain
qualifications at Oldham Municipal Technical School in the years before
the
first world war. He failed the fitness test for military service
and
from
May 1915 to September 1918 worked as an apprentice for "Messrs
Royce Ltd, Trafford Park, Manchester" learning the trade of an electrical
and mechanical engineer and continuing his studies at the technical school.
He was "Turner - Toolroom - Fitter" for two and a half years
and then "Jig and Tool Designer" for 10 months. For a few months in
1918/1919 he worked in the
Royal Aircraft Factory, Oldham
and then as Head
Draughtsman
at another firm before entering Manchester University as an
engineering student in the autumn of 1919. Whilst working at the aircraft
factory, he had married
Mary Alice Wolstencroft a month after the war
ended in 1918.
Mary and Henry's children were born
in Oldham and married in Edmonton. After Manchester University
(See 1922 and 1923) Henry worked
(from March 1923) at Mather and Platt Ltd, Park Works, Manchester
(see company history) as Assistant Designer and Technical
Engineer designing turbine and centrifugal pumps. [Most of these details
from his application to become a member of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers]. By 1936, he and his family
had moved to 96 Cavendish Avenue, Harrow, London. He was appointed
Principal of the new Enfield Technical College in
1941, his children married in
1946 and 1947 and
then he died, suddenly, in the spring of 1950.
20.11.1895
Euphemia Sheila MacEwan born.
About 1899 (four years old) she began kindergarten at
Channing school for girls, moving with her teacher to
Bisham
Gardens. She would have been approaching 18
in the autumn of 1913, when she started as a student at
Hornsey.
1896
The first Middlesex polytechnics
In 1915, Middlesex had three "polytechnics". Two (below) opened in 1896 and
Acton and Chiswick, which was opened in 1899.
Middlesex County Council bought the St Lawrence Institute in Priory Park
Road, Kilburn in West London, which was opened as Willesden Polytechnic.
It was enlarged by a new building in Glengall Road, Kilburn in
1904. {Willesden Polytechnic (?) and School of Art on front). The first
girls trade school in Middlesex was opened at Willsden Polytechnic in
1910
Until the spread of working-class housing in the 1870s, Tottenham, on the
road from London to Ponders End and Hertfordshire, was noted for private
schools. One of these was Grove House. Classes in art, science, and
technical subjects began at Grove House in 1892 and in 1896
the building was bought by Middlesex County Council to form Tottenham
Polytechnic. The second
girls trade school in Middlesex was opened at Tottenham Polytechnic in
1914
In London, the "Northern Polytechnic Institute" opened on Holloway Road in
1896. This became the "Northern Polytechnic" in 1924. The Northern had a
"Women's Department which ran cookery clases, needlework, dressmaking and
the like" (John Izbicki in
Floud and Glynn 1998 p.213).
1898
Benjamin Scaife Gott (1865-1933) was Organising Secretary of
Technical
Education for Middlesex County Council from 1898 to 1928. He was
born and
buried in Bingley Yorkshire. BA
(Natural Science Tripos. First Class) 1886.
He was Science Master at Wesley College, Shefield from 1888-1891 and Head
Master, Cheltenham School of Science from 1891 to 1897.
(Alumni Cantabrigenses)
1899
In 1899, the Board of Education replaced the Education Department of the
Privy Council, It became the Ministry of Education in
1944
Middlesex County Council acquired Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic, Bath
Road, Chiswick, West London. It was enlarged in 1908. The first boys trade
school in Middlesex was opened here in
1910.
2.6.1899 Birth of Eric Pascal. His parents ran a grocery business in
Birmingham. Eric obtained an MA at Cambridge University and in 1929 was
Assistant Master at Bishop Stortford College, Hertfordshire. He was living
in Enfield by 1932 and by
1937 was
Director of Education for the Urban District of Enfield.
See 1942 -
15.8.1945 -
1947 Year Book -
clerk to the Governors from 1949
to 1965 -
1953 -
2.3.1962 -
Easter 1968 -
Pascal
Laboratories -
Pascal Building
. He died in Stevanage, Hertfordshire in September 1978.
29.6.1899 Birth of Agnes May Ottley, the second of five daughters of
May and Robert Lawrence Ottley (2.9.1856 - 1.2.1933) of Teignmouth in
Devon. Robert was a
clergyman of the established church. He was the second Principal of Pusey
House, Oxford from 1893 to 1897. Then Vicar of Winterbourne Basset in
Wiltshire (where Agnes was born). He was also Professor of Pastoral
Theology at Oxford University and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford..
Agnes May Ottley became the Principal
of St Katharine's College in
January 1934, a year after her father's
death. She retired in December 1959 and died,
aged 90, in Surrey in 1990
26.11.1899 Herbert Willan Wadge born.
Baptised 25.12.1899: Wesleyan Methodist, Durham
Circuit, Durham. Father: Thomas (Tom) Stenlake Wadge. Mother: Jane Alice.
His
birth of was recorded Chester le Street in the
March quarter of 1900. His father was a coalminer and the name "Willan" was
his mother's maiden name. 24.10.1917joined the Coldsteam Guards as a
reserve. Address 20 Woodland Terrace, New Washington, Co Durham.
At some time before 1947, he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree
(University of London).
He married
Edith Jane Thompson (a shop-assistant in 1911), the daughter of a colliery
blacksmith in 1925. Herbert was on the London electoral role at 68 Gardenia
Road, Enfield from 1926. This was the house of Edith Maynard, a spinster
aged about 50, who was the head teacher Enfield Elementary School [Board
School] in 1911. The Wadge family then moved to 19 Meadow Way, Eastcote,
Ruislip,
in West London (1930-1939 registers). At some time before
1942
Herbert
Willan became
headmaster of the Enfield Technical School (until
1947). From 1947 he was
headmaster of the Sheffield Central Technical School. He was made MBE in
1956.
Herbert Willan Wadge died in Barnsley, Yorkshire, in the spring of 1989.
1900
1901
Tuesday 22.1.1901
Victoria, queen since
1837, died. Amongst the children named Victoria that spring was
Elsie Grace Victoria Davenport.
1901
[Enfield]
Ediswan Institute
A large private house in Ponders End High Street was
purchased by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan for use as a social centre for his
employees. It was also used for evening classes.
"The College traces its birth to the foresight of a great man
and a pioneer of electrical engineering, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan [1828-
1914]. In 1901 he purchased premises in High Street, Ponders End. This
became known as the Ediswan Institute; it was used as a technical school in
the evenings and also acted as a recreational centre for the staff and
employees of Swan's company. The basement of the building was used by Sir
Joseph for experiments; until a few years ago his lathe was still usable."
[1964-1965 Prospectus p.6]
Ponders End - Kelly's Directory 1914
Ponders End is a hamlet in the parish of Enfield with a station on the
Great Easter railway, on Ermine Street, the Roman and modern highway to the
north-east, now known by he name of the Lower North Road, 8« miles north
from London by road and adjoining Enfield Highway and the navigable cut of
the River Lea.
St James': A large and rapidly increasing division comprising Ponders End,
Enfield Highway, the Royal Small Arms Factory and Freezy water. The works
of the Edison and Swan United Electric Light Co. are on the banks of the
river Lea: the buildings cover an area of nearly 12 acres and employ about
3,000 hands. The population in 1901 was 5,813 and in 1911, 8,360, of whom a
large number are employed in the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield.
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Enfield Small Arms
was further north than Brimsdown, near Enfield Lock.
On this modern map, the part of Duck Lees Lane (East Duck Lees Lane)
leading down to the
Ediswan factory and the River Lee Navigation is shown
in orange to the east. Orange on either side of Ponders End High Street
marks the 1901 Swan house (east side) and the
1940s and later college buildings (west side).
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The yellow oblong by Ponders End station in the south is
the site of the
Ponders End Gas Works.
Enfield Cables was in Millmarsh Lane, which
is on the far northern edge of the map east of Brimsdown station.
Brimsdown electric power station (1903) was originally concerned
primarily with supplying power for electric
trams. Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd was
established in 1901. There were electric trams from Finsbury Park to
Tottenham
from 1904, extended to Tramway Avenue in 1905 and north, through Ponders
End, to Freezywater by 1906. By 1908 the trams ran to Waltham Cross.
They made passenger services on the railway line from Edmonton through
Southbury (then Churchbury) redundant. These closed on 1.10.1909, reopened
for munitions workers from 1.3.1915 and 1.7.1919 and then closed until
1960. Successive colleges at Ponders End were primarily reached
by tram, bus or trolley bus (or on foot or cycle or by car) until 1960. In
1911 (when the new Institute was opened) the tramway was extended from
Ponders End along the Southbury Road to Enfield Town. There was intense
competition between buses and trams. In 1938 all tram routes in
Edmonton and Enfield became trolleybus routes except for the
Southbury Road route which was taken over by motor buses. In 1961 all
the trolleybuses stopped and the overhead wires were removed.
About 1901 Roderick McCrae born (possibly outside the United
Kingdom). At some time, he obtained a B.Sc in Engineering and became a
Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
He became Head of
Mechanical Engineering at Kingston in 1939 -
He may have married Ivy Goddard in Blandford, Dorset in the June quarter of
1945. He became Principal of Enfield Technical
College in
1950.
See
1955 -
1961 -
1962 memorial 15.5.1962
1902 In 1902
Stanley Millward's Aunt Lily was learning to be a teacher at
All
Saints, Tottenham. In
1968, Stanley Millward was helping to computerise control of a
lathe at Enfield College of Technology - across the road from where
Joseph Swan's lathe had been.
1902 Ripaults founded. The original name was Leo Ripault and Co
of 64a Poland Street. Leopold Ripault was a French citizen born about 1856
who died in 1926. The firm sold Oleo (spark)
plugs for cars, amongst other things, and at least some of these were
imports from France. During the first world war it moved to
1 Kings Road, St. Pancras, N.W.1. It became a private company in 1923
(Ripaults Limited). The company
established a large factory in Enfield in 1936 and after the second world war its
advertisements focus on its cables (and sometimes other accessories) for
cars. (See 1947 and
1953 and
1970s).
Ripaults has been described as a
"family firm" (meaning, I think, that it was privately owned).
George A. Roberts became its managing director and chairman. The
factory had closed by 1988, when it became a listed building.
17.6.1902
Hansard
COLONEL BOWLES (Middlesex, Enfield)
said he was Vice-Chairman of the Technical Education Committee in his own
county, and represented on that Council an urban district which would be
its own authority for elementary education.
18.12.1902 Royal Assent to the
1902 Education Act. From
1903, under this Act, Middlesex County Council (in rural areas) or
borough or urban district councils (in urban areas) became responsible for
elementary education. Middlesex Council became
responsible for secondary and technical education throughout the county.
As well as being responsibility for the schools they provided, these "Local
Education Authorities" had responsibility for the secular curriculum of
voluntary (church) schools. Most of the church schools were run by the
Church of England. The Act also allowed Local Education Authorities to
support teacher training colleges, most of which were church owned.
20.12.1902 London Middlesex Gazette
"... be made that a letterbox be erected near the Ediswan Institute ; and
also that a lamp be erected outside the new office. To this the Council
agreed."
1903 to
1939
"Rapid urbanisation of Middlesex between 1903 and 1939 led to a
prolonged period of school building. In 1902 there were only five endowed
and four council provided secondary schools in Middlesex. By 1939 Middlesex
County Council had established 42 county secondary schools, including
county or municipal schools with a more "modern" and varied curriculum than
the old grammar schools. Further education was also developed with the
opening of new technical colleges and the rebuilding and enlargement of the
existing polytechnics."
(London Metropolian Archives Leaflet 27)
1903 to
1965
Middlesex County Council Architect's Department was created in 1903 with
Harry George Crothall as its Surveyor (County Architect from 1905). "The
bulk of the Department's work was concerned with schools and polytechnics"
AIM25 Catalogue
1903
The North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company opened Brimsdown Power
Station on the River Lee, near Enfield.
Initially its primarily purpose was to supply power for
electric tramways,
but electricity was supplied for domestic use when cables had been laid.
"Perhaps... the single event of greatest significance to the
industrial development of Enfield was the establishment of the Northmet
Power Station at Brimsdown... when the modern Green Street was only a
cinder- track but the Lee Navigation Canal offered coal and cooling-water"
(Industries of Enfield
1948 p.19)
From the
autumn of 1906 a Mr W. H. Bray provided
"special classes, for
instruction in electric lighting and power transmission, a subject which
has increased importance now that electric mains have been laid throughout
the district." In
1908 a number of male students at Ponders End passed
City and Guilds examinations in "Electric Wiremen's Work" and
"Electrical Engineering (Elementary)".
[
Industries of Enfield
1948 (p.108) says the Northmet Power Company was established in 1900 and
that supply was first commenced in Enfield in 1906. The Eastern Electricity
Board took over the Northmet on
1.4.1948. The Central Electricity Generating Board
decommissioned Brimsdown in
1974].
Picture from
Clive Ashwin 1982
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About 1903 Frederick James Mitchell born. He was an Art Master (27)
at 19 Barlow Terrace in Keighly, Yorkshire on 19.7.1930, when he married
Winifred Jane Pearcey (23) of North Mount Riddleston, Yorkshire,
at St Mary Riddlesden. His father was George Frederick Mitchell, a
"Manager". In 1946, Frederick J. Mitchell and Winifred J. Mitchell lived at
20 Rokesly Avenue, [Hornsey, London] N8. Frederick J. Mitchell, "A Crouch
End resident", who was "Head of Art at Hornsey College of Art"
painted the
demolition of St George's Church in Hornsey in 1956 and created
the
stained glass window in Hornsey Library in 1965. Fred and
Sheila MacEwan
kept in contact after her retirement.
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From George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. A comedy and a
philosophy 1903. Act Two.
TANNER [A gentleman talking about the mechanic who is mending his car] ....
this chap has been
educated. What's more, he knows that we
havn't. What was that Board School of yours, Straker?
STRAKER. Sherbrooke Road.
TANNER. Sherbrooke Road! Would any of us say Rugby! Harrow! Eton! in that
tone of intellectual snobbery? Sherbrooke Road is a place where boys learn
something: Eton is a boy farm where we are sent because we are nuisances at
home, and because in after life, whenever a Duke is mentioned, we can claim
him as an old school-fellow.
Man and Superman
The Criterion Theatre,
Opened 28.9.1911
191 performances.
Picture courtesy Don Gillan
Stagebeauty.net
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STRAKER. You dont know nothing about it, Mr Tanner. It's not the Board
School that does it: it's the Polytechnic.
TANNER. His university, Octavius. Not Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Dublin, or
Glasgow. Not even those Non-conformist holes in Wales. No, Tavy.
Regent Street!
Chelsea! the
Borough! - I don't know half their confounded names:
these are his universities, not mere shops for selling class limitations
like ours. You despise Oxford, Enry, dont you?
STRAKER. No, I dont. Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for
people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman
there. In the Polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like.
See?
TANNER. Sarcasm, Tavy, sarcasm! Oh, if you could only see into Enry's soul,
the depth of his contempt for a gentleman, the arrogance of his pride in
being an engineer, would appal you. He positively likes the car to break
down because it brings out my gentlemanly helplessness and his workmanlike
skill and resource.
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STRAKER. Never you mind him, Mr Robinson. He likes to talk. We know him,
dont we?
OCTAVIUS [earnestly] But theres a great truth at the bottom of what he
says. I believe most intensely in the dignity of
labour.
STRAKER [unimpressed] Thats because you never done any, Mr Robinson. My
business is to do away with labour. Youll get more out of me and a machine
than you will out of twenty labourers, and not so much to drink either.
TANNER. For heaven's sake, Tavy, dont start him on political economy. He
knows all about it; and we dont. Youre only a poetic
Socialist, Tavy: he's
a scientific one.
STRAKER [unperturbed] Yes. Well, this conversation is very improvin; but
Ive got to look after the car; and you two want to talk about your ladies.
I know. [He retires to busy himself about the car; and presently saunters
off towards the house].
TANNER. Thats a very momentous social phenomenon.
OCTAVIUS. What is?
TANNER. Straker is. Here have we literary and cultured persons been for
years setting up a cry of the
New Woman whenever some unusually old
fashioned female came along, and never noticing the advent of the New Man.
Straker's the New Man.
This is my choice for the Middlesex University
play of the year for 1903
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1904
1904
[Tottenham]
"As I mused, a spectre loomed in the distance. H M I" [His
Majesty's Inspectorate of schools] "had arrived, in his airship, at the
village school" (p.13)
1904
[Hornsey]
By 1904, the School was under the joint control of the Board of Education
and the
Middlesex County Council. Numbers were increasing, and the need
for
larger accommodation led to the conversion of the headmaster's house into
teaching rooms.
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1904
Professor Ambrose
Fleming
registered an improved version of his earlier experimental
device (the lamp with the extra electrode). This was the world's first
thermionic valve, British Patent No 24850. (Jim Lewis, North
Circular, 9.5.1996) "From this developed the multi-media communications
industry of today"
The valve can only pass an electric signal one way. Consequently,
alternating signals from radio waves can be converted into pulsating direct
current that can be used to produce sound. Valves can also be used in
binary calculations with current flowing counting as one state and not
flowing counting as the other state.
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Saturday 9.1.1904
London Middlesex Gazette
"COUNTY COUNCIL COOKERY CLASS. TO THE EDITOR, Dear Sir,-Kindly allow me to
make known by means of your valuable paper that the County Council Cookery
Class will not be held at the
Ediswan Institute ,- as advertised in the
syllabus, but at St. Matthew's Schoolroom, South-street, Ponders End,
commencing Thursday next, the 14th inst. The teacher will be Miss Mary
Turner, and Mrs [illegible] will be class manageress, to whom all
applications to join should be sent. Yours faithfully, JOHN F. E.
MULLETT, Vice-chairman E.T.E.C. Bridge-house, Ponders End." [John Frederick
Edward Mullett (1848-1917) described himself as a drug merchant. He was a
Councillor. I assume E.T.E.C. is the Enfield Technical Education
Committee and that it is the same as the
Enfield Technical Instruction Committee.
St Matthew's was (is) a Church of England School. In 1904 the South Street
site appears to have bee a junior girls school.]
27.10.1904 Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes formed
at an inaugural meeting of 200 at Birkbeck College. 150 joined the
Association. There were twelve polytechnic in London, thirteen technical
institutions outside London, and over one hundred science schools. There
were large numbers of part-time teachers, teaching mainly evening students,
but the impetus to the formation of the association came from the growing
number of full-time qualified staff. The name was changed to
Association of
Teachers in Technical Institutions in
1906
1905
Edward William Maples (1872-19??) was, like
Benjamin Scaife Gott
, a graduate of Cambridge University. He was
Principal of Cedars School in Ealing from 1899 to 1905 and then Assistant
Secretary for Higher Education to Middlesex Education Committee. He was a
major in the Welsh Fusiliers 1914-1919.
(Alumni Cantabrigenses)
Clive Ashwin (p.14) says that drawing from these models "dominated
the curriculum" at first (p.14). They still had this room on 2.10.1941 when
a large section of its
ceiling collapsed. (Clive Ashwin p.32)
Amongst the photographs of pre-1914 classes in Ashwin
1982, a young man (with three
ladies) appears in an undated photograph of Frank Swinstead's perspective
class. Otherwise, the students shown are women.
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The students photographed in art needlework in 1905 were all women. So were
the students photographed in the modelling room (not shown) in the antique
room (above) and in the wood carving class (below).
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29.10.1905 Birth of Joseph Pierce McCrum who "exhibited a number of
stunning and highly decorative lacquer panels with the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition Society in the late 1920s and early 1930s". One of these was
Island Picnic, in
1929, when he lived in Edgware. He and Phyllis Elizabeth McCrum
lived n Hendon in
1931. He was teaching at Hornsey in
1943 and wrote for the
Your Home Crafts series after the war. He also illustrated a
book on Grimsby trawlers, for primary schools, in 1961. He died in Taunton
in 1998 or 1999.
1905
[Enfield] The house purchased by
Joseph Swan was bought by
Middlesex County Council in 1905.
"The Middlesex County Council purchased the building in 1905
and in 1906 it was opened as an evening institute. The kitchen was used as
a chemistry laboratory and one of the living rooms as a science laboratory.
The junior technical school began using the building a year or two later."
[1964-1965 Prospectus p.6]
Southbury Road council school opened in Swansea Road in 1905 and had
966 juniors and infants in 1919 - It had a "great hall" that could
seat over 1,000 people.
1906
29.9.1906
London Middlesex Gazette Page 5
The success of last year's Classes, has induced the Enfield Technical
Instruction Committee to make additions and extensions for this year that
cannot fail to increase their usefulness.
This year, too, there are five centres, instead of four, the additional
centre being located at the Parish Room, Cockfosters.
The classes to be formed will be for instruction in Art (teacher, Mr A. H.
Greenfield), Building Construction. (Mr. A. Norton),
Electric Lighting (Mr.
W. H. Bray), Mathematics, Machine Construction, Geometry and Elementary
Science
(Mr. A. J. Crofts, B.Sc.), Manual Training and Carpentry (Mr. W.
Brown), Bookkeeping (Mr. A, W. W?r??ise), Wood-carving (Mr. S. J. Reach), .
Shorthand (Mr T. P. Thomas); Typewriting (Mr. J. Rushbridge), French (Mr.
?? G. LeBas), Horticulture (Mr. J. Weathers. F.R.H.S.), Dressmaking (Miss
G. Cook), and Cooking (Miss M. Turner).
The Art section is divided into elementary and advanced classes, and the
instruction given will be such as to meet, the requirements of all classes
of students, such as those who are engaged in industrial Occupations, art
manufacturers, teachers in elementary.schools, and those who desire to make
Art their chief occupation.
In the Building Construction Classes will be taught drawing to scale of
plans, etc., elementary principles of brickwork, carpentry: and ironwork,
plain-lettering, etc. There are also separate classes for woodwork and
carpentry in which instruction is given in manual training and carpentry.
The syllabus for both the cooking and dressmaking. classes, which have
always proved two of the most popular sections of the Committee's efforts,
as excellent and thorough in character as hitherto.
The French, classes will be conducted in that language which students will
be taught to speak from the commencement. In the advanced classes special
attention will be given to commercial and conversational French.
The shorthand class will, be divided into elementary and advanced sections.
In these days when so much importance is attached to a good commercial
education, the class for typewriting and office routine has no slight
value. It is specially intended to give those who propose entering
commercial life a thorough knowledge of general office work. To this a
valuable adjunct is the commercial arithmetic and book-keeping.
At the
Ponders End Technical Institute will be special classes, for
instruction in electric lighting and power transmission, a subject which
has increased importance now that electric mains have been laid throughout
the district. At the same centre classes for workshop mathematics and for
elementary experimental science will [illegible]
At the Cockfosters Centre there will be ..a woodcarving class.
The most important Class at the Enfield Lock Centre is that for machine
construction and drawing. Students will be instructed in the form of the
parts of machines, the physical [illegible]
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1906: Birth [Islington?] of George A. Roberts who was Chair of the
Enfield
College governors from
1949 to 1968. Possibly the son of Walter Charles Roberts, a
bricklayer who engaged in finance. He married Mabel Florence Cannon in the
Edmonton district in the summer of
1929. Mabel (baptised 11.3.1906) was the
daughter of Luisa and Augustus Cannon. Her father worked as a woodworking
machinist making cameras and in 1911 they lived in Wood Green (in the
Edmonton district). From
1949, or before, to
1963, or later, they lived at
17 Eversley Crescent, N21 Southgate.
George Roberts became the chairman and managing director of
Ripaults
in Southbury Road. [Factory
1936] He was very active in local
affairs. He was a founding
member of both the Enfield Football Alliance and Enfield Trustee Savings
Bank. He died in April 1996, aged 90. A member of
Winchmore Hill Sports Club from
1937
to his death (at which time he
was its senior trustee). His wife was known as "Bobby".
(obituary)
3.4.1906 Birth of Alexander George Stretch [Alec Stretch], probably
at 54 St Marks Rd, Bush Hill Park, Enfield where his family lived (at least
from 1911). His father was George Alfred Stretch (aged 31) an electrical
engineer. His mother Ellen Caroline (or Helen Caroline - or Caroline Ellen
etc]. Alec also became an electrician. He was "for many years" the Chief
Electrician at the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green. Built as a
(Catholic) Church Hall in 1931, this opened as a theatre in
1934, and
became a full-time repertory theatre in 1937. In the second world war, Alec
was seconded to Enfield Technical College to train army engineers. He
helped to found
Enfield Technical College Entertainments Association and the
development of this was a major feature of his (and his family's) life. In
the
1964-1965 Prospectus he is shown as a lecturer or assistant
lecturer (one of two with no letters after his name) in the Department of
Electrical Engineering. The "Enfield College of Technology Entertainments
Association" has its own section (and photograph) which states that
"Application for membership and details of current activities should be
made to: The Hon. General Secretary, ECTEA, Enfield College of Technology,
Queensway, Enfield"
Cookery School Principal
Agnes Turnbull was born in Dorset in 1864 and died in
Bournemouth in 1948.
Trade schools and employment bureaux needed
Wednesday 24.10.1906 The Conference of Women Workers at Tunbridge
Wells heard "various accounts ... of attempts to solve the difficult work
of training in trades, domestic work, and professions".
"In the present state of education in England the weak points
are :--(1) There is no recognised system in the trade schools as at present
established. (2) Only children who would do well in any case are taught.
(3) Only about .005 per cent. of the children
are having any specialised training at all. This is absolutely fatal to any
improvement in our trade competition with foreign nations."
Reports received included ones from Belgium of joint assessments by parents
and teachers of a
child's suitability for particular trades followed compulsory "continuation
classes" on two evenings a week (with afternoon time of from work in lieu)
for working children between 14 and 16. The conference also recommended
"official bureaux... in every large town.., as well known as
the post-office, whore casual employers of such tradesmen as paperhangers,
carpenters, painters, piano-tuners, needlewomen, cooks, charwomen, could
apply, read the qualifications and attested references, and engage for a
day or week as required. This would prove of inestimable benefit to middle-
class housewives and those needing work".
(Spectator 27.10.1906)
1907
15.10.1907 Edward John Bassett born. His father, Frederick Bassett,
(39 in
1911) was a "Rubber Moulder". The family lived at 65 West Green Road,
Tottenham North.
See
Eddie Bassett
1921 - married Amy Ivy
2.8.1937 -
war -
Audrey
- Enfield -
1954 -
died 4.11.1997
1907 Higher education in the administrative County of Middlesex,
1907 (report ... prepared by Mr.
B.S. Gott ... and Mr.
E.W. Maples.)
[With plates, including plans, and maps.]
Middlesex Education Committee (Middlesex) London, [1907]
vii and 182 pages. [Later Sir]
Benjamin Scaife Gott and
Edward William Maples].
1908
1908 to 1968 Hendon Aerodrome. See
Wikipedia and
aeronautics
1908
Hampstead - Berridge House Premises for Field Lane boys'
industrial school were built on the north side of Hillfield Road in
Hampstead 1877. In 1908 Berridge House opened next to the industrial
school, at the junction of Hillfield Road and Fortune Green Lane, as the
National Society's training college for teachers of domestic subjects.
(Victoria County History)
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This picture of Berridge House about 1962 is taken from the back cover of
Graham Handley's history. The building is the one erected in
1908 and an
early photograph (1909) shows a sign saying "National Society Training
College".
5.2.1908 Birth in Wales of Emrys Williams who became the second
Principal of Hendon Technical College in
1955. Probaby a
chemistry student at (one of the sites) of the University of Wales, he
moved to Imperial College, London. In
1936 he married Hettie Sarah Emily
Jones in a Welsh speaking part of West Wales. Her father was both a draper
and and a grocer. On
1.10.1947 he was appointed Principal of the Harrow Technical and
Art School, in place of
John Gerald Platt
, who became Principal of the
Hornsey School of Art. In
1953 he appeared in The Children's Newspaper endorsing a
liberal education for technologists. On
1.1.1955 he became the second Principal of Hendon in place of
Reginald Walls.
London Middlesex Gazette 21.11.1908
Report on the annual presentation of certificates to successful students in
Enfield Technical Classes
"The students were almost a thousand - precisely, nine hundred and ninety-
seven- a notable increase, from their numbers a few years since, when they
found a much smaller room large enough for their annual gathering."
This
meeting was held in the great hall in the
Southbury Road Schools
Colonel
Henry Bowles (of Forty Hall), Chair
of the Enfield Technical Education Committee, "as usual, presided". The
speech was made by Sir William Collins, Vice-Chancellor of London
University, and certificates were presented by Lady Collins. William
Collins, a Liberal, was a cousin of Henry Bowles.
Colonel Bowles noted that certificates might have been "sent by post", but
"the public presentation helped to increase the interest in tho work the
classes" and certificates received from "the hands of some distinguished
person" would be "much more appreciated".
Colonel Bowles contrasted Enfield to the London Education Authority to
which Sir William Collins belonged. Enfield's
"population was scattered over a much wider area, and, further,
they could not command the same amount of funds, otherwise they would have
tried to provide greater facilities for their ever-increasing population.
Up to then, unlike the.London area, they possessed no Technical Institute;
indeed, he might say they had no proper home. However, he hoped that next
month they would be laying the foundation stones of the new Technical
Institute and of a new
Secondary School for Girls. Their old Grammar School
had provided, for the boys, but, in those bygone days no provision was made
for the education of the girls, and this was the want that they hoped to
supply. Meanwhile, until the Technical Institute was in working order,
these classes supplied the want, and among, them he was particularly
pleased with the Electrical Classes at Ponders End, which were doing
excellent work. They had there already the Ediswan Electrical Works, and he
hoped that in the days to come someone of their students might be able to
erect works which would enable England to equal even the work of Edison
himself in electrical manufacture."
Amonst those who took part in the entertainments "Mrs
A.J. Crofts, Miss J. Hark and Mr A.B. Nyo gave some delightful
songs"
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1909
Enfield County School for Girls and Technical
Institute "Enfield County School for Girls opened in 1909 in Holly
Walk, sharing a
large red-brick building with a pupil-teachers' centre and a technical
institute". (Victoria County History) Gott and Crothall's 1915 book on Middlesex
Secondary Schools and
Technical Institutes (pages 38-40) does not mention the pupil-teachers'
centre. It says that there was accommodation for 250 girls in a Hall -
Eight Class Rooms - Chemical Laboratory - Physical Laboratory - Preparation
and Balance Room - Cooker and Domestic Subjects Room - Art Room - Two Large
Workshops - Library - Secretary's Office - Rooms for principal and Staff -
Cloak Rooms, Lavatories, Cycle Stores etc.
1909 First edition of
Berridge House Recipe Book according to
Graham Handley.
Catalogues list a 1910 copy, but one says an earlier edition exists.
Household Books Published in Britain has a
contents list for 1910 that differs from mine: "The main body of the text
is divided into two courses of cookery lessons, a first course of thirty-
two lessons and a second course of thirty-three lessons. A section of
supplementary recipes and the index follow the second course. Sixteen blank
leaves, excluding the end-paper, are bound in after page 152." Price given
as eighteen pence.
My copy is published by London: National
Society's Depository, 19 Great Peter Street, Westminster, SW1. It
has the signature E. Monatgue-Polloch, LVI [Lower sixth form?] in
the front and handwritten notes for medlar jelly dated December 1931 at the
back. The book appears to be intended as a school text-book.
Contents:
Scullery Work Section: [This is about cleaning and maintaining the kitchen]
The Kitchen Range - a Stone Hearth - Gas Stoves - Oil Stoves - [No mention
of electricity] - Saucepans - Metals - Knives [etc] - China, Earthenware
and Enamelled Ware - The Sink - Galvanised Iron Baths and Pails - Wood -
Rules for Scrubbing - Recipe for Scrubbing Paste
Sauces - Stocks and Soups - Fish - Vegetables - Salads - Meats - Hot and
Cold Puddings (Sweets) - Bread and Cakes - Savoury, Egg, Supper Dishes,
Etc. - Invalid Cookery, Beverages [This section includes Tea and Coffee] -
Jam, Jelly, Pickles - Index.
Book of the year for
1909
My copy has thirteen pages for the scullery work section (pages v-xiii),
pages 1-217 for recipes and 219-226 index, followed by blank pages for
notes. 1910 editions listed in COPAC have vi and 152 pages.
A revised edition was published in
1925. [Possibly my edition]
It was translated into Braille in 1930.
(Graham Handley p.35)
A Part Two (Advanced) of the Berridge House Recipe Book was
published in
1934.
(Graham Handley p.35). "345 recipes in total starting
with Bearnaise sauce and ending with veal forcemeat. In between we find hot
crayfish or lobster, braised celery, flageolets, spatchcock of game..."
(internet)
Cookery: Berridge House recipe book 13th edition was published in
London by the National Society's Training College of Domestic Subjects in
1963. 238 pages
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1910
Benjamin Scaife Gott presented a report to the [Middlesex]
Committee on
Trade and
Continuation Schools, with details of such schools in England,
France and
Germany. It was decided to run four such schools as an experiment.
September 1910
The first two Trade Schools opened in the west of the
county:
September 1910 Engineering Trades Trade School for boys opened at
Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic.
[84 students in 1913-1914. 91 pupils Autumn 1914]
September 1910 Dressmaking Trades School for girls opened at
Willesden
Polytechnic. [61 students in 1913-1914. 91 pupils Autumn 1914]
The second two Trade Schools opened in the east of the
county, at Ponders End in 1911 and at Tottenham in
1914. A commercial Trade School was also envisaged.
1911
September 1911
Ponders End Technical Institute opened. A purpose built building
the capital costs of which were met jointly by the War Office (£500),
Middlesex County Council (who built it) and Enfield Urban
District Council. The main part
of the Technical Institute appears to have been the Trade School training
boys for the Engineering Trades. This had 63 pupils in 1913-1914 and 66
pupils in the Autumn of 1914. However, the Institute had
classroom provision for 178 students.
Capital costs of secondary schools were normally divided equally between
the County Council and the District served by the school (1915a p.20)
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This photograph and the plans that follow are taken from
Gott and Crothall's 1915 book on Middlesex Secondary Schools and
Technical Institutes (pages 100-102).
The land to the right of the institute has to let sign in the 1911/1915
photograph, but is still open space in the recent photographs.
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The building now called the Swan Annexe
(previously the
Science Block) in
Ponder's End High Street.
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"Enfield Trade School The Clerk reported that the Middlesex
Education Committee had decided to award to boys under 14 years of age on
August 1st, last, and not under 12 years of age on Jan. 1st last, twelve
scholarships for the County Trade School which is to be opened at Ponders
End in September next." London Middlesex Gaxette Saturday 8.7.1911
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The Trade School provided one or two year education for boys when they left
school at thirteen. The Institute also provided day release and evening
classes.
Women
I have not come across any reference to women students at the
Ponders End Technical Institute apart from the provision (shown below) of a
cloak room and a typewriting classroom at the front of the building. The
back has male urinals etc only. The provision of typewriting does not mean
that these students were women, but it seems likely that many were.
The classe provided previously by
Enfield Technical Instruction Committee
included many for women, but
Enfield County School for Girls and Technical
Institute had opened in Holly Walk, Enfield in
1909.
The front of the building (above) has a women's cloak room, an attendant, a
secretary's room and a typewriting classroom.
At the back only men are catered for
Upstairs (see below) there are two sets of classrooms divided by a roof.
The front set might conveniently have accommodated women's or mixed
classes.
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1915: "In connection with the Trade School at
Chiswick, an attempt is being made to start Part Time Classes
for
apprentices
in the Engineering Trades. These have only stared this
session; but about thirty apprentices are attending for two hours on each
of two afternoons. If this experiment is successful, there should be a
considerable extension of it in those districts of Middlesex in which
industries are established.
"A somewhat similar attempt has been made for a small number of boys who
are working at the
Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock.
"The scheme adopted by the War Office for the training of the apprentices
(trade lads) engaged at the Small Arms Factory Enfield, and at the
Woolwich Arsenal is of special interest.
The boys are selected by written examination, the successful candidates
being bound as apprentices for four years. During this period they are
required to attend special technical instruction classes for ten hours a
week, including one afternoon, in addition to the time spent in the
workshops at the factory. In the latter the trade lad works under the
direction of a skilled workman, and passes systematically through three or
four of the various shops, thus obtaining an all-round practical training.
The theoretical instruction given at the
Ponders End Technical Institute includes the study of Practical
Mathematics, Machine Construction, Applied Mechanics and General Science.
The fee for the classes is £1per session, this being refunded,
together with the extra pay for Bank Holidays, on the receipt of
satisfactory terminal reports from the class teacher, who frequently visits
the factory to consult with the superintendent with reference to the
progress of the students.
Practically all he foremen and highly skilled workmen employed at the Small
Arms Factory have been trained under this part time system, and the
authorities speak very highly of the results obtained.
The number of apprentices who are being trained under this system at
Enfield is 16. (p.72)
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Accommodation: (1915)
Five classrooms for 178 students.
Typewriting Class Room.
Physical Laboratory
Balance Room
Lecture Room
Electrical Engineering Workshop
Electrical Wiring Workshop
Carpentry Workshop
Cloak Rooms, Lavatories, W.C.s etc
Missing basement?
The workshop shown in
photographs in 1915 does not appear to me to be one listed
above. It is a workshop with benches, vices and lathes without equipment
relevant to electricity. and it is not a laboratory. A
basement with a lathe is mentioned in the 1964-1965 Prospectus.
The 1915 photographs show light through a window or door and the plans show
an "Area". The definition of an area in a 1900 Dictionary include, in
addition to the general definitions bounded plain surfaces, "a space sunk
below the general surface of the ground before windows in the basement
story of a building"
A Wikipedia entry: plus my notes
The new building included a large electrical testing laboratory and
photometric optical room [1900 Dictionary: Photometry: measurement of the
relative amounts of light emitted by different sources. Photometer:
Instrument to measure the comparative intensity of different lights.
Photometric: Pertaining to or made by a photometer.
The Institute co-operated closely with the local
electricity and gas industries in the provision of day and
evening courses
for workers in those trades. [No chemical laboratory is shown - although
this was standard elsewhere - The original 1911 Institute appears to have
specialised in electrical and mechanical engineering, carpentry and
typewriting]
Another large local employer was the Royal
Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock, an important supplier of small arms to
the Government. Many of the
apprentices recruited to the armaments factory
came from the Trade School and it was in recognition of the demand for
well-qualified recruits to the factory that the
War Office gave £500
to the
Institute for the new 1911 building. Middlesex County Council and Enfield
Urban District Council provided the rest.
The Trade School offered a two-
year course for boys, including basic subjects in year one such as maths,
English, history and geography, with mechanical drawing and metalwork. In
the second year there were more specialised subjects, such as machine
construction, mechanics, magnetism and electricity and building
instruction.
2.9.1911 London Middlesex Gazette London Middlesex Gazette
"... of the road, a little distance further south, stands the newly-erected
Technical Institute, shortly to be opened. Of all the developments referred
to this latter, with all its facilities for learning, stands..."
24.11. 1911 Birth of Stanley Millward
(Aunt Lily's nephew). He was the navy
during the second world
war and had a short teaching job when he left. He
then came to
Enfield Technical College to teach mathematics. (See
Sources) In 1968 he worked on computer directions for
Robinson's lathe. Stanley died (aged 90) on 17.3.2002 in
Hertfordshire
1911
Edith Mary Gowan was a Governess at Divelsan
Training College For Female Teachers, Fishponds, Bristol at the time of the
1911
Census. She started as Head Governess and
Mistress of Method at
St Katharine's later the same year. Titles and roles were
changing. When the "Lady Superintendent" left to be a nurse in the war,
Edith Gowan became "Vice-Principal"
(1915). In
1919, the
(man) Principal (Edwin Hobson) retired and Edith became
Principal. Edwin Hobson wrote of her that
"Soon the Man Principal of a Woman's College will be as extinct
as the Dodo; I can only say that the lady under whose official eye I
carried on my work during the last eight years of my Principalship rendered
the process of 'extinction' in my case as 'painless' as might be. She was
patients of my old fashioned ways, and not too severe even on my
prejudices" (p.18)
Edith Gowan was born Auston, Yorkshire in
1881. (Recorded in
Worksop in the March quarter)
1912
In 1912 Handley Page established an aircraft factory at Cricklewood after
moving from Barking. Aircraft were built there, and flown from the
company's adjacent airfield, known as Cricklewood Aerodrome
(Wikipedia). The airfield (but not the factory) closed in
1929.
The factory closed in
1964. The factory was close
to Cricklewood
overground railway, which is one stop south from Hendon overground, which
is a bus ride from
Hendon Technical Institute established in 1939.
- See
De Havilland -
Ken Houseman -
Women at work 1942
-
Walls of Hendon -
Hendon Block Release Scheme
-
1954 - Handley
Page's last project, the Jetstream, was assembled at Radlett in
Hertfordshire. The company had ceased operating by
March 1970.
Tuesday 23.1.1912 First Annual Meeting of the Enfield Branch of the
National Union of Teachers
held in the evening at Southbury Road School.
Mr Grimshaw, B.Sc. (Ponders End Trade School, transferred from
the Willesden Association) was elected as a new member. (London
Middlesex Gazette Saturday 27.1.1992)
The photograph (right) of a teacher strategically posed in a 1915 war
photograph is, I think, of Edwin Grimshaw. He also appears strategically
posed (less formally) in a 1914 photograph.
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Monday 29.1.1912 George Spicer School opened in Southbury Road,
Enfield.
(history)
Higher education in the administrative county of Middlesex,
1912 prepared by
B. S. Gott and
E. W. Maples.
[London] : [Middlesex Education Committee], 1912 (London : Harrison)
81 pages. "A supplement to 'Higher education in the administrative county
of Middlesex, 1907'" - title page.
"The classes in
electrical wiring and engineering and the trade classes for the
lads at the
small arms factory are noticeable features of the
work"
1913
Enfield
Enfield Electric Cable Manufacturing Co Ltd founded by James Walter
Grimston (17.4.1880 - 29.11.1949).
Its "enormous"
(Pam 1994, p.70) factory
at Enfield Lock, in the same area
as Enfield Small Arms had just been completed at the start of the first
world war, and was taken over by the Government, so the firm was not in
business for itself until 1919. Eight hundred men and women were employed.
The early history of Enfield
College is linked to educating the factory workers. See
light and valves -
small arms -
Ripaults. Stanley Millward said that,
after the second world war,
most Enfield Technical College's students were either from Enfield Small
Arms or from Enfield Cables. The connections with Ponders End Technical
Institute presumably developed between 1919 and 1939.
Enfield Rolling Mills next door from
1924
By 1959 it was known as Enfield Cables Ltd. It
became part of Enfield Rolling Mills in 1959. In 1959, as Enfield Cables
Ltd, it was acquired by Enfield Rolling Mills Ltd and a new company,
Enfield Standard Power Cables Ltd was formed. C.T.W. Sutton, an engineer
from Enfield Standard Power Cables
was a Governor of Enfield College of Technology.
By 1979, this and other firms were
part the Delta Metal Group. The "core" of Delta's Cables Division was
"Delta Enfield Cables Ltd (Monopolies and Mergers Commission, "Insulated
Electric Wires and Cables" Report 27.3.1979 p.41)
(Offline
report).
Hornsey
September 1913
Sheila MacEwan, who
was almost 18, came
with her mother to consult the headmaster,
Frank Swinstead, about joining a
class for embroidery, one day a week... purely as a hobby... "We were shown
to the headmaster's room... All we could see through the dense haze of pipe
smoke swirling round this small room were a very high roll-top desk - and a
very tall and far more terrifying - a soldierly looking man with fierce
waxed moustaches - Frank Swinstead."
"The interview was brief. We were introduced by
Edith Lindquist - the art teacher at my day school - who
explained what I wanted. The moustaches bristled ominously. 'No good having
anything to do with art one day a week. Come full-time - start tomorrow -
or don't come at all!! Sorry I can't spare more time. Good afternoon.'"...
She started the next day.
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A self-portrait of Frank Swinstead in 1917.
Picture from
Clive Ashwin 1982
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1914
31.1.1914 Five photographs presented to
Colonel
Henry Bowles (Chair of County Aldermen) by the boys of the
Enfield Trade School. One of these, wrongly dated, labelled
"Enfield Trade School, electrical engineering laboratory, 1935
Ponders End Technical Institute, later Enfield College" is reproduced
on the Enfield Society website
Ponders End - Kelly's Directory 1914: "Ponders End Technical
Institute, in High Street, was erected in 1911 by the
Middlesex Education Committee; trade classes are held in the daytime and
technical and engineering classes in the evening;
Edwin Grimshaw B.A.,
B.Sc. Principal". In the 1914 Electoral Register Edwin Grimshaw is at 48
Park Avenue, Enfield.
27.5.1914
Death of
Joseph Wilson Swan
at his residence, Overhill, Warlingham,
Surrey.
4.8.1914 First
world war started. At
Hornsey the war resulted in a decline in student numbers. A
small dark green album has been preserved of photographs of Hornsey taken
in 1914/1915 by
Sheila MacEwan.
Notes say that the first shows the exterior, Page 2 is of the entrance to
the headmaster's flat in the school. "If students were late the main door
was locked and you had to go and knock on the Headmaster's door - you were
never late again.". Page 3: Large room downstairs - used for large groups.
Page 4: still life room and drawing room - later used as canteen - Page 5:
lecture room. Page 8: Antique room. Page 9: Life room. Page 10: Part of
lecture room.
September 1914 Dressmaking Trades School for girls opened at
Tottenham
Polytechnic. [24 students in Autumn 1914]. The notice facing
Tottenham High Road in 1914/1915 read
County Council of Middlesex
Tottenham Polytechnic
Day Trade School for Girls
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Possible dates of these books by May Little, late staff teacher at the
National Society's School of Cookery, London
1908: Cookery Up-to-Date: a practical handbook of what to eat, and
how to cook it.
1910: A year's dinners : 365 seasonable dinners with instructions
for cooking: a handy guide-book for worried housekeepers
1912 The Complete Cake Book.
The advertisement is from a book pubished in the first world war.
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1915
1915 The Household and Social Science Department of King's College
for Women opened at Campden Hill Road, Kensington,
[Hornsey]. Etching class commenced under Fred Richards. [I think
this is Fred Richards 1878-1932 - He was not full-time staff, but had
special arrangements with the school].
Etchings: prints made by scratching a film of resin on a metal (usually
copper) plate which is placed in acid. The scratches become groves as the
acid reacts with the exposed copper. The plate can then be used as a
printing block.
April 1915 to March 1916 [Frederick] Trevor Daniel (born
Hendon 27.1.1903) a pupil at the
George Spicer School in Southbury Road,
Enfield. After school, he enrolled at the Ponders End Technical Institute
(1916-1917). He then worked for a year in the Tool Room and Punch Press
Room of the Edison Swan Factory. Most of his time was spent "sweeping the
factory floor". He moved to work for a "small firm manufacturing small
Motor Car parts and munitions". This was the "Royal Enfield" ("made like a
gun"), now known for motor cycles.
(Trevor Daniel: Doing the right thing)
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May 1915 Higher Education in the Administrative County of
Middlesex by
B. S. Gott.
Followed by
June 1915 Secondary Schools and Technical Institutes in
the Administrative County of Middlesex
by B.S. Gott and
H.G. Crothall
May 1915 In Manchester,
Henry Winterterbottom Broadbent, aged twenty, began to learn the
trade of an electrical and mechanical engineer working for "Messrs
Royce Ltd, Trafford Park, Manchester"
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June/July 1915 (various sources)
"The hundred boys attending the Ponders End Trade School which
is close to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield are now "doing their
bit" for their country. The lads have been engaged in the manufacture of
munitions of war such as the component parts of small arms-gauges and
fittings. This it is understood is giving every satisfaction to the
authorities"
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The War Budget magazine was a weekly photographic rcord of the war
published by the Daily Chronicle
Pam 1994, p.264 has a
photograph of the same room showing a larger area.
1916
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A war time (April 1916) tea party of the Etching class includes
Sheila MacEwan (left) and Fred Richards. An extract from full
photograph on page 23 of Ashwin
1982,
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1917
The
Hornsey curriculum at this time included
embroidery, illustration, commercial
design,
textile design,
art
teacher training,
drawing and painting.
16.5.1917 The sudden and unexpected death of Peter MacEwan,
Sheila MacEwan's
father. Sheila was 21, and hoping to turn her studies at Hornsey
School of Art into a teaching qualification.
Frank Swinstead, she said "gave me the post of school secretary
so that I could go on working for a teaching qualification... On a very
old-fashioned typewriter, on which you couldn't see what you were typing,
he taught me to type. [My] first sentence read 'Please give the bearer
£100..."
Sheila began teaching (alongside her secretarial work) sometime between her
father's death and 1919. Her first class was a first year one in
geometrical drawing and perspective.
"I started teaching in the lowest part of the old building
[the
large room downstairs?]. "Then I moved up
two steps to take Embroidery classes in what is now
the canteen. Then came
this new building when, having taught in this room" [part of the
main
hall?] I then moved my classes up on to
the stage. From this, the
department rose to the top floor of New Beacon and at
No 2, Waverley RoadI
achieved my
Everest
..."
(Retirement speech 21.3.1956)
1918
February 1918 Construction of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Oldham
began. This was for the final assembly of American bomber aircraft, largely
by women from the local cotton industry. The first
shipments of parts arrived on 20.8.1918. In September,
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent moved there from Messrs Royce's
factory in Manchester to become the "Assistant Chief" in the "progress
Department". His "aircraft factory work included shop equipment design for
construction and supervision". Ten aircraft had been partially assembled by
the armistice. (source).
11.11.1918 Armistice signed. Firing stopped on all fronts.
11.12.1918
Mary Alice Wolstencroft married
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent, the son of a Trade Union
Secretary, in Oldham.
Henry left the aircraft factory in January 1919. If Mary Alice was also
working there, they may have both left.
They had two children, both born in Oldham. Warwick Broadbent was born on
2.9.1919. Alma Broadbent's birth was registered in June 1922. Alma's
marriage to Henry M Fulkes (born 23.9.1912 in London)
was
registered in Edmonton in
June 1946. Warwick's marriage to Barbara P Clarke
was registered in Edmonton in Jul-Aug-Sep 1947. Henry Winterbottom died
suddenly, aged 55, in the spring of
1955. Mary Alice Broadbent died, aged 64, in Wood Green in the
December quarter of 1956. Warwick's death was
registered in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in June 1978. Henry M Fulkes' died
9.12.2001 in Colchester.
After his experience in aircraft production, Henry worked for Cleworth,
Wheal and Co., Limited of Castleton, Lancashire, a firm that specialised in
the manufacturer of air purifiers and humidifiers. The basic principle of
their products was to pass air through droplets of water produced by a
revolving drum. (See illustrations and description in
The Engineer 19.11.1920). Henry designed and fitted a
humidifier for the weaving shed
at Glebe Mills, Hollinwood, Oldham. This mill both span the cotton (almost
150,000 spindles) and wove and printed the cloth (1,400 looms). Henry kept
the air for the weaving moist with his "own humidifiers designed and all
pipes, distribution valves etc of whole plant". He "supervised drawings and
shop work and erection." In October 1919 he left Cleworth, Wheal and Co.
and began a B.Sc Honours degree in Engineering at Victoria University,
Manchester.
1919
Miss Gowan became the first Lady Principal of
St Katherine's College, Tottenham
1919 In the United Kingdom, women engineers made a huge contribution
to the war effort, but faced opposition from government, industry, unions
when the war ended. Some of these women formed the Women's Engineering
Society
(website). Caroline Haslett became the first Secretary of the
society.
The Electrical Association for
Women (1924/1925) was formed on the initiative of members of the
Women's Engineering Society. Caroline Haslett became the Director and the
association was based in the offices of the Women's Engineering Society.
In
1999 there was a
Middlesex University Students Union Women's Engineering Society.
One
of the role models of the Women's Engineering Society is
Beryl Platt, the
first Chancellor of Middlesex University.
Born Beryl Catherine Myatt on 18.4.1923, she worked on war planes
for Hawker Aircraft Company and then for British European Airways on
passenger safety from 1943 to 1949
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1919 The Royal Small Arms Factory Apprentices Association appears to
have started as an association for serving Engineering
apprentices at the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. It is recorded as being in existence by
1919 when
the RSAF apprentices were an Enfield Branch of the Woolwich association.
(website -
archive)
"The first recorded reference to an Apprentices Association is
to a Royal Ordnance Apprentice Association that was started in 1919 at
Woolwich Arsenal. Membership was open to serving Engineering Apprentices
only. As only Enfield and Woolwich were training engineering apprentices at
this time the membership was drawn from these two establishments, each
operating its own local branch" ("The Lads of Enfield Lock" by Birchmore &
Burges)
The association's website says that for most of the 20th century there were
two principal streams of apprentices:
Trade or Craft apprentices were recruited locally and their practical
and academic training was directed principally towards becoming skilled
craftsmen, but with the opportunity to progress to Foremen and technical
management posts. They would typically be required to take City and Guilds
courses at local colleges as part of their training.
Engineering or Student apprentices whose training was more broadly
based and directed towards qualifying them for membership of one of the
learned Engineering Institutions, usually the Mechanicals, and careers as
Professional Engineers. They were typically directed into college or
university courses leading to Higher National Certificates/Diplomas or
Degrees.
1919 A
Nurses Registration Act set up a General
Nursing Council for England and Wales which maintained a
register of nurses to ensure that in future all nurses were properly
trained.
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Post-war Hornsey
"In 1919 FHS"
Frank Swinstead "called SM" [Sheila MacEwan] into his office and said 'a
brilliant young student has joined the school,
Elsie Davenport - she is
talented but shy. I want you to make her your friend".
1920
1920
Middlesex County Council took full responsibility
for
Hornsey School of Art
. There were three full-time mebers of staff:
Frank Swinstead,
Edith Lindquist and
Sheila MacEwan (who
was possibly still acting as secretary as well).
In September 1920,
John Charles
Moody, previously part-time, appointed as full time senior art
master. Mr Rowden was appointed as full-time assistant master.
(Ashwin 1982,
p.24)
Hornsey was mostly a women's college. In 1920 there were 193 women students
and 67 men. 144 of the women were fee paying and 49 on a scholarship. 38 of
the men were fee paying and 29 on a scholarship.
(Ashwin 1982,
p.25)
After the war, there were three sections to the
Board of Education Examination:
1) Drawing Group
2) Painting Group
3) Industrial Design Group
Sheila MacEwan
initially taught embroidery in the Industrial Design Group. But embroidery
under the Board of Education was becoming too technical for Sheila.
The embroidered handkerchief case
Sheila preserved an embroidered handkerchief case that shows ho technical
embroidery was becoming. When I first saw it, I did not recognise it as
embroidery because the stitching is so fine one thinks the cloth has been
pressed into curving ridges.
Made in the early 1920s, this examination piece for the Board of Education
exam, was sent away to the Board to be examined under a microscope. "SM
never wanted to do embroidery again when it got so technical"
By
1927, Sheila was no longer teaching embroidery, but was teaching
Drawing instead. In the Drawing group "you had to make a life drawing (half
imperial size) and then make a linear tracing of it. The linear tracing
then had to be filled in (a.) with all the muscles, b. with all the bones.
This was the test piece in the Drawing group"
1920 Birth of Stephen Cotgrove who pioneered the teaching of
sociology at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the late 1950s and early
1960s. His colleague there was
Steven Box
See 1958 -
Julie Ford in 1962 -
1964 -
1967
January 1920 James Bennett Murray joined the Enfield staff and
remained until his death on
22.2.1945. He taught mathematics in both the school and the
college. Privately, he was a great reader of English literature.
(Magazine 1945)
January 1920
Guild of Learners of Handicrafts set up for members of
Women's Institutes. See
craft in the WI
October 1920 "An Experimental Study of the Effect of certain Organic
and Inorganic Substances on the Bread-making Properties of Flour and on the
Fermentation of Yeast" by Helen Masters and
Margery Maughan.
Household and Social Science Department, King's College for
Women.
Biochemical Journal
14(5): 586-602.
late 1920 De Havilland Aircraft Company established at Stag Lane
Aerodrome, Edgware. It moved to Hatfield Aerodrome in
1930. See
Hendon Aerodrome -
Hendon Block Release Scheme in 1952 and
Anthony White
1921
Eddie Bassett was
fourteen years old in 1921. The following is not dated, but
perhaps Eddie started at
Ponders End Technical when he was 14:
After attending
St Michael's Primary School in Enfield, Eddie Bassett went
to the Ponders End Technical School for a two year course in mechanical and
electrical engineering. (This became the Swan Annexe of Enfield College of
Technology). From the Technical School he became an
apprentice at the
Ediswan factory in Ponders End earning at first 14/- a week,
rising to
£1
in his third year. (Fred W Clark, North Circular 29.1.1998)
[1923 apprentice? 1926 third year? Did he remain with Ediswan until
the war?
18.11.1921 Enfield District Manufacturers Association formed by
eight founder firms including
Edison Swan Electric Co. Ltd, "to focus the opinions of
manufacturing interests in the district" (p.21). Its first efforts were
directed to getting representation on the Urban District Council to secure
improved sewerage and roads (p.37). The second wold war "opened up new
opportunities ... and stimulated the ... rapid growth of the association
and the consolidation of its position" (p.43). In
1942 it became a non-profit-making company limited by
guarantee and by 1943 had a hundred members (p.21). -
1947 -
George Shiells
-
Industries of Enfield 1948
-
1949 -
1955
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Land for
Reeves' Greyhound Colour Works at Enfield was purchased in 1921.
By 1927 two bays were added to create a new plant for striking colour and
mixing the newly developed "Poster Colour" used by Commercial Art studios
in the late twenties and thirties.
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1922
Hornsey School Minutes 1922
"The Principal, who has recently been giving a number of
lantern lectures, has obtained a supply of oxygen as and when required, and
finds that on certain occasions the supply is insufficient to enable him to
complete his lecture satisfactorily"
Quoted Ashwin
1982 p.25, who adds that as a result it was finally decided to
"bring in the
electricity".
Hornsey: John Henry Willis
(1987-1989) taught at Hornsey from 1922 to 1947. He became Deputy Principal
- Probably from
1927 . See
Hornsey group
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent B.Sc. Engineering 1922, M.Sc. 1923
University of Manchester. See 1941
December 1922 Belling and Lee "Consulting and Manufacturing Wireless
Engineers" formed by Edgar Morton Lee and Charles Reginald Belling. It
rented part of a factory at 1 Queensway Ponders End, absorbed three other
buildings in he following ten years and moved (round the corner) to a
purpose built factory on the Great Cambridge Road in 1932.
Queensway The uniform construction of the factories along the south
side of Queensway (west of the Ponders End Institute and north of what
became Enfield Technical College) suggest that they were all constructed at
the same time - possibly 1922. The victoria County History, basing itself
largely on a Borough of Enfield, Official Guide of 1962, says of the area
immediately around what became the Enfield College Queensway site:
"Several firms were established west of Hertford Road at
Ponders End after 1918, many of them on the sites of former nurseries. E.
and E. Kaye opened a factory for copper wire in Queensway in 1922, Stadium
Ltd., manufacturers of plastics for the motor industry, began production
near by in 1930, and H. D. Murray opened a machine-tool factory in 1936. By
1937 there were factories for making accumulators, wireless apparatus,
metal windowframes, and shop fittings in Queensway, and there were cabinet-
makers in Lincoln Road, where Reeves and Sons had opened a factory for
painters' materials about 1925. Other factories in Queensway in 1938
included those of the Standard Fuse Co. and the British Electric Resistance
Company"
1923
18.4.1923 Birth of Beryl Catherine Myatt
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. See
Women's Engineering Society (1919)
-
mechanical ciences
-
marriage 1949
-
Woman into Science and Engineering
(1984) -
First Chancellor of Middlesex University (1992)
1924
Birth of an Enfield Laboratory Technician.
The birth of Ralph S. Beckett (mother's maiden name Hogben) is recorded in
Edmonton in the March quarter of 1924. He became a
technician at Enfield, where
he met
Gertie Clark. "A Lab. Assistant is the chap with the key who is
never there. An Office Girl is what a Lab. Assistant carries on his arms"
(K. Eldridge, Inter A. Enfield Magazine, Spring 1947, p.16). They married
in the
summer of 1949.
The
Ponders End Technical Institute was extended in
1924
(A Wikipedia entry)
30.8.1924 Incorporation date Enfield Rolling Mills Ltd [00200137].
What became Delta
Enfield Cables (Holdings) Limited [00156577] was incorporated on
1.7.1919. The rolling mills made the copper wire (and other metals) for the
cables. They used machinery taken from Krupp as reparations after the First
World War (See
James Miller).
Great Cambridge Road By 1924 "much of the North Circular Road was
under construction or completed" between Hanger Lane (Ealing) in the west
and Gants Hill (Ilford, Essex) in the east. Linking with this, Middlesex
County Council had promoted a new road, running north and south across the
county, called the Great Cambridge Road. This was opened for traffic in
September 1924 Initially it was very quiet. Perhaps people preferred
to use the old Hertford Road through Ponders End. Early post-war factories
were concentrates between the Ponders End Technical Institute and the
Edmonton to Cheshunt railway goods line, but new factories were established
along the Great Cambridge (on the west of the line) in the 1930s.
1925
[Hornsey]
Middlesex County Council bought the freehold of the
School
The six teachers shown are three male painters and three female specialists
in
women's crafts (embroidery - dress-making - spinning and
weaving)
Birth of the Enfield "College Secretary": The birth of Gertrude E.
Clark, whose mother's maiden name was
Cordell, was registered in Edmonton in the September quarter of
1925. She started as a secretary at Enfield in
1942 (See transcript of memories). There were four
secretaries (female) and only one member
of the academic staff was a woman. Gertie was secretary to the Principal.
[Shown as "College Secretary" in the 1964-1965 Prospectus
]. Her
marriage to Ralph S. Beckett was registered in Edmonton in the September
quarter of
1949. She became Administrator of Social Science in
1973 (when the college became part of the Polytechnic) and
retired in
1981, aged 55, after almost forty years working for the
college.
Gertie was one of my main sources of information about the
history of Enfield College.
11.8.1925 Kenneth Ernest Deacon Housman was born in Finchley. At the
start of the second world war, he went to work for
Handley Page,
manufacturers of heavy bomber aeroplanes. In 1944, he joined the Royal Air
Force and attended
Hendon Technical College where he completed his PACT
(Pre-Aircrew Training Course). On completing his training he saw very
little active service before the end of the War in 1945.
(source)
12.11.1924 Meeting at the home of Lady Katherine Parsons that
decided to form
a
a Women's Electrical Association. This became the Electrical
Association for Women on 30.4.1925 in order to avoid confusion of
initials with the Workers Educational Association
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The association was the idea of Mrs M.L. Matthews, a member of the
Women's Engineering Society and
Caroline Haslett became its first Director.
Teach Yourself Household Electricity by Caroline Haslett CBE,
Comp.I.E.E. Director of the Electrical Association for Women was published
1939
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1926
Birth of an historian
Graham Roderick Handley's birth was recorded
in Hampstead in the March quarter of 1926.
His mother was Claudia Lilian George and his father Vernon Douglas Handley.
Graham (age 23) was living with his parents in Enfield in 1949. He married
Ruth B Tunnicliffe in Blackpool in the
summer of 1951. In 1951
and 1952 he is listed as studying English Language and Linguistics at
Sheffield University. Afterwards, he and Ruth lived in the Enfield
district. His mother and father lived with them at Glasgow Stud Farm House
(Theobalds Park Road, Enfield) in 1963. Graham was
the author of copious notes on
literature. He was also
a historian (1978) of the
College of All Saints, Tottenham. Graham taught in the English
Department at Tottenham in succession to Elizabeth Owen, "whose article on
the early on the early history of St Katharine's" provided him with
material. Ailie Ramage provided the material for the chapter on Berridge
House.
(Handley, 1978 p.1)
1926 Retirement of
Agnes Turnbull as Principal of
Berridge House. Miss
Margery Maughan, a
former student, had been
appointed Vice-Principal in 1925 and now became Principal.
Ponders End - Kelly's Directory 1926 and
1933:
Ponders End Technical Institute
(Arthur J. Crofts B.Sc Principal) High Street, Ponders
End.
June 1926 Audrey Margaret Frost (became Bailey and then Hardwick)
born in the Edmonton area (probably Enfield). Her mother was Amy
(previouisly Holland) and her father Albert E Frost. Amy had been in
domestic service and Albert's father was a bricklayer. Audrey began work
at Enfield College in
1947
.
Audrey was one of my main sources of information about the
history of Enfield College.
See
1941 and early history
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1949: Roberts and
Ripaults -
1953: Building permits
-
1962: Ambrose Fleming
School -
1968 The New
Polytechnics
1927
1927
About 1927 Alan Spackman born. He went to Beckenham Grammar School
in Kent. Originally worked for the South Eastern Gas Board. In the early
1960s he left this to lecture in chemistry and engineering at
Enfield
College of Technology. During this period he completed an MSc degree at
Imperial College. He took early retirement in
1979 and involved himself in
the restoration of
Markfield Road Beam Engine. He died suddenly on
20.9.2003 after showing visitors around the Beam Engine
"He believed and argued passionately that young people should
be given a proper grounding in science and technology and it was perhaps
fitting that he spent his last day advocating that the Markfield Road site
should become a 'Window on the World of Engineering', linking the past with
the future and promoting interest in engineering and science."
(source)
12.3.1927 Eric Embleton Robinson born Nelson, Lancashire.
See 1962
(died 16.11.2011)
1927
Hornsey
John Charles Moody, Frank
Swinstead's second in command, succeeded him as
Principal of Hornsey on
his retirement. Ashwin
1982 associates the period of Moody's principalship with major
changes in Hornsey's teaching.
"the School had conformed to the then widespread view of
design... as primarily concerned with the creation and manipulation of
forms and ideas on paper. Drawing, copying and painting were regarded as an
adequate and desirable foundation for he training of designer in any field
of production. As time passed, this was increasingly complemented by the
introduction of craft activities such as modelling, carving,
embroidery and
calligraphy. However, there continued to be a gulf between the concept of
design education as drawing supported by manual crafts, which existed in
most art schools, and the real world of industrial production."
(Ashwin 1982,
p.28)
John Moody asked
Sheila MacEwan
to look after programmes of both staff and students. Moody also asked
Sheila to take over the teaching of embroidery (she was teaching the
drawing group - which she continued) and dress making. She went to North
London Polytechnic [possibly
Northern or
Tottenham]
and learnt dressmaking and subsequently built up women's
crafts at Hornsey. Weaving, embroidery, dressmaking was taught in Room C
(stage). Shelia also took a class in Women's crafts in the old school but,
after the second world war, women's crafts took over
Waverley House.
John Moody made
Elsie Davenport
"leave the school the
day he took over". Elsie had taught weaving and spinning and, with
Sheila MacEwan, women's crafts. When she left the school, she was still
living with her parents. Not long (up to two years) later, she moved in
with Sheila MacEwan. They formed a creative partnership in crafts that lead
to a series of books after the second world war.
1928
Hornsey School of Art recognised as a centre for Art Teacher
Training
[Chronology] The text says that a role in teacher training had
been played since the "early days" when
"it provided evening classes and short course for teachers in
the local elementary schools. By the late 1930s, it was recognised by the
Board of Education and Oxford University as a training college for art
teachers, and provided a one-year course containing lectures on psychology,
pedagogy, school management as well as teaching practice in local schools.
It also ran very popular refresher courses for serving teachers in primary
and secondary schools." (Ashwin
1982,
pp 29-30)
15.12.1928 At the Stadium Club in High Holborn, S Stephens from
Ponders End Junior Technical School was an amateur boxing
finalist.
(roll of honour)
1929
Birth of Mary Wolf and Edna Bowers who went to
Hendon Commercial School in
1943,
1944 and 1945
Many more women get a vote - Labour minority government
1929 Island Picnicby
Joseph McCrum, a lacquer with gilt highlights on board, painted.
It was exhibited at the 24th
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society showing
(catalogue number 4) in London in 1931, and sold at Christie's in 2011 for
£3,750
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1930s English Numbering Machines established in Enfield. In the
1950s and 1960s, it had a factory at 25 Queensway where it produced
mechanical counters and other mechanical office equipment. From
1967, it shared a computer with Enfield College of Technology.
1930
Spring 1930 Birth of Frederick Moore (registered Pancras, mother's
maiden name Reed) and Pauline Lambert (registered Willesden, mother's
maiden name Green), who went to
Hendon School/College in
1943,
1944 and 1945. They married in Hendon in the summer of 1952.
Autumn 1930 Derek Barsham born. His parents, George
Barsham and Margaret Rae married in "Edmonton" in the autumn of 1928.
They lived at 41 Armfield Road, [West] Enfield in 1931 and in 1964.
Derek became a choir boy in 1938. He
joined the Boys' Brigade at the age of
12 (1942) (1st Enfield Company), "where his voice
was 'discovered'" and trained by Percy Jackson.
Derek went to "Chase Boys' School" and then to "Enfield College".
Radio Who's Who for
1947 records him as "Educated Enfield Technical College".
See
Christmas 1943
- Victory in
Europe 1945 -
United Nations 1946 -
voice breaking 1947
1930 to 1994 Hatfield Aerodrome. See
Wikipedia
1930-1947
John Gerald Platt (born Bolton 1892) Principal of Harrow
Technical College and Art School. In
1947
he became Principal of
Hornsey and
E. Williams replaced him as Principal at Harrow.
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1930-1933
Lorna Beatrice Kell (born London 1914, not Kell), painter of still life and
abstracts, printmaker and textile designer, studied at Hornsey School of
Art. Her teachers including Russell Reeve, Frank Winter and Norman Janes.
Elected to the Society of Graphic Artists in 1959, she was President for
eleven years and "saw the Society through some difficult times... as
conceptual art became the latest trend" - Click watercolour of Lilium
'Conneticut King' for source.
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1931
Occupational
analysis of the
1931 Census
Selected higlights, with relevance to the history of Middlesex
University
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Women unoccupied and retired, 14 years and over.
[Unoccupied includes full-time housewives/mothers]
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10,804,851
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Men unoccupied and retired, 14 years and over.
[The difference between this and the previous figure could give a
conservative indication of the number of housewives.]
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1,385,526
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Women in personal service
Of these, 1,332,224 were
domestic servants
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1,926,978
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Men in agriculture:
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1,116,573
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Men in mining and quarrying:
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966,210
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Men making coal,
gas, lime, etc:
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23,242
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Male
metal workers.
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1,349,774
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Male
electrical apparatus makers, fitters:
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186,134
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Women
textile workers
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574,094
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Male textile workers.
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301,552
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Women making textile goods and articles of dress
Including tailoresses, dress and blouse makers, and
180,338
embroiderers, milliners, sewers, etc.
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542,809
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Men making textile goods and articles of dress.
Mostly boots and shoes, or tailoring
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276,738
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Women
paper workers and bookbinders
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63,994
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Men
paper workers, bookbinders, etc
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37,427
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Men
printers and photographers
|
152,288
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Women
printers and photographers
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37,958
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Women
midwives, nurses, etc. (there were no men)
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153,947
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Men professionally engaged in
entertainments, etc.
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91,654
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Women professionally engaged in
entertainments, etc.
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22,369
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Men teachers:
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84,346
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Women teachers
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199,560
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Men in
commercial and financial occupations.
419,537 owners and managers of shops. 400,408 assistants
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1,466,587
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Women in
commercial and financial occupations.
149,600 owners and managers of shops. 394,532 assiatants
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604,833
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Male
clerks, draughtsmen, typists.
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795,486
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Female
clerks, typists, etc.
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579,945
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1931 Birth of Malcolm R Farrell. See
Enfield Technical College Badge -
April 1944
- Apprentice. Malcolm provided me with scans of three
copies of the Enfield Technical College Magazine - for
Spring 1945 -
Spring 1947 - and
Autumn 1947 -
Summer 1931 Sheila Brook born.
See 1945 -
1946 -
1947
21.11.1931 Formal opening of a large extension at
Hornsey School of Art, which was renamed Hornsey School of
Arts and Crafts
. The front to the "extension" (below) was now the main
entrance.
This photograph of the "main college at Crouch End" appears to have been
taken in the
1960s when the college had expanded by developing annexes
elsewhere in London. It is on page 43 of
Ashwin 1982.
A very different perspective appears in a
1890
(about) photograph on page 8 and as "The vacant Crouch End building
February
1982" on page 59.
The tall neo-Georgian facade shown was erected in 1931 at the centre of the
Crouch End Hill face of the building. It meant a main entrance being
created on the main road. (Ashwin
1982 p.13).
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18.1.1932 Roberta Joan Zimmer was born in New York.
As Mrs de Joia, she came to England in 1967 and later took a job at
Hornsey College of Art as a teacher of fashion journalism. She
became the first
editor of
North Circular, the newspaper that sought to unify the
scattered parts of
Middlesex Polytechnic. She retired in
1997
to engage in other campaigns, and died on Tuesday 11.3.2008. (See
Ham&High)
2.6.1932 Tom Nairn born. A leading theorist of the
Hornsey revolution and its place in history. An editor of
New Left Review, Nairn was a part-time lecturer at
Hornsey Colege of Art from
September 1967. His contract was not renewed in 1968. He was the
oldest member of the New Left Review group writing articles
published in Student Power (Penguin Special 1969)
1933
Ponders End - Kelly's Directory 1933
Ponders End Technical Institute
included a telephone number: Enfield 0497
1933 Peter Green, printmaker, born.
In 1958 he was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
He started teaching at Hornsey
College of Art in
1960. At some time,
he married Linda, who was first a senior administrator at the Hornsey
College of Art followed by over 20 years as Registrar in the Faculty of Art
and Design at Middlesex University. See
1967. Professor of Art and Design in 1983.
See 1987. OBE 1988.
Emeritus professor in 1991.
1933 -
1935
posture
in housework research
Berridge House
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Under the supervision of
Margery Maughan
Miss Sylvia Leslie began a year's practical research (1933-1934) at
Berridge House to establish some principles to "standardise
equipment and conditions for washing up", for the Research Sub-Committee
(Household Section) of the
National Council of Women. The work developed
into an attempt to establish "general fundamental principles for the rest
of our domestic work". It was continued in 1934 by Miss Nora Dufton and led
to the publication of
Posture in
Housework
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November 1933
Miss Gowan retired as Vice Principal of St Katharine's. Her Vice
Pricipal,
Miss Nickal, went (January 1934) to Berridge House.
(Handley 1978 p.21)
1934
Edith Mary Gowan and
Agnes May Ottley - Principals,
Tottenham
21.12.1934 Death of Miss Edith Mary Gowan of 19 Nasington Road, Hampsted
Middlesex at Shaleford Rectory, Eashing, Godalming, Surrey. She left
£11,303 11.2d to Alice Margaret Douglas (wife of John Frederick
Douglas). Miss Gowan retired as Principal of St. Katherine's in November
1933.
Edith Gowan was replaced as Principal by
Miss Agnes M Ottley in January 1934 (Shown at St Katharine's on
the
electoral register. See
1939). Miss Ottley retired in
December 1959.
Dr Nahapiet was
Principle from 1960 to 1965, The birth of a Violet Nahapiet was recorded in
Kensington in the December quarter of 1906. She may have been a missionary
in Burma.
1934
[Hornsey] The School had 184 full-time students and 687 part-
time students.
Tin box invention 31.8.1934
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"Tin box or like container intended to be vacuumised" Invented by Arthur
Leslie Stuchbery, Palmers Green, London. The Metal Box Company Limited,
Great Britain 31.8.1934.
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The actor John Clements turned St Monica's Church Hall in Palmers Green
into The Intimate Theatre.
Alec Stretch was its chief electrician for many years. In
1944, John Clements became the President of Alec Stretch's group
Enfield Technical College Entertainments Association
1935
Housework "the national industry that employs
the greatest number of workers" -
Winifred Cullis, London School of Medicine
for Women, in her foreword to:
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Their "newly designed scrubbing brush" could be comfortably held without a
tight grip and did not twist the hand.
The overall aim was to "increase the
efficiency of the worker and save her exertion" (p.49)
Usually, this was also the healthiest way, but
sometimes "more tiring methods" exercised important
muscles.
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Using a dustpan and brush was inefficient and unhealthy. It strained back
and thigh muscles and put pressure on knees, and on the abdomen and lungs.
The head was also drawn back in a tiring and unnatural position.
The researchers were impressed, however, by the advantages of an upright
vacuum cleaner.
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5.6.1935 Herwald Ramsbotham MP, parliamentary secretary to the Board
of Education, laid the foundation stone of the South-East Essex Technical
College and School of Art in Dagenham. He said that "large aggregations of
capital and industry" had destroyed the old
apprenticeship systems:
"the burden of training the apprentices had largely been
shifted from the shoulders of the employer to the State and the local
education authority" (quoted p.73 of
Degrees East
1936
Ripaults Factory in art deco style built by A H Durnford on the
Soutbury Road, Enfield. Ripaults manufactured cables. As can be seen from
the map, Ripaults was at the Enfield, not the Ponders End, end of Soutbury
Road.
George Roberts the Managing Director was very active in the
promotion of the Enfield college.
- See
post-war advertisement -
1961
At the
Ponders End Technical Institute, the demand for day and evening
courses required
even greater expansion. In
1936 a 39 acre site in nearby
Queensway was acquired. Building work commenced in
1938
(A Wikipedia entry)
Technical Institutes/Colleges in Middlesex: The National Archives
have Ministry of Education files relating to two "Technical Institutes" and
one proposed Institute and two proposed "Technical Colleges" in Middlesex:
Ponders End Technical Institute 1936 to 1941
Uxbridge Proposed Technical Institute 1936-1940
Greenford Proposed Technical College 1938
Harrow Proposed Technical College 1938 to 1944
Hendon Technical Institute 1940 to 1943
1936 Thorn Electrical Industries factory in Lincoln Road opened by
Jules Thorn producing Ferguson Radios. (Ferguson Radio Corporation founded
in 1923 was taken over by Thorn in 1936). A new factory opened on the
corner
of Lincoln Road and the Great Cambridge Road in 1948. In 1947 Listed in the
British Industries Fair as manufacturers of "Atlas" Electric Lamps,
Incandescent and Fluorescent, "Atlas" Lighting Fittings, "Ferguson" Radio
Receivers, "Mary Ann" Electric Domestic Appliances. See
Grace's Guide
Ponders End - Kelly's Directory 1937:
"Ponders End Technical Institute, in the High Street was erected
in 1911 by the Middlesex Education Committee; trade classes are held in the
daytime and technical and commercial classes in the evening.
Arthur J. Crofts B.Sc Principal"
1937
[Enfield] The
Ponders End Technical Institute building was too
small for the growing number of
apprentices
studying there, either at the
school (for 13-16 year-olds), or by day release or evening classes at the
College. It was decided to acquire a larger site on which to build a
college.
The Director of Education for the Urban District of Enfield in 1937 was
E. Pascal, esq. MA [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for
Enfield]
Summer 1937 Amy Ivy Jacob, born Brentford 1908, married
Edward J. Bassett in Edmonton. The birth of their son, David J.
Bassett, was recorded in Edmonton in the September quarter of 1944. David
became a local government officer.
Commercial studies, business and law
In the history of Middlesex University, commercial and business studies
became a focus of attention with the creation of the
Hendon Junior Commercial School during world war two. I
suspect that management
subjects at Enfield had a mainly industrial focus compared to
commercial one at Hendon. This would fit in with the different economic
location of the two colleges.
Business studies
1943
shorthand, typing and commercial French."
1945
typing to music -
arithmetic, bookkeeping, English, French, geography, history, shorthand and
typewriting, and physical training.
1947
Smith of Hendon
1948
Department of Arts and Liberal Studies
1949
Hendon library opens
1950s
The Wikipedia entry on Middlesex University, quoting a dead business school
link, says that business studies started at
Hendon
in the 1950s. The
current Law School website says that "The Law has been
taught at Middlesex University since the 1950s".
Current Business School history
website:
Higher National Diploma courses in "Management Studies" were established at
Enfield sometime between 1950 and
1955 by Roderick McCrae.
1952 "Management of men" and "work study" part of the
Hendon Block Release Scheme
1953
"destined to become leaders in industry and commerce"
1955: Hendon College of Technology pioneered the first personnel
management courses.
1963
Alan Hale set-up and led the Business Studies Course at Enfield from
1963 to 1973. (Gerry Mellor 2005)
Business studies degrees started at
Hendon
and, then,
Enfield
after the
Crick Report
of 1964
Higher National Diploma courses in Business Studies were taught at Enfield
in
1964-1965, but plans were underway for a CNAA degree
Current Business School history
website:
1965: The Department of Management Studies introduced the BA
Business Studies degree. This was the first course in the country launched
under a new government blueprint for business programmes.
[Hendon
College of Technology "offered the UK's first degree in business studies in
1965"]
1967
1,000 full-time students at Enfield were taking degree and diploma courses
in technological, business and arts subjects including B.Sc Engineering,
B.Sc in Business Mathematics and BA Business Studies.
On the evening of 12.5.2009 the
Law Department celebrated the
35th anniversary of the first
intake of undergraduates to
study for a law degree at Middlesex.
1974 First intake for Middlesex Polytechnic LLB (Law)
degree. Ian
Macduff, was one of those who taught on it. He graduated from the
University of Auckland with a BA (in History and
German) in 1970 and LLB (Hons, First) in 1971. Following
a period tutoring in law in Auckland he practised with the firm of Tarlo,
Lyons and Aukin in London. He then joined the Inner
London Probation and After Care Service as part of a special team working
on a programme with serious and recidivist offenders. He then joined the
Law School at Middlesex Polytechnic teaching on the new law degree
programme. On his return to New Zealand, he joined the Law Faculty at
Victoria University of Wellington, where he initially taught Legal History,
Jurisprudence, and Criminal Law. He undertook mediation training in
the USA in the early 1980s and then returned again to New Zealand.
At some stage,
business studies
were concentrated on the
Hendon
Campus, which became the base for the
Middlesex Univesity Business School.
Current Business School history
website:
1980s: First public sector AMBA-accredited MBA designed and
delivered
at Middlesex University [Polytechnic] Business School. ["It also launched
its first MBA in the early 1980s".]
(MBA=Master of Business Administration).
1991:
Michael Driscoll
appointed Dean of the Business School
1995 See the
Telephone Directory
1998 See the
Telephone Directory
In
1999 the Middlesex University Business School
taught 25% Middlesex's undergraduate students and 36% of its postgraduates,
providing the university's biggest source of income. -
David Kirby
was succeded by
Dennis Hardy
as head of the school in
1999/2000
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1938 Frederick Dalby Flower (born 6.6.1915 - died 4.7.2001), a
private school teacher with qualifications in classics and divinity, became
involved in left-wing politics (attending communist party meetings) as a
result of the Spanish Civil War.
October 1939 volunteered for army service and (October, November or
December) married Lorna M. Sayer in Hendon. Lorna was born about 1909.
He joined the Army Education Corps. November 1941 Formation of the
British "eighth army" which fought against Germany in north Africa and then
crossed to Italy in the late spring of 1943. [The soldiers of the eighth
army had a reputation for strong left-wing sympathies]
"Travelling with the Eighth Army in north Africa and Italy, he
organised educational and recreational events for troops. It was brought
home to him how wide were the interests and talents of many who had not
been successful within the formal educational system."
1946 Responsible for training at the Treasury.
After the war he took an economics degree by correspondence from Wolsey
Hall.
1948
Hendon
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1938
1938 to 1940 - First phase of the Queensway site
[Enfield] Work on the Queensway site started in 1938 and
although it was not completed for several years due to the war, the
Institute, now
called the Enfield Technical College, together with the Junior Technical
School, moved onto the new site in
1941. The College played an important
role in fulfilling the national demand for trained technicians in the
services and factories during World War Two.
(A Wikipedia entry)
[I suspect the account below is correct and
the Junior Technical School moved to the new site first (1939?) and the
adults joined after the old site was bombed in the autumn of 1940. Perhaps
the school was upstairs and the army cadets downstairs at first and then
the adult technicians joined the cadets? This
would be consistent the upper floor (occupied by the school) interior
being finished before the war started and the ground floor interior
(panelling in the hall, for example) not being completed until after the
war.
Herbert Willan Wadge, the junior head, was still registered in
West London in 1939.
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent, the first Principal, was
appointed in
January 1941
. Gertie Clark was appointed a secretary in
June 1942]
1939 War
distorts
[Enfield] Work started on the college site in Queensway, but
was
suspended at the outbreak of war. The unfinished building was used by the
Junior Technical School.
Stanley Millward said that the new building should have faced
the old building across Ponders End High Street. However, during the war,
many air raid shelters went up between the High Street and the new
building, and so the front was put up facing Queensway instead of Ponders
End High Street.
It seems to me that the name Ponders End Technical Institute (School
etc) was used for the organisations whilst they were on the east side of
Ponders End High Street. When they moved to the Queensway site, they became
Enfield Technical Institute (School etc) or (then or before
1945)
Enfield Technical College (School etc). However, the name change may
have related more to the institute being developed into a regional college
of engineering
The badge is preserved from the blazer of
Malcolm Farrell,
who joined the
Junior Technical School in
April 1944.
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[Hendon]
Hendon Technical Institute opened in 1939.
The Medical Officer of Health for Hendon concluded his annual report for
1939 with a paragraph about Secondary Schools. He wrote
"
In accordance with the arrangements made with the Middlesex County Council
routine medical examination was continued in secondary schools and the
treatment of visual and dental defects. At the commencement of the war
there was a period when only limited numbers of children were being
instructed but as shelter accommodation became available all the children
were ultimately re-admitted. Arrangements were made for these services to
be extended to the junior day departments of the Hendon Technical
Institute."
From
Middlesex. The Jubilee of the County Council 1889-1939 by
Clifford Walter Radcliffe:
"Before the
Great War, Middlesex was mainly a 'dormitory'
county', the only industries of wide distribution were agriculture and
horticulture. Today, Middlesex is an important centre of manufacturing
industry and commerce, and under these conditions the public system of
technical education has acquired an added importance. The County Council's
programme of school building contemplates the provision of well-equipped
technical colleges in all the important industrial centres in the County.
These have already been provided in Acton, Chiswick, Ealing, Enfield,
Harrow, Southall, Tottenham, Twickenham and Willesden. Extensions are now
in course of erection at Acton, Chiswick, Willesden and Tottenham; new
institutes are being built in Enfield and Hendon, and other institutes are
to be built in Enfield, Greenford, Harrow, Kingsbury, Southgate, Staines
and Uxbridge".
(C.W. Radcliffe, 1939 pp 128-129)
1939 At Kingston Technical College,
Roderick McCrae
was appointed Head of Engineering in place of the first
head, Mr Kinnaird, who had retired. He "continued to encourage innovation
and diversification. McCrae quickly became a well known bowlerhatted figure
as he traipsed around all the local industries in search of students - like
his predecessor he
believed that local knowledge and personal relationships were the keys to
successful recruitment." In
1950, Mr McCrae became Principal of Enfield
Technical College. (Text of Michael R. Gibson's
History of Kingston University) -
offline
27.4.1939 Military Training Act introduced conscription for men aged
20 and 21 who were required to undertake six months' military training. On
2.9.1939 the National Service (Armed Forces) Act made all men
between 18 and 41 liable for conscription. It was announced that single men
would be called up before married men. Registration began on 21.10.1939
for those aged 20 to 23. By May 1940, registration had extended as far as
men aged 27. It did not reach those aged 40 until June 1941.
During World war two,
Eddie Bassett was a draughtsman at the Royal Small Arms Factory
at Enfield Lock. (Fred W Clark, North Circular 29.1.1998)
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S. Katharine's Training College,
Tottenham In connexion with the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Report 1939-1940
Available online -
(offline)
Principal: Miss
Agnes M. Ottley, M.A
Most of the staff and all of the students were female.
September 1939 It was thought that women's colleges would
be relocated. However, S. Katharines' was allowed to continue "subject to
proper air-raid precautions"
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End of October 1939 Delayed start for second year students
Second week of November 1939 Delayed start for first year students:
"Air-raid shelters having been provided in the basements of he College and
the West Wing."
"the examination for the Teachers' Certificate was almost over before the
first air-raid warnings in London began".
June 1940:
"At the end of June, however, the closure of local
schools during the first week of teaching practice compelled me to disperse
the 1st Year Students to complete the work in their own home areas."
Includes Accounts as at 31.7.1940 and Appointments of students who have
finished their training July 1940.
Staff list from the annual report
Working at St Katharine's was still a celibate
vocation. The staff universe was one Reverend, two Doctor,
twelve "Miss" and one Mrs. "Miss Shead, lecturer in Physical Education,
married in April, and is at present continuing her work with us". Temporary
help has been given by Mrs Robson, Mrs Oliver and Miss Kirkness".
1939 Electoral Register
On both 1939 lists
Agnes M. Ottley, MA - Principal
Mary Louisa Clout, BA - Vice Principal and lecturer in English [Retired
1944 after 36 years, ten as Vice Principal]
Dorothy Agnes Glenister, B.Sc. MA - Lecturer
Muriel Hewitt, Mus. Bac. [Bachelor of Music], L.R.A.M. [Licentiate of
the Royal Academy of Music].
Mabel Jenkin. M.A. Ph.D.
Florence Eleanor Ward, M.Sc [Taught geography]
Maude Cooper - Matron. [Retired 1958 after 30 years]
1941
St Katharine's in Devon
... "the College was given over to the housing of refugees from Gibraltar
with one family per room in the West Wing. The magazine was of war time
economy slimness and the College moved to Babbacombe, Torquay"
(Handley, 1978,
p.23)
[Agnes Ottley grew up in Teignmouth, south Devon, which is north
along the coast from Babbacombe and Torquay]
5.6.1941 Western Morning News Devon, England
[Advertisement] EDUCATION. S KATHARINE'S TRAINING COLLEGE for WOMEN
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS, TOTTENHAM, N. 17, NOW AT PENRHYN HOTEL, BABBACOMBE,
TORQUAY. There are still a few vacancies for next September. All
particulars may be had from the Principal, to whom immediate ...
"Miss Ottley addressed the first students from the Penrhyn Hotel, telling
of the three hotels they used as lounge, library and lecture rooms, as well
as a local school gymnasium, an art school and a secondary school
laboratory" (Handley,
1978,
p.23)
1943
St Katharine's in Devon
Exploring possibilities of a return to Tottenham. At some time (1943/1944)
cooperation with Whitelands College, Chelsea led to the establishment of
"The Branch College, Whiteland's - St Katharine's"
Stored furniture was all destroyed in the bombing
1944
St Katharine's in Devon
November 1944 Miss Ottley inspected the buildings which had been
vacated by the Gibraltarians.
1945
St Katharine's re-united
November 1945 Return to Tottenham: "The Branch College, Whiteland's
- St Katharine's, had functioned in the preceding months, and Miss ottley
looked forward to 200 students, 50 of whom were already in Tottenham...the
main and the branch college amalgamated happily, with an important
contingent of mature students; the value of the latter had been recognised
at Babbacombe, and the College helped to pioneer their training in
Emergency Colleges. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of
Education,
who initiated this scheme, spent a day at Katharine's in order to learn
about the College's experience". (Handley, 1978,
p.24)
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2.2.1940 David John White born Edmonton, Middlesex. From
1957 to 1959 he was employed by the Electricity Board as an
apprentice
electrician. He had one day a week on day release at Enfield
College of Technology to learn electrical theory.
(David Jason: My Life)
17.8.1940 German aircraft photographed "Enfield Lock London". The
picture for official use only was marked to show A) Staafliche
Waffenfabrik, ROF
[State Armoury - Royal Ordinance Factory] - B) Staafliche Waffen
und
Pulverfabrik
[Weapons and powder factory - Waltham Forest] - C)
Großkraftwerk Brimsdown
[Large power station Brimsdown] - D King George's Reservoirs.
The photograph ("A German Aerial Survey of Lee Valley targets, August
1940") is reproduced (p.36) in
Industries of Enfield (1948) where it illustrates not
only the importance of Enfield's industries but also the way that the war
brought local manufacturers together in
Enfield District Manufacturers Association to
plan collectively on spotter and warning systems, air raid precautions,
sub-contracting urgent work and similar war-time cooperation and then on
post-war planning (pages 43-45).
Birds of the Air
The Heron with a parting croak
Rose from the marsh remote.
The old bird-watcher also rose
And stood there in his weathered clothes
When some spots afar off, on high,
Caught his weathered, practised eye.
As they steadily, speedily drew nigh,
He, watching them, emitted a sigh.
They swiftly skimmed right overhead,
Their graceful wings were wide a-spread.
They were beautiful to the eye;
Why then did the old man sigh?
They were not of the feathered clan;
They were created, not by Nature,
But by Man.
F.L. Mitchell (5B) in the
Spring 1945 magazine p.15
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The Observers Book of British Birds (thrush on cover) was published in
1937. The first one not about natural history was airplanes in
1942
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3.9.1940 The Two Brewers Pub, Ponders End, destroyed in the bombing.
People sheltering in the basement killed. Enfield Council will create a
memorial garden here.
1.11.1940
Reeves Dalston factory was badly damaged in the bombing. Five
people lost their lives and half the factory was destroyed. The whole of
Reeves premises in Cheapside was destroyed by bombing in 1940.
During the nineteen forties, Reeves developed
powder colours called Tempera. They also developed solid blocks for
teachers who were not able to cope with powder colour mixing in large
classes.
The bombs were falling, but one still had to get to work
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1940 My mother's timekeeping was inadequate.
Fortunately she was
domestic, not nursing, staff
Confrontation cartooned by her brother Stan. The medals!
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1941
Hendon recuperates
soldiers
May 1941 Regular staff at Hendon College of Technology began
classes for soldiers at
Mill Hill Emergency
Hospital. Maximum of sixty at a time in classes of twenty.
(Reported by Aubrey Lewis and K. Goodyear, SRN (Administrative Sister, Mill
Hill Emergency Hospital)
"Vocational aspects of neurosis in soldiers" The Lancet
22.1.1944, Pages 105-109
June 1941 to November 1945
St Katharine's in Devon
July 1941 UK state bursary for engineering undergraduates
announced. At Cambridge University
Beryl Myatt switched from studying
mathematics to studying Mechanical Sciences. She was one of only five girls
amongst 250 men. At Girton College, Cambridge, the women did not graduate
with a degree until 1948. In 1943 she obtained a "title of degree". (WISE
history) - See
Bernard Crossland "before the Second World War, Great Britain
had a very
stratified society, and I came from a working class family with no
tradition of university education"
1941
Enfield transition
begins
Spring 1941? Possible date for the edition of the college magazine
four years prior to its reintroduction in
Spring 1945. The Spring 1945 edition called the period between
magazines the transition. "Since the previous issue the School has
crossed over the High Street from the old building to the grand new
building that is Enfield Technical College, off the Queensway."
The Ponders End Technical Institute suffered bomb damage in 1941.
Students and staff moved into Queensway with the Junior Technical School.
January 1941
[Enfield]
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent appointed first Principal of
Enfield Technical College. (Gertie Beckett 4.8.1998: This is confirmed
from
a copy I have of a cutting from the Enfield Gazette - undated
unfortunately - reporting
his sudden death. I have still been unable to find the large
photo I had of him and the Enfield Gazette report of his funeral
service.
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Henry Broadbent wrote:
"The year 1941 was a critical one for the nation as we stood alone against
our enemies. The
Prime Minister offered only blood, sweat and tears, and
our national characteristics carried us through the difficult years - just
plain 'guts'. This College was incomplete and unopened, but by decision of
the Government the Middlesex County Council was asked to make it possible
to operate it with the minimum of expenditure." (H.W. Broadbent in the
Spring 1945 magazine p.8)
This may have been, initially, to train technicians for the fighting
forces. Broadbent says
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"A large number of training courses for Service personnel have
been
operated, particularly for the technical branches, in connection with
varied practical trades like welding, sheet-metal work, electrician's
courses, etc.
Before the Air Ministry could provide its own training centres to meet the
expanding needs of war, the Technical Colleges had to carry the whole load
in connection with the new recruitment. Many units of the original 8th Army
which fought the succesful
North Africa campaign, were trained here in
radio-location technique." (H.W. Broadbent in the
Spring 1945 magazine p.9)
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At about this time the Junior Technical School became a "department within
the Enfield Technical College". At some time before 1942,
Herbert Willan
Wadge was appointed as the headmaster of the Junior Technical
School.
Autumn 1941: Junior Technical School transferred to the new
building, "and has since been doublied in size, with full operation over a
three-years' course" (H.W. Broadbent in the
Spring 1945 magazine pp 8-9)
As the
size of the Junior Technical School increased and the three "houses"
(Wren
-
Newton - and
Stephenson) that has existed for over twenty years
were
converted in four
(Whitworth (previously Wren) - Newton - Stephenson - and
Faraday)
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Audrey Hardwick:
"Ponders End Technical Institute was also Ponders End
Technical School. One of our lecturers,
Eddie Bassett had two years of
secondary education there. When the Technical Institute came across to the
main Enfield building the school came to. (I believe called Enfield
Technical School). They were not a full-blown school then because they
recruited boys only at 13 plus who stayed for three years. Eventually
[1963] they moved to new premises in Ponders End, The Ambrose Fleming
School, and became a mixed secondary school. The school was closed in ??
and the premises are now Enfield College. The first known inhabitants of
the Enfield site I believe were army cadets. Gertie knows more about this
than I do." (Information July 1998)
1942
June 1942
[Enfield]:
Gertie Clark began work as a secretary, aged
17, at Enfield Technical College. She met
Ralph Beckett, a
technician,
there and married him in
1949. Henry Winterbottom Broadbent was Principal. A
Mr Crofts had hoped for the post.
Herbert Willan Wadge was Headmaster of the
Technical School.
Eric Pascal was Education Officer for the Borough of
Enfield.
From her
1981 retirement speech:
I first walked up the drive at the age of 17 straight from secretarial
college. It was the only job I ever applied for.
I was interviewed by
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent, the first Principal of
the college. I remember he appeared as a dear looking granddad. Thinking
back I realise that he was probably about the same age as I am now.
Looking round the site I realise that I was here before the two top wings
of the Broadbent building, the
Macrea Building, the
Roberts Building,
the
Projects block, the
Huts, the
car park, and even before
the trees in the
drive, and before most of the staff in social science were born.
When I arrived in 1942 it was war time. We worked a five and half day week
and because it would have been impossible to black out the building the
evening classes were held on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings.
The general office team of four was Myrtle Thimble, Myra Horn, Vera Huhn
and myself. [I do not think these are the right names. I will keep on
listening to the tape] Mentions overtime.
The three single girls also took turns on the fire-watching rota
fire duties. We could be seen on the roof in our tin hats watching out for
incendiaries - or washing our hair in the Principal's room - or playing
table tennis or other indoor games with the male staff, or the army cadets
who were then on duty.
At that time the college had a junior secondary school on its top floor.
[Called something because of the colour of their blazers - green]. Some
years later
got their own premises as the
Ambrose Fleming School and then became part
of the comprehensive system. I remember acting as secretary to the school
headmaster who was a
Herbert Willan Wadge, for a few years, and going away
on the summer camp at Wanstead in the company of Mr and Mrs Wadge and the
canteen manageress.
There was only one female member of the academic staff in those days. That
was Miss Woodward took Geography for the junior technical school.
The top level courses then were
Higher National Certificates
And the ... workshops ... engineers, sheet metal workers, carpenters and
joiners, cabinet makers, motor vehicle technicians and radio mechanics,
courses that later were transferred to classes in Tottenham
There were also teams of army technicians trained in ... workshops.
Some Science courses took place in ..., Barnet ...........
..... Which was where Andrew Collier was very much involved.
The administration of the college was then into five [?] departments:
Electrical engineering - science (Percy Wick) - Mechanical Engineering
(Simon Chapman) - Structural Engineering - and Management? (M.W. Clark),
for those who can still remember the names.
The next Principal to come along,
Roderick McCrae
...
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17.9.1942
Enfield District Manufacturers Association
Limited
(00376134) registered as Private Limited company.
Hendon 1942
Women at work in the machine shop of the
Handley Page aircraft factory at
Cricklewood in 1942 - See
1954
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1942 Birth of Brian Frank Gardner who says his "height of arrogance"
was to
write his
autobiography (offline)
for his great-grandchildren. When he left school in
1958 he went
to work for Ediswan and began an apprenticeship (See
1958 and
1959) which
involved a sandwich course at Enfield Technical College and
the award of a Higher National Diploma in
1964. See
his
website
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1943
Hendon
September 1943 Probable start of
Mary Wolf and
Edna Bowers
period at
Hendon Commercial School. "Most girls left"
[elementary school]
"at 14 to work as clerks, shop assistants, etc. The boys' school was
separate from ours. Edna and I were fortunate to go to Hendon Junior
Commercial School, where we learned shorthand, typing and commercial
French." (
BBC WW2 Peoples War archive
Hornsey in 1943 and
1944
Paper supply was
controlled by the Ministry of Production under the No 48
Paper Control Order of 4.9.1942.
At Hornsey, students during the war were only allowed a quarter Imperial
sheet of paper a day [Imperial quarto = 15 inches x 11 inches]. One side
would be used for the morning session and one side for the afternoon. A
student with an evening session would need to divide one side in half.
Gerard Hoffnung
(22.3.1925 - 28.9.1959)
was in Sheila
MacEwan's drawing class in 1943. They were drawing tomatoes and
Hoffnung's quick sketches made her laugh.
John Charles Moody was not amused when Hoffnung painted ivy
growing up the leg of the life model.
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Autumn 1944 When students were allocated to
classes, Hoffnung was not allocated a class. For class allocation, all the
students gathered in the hall ("rooms A and B") with John Charles Moody,
assisted by Sheila MacEwan who was in charge of timetables, standing on the
stage ("room C"), with the other teachers in a line. Each student was
called by name and given a timetable, and as each teacher collected a full
class, they filed out of the hall.
Eventually, Gerard Hoffnung found himself standing alone in the hall. He
came up to the stage and said "excuse me sir - I've not got a timetable".
Moody said "there is no place for you here".
"Rather distressed, SM" [Sheila] "took Hoffnung to see
Joe McCrum. Joe
suggested he telephoned Platt at Harrow and he was subsequently transferred
to Harrow."
Gerard married Annetta Perceval Bennett
in 1952 and she helped with the
Centenary
exhibition
Enfield
August 1943 Sixty five boys and several members of staff camped in
the village school of Wanborough, Wiltshire to assist local farmers with
the harvest. The camp lasted four weeks. "In spite of some wet days, 5,280
hours were worked".
Christmas 1943
College Pudding launched the illustrious career of the
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association (now Broxbourne
Theatre Company).
Alec Stretch was active from the
Electrical Engineering
department. His son, Ian Stretch (born about 1941) is still active in the
Broxbourne company. Alec was on temporary secondment to the College to
train army engineers. Previously, he was "for many years" the Chief
Electrician at the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green.
Complete list of shows
See
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1944b -
1945 -
Christmas 1946 First
Pantomime -
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Broxbourne Theatre Company's history includes a photograph of
the Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association's stage crew in 1943. There are sixteen of them
and one (half hidden) may be a woman.
Unfortunately, no names are given.
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"Our stage consisted of an empty void; no floor, no lights, no
facilities for fixing scenery. Those of you who remember the show saw with
what measure of success we overcame these difficulties and the necessity of
a repeat performance on the Saturday to a crowded house proved the
popularity of the type of entertainment provided."
(Alec Stretch in the
Spring 1945 magazine p.24)
Christmas morning 1943 First broadcast by the Enfield boy soprano
Derek Barsham (age 13). With Uncle Mac.
1944
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented a variety show Easter
Parade. An item in this was a perfomance by the Play Reading Society of
the Scottish comedy "Rory Aforesaid" (1928). Easter Parade ran for
three perfomances, In order to produce it, Alec Stretch formed the
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association with John Clements as its President,
Henry Broadbent as its chair, and a committee elected by the staff.
[7.4.1944 was Good Friday]
April 1944 Having passed an examination,
Malcolm Farrell became a student at the
Enfield "JTS" (Junior Technical School). He continued in the
Senior Day Courses, then other evening classes, making a final attendance
in
1962.
"The Junior Technical School
course was for three years but there was an option to transfer to the
Senior Day Courses of the Enfield Technical College after two years. This
offered Diplomas in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or Matriculation
leading to InterBSc courses. I opted for the Diploma courses. The
Matriculation Course did not appeal as the one weakness of the otherwise
very good Junior Technical School was that languages were not included and
at that time a language was necessary for University entrance. Our classes
now included ex servicemen returning from wartime service. I remember being
much impressed with one who saved his life jumping from a blazing
bomber."
From June 1944:
Flying bombs: "The School has continued to operate
throughout the whole period of enemy action against this country, and in
the trying days of the "fly-bomb" only nine per cent of the total boys on
the roll were evacuated, and most of these due to damaged homes." (H.W.
Broadbent in the
Spring 1945 magazine p.9
19.12.1944 Council of Industrial Design, founded by Hugh Dalton,
President of the Board of Trade, "to promote by all practicable means the
improvement of design in the products of British industry". It was renamed
the Design Council in
1972
"when it took on engineering and the design of capital goods as an integral
part of its operations"
(Jonathan M Woodham)
Christmas 1944
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented Silver Lining
"A heart full of joy and gladness
Will always banish sadness and strife
So always look for the silver lining
And try to find the sunny side of life"
Broxbourne Theatre Company's history includes a photograph of
"Into The Snow" from Silver Lining
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An on stage cast (in this scene) of two men and one woman. The revues were
mixtures of song, dance and comedy. I think "Into The Snow" would have been
a comedy sketch. The musical element in productions has always been strong.
Alec Stretch, like the young
Derek Barsham, had
been a choir boy.
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Post-war re-construction
1944 John David Farquhar B.Sc Forestry, Aberdeen University. In the
Colonial Forest Service from 1945 to 1962. From 1962 to 1968 with the Food
and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, with a break in 1965-
1966 when he took his Ph.D. The Economics of Forest Land and Associated
Wild Land, a Problem Analysis Southern Illinois University, Department
of Forestry, 1966, 262 pages.
Enfield lecturer 1968
to
1984
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London College of Dance
After the World War Two Madge Atkinson (1885-1970) and Anita Heyworth
assisted in establishing The London College of Educational Dance Training
which opened at Rawdon Hall, Holyport, Maidenhead in 1945.
It was the first dance specialist teacher training college in the United
Kingdom. It became
London College of Dance and Drama (London College of Dance). Idea first
mooted between Miss Grace Cone and Miss Anita Heyworth during the Dancer's
Circle Dinner in either 1937 or 1944. See memories of
Phrosso Pfister
The London College of Dance became part of Middlesex University in
1994
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1945 to 1950 Further Education and Training scheme. 83,000
awards made to ex-service men and women. 43,000 were taken up at
universities.
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Spring 1945 Enfield Technical College - Junior Technical School -
Magazine. Edited by Mr G. Bygrave. Business Manager Mr D. Waller. Sub-
Editors: W. Kirby (6B and Captain of the School) and L.J. Alexander (5A)
offline
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The "front" vision of the Technical College, which,
because of the war,
faced onto a back-street (Queensway) instead of the main Hertford Road.
The building was not completed until
1953.
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1945
[Enfield] In the
post-war years the college was completed and
expanded.
15.8.1945 -
VJ-Day.
The front page of the Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald of August 24th
1945 has an advertisement placed by
Middlesex County Council Education
Committee of the courses available at Enfield Technical College. The
Principal of the College was H.W. Broadbent, M.Sc (Eng.), M.I.Mech.E,
F.I.I.A. Courses will be held in
Automobile, Civil,
Electrical,
Mechanical
and Production Engineering, Metallurgy,
Management Subjects and Trade
Courses. The Science Department provides Matriculation and Inter. B.Sc.
Adult Courses and Discussion Groups will be in operation.
The District Education Officer for the Enfield Area was
E. Pascal, M.A.
Silver Street, Enfield.
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I believe that Matriculation and Intermediate B.Sc courses were ones to
prepare people to enter University. They were replaced by GCSEs.
Audrey Hardwick:
July 1998:
There were also science courses and students could take the Intere B.Sc and
then go on to more advanced colleges to get their degree. And there were
courses in office skills and languages. These were offered at Enfield PTD
and in the evenings at Enfield County School and Edmonton Technical School.
One of our college lecturers had as part of his duties the responsibility
of running these office and language classes. This went on for several
years with the evening clases expanding. Eventually the day classes went,
where to? and the evening classes were hived off and were the nucleus
around which Enfield College grew. - The Edmonton Technical School was used
by the Polytechnic for a period of time, being used as the Examinations
Office.
1945 to 1949
George Brosan's industrial and graduate
experience
Two accounts of the same history. The first based on the
Production Engineer and the London Gazette, the second from
the obituary by Tyrrell Burgess and Anne Pimlott Baker's article in the
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography.
Account one
After the war he "had production experience in the refrigeration and
ceramics industries with British Diamix. Ltd. from 1945-1948 as Director
responsible for design and technical development". This company
manufactured a toaster and electric irons. It went bankrupt in 1949.
As "Director" Brosan put a notice in the
London Gazette on 31.5.1949 about a meeting in Croydon on 8.6.1949.
Account two
"While
studying, he
established a small manufacturing business in electrical goods, which he
sold advantageously, making him, for much of his subsequent career in
education, a millionaire".
(source Tyrrell Burgess)
"He had sold his electrical equipment business in the
mid-1950s, but then set up a property company; throughout his time in
higher education he was wealthy enough to drive a Rolls-Royce and to
entertain colleagues at his own expense at the Reform Club several times a
week." (Anne Pimlott Baker)
At the same time he studied mathematics part-time at Birkbeck
College, London; graduating BSc in
1947. He then worked on his PhD at Birkbeck, which he achieved
in
1951.
April 1945 "I said to myself -"Good lord - another boy soprano - and
singing
The Holy City - doesn't everyone know there's a war on?"
Record Review, April 1945
"New earth there seemed to be.
I saw the Holy City
Beside the timeless sea.
The light of God was on its streets,
The gates were open wide;
And all who would might enter
And no one was denied."
[Listen]
8.5.1945
Derek Barsham's pre-recording of Land of Hope and Glory was
played on the radio in advance of Winston Churchill's Victory in Europe
Broadcast.
"Truth and Right and Freedom, each a holy gem,
Stars of solemn brightness, weave thy diadem.
Tho' thy way be darkened, still in splendour drest,
As the star that trembles o'er the liquid West.
Throned amid the billows, throned inviolate,
Thou hast reigned victorious, thou has smiled at fate.
Land of Hope and Glory, fortress of the Free,
How may we extol thee, praise thee, honour thee?"
Hendon 1945
Mr Walls, Principal of
Hendon Technical College had been of great assistance in
providing "essential classes" to train students for the National Society of
Children's Nurseries Diploma. Hendon had eight nurseries. This appears to
have been a recent venture and, so far, only twelve students had entered
the
course and ten qualified.
(Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon for
1945)
September 1945 "I began my commercial training at Hendon Tech., as
we called it, in the September of 1945."
Sheila Brook
(2010-01-01).
Where is the Key? (Kindle Location 219). Chipmunkapublishing. Kindle
Edition. (Born Summer 1931 - So 14 years old). Sheila wanted to be a nurse,
but her father wanted her to be a secretary. When she wrote an essay about
her ambition to be a nurse she was offered a transfer from the Commercial
Department to the Pre-Nursing Department. She declined because of her
father's wishes. The head of the Commercial Department, Mr Smith,
later found a clerical position for her in a medical setting.
"Among the memories I have of my two years at Hendon Tech. is
the sound of the clatter of keys in unison in our first few typing lessons,
as we tapped away in time to the music of a gramophone record. I can still
remember the tune that accompanied our early typing lessons, teaching our
fingers to move rhythmically on our keyboards." (Kindle Locations 263-265).
"the excitement and thrill of jumping off the moving No. 183
bus from Kenton if we saw the No. 83 bus from Ealing appearing at the
Kingsbury Green road junction. Oh the dismay, if we missed it. The No. 83
bus saved us the long walk up the hill from Hendon Central." (Kindle
Locations 412-414).
[Although the bus routes have changed a little, these buses still run]
At Hendon, Sheila studied arithmetic (not mathematics), bookkeeping,
English, French, geography, history, shorthand and typewriting, and
physical training. (Kindle Locations 440-441).
1945
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented (reviews) Get Cracking in 1945 and Wait for It in 1945 or 1946
1946
Post-war (Year not certain for everything)
[Enfield]
After the war
Eddie Bassett
joined the staff of the Enfield Technical
College, and continued his education becoming both a Fellow of the
Institute of Mechanical Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of
Production Engineers. He retired as Principal Lecturer in Mechanical
Engineering at the Polytechnic. (Fred W Clark, North Circular 29.1.1998)
When
Stanley Millward left the navy he had a short teaching job
and then came to Enfield Technical
College to teach mathematics. [I was told he was at the College for thirty
years, but the dates do not appear o fit]
He got the job because he lived near. The person they wanted could not find
lodgings near the college. At that time lecturing started at 8am, to fit in
with the kind of day that people had in industry. If he was also doing
evening classes he might not finish until 9pm.
The college students were mainly from
Enfield Small Arms and
Enfield Cables. The college had started as a trade school (For
Enfield Small
Arms?), then become a Technical School. It gained more students, including
full time students, became a Technical College and moved to the new
building (Broadbent)
In 1946 the old building (Swan Annexe) looked as if it had been
badly
scarred by bomb blast. The windows were boarded up and it was not used.
The
new building had the front that it has now, but it only had two stories.
The new building was still not completed. There was brickwork instead of
panelling in the hall, for example. The building work went on for two or
three years.
See accounts that work was not completed until
1953 and that second floor wings were added after that. "The
interiors were completed only after 1945" confirmed by
listed building
report. This also mentions the "original gymnasium to side". The
1949 aerial photograph confirms gymnasium and two story wings.
The college also used an old church in Lincoln Road for
teaching.
Stanley Millward did not see much of Mr Broadbent. He met him
when he came for the interview, but not much afterwards. Mr Broadbent died
a few years later
In his first year, Stanley Millward taught matriculation (This was not
normal college business). He taught Charlie Dust a student who was taking
matriculation then and had previously been a student in the school in the
old building. They were still in contact in 1998.
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1946
10.1.1946 The first meeting of the
United
Nations
was held at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. At
the live BBC world broadcast to mark the inauguration
Derek Barsham (aged
16) sang "The Star of God", words by Frederick Weatherly, music by Eric
Coates.
"Lord of the bygone centuries,
Thou once didst send a star
That led the feet of wand'ring men
To Bethlehem afar;
Lord of these wild and whirling years,
We need a star today
To guide us through the troubled world,
To point the only way.
Lord of our lives and destinies,
Oh, now fulfil Thy plan,
Bring in the golden years of peace,
The brotherhood of man!
By all the blood that men have shed,
By all the hearts that bow,
Oh, God of the Star of Bethlehem,
Be with the nations now."
(source)
23.2.1946 Old Boys reunion at an informal dinner in the College
Hall. Saturday 29.6.1946 the first general meeting of the "Old
Students' Association of Enfield Technical School and College".
A.J. Crofts and his wife, and Mr C.H. Rigby were made honorary
life members (Enfield magazine Spring 1947, pp 44-45)
Alma Broadbent's marriage to Henry M. Fulkes was recorded in
Edmonton in the June quarter of 1946.
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The Ministry of Education organised Art and Design education as a two year
Intermediate Certificate in Art and Crafts followed by a two year National
Diploma in Design.
"The new system of examinations... was intended to give the art
schools a strong orientation to design and manufacture, emphasising their
role in the post-war reconstruction of te country"
(Ashwin 1982 p.35).
21.9.1946 - 31.10.1946 The
Council of Industrial Design organised at "Britain Can Make It"
exhibition
See the
Enfield Can Do It exhibitions.
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Hendon 1946
August 1946 (age 16) Sheila Brook discusses the
"late developing and unprepared-for", arrival of
puberty and periods. (Kindle Locations 334-335).
"There were quite a few boys doing a commercial course in one
form in my year group. I think their course differed in some way from the
girls' course, perhaps with a little less emphasis on typing and more on
what was then called bookkeeping, probably with a view to a job in a bank.
A few lessons in ballroom dancing were organised by another member of staff
after college hours, where the two sexes met.
" (Kindle Locations 358-360).
Sheila Brook, Beryl
and Miss Marianne Cross (who taught office practice) started a
Christian Union at Hendon College of Technology (Kindle Location 382).
[Possibly Marianne Cross born West Ham in the summer quarter of 1906]
12.12.1946 Darrell Viner born. See
Hornsey and
John Vince. Darrell
Viner died 15.11.2001.
1946-1947 Doris E. McLauglin was and assistant librarian at West Ham
Public Libraries. In 1950 she graduated BA (Honours) Sociology from London
University. She taught in primary schools from 1950 to 1952. In 1955 she
obtained a Post Graduate Certificate of Education from London University
Institute of Education. She taught in secondary schools from 1955 to 1958
and in Further Education from 1958 to 1963. From
1963 to 1966 she was a
lecturer in Sociology of Education at
Trent Park College of Education. In
1965 she obtained a Diploma in Education from Cambridge Institute of
Education. From
1966 she was a senior lecturer at
Hendon College of
Technology (Middlesex University from 1973) being Course Leader for
University of London Certificate in Education at Middlesex. In 1979 she
obtained an MA in sociology from the university of Essex, for which she
wrote a dissertation on "Women Teachers and Equal Pay 1930-1961". Her
teaching interests were the sociology of education, sociology and women's
studies.
(MP 1981 p.110)
Cinderella - A pantomime written by Frederick William Teare and
produced by
Alec Stretch
Cinderella's Coach The School Model Club met twice a week throughout
1946. Amongst its constructions was "Cinderella's Coach, which gained so
much applause in Mr Stretch's stupendous pantomime" (Enfield Magazine,
Spring 1947, p.25)
The photograph "shows the bulk of the Company at a particularly funny
juncture - the entry of the comedy team into the Palace ballroom" (Enfield
Magazine,
Spring 1947, p.32)
1947
Sylvan Press, 24-25 Museum Street, London, WC1. Telephone Museum 4691-4692.
"General publishers. Books on typography, printing and manual crafts"
(Writers and Artists Year Book 1949)
The Your Home Crafts Series began in 1947 with Your
Leatherwork by Betty Dougherty. There were eighteen books in the
series, of which six were written and illustrated, in whole or in part, by
Elsie Davenport or Sheila MacEwan, starting in 1948 with the second in the
series
Your Handweaving by Elsie G. Davenport.
The full list was: 3. Your Embroidery by Helen Brooks - 4.
Your Rugmaking by Klares Lewes and Helen Hutton -
5. Your Millinery by Winifred Reiser -
6. Your Linocraft by Betty Dougherty -
7.
Your Pattern Cutting by E. Sheila MacEwan -
8. Your Textile Printing by Evelyn Brooks -
9. Your Jewellery by J. L. Auld -
10.
Your Children's Crafts edited by E Sheila MacEwan, which
included a chapter on Weaving by Elsie G. Davenport -
11. Your Puppetry by John Wright -
12. Your Penmanship by Kathleen U. Ockendon -
13. Your Toymaking by
Joseph Pierce McCrum
14. Your Machine Embroidery by Dorothy Benson - 15.
Your Light Furniture by
Joseph Pierce McCrum
- 16.
Your
Handspinning
by Elsie G. Davenport - 17. Your wood-engraving
by Mark Fernand Severin
- 18.
Your Yarn
Dyeing
by Elsie G. Davenport
It is clear from examination of Sheila and Elsie's books that preparation
for these began before the war - probably about 1930. It is also suggested
that the book were part of a [women's] movement, as indicated in the
following paragraph from a 1950s review of one of Elsie's books:
"If there is one thing noticeable above others in the life of such
organisations as
Women's Institutes and
Towns-women's Guilds, it is the
manner in which such organisations are reviving interest and stimulating
and encouraging craft work" [Bucks Examiner]
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The beginning of the
1947 freeze is shown on this Wind Rose compiled at Enfield
Technical College in January 1947. published in the Enfield Magazine
Spring 1947, page 20.
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Cutting, left, from Radio Who's Who 1947:
10.2.1947 London Evening News "The Golden Voice is Saying
Good-bye to the Air. Sixteen-year-old
Derek Barsham
of Enfield, whose voice is known to millions of radio listeners, will give
his farewell broadcast as a boy vocalist this week. As Derek's voice is on
the verge of breaking, he has been advised to rest it for two years, but
before doing so he will take the part of Theodor in the Russian opera
"Boris Godunov", which is being broadcast in the Home Service on Wednesday,
February 11th and in the Third Programme on Friday, February 14th."
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July 1947 National Service Act extending
conscription into peacetime
and requiring military service of
young men from 18. It came into force at the beginning of
1949. The
National Service Amendment Act in December 1948, increased the
period of service from one year to 18 months. It became two years after
1950. National Service remained until
1960.
1947
Audrey Frost, aged 21, began work at Enfield Technical College.
She bacame Audrey Bailey in 1951 and Audrey Hardwick in 1956.
John W. Hamer, known as Rex, joined Enfield College in 1947 after service
in the RAF. His wife's name was Joan.
Stanley Millward
first met him in January 1947. The (senior) college had less than 20
members of staff. Rex taught mathematics to students studying for the
intermediate BSc, or the Ordinary or Higher National Certificates "when
these were the 'bread and butter' of the college courses"
He made a special study of the results of the National Certificate Courses
in the country.
"Rex was one of the key lecturers in the courses the college organised for
the Technical Teachers Certificate; courses which were intended to widen
the educational and teaching skills of teachers of handicrafts and
practical technical subjects. Many of the students came from the staff of
the Government Training Centre and some from the college workshops and
laboratory staff."
"He also lectured on te courses for the Mathematical association's Diploma
in Mathematics; a Diploma designed to improve the mathematical knowledge
and qualifications of practising teachers from local schools"
"In addition, Rex was responsible for the development of the remedial
Mathematics and Programmed Learning Unit at Enfield"
Mary Shakeshaft (14.5.1987) wrote:
"A versatile teacher, he began as a teacher of maths but became
increasingly interest in psychology, taking his MSc at Birkbeck part time.
His teaching interests in his later years ranged from industrial psychology
to education but perhaps focused most sharply on educational technology
where he was responsible for the development of programme leaning, writing
several valuable programmes and lecturing to business and commerce as well
as using the technology to help students on various courses in the college.
USA
study tour -
Ted Coates
-
Division of Education and Psychology
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March 1965
Mary Shakeshaft (14.5.1987) wrote:
"He started and ran for many years a pioneer course for Women Graduates
Wishing to Tech, which laid the foundations of the successful BA Sociology
of Education and also the emphasis on recruitment of mature students which
is still one of the polytechnic's educational principles."
15.3.1972 Assistant Academic Registrar with special
responsibility for academic staffing. When the polytechnic was inaugurated
he became its appointments officer. He gave up this job after a severe
heart attack, returning to teaching. He retired in December 1977. He died
28.4.1987. (Obituary by Mary
Shakeshaft in North Circular 14.5.1987).
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1.1.1947
Mr G. Bygrave took over as Acting Headmaster of the
Secondary Technical School in place of Herbert Willan Wadge who had
resigned as Headmaster at the end of the previous term to take up a
"similar appointment" at the Central Technical School in Sheffield. Mr
Bygrave was later confirmed as headmaster.
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Herbert Willan Wadge went as headmaster to Sheffield Central
Technical
School in 1947. The picture left is from his period in Sheffield.
On of his students
Tony Jackson recalls
"The Headmaster Mr Herbert Wadge ruled the school with a fist of iron:
One day he entered our classroom and walked straight over to a lad sitting
at his desk. Without speaking a word he smashed his hand across the lad's
face sending his glasses flying to the other side of the room. Then he said
" You don't chew in class, boy!" I think our form-master was as surprised
as the lad at the Headmaster's aggression."
Herbert Willan Wadge was awarded an MBE in
1956.
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Spring 1947 Enfield Technical College Magazine. Edited by
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15.3.1947 First Speech Day and Prize-Giving of Enfield Secondary
Technical School. Held in the College Hall. Chaired by
Eric Pascal who spoke
of "the place of the technical school in the educational system". "Several
members of the Education Committee and of the Enfield Manufacturers'
Association were also on the platform"
April 1947 School leaving age raised to 15. The "materials and
labour force allocated to educational projects have been concentrated on
providing the necessary accommodation". Consequently few resources
allocated to developing Enfield Technical College (or, presumably, Hendon
or Hornsey). Enfield Magazine Spring 1947 p.6.
Spring? 1947 The first "Enfield Can Do It" exhibition staged at
Enfield College. It was the responsibility of the college along with the
Manufacturer's Association, Chamber of Commerce and Cooperative Society.
Over 27,000 people paid for admission during the week that it ran. "The
College was unrecognisable to most of us in view of its changed lay-out and
cunning arrangement of stands for exhibits". Exhibits were arranged under
sub-sections "Enfield Is; Enfield Teaches, Plans, Makes, Buys and Sells".
Another exhibition with the same title was staged at Enfield technical
College in March/April 1950.
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Autumn 1947 Enfield Technical College Magazine. Edited by
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In the autumn of
1947, Henry Broadbent wrote:
"The economic situation must now be faced, and the next two
years mean concentrated effort by all our industrial and commercial forces.
Direct effort is demanded from all of us if we are to close this much
talked-of gap between imports and exports. This means that this country
must regain its eminence in high standard of craftsmanship and design. In
other words we must export our technical skill, and the College is ready to
take its full share of responsibility in this connection."
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So in the new session let us to the task! By the combined efforts of
students and staff, along with the useful support we have throughout this
area from our District Manufacturers' Association, we can make a worthy
contribution towards the easement of our present troubles."
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In 1946-1947
George Roberts, the managing director of
Ripaults in Soutbury Road, was chair of the
Enfield District Manufacturers Association, 6 Palace Gardens,
Enfield, Middlesex.
[See national context]
In December 1947 he signed the Preface to
"Industries of
Enfield - The Handbook of the Enfield District Manufacturers Association
", presumably published in 1948.
"So far as I know, no other manufacturing centre in Britain has an
industrial record as complete and as eloquent as this one". (p.8)
The Association "constantly" discussed "education within industry, and the
smooth changeover from school to industry" and "a special liaison
committee of member collaborates with the Principal of Enfield Technical
College" (p.45).
George Roberts became the Chair of the Enfield College
governors in
1949.
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"Enfield District Manufacturers Association collaborates with
Enfield
Tecnical College" (page 38)
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"New hands must be taught new jobs, in college and factory"
(page 39)
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In 1947,
Ripaults Ltd described itself as "manufacturers of electric
cables, automobile equipment and accessories" The illustration of its
product range includes "flexible cords - for telephone and radio",
"chromium-plating" and "bonnet fasteners (for cars). It also made asbestos-
braided wires - for cooler and heater connections, terminals and contacts.
It exported to the British Commonwealth, European countries, Scandinavia
and the near and far east.
EDUCATION COMMITTEES YEAR BOOK 1947
Published by Education The Official Organ of the
Association of Education Committees.
Councils and Education Press Ltd.
10 Queen Anne Street, London, W.1.
Internet archive -
offline
Advertisement (page 17):
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new and greater developments. It is this very fact that electricity is so
powerful, yet so flexible in its application, that enable it to be the
mainpower behind our war production.
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The application of electricity to the many recent inventions and
developments promises to make electricity the mainpower in
reconstructing the war-battered world. Electricity is our opportunity. It
is our duty to understand as much about it as we can.
For this reason it is urged that students be given elementary training in
the best uses of electricity. Information and advice can be had by writing
to you Electricity Supply Undertaking. Lantern slides, lecture notes, films
and full assistance will be provided gladly by [the] British Electrical
Development Association, 2 Savoy Hill, London, WC2
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Harrow Technical Institute and Harrow School of Art:
J. G. Platt, A,R.C.A., A.R.E.
Borough of Hendon
Borough Education Officer. J.E. Cuthertson, MA, M. Litt
Offices: Town Hall, Hendon, NW4 HENdon 8181.
Hendon Technical College:
R. W. Walls, B.SC. (Economics), B.COM., A.L.A.A.,
[Accountant and Auditor]
A.C.I.S. [Institute of Chartered Secretaries]
Hendon Junior Technical School: (Engineering): C. Buckle, B.SC. (Hons.),
Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. [A.M.I.E.F. -
but I think the F. must be a printing error]
Hendon (Domestic Science, etc.) Miss A. S. Macdonald.
Hendon Junior Commercial School: W. T. Smith, M.COM.
Urban District of Enfield
District Education Officer: E. Pascal, M.A.
Offices: Silver Street, Enfield, Middlesex. (Tel. : ENField
4051).
Enfield Technical College: H. W. Broadbent, M.SC. (Engineering), Member of
the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. F.I.I.A.
Enfield Junior Technical School: (Engineering) H. W. Wadge, B.SC. (London).
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Hendon 1947
Sheila Brook: "After
we had been given the
results of our exams near the end of our final term, the top few students
from each of the classes in our year were given the opportunity of staying
on at college for a further year before taking the general matriculation
examination, (this was before ' 0' levels were introduced.) This was
another new opportunity for which we had to thank the 1944 Education Act."
- However, her father could not see the point of her taking another year
for study. She was disappointed, but then had the opportunity to
work in a medical setting.
Harrow and Hornsey:
1.10.1947 The District Education Officer of Harrow informed
the Sub-Committee that Mr.
E. Williams, B.Sc., Ph.D., had been
appointed Principal of the Harrow Technical and Art School, as from
1st October, 1947, in the place of Mr.
J. G. Platt, who was leaving to take up appointment as Principal
of the
Hornsey School of Art.
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John Gerald Platt was "a very nice man"
Sheila MacEwan, who said that it was thanks to his never-failing
kindness and encouragement that her last seven or eight years
[to 1956] had been as happy as her early days [under
Frank Swinstead].
Sheila was not happy under
John Charles Moody and the typescript of her retirement speech
jumps from Swinstead to Platt with just a handwritten insertion in the
margin "J.C.M."
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Trent Park
Developed from
A concise history of Trent Country Park, by Alan
Mittelas.
1946:
All teachers must be qualified
19.10.1945 The Trent Park Prisoner of War Camp closed.
It was taken over by the Ministry of Education and in 1947, it was
opened as an
emergency training college for male teachers.
By December 1947, fifty five temporary colleges had opened. By
1951 [when I was in a London infants school] one in
six of the teachers in maintained schools was emergency-trained.
In
1950, Trent Park became a (permanent) residential
training college for men and
women. By August 1951 all the emergency colleges had either become
permanent, or had closed.
Trent Park provided
qualifications for teachers in various disciplines, including Art, Drama,
Music, Dance
and Handicraft (Design and Technology). Shortly thereafter, Geography,
Maths, Science
and English were also taught there.
From
1951
Trent Park tutors sometimes taught at Hornsey.
In
1951,
Middlesex County Council bought the entire Trent
Park estate,
by compulsory purchase order, as Green Belt land.
New buildings were eventually added to
the campus, including an assembly hall and teaching block to the west of
the mansion.
1957 to 1959
Brian Ellis training
In June 1962 the
Middlesex Higher Education Advisory Centre,
based at Enfield, established cooperation between colleges, including
Enfield, Hornsey and Trent Park
1963 to 1966
Doris McLauglin
teaching sociology at Trent Park
1965. Dissolution
of
Middlesex County Council. The estate was divided.
The new London Borough of
Enfield took over the college and college grounds and
the Greater London Council the parkland.
About 1965,
Stanley Millward speaks of informal cooperation between
colleges.
In 1973, the GLC
officially opened
the 413 acre (167 hectare) Trent Country Park to the public.
The expansion
continued into the 1960s and 1970s, including two halls of residence called
Sassoon Hall and
Gubbay Hall.
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On
1.9.1974 Trent Park College was incorporated
into Middlesex
Polytechnic. See
picture and description
At what stage did it occur to someone that using the forecourt of a
Georgian Mansion as a car park was not the best way to enhance its image?
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1981 all pre-1981 alumni were invited to the third Trent Park
reunion on Saturday 3 September 2005 "in an attempt to get as many former
Cert. Ed. students as possible back to Trent Park".
[Certificate Education
preceded Bachelor of Education]. The earliest graduate was
Brian Ellis
from
the Class of
1959. Most guests graduated
in the mid-late 1970s and included several married couples who had met
whilst students at Trent Park. The range of subjects went from from art,
drama and dance to music and science.
Following the
end of the GLC
in
April 1986 , the management of the park passed to the London
Borough of
Enfield.
Summer 1995?
Summer School
2006 Refused planning permission for developing Trent
Park as its flag ship campus, Middlesex decided to focus on developing
Hendon.
2010
Save Philosophy occupation
6.5.2011
ephemerita's historical
farewell
Wikipedia says "The campus was home to the performing arts,
teacher education, humanities, product design and engineering, television
production and biological science departments of the university and the
Flood Hazard Research Centre".
Summer 2012 Middlesex University left the Trent Park
Campus and relocated to Hendon
Campus. The following year, in July 2013, Middlesex University
sold the 51.89
acre (21 ha.) site to the Allianze University College of Medical Sciences,
a private higher
learning institution based in Malaysia. At the time of writing, the AUCMS
are starting
the process of upgrading the campus, and plan to cater not only for their
Malaysian
students, but also for local and other international students.
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1948
1948 Crafts Centre of Great Britain in Hay Hill opened.
Elsie Davenport became a member of its weaver's sub-committee.
She was also a
member of the
Arts and
Crafts Exhibition Society, formed in London
in 1887, which gave its name to the Arts and Crafts Movement of William
Morris and Walter Crane.
The Your Home
Crafts from Sylvan Press had started in 1947 with leatherwork.
The second book, in 1948, was on hand weaving, by
Elsie Davenport
See
sociology and weaving and
Shakespeare quotation that starts the book.
"Man is by nature a creative artist... a community deprived of
the
opportunity to
create with hands as well as with brain, becomes ill-
balanced and ultimately unsound... The machine... must produce things in
large quantities, and all to the same pattern... while it might be
impractical to design and
make one's own car... when you have woven
your own cushion square... it will possess an individual character which no
machine could produce" (p.7)
Your Hanweaving was reprinted in 1949, 1950 and 1951 - and then in 1970 in
the USA.
In 1947 and 1949, Frederick and Lorna Flower lived at 5 Pinner Park
Gardens, Harrow. In 1956 and 1964 they lived at 8 Elmcroft Crescent, Harrow
1948
Frederick Dalby Flower became Hendon Technical College's head of
adult education.
He developed a liberal arts programme, including performing arts groups and
an English programme for overseas students.
He had left the Communist Party
after the Soviet Union's suppression of the Hungarian revolution in
1956.
By 1959 Flower was Head
of Department of Arts and Liberal Studies, Hendon Technical College. He
wrote "Balance in Liberal Studies"
Education and Training, Vol. 1
Iss: 6, pp. 20 - 22. Abstract: "Lasting differences between the 'extract'
and the 'inject' schools of thought on liberal content suggest that some
more general principle is needed. The author finds in wartime Army
education a principle which gives coherence, balance, and some guidance on
allocating time".
He left Hendon College in 1960 to become Principal of Kingsway Day College.
Fred Flower wrote in 1960:
"
Teachers of all subjects in technical colleges are
largely agreed that there is a place for English in their curricula. Badly
written and misspelt lab reports force them to recognise the inadequacy of
their students' command of language. Employers, aware of the difficulties
their technical staff find in writing correctly and comprehensibly, demand
a sound grounding in English. The White Paper of February 1956 on
Technical Education found space to call for "good plain English,
the use of which
saves time and money and avoids trouble".
(F.D. Flower, M.B.E., B.A., B.Sc.(Econ.), (1960) ""Good Plain English" -
English Courses for Technical Students",
Education and Training, Vol. 2 Iss:
11, pp.15 - 17
1961 Foreign Girls in Hendon. A survey. 78 pages.
Typed manuscript, bound in blue cloth. . By Sheila Williams and Frederick
Dalby Flower: Hendon Overseas Friendship Association. [A copy in the
British Library] "Full-time" au-pairs were paid £3 for a six-day
week. Margaret Thatcher was President of the Hendon Overseas Friendship
Association in the 1960s.
Gladys M.C. [Celia]
Tichborne
(a socialist) was the secretary or chair.
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18.7.1948 to 20.8.1948
"Hendon Technical School" was an
Olymic Housing Centre. It had a capacity of 250, with 1 kitchen and 1
dining room and was allocated to the male athletes from Hungary.
source [Nothing for Enfield. Centres appear
to be on west of the county]
1948 Enfield
1.4.1948 Under the Electricity Act 1947, the Eastern Electricity
Board took over the Northmet Power Company (40 Church Street, Enfield and
Brimsdown Power Station). The Eastern Electricity Board was
authorised to supply Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, the
Isle of Ely, Norfolk, Suffolk, parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire,
Essex, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Soke of Peterborough.
(Industries of Enfield (1948) p.108
Autumn? 1948 George Bedford Clarke (born Middlesbrough 18.2.1910?
died Haywards Heath December 1981?) began as an Assistant
Grade A at Enfield Technical College. He had studied
Metallurgy at Bolton Training College (Teacher's Certificate? 1946) and
then been an Assistant Master at the Secondary Technical School
for Boys in Middlesbrough. At some time he became a Fellow of the Institute
of Metals (F.I.M.) and A.M.Inst.F. (I think that is a misprint: Associate
Member of the Institute of Physics). At Enfield, he was Assistant Grade B
from 1952 to 1954,
Lecturer 1954 to 1959 and Senior Lecturer from 1959. He taught in the
Department of Pure and Applied Science which concentrated on Sandwich
courses in Physics, Chemistry and Metallurgy for "scientists intending to
take up an industrial career". The two major courses in 1964-1965 were
Higher National Diplomas in Applied Physics and in Chemistry. Metallurgy
was available on a part time basis (Higher National Certificate) or at
Ordinary National certificate level. The first year of HNC study was at
East Hertfordshire or Tottenham Technical College. ONC was being phased
out.
"Where are they now?", The Vocational Aspect of
Education, 1963. 15:30, pp 64-68 and
1964-1965 Prospectus
The Enfield Sports Field in the summer of 1948
The sports field lay to the east of the college and was bounded to the
north
by the factories on Queensway, to the east by the buildings on the high
street, and on the south by the back gardens of the houses of Derby Road.
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Malcolm Farrell provided this snap shot of a small group of his
fellow students in the Engineering Diploma Classes of 1946-1948 on the
sports field of the college in the summer of 1948. Malcolm was "part of a
group that played knock-up cricket on the field whilst awaiting the results
of our examinations in 1948".
The top row are J. Hill,
D. Heathorn and Terrence Williams. The middle row is Watts, Pierce
Trehearne, Peter Teece and P. Doe. In the front are B.Rose, Mason and S.
Legeard.
Malcolm recalls that during the
summer of
1944, the V1 doodlebugs were arriving regularly and we took
shelter
in the air-raid shelters which were situated behind the fence to the
rear.
By 1964, when the Enfield College of Technology
Prospectus was published, the "sports field and pavilion" were
in "World's End Lane about three miles away".
Malcolm Farrell becomes an Apprentice
"After completing the Diploma I started an apprenticeship in
thermionic
valve engineering at the
Edison Swan Electric Company, Brimsdown - in the
very year that the transistor was first announced! I finished up with HNC's
in both Mechanical and Electric Engineering but have always regretted not
going to university I owed a great deal to the College and am sad that the
building is now decaying with the departure of Middlesex University.
"
1948
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Spring Review (Easter?) and Babes in the Wood (Christmas). Babes
in the Wood "played to packed houses for 10 performances. This was nearly
5,000 people - no mean achievement for a school production!"
1948
Reeves and sons built a
new factory at Enfield and moved from
their main office in Dalston. Its post-war policy was to develop and
international market and this was done by Managing Director Archibald G.
Simmons and by his successor George William Alfred Shiells (12.4.1928 -
15.2.2007). George Shiells became vice chairman of Enfield College of
Technology (after 1964). He was
president of the
Enfield District Manufacturers Association
and secretary
of the Enfield Chamber of Trade. He launched the free newspaper the
Enfield Advertiser in May 1978. "He took great pride in
his
involvement as
a director and trustee in the creation of
MoDA, the Museum of Domestic
Design and Architecture".
(source)
13.11.1948 Austen Albu (21.9.1903 - 23.11.1994), an engineer,
elected MP for Edmonton (Labour) in a bye-election following the death of
the sitting MP. He was MP for Edmonton (the constituency south of Ponders
End at the time) until 28.2.1974. During his whole parliamentary career he
persistantly and consistently promoted the cause of technical education, At
one time promoting a "politechnic club" in the House of Commons.
In his
final speech in the Commons he said that
"In the past 20 years"
[1954 -
1974] "we have had a revolution - a revolution
which has not been fully recognised - in technological education and
industrial training in which previously we were the most backward of the
industrialised nations."
(Hansard 21.1.1974)
See
17.7.1949 -
20.7.1953 - 21.7.1955
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Austen Albu in conversation with his second wife, the social psychologist
Marie Jahoda. Marie's worked demonstrated the negative effect of
unemployment on mental health and the positive effect of meaningful social
engagment.
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1949
1.1.1949
National Service for 18 and 19 year old young men replaced the
conscription of adult men.
The Libraries of
Greater London - A guide
compiled by L. M. Harrod. Chief Librarian and Curator, Islington Public
Libraries. London. G. Bell and sons, Ltd. 1951:
HENDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE, THE BURROUGHS, HENDON, N.W.4
"The library was officially opened in 1949, and is restricted to students
of the College for reference only. Stock: Books and pamphlets 5,000;
current periodicals 65. Staff: 1.
Open: 9 - 12.15, 1.15- 5, 6 - 8.30 Monday to Friday
Services: I. Books are lent only to members of the staff in exceptional
circumstances.
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Enfield
1949
G.A.Roberts =
George Roberts.
Ripaults
was a family firm and George Roberts
was its Managing Director.
(Audrey Hardwick July 1998)
E. Pascal was
Eric Pascal (Gertie)
George Roberts was chairman of Enfield College's
Governing Body from 1949 to
1968 and E. Pascal MA former (in 1971) education officer
of the Borough of Enfield, was clerk to the Governors from 1949 to
1965
(College Times 18.3.1971).
George. Roberts was also the chair of the
Advisory Committee to the Department of Industrial Engineering. He was from
Ripaults Ltd. [1964-1965 Prospectus p.28]
Enfield District Manufacturers Association
Apprentice
Training Scheme
started in 1949. Fifteen local firms participated. Apprentices
gained experience in
more than one firm. An objective was to train people who might take
executive posts. (Recruitment to Skilled Trades by Gertrude Williams
Williamson, International library of sociology and social reconstruction
Routledge & K.Paul; 1957. p.132)
[Enfield] Nationalised Gas from 1949
Ponders End used to be known for its
Gas Works. These were run by a private
company until 1949 when all gas production was nationalised (under
the 1948
Gas Act) and a new
remodelled gasworks was built. In
1953 the Duke of Edinburgh visited this
and was given a tour by Sir Harold Smith, Chairman of the Gas Council.
When the gas industry was nationalised the Tottenham and District
Gas company came under the Eastern Gas Board which covered
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle of Ely, Norfolk, the Soke of
Peterborough, Suffolk and parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex,
Hertfordshire and Middlesex
The original members of the Eastern Gas Board were Sir John Stephenson,
18th November (the chair, appointed 18.11.1948), John Horsfall Dyde (the
deputy chair, appointed 23.12.1948) and two part time members (A. M. Baer
and Edward Woodall) appointed in January 1949. John Horsfall Dyde was a
Governor of Enfield College of Technology in 1964.
The fortunes of Ponders End gas rose, and then fell as attention moved to
north sea gas. Exploration for British gas were first successful in the
Groningen area off The Netherlands in 1959. Natural gas in British
waters was made in 1965 at the West Sole field, off the East Anglia
coast. Something significant happened in 1972 making town gas
generation unnecessary and London converted to natural gas about
1965.
The role of chemistry in the
Enfield curriculum and the need for chemistry laboratories seems
to be related.
26.4.1949
Factories along Queensway and Enfield Technical College, Ponders
End
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This shows what was later named the Broadbent building.
As far as I can
see, all its parts are here apart from the bar, which completed the
rectangle (quad) to the left and the second floors of the two main
wings (See
Stanley Millward 1946)
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2014 Google satellite view
The Broadbent building is on the west. The front of the building shown in
the 1949 view faces north, so the aerial view or the satellite view needs
to
be turned round in your mind's eye. The building with the orange roof on
the south is
Pascal. East of that is
McCrae. North of that (casting a long shadow westward)
is
Roberts, the Tower Block. Further east (white roofs with blue
objects)
is Ted Lewis (student accommodation). From here a path led out beside the
mosque (green globe) and the
Swan Annexe is opposite the mosque.
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27.5.1949 As Director of British Diamix,
George Brosan signed a notice published in The London
Gazette on 31.5.1949
Messrs. Feakins, English & Co., of 211 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon,
Surrey may have been a firm of solicitors specialising in insolvency
17.6.1949 Notice in The London
Gazette of the appointment of liquidators by the company (Diamix) and
by its creditors.
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Summer 1949
Gertie Clark
married
Ralph Beckett. They lived at 126 Kingsway, Enfield in the 1950s
and 1960s. This house was on the right as one walked down Kingsway from
Southbury Road to get to Queensway.
17.7.1949
The kingdom of evil is a phrase used to describe
practical matters in a
House of Commons debate on
production engineering and management training initiated by
Austen Albu, the MP for Edmonton. A similar idea is part of
George Brosan 's sociological explanation of the
role of technical eduction in English society:
"When an existing organisation fails to carry out a needed
task, an undercover or immoral organisation emerges... The mechanics'
institutes, technical colleges and polytechnics which successively
recognised the need... have to be tolerated as a type of necessary evil ...
in the same way that the Church accepts the existence of the Davil" (George
Brosan, 1971, p.62)
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Autumn 1949
Beryl Catherine Myatt married Stewart S Platt in the Southend
district. "As was normal in the Civil Service and most professional
employment, she gave up her job to become a housewife and mother. Once her
children were at school she had other options but there was no aircraft
industry within range of Writtle." "In 1956 another chapter was opening in
her life".
(16.7.2008 outline)
1949
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented ETCEA Follies and Dick Whittington (Christmas?)
[Not quite what the official listing says]
1950
Enfield 1950
1950 Early stage in the intellectual development of
Julienne B. Ford
as documented transparently by
Amy Gdala
and Julie herself in various
places.
"It may be that Little Miss J. tried to grow up to fast without
ever growing up at all. Or, perhaps she had already grown up when, at the
age of four she had graduated from
Beatrix Potter to
Arthur Ransome."
See
1962 -
1966 -
1969 -
1975 -
1991 -
2008 -
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Roderick McCrae
1950 The sudden death of
Henry Broadbent
led to the appointment of
Roderick McCrae as Principal of Enfield Technical
College. The death of Henry W. Broadbent, aged 55, was recorded in
Edmonton in the March quarter of 1950. The death of
Mary A. Broadbent, aged 64, was recorded in Wood Green in the
December quarter of 1956.
Gertie Beckett's
1981 memories:
The next Principal to come along, Roderick McRea, went out to establish
Higher National
Diploma Courses. I well remember having to type and
stencil draft after draft of 68 page schemes ... Individual
letters to firms
telling them they might save by ..... exams or suggesting the firms
sponsored them for a .... course.
There was no such thing as
microprocessors
in
those days. The thought would
have been as remote as putting a
man on the moon.
My other memories of Roderick McCrae are his liking for a free meal and
time
of in lieu. He always made a point of asking me to make his appointments
for him to go to firms about 11.30 so as someone would be bound to invite
him to stay on for lunch
... social occasions in the evenings,
old boys association, staff associations, performances of which there were
many in those days, were entered in the diary so that time of in lieu
could be claimed.
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1950
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Variety Vogues and Red Riding Hood [Not quite what the official
listing says]
Hornsey 1950
4.3.1950 Birth of Wendy Dagworthy in Gravesend, Kent
Fashion Encyclopedia entry -
Link to an
interview [Education: Northfleet Secondary School] [Started at
Medway College of Art (Medway College of Design?) when she was 16. 1966-
1968] "I did a two-year foundation and pre-diploma course at Medway School
of Art, which used to be in Rochester, on the High Street"...
"I went to Hornsey College of Art.. I started in the year of the sit-in, I
moved away from home and had a flat just off the Kings Road."
[1968-1971; first-class honours degree. Family: Married Jonathan Prew in
August 1973.]
Published 1950 in the
Your Home Crafts series
Your Pattern Cutting by
Euphemia Sheila MacEwan
During the
past twenty years, pattern drafting on paper, as opposed to
modelling in material on a dress stand, has come into its own; far from
being looked on as the Cinderella of the cheap dress trade, it can now be
regarded as an almost exact science based on careful observation of the
varying proportions of the figure in action and repose, coupled with the
latest knowledge of garment fabrics in wear.
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In a note to the 5th printing (1962), Sheila MacEwan wrote "the book is not
about fashion as such it is about a well-tied system of cutting patterns to
fit a given individual for any fashion, past, present, or to come"
The book was dedicated to Natalie Bray
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The fashions reflected in the book were those from 1930 to 1950, as that
was the period over which it had been developed (p.121). Sheila
acknowledged "willing cooperation of students and staff" in her department
"in the hundred of experiments needed to perfect a system of this kind"
"over a number of years"
Her original scheme was for a book on an "altogether larger scale". It was
laid aside as a result of the war and after the war the cost of book
production meant such a book would have been expensive. She chose, instead,
a
"small, very tightly packed text book within the range of every pocket"
(Preface to the first edition)
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A Handbook of your Children's Crafts by various authors, edited by
Euphemia Sheila MacEwan. 10 in the
Your Home Crafts
series.
This included a chapter on Print Making by Ronald I. Colman, A.T.D.,
who was "Teacher of Art and Crafts, Bishopshalt School, Uxbridge and Junior
preparatory class, Hornsey School of Art and one on Weaving (which
also discussed spinning) by
Elsie Davenport
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May 1950 At an exhibition of weaving in Bristol, members of
different guilds planned what became the
Quarterly Journal of the Guilds
of Weavers Spinners and Dyers. The London and the Home
Counties
Guild of Weavers,
Spinners and Dyers was amongst the original guilds, and
Sheila MacEwan and
Elsie Davenport
were on the six-person Editorial Committee.
Autumn 1950 Gwendoline J. Smith of 9 Heston Road, Lampton was 21.
She was a member of the newly (1950) formed
London and the Home Counties Guild of Weavers,
Spinners and Dyers, had been weaving for eighteen months and
already had a
length of coat cloth on exhibition in the Arts and Crafts Society's
exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was studying for the
National Diploma in Woven Textiles at Hornsey School of Art under the
guidance of
Miss MacEwan and hoped to qualify as an art teacher in May and
specialise in weaving.
Gwendoline's parents had also taken up weaving, and had "woven 13 yards of
pale blue stair carpet and two attractive tapestry mats on hand-made looms"
"My wife and I found we could not buy the sort of carpets we
wanted, so we had a shot at making our own"
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I think the picture shows
Sheila MacEwan and Gwendoline Smith, but information and picture
are from separate cuttings and I cannot be sure.
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At the invitation of
Elsie Davenport,
Gwendoline Smith "who recently gained the Ministry of Education National
Diploma in Handweaving" wrote in the September 1952 edition of the
Quarterly Journal of the Guilds of Weavers Spinners and Dyers
a detailed description of the London Guild's visit to
Lullingstone Silk Farm in Kent.
Fashion at Hornsey
An undated cutting from the News Chronicle appears to belong to the
very early 1950s. Called Girls Design for the Future it was written
by Mabel Ellott "News Chronicle Reporter"
Students at work in the Hornsey School of Art turn to admire Rosemary
Gregsten (left) and Shelagh O'Hara, dressed in clothes they have designed
and made themselves.
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"Yesterday, in the women's crafts department of Hornsey School of Art... I
watched girl students who are learning not only how to make clothes, but
also how to weave the cloth, design them, model the garments and draw from
life."
For dressmaking they take a two-year course; designing takes four years.
Most of them see a career ahead , but, of course, among them are girls who
will marry and give their families the benefit of their talents.
Good luck to the girls who make fashion their career: I am sure that the
families of those who marry will be very, very lucky indeed.
[There was no longer a "little woman" living round the corner who would run
up dresses for almost nothing]
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1951
Festival of Britain year
George Stephen Brosan
PhD at Birkbeck College.
"He began teaching electrical engineering at
Regent Street Polytechnic before two short stints as departmental head at
Willesden Technical College and further education officer for Middlesex
county council."
(source)
1951
[Hornsey and
Trent Park]. Art Teachers Diploma to be replaced by and Art
Teacher's Certificate. The certificate "had a greater academic content ...
and teacher training students at the School received lectures on
educational theory and history, some of which were given by visiting
lecturers from Trent Park Training College" Clive Ashwin (p.36)
1.1.1951 Birth of Derek Lovelock who graduated from Enfield College
of Technology BA (Hons), Business Studies, possibly in 1971 or 1972. He
went to Kings College School in Wimbledon. If the BA was a four year
sandwich course, the years could have been 1967-1971 (aged 16-20). He was
graduate trainee in the buying team at C&A 1971 or 1972. He has been a
chief executive of Mothercare and of Sears Clothing.
Chief executive Mosaic Fashions 1999-2009; executive chairman: Aurora
Fashions since 2009.
1951
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented
Festival Review at some time during the year and Jack and the
Beanstalk at Christmas.
1952
A new Elizabethan age
The 75% grant Under existing arrangements, central government paid
60% of educational expenditure and local authorities 40%. At some time in
1952 it was decided to give special grant aid of 75% to local authorities
doing advanced (that is, university level) work.
(The New Polytechnics pp 22-23)
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West Ham Municipal College
(1922) West Ham College of Technology in 1952. It was designated
a Regional College of Technology in
1962, aftter which the new West Ham College of Further Education
took over the lower level work. In
1970, West Ham College of Technology joined with two other
institutions to form the North East London Polytechnic.
A sandwich course for engineering
apprentices was introduced at the Hendon
Technical College in 1952, initially for
Handley Page
factory [?] workers. Others
became part of the "Hendon Block-Release Scheme". Before coming across the
Hendon - Handley Page link, I wondered if the connection was with
De Havilland.
First Year
Mathematics, Engineering Science, Engineering Drawing, Light and Sound,
Elementary
Design or Elementary
Aeronautics, Workshop Technology,
Elementary Electrical Technology,
English, and Governmental Systems.
Second year:
Mathematics, Applied Mechanics, Applied Heat, Light and Sound, Graphics
or
Aeronautical
Design, Materials and Processes, Electrical
Technology,
English,
and Modern Industry.
Third year:
Mathematics, Strength of Materials and Theory of Machines, Applied
Thermodynamics I or
Aircraft Structures I, Principles of Engineering
Production
I, Metallurgy I, and
English.
Fourth year:
Mathematics, Strength of Materials, Theory of Machines, Applied
Thermodynamics
II or
Aircraft Structures II, Principles of Engineering Production II,
and Metallurgy II.
Fifth year:
Industrial Administration,
Management of Men, Work Study, Probability,
Fuel and Combustion Engineering, Advanced Electrical Technology,
Electronics,
Design Project, and Economic Aspects.
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March 1952 First number of the
Quarterly Journal of the Guilds of Weavers Spinners and Dyers
"at a time when the tide of materialism has all but washed away the
vestiges of individual creativeness and enterprise... People of all walks
of life are beginning to realise that, unless the handscraftsmen are there
to maintain a standard of excellence, the great tradition of good
workmanship which has been the mainstay of Britain will not survive. The
Guilds are today,
as they once were in the past, the guadians of a
standard"
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16.8.1952
George Brosan
married Maureen Dorothy Foscoe (born August 1927), an almoner, and daughter
of Dominic Foscoe. They had three daughters.
21.10.1952 To achieve the bigger factory building programme for 1953
licences were to be issued for more industrial building.
(Rab Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to Roy Jenkins
in the
House of Commons). Later (April 1953) the
Chancellor "announced that the licences will be provided for building
factories almost without any limit" (See Hugh Molson in the 20.7.1953 House of Commons
debate). Building licences were not liberalised for other uses, but some of
Enfield's industrial ones
were diverted into building the
McCrae Building.
1952
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented both its first major musical, A Country Girl and its first
straight play, Full House. The group became an Evening Class,
allowing its membership to expand beyond staff and students of the college
to include anyone with an interest in the performing arts.
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The Christmas
Pantomime was Cinderella. This is my best guess at the photograph left from
the Enfield College of Technology
1964-1965
Prospectus page 42.
The previous Cinderella was in
1946
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1953
1953 "Women's papers show women proud to
make their own dresses on new sewing machines, dresses with
plenty of cloth (after the
shortages) and calf length skirts - However, there is the
shocking
behaviour of a French woman, Bridget Bardot, photographed in a bikini at
Cannes" - The Archers - "everyday story of country folk" just beginning
its
eternal run on the BBC - In
1952 all scheduled broadcasting was replaced for a day by solemn
music because the family king had died. In 1953 we may visit friends with a
television sets to watch
the new Queen being crowned, or listen on the
wireless and go to the cinema to see the film of the fairy- tale
coronation." (timeline)
Sherpa Tenzing Norkay and Edmund Hilary reached the top of Everest, the
world's highest mountain, in an expedition led by John Hunt. The news
reached Britain on he day of the coronation, and was headlines in the
morning papers. (timeline)
Your Handspinning by
Elsie Davenport, 16 in the
Your Home Crafts series commented, in its
Preface, on the
apparent iliogicality of the book on spinning appearing after the book on
weaving:
"Your handweaving was written when a great wave of enthusiasm
overwhelmed all exisiting organisations able to give reliable information
about the craft...
"Spinning, dyeing and weaving are but parts of one whole craft."
Elsie also said "I hope... that some... will experience the extraordinary
tranquility of mind induced by the gentle rhythms of spinning"
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A
Ripault's cable storage and display unit in a 1953
advertisement. As well as off the peg cable, the company was (in the 1970s)
one of the principal UK manufacturers of "automobile wiring harnesses"
supplied (by tender) to the motor industry and also made telephone cords
and cordage for the Post Office. (1979 Report Insulated Cables and Wires)
1953
[Enfield Campus] Broadbent building was completed. Between 1953
and
1971,
second floor wings were added and the
McCrae building,
Pascal
Laboratories
and
Roberts Building
and
huts were all added. The
Broadbent, McCrae and Roberts buildings were, according to the Campus
Guide, named after local councillors. (But the Campus Guide was wrong.
Roberts
was from Ripaults,
Pascal
was Education Officer and
McCrae a Principal)
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Audrey Hardwick:
July 1998:
"The
McCrae building was built in the aftermath of the war. At
that time priority was given to categories of building that would help the
country to recover from the destruction it had received during the war and
building permits were issued to regulate this. Colleges did not
come into
that category and were not allowed permits. It was, however, agreed that if
the college could "collect" enough permits the extension could be built.
The chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr
George Roberts, lobbied local
industry asking for any building permits that they had not used. Eventually
enough were collected and the McCrae building was built."
The McCrae Building
opened in 1955. One wonders if permits also had to be collected
to enable the completion of Broadbent?
Summer 1953 Peggy A. Yates married Alan J Bullock in Romsey. At some
time, Alan became a lecturer at Enfield. See 1964 and
1965
Statistics of growth 1953 to 1960 See
Table 1953 and
Table 1959
3.1.1953 Prince Philip visited the Gas Works at Ponders End,
Middlesex.
Unused Pathe news material shows various long shots of Ponders
End Gas Works. Philip arriving and being welcomed by Sir Harold Smith
(Chairman of the Gas Council) and shaking hands with officials. Hatless,
Philip in white coat like the managers who accompany him, tours works. The
managers wear bowler hats. At one time, Philip is introduced to a worker
(smiles all round), who wears a cloth cap (see below). The tour includes
the tippler house. a retort charge. a truck leaving the quenching tower. We
see Philip watching retort charging. Then there is a shot of Philip
talking to the feeding-machine operator. The operator has no hat, has a
black jacket and what appears to be an open-neck white shirt. Railway
wagons being pushed into Tippler. Philip chatting with a worker in his
cloth cap. A wagon with steaming coke is shown being lifted onto
transporter. We see Philip looking up at the transporter, the transporter
in operation, and hot flaming coke being unloaded.
We were all identified by our clothes in 1953. I was a nine years old
Hornsey school boy so I wore a school cap, shirt and grey flannel trousers
(plus braces) with socks to pull up. So did almost every other boy in the
district.
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In the year of the
Coronation,
Principal Williams issued a clear message to
the boys and girls of Britain:
industry requires technologists from grammar schools, not technicians,
"that is men and women who have a broad foundation of general education
upon which has been superimposed specialised scientific knowledge, and who
are destined to become leaders in industry and commerce. I am for a liberal
education for technologists"
Childrens Newspaper 21.2.1953
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2.6.1953 A new Elizabethan age: The second Queen
Elizabeth, and her
consort Philip (of Greece, not of Spain) wave to the crowd from the balcony
of Buckingham Palace after her crowning at Westminter Abbey.
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20.7.1953
House of Commons debate on Science and Productivity - The first
Commons debate on the subject since the war. There was one in the Lords on
11.6.1952 at which it was said the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy
would be asked to prepare a report. The Commons debate was stimulated by
that report which had found that 1) investment in manufacturing was too
small; 2) there was inadequate interest in scientific development, and 3)
there were too few scientists and technologists. (Hugh Molson's speech).
"In 1900, output per manhour in the United States was
approximately the same as in Western Europe. Now, output is about two-and-
a-half times as great" (Hugh Molson's speech).
Austen Albu was amongst
those who spoke in the debate.
1953
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Our Miss Gibbs - Queensway Review - and Aladdin (Christmas)
Our Miss Gibbs is an Edwardian musical comedy, popular with amateur theatre
groups into the 1950s, that explains (amongst other things) that a woman's
education is not complete until she has experienced the thrill "all
through" of having a man's arms [both] around her waist. "Forgetting all
anxiety, Lay your head upon his shoulder".
"Dear old maids may look disgusted,
The simple fact is
They've had no practice,
But I'm sure that if they only knew,
They'd like to do the very same as you."
The Women's Crafts Department at Hornsey may have been
the first
semi-autonomous annexe.
Sheila
MacEwan said in
1956: "at No 2,
Waverley Road I
achieved my
Everest
..." Sheila also said "When my department moved out of the main school, I
feared I might, at last, feel cut off from H.S.A. I am more grateful to Mr
Platt and to my colleagues over here that I have continued to feel as much
a part of the school as ever."
Peter Green's interview notes refer to Women's crafts taking over "Waverley
House" sometime after world war two. Planning permission was requested on
16.3.2005 for the demolition
of "Waverley House, 9 Waverley Road N8 9QS"
[In the 1977 Post Office Guide all the buildings in Waverley Road are shown
as blocks of flats apart from Highgate Lodge Hotel (9 Waverley Road)]
The
next annexe appears to have been for the Teacher Training
Department.
Sometime after Sheila retired, the Women's Crafts Depertmant became
Textiles and fashion. Textiles and fashion and three-dimensional design
moved to the new site at
Cat Hill in 1970. Three
Dimensional Design and Textiles/Fashion were the two areas at Hornsey that
wre not
initially approved for the National Council for Diplomas in Art
and Design.
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1954
[Enfield]
See statistics
Edward John Bassett, Associate Member of Enfield, transferred to
the class of Members. Council Minutes 19.3.1954 Institution of
Mechanical Engineers.
24.7.1954 Listing in The Chemist and Druggist "Enfield:
Technical College; evening courses in radiochemistry and in vacuum
technology."
Hendon 1954
A "recent"
Handley Page
apprentices' prize-giving reported Flight
7.1.1955
page 25. "In the background... Mr
R.W. Walls, principal,
Hendon Technical College"
The Handley Page aircraft factory on the junction of Claremont Road and
Somerton Road in Cricklewood, south of Hendon, was open from 1912? to 1964.
Paul Bragg "did an
apprenticeship
in
engineering at the Handley Page aircraft company in North London and
continued to work for the company until it closed" He was Tool Maker -
Handley Page Aircraft Manufacturer from 1960 to 1966 at Radlett
(Hertfordshire) and educated at Hendon Technical College from 1963 to 1965
John Cupis (born about 1938) was a 21-year-old engineer
apprentice at Handley Page Aircraft, in Cricklewood in 1958 when he and
Sylvia Mary Pickering were both studying at Hendon Technical College.
Sylivia was a 16-year-old trainee cadet nurse who lived in The Chase, Burnt
Oak, Edgware, with her mother and stepfather, a retired gas fitter. When
Sylvia left the college in 1960 she started work at Norbiton Hospital,
Kingston-on-Thames, with the intention of becoming a paedratric nurse. She
is believed to have married a man called Alan Parr sometime in 1966.
1954 Eileen Younghusband, lecturer in Sociology at London School of
Economics, initiated a generic social work course. which "quickly becoming
an example for other social work training courses".
(source) - See
1961 -
1964 -
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18.10.1954 David Eccles became Minister for Education in a
Government reshuffle. He was previously at the Board of Works. From
13.1.1957 he was President of the Board of Trade and then returned to being
Minister for Education from 14.10.1959 to 13.7.1962. His combined periods
of office make him the longest serving Minister of Education in England and
Wales.
Great Education Secretaries website.
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Eric
Robinson says Eccles was "probably the most under-rated Minister of
Education"
(The New
Polytechnics p.21). See
12.4.1955 the class divide -
24.5.1955 and -
14.7.1955 the building programme -
21.7.1955
technical and advanced colleges,
and
Technical Education 1956
1954
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented Maid of the Mountains - The
Middle Watch and Mother Goose (Christmas)
1955
1955
Hornsey School of Arts and Crafts renamed Hornsey
College of
Arts and Crafts. [Later Hornsey College of Arts]
Friday 24.6.1955 The Star [One of the three London Evening
papers until 196], page 2 Students run own dress show - Men help too
"High fashion at the heights of Hornsey - for the first time in six years
the Hornsey College of Arts and Crafts are giving a dress show"
Students learn not only how to design and cut patterns, to sew them and fit
them, but also how to make hats; to do both hand and machinery and all
kinds of feather work.
[The three students modelling their outfits in the photograph are, from
left to right: Drusilla Jenden 17, Hampstead: Brigit Stenberg 21,
Stockholm: Pat Hollick, 20, Hornsey.]
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Derek Stephens, "a male student - one of three at the college" had made a
(woman's) suit designed "by petite Betty Jane Cherrington, of Tottenham".
"She wove the material herself - an attractive beige and grey with slub
effect - and designed the double-breasted suit with its pouch back and hem
skirt". She planned to wear it for job-hunting in the autumn.
Your Yarn Dyeing - A book for handweavers and spinners by
Elsie Davenport was the last in the series of three books she
published for the
Your Home Crafts series. Although published in 1955, the Preface
is dated December 1953. The book includes acknowledgements "To the group of
Weaving Students of Hornsey School of Art who have acted as such willing
'guinea-pigs'"
1955
[Hendon]
Reginald William Walls, the first Principal of
Hendon, would have been 65 in the summer of 1955. He may have
retired at the end of 1954.
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Emrys Williams, the second Principal, took up this
new appointment on 1.1.1955 (Journal of the Royal Institute of
Chemistry January 1955). His resignation from his previous post at
Harrow was recorded in the Education Committee minutes in November 1954.
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1955
[Enfield]
See
1950
Gertie Beckett 4.8.1998: The building that became McCrae was
built
in 1955. Probable
named McCrae shortly after his death in
1962. Stanley Millward says
that Mr
Chapman, head of mechanical engineering, was retiring when the McCrae
Building was opened. The
1964-1965
Prospectus says that there were three buildings: The
College Building [which became Broadbent] the Mechanical
Engineering Block [which became McCrae] and the
Science Block [which became the Swan Annexe]
24.2.1955
Hansard Technical Education (Building Projects)
Mr. Ashton asked the Minister of Education what response he has received
from local education authorities to the proposals set out in Circular 283
for more building for technical education in 1955-56.
David Eccles Authorities have responded well, and I have been
able to add 41 projects having a total value of £2,500,000 to the
1955-56 building programme, of which £200,000 is for Wales.
26.4.1955
House of Commons debate on Education.
14.7.1955 House of Commons
Dr. King asked the Minister of Education how many projects or instalments
of projects designed to expand the facilities for technical education were
submitted to him as a result of Circular 283; how many were added to the
1955-56 programme; how many are to be included in the 1956-57 programme;
and how many deferred beyond 1956-57.
David Eccles:
"Of 220 projects submitted, forty-six to the value of £2.5 million
were added to the 1955-56 programme, about sixty estimated to cost about
£9 million are to be included in the 1956-57 programme and the rest
are to be deferred.
14.7.1955
Hansard
David Eccles to accept the recommendation of the
National Advisory Council on Education for Industry and Commerce to
establish a council responsible for making national awards in technology in
technical colleges.
1955 The National Council for Technological Awards (NCTA) (1955-
1964) set up by he Minister of Education
(National Archives Records). This introduced
the Diploma in Technology (Dip. Tech.) in March 1956. Courses approved had
to be sandwich courses and include liberal studies and studies in
administration. The Council set standards for accommodation, equipment and
staffing. Responsibility for setting up the courses lay with the colleges,
the Council just granted (or did not grant) approval.
(The New Polytechnics pp 26-27)
21.7.1955
House of Commons debate on Scientific and Technical Manpower
David Eccles: "As far as possible, the local technical colleges
will bring
the education to the students, whereas the advanced colleges will find that
most of their students will travel to the education." (column 601)
Austen Albu (MP for Edmonton) "Will the colleges be allowed to
divest
themselves of lower-grade work?"
David Eccles: "Yes, they will, and I hope that that will happen. I hope
that the regional colleges will, as the hon. Gentleman says, divest
themselves of the lower-grade work, which will be taken up by the group of
local technical colleges which will serve as satellites, one might say,
around the regional college."
Enfield statistics
Statistics charting the expansion of Enfield may have survived for
1953-1956 -
1959-1960
- 1959-1962 - 1962-1963 - 1969-1970
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Enfield statistics 1953-1956
21.12.1955 Letter from C.E. Gurr M.Sc, Ph.D, Chief Education Officer
and Secretary to the Education Committee, County Council of Middlesex,
Education Committee, 10 Great George Street, Westminster, SW1. Telephone
TRAfalgar 7799 (extension 138) to R. McCrae, Esq., B.Sc. (Eng.), Principal,
Enfield Technical College. Form 6K I have been asked by the
Ministry of Education to arrange for the completion of the attached forms
6K to provide information which may be required when consideration is given
to the new technical report and in any general review of the salaries of
principals of Further Education Establishments. I shall be glad therefore
if you will kindly complete and return all five copies of the form not
later than Saturday, 21st January 1956.
Entries in Form 6K:
Name of Technical, Commercial, Art College or School, etc: Middlesex,
Enfield Technical College.
Name of Principal: Roderick McCrae B.Sc (Eng), M.I. Mech E.
[No Vice-Principal]
Number of students
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1953-1954
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1954-1955
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1955-1956 estimate
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Full-time
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173
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196
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250
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Part-time
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5373
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5837
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6000
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Total
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5546
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6033
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6250
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Volume and standard of work
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Total number of student hours for the completed session from 1st September
to 31st August
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1953-1954
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1954-1955
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1955-1956 estimate
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Work of University standard
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121,573
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151,830
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200,000
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Advanced Work
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356,596
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390,450
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400,000
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Work of School Standard
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265,360
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294,428
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300,000
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Total
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743,529
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836,708
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900,000
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Work of University Standard: [Presumably 1955]
Full-time
Sandwich Diploma Courses in Civil Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and production Engineering - Second,
Third and Fourth Years.
Full-time Sandwich Diploma Course in
Management Studies
Part-time Higher National Certificate Courses in Civil, Electrical,
Mechanical and Production Engineering, Metallurgy and Chemistry, - A1, A2
and A3 years.
Part-time B.Sc. (General) Degree Course.
Part-time Intermediate Management Studies.
Part-time Final Diploma Course in Management Studies.
City and Guilds Mechanical Engineering Inspection Course.
Full-time staff: Principal, 5 Heads of Departments: One at Grade 1; three
at Grade 3 and one at Grade 4.
9 Senior Lecturers; 15 Lecturers.
18 Assistants Grade B; 14 Assistants Grade A.
Part time teachers: 255
Number of teaching hours (PT teachers): 26,304
Office, maintenance, caretaking and canteen staff for whom the Principal
has responsibility: 70.
The Principal is responsible for the work of three Annexes of the College
at Ponders End, Enfield (Holly Walk) and Edmonton. He is also responsible
for the supervision of contributory classes to the National Certificate
Scheme at Southgate Evening Institute. He supervises Preliminary Technical
Courses held in the local Secondary Modern and Central Schools. A fair
amount of research work is carried out at the College and seven lecturers
and assistants have time table allowances for research. The Principal is a
member of Training Committees is several industrial firms and takes an
active part in the
Enfield and District Manufacturers' Association
Apprentice Training Scheme.
1955
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented "The Geisha" (an Edwarian musical) and "Dick Whittington".
Enfield Museum Service have
a photograph of The Geisha which includes Julia McKenzie,
Enfield born actress who later played Miss Marple. Such a cast of women
demonstrates the extent to which the plays
drew casts from outside the college. The Geisha comes from an
album of 34 black and white photographs of 1950s productions by
Technical College Entertainments Association
taken by Enfield photographers John W.Young and C.S. Wilkin. The album was
found in the loft of an Enfield house.
Prelude to
Technical Education, the white paper, 1956
17.11.1955 Nikolai Bulganin, USSR Prime Minister, and Nikita
Khrushchev, Soviet Communist Party First Secretary, left Moscow by air for
a goodwill visit to India, Burma and Afghanistan. The commercial aspect
of the visit related to technical rather than financial aid. Prime Minister
Nehru said "he had not so far had any discussion with the Soviet Government
regarding the assistance for the development of nuclear energy". (The
Hindu
23.6.1955 and
18.11.1955)
November 1956 First publication of the Technical Education,
the book, by Peter Venables.
5.12.1955
Winston Churchill's speech
15.12.1955
House of Commons debate Technical Colleges
and Schools.
1956
18.1.1956 Anthony Eden on the world-wide scientific
revolution
29.2.1956 Publication of Technical Education (Cmnd
9703 - 43
pages)
a White Paper on the future of technical
education, covering England, Wales and Scotland. See
National Archives: Colleges and
polytechnics. Presented to Parliament by the Minister of
Education and the Secretary of State for Scotland. Published HMSO 1956.
[
The New Polytechnics reference 7]
29.2.1956 House of Commons announcement by
David Eccles, the
Minister of Education.
(available online)
"A White Paper on the future of technical education, covering
England, Wales and Scotland, was available to hon. Members in the Vote
Office earlier this afternoon. This Paper is mainly devoted to technical
education in the schools and technical colleges. The universities review
their programmes every five years and are now working on plans for 1957-62.
For this reason it has not been possible to deal in the White Paper with
the university side in the same detail."
29.3.1956 House of Commons debate on
Higher Technical Education, Tees-side
(available online)
21.6.1956 House of Commons debate on Technical Education
(available online)
"I think there is just a danger that we may campaign for
technical education as though it were an international race, like the arms
race." (The Minister of Education (Sir David Eccles) in the debate) See
International Geophysical Year below.
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Peter Venables'
very large book and David Eccles' very small white paper
appeared about the same time.
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Definitions from the
Technical Education White Paper, page 2
Most of those who pass through the system of technical education and make
their careers in manufacturing industry are divided into three
categories...
Technologists A technologist has the qualifications and
experience required for membership of a professional institution... A
technologist has studied the fundamental principles of his chosen
technology and should be able to use his knowledge and experience to
initiate practical developments...
Technicians A technician is qualified in specialist technical
education and practical training to work under the general direction of a
technologists...
Craftsmen Craftsmen represent the skilled labour of
manufacturing industry and account for more than one third of its manpower.
With the growing complexity of machines and the introduction of new
materials it becomes all the more necessary for them to appreciate not only
the how but also the why of the work they do.
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Bishop and Brosan's torque convertor
16.4.1956 Great Britain Patent claim for an invention relating to
transmission mechanisms or like devices by Dudley Oswald Bishop of 12
Austyn Gardens, Tolworth, Surbiton, and
George Stephen Brosan of 25 Holly Lane West, Banstead, England.
(Link to USA Patent application) [Presumably
the same as "An electromagnetic variable-ratio torque convertor" "The
torque convertor differs radically from any other type known to be in
commercial use. It depends for its operation upon the phenomenon
exemplified in Faraday's disc and constitutes, theoretically, an
`infinitely variable' gear whose ratio can be varied over a wide range"
(Bishop, D.O. ; Brosan, G.S. December 1959 Proceedings of the IEE)
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Filed 12.4.1957
A torque convertor transmits power in a variable way. They are used for
automatic transmission in gear-free cars. The Bishop-Brosan invention could
also be used as a measuring instrument.
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Herbert and Edith Wadge at Buckingham Palace
25.5.1956
Herbert Willan Wadge (National Schools Advisory Committee,
National Savings Committee) made a Member of the British Empire in the
Queen's birthday honours.
Culminating events on Technical Education
21.6.1956
House of Commons dabate on (the white paper) Technical
Education. Circular 305 on the "Organisation of Technical Colleges" was
issued at this time.
July 1956 or later Second impression of Technical Education
the book.
"Remarkable changes, some foreseen and some almost past hoping
for, have come about since this book was published in November 1955. First
came the disclosures made by Sir Winston Churchill ... [to the] culminating
events" of the 21.6.1956 debate and Circular 305. (Venables "Note to the
Second Impression" 25.6.1956)
1956
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented "The Belle of New York" -
"Humpty Dumpty" - "Women aren't
Angels"
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December 1956
ETCEA's magnificent comedy
pantomime "Humpty Dumpty" at Enfield Technical College. 8 page
pantomime programme
and two newspaper cuttings, with a picture on each, sold on Ebay July 2013
Sometime in 1957 (Easter?) the company put on a performance of Show
Boat.
Amongst the singers in Show Boat was Maureen A Nelson (aged 17). At
rehearsals,
she met the Director's son, Ian Stretch (16), who was at Naval College.
They married in St Andrew's Church in Silver Street in 1962.
Fifty years later they were still active in the company.
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The retirement of
Sheila MacEwan
Hornsey 1956.
25.2.1956 A letter from
E. M. O'R. Dickey
at the Ministry of
Education, that he had heard Sheila was retiring. [Edward Montgomery
O'Rorke Dickey 1.7.1894-1977. See
Wikipedia)]
21.3.1956. 4.30pm Greetings Telegram from Enid Russ in Newport,
Monmouthshire, to be delivered. [Gertrude Enid Russ (1921-14.12.2011),
known
as Enid Russ, taught Textiles at Newport Art College. She founded the
Gwent Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers in 1951.]
Beyond Sheila
Margaret Melliar-Smith, also known as Margaret Melliar, took over from
Sheila in 1956. She had taught dress design at Harrogate School of Art,
Later she became a fashion consultant and freelance designer. She published
Dressing to Please in the Design for Living series in December 1964
and Pattern Cutting in 1968. "While fashion changes the principles
of pattern cutting remain unaltered. Here Margaret Melliar shows how., by
using a basic block, patterns can be adapted to any style without the
complication of having to draft out each design separately."
Marianne Straub (1909-1908), Head of the Textile Department at The Central
School of Art and Design, moved to Hornsey College of Art in 1963 and the
Royal College of Art in 1968.
Julian Robinson was
head of the Fashion and Textile Department from the mid-1960s to 1977.
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1957
1957 The University of Leicester was granted a Royal Charter which
enabled it to grant its own degrees instead of using external degrees of
the
University of London. London School of Economics and the
University of Leicester were two major sources of teaching staff for the
expansion of social sciences at Enfield in the 1960s
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1957 Brian Ellis trained as a teacher of English, Speech and Drama
at
Trent
Park. He obtained his
Certificate of Education in 1959 and
taught English
and Drama in a North London Secondary School for three years, and then
entered the Theatre in 1962. The roles he has played include
Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" - Sherlock Holmes in "Baker Street" - and
Fagin in "Oliver".
(main source)
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Minutes of Harrow Education Committee: 20.2.1957.
119. Hendon Secondary School of Engineering: A letter was submitted from
the Chief Education Officer stating that the Hendon Divisional Executive
have proposed that admissions to the Secondary Technical School of
Engineering should be discontinued after 1957 and that the school should be
continued only for such time as would be necessary to enable the existing
pupils to complete their courses of instruction. The premises occupied at
present by the Secondary Technical School are urgently required for the
development of Further Education courses.
The views of the Divisional Executives for the areas served by this school
are requested and the Chief Education Officer asks whether it is considered
possible to make provision in the secondary modern schools in the Borough
for pupils who might otherwise have attended the Hendon Secondary
Technical School.
Details were submitted of pupils from Harrow sitting the Selective Test for
the School and the number gaining places in recent years which indicated
that the numbers of Harrow pupils admitted to Hendon Secondary Technical
School had fallen from 32 in 1953 to 9 in 1956 and your Sub-Committee are
of the opinion that the Advanced Courses provided in Secondary Modern
Schools within the Borough should largely meet the demand.
RESOLVED: That the County Council be informed that, as far as Harrow is
concerned, there would be no objection to the closure of the Hendon
Secondary School of Engineering
June 1957 to October 1957 Advertisements in New
Scientist for a Laboratory Steward required by the Science Department
for duties in the chemistry laboratories at Enfield Technical College.
"Must be experienced in care and maintenance of chemical laboratory
equipment". Salary £532.5s to £619.7.6d if 26 years or over.
"Canvassing
disqualifies".
1957
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Show Boat" and "Sleeping
Beauty"
1958
1958 Roy Bailey (born 20.10.1935 in London) began singing in a
skiffle group. He later went to
Leicester
University
to study Sociology and
came to Enfield College in
1964
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Stephen F. Cotgrove 1958 Technical Education and Social
Change.
London: Ruskin House. [Preface dated November 1957. Reviewed in New
Scientist 14.8.1958] Presumably
developed from his Ph.D thesis
"A sociological study of further technical education with special reference
to the London polytechnics" (London School of Economics
1957) . The survey of students at Regent Street and Woolwich
Polytechnics was sent out in the autumn of
1955 (p.207. He thanked
David Glass
for "constant help and encouragement".
Jean Floud,
George Baron and
Asher Tropp read the typescript. (p.vi).
1958 Bob Wyatt, Wilf Jolley, Roger Blencoe, Trevor Baker, Alan
Birkett
and John Lightfoot were amongst
apprentices of shipping companies starting
training at
Hendon Technical College under a scheme set up by the Board of
Trade as a fast track to producing marine engineers. The apprentices came
from
companies including Shell, BP, Shaw Saville and British India. Once
trained, they went to sea as junior engineers. This group later met every
few years to renew acquaintance and in 2009, to mark their 50th anniversary
of starting training at Hendon, they went together on a mini cruise on the
QE2.
R. Ian Harper was a marine engineering apprentice with BP
Tankers at Hendon College of Technology between 1961 to 1966. He achieved
Ordinary
National
and
Higher National
Diploma
certificates in Mechanical
Engineering
1958
Brian Frank
Gardner
left school without completing his
examinations. It appears he started work in September 1958:
"
Now living in
Edmonton I was close to a large amount of engineering industry, much
arranged along the
Lea Valley and along the
Cambridge Arterial Road, now better known as the
A10. Without
any help or advice from school or home I wrote application letters for a
job with training
from a range of these local firms. Unlike what would be the likely response
today, I got
replies and a number of interviews. I remember interviews at Weston Meters,
Belling and
Lee and one or two other smaller companies plus as luck would
have it, an
interview with
Siemens Edison Swan who were recruiting for
apprentices to start at the
beginning of the
next school year.
Ediswan, as they were known, ran a large apprentice
scheme with an
intake each school year in three grades of apprenticeship and had their own
apprentice
training centre in Ponders End, very close to home. On the basis of my 'O'
level GCE's I
was accepted as a 'Technician Apprentice'. This was the middle grade, more
theoretical
than the Craft Apprentice, less so than a Student Apprentice. As a
Technician Apprentice I
was required to attend day release at Enfield Technical School plus a
couple of evening
classes."
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1958
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Vagabond King". the
Premiere of "Off the Shelf" and "Robinson Crusoe"
1959
[Enfield] - See 1953-
1956
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Number of students
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Estimated student hours
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Full-time
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436
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250,000
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Part-time day
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2,301
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480,000
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Evening
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3,247
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300,000
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Total
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5,984
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1,030,000
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1959 External London degrees at
Enfield
"In 1959 the college gained recognition from London University for courses
leading to
external degrees"
in engineering" (Victoria County
History based on notes from senior tutor librarian) - See
1963 -
1964-1965 courses
-
and
Enfield staff explosion September 1964
1959 Begining of transition of
Ediswan Factory to Thorn: "AEI merged its small domestic
appliance business "Hotpoint" with Thorn, which included part of the
production at Ponders End".
(Lamptech)
31.8.1959 Date of commencement of apprenticeship of
Brian Frank
Gardner
with Associated Electrical Industries Ltd.
(Siemens Edison
Swan). The apprenticeship was for
five years. "A five year sandwich course, six months college six
months work experience".
(website
autobiography
offline)
. The name
Edison Swan ceased to be used in 1959 and all Associated
Electrical Industries' lights were marketed as the AEI-Mazda brand.
"Semi-conductors were new and were the devices to replace
thermionic valves. Siemens Ediswan
had been a big name in valve and television tube manufacture and had a
large plant at
Brimsdown Enfield devoted to the mass production of those devices. The
electronics syllabus of
my college course had originally been based around the study of thermionic
valves and circuits
but had been enlightened enough to move over to semi-conductor theory from
the outset, the
course even included the subject of electronic computing machines such as
analogue and digital
computers. As part of the course our lecturer had arranged for a visit to
the Texas Instruments
semi-conductor factory in Bedford where I was amazed by the American style
of working environment with its open plan offices, name badges and
egalitarian style management."
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1959
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Oklahoma" and "Babes in
the Wood"
1960
Britain demobbed
1960 Last intake of
National Servicemen The last National Serviceman was demobbed on
16.5.1963. In 1960, 1961 and 1962, the children born at the end
of the second world war left secondary school.
In 1960 teacher training courses were extended from two years to three.
1960 The de Havilland Aircraft Company, based at Hatfield, was
acquired by Hawker Siddeley in 1960. The de Havilland name ceased to be
used in 1963. The Hawker Siddeley Group (1948) had an aircraft division
(Hawker Siddeley Aviation) and guided missile and space technology
operations (Hawker Siddeley Dynamics)
George Brosan at Middlesex County Council and related
George Brosan
was Further Education Officer,
Middlesex County Council, from 1960-1962. This meant that he
actively oversaw developments
in the technical colleges, including Enfield.
(See below)
Joseph Hayim Abraham was Extension Lecturer in Sociology at the
University of London from 1960 to 1965. He had worked for the Egyptian
Educational Service from 1932 to 1951 and completed his Ph.D at London
University in 1956.
John Crutchley
said he thought the first sociologist
appointed to Enfield was "Harold Abrahams", but see the
1964-1965
Prospectus which has "J.H. Abraham". He was brought there, John
said, by George
Brosan, but only stayed for a short time.
J. Abrahan had responsibility for "Public Lectures" at Enfield College in
1964. (Aide Memoire)
These had run for two years in the lunch hour break in the lecture theatre
which "has always been filled to capacity". Although public "the lectures
were designed primarily for the student body". Guest speakers had included
Lord Boothby, Professor Bondi, Miss Marghanita Laski, Mr A.J.P. Taylor and
Dr Donald Sooper. The main purpose had been to "present by expert and
qualified speakers a broad pattern of interests, Current Affairs, Science,
Art and Religion". The main bias of the next series was to be towards "the
sociological aspects of industry, education and law".
(1964-1965
Prospectus p.40)
Joseph Hayim Abraham was Head of
Department of Social Science at the
West Ham College of Technology
from
1965 to 1968. In 1968 he was appointed to the Chair of Sociology at the
University of Ghana. J.H. Abraham was the uncle of "Jack" Jacob,
who
assisted him with his socology of law in
Sociology in the Teach Yourself series (1966). Because of
its cover picture. John recalled J.H. Abraham's
Origins and Growth of Sociology (1973) as having a title
"something like" "The Tree of Knowledge"
John said that Brosan mainly brought in sociologists from LSE and
Leicester. Jean Death (later Jean Gregory) came from Bedford
College.
Roy Bailey
came from Leicester. Rachel Parry and Sam Wolfe (who only stayed
about a year) from LSE.
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1960 Roger Murray BA in History from the University of Oxford.
See New Left Review
1963.
From 1963 to 1965 Roger was Research Fellow at the Institute of African
Studies at the University of Accra in
Ghana. From 1966 to 1967 was engaged
in research in the Tanzanian Government Vice President's Office. See
Enfield 1968
University College in Accra became The University of Ghana awarding its own
degrees by Act 79 of the Ghanaian Parliament on 1.10.1961. Previously
(since 11.8.1948) degrees had been awarded under the ultimate supervision
of the
University of London.
Joseph Hayim
Abraham was Chair of Sociology at the University of Ghana from
1968.
The island of Zanzibar and mainland Tanganyika became Tanzania on
26.4.1964.
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John Hamer and
Programmed Learning
John Hamer, a
mathematics lecturer at Enfield College, became
interested as early as 1960/1961 in the emerging educational technology of
"programmed learning" (programmed instruction in USA jargon). He arranged
a study tour to the USA where he worked with
Professor
B.F. Skinner in the
psychology laboratory at Harvard University and visited many other research
and development centres
working on emerging technologies applied to education. On his return he
set up the Learning Systems Unit at Enfield (around 1962/1963) [email from
Alexander Romiszowsk 13.7.2014]
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Hornsey 1960 Wood Green annexe opened for Art Teacher
Training. This appears to have been the first of the proliferation of
annexes, after
2 Waverley Road. It moved to
Page Green in 1964.
October 1960 Ministry of Education's First Report of the National
Advisory Council on Art Education. [Coldstream Report]. Included detailed
proposals for a new award to be known as the Diploma in Art and
Design.
See May 1961 -
Brighton and
Hornsey 1963 -
1964 -
1966 - Became
BA (Art and Design) in 1974.
Art education was classified in four main areas
Fine art, in which the chief studies were painting and sculpture
Graphic design, which did not have separately approved chief studies [but
related to printing, advertising and the media]
Three Dimensional Design, in which the chief studies were Silversmithing -
Silversmithing and Jewellery - Silver-Metal Jewellery - Industrial Design
(Engineering) - Furniture - Ceramics - Interior Design - Theatre - Glass -
and Wood-Metal-Ceramics.
Textiles/Fashion, in which the chief studies were Woven and Printed
Textiles - Woven Textiles - Fashion - and Embroidery
21.11.1960 Southbury station opened for passengers following
electrification of the Edmonton to Cheshunt loop. From
1919 to 1960 the line had just been used fro goods services.
Enfield College was now a few minutes
walk from a railway line from London's Liverpool Street station. The bus
links for Enfield meant it was accessible for the region (see
1964-1965 Prospectus), the opening of Southbury Station for
passengers may also have opened the possibility of
a more national catchment area.
end of 1960 planning permission to build the school which became
Ambrose
Fleming
1960
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Annie Get Your Gun" and
"Puss in Boots"
1961
Hendon 1961
E. Williams oversaw the rapid development of Hendon
College in the 1960s. The picture I have used below is from Bits of
Enfield College 29.1.1969, page 1.
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23.11.1961
New Scientist advertisement:
Hendon Technical College Principal E. Williams B.Sc, Ph.D, F.R.I.C.
"This college, situated in pleasing surroundings only a few miles from the
centre of London, is one with well developed advanced courses. "Sandwich"
courses are a feature of the college work. Due to the rapid development of
advanced work an increasing number of men and women of ability and
initiative are required as members of the full-time staff."
(source)
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Mechanical Engineering Department
1) Lecturer in Metallurgy
2) Lecturer in Applied Thermodynamics
Duties for both these posts will be with students taking courses up to and
including
Higher National
Diploma
level.
3 and 4) Two Assistant Lecturers, Grade B, to take one or two of the
following subjects: -
Applied Thermodynamics
Mechanics of Fluids
Workshop Technology
Assistant Lecturers will work with classes at
Ordinary National Diploma and
Certificate level and possibly some classes at higher levels.
Summers: 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 Archaeological
excavation on the land of Church End Farm by the newly formed (1961) Hendon
Archaeological Society. In 1961 and 1962 the sole focus of the excavations
was the Church End Farm Farmhouse. "The site of the farmhouse, together
with that of its successor, was shortly to be used for the extension of
Hendon Technical College, originally constructed as the Technical Institute
in 1937."
(source)
Hornsey 1961 Bowes Road annexe opened for Graphic
Design.
(See 1975 Polytechnic
map)
Enfield 1961
1961
Ripaults had 1,300 employees engaged in the manufacture of
electric cables, motor equipment and accessories, covering lighting cables,
starter cables, ignition cables, battery cables, cycle dynamo leads, tools
for stripping and cutting cables, cable storage equipment, motor bonnet
fasteners, terminals and plastic cable clips.
(Grace's Guide British Industrial History)
1961 AEI's Valve and Cathode Ray Tube division, much of which was
based at
Ponders End, amalgamated with
Thorn Electrical Industries, with Thorn taking 51% of the shareholding. The
ownership of the Ponders End site was thus split for the first time, with
Thorn taking control of some departments and the balance remaining with
AEI. (Lamptech)
Wednesday 27.9.1961. 10am meeting in Dr Brosan's room. Present: Mr
Lawrence, H.M.I.,
Dr Brosan, Miss Butters. Mr McCrae, Mr Hoffman [Principal
Tottenham Technical College]. [From the Architect's Department: Mr Holden,
Mr Newman and Mr Southgate. Mr Smith [Isleworth Polytechnic]
Enfield
Enfield Technical College Extensions: The Ministry in their letter of the
28th July had approved the schedule of Accommodation subject to amendment,
and had allocated £100,000 to the project. This limited allocation
would provide some 20,000 square feet of new accommodation in the first
instance. Mr McCrae indicated that the County Architect should prepare a
scheme having regard to the following priorities:
Chemistry laboratories
Dining Accommodation
Administration Classroom
Two classrooms
Reference was made to the points raised by the Ministry in the final
paragraph their letter of the 28th July in regard to dining facilities and
the provision of Common Room facilities for teaching staff. No useful
purpose would be served by endeavouring to seek Ministerial approval to an
increase in the limited administration and communal provision. In these
circumstances, it was, therefore, agreed that:
1. The County architect should be asked to site the two classrooms in the
refectory block adjacent to the staff and students dining room. This would
provide a means of extending the dining facilities at some future date.
2. That in considering the adaptations which must follow completion of the
new extension, the provision of staff common room facilities would be taken
into account.
Mr Newman and Mr Southgate undertook to visit the College to discuss the
scheme in greater detail with Mr McCrae and to prepare an outline sketch
plan for consideration. Mr Southgate and Mr McCrae withdrew from the
meeting.
Refectory (refreshment) = dining - At the time (1969) I started, dining was
in the large hall which, also the theatre, shown at the centre of the 1949
ariel view. There were quads on either side in which building was possible.
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The fortunes of chemistry at Enfield were, I believe, related to the
fortunes of the
Ponders End gas industry. In 1961, when the new chemistry
laboratories were planned, this was still thriving. I believe the
Roberts Building was originally planned as the new laboratories.
Chemistry laboratories before
1967 were in the west wing of Broadbent (right of the refectory
block). When displaced by the computer, is suspect they were relocated to
the
Swan Annexe or
McCrae
Some collective memory of the pressures above appears in the following
passage from
(The New Polytechnics p.154)
"For much of their time, even in new buildings ... teachers and
students work in squalid conditions though often surrounded by ultra-modern
machinery. The college may have an electronic computer valued at
£50,000, or
possibly more, but the library has no vacant seats and many
vacant shelves; the electron microscope is used occasionally but the
students queue for twenty minutes to get a cup of tea; the college
entertains an
international conference on metrology but the
lavatories won't flush. Some of the teaching is very good and some very
bad."
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1961
Jock Young met Steven Box (1937-1987), lecturer in Sociology at
Regent Street Polytechnic, on a CND demonstration. Jock was studying
biochemistry at the time but moved to sociology in 1962 He graduated BSc
Sociology (London School of Economics) in 1965 and began teaching at
Enfield College of Technology in
1966. See
1971 -
1973 -
historical
approach -
1984 -
1991 Sociologists
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1961 The Ministry of Education appointed an advisory subcommittee on
a higher award in business studies under the chairmanship of Mr. W. F.
Crick. This reported in
July 1964: A
higher award in business studies: report
of the advisory subcommittee on a higher award in business studies
(Ministry of Education. London. HMSO. 1964)
19.12.1961 "Government Plan for 34 London Boroughs". The
Times. A White Paper in November had suggested that the proposed
abolition of Middlesex County Council would not be followed by the new
Greater London Council taking over strategic planning for education.
Instead education would be a borough-level function in most parts of the
capital, with a single authority for central London. George Brosan's move
from Middlesex to Enfield took place in these circumstances.
See
1962/1963 and
April
1965
1961
The National Institute for
Social Work was set up in 1961, following the proposals in the
report of the Ministry of Health Working Party on Social Workers in the
Health and Welfare Services (the Younghusband Committee) in 1959. It
operated throughout the UK and internationally. The Institute was wound up
in 2003. The Certificate in Social Work (CSW) was issued by the Council for
Training in Social Work from 1962 to 1971.
1961
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Desert Song" (Easter?)
and "Aladdin" (Christmas)
1962
1962
"Hendon Technical College
has been renamed and in future will be known as Hendon College of
Technology" [If
Twickenham, Hendon and Enfield Technical Colleges were all
converted to Colleges of Technology in the summer of 1962, this would have
provided Middlesex with a College of Technology in its south-west, north
west and north east]
2.3.1962 Letter in archives from C.E. Gurr to
E. Pascal, Esq., M.A., Clerk
to the Governing Body, Enfield Technical College. Copy to Mr. McCrae,
Enfield Technical College. (R.McCrae was Principal)
May? 1962
Roderick McCrae died. His death was recorded in Newcastle upon
Tyne in the June quarter of 1962. He was 61 years old.
15.5.1962 Memorial Service held at Enfield Parish Church for Roderick
McCrae (Gertie Beckett 4.8.1998)
29.6.1962 Letter from C.E. Gurr to W.T. Pratt, Esq., B.Sc. (Eng.), Acting
Principal, Enfield Technical College. Stanley Millward said that Mr
Pratt was only meant to be a relief between Principals.
W.T. Pratt was Acting Principal between McCrae and Brosan and became (at
some time
before 1964) the vice-Principal. Known as "Bill Pratt" in some
late 60s literature. William Thomas Pratt, author of Worked examples in
electrotechnology (first edition 1944) and Worked Examples in
Electrical Engineering had the same qualifications. (B.Sc. (Eng.),
D.I.C., A.C.G.I., M.I.E.E.). I believe Bill Pratt was succeded as Vice
Principal by John Osborne
Moss about
1970.
The College was designated Enfield College of Technology by the
Ministry of Education in 1962
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George Stephen Brosan was Principal of Enfield College of
Technology from
1962 to 1970.
Eric Robinson
taught at Enfield from
September 1962 to Summer 1970,
when he went to join Brosan at North East London Polytechnic as Deputy
Director. In the 1964-1965 Prospectus he is shown as Head of the Department
of Mathematics.
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Between 1962 and 1970, George Brosan and Eric Robinson
engineered the rapid
expansion of the social sciences at
Enfield College of Technology.
Middlesex Higher Education Advisory Centre. In June 1962 a
group of Middlesex colleges banded together to provide advice on the
possibility of obtaining higher education in establishments outside
universities. They were impelled to this by the large number of qualified
students who were failing to gain university places and by the widespread
ignorance of the facilities offered by colleges of technology and other
colleges. The Centre
was administered from Enfield College and in the three months from June to
September 1963, over 640 individual enquiries were dealt with and about 20
per cent of the enquiries were found places in degree and degree-equivalent
courses. As a result of this experience, the Centre has been established as
a permanent service of the County Council. It is administered at Enfield
and draws on the experience of the staffs of Ealing Technical College,
Enfield,
Hendon and
Twickenham Colleges of Technology,
Hornsey College of
Art and
Trent Park Teachers Training College. [1964-1965
Prospectus p.40.]
September 1962: Eric Robinson: "When I came to Enfield in September
1962 I expected to lead a small-scale but intensive educational experiment.
The scale of the subsequent development was not anticipated". "On the day I
accepted an appointment to Enfield, I sought and obtained only one
assurance - that the principal was willing to contemplate appointments of
young people to the teaching staff at higher grades than they could
normally obtain elsewhere. My belief in the value of employing young
teachers was largely based on my experience at Brunel which included some
research into the problems of improving curriculum and teaching methods."
(Cadre 5.5.1970)
1.10.1962 To the Chief Education Officer, Enfield College of
Technology, Administrative Return for the Session 1961-1962. Student
Hours.
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29.3.1962 Education Act 1962 required Local Education Authorities to
provide grants for living costs and tuition fees to students resident in
their area for full-time first degree courses, for teacher training, and
for courses leading to the Diploma in Higher Education (Dip HE) and the
Higher National
Diploma
(HND).
In the early spring of 1962
"little Miss J" was 16. Miss J. was the
youngest student ever to be accepted to study for a degree at the
Regent Street Polytechnic. At this stage,
Friedrich Engels'
The Holy Family began to
play its part in her intellectual development. In a different way, so to
did conservative American sociology:
"When, as a teenager fresh from
The Catcher in the Rye, I picked up
Daniel Bell's
The End of Ideology I was in for a shock... This was
the first articulation I had ever seen of MeNowism as an ethical axiom.
... the book I threw out of the bloody window. So I can't give the page
number, but I bet the quote is pretty close. Daniel Bell said that we
cannot
wish to be "mere
caryatids, holding up a
platform for future generations to dance upon?".
And I said,
"I can.
I do. I will". What could be more fitting for a
Kantian idealist than supporting the basis for a
better tomorrow?
So I went into "Education"..."
(Gdala 2003 p.95)
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1962 John Carr MA in Geography. Thesis on Cultural Landscapes and
National Park Policy "Making of the Peakland Cultural Landscape".
Undergraduate Tutor at University College London 1962-1963. Then
Lecturer at Enfield.
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1962 The Ministry of Education made a contribution £126,683 to
the Middlesex County Council's School Building Programme to free existing
accommodation at Enfield Technical College for Further Education use.
This and extensions to Ealing Technical College (contribution
£215,146) were the two Middlesex major projects in further education
due to be completed in 1962.
(Hansard
8.6.1962)
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Ambrose Fleming School
[Enfield] The Technical School pupils moved from the Queensway
site
to their own premises in Ponders End, becoming the Ambrose Fleming Grammar
Technical School.
[Audrey Hardwick]
The 1984 map on the left shows the school not far up the Hertford Road from
what had (by then) become Middlesex Polytechnic.
".. the site formed part of a much
larger area that was granted permission at
the end of 1960 for the
construction of a school, with its main entrance off Collinwood
Avenue. Reference to historical information indicates that Ambrose Fleming
School moved to Collinwood Avenue in 1962. By the publication of the 1967
OS map, a school building complex (indicated on the map as Ambrose
Fleming School) was now indicated to the northwest of the site, whilst the
site itself was indicated as part of the playing fields to the school."
(source)
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"As I grew up, first I went to St. Andrews Primary
School, which then, was in Cecil Road behind the Gas showroom in the Town.
Later I went to Ambrose Fleming Technical Grammar School in Collinwood
Avenue. The school had grown out of Enfield Technical College which my
father had attended when he came to England. I even had some of the same
teachers. I left there in July 1970"
Chris, born 25.12.1952
"The Junior Technical School ... left the Queensway site in 1962 to new
buildings in nearby Collinwood Avenue, the site of the present Enfield
Centre. It became the Ambrose Fleming technical grammar school for boys. Dr
Ambrose Fleming, after whom the school was named, carried out research at
the Ponders End Edison Swan factory which led to the diode lamp and the
invention of the thermionic valve, a vital early component of radio and
television. The main bias of the school was Applied Science and Technology,
as well as general education, and it took boys from 11 to 18, leading to
examinations in GCE O and A levels and Royal Society of Arts
qualifications. The school was reorganised as a comprehensive school for
boys and girls in
1967. It increased in size, and new buildings were added in
Collingwood Avenue in the 1970s. Then with falling rolls due to a decline
in the school age population, Ambrose Fleming closed in
1987."
(Wikipedia)
See move of Hendon Secondary Technical School in
1959
Hornsey September 1962
Foundation courses set up to prepare students for the
Diploma in Art and Design
22.11.1962 London Government Bill published. On 6.12.1962
Iain Macleod described it as "perhaps the most important and probably the
most controversial of the domestic Bills of this Session." It affected so
many interests that efforts were made to have it considered as a "hybrid
bill" (public and private). The
London Government Act became law on 3.7.1963 and came
into force on
1.4.1965
New College of Speech and Drama (Ivy House)
Ivy House, Hampstead was the home of ballerina, Anna
Pavlova from 1912 to 1931.
(archives). Below is descriptive text from:
1962 The New College of Speech and Drama was established in Ivy
House, which was bought for this purpose by a company limited by
guarantee formed to found this independent college. It was set up by
the senior staff of the former Speech and Drama Department of the Royal
Academy of Music, which was run out of space for all its activities.
As
a non-profit making educational institution, the College was governed by a
Board of Trustees.
The College provided a three year course for teachers in speech and drama.
Students could work towards a University of London Diploma in Dramatic Art,
the LRAM (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music) in Speech and Drama,
the LRAM in Mime, or the certificate of the International Phonetic
Association. They also receive the Diploma of the New College of Speech and
Drama, which was recognised by the Ministry of Education as conferring
Qualified Teacher status.
1974 The College joined Middlesex Polytechnic
2002? College relocated to
Trent Park
June 2002 three reunions were held on three Sundays to say farewell
to
Ivy House, the home of drama students for nearly 40 years. They each
concluded in the Old Bull and Bush. A cacophony of greetings, often overtly
and highly theatrical but always sincere, were heard in Pavlova's Rehearsal
Room. The weather improved each week, wet start to brilliantly bright
finish. Rain certainly could not dampen the exuberant spirits of the
graduates and staff of the BA in Drama & Theatre Studies/Technical Theatre
Arts.
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David Owen-Bell reported
"In the photograph I am strategically positioned in the Phoenix Theatre so
that I can be seen by the 180 who attended the final of the three Alumni
reunions ... In total some 400 came to say goodbye to this lost treasure.
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At the last reunion some meet again for the first time in over 40 years.
The co-founder of the college Pauline Stuart was present. Together with the
late Greta Colson, she was instrumental in raising the money to buy the
site and become Middlesex University's first Head of the School of Drama.
Klaus Neuberg, the former New College principal, was also in attendance.
Klaus, of course, sang us a song, and Pauline was spontaneously warm and
funny. I recalled our history and whilst describing the fabric reminded
everyone of those people and incidents which gave us our training, shaping
our lives in such a specially wonderful way and the fun we had in doing so.
The second, for those from
1977 to
1989, brought together what can only be described as a festival
of personalities, now involved in the entertainment industry - former
Diploma in Dramatic Art and the Certificate in Stage management and
Technical Theatre courses. As they so fluently reeled off the impressive
resumes, I felt very proud that I had been that course leader. From all
over the world they came for each one, but particularly for The New College
of Speech and Drama. ...Everyone just wanted to renew old friendships,
perhaps heal old wounds, wildly celebrate and take trips down memory lane
The first reunion, was held for those who studied from
1990 to
2001.
July 2002 The
freehold of the Ivy House property was purchased by King Alfred School.
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1962
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Salad Days" - [Broxbourne
list "The Merry Widow"] (Easter?)
and "Jack and
the Beanstalk" (Christmas)
1963
Sometime in 1963 the USA firm Honeywell established a factory to
make computers at Newhouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In
1967 it sold one to Enfield College of Technology and English
Numbering Machines (both of Queensway, Enfield).
Sometime in 1963, Edward (Ted) Coates joined Enfield College of
Technology as a laboratory steward for
John Hamer -
(Rex) who was "then Head
of the
Department of Education and Psychology. "Rex was a very
considerate and likeable man, as Mr
Stanley Milward -
described him to me:
'he is a gentleman', so I found him to be" (Letter North Circular
14.5.1987, p.2)
July 1963 Letter from
George Brosan in the Production Engineer headed
"Consumerism is king?" argued that today's production engineers
were no more than extensions of machines whose tasks might be taken over by
machines or might be
computerised,
if human beings were not cheaper. Status was only available to those who
move into management and Brosan's law of success was that "A production
engineer is judged not by what he makes, but by how other people sell what
he makes". Production engineers should take up
marketing, which is much more than selling. Marketing is
concerned with "every aspect of the business to meet the needs of the
customer". Marketing "pays
your wages, not the 15% saved on floor-to-floor time" and should be
"introduced at the beginning, not the end, of the product cycle".
1.10.1963
Harold Wilson on redefining socialism in terms of the scientific
revolution.
September 1963
John Carr
started work at Enfield College. He was one of a
group of six lecturers brought in by Dr Brosan to spearhead his project of
a college education that would combine technical and social sciences. This
meant working with, and expanding,
external London degrees for some years,
whilst designing the internal degrees that became the BA Social Science and
the BA General degrees. The project was eventually written up as The
Enfield Experiment.
Eric Robinson Cadre 5.5.1970: "Much of the leadership in developing new
degree courses at Enfield was shouldered by people who had only recently
graduated themselves. With extraordinary commitment and solidarity between
1963 and 1967 a group of them took the lead in developing and implementing
new ideas about undergraduate education." Eric Robinson said that, as far
as he knew, this was the first time that people who had just graduated were
put in control of courses and given the opportunity to create new ones.
"I wanted a tutorial system of teaching.... I did not realise... that an
effective tutorial system depends on establishing a library and tutorial
room on a scale that is rarely dreamed of in the technical college world.
Our success in expanding the library and in obtaining first the
huts and
then the new building still astonishes and even mystifies many technical
college people."
"The initiative on these things came from the young staff. ... Their
demands culminated in favourable decisions only after appeals had gone
right to the top of the department of Education and Science. Until they
succeed our library occupied one classroom and its annual expenditure was
£8,000, tutorials were held in the hall and in the corridors (and on
at least one occasion in the tutor's car) because staff rooms were shared
by six, eight or a dozen teachers."
Alan E. Hale may have started at Enfield in the Autumn of 1963.
Gerry Mellor in 2005 said Alan Hale set-up and led the
Business Studies Course at Enfield from
1963 to 1973. A.E. Hale, B.Sc.(Econ) is shown as a lecturer in the
Department of Mathematics in the
1964-1965 Prospectus
p.15] Gerry Mealor said
of him
"his heart was in this period at Enfield. He was part of a
groundswell of
ideas, which, because of the newly established Council for National
Academic Awards, facilitated the birth of higher education in the FE
sector, leading to the widening of access to mature and many so-called
unqualified entrants." (Gerry Mealor, Former Staff
Head of Trade Union and Industrial Relations Courses 2005)
(source)
Alan married Diane C Golding (Di) in the spring of 1968. Both of them were
regular attenders at Enfield staff reunions. Alan died in 2005.
Wiliam C. Craze, who was also in the Department of
Mathematics,
headed the
Maths for Business Course.
October 1963
John Heywood (1930-)was recruited to the staff of Enfield College of
Technology by George Brosan who "I had met through a common interest in the
status of technicians". "Dr Brosan wanted Enfield College to become
involved in education but the way teacher training institutions were
regulated prevented any significant move in that direction. So he had
started a division of programmed learning and he asked me to join it with
the agreement that I could go to Birmingham once a week to bring that
investigation to a conclusion. That I did and at the same time I learnt
something about programmed learning. I did not think much of the technology
and thought there would not be much of a take-up. But I also learnt that if
it could be got right then it had enormous potential. Ten years later in
1975 I was able to write a report to a committee of the Irish Government on
the potential of computer assisted learning for helping students in the low
ability range of the spectrum (Final report of the Committee on the Form
and Function of the Intermediate Certificate Examination. Dublin,
Government Publications, pp 70 -73)".
(source)
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October 1963 Robbins Report on Full Time Higher Education published.
Its recommendations included that
Detailed planning for higher education for a period ten years ahead.
Resources to expand university education further than planned.
Six new universities
Colleges of Advanced Technology should become technological
universities awarding their own degrees.
A
Council for National Academic Awards, covering the whole of
Great
Britain, to replace the National Council for Technological Awards
Teacher Training Colleges should be renamed Colleges of
Education. The
three-year course for trainee teachers should continue, but
four-year
courses leading to a
Bachelor of Education
degree should be provided for suitable students.
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1963 Tom Wengraf BSc Sociology London School of Economics.
See Enfield 1966
December 1963
New Left Review article by
Roger Murray and Tom Wengraf "The Algerian Revolution".
January-February 1964
New Left Review article by John
Crutchley "Robbins and Newsom" See
1965
Harold and AnneMarie Wolpe escaped from South Africa in 1963 and were
joined by their children in London. Harold was Nuffield Foundation
Sociological Scholar at the London School of Economics in 1964 and 1965 and
then moved to the Univesrity of Bradford. From 1967 to 1969 AnneMarie was
Research Assistant in the Unit of Yugoslav Studies at the University of
Bradford. She became a Research fellow at Enfield College of Technology in
1969. See Feminism and
Materialism 1978
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1963
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Merry Widow" [Broxbourne
list "Salad Days""] (Easter?) and "Humpty
Dumpty" (Christmas)
Hornsey 1963 and the Diploma for Art and Design:
[Departments: fine art - graphic design - three dimensional design -
fashion/textiles. Compare
1936/1937
4.7.1963 Questions in Parliament
"The Hornsey College of Art and Crafts was approved by the
National Council for Diploma in Art and Design to offer courses leading to
the Diploma in Art and Design in the fine art and graphic design areas of
study. The National Council was not satisfied that the courses proposed by
the college in the two remaining areas, namely three dimensional design and
fashion/textiles, measured up to the exacting standards required for the
new diploma."
(Hansard)
"Mrs Eirene White (Flintshire East)
asked the Minister of Education what steps he is taking to alleviate the
position of students at colleges of art who have been taking the
preliminary course for the new Diploma in Art and Design, but for more than
50 per cent. of whom no places for the diploma course will be available"
(Hansard)
September 1963
Courses for
Diploma in Art and Design commenced at Hornsey. See
Lisa Tickner
September 1963 Brighton began to operate its
Dip AD courses in Fine Art (Painting) and Graphic Design (See
source) -
Ashwin's 1963 chronology annotated by Tom Nairn's building notes:
Alexandra Palace annexe opened for Fine Art. This was in The
Badminton
Suite, described in 1975 as "used by fine art and film and television
courses". The picture of it swathed in scaffolding is from the
May 1975 Development Plan.
"The immense Piranesi-like
hall of the Fine Art, where an endless struggle for artistic
lebensraum reminiscent of Hitler's most fevered propaganda took
place" (p.20).
There is a 1967 photograph of this (right) on the back cover
Hornsey 1968. The photograph is copyright Gerry Cranham
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"Fine Art, at Alexandra Palace" supported the
1968 sit in and made proposals for course reform.
(Tickner 2008,
p.128, note 41)
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South Grove annexe housed part of Graphic Design. "the peeling
plaster
and 1880 lavatories of the under-privileged Vocational Department at South
Grove" (p.22)
This was a school building shared with a primary school. A nearby factory,
the
Jaxa Works was used for
industrial, interior and environmental design from
1969.
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"Interior Design, at South Grove" and "Graphic Design at
Bowes Road" supported the
1968 sit in and made proposals for course reform.
(Tickner 2008,
p.128, note 41)
The original Crouch End building now houses Three Dimensional Design,
Visual Research and Advanced Studies. "the dark, water-pipe warren of the
Three Dimensional Design school, hot with the odour of tea and furnace, in
the very basements of the Main College itself (p.20)
1964
First Report of the National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design
Hornsey received approval in three areas in the first round of course
reviews:
Fine Art 1 (Painting with Drawing)
Fine Art 2 (Sculpture with Drawing)
Graphic Design
Two other areas were added in subsequent reviews
Three Dimensional Design
Textiles/Fashion
Hornsey 1964 Art Teacher Training moves from
Wood Green annexe to Page Green. Page Green was a school
building in Tottenham, two miles beyond
South Grove and five miles from
Hornsey. Page Green had been a mixed school for 10/11 to 14/15
year olds.
(war time memories). Welbourne primary school, opened in 1972,
began its classes in part of the school shared with the teachers' training
department of Hornsey College of Art.
(Victoria County History).
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"the mandarin-like calm of the
remote Teacher Training colony in Page Green (veterans who had come
through) (Nairn, p.20)
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Peter Green was appointed Head of the post graduate Art Teacher
Training
Department at Hornsey College of Art in 1967. See
1987
Enfield and Hornsey collaborate on Engineering design
From 1964 to 1966 Engineering Design Abstracts published
periodically at Enfield, Middlesex by Enfield College of Technology
in conjunction with
Institution of Engineering Designers and Hornsey
College of Art.
1.4.1964 to 4.4.1964 Conference on the Teaching of
Engineering Design at Scarborough. Proceedings were published as
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Conference on the Teaching of Engineering Design : papers and summary of
the conference organised by Enfield College of Technology, the Institution
of Engineering Designers, and Hornsey College of Art, at Scarborough, 1st-
4th April, 1964.
London: Institution of Engineering Designers.
320 pages illustrated
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Peter Jeffrey Booker mentioned. He may have edited
Peter Jeffrey Booker born 1924.
29.3.1992 to 20.3.1993 A directorship at
The Institution
of Engineering Designers.
and the again to the seaside:
Teaching engineering design: proceedings of the Conference on the
Teaching
of Engineering Design held at Scarborough between 13 and 16 April 1966 and
organised by Enfield College of Technology, the Institution of Engineering
Designers, and Hornsey College of Art.
128 pages illustrated
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Spring 1964? - The cherry trees in flower
{From the
1964-1965 Prospectus
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A picture from the same perspective after
2008
(source).
The lombardy poplars
are closing in.
The trees were planted
after the second world war.
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The Aide-Memoire and the
Prospectus that follow emphasise the college's
national, or at least regional, significance. They might have been partly
intended to emphasise to Enfield Borough, when it
took over in the following year, that it was not inheriting a
local institution.
1964: AIDE-MEMOIRE.
PUBLIC RELATIONS. ENFIELD COLLEGE. 1964. G.S.BROSAN
There is mention in this of "McCrae Shield meetings".
p.7: PUBLICATIONS POLICY
It is desirable that all booklets, leaflets, etc. should have a house style
and as far as possible a standard form. The college could issue any or all
of the following:
1. General college prospectus [£4,000 penciled in near this]
2. Individual course leaflets
3. Catalogue giving syllabuses of courses
4. Short courses leaflets
5. Students handbook
6. Handbook saying who staff are
7. Yearbook
8. Principal's report
9. Research reports (various topics)
10. Reprints of staff writings
11. Newsletters to (a) schools, (b) firms
12. Internal newsletter
13. Books as per the following (on college basis)
BOOKS
Notes towards a philosophy for technical colleges
How to learn
Technical Teacher Training
Notes on Modern Technology
Understanding Science and Technology
Conference on Engineering Design
Engineering Education in the next decade
p.11 GETTING TO THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Method 1: Write a Pelican. Send it to, say, 600 schools. Get their opinions
as from 5th and 6th forms.
[600 would have been about 10% of all secondary schools in the United
Kingdom or about half of all Grammar Schools in England and Wales]
Method 5: Run courses, e.g. on Landec computer, for grammar schools.
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[Computers:
The "Landec" computer was probably a `LAN-DEC' digital educational computer
from Lan-Electronics Ltd., 97 Farnham Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire. An
article about this appeared in the Journal of Scientific Instruments
Volume 41 Number 8 in August 1964 and its handbook, by
John Roger Abrahams, was published in 1964. There was also a LAN-
Electronics Analogue Computer (1965 - Photographs at
Early Computers)
May 1964
Stephen Cotgrove "Sociology and the Technical Colleges" 1964
Education and Training, Volume 6 Issue 5, pp.234 - 236
(offline)
"Quite apart from the contribution which the social and
behavioural sciences could make to research on problems
in industry and education, there will be increasing
pressures on the technical colleges to provide education
and training for those rapidly growing occupations fo which the social
sciences are the basic studies. Careers in
social work are an obvious example here. Eleven colleges
are already providing
'Younghusband' courses for
careers in child care, care of physically and mentally
disabled, and old people. A further five are offering
courses from September 1964. Others offer courses
leading to the London external Diploma in Social
Studies or the external degree in Sociology. However,
the latter is not intended as a training in social work, and
there is room for additional new-type sociology courses
under the
CNAA - organised perhaps on a sandwich
basis-which are more positively oriented towards
careers in social work and administration."
July 1964 Council for National Academic Awards and Crick Report
27.7.1964
Royal Charter establishing the UK "Council for National Academic Awards"
The
National Council for Technological Awards was incorporated into
the Council for National Academic Awards and, in effect, established
Diploma in Technology (Dip.Tech) courses just became B.Sc
courses. Students
on Dip.Tech courses could complete them as such, or change the title to
B.Sc. Almost without exception, they changed to B.Sc. Holders of
Dip.Tech were invited to trade them in for a B.Sc.
(The New Polytechnics p.135)
July 1964 Publication of the Crick report
A Higher Award
for Business Studies
"After the publication of the government committee report
A Higher Award
for Business Studies in 1964, Brosan set up a team to develop an
honours
degree in business studies. The four-year business studies sandwich degree,
the first in Britain, in the tradition of the technical diploma sandwich-
course system, set the pattern for business studies degrees across the
country, attracting large numbers of applicants. Enfield went on to develop
other business degrees, including a degree in mathematics for business."
(DNB)
Business Studies was not available as an external London degree and was not
available as a degree in Universities. The Council for National Academic
Awards gave high priority to the development of its BA in Business Studies,
following closely the pattern of the established sandwich courses in
technology. All the courses that had started by 1968 included economics,
social science, accountancy and statistics and usually required a later
specialisation in an aspect of business studies. Marketing proved
particularly popular.
(The New Polytechnics p.139)
CNAA Degrees
"It is intended to seek approval from the Council for National Academic
Awards to offer from September 1965 a three year course leading to a
Bachalor's Degree (honours) in Marketing and Business Studies"
(1964-1965
Prospectus p.39).
The BA in Social
Science was approved by the CNAA in
1968 and started in September 1969. Subsequently a BA in
Humanities was approved. In 1974 it was envisaged that the intake on the BA
Social Science degree would increase "from about 150 to over 200 per year".
(MP1978 pp 10-11)
Summer? 1964
Brian Frank Gardner's final examination for a
Higher National
Diploma
in electrical engineering. He had to pass in every
subject: Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Measurements,
Machines and Materials, Electronics and Engineering Physics. He did so,
with distinction in Electronics. The Diploma was awarded by the
Institution of Electrical Engineers in conjunction with the Department of
Education and Science, but also included
G. S. Brosan's signature. Brian was offered, and took up, a job
in the
semi-conductor manufacturing section of the company.
to start as soon as possible after 1.9.1964
New Scientist - 11.6.1964 - Page 699
New Scientist - 11.6.1964 - Page
699
The Governors sought graduates to teach at "degree level" in the following
subjects. "duties to start as soon as possible after 1st September"
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
1) Tutor in social science subjects generally. "Experience in library work
is desirable"
2) Research Fellow in social science "to prepare project work"
DIVISION OF BUSINESS STUDIES AND MARKETING
3)Senior lecturer in Marketing. Field experience essential.
4) Lecturer in Accounting
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
5) Lecturer in Engineering Drawing Design.
6) Research Fellow in Civil Engineering - "interest in the application
of
digital computers to civil engineering desirable"
7) Research assistant in mechanical engineering. A post sponsored by
the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which was to last for
no more than three years.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
8) Lecturer in Electronics... "knowledge of semiconductors is
essential"
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
9) Lecturer in Methods of Science within the programme of general
studies for degree and diploma students. A degree in science or engineering
is essential and research experience is desirable.
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
10) Principal lecturer to be responsible for developing the Management
work of the department.
11) Senior lecturer to develop research in Industrial Engineering and
be capable of supervising post-graduate students. Evidence of research
ability is required.
12) Senior lecturer to assist with development of the Management work
of the department and be capable of teaching Organisation Theory with
particular reference to the Personnel Aspects of Management.
13) Lecturer for the Economics Unit of the college. An interest in
Mathematical Economics and Economic Theory is desirable.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE
14) Lecturer in Physics
15) Lecturer in Chemistry (inorganic)
1964
Ivor Grattan-Guinness. BA Mathematics Wadham College Oxford
1962,
Research Mathematician, EMI Electronics Ltd (Secret and Top Secret work)
1962-1963, became Assistant Lecturer Grade B. in Mathematics at Enfield
College of Technology. He completed his MSc (London) in Philosophy of
Science in 1966, his PhD the History of Mathematics in 1969, his DSc in the
History and Philosophy of Mathematics in 1978. See
1980 -
1994 -
1997 -
1964
Roy Bailey graduated (a mature student) from the
University of Leicester in 1963. He began teaching at Enfield
College of Technology in
1964, where he was senior tutor. He was responsible, at that time, for the
development of sociology at the College
"Whilst a mature student in the 1960s, Roy began exploring the
English Folk Tradition, encouraged to do so by Ewan MacColl, Bert Lloyd and
Martin Carthy. "Then I met Leon Rosselson and began to hear new songs
written about my world, of an urban culture. Leon invited me to join his
group The Three City Four. Martin was about to leave the group and had
suggested to Leon he should meet me. I was about to move to London to teach
in an FE College in Enfield, so I readily agreed."
Robb Johnson The Living Tradition. folkmusic.net
Issue 26 April/May 1998
1964 Jonathan Penrose, born 7.10.1933, a son of
Lionel Penrose,
BA Psychology 1956, International Master at chess 1961, Ph.D. London 1962,
Research Officer International Tutor Machines Ltd 1962-1964, became Lecture
Grade Two (later Senior Lecturer) at Enfield
College of Technology. He was in charge of the Psychology Department.
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Monday 7.9.1964
Enfield College of Technology opened for the autumn term
Thursday 10.9.1964 - Friday 11.9.1964 - and Monday
14.9.1964 Registration of students, 9.30am to 12 noon - 2pm to 4pm -
and 6.30 to 8pm
Monday 14.9.1964 to Friday 18.9.1964 Induction course for new
full-time students
Monday 21.9.1964 All classes commence
9.10.1964 Meeting of the Governing Body at 7pm
Planning and
design under Labour
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15.10.1964 Labour victory at the General Election
promises to
advance the "new science-based industries with which our future lies" by
"socialist planning" rather than "leaving the economy to look after
itself" [See 1979]
Polytechnics under Labour Anthony Crosland, Secretary of State for
Education and Science, envisaged a 'binary system' of autonomous
universities, and a public sector of technical and other further education
colleges. The policy was aimed at meeting manpower requirements of industry
through upgrading the status of technical education so that it equalled
that of the universities. A White Paper, 'A Plan for Polytechnics and Other
Colleges' was published in
1966
(National Archives)
"Following the expansion of higher education in Britain in the
decade
following the election ... in 1964 a
new type of degree-awarding institution came into being - the polytechnic -
and it was here that the history of design saw its most significant
developments. ... such institutions were formed
from the amalgamation of previously free-standing colleges of art and
design, colleges of technology and colleges of education and were felt ...
to offer students more vocationally-oriented and
occasionally rather more radical, programmes of study."
(Jonathan M Woodham)
the Enfield College Prospectus
as far as I know, this was the only one
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The following map from the Enfield College of Technology. Prospectus
1964-1965 places the college at the centre of the local transport
universe and emphasises how smoothly this relates to the national universe.
In 1964 the
link to the underground at Seven Sisters did not yet exist.
See
1901 -
Queensway -
Great Cambridge
Road -
Southbury Station - National
Enfield -
Underground plans
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Enfield College of Technology. Prospectus 1964-1965. Middlesex
County Council Education Committee.
G.S. Brosan, T.D., Ph.D., M.I.E.E.,
M.I.Prod.E. (Principal);
W.T. Pratt, B.Sc. (Eng.), D.I.C., A.C.G.I.,
M.I.E.E. (Vice-Principal).
Queensway, Enfield, Middlesex. HOWard 1126.
Growth. Enfield College of Technology has shared in the general and rapid
expansion of technological and cultural education which has been a
characteristic of higher education in this country during the last two
decades. It is in a rapid state of development now. Due to additional room
at Tottenham Technical College and the building of new colleges at
Southgate and Turnford, a very large amount of work below final degree and
diploma level has been transferred from Enfield. The process is continuing
and is now virtually complete.
Today. The College, currently serving a population of about one million in
the Lea Valley and
elsewhere is housed in three buildings. The
College Building and the
Mechanical Engineering Block are in Queensway, and the
Science Block is 400 yards distant in Ponders End. The
sports
field and
pavilion are in World's End Lane about three miles away. A further science
building, incorporating a large refectory, is in an advanced planning
stage. There are some fifty laboratories in the college now; the new block
will add a further twenty-seven.
Department of Pure and Applied Science
Accommodation: two general physics laboratories, an electronics
laboratory, an optics laboratory and a physics research laboratory; three
general chemistry laboratories, a physical chemistry laboratory [shown
below] and a
chemistry research laboratory. A photographic dark room. There was also a
"metallurgy suite which includes laboratories for heat treatment, specimen
preparation, microscopy and physical testing"
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Department of Arts and Social Sciences
Academic Staff:
Head of Department: To be appointed
Temporary Head of Department: G.W. Hookham, B.A., Dip.Ed., F.I.L.,
F.F.T.Com., F.R.G.S.
Principal Lecturers:
J.H. Abraham, M.A., Ph.D., F.I.L.
G.C. Blockley, M.A., A.M.B.I.M.
Senior Lecturers:
C.A.J. Chopin, L-Šs-L., Ph.D., Dip.Ed.
G.H.Thomas, A.M.I.E.E., Dip.Sociology
Mrs M. Wain, B.A., Dip.Ed.
Lecturers and Assistant Lecturers:
A.H.Brodie, B.A., Dip.Ed.
J.P. Carr, M.A.
W.A.H. Love, M.R.S.H., Diploma in Physical Education
R.B.K. Petch, M.A., Dip.Ed.
J. Walpole, B.A., A.L.A.
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Head of Department: J.O. Moss, B.Sc (Engineering), MIMechE
E. J. Bassett, MIMechE, AMIProdE
A.J. Bullock, B.Sc (Engineering), AMIMechE
and many other
Department of Electrical Engineering
Head of Department:
R.D. Kitchener, M.Sc, DIC, AMIEE
Department of Industrial Engineering
Head of Department: N.W. Sida, BA, AMIMechE., AMIProdE, AMBIM
Department of Mathematics
Head of Department: E. E. Robinson, M.Sc.
Department of Pure and Applied Science
Head of Department: J.E. Jones, B.Sc, AINstP, AMIERE
Division of Education and Psychology
Division of Marketing and Business Studies
[A division with a large Advisory Committee and just three staff]
Director: C. Hudson FIMSM, MBIM
Senior Lecturer: CJ Walker, B.Sc(Econ), ACWA, ACIS
W.D. Willmott, BA, Member of the Lower Temple
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Full-Time
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Course Title
|
Reference
number
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B.Sc. (Eng)
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Electrical Engineering
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1
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B.Sc. (Eng)
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Mechanical Engineering
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2
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B.Sc. (Eng)
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Civil Engineering
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3
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B.Sc.
|
Sociology
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5
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B.A. (Hons)
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Sociology
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6
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B.A. (Hons)
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Geography
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7
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B.A.
|
General
|
8
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Higher National Diploma
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Applied Physics
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11
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Higher National Diploma
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Business Studies
|
12
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Higher National Diploma
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Chemistry
|
13
|
Higher National Diploma
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Electrical Engineering
|
14
|
Higher National Diploma
|
Mechanical Engineering
|
15
|
Higher National Diploma
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Mechanical Engineering with
reference to Production Engineering
|
16
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College Diploma
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Civil Engineering
|
17
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College Diploma
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Gas Engineering
|
18
|
College Diploma
|
Mathematics for Business
|
19
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Post-Higher National
Certificate/Diploma
|
Gas Engineering
|
20
|
Post-Higher National
Certificate/Diploma
|
Mechanical Engineering
|
15
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Part-Time
|
Course Title
|
Reference
number
|
Higher National Certificate
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Applied Physics
[also ONC]
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21
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Higher National Certificate
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Business Studies
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22
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Higher National Certificate
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Chemistry
[also ONC]
|
23
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Higher National Certificate
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Civil Engineering
|
24
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Higher National Certificate
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Electrical Engineering
|
25
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Higher National Certificate
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Mechanical Engineering
|
26
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Higher National Certificate
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Metallurgy
[also ONC]
|
27
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Higher National Certificate
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Production Engineering
|
28
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Post-Higher National
Certificate/Diploma
|
Electricl Engineering
|
25
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City and Guilds
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Technical Teachers' Certificate
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30
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City and Guilds
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Telecommunications Technician's Final Certificate
|
31
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City and Guilds
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Mechanical Engineering Technician's Certificate (Part 2)
|
32
|
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Management and Work Study
|
33
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Mechanical Engineering Inspection
|
34
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Statistical Quality Control
|
35
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Post-Graduate Certificate in Education
|
36
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Short Courses in Education
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37
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Courses in Programmed Learning
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37
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Mathematics for Teachers
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38
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Technological Mathematics
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38
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Division of Education and Psychology
[From
1964-1965
Prospectus]
Prospectus
Director:
J.W. Hamer, M.Sc, Dip.Ed, Dip.Psych
Senior Lecturer:
J. Heywood, Sen.MIEEE, FRAS, FCP
Lecturer: D.B.A. Brasier-Creagh, B.Sc
Associate Lecturer: S.K. Manstead, Ph.D., D.Phil
Laboratory Assistant:
E.A. Coates -
The Division of Education and Psychology, as its title indicates, functions
in two distinct but related fields of activity. Within these two fields
the division operates in three different directions, those comprising
courses in education, acting as a service division for courses in other
departments of the College and directing research in education.
Courses in teacher-training are run, mainly on a part-time basis, to
prepare students for a variety of professional qualifications in education.
Short series of lectures are also run by the division on a number of topics
of educational interest. In particular, the division acts as a centre for
Programmed Learning and runs courses on the subject and specifically on
Programme Writing. The division is particularly well-equipped for this
purpose having a Teaching Machine Laboratory with a wide range of equipment
ranging from simple linear machines to a "car simulator".
The Division also provides courses in psychology for students in other
departments of the College such as students following the B.A. Course.
Educational research is a particularly strong feature of the division, one
supported by the D.S.I.R., and one by the O.E.C.D.
Itis proposed to run the following courses during the 1964-65 session.
FULL-TIME COURSES
Courses in Programmed Learning for Programme Writers
These courses of eight weeks' duration are meant to meet the demands of
teachers an others who wish to write their own programmes.
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Industry and Enfield
George A.
Roberts, MIMA, MBIM (Member British Institute of
Management),
FIAC, FIFM from
Ripaults Ltd was chair of both the Governing Body and the
Department of
Industrial Engineering Advisory Committee
Governors as "representatives of industry and commerce:"
John Horsfall Dyde, OBE 1957. [Deputy Chairman and then
Chairman of
the
Eastern Gas Board who helped to bring North Sea natural
gas to
Britain. See below]
John Murray Grammer BA [Born 27.10.1911 in Edmonton, lived in
Southgate]
C. E. Payne, BSc (Engineering), MIEE, of Ferguson Radio
Corporation, who
was also on the Department of Electrical Engineering Advisory Committee.
[Ferguson was linked to
Thorn Electrical Industries]
R. B. Pearson, MIEE, MIMecE, MInstF, MBIM, of the Central
Electricity Generating Board
who was also on the Department of Electrical Engineering Advisory
Committee.
Arthur L. Stuchbery, MIMechE, MIProdE. from The Metal
Box Co Ltd
who was also on the Department of
Industrial Engineering Advisory Committee
C.T.W. Sutton, MSc (Engineering), MIEE,AMICW, AMIMechE from
Enfield Standard Power Cables Ltd
The Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Advisory Committee
included
B.H. [Beaumont Holiday] Broadbent (born 1901) B.Sc (Engineering),
Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1920) from
John Laing and Son Ltd, who lived in Potters Bar.
W.F. Pritchard MIGasE from
Eastern Gas Board
The Department of Industrial Engineering Advisory Committee also included
H. [Hans] Bud from
English Numbering
Machines
J.W.F. Golley from
Belling and Lee Ltd
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December 1964
Thorn made a succesful take over bid for the whole
of AEI's lampmaking operations, taking at once a 65% stake in AEI Lamp and
Lighting Company, including the final part of
Ponders End, the Lamp Works. A new holding company, British Lighting
Industries was formed under Thorn, to fully integrate each of the different
lampmaking companies that had fallen under its control in recent years.
(Lamptech)
28.12.1964 to 2.1.1965 Having presented "Carousal" as their
spring 1964 production,
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association presented: "Cinderella" as their
Christmas pantomime
31.1.1964 Closing date for applications for Approval of Candidature
at B.A. (General), B.A. (Sociology) and B.Sc (Sociology) examinations.
1964 Start of Geography degrees at
Hendon College of Technology. [The
class that graduated in 1969 was "the 3rd intake into the
Geography degree which therefore
started in 1964". (Email from Peter Williams 25.11.2012)
1965
4.1.1965 Start of the spring term at
Enfield. The Governing Body met at 7pm on
8.1.1965
7.2.1965 Closing date for late applications for Approval of
Candidature at B.Sc (Eng) examinations Parts 1, 2, and 3.
24.2.1965 Closing date for entry for City and Guilds of London
Institute Examinations.
7.3.1965 Closing date for submission of entry forms to London
University for B.Sc (Eng) examinations Parts 1, 2, and 3.
13.3.1965 Closing date for entry for Higher National Certificate and
Endoresement Examinations.
23.3.1965 Examinations for Diploma Courses commence
March 1965
John W. Hamer "Enfield College of Technology survey of
the use of programmed instruction in the county of Middlesex during the
session 1963-64." Report No. 1, March 1965.
1.4.1965: The
1963 London Government Act came into force.
Middlesex County Council ceased to be and the new Borough of
Enfield took over
responsibility for
Enfield
College of Technology and
Trent Park (?). The new
Borough of Haringey took over responsibility for
Hornsey and the new Borough of Barnet for
Hendon.
7.4.1965 [Enfield] The McCrae Shield Athletics Meeting
9.4.1965 Meeting of the [Enfield] Governing Body 7.pm. Spring term
ends.
27.4.1965 to 1.5.1965
Enfield College of Technology Entertainments Association
presented The New Moon as its Spring production.
Nick Wright went to
Hornsey College of Art in 1965 to study graphic design
and typography. He became Secretary of the Hornsey College of Art Student
Union in 1966 and President in 1967. In 1969 following the student
occupation of the college the authorities obtained a High Court injunction
preventing him from entering the premises. Fifteen years later he returned
to Middlesex Polytechnic and completed his degree before taking an MA in
Art History at Sussex University.
About 1965 Stanley
Millward came back (for five years) to take over an ex-Trent
Park course about 1965. Although the colleges were not linked formally,
there were informal links between All Saints, Trent Park, Enfield and
Hendon. Other people Stanley Millward mentioned: Edward Cutler who taught
technical drawing and Jonathan Penrose
who was in charge of the Psychology
Department and was British Chess Champion for 11 years.
1965
Peggy Bullock started working at Enfield college. [although she
said she thought she started a few months after
John Carr]. Her husband,
Alan Bullock, was a lecturer here. She worked in Admissions and
Examinations, with the Academic Registrar.
October 1965 First students at the new University of Kent at
Canterbury. At some time
Steven Box moved here from the
Regent Street Polytechnic
1965 Ilona Phombeah (Sometime MA, Oxon, Msc, London School of
Economics) started teaching at Enfield College of Technology. See
CNNA -
David Levy -
Man and Society -
Society, History, Environment
18.3.1989
1965
John Crutchley, BSc (London), a LSE graduate, previously extra
mural lecturer, began working as a Sociology teacher at Enfield College of
Technology [Much of information below based on who John said started
working at the same time]
Stan Cohen, another LSE graduate, started teaching Sociology at Enfield.
Mike Harrison (from
Leicester) began working as a Sociology teacher at
Enfield College of Technology [According to John Mike Harrison was brought
in by Roy Bailey and (later)
Geoff Dench and David Levy were also brought
in by Roy Bailey.
1965 Alfred J. Holt, (Alf Holt) BA (Philosophy) 1962, became also BA
(Sociology). He became Lecturer in 1965, later Senior Lecturer and
Principal lecturer at Enfield College of Technology and Head of the
Faculty
of
Social Science and Dean of Social Science. He may have left in the early
1980s (between 1979 and 1984)
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Ken Plummer: Stan Cohen was my first teacher and inspiration in sociology.
He taught me social psychology and the sociology of deviance as a student
at Enfield College in 1965 and 1966 - and he showed me what a non pompous
intellectual life could look like. His ideas inspired me as I turned to
'homosexuality' - as it was then - as a personal area for my own
understanding and research. He supported me in following a PhD; and
encouraged me to apply to Essex University for a job in 1974... Meeting
Stan was probably the single most influential shaper of my academic life.
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1965
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Red Riding Hood as its Christmas pantomime.
1966
1966-1967 The
Ponders End lampmaking division was closed and the work absorbed
by
Thorn's factories. Shortly afterwards the Valve and CRT division
met a similar fate, shifting into Thorn's Mullard tube works at Brimsdown.
By 1969 all production had ceased at Ponders End, and the site was
demolished in 1970. (Lamptech)
"
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Advanced Electrical Power and
Machines by
George Brosan, TD,
PhD, MIEE, MIProdE - Principal, Enfield College of Technology and
and John Thomas Hayden, BSc (Eng), DIC, AMIMechE, AMIEE - Department of
Electrical and Control Engineering, The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield.
Preface dated March 1965. Book copyright 1966. Possibly not published until
1.12.1966.
Brosan used diagrams for electrical engineering and social engineering.
This is and
Abraham's Sociology are my joint choice for the
books of the year for
1966
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1966
Joseph Hayim Abraham's Sociology in
the Teach Yourself series traces sociological thought back to
ancient
times.
Its "modern
sociology" begins with
Comte who made concrete the efforts of thinkers over a humdred
years "through a philosophy of history to account for the different stages
of social development" (p.20). Abraham discusses themes including
culture,
society,
family,
state,
law,
religion and
education, drawing largely on
theorists prior to those now fashionable.
Merton
is possibly the latest
modern theorist discussed. Parsons is
quickly
dismissed
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Abraham's analysis belongs to the era before
British sociology focused on
Marx,
Durkheim
and
Weber
as
"classics". It owes much to Pitirim Sorokin' efforts in
Contemporary Sociological Theories (1928) to discuss a
multitude of theorists by arranging them in schools of thought. The
Geographical and Environmental School included
Buckle
and Le Play. The Organic and Evolutionary School included
Spencer, Summer,
Durkheim and
Tonnies. The Formal
School included
Simmel, Bougle,
Ross,
Park,
Burgess, Wiese and Vierkandt.
The Psychological School included Tarde, Small, Giddings,
Cooley, Ward, Morgan,
Hobhouse,
Westermarck. The Economic School included
Marx,
Weber
and Pareto.
The Anthropological School included Coulanges, Elwood, Kidd,
Tylor,
Frazer
and
Malinowski.
The richness and complextity of Abraham's historical approach to sociology
contines in his
1973 sociology reader. Books like this,
Raymond Aron's Main
Currents in Sociological Thought and Eric Roll's
A History of Economic
Thought give an indication of the intellectual background of
social theory as it developed in the
BA Social Science degree and, particularly on
Society, History and Environment.
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January 1966 The
Museum of London has a Henry Grant photograph
which it describes as a "Maths student in the computer centre at Enfield
College of Technology in 1966. On the left is a PACE analogue computer and
on the right is a hybrid computer, designed and built by students at the
college" - See also
another picture
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20.3.1966 Roland Emett invents the Emett-Honeywell Forget-Me-Not
Computer. This is the one with bright lights on the left. The one on the
right may be a mock-up of a real Honeywell.
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May 1966 White Paper, A Plan for Polytechnics and Other
Colleges published.
(See above). Recommended the designation of colleges
with the most potential as regional polytechnics to form a nation-wide
network for technical education. The polytechnics would be 'large and
comprehensive' providers of full-time, part-time and sandwich courses of
technical and vocational higher education. The aim was to reduce the number
of small colleges providing full-time courses, but those already doing so
were allowed to continue.
(National Archives)
1966
Julie B. Ford graduated with a BSc (Sociology)
external London degree. She taught Sociology for a time at
Regent Street Polytechinc and took her PhD (Sociology
of Education) at the University of Kent, completed in 1968 as
Social Class and the Comprehensive School. Amy Gdala
speaks of boredom being ousted as the train from London to Canterbury "as
the train shudders uncertainly over the credibility gap known as the
Medway". At some time she worked with George Homans (1910-1989), who was
visiting professor at the University of Kent in 1967. She taught Sociology
at the London School of Economics before becoming a Senior (aged 23?!)
Lecturer at
Enfield Colege of Technology in
1969.
1966
Geoff Dench, who had studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge and
then for a PhD in Social Institutions at the LSE, previously (1962-)
Research Assistant at the
Institute of Community
Studies, began working as a sociologist at Enfield College of
Technology. See
CNAA -
1975 on books
He became Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University before rejoining
the Institute as a research associate in
1992 and research fellow in 1999.
1966
Tom Wengraf began working as a sociologist at Enfield College of
Technology.
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15.10.1966 Roundhouse, Camden Town opened as an Arts
venue with the
launch event for International Times -
(link) - In July 1968 it was the venue for
the national conference of the
Movement for Rethinking Art and
Design Education
October 1966 Mary Moore, from Drayton Manor Grammar School, began an
honours degree in English at Hendon Technical College.
1966
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented The Land of Smiles and Ali Baba (Christmas)
1967
London School of Economics student rising
1967 First edition of The Science of Society: An introduction to
sociology by
Stephen Cotgrove.
Spring 1967 Student occupation of the London School of
Economics. At
this time, Richard Kuper, who was involved at a very high level in the
protest, was already a
lecturer at Enfield College of Technology. Later members of staff who may
have been involved as students include Michael McKenna and John Lea.
Ralph Miliband, a marxist lecturer who supported the students,
was the author of Parliamentary Socialism (1961) and
The State in Capitalist Society (1969), two books prominent on
relevant Enfield reading lists, as were articles from his annual journal.
the Socialist Register [See
The Trouble at L.S.E. 1966-1967 by Harry Kidd]. See also
Gautam Appa and the
demonstrations of 1969.
March 1967 "Mr Richard Kuper... was another of the South African
emigrés, a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand and
then of Cambridge, a lively and attractive intellectual, he had been a
graduate student at L.S.E. since 1964, and was also a lecturer at a College
of Technology. Prominent in the Socialist Society, he had come to the fore
among the militants, and was in the following year to be one of the
founders of the Revolutionary Socialist Student's Federation".
(Kidd, H. 1969 p.94)
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Hornsey 1967 Acquisition of Silver Studio Collection.
May 1967 Plans to incorporate
Hornsey College of Art into a new polytechnic
by amalgamation with Hendon and Enfield colleges of technology opposed by
Hornsey Governors. Hornsey administration and students opposed. Opposition
reaching a peak in October 1967. (Lisa Tickner)
"Enfield, in particular was run by a
pair of high powered academic sharks, public advocates of polytechnic
education, and well connected politically. The Hornsey incompetents would
have been eaten alive."
Nick Wright 1988
(archive)
Hendon 1967
3.7.1967 to 7.7.1967
A Careers Conference at the Salvatorian
College [a Catholic boys school], High Road, Harrow Weald, Middlesex
"mainly for the benefit of the present Sixth Form". "The conference opened
with a general talk on 'Further Education' in all its aspects given by Mr.
R.H. Brousson, Vice-Principal of Hendon College of Technology, and followed
by a Seminar discussing the subject in depth."
Enfield 1967
The earliest surviving planning permission record for the Enfield site is
"one granted in June 1967 for the erection of a pre-fabricated
building at what was then the Enfield College of Technology (LBE/67/0021)".
(2012 Heritage
Statement par. 2.9 Planning History). These were what we knew as
the "huts".
Enfield 1967
A 1,000 full-time students at the College were taking degree and diploma
courses in technological, business and arts subjects including B.Sc
Engineering, B.Sc in Business Mathematics and BA Business Studies.
(Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Volume 130, No. 3, 1967
Current Notes)
The
Honeywell H120
mainframe or midrange computer
26.4.1967 Official opening of the Computer Centre at Enfield College
of Technology. The computer was a "120 Model in the Series 200 range
manufactured at
Honeywell's Newhouse Lanarkshire plant". It was jointly
owned by the college and
English Numbering Machines Ltd of Enfield. The
computer will support advanced work in the business studies and technology
departments and courses for systems analysts and programmers. (Journal
of the Royal Statistical Society Volume 130, No. 3, 1967
Current Notes)
My previous information was that the Honeywell was mainly
financed by a large firm near the college [which would be English Numbering
Machines] who used it to do their payroll. In 1969/1970 Enfield College of
Technology is recorded as using a Honeywell
H120 the
approximate capital cost of which had been £99,000.
(House of Commons Debates 8.2.1971).
McDougall in his Primer of Computing (1971) says that its "most
obvious use is in the calculation of the weekly wages of a company's
employees" (p.79) "Running for half an hour, together with a girl working
for a few hours punching cards" it "can largely replace the wages office
staff". To make this economic, however, the computer would need to be in
use for other things throughout the week. (pp 82-83, with calculations).
"As magnetic tape recording systems are delicate, the computer
is kept in a special room which has its temperature and humidity
controlled, and, to prevent the tape getting scratched by dust particles,
the air entering the computer room is carefully filtered. Those who would
master this highly expensive and complex machine must see that it is well
looked after and fed on a diet of sound logic and correct data" (Holmes
McDougall Primer of Computing 1971, p.6
The Honeywell H120 was a
new product in December 1965. None had yet been installed and there were
170 unfulfilled orders. It was aimed at a new market of small users.
(Computers and Information October 1975).
The Honeywell H120 is mentioned in the history of the UDP Data Centre of
Texas which "upgraded its services and equipment in 1966 with the purchase
of a Honeywell H120. The machine had 4k memory, three 200 bpi tape units
and a printer that was capable of printing 240 lines
per minute." UDP were using it for computerised billings to telephone
company customers
(source) -
offline.
By
1977
, Middlesex University had two computers. The new one was a DEC System-
10 computer at Hendon which "offers both batch and multi-access processing
facilities to all sites" (Handbook/Diary p.42)]
John Vince (born 1941) was a computer programmer before he became Lecturer
in Data Processing at Enfield. He was in charge of the Honeywell and "a
rare 12" Calcomp 565 plotter". -
See the plotter at work - See
Catherine Mason
Vince began working in computer graphics in
1968. At Brunel University, from 1972 to 1976, he studied for a Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD), writing
a thesis
(1975) "based on my PICASO system" on Computer
Animation. He later developed another program, PRISM to enhance PICASO to
use the GEMS colour image processing unit. He developed PICASO (Picture
Computer Algorithms Subroutine Orientated) in Fortran "designed to enable
graphic peripherals to be used with the minimum of programming effort and
skill".
At Enfield Vince taught computer languages - Basic, Fortran, Cobol -
and computer technology to social scientists as well as technologists and
when the Polytchnic was formed in 1973 the range of his teaching increased.
At
Cat Hill, art students
would provide him with coding sheets to run through the Enfield Computer.
Amongst those he worked with was
Darrell Viner
At (Bounds Green and?) Cat Hill
"designed the UK's first MSc course in Computer Graphics, and developed a
popular programme of short courses in computer animation for television
designers." - See 1986
5.7.1967 and 6.7.1967
Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, Enfield College of Technology,
SESSION 1- DESIGN ASPECTS - 1.1 Single Focusing Magnetic Deflection Mass
Spectrometers - 1.2 The Design of Double Focusing Magnetic Deflection
Instruments - 1.3 A New Cycloidal Mass Spectrometer - 1.4 A Time of Flight
Mass Spectrometer - 1.5 Recent Developments in the Quadrupole Mass Filter -
SESSION 2 - PHYSICAL AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS - 2.1 A Fast-scan
Mass Spectrometer for Residual Gas Analysis and the Examination of
Effluents from Gas Chromatography Columns - 2.2 Flavour Research with a Low
Cost Fast-scan Mass Spectrometer - 2.3 A Gas Chromatograph-Mass
Spectrometer Linkup Recent Developments - 2.4 A Small 1800 Deflection
Partial Pressure-Total Pressure Gauge for Vacuum System Diagnosis - 2.5 A
Cycloidal Mass Spectrometer Applied to the Measurement of the Speed of
Sputter Ion Pumps - 2.6 The Sorption of Gases by Thin Films -
Mass Spectrometry: Proceedings of the Symposium on Mass Spectrometry,
Enfield College of Technology, 5th and 6th July 1967 edited by R.
Brymner and John Ronald Penney.
Published London : Butterworths, 1968.
ix and 275 pages: illustrated
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SESSION 3 -
CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS I - 3.1 The Use of a Quadrupole Mass Filter in the
Study of a Reacting Surface - 3.2 Mass-spectrometric Investigation of the
Formation of Di-imide by the Catalytic Decomposition of Hydrazine at Low
Pressures on Platinum - 3.3 Rearrangement Processes in the Fragmentation of
Organic Ions - 3.4 A Novel Ion in the Mass Spectra of Arylureas and Related
Compounds - 3.5 Mass Spectra of Some Substituted Cyclotetrazenoboranes -
3.6 The Decomposition of 9,1O-Diphenylanthracene Under Electron Impact -
SESSION 4 - CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS II - 4.1 Use of Multiplet Peaks in the
Examination of High Molecular Weight Petroleum Fractions - 4.2 Inorganic
Analysis of Spark Source Mass Spectrometry - 4.3 An Examination of Metal
Chelates by Mass Spectrometry - 4.4 Data Handling and Instrumentation in
the A.W.R.E. Mass Spectrometers - SYMPOSIUM IMPRESSIONS - INDEX
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Enfield 1967 to
1970 Early
postgraduate
work [Also
see below]
K J, Cornwell On 7.7.1967 a manuscript from K. Cornwell of the
Faculty of Technology, Enfield College of Technology on "The possibility of
using molten salts for thermoelectric generation" was received by
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. A
revised edition was accepted for publication on 16.8.1967. Later (1969) K.
Cornwell published with R. W. Dyson (Enfield College of Technology). In May
1970 (having often been tempted to give up) K J, Cornwell submitted
"Thermoelectric Generation Using Molten Salts" to the CNAA for a Ph.D. It
may have been the first CNAA Ph.D. awarded within the constituent parts of
what became Middlesex Polytechnic. It is available from
Middlesex University's Research Repository
His supervisors were D. T. Swift-Hook, Ph.D., "head of electrical research
at the Marchwood Engineering Laboratories of the Central Electricity
Generating Board", and B. J. Zaczek, M.Eng., Ph.D...
head of the fuel technology section at Enfield College. he thanked
Drs J. R. W. Warn and Dr. R. W. Dyson, both of Enfield College, for many
discussions on the electrochemical and thermodynamic aspects of
his work. "The general helpfUlness of the Enfield College Laboratory
technicians, especially Mr. J. Webster, is acknowledged. Finally
I would like to thank my wife for typing the manuscript and for
giving encouragement at times when I would have discontinued this
work."
Hornsey September 1967 Tom Nairn started teaching at Hornsey.
October 1967
"There had been marches to the Wood Green Civic Centre
to protest against the forcing of Hornsey into the Polytechnic, which had
aroused an enthusiasm and feeling of community no one had ever before seen"
(PB
The Hornsey
Affair 1969 p.30)
"Polytechnics Action Day Monday 23rd October 1987" urges mass lobby and
picket of council meeting. (Tickner, p.24)
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a man being swallowed by a lion was now the emblem of the campaign
(Tickner, p.24)
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1967
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented South Pacific and Robinson Crusoe (Christmas)
1968: Early
postgraduate work
These are (Wednesday 11.6.2014) the first item available from
Middlesex University's Research Repository
Trevor David Kennea (1968) "Changes of the sea fishing industry of southern
England since the Second World War". PhD thesis, Hendon College of
Technology. appears to have been a Ph.D for the London School of Economics
and Political Science. The library used was that of Hendon College of
Technology.
F. J. Robinson (1968)
"Digital
position control of a lathe tool". Masters
thesis, University of London. Supervised by Dr C.R. Webb, Reader in
Mechanical Engineering at Queen Mary College, London. Messrs T.S. Harrison
and Sons, Ltd,. of Heckmondwike, Yorkshire lent the lathe on which the
tests were carried out. Enfield College of Technology provided the
laboratory facilities, and assistance.
Stanley Millward
advised in the preparation of the computer programme which forms an
essential part of the analysis. G.A.H. Thomas was a co-worker on the
project. As far as I can understand,
digital code messages were fed to the lathe from tapes set up in a nearby
cabinet and the instructions were varied through a bank of switches.
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The Harrison L6 lathe used and the prototype control cabinet (left)
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February 1968:
Anti-University started in London
Enfield
Easter 1968:
Car park behind Broadbent cleared to erect Pascal
Building, or
the Project block.
"The present car park has been with us since Easter 1968; the
previous depository for Students vehicles having been a marsh behind the
main building. During the Easter holidays men were hired to drain the
water and exterminate the fauna, and in remembrance to all those cars that
were lost, the authorities have erected a suitable tombstone, bearing the
epitaph 'LIBRARY'
"To many this tombstone is known as is known as the project block, although
it is entered into the Councils machines as the 'Pascal building'..."
(Bits 29.1.1969
p.5)
[As the Pascal Laboratories, the Project Block was officially opened along
with the
Roberts Building on 17.3.1971.
Gertie Beckett
had an invitation to the "Official Opening of the Roberts Building and
pascal Laboratories by Mrs Thatcher, Secretary of State for Education and
Science". (Letter 4.8.1898).]
The Pascal Laboratories were designed to meet the requirements of final
year students in the engineering and civil engineering degree courses. Each
student undertakes a major project as an integral part of his final year
studies and therefore, laboratories easily adaptable in design, layout and
equipment are essential. These laboratories will accommodate 150 degree
projects. College Times 18.3.1971.
The library: In 1969 the library was at the front to the main
building, on the first floor.
The new car park An area of sand
and gravel was laid down beside
the huts to serve as the new main car park.
It had concrete blocks instead of white lines. The Tower Block was expected
to be completed early in 1970. When this happened, the car park was to be
asphalted and extended right up to the Tower Block. (Bits 29.1.1969
p.5)
May 1968: Paris student rising
Hornsey student rising
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Freedom to Create
[Handbill produced during the sit-in]
28.5.1968 Start of six week student occupation of
Hornsey College of Art.
"The college became a national centre for debate about the nature of design
education and its social implications... Small deputations of students
travelled the length and breadth of the country, visiting local art
colleges
to report on events at Hornsey ad encouraging students and staff to press
for reform" (Ashwin, page 45)
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The
Gestetner Revolution "the Hornsey sit-in was a physical
occupation first... before it was a
Gestetner revolution''
(Lisa Tickner 2008 p.121) [See Roneo purchase by
Ingrebourne Society
in 1963 and
BIT in 1968]
June 1968
This is my choice for the Middlesex University
book of the year for
1968
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1968
[Enfield]
The idea of "People's
Universities" was
publicised by Eric Robinson in
The New Polytechnics, a
Penguin
paperback in 1968. At about the same time, the whole side of
the main
building at Enfield was converted to a room in which
technicians maintained
a large computer at exactly the right temperature. This
computer was shared
with local industry. By the 1970s, social scientists
outnumbered engineers
and Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex
University) had an
international reputation as a centre for the social sciences
and, in
particular,
criminology.
"Sooner or later this country must face a comprehensive form of
education beyond school - a reform which will bring higher education out of
the ivory towers and make it available to all. The shape and speed of this
change to come depends on the success with which the polytechnics are
established."
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The New Polytechnics acknowledgements John Isaac,
George Brosan, Tom
driver, Edward Britton, Tyrrell Burgess,
Audrey Hardwick,
Julian Ayer, Tom Evans, Kim Polk, Jim Little, Joan Robinson (his wife),
Andrew Robinson (his son).
1968:
Engineering "At the present time the demand from potential
students for places in engineering degree and diploma courses is remarkably
low - this is one of the few academic fields in which here is no shortage
of places - and is the cause for national concern"
(The New Polytechnics p.68)
Dialogue of the revolutions
Tom Nairn
on
Eric Robinson
Eric Robinson's vision "sees new, American style popular universities which
will finally destroy the congenital elitism of British education. But he
himself makes perfectly clear that the realisation of this mission goes
against the whole natural trend of the system. How can it be realised,
therefore, without a far more profound educational and social revolution
than Robinson apparently envisages?
It is the revolutionaries of the art sector who have in fact launched the
movement which could - amongst other things - make the polytechnic
development significant and worthwhile (p.112)
11.6.1968 Meeting of all Hornsey staff held at Parkwood School, near
the new Haringey Civic Centre at Wood Green. Chaired by Alderman Bains.
Staff voted (161 to 119) for an amendment proposed by David Warren Piper to
set up a joint Association of staff, students and administration. A
steering committee of sixteen staff and sixteen students was set up to get
the new joint Association started and a Commission of eight of each to
examine the administrative and academic structure of the College and
propose changes. (The Hornsey Affair pages 150-151)
3.7.1968 What the The Hornsey Affair calls the "day of the
dogs" when the Governors attempted to close the college, and end the sit-
in, using security guards with Alsatian dogs. (page 161 following)
5.7.1968 Hornsey Strikes Again exhibition opened at the
Institute of Contemporary Art
"This is a revolution of
Gestetners instead of guns, meetings
instead of marches, seminars instead of riots, old movies instead of fresh
massacres, cabarets instead of civil wars, documents instead of slogans,
microphones instead of a mob in leather jackets" (Mike Bygrave quoted
(Lisa Tickner 2008 p.31)
8.7.1968 to 10.7.1968 Movement for Rethinking Art and
Design Education national conference on art/design education at the
Roundhouse in Camden Town
Friday 12.7.1968 "... the Hornsey College of Art and all its
buildings and premises are closed until further notice. The next term will
commence on a date to be announced in due courses. No person may enter the
premises without the authority of the Chief Executive and Town Clerk, the
Chief Education Officer or the Principal" (quoted The Hornsey Affair
page 178)
14 Hanley Road The home of David Page (General Studies lecturer)
became the base for student activities from July.
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Vicki Scarlett (born Liverpool
9.5.1933) qualified as a Chartered Librarian in 1964.
She joined the library at Enfield College of Technology in 1968. [I
believe
she had just returned from Paris and walked into the Enfield College
Library
to ask Leslie Kilbey if they had vacancies "on the off-chance"
Vicki gained a 2:1 honours degree in social science in 1974. [Which I think
means she was studying for it at the same time as I was]
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In 1977 the staff in the Enfield library were Leslie Kilbey, the senior
tutor librarian; Peter Dodds and Henry Brown, the tutor librarians; and
Vicki Scarlett, Laurie Greenfiedl, Mary Courcha, Joan Woolattt, Felix Ekpe
and Maureen Fearn, the Assistant Librarians.
Vicki was eventually promoted to senior campus librarian.
"A fearless defender of high standards of service, she was warm
and approachable, always ready to help the bewildered library user."
(Obituary)
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1968
Bernard Burgoyne began to teach at Enfield College of
Technology.
1968
Michael McKenna began to teach at Enfield College of
Technology.
1968
Roger Murray, previously in Africa, began to teach at Enfield
College of Technology.
1968
John Farquhar Senior
Lecturer and Principal Lecturer in Economics at Enfield. Subject Head -
Economics. He became Course Leader, BA Social Sciences in 1969.
1968
Dennis Hardy lecturer at Enfield. Senior Lecturer 1970-1973.
Principal Lecturer 1973.
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The BA (Social Science) was approved by the
Council for National Academic Awards in 1968 [Started
September 1969] with specialisations in Sociology, Economics and
Social Work. In 1969, Land use was added. The degree was based on a common
introductory course of one year for all students, provisional
specialisations during the second year, a broadly defined vocational bias
[the third year was a placement year for Sociology, Economics and Land Use
students], an emphasis on public policy [Social and Economic Foundations of
Public Policy was the compulsory "core" theme for all students] and an
integrated approach to the study of the social sciences.
(MP1978 pp 10-11)
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November 1968: North London Polytechnic Liaison Committee
"In an attempt to establish closer cooperation between the Unions of the
proposed Polytechnic the North London Polytechnic Liaison Committee was
founded in November 1968 at a meeting of the representatives from
Hendon,
Hornsey
and
Enfield. There have been
regular meetings of this committee.
Unfortunately, the effectiveness of his committee has been hampered by the
non-attendance of representatives from certain colleges, namely Hendon and
on one occasion Enfield.
Hornsey are greatly at fault in that their representatives feel unable to
make absolute agreements without consulting the general will - that is
always the case when democracy rears its ugly head in any student affairs.
Although there have been attempts to establish closer cooperation by having
reciprocal union rights - his proposal never really got off the ground.
There has been a lot of talk but no action.
Perhaps one of the problems is that whilst there are many faults within
Enfield, Enfield Union is in itself the most effective and advanced -
politically and socially of the other two. The result is that there has
been the feeling amongst the other colleges that the initiatives proposed
by Enfield are really inspired by the desires of 'Enfield Imperialism'
In a recent interview, the S.U. President Brian Churchill said that there
was antipathy amongst the students at Hendon towards Enfield. He added
that, whilst he felt it was unreasonable for such antipathy to exist, there
was nothing much that could be done to combat it.
This surely, is what the Liaison Committee should be concerning itself
with. Why aren't Council meetings open to students from these colleges:
visitors from Hendon have speaking but not voting rights at Enfield S.R.C.
meetings. There should be co-opted members from Hendon on Enfield's
Executive and vice versa.
When these proposals were suggested to Brian Arbery he agreed that they
were useful and added that, whilst he himself, had suggested some of them
there had been no response.
The tragedy of the situation is that if the students of the proposed
Polytechnic were to work collectively, they would perhaps achieve what they
had failed to do individually.
Bits of Enfield College 29.1.1969, page 4
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1968
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented The King and I and The Queen of Hearts (Christmas)
1969
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Hornsey 1969 Interior Design moves to Jaxa Works annexe.
The notice in a photograph is headed "Hornsey College of Art and
Design"
(Ashwin 1982 p.43).
Sonneborn and Rieck had moved their Jaxa Works to Hainault in Essex.
The advert for their VC10 aircraft toilet seats (left) is clipped from
Flight International 26.1.1967
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South Grove (Jaxa Works) was described in
1975 as a "former factory; housing Interior Design Course;
scheduled to move the Bounds Green."
The Jaxa notice (above door on right):
Hornsey / College
of Art and Design
Industrial. Interior Design
Environmental Technology
The punctuation makes a difference to the meaning.
Environment technology sounds
too green to be true. Was
anyone there who can help?
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The Hornsey Affair: Students and staff of Hornsey College of Art
Association of Hornsey College of Art. Penguin education special.
Harmondsworth : Penguin Book Ltd, 1969. 220 pages.
"This book records the beginning of a revolution. Its subject is the
meaning
of a train of events which started in
Hornsey College of Art in
May 1968. But in November 1968, when we finished writing. It was
clearer than ever that this May revolution was unfinished. It is continuing
at Hornsey, and in other colleges all over the country, a ferment of
renovations..."
"A very full, collective account account... edited by
David Page,
Tom Nairn and
Victoria Hamilton" Student Power footnote
p.113
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14.10.1969 and 15.10.1969 Members of the
National Council for Diplomas in Art
and Design visited Hornesy in a review of the
Diploma in Art and Design. This was renewed for only two years.
Enfield
The battle of the paint-brushes - Red for right, white for left - Have
we got something wrong? Or are we anticipating the
battle of the bridges between red (positivistic) and white
(idealistic) spiders?
LSE TODAY. ECT TOMORROW (Or words to that effect) painted in white
on the side of the MacCrea building at Enfield, [Probably in January 1969].
They were there when I arrived in September 1969 and, being a psychiatric
patient, I first wondered if ECT stood for Electro-Convulsive Therapy. I
thought LSE could have been a misspelling of LSD. The slogan remained for
several years until it was ineffectually painted over with a reddish brown
was. It eventually disappeared under ornamental ivy in the 1980s. Some of
the young lecturers starting at Enfield were active in London School of
Economics politics.
Other slogans: ADAMS=BROSAN (EVE OR A SNAKE) - CONTROL YOUR OWN
EXISTENCE - ENFIELD HAS BEEN OFFERED 1 MORE GOVERNOR THAN BRIXTON
PRISON. My account of the reddish brown paint above is incorrect. The
partially obliterating paint was applied by (short-haired) students.
Bits of Enfield 29.1.1969 has pictures of it being applied.
"Rightwing backlash begins" "Confusion over red aims" "Student majority
angry at red activities"
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At the Teach In, George Brosan chose to sit near the Socialist Society.
Challenged publicly to defend his having previously torn down a Socialist
Society notice, he stood up with a beer mug in his hand, wobbled
dramatically, and said "I totally deny that I was pissed at the time". He
then sat down.
Wednesday 29.1.1969 Bits of Enfield College, special edition
for
the Poly Teach-In to be held in the Main Hall from 3-7pm. This includes a
small part of an interview with "Dr Williams, Principal of Hendon College
of Technology". At the Poly Teach-In, R.H.C. Brousson, Vice Principal,
Hendon College spoke on "The Academic Direction of the Polytechnic". The
edition also contained a picture and quotes
Brian Churchill, President of
the Students Union at Hendon College of Technology.
Andrew Roberts
came to Enfield for interview on the day they had the Teach-in. I travelled
from Swanage in Dorset for the interview and had no sense that Enfield was
particularly
a local, as distinct from a national, institution. Just as Hull
University (which also offered me a place) had its local connections, so
did Enfield. The sense of locality was probably much greater amongst
engineering students than it was amongst arts and social sciences students.
For more about Andrew (if you must) see
BASS 1969 -
17.3.1971 -
David Levy 1972 -
Middlesex Polytechnic -
Spring 1986 -
David Melville -
1991 Sociologists
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Suzi Clarke -
This history 1998
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Academic Freedom
-
the stuff of dreams -
bad, but not that
bad
20.1.1969 memo TW/6 Enfield College of Technology (Arts).
CNNA Social Science. First Year Sociology 1969-1970. From Tom
Wengraf To
Bernard Burgoyne, Jeanne DeAth,
Geoff Dench, Sami Daniels, John
Farguahar, John Gray, John Lea, Roger Murray,
Ilona Phombeah, Phil Powell,
Geoff Pilling, Tony Woodiwiss, Pat Cooke.
13.2.1969 Samuel Eilon gave the Sir Joseph Swan Lecture at Enfield
College of Technology on "Prescription in Management Decisions". It was
published in the Journal of Management Studies Volume 6 Issue 2 in
May 1969.
Hendon College of Technology ran Geography (BA and B.Sc) and
English (BA)
degree courses from
1964. There were 37 geography graduates in 1969.
One of them, Peter Williams, comments that the degrees "rescued
many a university reject and A level flunker from the real world". At a
2008 reunion it was found that "no one had had more than a few months
unemployment" since graduating. Graduate unemplyment may seem to be a
notable social change, but the class of 1969 commented "that one of the
biggest changes to have
occurred since the 60s was the willingness of people to use wine to dull
the senses instead of beer".
(source)
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Peter Williams (BA Geography 1969) and "a gaggle of early retired
schoolteachers... two university lecturers, a Further Education college
principal, a breakfast cereal magnate, a
café owner, a vicar and a professional gambler to name but a few" at
a reunion in Birmingham Saturday 5.10.2008. 16 members of the class of 1969
met up.
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"A young Trotskyist put forward the argument that comprehensive education
would, like the tripartite and other scholarship systems preceding it, only
serve to further the interests of the middle classes."
(Amy Gdala 2003) -
Correspondence with
Cyril Burt
September 1969
Julie Ford, Ph.D, having worked for a year as an Assistant
Lecturer at London School of Economics, started teaching at Enfield. In
similar circumstances, Amy Gdala described herself as a "gaudy, arrogant
and flamboyant performer" (Gdala
2003) p.96). Dr Ford was elegant, confident, and a prematurely
accomplished teacher. She was also kind. Amy Gdala
has documented her
moral career
over the next twenty eight years. [See
Biscuits and
Caryatid]
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September 1969 Start of the
BA Social Science at Enfield. There was
a cohort of students who started in their second year. Andrew Roberts was
one of the first cohort of students who took the full (four year) course.
Bernard Burgoyne was teaching mathematics at Enfield when I
arrived. He
lent me his copy of
Euclid.
Dr Ray Aldridge-Morris led the School of Psychology from 1969 to 1982 and
from 1985 to 1987. (North Circular 10.2.1994)
mid-1980s photo by James Swinson
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Lynne Segal taught at Enfield (then Middlesex) from 1969 to 1999. Her
specialisations in 1984 were "social psychology, myths and realities of
family life and sex and gender".
Born in Australia in 1944, she obtained a Ph.D. from the University of
Sydney in 1969 with a thesis on "Conceptual Confusion in Experimental
Psychology". She left Australia for London (Islington) and was lecturer
grade two from 1969 to 1977, and then a senior lecturer (School of
Psychology)
"As a single parent in the early 1970s... financially secure and living
collectively, I was able to raise my son in what I still firmly believe
were ideal conditions.."
(Lynne Segal, 1983, p.25)
See
1979 -
1983 -
1987
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Second year
Socio-Economic Foundations of Public Policy was the "Core theme" for all
students.
From a bibliography, undated, aparently before 1974:
Personality and Society compulsory for sociologists.
Sociological Theory compulsory for sociologists consisted of:
Introduction
Comte and Positivisim
H. Spencer and Evolutionism
K. Marx and Dialectical Materialism
E. Durkheim and Functionalism
M Weber and Historical Nominalism
T. Parsons and Action Theory
G. Simmel and Formalism
Sociological Theory had replaced "Models of Society"
Above may have been Part-Time BASS
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John Lea "The State of Society". A review of
The State in Capitalist Society by
Ralph Miliband
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 45s. International Socialism (1st series),
No.41, December 1969/January 1970, p.42. Available at
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1969/no041/lea.htm
Gas engineers versus Socialist Society
In the student politics of my first year the conflicts appeared to be
between students organised by the Socialist Society (of which I was a
member) and students organised by the "gas-engineers". The gas engineers
were, I think, honest workers on part time release to learn their trade.
They perceived us as long-haired shirkers living off their taxes. But we
did not get many opportunities to debate the issues as the main political
activity was rushing ones forces in and out of the meeting room to try to
prevent the other side's motion being put to a quorate meeting.
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1969
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Guys and Dolls and Mother Goose (Christmas)
1970
Hornsey 1970 At the
beginning of 1970 confidence at Hornsey was low.
16.1.1970 A meeting of representatives of the
National Council for Diplomas in Art
and Design, Haringey Council, the Hornsey governors and the
Principal. A reassuring Press Release was issued by Haringey, but
Lisa Tickner (2008, p.79) presumes that the meeting received a
report that "cats doubt on the college's academic and administrative
structure..." [and] "expressed a lack of confidence in the Principal as
'sensitive or alert to the priorities essential to raise the low morale
amongst staff and students'"
4.3.1970 - The Times - College of Art students union last
night carried a motion that if Mr
David Page, an English Literature tutor,
was not allowed to renew his contract the union would regard this as a
political and not an academic decision. Mr. Page, a coeditor of the book,
The Hornsey Affair, about the sit-in two years ago, has been a constant
critic of the college administration.
(source)
17.3.2014 Hornsey Students Union called for the college to be
blacklisted and passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in the Principal
and administration. (Tickner
2008, p.79)
Enfield
1970 Built for Chemistry laboratories [No - Mechanical Engineering]
in 1955, the
McCrae Building
at Enfield
became home to the Flood Hazard Research Centre, founded by Edmund
Charles Penning-Rowsell (1946-) in 1970. . By the late 1990s,
this Centre has an international reputation for developing methods and
databases to measure the value of environmental improvements. It used
computer models to estimate the social and economic costs of flood damage.
See
The benefits of flood alleviation in 1977.
In
2000 Middlesex University was awarded its third Quaeen's
Anniversary Perize in recognition of the work of the Centre.
Edmund Penning-Rowsell was Head of the Centre until February 2010.
"Dialectical Methodology. Marx or Weber? The New Methodenstreit in Postwar
German Philosophy" The Times Literary Supplement 12.3.1970, pages
269-272. Also "Ponders End, Monography, 1970" (Quoted by Julie Ford in
1975). Author, at present, unknown.
Jock Young "Big
Business". A review of Organised Crime in America edited by Gus
Tyler
Ann Arbor Paperback, 25s. International Socialism, No.42,
February/March 1970. Available at
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1970/no042/young.htm
March 1970 John O'Neill took over from George Brosan as Principal of
Enfield College of Technology.
10.3.1970 "Dear Miss Ford": Letter from
Cyril Burt "I have read your
book
Social Class and the Comprehensive School with great
interest". There were further letters on 31.3.1970, 10.4.1970 and 16.5.1970
(Amy Gdala 2003)
Hendon
13.3.1970 Margaret Thatcher was well received at Hendon
MARGARET, MP, HANDS OUT THE HONOURS
The Hendon College of Technology degree ceremony last Friday was a very
special occasion. For Mrs. Margaret Thatcher. Shadow Minister for Education
and MP for North Finchley, was the guest of honour.
The degree winners were "chuffed" when Mrs Thatcher told them how
impressed she was with the wide range of courses that were offered at the
college and, indeed, the courses that would be offered in the future.
She praised the system of joining colleges to become polytechnics. And she
hoped they would become "centres of excellence in their own right."
Mrs Thatcher talked about what she believed were the aims of education.
First, it was "to bring out a young person's talents" Secondly, "to provide
sufficient reserves of skill for the economic growth of the nation," and
then, "to develop a capacity for informed and balanced judgment."
Finally, "to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to lead responsible
lives in society."
But the man who would have been most gratified by Mrs Thatcher's appraisal
was, unfortunately, away ill-the principal of the college, Mr. E. Williams.
His report was given by the acting principal, Mr R. H. C. Brousson, who
spoke about the development of the college as a community and, in
particular, the Students' Union.
He said: "Our students' union executive and the student body who support
them have, over the past few years, set a standard of responsible behaviour
which, I feel, has been an example which others could do well to follow.
"Students are represented on our governing body, the academic board,
departmental boards of studies and a number of college committees.
"The relations between the executive of the students' union and the staff
association are excellent, he added.
Among the other guests were the mayor and mayoress, Councillor and Mrs.
Victor Usher, the town clerk and Mrs. Williams, Alderman Freedman and Mrs.
Freedman, a number of councillors, members of the governing body, staff
governors and student governors, the chief education officer, Mr. Dawkins,
and guest principals from other colleges.
A year later, and now the Secretary of State for
Education and Science, Margaret Thatcher was
not well received at
Enfield
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Enfield
April 1970 Joan Robinson was a speaker at Enfield Socialist Society
meeting.
Thursday 18.6.1970 United Kingdom election. Unexpected Conservative
Victory under Edward Heath. - Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State for
Education and Science in the new government, attracted the "maximum of
political odium" (her words) for removing free-school milk for older
children.
September 1970 Peter Kennison joined the Metropolitan Police
(London) and served in the force for 25 years and 8 months to April 1996.
In August 1997 he became a senior lecturer at
Middlesex University. He is an authority on
London police
stations
1970 Jean Cooke, London University BA Sociology (1965), MSC
Demography (1966), then research and teaching at London University, began
teaching at Enfield. From 1970 to 1976 she was primarily involved in
teaching on BA Social Science. From 1976-1980 she arranged sandwich
placements for BA Social Science and BSc Society (?) and Technology. From
1980 she mainly taught Trade Union Studies.
1970
David Levy, MA Oxford, MSc London School of Economics (both
1970) began teaching at Enfield. See
1972 -
1976 -
1981 -
1987 -
1993
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Cat Hill September 1970 New buildings at Cat Hill opened
to house
Textile/Fashion and Three Dimensional Design for Hornsey College of Art and
Design.
The second phase of Cat Hill,
in September 1979, marked the
end of Hornsey - or its first re-birth.
1970
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Chu Chin Chow and Dick Whittington (Christmas)
1971
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Going in different directions
Enfield student politics set long haired left wingers against short haired
technicians. Or, in short-hand,
gas-engineers against sociologists. There
was none of the unity that the new polytechnic ideal was premised on.
("the fundamental purpose of the polytechnics is to attempt to refute the
putative dichotomy between vocation and intellect." below)
George Brosan took an American cover dated 15.2.1971 to
discuss what
could be done about the divide between industry and radical desire. How, he
asked, can we avoid "anti-industrial feeling" arising amongst students in
this country? ("The changing educational requirements of the chartered
production engineer" by G.S. Brosan, Production Engineer Volume 50,
Issue 6, June 1971, page 227).
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More going in different directions
The Drugtakers. The Social Meaning of
Drug Use by Jock Young published. See the
crime timeline
Perhaps the problem is that we have different values? We go in different
directions and that leads to conflict - And that is the way it is?
"Absolutists view society as an organic entity ... each part has its place
to play in an organised division of labour,
and there is, over and above individual ends, the notion of the general
social good" (Young, J. 1971, p.49)
On the other hand
"Relativists"... [see] "society as a multitude of groups each with its own
ends and interests who agree and cooperate over certain issues but who
conflict, sometimes drastically, over others" (Young, J. 1971, p.49)
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Enfield's new buildings
"In 1971, when there were 1,300 students on full-time or sandwich courses
and 900 part-time students, a new tutorial block was opened and Capel
Manor, Bull's Cross, acquired as a management centre." (Victoria County
History based on notes from senior tutor librarian)
The Pascal Laboratories were officially opened for
Engineering projects at the same tims as the Roberts Buildings (Tower
Block) for tutorial rooms. However, that building (Pascal) was erected
during
1968.
Pascal was named after
Eric Pascal who was Education
Officer of the Borough of Enfield from before
1937 until
1965, and
clerk to the Governors of Enfield College from 1949 to 1965. He and
George
Roberts
were clerk and chair of the Governing Body during the period that
Enfield began to develop as a degree level college. Pascal Laboratories
were demolished in the early 1990s and replaced by the
Pascal Building
Wednesday 17.3.1971
Margaret Thatcher was not well received at
Enfield
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Margaret Thatcher attended to officially
open the Roberts Building (Tower Block) and the Pascal
Laboratories. A protest demonstration by students led to her
leaving. The revolting students dedicated the Roberts Building
to the memory of the
1871 Paris Commune.
The jolly pink elephants are frequently seen dancing on the roof of the
Roberts Building - by some people!
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Tuesday 20.4.1971 Trial of four students at the Civic Centre, Silver
Street, Enfield 7.45pm.
Andrew Roberts, Dave Bounds, Mick Gentleman and M. O'Brien were
suspended for a week. It was a compromise solution between those who wanted
to expel them and those who feared judicial review.
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Hendon's new building
"The purpose built Williams Building (engineering)" was "completed in 1971"
((May 1975 Development
Plan
p.51)
In 1975 the "former Hendon College site" included this and the
"1930s building". Between them, they housed "humanities, social
science, engineering and catering courses"
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The
entrance
(right)
has
steps.
The farm
building
can be
seen on
the left.
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1971
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented My Fair Lady and Sleeping Beauty (Christmas).
Alec Stretch was 65 on 3.4.1971 so may have retired as a
lecturer about here. He continued to produce theatricals.
1972
Early 1972 Teacher Education and Training -
Report by a Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Secretary of State for
Education and Science, under the Chairmanship of Lord James of Rusholme
Vocation and
intellect
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"Dr
George Brosan the original director of N.E. London Polytechnic
wrote
in Grauniad in about 1972 (and I have reason to remember it well)
that 'the
fundamental purpose of the polytechnics is to attempt to refute the
putative dichotomy between vocation and intellect.'"
(source "Anonymous"
16.3.2011 - towards the bottom)
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1972? A survey of second homes in East Monmouthshire compiled
by J.P. Carr and W.I. Morrison. Monmouthshire studies. no.7. Report ;
Published Enfield : Planning Research Group, Enfield College of Technology
Edmund Charles Penning-Rowsell (1946-) Flood Hazard Research Project
Progress reports 1. Enfield : Enfield College of Technology, 1972.
ENFIELD COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY - Memo. From the Principal. 15.3.1972
ASSISTANCE TO ACADEMIC REGISTRAR
As a result of the recent internal advertisement I have appointed Mr
J.W. Hamer, Mr G.J.
Pridham and Mr F.A. Rhodes as Assistant Registrar. The three will assist Mr
Blockley as a team, in general matters but, in particular, they will take
College responsibility as follows:
J.W. Hamer - Academic staffing
Mr G.J. Pridham - Timetabling and Accommodation
Mr F.A. Rhodes - Examinations
Mr Hamer will continue to be responsible for the Programmed Instruction
Centre and Mr Pridham will continue as Section Head of Electronics.
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David Levy was teaching at Middlesex by the autumn of 1972, when
he became my (Andrew Roberts) personal tutor. He and
Ilona Phombeah
(from
far right wing and far left perspectives) ran the Political Sociology
course. David introduced me to
Mosca
and
Pareto. Later (before the publication of
Political Order) articles he shared with me developed the
idea of society as the necessary strucure for
human freedom.
Mike McKenna
"Empiricism and its Evolution". A review of Empiricism and its
Evolution, A Marxist View by George Novack. Pathfinder Press,
£1.05. International Socialism (1st series), No.53, ,
October-December 1972, pp.41-42. Available at
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1972/no053/mckenna.htm
6.12.1972
Written Statement launching Education White Paper (A Framework for
Expansion) - See George Brosan, 1973,
"The making of the
Eurograd"
(website)
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1972 - 1975 Lesley Davies studied for
Certificate of Education in
Primary School Teaching at
Trent Park College of Education. It was, she says, the "pre-B.Ed
era". After a varied career she is now an "Artist Geometer" "inspired by
"many traditions across
the world. Sacred Geometry, timeless and universal, grows from the symmetry
to be found in the natural world and represents the interconnectedness of
all things."
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1972-1973 Planning of the revised BA Social Science
1972
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented The Pajama Game and Cinderella (Christmas)
Middlesex Polytechnic
1.1.1973
Middlesex Polytechnic established, combining
Enfield
and
Hendon
Colleges of
Technology and the
Hornsey College of Art. Raymond Rickett Director 1972?-
1991
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1981 - The 1973 headings were sans serif
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The Polytechnic had no logo and no more fancy headings than the above (A
1981 example). The degree certificates
its students received were from the Council for National Academic Awards,
with its heading.
31.1.1973 First edition of North Circular. Headline was "Row
brews
over faculty boards". (Picture in North Circular. 28.1.1993)
Part of the text of an (edited) letter to North Circular from Andrew
Roberts in
February 1998
"When I came as a student, in 1969, I saw Enfield College of Technology, a
one campus college with a radical culture in which everyone could
participate by attending meetings in the main hall. When we became
Middlesex Polytechnic (and then a University), the visible unity vanished.
New students could no longer see anything unless they had telescopic eyes
that could see the many separate parts of Middlesex, on either side of the
North Circular ring road.
That is why the North Circular newspaper was created. It was to hold
the
parts of our academic body together. I went to meetings where the first
editor,
Bobby de Joia,
explained her dream of North Circular as a paper in
which all of us, staff and students, would take an active part. It was to
be the forum to replace the college hall, the debating chamber to replace
the student hustings, the show case to represent the people's university to
the world outside. This was what the new student would see when he or she
looked for the unity of the academic community that he or she had joined.
According to an
alumni source (August 2013) Graduation
ceremonies were cancelled in 1974 after the Students Union
threatened protests if university funds were used towards graduation
ceremonies. It relates this to
Margaret Thatcher's visit and to "government
cuts to the education budget". In 1975 and 1976, "no suitable venue could
be found to accommodate all of the colleges that had come together to form
Middlesex Polytechnic in 1973".
"A number of us have been getting together and having reunions over the
last five or six years and realised that we had never had a degree
ceremony," said event organiser John Thay, who completed his BA Business
Studies degree in 1975.
"We decided that we should hold our own ceremony and thankfully we
approached the Alumni Association and they came on board and helped us
organise the event."
Following several months planning, ten of the 'Ponderonians' were welcomed
back to the University by Anna Kyprianou, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of
the Business School, herself an alumni of the Ponders End campus.
Middlesex was the first University in the UK to offer a
Business Studies
degree and Barbara Frost, who helped devise the programme and later went on
to be Course Leader, attended the ceremony to present John and his former
classmates with their degrees.
Former BA Social Sciences course leader Bryan Davies, now the Labour peer
Baron Davies of Oldham, was also there to hand his former students their
scrolls.
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Art and Design The Hornsey Principal (Harold Shelton)
became assistant director (research and consultancy) and acting Dean of Art
and Design. "In 1975 Mr John Reid, who had a standing asociation with the
College as a member of its govening body, was appointed dean of Art and
Design" (Resigned 1978. Harold Shelton retired in 1978).
Peter Green appointed Dean in John Reid's place.
(Ashwin 1982, p. 41)
1973 Readings in Art and Design Education 1. After Hornsey.
Edited by David Warren Piper.
Enfield and
Hendon
[Enfield Campus]
1973
Gertie Beckett became Administrator of Social Science.
Ted Lewis was teaching at the
Hendon College of
Technology when it became
part of the new Middlesex Polytechnic in 1973. Gertie Beckett 4.8.1998:
"From the time of the inauguration of the Polytechnic in 1973, Ted Lewis
was Assistant Dean for Geography and Planning and was based at Hendon. I am
not sure when Geography was transferred from Hendon to Enfield but I have
Social Science Resource Centre staffing lists for 1980/1981 which still
show him as being based at Hendon."
OR: Ted Lewis was acting Dean of Social Science for two years from 1974 and
then reverted to head of economics and geography.
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The cover design for J.H. Abraham's Origins and Growth of Sociology
is by the Italian graphic artist Flavio Constantini (1926- ).
Joseph Hayim Abraham (now in
Ghana) had been the first
sociologist at Enfield. This reader in sociological theory followed his
Teach Yourself Sociology (1966). Many of the authors shown in
the tree of sociological knowledge were part of the historical approach to
sociology adopted at Enfield by tutors such as
Ilona Phombeah and
Jock Young
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1973 The
New Criminology by Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and
Jock Young, set out a
specifically social theory of deviance, developed after an analysis of
criminology since the 18th century. Particular attention was paid to the
theories of Robert King Merton and Friedrich Engels.
Book of the year for
1973
For many years (from before and after 1973) the only undergraduate teaching
of Criminology at Enfield was a second year BASS option on Deviant
Behaviour which followed the plan for this book, as it was written, and
continued with the same syllabus afterwards. In the classes I attended,
Jock Young would read out extracts from his drafts as the lecture.
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Criminology: See
1973 -
MA Deviancy and Social Policy
-
Centre for Criminology 1986 -
1998 [Hello Criminology -
Goodbye Sociology] -
21.3.1973 Symposium on "Advances in Behavioural Geography" at the
Middlesex Polytechnic, Hendon. Listed by Dennis Hardy as "Hendon College of
Technology". Dennis presented a paper on "Recreational Space and Social
Planning". Ronald John Johnston (born 30.3.1941), Reader Department of
Geography, University of Canterbury presented a paper on "Mental Maps: An
Assessment". Peter Michael Townroe (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies,
University of Birmingham) presented a paper
on "Industrial location search behaviour and regional development" (14
leaves).
September 1973 Andrew Roberts thinks this was the start of the
MA Deviancy and Social Policy, but David Porteus believes it started in
1972.
"it was the first post-graduate degree to be taught outside a university
anywhere in the country" - "In
1986 the MA Deviancy and Social Policy was renamed MA
Criminology"
(Mulholland and Porteus)
1973
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Half a Sixpence - Something's Gonna Happen -
and Aladdin (Christmas)
1974
1974
John Rex's
Approaches to Sociology. An
Introduction to
Major Trends in British Sociology contains contributions
from twelve academics, eleven connected to a "university" and one (Jock
Young) to a "polytechnic". The universities are
Birmingham, Edinburgh,
Kent,
Leicester, London (including
LSE), Oxford, Warwick and York,
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The figures are based on those in the May 1975 Development Plan. I have split
figure two (see Middlesex oblong above) into west and east. This
shows the sites as they were in 1974/1975.
Figure three
shows the sites as envisaged in the mid 1980s.
1.9.1974
Trent Park College incorporated
into Middlesex
Polytechnic.
Trent Park: Georgian Mansion, the site of the former Trent Park College of
Education. Situated in extensive scheduled parkland, the site includes
student living accommodation and specialist facilities for music, art,
drama and handicraft. Most Education courses are sited here.
(May 1975
Development Plan)
October 1974 Appointment of the working group that produced the
May 1975 Development Plan
Poly south west of Trent Park
Located on the northern extremity, Trent Park's parkland context and
architectural style rapidly made it the home of the upper directorate - The
point from which everything was viewed.
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Poly south east of Trent Park
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Middlesex Polytechnic Sites in alphabetical order:
Accomodation "in use" figures for 1.4.1975. Table 2, page 23
Alexandra Palace The Badmington Suite, used by Fine Art
and Film and
Television courses, is located in the southwest wing. The courses are
scheduled to move to new accommodation by
1977. [Lease expires 1977]
2,000 square meters of accommodation.
47 Bowes Road "A small, isolated site housing the three
Graphic
Design courses" ... to move to Cat Hill in 1977.
700 square meters of
accommodation
Bounds Green
Capel House A Georgian Mansion used for short courses in
Business
and Management.
800 square meters of accommodation
Cat Hill (Phase 1).
5,600 square meters of accommodation
Church Street Short-term accommodation housing some
central
Polytechnic functions including Communications and Admissions.
Crouch End Hill
3,400 square meters of accommodation
Enfield
The largest
site. 21,000 square meters of accommodation including the Swan Annexe.
17 South Grove
(Jaxa Works)
900 square meters of accommodation
South Grove "Accommodation shared with a primary school,
currently
housing four-year Graphic Design courses... scheduled to move to Cat Hill
in 1977.
1,900 square meters of accommodation
Trent Park
17,800 square meters of accommodation.
Hendon
15,100
square meters of accommodation.
Ivy House
1,500 square meters of accommodation
Page Green
School accommodation housing postgraduate Art Teacher
training and in-service teachers' courses. The work here is expected to
move to Trent Park.
1,100 square meters of accommodation
Art and design 1974. From 1.9.1974 art and design students
enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours through the
Council for National Academic Awards instead of
Diploma in Art and Design.
The National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design and the Council for
National Academic Awards merged.
(Design Journal 1974)
BA Social Science revised
1974
[Enfield Campus] The first resubmission of the BA Social
Science (BASS)
(in
1974) saw a number of changes. A Psychology specialisation was introduced,
and with five possible specialisations a large intake was proposed. To make
this more manageable, the course was split into two "branches" - [etc] The
initial phase of the course - interdisciplinary and preparatory - was
separated out as a general Phase 1 for all students, lasting two terms
[etc]
September 1974? Start of the revised BA Social Science. This
included a new foundation course for all students called "Man and Society".
The course was apapted, and changed its name to
"Society, History and
Environment (SHE)" in 1980. It eventually became "History of
Social Ideas".
Original Aims of "Man and Society"
1) To provide a pre-disciplinary introduction to the development of
issues in various social science disciplines, with reference to Britain,
France and Germany in the period from the Enlightenment to the early 20th
century.
2) To examine the distinction between nature and society, and to look
at what follows from that distinction in the development of social theory
and contemporary social science.
3) To discuss which issues from the enlightenment and from the 19th
century origins of social science are still relevant to contemporary social
theory.
4) To assist the incoming student in her choice of future modules by
illustrating the problems considered, and the methods used, by the
different social sciences.
5) To help students develop skills essential for college-level work, to
help students overcome non-academic, non-technical barriers to learning,
and to introduce students to the breadth of the social sciences, and of
college level work generally.
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1974
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Encore ETCEA and Babes in the Wood (Christmas)
1975
Paradigms and FairyTales is a contender for my Middlesex University
book
of all
times and
Picaso: a computer language for art and design by
John Vince is my thesis of the year for 1975
Paradigms and Fairy Tales by
Julienne
Ford used the idea that
theories are like fairy tales ... The following people did "their damndest"
to destroy her faith in the credibility of her own ideas: Peter Blau,
Steven Box,
Bernard Burgoyne (who also corrected some of her sums and
appears as an alchmist in the first picture), Aaron Cicourel, David Cowell,
Len Doyle,
Jeff Evans, Sunshine
Ford (aged?), George Homans, Michael Lane, John Offord, Ray Pahl, Jonathan
Powers,
Jock Young "and the window cleaner whose name is Richard"
1975
Geoff Dench
Maltese in London
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"I dropped mathematics at 12, through some freak of the
syllabus. And that, effectively though I did not appreciate it at the time,
closed most careers and half of culture to me forever. I cannot deny that I
dropped maths with a sigh of relief, for I had always loathed it, always
felt uncomprehending even while getting tolerable marks, didn't like the
subjects I wasn't good at, and had no notion of this subject's appeal or
significance. The reason I imagine, was that, like most girls, I had been
badly taught from the beginning: I am not really as innumerate as I
pretend, and suspect there is little wrong with the basic equipment. But
I shall never know" (Margaret Drabble. The Guardian 5.9.1975. Quoted
as the opening words of the
Mathematics Diagnostic and Developmental Booklet in
1977.)
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Picaso: a computer language for art and design
available online. See
above.
Bounds Green
"Bounds Green: Large, new warehouse/office accomodation acquired in
April
1975. The site, expected to accomdate some 1,200 students, will undergo
phased adaptation to house engineering and design work among other
disciplines"
(May 1975 Development Plan
p.45)
1975-1985 Bounds Green Campus created for Design and Engineering in
several stages: 20,000 square meters... including library,
restaurant, sports hall, lecture theatres, general teaching and
administrative accommodation and one of London's
largest indoor streets.
Architect: Charles Thomson of Studio 54 Archtecture.
(source)
Site history
1910 Glassworks established on the site of the former Bounds Green
Farm.
This became the Standard Bottle Company Limited (established in 1836) in
1926. [Site north of Cline Road,
Bounds Green]
(London Borough of Haringey
Contaminated Land Strategy
citing Wood Green Past by Albert Pinching, Historical
Publications, 2000)
It was destroyed by fire and closed
in 1971. The Standard Bottle Company (which used the site until the
fire) had been acquired by Heenan Beddow in 1970. (Victoria County
History). The company had been making "substantial trading losses". Under
the new owners the company in 1971 was "trading profitably", but "the
return on capital employed does not justify the continuing operation of the
plant" (Company statement quoted by Red Mole
Red Mole 20.10.1971 makes no mention of a fire. On
6.10.1971 the "men" working for the company were told that 250 of
them would be made redundant from 22.10.1971 and the remaining 50,
retained as skeleton staff, by the new year (1972). The factory will be
replaced by warehouses.
The new Middlesex Polytechnic acquired the site for its
engineering and design teaching in April 1975
The first part of the Bounds Green Campus was
established "in a concrete warehouse" by Rock Townsend 1977-1981. "This was
to give a high-tech factory image by recladding in sheet steel, with much
colourful pipework exposed in an open-plan interior." (Edith's Streets - London Local History)
1977 Handbook/Diary suggests that the administrative accommodation
had been opened as most of the second tier of senior administrative staff
are based at Bounds Green (the top tier were at Trent Park). The Art and
Design "Resource Centre" (Dean: John Reid) was mostly at Bounds Green
(Peter Green at Hornsey). The Dean of Engineering Science and Mathematics
(John Osborne-Moss and two assistants were at Bounds Green, but the other
Resource Centre members listed were at Enfield. The site manager was Ron
Grisley (Level 4). Rooms for booking were limited compared to other sites.
A conference room seated 50. Room 3.1 seated 25 and was to be fitted with
teleconference facilities and there "are also four rooms seating up to 10".
(p.34). There was no library. A remote batch terminal to the
Hendon
DEC
System-10 was planned. Although the computers were at Hendon,
"Peter Hammersley, based at Bounds Green, is the head of computing
services" (p.42) [By 1985, the DEC System-10 had moved to Bounds Green].
Some workshops had opened: "Art and design
and engineering workshops provide facilities for prototype model making;
fibreglass, timber, plasterwork, glazing, photography, in addition to
electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering laboratories and drawing
offices" (p.43) A "temporary catering service" was located in "bay four".
The Students Union did not have a presence at Bounds Green.
9.9.1980
Peter Hammersley, head of computer services at Middlesex
Polytechnic,
gave a "wide ranging talk covering the general development of
microprocessors and the increasing role of micro-electronics in updating
production and commercial practices" to The North London Branch of
"Institute of Management Services,"
1982 Data Communications System linking all major sites to Bounds
Green initially installed using a Case DCX asynchronous network. This
lasted until the early 1990s.
1985/1986 Two IBM4381 computers installed at Bounds Green to replace
the DEC-10. [One was for academic use and the other included
administration]. For up to a year, the two systems ran in parallel while
the
workload from the DEC 10 was transferred.
VAX (after 1985)
1985 Bounds Green
Campus completed.
July 1989
Telephone Directory 1995 -
Telephone Directory 1998
closed 2003
rave photograph
2004
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May 1975 Development Plan for the Middlesex Polytechnic
The Department of Education and Science had requested a plan from each
polytechnic dealing with the academic, physical and other aspects of its
development. The two hundred page plan for Middlesex was for submission by
the Joint Education committee of the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield
and Haringey "which carry local responsibility for the provision of
resources" (Preamble). A working party, chaired by
Alf Holt, had been
established in
October 1974 and had met weekly or more as necessary. Other
members included [Ian?] J.C. Berry [BSc Eng CEng MIMechE], Principal
Lecturer, Engineering; H.F.
Dickie, Assistant Dean, Education and Performing Arts; Peter Green,
Assistant Dean, Art and Design [a former Head of the Teacher Training
Department of
Hornsey College of Art]; D. Mitcheson, Principal Lecturer,
Accounting; and
Jonathan Powers, Principal Lecturer, Philosophy.
Polytechnic to explore a "learner-centred approach to education" and
to set up "pilot projects on the use of educational technology in certain
areas".
Polytechnic "committed to furthering the idea of 'education
permanente'" [Continuing eduction, life-long re-training], so it will
facilitate transfer between part-time and full time study and
working with the Open University and other institutions to facilitate
transfer from one to the other.
Polytechnic will "seek to raise the volume of its research activity
from its present low level"
Planned increase from 4,900 full-time and sandwich and 1,900 part-time
students 8,600 full-time and sandwich and 4,000 part-time by 1981. Ultimate
size of polytechnic might be 10,000 full-time and sandwich and
corresponding
increase in part-time
Faculty
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1974
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1981
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Art and Design
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727
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1100
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Business Studies and Management
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804
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1600
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Education and Performing Arts
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1397
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1200
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Engineering and Science
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634
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1500
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Humanities
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556
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1100
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Social Science
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800
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1600
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Present 860 (Full-time equivalent) academic staff to be increased
1090 by 1981.
1975 Piccadilly line plan
University to be concentrated on four major sites: Trent Park, and
expanded Cat Hill, development on the recently acquired Bounds Green site,
a new "open" site. Sites to be "within fairly easy access of one another by
both public and private transport".
Closure of
Jaxa Works (highest priority), Bowes Road, South Grove
School and Page Green School all urgent. Phased withdrawal from Hendon
between 1977 and 1980. Phased withdrawal from Enfield between 1980 and the
mid 1980s.
Three plans from underground
Whilst looking at the Polytechnic from the top (Trent Park), it was
important to look at from underground. How would people get from site to
site? The 1975 Development Plan argued that radial routes should
replace orbital routes. The key to Polytechnic planning over the
next quarter of a century and more was the London Underground map.
The map below is based on the 1969 map.
The Picaddilly Line plan
Trent Park is a 15? minute walk up Snakes Lane from Oakwood at the north of
the Picaddilly Line. Cat Hill can be reached from Oakwood or Cockfosters.
These are at the far north of the London conurbation, in the Green Belt,
but they are (just) on the underground and Bounds Green is just a few
stations to the south.
The Picaddilly Victoria Line plan
At Finsbury Park and Seven Sisters it is possible to change radial routes
without going into central London. Finsbury Park links the Picaddilly and
Victoria Lines and so connects to Seven Sisters and Tottenham Hale. Seven
Sisters links to the overground running north to Southbury
(for Enfield
College). When All Saints College, Tottenham, which is also on
this line,
joined the Polytechnic
(1978), it opened up the
possibility of a University that
included Lee Valley sites. Eventually this focused on creating a new
campus at
Tottenham Hale - a plan abandoned
after 2004
The Northern Line plan
Hendon is isolated on the Northern Line (Hendon Central - 10 minutes walk).
The only way Hendon could be considered as a University site of the future
was if all the
University was to be concentrated there. This idea was
not considered until
the 21st century.
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September? 1975
Diploma of Higher Education Social Science Set started. Student
numbers increased from 25 in the first year to 150 in 1980. On achieving
the Diploma, some students wished to proceed to a degree. Thiw was possible
with an additional year at the City of London Polytechnic or two years on
the Middlesex Polytechnic BA Social Science Sandwich Course.
(MP 1981 pp 3-4)
1975
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz (Christmas)
1976
Amy Gdala moved into a tiny derelict
14th/15th century
cottage in the Powys
hills in Wales. She then spent thirty years rennovating this by hand,
unaided by electricity or vehicles. See
1949 -
1969 -
1970 -
1982 -
1997 -
2002 -
2003 -
2005
The Never Setting Sun: Poems of imperial
England selected and introduced by
David Levy.
April 1976 The Second Conference of Twentieth Century
Design
History was held at Middlesex Polytechnic. The first had been held at
Newcastle Polytechnic in 1975 and he third was held at Brighton in 1977.
The focus of the 1976 confererence was "Leisure and Design in the Twentieth
Century" and the Design Council published the collected papers of this
conference ("Leisure in the twentieth century", 1977, edited by Bridget
Wilkins). The fourteen papers published included ones on "The History and
Development of Do-It-Yourself" by David
Johnson, founder of Do-It-Yourself magazine, "Women and Trousers" by
Lisa Tickner, "Art
and Design as
a Sign System" by Jon Bird, "Having a Bath - English Domestic Bathrooms" by
Mark
Swenarton and
"Transportation and Personal Mobility" by Noel Lundgren. ("Design history
from a British
perspective", by Jonathan M Woodham in
Towards a disciplinary identity
of the making professions - The Oslo Millennium Reader
Bridget Wilkins (born 9.4.1943 Crowborough, East Sussex, UK. Now lives
Hertfordshire). She taught at Hornsey School of Art and pioneered
the development of a methodology for Design History and the formulation of
first MA History of Design at Middlesex Polytechnic.
(source)
1976
Enfield Technical College
Entertainments Association
presented Fiddler on the Roof and Puss in Boots (Christmas)
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1977 The benefits of flood alleviation by
Edmund Charles Penning-Rowsell published by Saxon House
(Farnborough,
Hampshire) 320 pages. With varying names (for example, The benefits of
flood and coastal risk management : a manual of assessment techniques
(2005) this has become a perennial.
This is my choice for Middlesex University
book of the year for
1977
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Easter 1977
ETCEA musical Kismet to be performed at Easter.
"Rehearsals for Kismet were frequently disrupted by students conducting a
campaign of sit-ins. Just before Easter, the police finally evicted the
students and the Polytechnic authorities ordered that the College be closed
throughout the holiday. As a result, a number of our scheduled performances
of Kismet had to be cancelled at the last moment."... "Ill health had
forced
Alec Stretch into retirement" and "he died in June 1977 after an
extended illness". The company moved to the Broxbourne Civic Hall in
Hoddesdon and the nect perfomance was Robinson Crusoe in 1977/1978
By 1977 , Middlesex University had two computers. The new one was a DEC
System- 10 computer at Hendon which "offers both batch and multi-access
processing facilities to all sites" (Handbook/Diary p.42)] Used for
SPSS
1978
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Tottenham became part of Middlesex University. Later it was
closed and the later reopened, before eventually closing in
2005 See email
4.12.2003
Graham Handley's The College of All Saints - An Informal
History of One Hundred Years was published by The College of All
Saints, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London, N17 in 1978. 47 pages plus
eight pages of illustrations
Contents: Foreword - 1. St Katharine's College, 1878-1919 - 2. St
Katharine's, 1919 -1864 - 3. Berridge House, 1893-1964 - 4. The College of
All Saints, 1964-1978 - Conclusion. Illustrations.
This is my choice for Middlesex University
book of the year for
1978
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[Enfield Campus] Psychology decided to base its laboratories on
microcomputers. They used
South West Technical 6800 computers using 6502
(Intel) chips. They had a text editor. This meant you had to put in command
lines.
1978 Feminism and Materialism: Women and modes of production
edited by Annette Kuhn and
AnnMarie Wolpe.
1978 Anthony Sidney White's PhD graduated from Queen Margaret
University
College (1963 - 1978?) He graduated from Queen Mary College, London
University in
Aeronautical Engineering and later completed a PhD in the
same subject, as well as a PhD in Mechatronics. He also holds MSc degrees
in Astrophysics and Geophysics. After working as a research engineer for
Hawker Siddeley Dynamics he returned to academia to teach Fluid
Mechanics.
He was Dean of School of Engineering Systems at Middlesex University
until 2000 and then
moved to the School of Computing Science as Professor of Systems
Engineering.
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His research has moved to Mechatronics, especially Control
Engineering,
Robotics and Simulation, more recently to using Neural Nets
and Fuzzy control of management and manufacturing problems. Professor White
has considerable experience of Project Management and Quality Systems.
source. See also
research interests.
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1978 Margaret House a Ph.D. research student at Middlesex. Returned
as a post doctoral research fellow in
1986. Dean of the School of Health and Social Sciences
2002. Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Academic
2005
13.5.1978 First edition of the free weekly newspaper the Enfield
Advertiser launcehd by George Shiells. Sold to United Newspapers in 1985,
George Shiells remained as Chairman until 1989. He continued to act as a
consultant to United Newspapers until his retirement in 1993.
September 1978 Tottenham Probation Office, Anthony Goodman, began
his five year MA Deviancy and Social Policy course at Middlesex University.
In his first year, he bought a copy of
Policing the
Crisis
December 1978 Second Resubmission to CNAA. BA Social Science.
Honours and Unclassified, Full Time with placement Specialisations in
Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, Planning Studies, Applied
Social Science.
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"Use will be made of the Polytechnic
DEC-10
computing facilities to
introduce the students to the use of the package statistical analysis
programmes (particularly
SPSS)" (Phase 2 Planning Studies Data Collection and Analysis.
Compulsory. BASS1978 volume 2, p.189)
1979
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Sheila Rowbotham,
Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright Beyond the Fragments:
Feminism and the Making of Socialism
1979
Alan Spackman took
early retirement and involved himself in the restoration of Markfield Road
Beam Engine
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1979
Alternative Communities in Nineteenth
Century England by
Dennis Hardy
3.5.1979 Conservatives led by Margaret Thatcher won the
General
Election in the
United
Kingdom. The key word from now on was to be
enterprise. The word that was no longer desirable was
planning
Society, History, Environment (SHE)
Society, History, Environment was the foundation course for all BA Social
Science students from 1980. It was developed from
Man and Society by
Ilonah Phombea who persuaded academics from
all specialisations to take part in regular seminars to devise a course
that would be truly inter-disciplinary and not just a mixture. The solution
adopted was to begin in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when
theory had not yet specialised.
The title Society, History, Environment (SHE) came to
Bernard Burgoyne in his bath, as he pondered avoiding the
genitally challenged title Man and Society.
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September 1979
Cat Hill phase two opened. Graphic design moved to
Cat Hill. In 1980 the Foundation Course moved to Cat Hill and the Crouch
End building at
Hornsey was vacated.
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But then, on 10.7.1980 fire
destroyed the Fine Art accommodation at Alexandra Palace and Fine Art moved
back into the Crouch End building before moving to
Quicksilver Place in
1981. Quicksilver Place courses moved to Cat Hill in 2003?, but Cat
Hill courses all moved to
The Grove at Hendon in September 2011.
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2014 map of Cat Hill site. Note ponds to north and south and surrounding
woodlands.
I believe phase one is the part entered from the A110 along the path going
south to
Sheila MacEwan and phase two is the part entered from Chase Side
(A111) along the path to the circular building.
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1980s teachers increasingly studied for the one year Postgraduate
Certificate in Education (PGCE), although a BEd degree was also available.
At this point many colleges were absorbed into polytechnics and colleges of
higher education.
(source)
[I think this means that after
1972, when all graduate teachers became the
aim, and the decision to open teacher training colleges to people not
training to be teachers, teacher training as it had been known ceased to
exist and was replaced by degree students taking a Postgraduate
Certificate in Education]
1980
1980
Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Editor) History and Philosophy of
Logic.
Abacus Press.
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1980 Phil Shaw came to work in Graphic Design at
Cat Hill.
He was born and brought up in the West Yorkshire woollen and engineering
town of Huddersfield. He studied painting at Leeds Polytechnic and went on
to study printmaking at the Royal College of Art.
In 2000 he was awarded a
Doctorate in Printmaking from Middlesex University.
Phil Shaw's trademark prints are of shelves of books. He paints with pixels
and light on the computer.
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The shelves shown are a print presented to world
leaders at the 2013 G8 summit in Ireland. They contain a hidden message
from
Adam Smith "What can be added to the happiness of a man who is
in health, out of debt and has a clear conscience".
1980 MA in Design History at Middlesex. At the same time a
conference on "The problems of taste".
1981
David Levy
Realism: An essay in interpretation and social
reality
[Enfield Campus:]
Friday 1.5.1981 Leaving Party for
Gertie Beckett's
retirement. A tape was made of the speeches. Gertie sent me a copy, with a
covering letter, on 4.8.1998 [Media Services Middlesex Polytechnic. "Copy
of G.E.B' Leaving Party Tape - 1st May 1981"]. I am transcribing from this
tape as part of this history.
Speeches were made by
John Osborne-Moss,
John Carr,
Audrey Hardwick,
George Brosan and
John O'Neil, John O'Neil
said to Audrey Hardwick when the date was being arranged "May the first.
That sounds an Enfield sort of time."
The story
was recounted that when Gertie met George Brosan she commented that he was
the third Principal she had acted as secretary to.
Henry Broadbent had
appeared to her as her grandfather,
Roderick McCrae as
her father. He (Brosan) seemed more like a brother. So she wondered what
the next one would seem like.
It was said that Gertie wrote all of Brosan's
agendas and minutes and John O'Neil remarked that one never read Gertie's
name in the accounts of Enfield's history but that wherever one looked it
was her typing.
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Thursday 11.6.1981: Jacqueline Horesh's leaving party at 31 Derby
Road.
Quicksilver Place A large 1980s era glass facade commercial building
at Quicksilver Place which runs off Western Road, N22 and is located west
of Wood Green Town Centre. The property is situated between a former
swimming pool that is now a conference and event venue [The Decorium, 22
Western Road] and a large depot
building with Alexandra School situated directly across the road. The
property is not situated within a Conservation Area. [It is somewhere in
that picture! The Decorium is on the left side corner of Western Road and
Alexander School on the right.]
PLANNING HISTORY
OLD/1981/1654 - Change of use from general industrial to use for Middlesex
Polytechnic - GRANTED 28.4.1981
HGY/2004/1115 - Change of use of units from D1 to B2 - GRANTED 1.9.2004
Now Police. Quicksilver Patrol Base. Unit 1. Quicksilver Place. Western
Road.
Hornsey
Century preparation
7.3.1981 Letter from
Sheila MacEwan in a Nursing Home, Highfield Manor, N.H. Bideford
[In HCA/3/2/4] Hornsey
School of Art "was my life from 1913 to 1956". The Principals she knew
(Swinstead,
Moody and
Platt) were "three completely different men with totally
different ideals"
were
16.3.1981 letter from Peter Green to Sheila MacEwan
4.8.1981 Notes by Peter Green from an interview with
Sheila MacEwan in Bideford. Handwritten and typed manuscripts
in HCA/3/2/4
27.8.1981 letter from Peter Green to Sheila MacEwan
[In HCA/3/2/4]
1982
Computing Apart from a photograph of screen printing (a keyboard and
visual display unit) nothing in Clive Ashwin's history to 1982 suggests
computing. The final student working
on Graphic Design uses a pencil and on Three Dimensional Design a potters
wheel.
12.5.1982
Sheila MacEwan died in Bideford
27.5.1982 Peter Green sent an obituary of Sheila MacEwan to the
Hornsey Journal
The Message, album of the American hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash
and the Furious Five released in 1982 on Sugar Hill Records. Amy Gdala
argues that from here "rap" ceased to be a challenge and a debate and "took
a dive into autism".
"Once upon a time 'rap' had been the thing the Panthers did,
the enthusiastic discussion of ideas. The Rastas called it 'reasoning'...
What they now call 'Rap' ... isn't even really a sharing kind of thing.
Rather it is a monologue or rant"
Education was doing the same thing "Now the machines
were taking over -
computers, vibrators and drum-machines"
Gdala 2003 p. 97)
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer "drum machine" introduced by the Japanese
Roland Corporation in 1983. It, and similar products can be related to the
"techno" and "acid" music of the 1980s (See Wikipedia)
The cultural popularity of the vibrator may have been more a feature of the
1990s, rather than the 1980s. It should not be confused with a
caryatid
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1983
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Spring 1983
A
Cat Hill BA Graphic Design student Cath Johnson (23) wore a
toast
dress designed by fellow student John Pretious as part of his final
project. She also modelled a jammy dodger necklace and raw bacon and cling
film. Her raw bacon and cling film picture ("pre-digital") was used to
advertise an album by The Undertones: "All wrapped up" - "30 sizzling
cuts". Criticised as sexist at the time.
(sauce -
sauce)
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"The picture associated women with being meat" -
Women were "ever more blatantly consumed yet degraded as sex objects" (Lynn
Segal - below - p. 61) - "It was pure happiness. It was just very funny"
(Cath Johnson)
Digital was coming. The National Centre for Computer Aided Art and Design
was founded at Cat Hill in 1985.
Graphics were not glamorous though.
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The
family "symbolises our deepest
dreams and fears... of love, intimacy,
stability, safety, security, privacy ... of abandonment, chaos and failure"
(Lynne Segal
p.9)
"that image of the husband out at work and the wife at home with her young
baby embodies the idea of family life - like an eternal freeze frame from
the video of life". (Lynne Segal p.215)
"a Gallup Poll commissioned by Woman's Own in 1979... found that
four out of five mothers would want to go out to work... and that 96 per
cent thought that the council should provide child-care provision" (Lynne
Segal p.228)
"A socialist feminist perspective would seek to foster new and wider
bonds
of love and loyalty beyond ties of
blood and
marriage" (Lynne Segal p.229)
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1984
What is to be Done About Law and Order - Crisis in
the Eighties by John Lea and
Jock Young published - See the
crime timeline
Thursday 28.6.1984
John Farquarhar's farewell party.
1984 About 50 graduated BA Graphic Design from
Cat Hill. In
June 2004, twenty-five of
them attended a re-union organised by the Alumni Association. All were
still working in the design area, many with their own companies. Lecturer
Phil Shaw, who attended the event said "Those of us who used to
eat at the
Oakwood Palace regularly were delighted to see the same old chap scurrying
around serving food."
Before the meal the participants had a tour round the Cat Hill campus and
then broke the ice in a nearby pub. One of the re-union organisers,
Claire Henley, described the re-union as a triumph. "We all had
a totally fabulous
time," she says. "We emerged from the restaurant at midnight, determined to
do it all again in five years".
1984 - 1986
Clive Boddy's
postgraduate studies in
Marketing included
Liverpool John Moores University. He was an executive with Frank Small and
Associates in Sydney, Taiwan and Korea from 1987 to 1993 and then President
of Asia
Market Intelligence in Korea until 1996.
He joined Middlesex University
Business School in
2000. In 2012 he spoke on
"Bullying and Corporate Psychopaths at
Work".
1985
Bounds Green Campus completed in 1985. At some stage engineering
of all kinds moved from the Enfield Campus to Bounds Green. The
Pascal Laboratories
became redundant and were replaced by the
Pascal Building. The following established entry no longer
appeared in Handbook/Diary for
1987/1988 "Enfield: Civil engineering and applied science
laboratories and workshops with specialist facilities and workshops in the
Pascal laboratories for projects and research."
We did not usually have pictures on the cover of our handbook/diaries.
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Back:
All
Saints
Enfield
Trent
Park
Front:
Cat
Hill
Bounds
Green
Hendon.
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North Circular and the Handbook part of the
Handbook/Diary were the basis of the Polytechnic's corporate information
system from
1973
until the development of the new
telephone directory in
1995
and subsequent development of email,
intranet and internet connections.
19.10.1985 a seminar held at the London School of Economics: Papers
pubilshed as On the Margins: Marginal space and marginal economics
the School of Geography and Planning, Middlesex Polytechnic. Edited by
Dennis Hardy.
1986
Ted Lewis became head of Academic Development Unit at Middlesex University
before becoming the first head of Academic Development and Quality
Assurance.
Landscape meanings and values edited by Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell,
and David Lowenthal. London : Allen and Unwin, 1986. 160 pages.
A report of a symposium organised by the Landscape Research Group, 4-6
April, 1984 at Royal Institution, London and Down Hall, Essex.
1986
John Vince left Middlesex to work on real-time computer systems
for commercial flight simulators with Rediffusion Simulation. Graphics was
now an important aspect of computing at Middlesex. The following pictures
are from the July 1989 Computer Centre Users Guide in which Graphics
software and John Vince's part in its development features.
In stages after 1985,
Bounds Green acquired four
DEC-VAX computers. As each was
acquired it was linked into a cluster and these VAX computers were (1989)
"used mainly for specialist computer graphics applications, micro-
electronic design work and some of the engineering packages"
Picaso, the 1969 guide
says, "was initially designed for artists and designers, but included
extensive facilities relevant to mathematics and engineering. It enables
the user, working in 2 or 3 dimensions, to create, manipulate and analyse
geometrics structures before their realisation as a visible image on a
graph-potter, visual display or micro-film"
Spring 1986 Andrew Roberts' class on
social and political movements.
1987
Jeanne Gregory Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality
London, Sage
Lynne Segal Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary
Feminism
Geoff Dench
Minorities in the Open Society
David Levy
Political Order: Philosophical anthropology,
modernity, and the challenge of ideology
1988
1988 The Royal Society of Arts set up HEC: Higher Education for
Capability. This national project was hosted by Leeds University and Leeds
Metropolitan University from 1991 to 1997 and by Middlesex University till
2004. It focused on encouraging higher education institutions to develop
programmes that enabled students to become more personally capable, and to
share their experiences with others.
(source)
1988 "What happened at Hornsey in May 1968" by Nick Wright
September 1988 to August 1996
David Kirby (born 1945) Booker
Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Service Sector
University of Durham. "The UK's first chair in Entrepreneurship"
(Wikipedia). He moved to Middlesex in
1996.
1989
January 1989 to September 1989 Andrew Roberts Examinations tutor for
BASS and part time BASS in place of David Owen.
Saturday 18.3.1989
Ilona Phombeah's farewell lunch at Mildred's Cafe, 58
Greek Street. Afterwards at the club Sheba was connected with.
"Using the Computing Service" Mike Bell. July 1989
The Polytechnic's large computers could be used by any member of staff or
student for study or research - once the user had learnt a computer
language. The computer would reply with a print-out.
Mainframe computers at
Bounds Green
"provide... a... service to all sites for programs writen in
Fortran, Cobol, Basic, Pascal, and C... Users write and develop their own
programs, which are run on the computer from any of the ineractive
terminals" [at Enfield, Trenmt ark, Hendon, Bpinds Gree, Cat Hill and
Ludgrove Hall]. Other sites could dial the computer through British
Telecom. "The inter-site transport system enables users on other sites to
receive output from Bounds Green printers and plotters"
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All of Middlesex Polytechnic used
mainframe computers on one site
(Bounds Green).
This was based on two "IBM 4381 mainframe computers" and
"VAX cluster" of
four individual machines. IBM A was for general academic use and IMB B for
some resource-consuming packages and for management information systems and
administration.
The total storage of the "VAX Cluster" was
"approximately 3
Gigabytes"
The "most
important development" was linking all the computers, via the inter-Campus
network and site networks. "It should be possible to transfer data from any
computer system, be it mainframe, mini or micro, to any other system"
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Far distance: VAX 8350 (VAX D) - VAX 11/785 (VAX B) - Two VAX 11/750 (VAX A
and VAX C)
Centre: DG MV 4000 - not mentioned in the text
Background:
IBM 4381 (Two of these)
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The University also had microcomputers in "microcomputer
rooms". "As microcomputer systems are a relatively new development in
computing, new uses are being found for them almost every day.
The
University sold Lotus 123 (Spreadsheet) - DBase 4 (Data base) - WordPerfect
5.0 (Wordprocessing) - Accu-type (Keyboard training) - T3 (Scientific word-
processing) - Quattro (Spreadsheet) - Minitab and SPSS-PC (Statistics)
packages.
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1989 Michael Driscoll Head of School of Economics on the BA Social
Science. Economics moved to the Business School at Hendon - presumably
along with
modularisaton. Dean of
Business School in
1991. Pro Vice-Chancellor
1993. Deputy
Vice-Chancellor
1995.
Vice-Chancellor
1996. See
22.4.2003 and
13.1.2004
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Summer 1989:
Modularisation of all Middlesex Polytechnic courses
began. It was the Modular Degree Scheme [MDS] and worked its way up from
the bottom, with first year courses being modularised first. The University
was fully modularised in
1993.
a "radical challenge to the identity of the subjects of the
traditional higher education curriculum came in the late 1980s and early
1990s with the modularisation of the higher education curriculum in all but
a handful of universities,"
(David Bridges 2000)
September 1989 Students and staff from the Humanities Faculty moved
to Enfield from
All Saints. The re-design of Enfield had taken several years
because asbestos had been discovered. A new library occupied two floors in
the centre of the Broadbent building, replacing the old theatre on the
ground floor and incorporating the old library on the first floor. A new
Modular Degree Scheme office occupied the space that had once been used by
the large computer. The bar was refurbished and taken over by the Students
Union.
1990
Peter Morea's Penguin on
Personality - An introduction to the theories of
psychology discussed Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories
(the "savage infant"), B.F. Skinner's version of behaviourism (pigeon
people), Carl Roger's self theory ("flower people"), Erich Fromm's neo-
Freudianism ("lonely liberals"), the social behaviourism of role theory and
G.H. Mead ("merely players"), and George Kelly's
construct theory (the "knowing scientist")
1990 About here that Alan Muller established the Middlesex
University Able Centre. "His determination and enthusiasm put Middlesex in
the forefront of support for Higher Education students with disabilities."
(Robert Crick email 14.1.2004). See
2001 -
2004
1990 The Social Policy Research Centre established [?]
1990 North London College of Health Studies formed by merging the
nursing schools of the Royal Free, Whittington, North Middlesex
and Chase Farm Hospitals.
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I taught, examined, administered, tutored, produced handouts, mentored,
devised courses, designed degrees, set up structures of self-examination
and accountability, supervised research, wrote syllabuses and curricula,
took the piss out of
mission statements
, agitated about quality control and ethical scrutiny, attempted
to resist privatisation and internal markets, organised admissions
procedures, overenthusiatically implemented equal ops, wrote papers and
discussion documents, liaised with external examiners, filed, recorded,
cleaned blackboards, tidied up after people, and sat on committees passing
notes across tables and sullenly consuming all the nasty little biscuits.
I transmuted from a
gaudy, arrogant and flamboyant performer into a small grey
person in a third-hand Mao suit with a single cartoon plait flailing out
behind me as I rushed about on roller-skates trying to run several
simultaneous
undergraduate research workshops located all over the campus.
("Must hurry!") (Gdala
2003) pp 95-96)
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1991
Five years of expansion 1991-1996
1.6.1991 David Melville (born 4.4.1944) Director of Middlesex
University in
succession to Raymond
Rickett. A
physicist who was previously vice-rector of Lancashire Polytechnic.
Michael Driscoll
succeeded him as Vice-Chancellor in
1996. I believe the decision
to reopen the
Tottenham Campus for teaching was made during the summer of
1991. Ian Birchall mentions it with grudging approval in a letter to
North Circular on 18.10.1991.
George Brosan,
Eric Robinson
and David Melville share the distinction of not having buildings named
after them. Another point that they had in common was that I [Andrew
Roberts] found their educational philosophy inspirational.
In
1997, David Melville's succesor, Michael Driscoll "explained
that the
university had doubled its student population to 22,000 in five years."
Wednesday 26.6.1991 Last BASS Exam Board. Sociology meeting in room
41 from 10am-12.30. Roger Murray, John Crutchley,
Bernard Burgoyne, Mike
McKenna, Mehmet Ali Dikerdem,
Geoff Dench,
Jock Young, Barbara Read,
Brendan Caffrey, Andrew Roberts. (Brendan's memo 12.6.1991)
"better ways of converting money into
better services."
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21.7.1991 "British Prime Minister John Major has launched a
citizen's charter to improve public services."
BBC -
Tony Cutler and Barbara Waine in
"The politics of quasi-markets:
(May 1997) argue that
"regulatory criteria applied in health are significantly different to those
applied in education".
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15.10.1991 (North Circular) "New
nursing degree kicks off with 50
students". "the School of Health Care Studies has got under way..." Course
Director Barbara Shailer. Head of School, June Clark "who is also president
of the Royal College of Nursing". "The School, based at Enfield, is part of
the Faculty of Social Science". Based on a partnership (signed in 1990)
between Middlesex and Barnet College of Nursing and Midwifery and the
North
London Joint College of Health Studies. "through the colleges,
Middlesex is
linked with the five district health authorities of Barnet, Enfield,
Hampstead, Haringey and Islington".
Thursday 21.11.1991 Indefinite student occupation started at Enfield
and continued to Christmas.
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The slogan on stickers was OCCUPATION FOR EDUCATION
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1992
1992 Alpha systems were launched to replace VAX, still using VMS.
Within a few years, Middlesex had Alpha computers as well as VAX. (See
1998)
[Enfield Campus] In the following years, halls of residence were added to
the Enfield Campus and the Pascal building was built on the site of the old
Pascal laboratories.
Geoff Dench
The Frog, The Prince, and the Problem of Men
January 1992 Daniel Linehan was Site Administrator of the Royal Free
Education Centre, North London College of Health Studies
(Royal Free Hospital) from January 1992 to
March 1995. From April 1995 to January 2001 he was Quality and
Marketing Manager, Faculty of Health Studies, Middlesex University, based
at the Health Campus,
Archway. See
Telephone Directory 1998 and
HSSC
6.3.1992 Royal Assent to Elizabeth 2, chapter 13, Further and
Higher Education Act 1992 making it possible for Polytechnics to be
allowed to change their names to Universities.
Wednesday 25.3.1992 Joint Faculty Day School on Changing Practice.
David Melville's Educational Philosophy.
Vicki Scarlett's ideas about the Library that linked in with the
Society, History and Environment course.
8.5.1992
Barbara Taylor spoke on
"Mary Wollstonecraft and the Wild Wish of
Early English Feminism"
in the McCrae Building at Enfield Campus of Middlesex University
[Polytechnic?]. The
meeting was organised by John Annette
Middlesex University
Middlesex Polytechnic became Middlesex University.
David Melville became the first "Vice Chancellor" instead of
"Director" (Left 1996)
Thursday 15.10.1992 "New look for North Circular" "The university
name has inspired a new logo and a new approach".
The new University had a
logo. It was said to represent "fast forward with
Middlesex University" and was designed in-house. The first professional re-
branding took effect in
2003 and the next in
2012
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The new University presented itself as a European University. Approaching
Southbury by train one could see the fast forward flag and the European
circle of stars flying together above the library tower.
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Sunday 1.11.1992 Day long "official launch" of Tottenham Campus that
included the BBC Television's Songs of Praise from the campus. The day
began with a multi-cultural, multi-faith event in the morning at which
David Melville "re-emphasised Tottenham's commitment to work in partnership
with the community to extend higher education opportunities in Haringey."
(North Circular 12.11.1992)
1992 to 2000
Monday 23.11.1992 Board of Governors confirm the appointment
of
Beryl Platt, a founder of WISE (Woman into Science and
Engineering) as Chancellor of Middlesex University. (North Circular
26.11.1992) She was
69 years old when she was appointed and continued until 2000 when she was succeeded by
Allen Sheppard. At the time of her appointment, Middlesex had a
purpose built campus devoted to engineering and, under
David Melville, probably considered science and engineering core
activities. The decline of engineering first appears in these records in
1999.
Julie Ford [below] made her
Great Escape early in
1995:
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A
Caryatid (female form
in
stone supporting an edifice)
is not to be confused with a
vibrator or a drum machine, even when the ediface is shaking.
The images are from
Amy Gdala's
Tales They Lose, as are the following fragments of a
dialogue:
This is what "education" has come to?... the key is in the sound bites and
logos. As Professor Pending Arousal always says "put it in
bullet
points!"
Add up the points or get the bullet. No that wasn't it, was it? Does anyone
here have a copy of the
Mission Statement?
I'm finding it difficult to accomodate markets and missions on the same
platform now...
(Gdala 2003 p.98)
Daniel Bell
said that we cannot wish to be "mere caryatids, holding up a
platform for future generations to dance upon?". And I
said,"I can.
I do. I will" ... supporting the basis for a
better tomorrow.
(Gdala 2003 p.95)
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1993
Goodbye to the polytechnics
All the former polytechnics in England are now universities, funded, like
the old universities, by the Higher Education Funding Council England
(HEFCE).
Those to change their names after the first 28 are: The London Guild Hall
University (formerly City of London Polytechnic), Leeds Metropolitan
University (Leeds Polytechnic), Manchester Metropolitan University
(Manchester Polytechnic), Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham
Polytechnic) and Oxford Brookes University (Oxford Polytechnic).
The Lecturer February 1993
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"In 1993 the University, as part of a wide ranging review of its academic
organisation,
modularised its entire provision - the Common Academic Framework
(CAF); the University now operates a computerised block timetable which
allows students to combine subjects on different campuses more easily."
(HEQC1995)
[Enfield Campus]
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Professor Susanne MacGregor Head of School of Sociology and Social Policy.
Susanne came at a time when the Sociologists were fractionalised. She
managed to organise the school so that it was a coherent entity and we
worked together. My contemporary notes show that I found some of the
collegiate togetherness excessive - but I admired her achievement. See
11.7.2003
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David Levy
The Measure of Man: Incursions in philosophical
and political anthropology
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September 1993 Stephen Kett, Senior Lecturer, Evolutionary Biology
joined Middlesex University.
In
2014, Steve Kett won the first ever
Student Led Teaching Award for the most inspiring teacher and
was a runner up in the award for most empowering teacher.
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Students said of him: "The field trips he organises help enormously to aid
our learning, and our general experience as young scientists". Steve once
said to me, "never say you cannot do something; you just haven't refined
the art of doing it yet. Never give up". "He is the most humble,
knowledgeable, encouraging and above all, the most inspiring teacher I have
ever known."
Environmental Science B41 Trent Park (1998) -
HSSC R33. Enfield
11.10.1993 Tim Westmacott died.
The new Pascal Building was opened in 1993/1994
Enfield Rules OK! October 1993. Issue 3. "The Pascal Building is due
to be completed within four weeks"
The Pascal Building replaced the
Pascal Laboratories
.
Pascal Building contained a large Lecture Theatre (P8), equipped for
electronic presentations and comfortable viewing. It was also where you
would find the Social Work offices and a new Social Science Centre for
Postgraduate Studies.
1994
1994
Ivor Grattan-Guinness A Companion Encyclopedia of the History
and
Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. Two volumes. Routledge,
1994
London College of
Dance
became part of Middlesex University
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1994 David Owen Pam's A History of Enfield. Volume 3, 1914 to
1939 - A Desirable Neighbourhood published by Enfield Preservation
Society (xvi and 304 pages)
This covers the period in which
Ponders End Technical Institute developed and its context of
pre-war and wartime industry, post-war unemployment
and the growth of the new electrical industries including Ediswans,
Enfield Cable and Belling and Lee.
The cover illustration is from a postcard that shows the
electric tram terminus in Enfield Town sometime between 1911,
when the link was established to Ponders End, and probably before 1914.
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1995
January 1995 The
new telephone directory began with the Universty's
Vision and Mission Statement.
Mission Statement
The purpose of Middlesex University is to provide comprehensive opportunity
for educational and personal development through a supportive learning
environment and a commitment to the creation and transmission of ideas and
knowledge.
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January 1995 New format Middlesex University Telephone Directory
and Reference Manual in a stout yellow plastic loose-leaf ring-binder.
Complete directory contents to be re-issued once a year, with the
alphabetical section also re-issued in mid-academic year to include new
staff joining the University. "This directory is built on early work
carried out in Office Services some years ago by
Tim Westmacott who died last year. At the time of his death he
worked in the Social Science faculty at Enfield. This edition has been
prepared with his previous work in mind".
The "six large Campuses" were connected by the "main system" (Ericsson
MD110) which meant staff could dial one another by just dialling a 4 digit
extension number. (p.11) The six appear to be:
ENFIELD: Queensway, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 4SF
HENDON (Middlesex University Business School) The Burroughs,
London,
NW4 4BT
CAT HILL, Cat Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN4 9H4
TRENT PARK, Bramley Road, London, N14 4XS
TOTTENHAM, White Heart Lane, London, N17 4XS
BOUNDS GREEN, Bounds Green Road, London, N11 2NQ
The other "Campuses" listed are
CONFERENCE CENTRE, 60 Games Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN4 9HW
IVY HOUSE, North End Road, London, NW11 7HU
QUICKSILVER PLACE, Western Road, London, N22 6XH
WOOD GREEN HALL OF RESIDENCE, Station Road, London, N22 6UX
Each Campus (larger and smaller) had its own Fax number [Just one per
Campus as far as I can see]
1995 Vice-Chancellor: David Melville. Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Academic): Ken Goulding.
Faculties:
Art, Design and Performing Arts. Dean: John Lansdown. Campuses:
Cat Hill,
Quicksilver Place,
London College of Dance at Bedford.
Business School. Dean:
Michael Driscoll. Campus:
Hendon
Middlesex University Business School had the following schools:
Accounting and Finance
Economics
Law
Management
Technology. Dean John Butcher. Campus:
Bounds Green
Technology had the following schools
Computing Science
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Science and Engineering
Mathematics and Statistics
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Humanities. Dean:
Dennis Hardy. Campus: Tottenham
Social Science and Education. Dean:
Edmund Penning-Rowsell. Campus:
Enfield
Social Science and Education had the following schools:
Education
Geography and Environmental Management
Psychology
Social Work and Health Services
Sociology and Social Policy
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April 1995 North London College of Health Studies became part of
Middlesex University
Kirsty Hall obtained her MA Psychoanalysis from Middlesex
University in
1995. After this she taught Psychoanalysis at Enfield for a decade, before
ascending to practice and literature. See
2007
Summer 1995? First Summer School at
Trent Park
September 1995 Higher Education Quality Council -
Middlesex University - Quality Audit Report - ISBN 1 85824 218 5
-
archive -
offline
The audit took place between 24.1.1995 and 26.1.1995.
THE UNIVERSITY CONTEXT
(3) Middlesex University was created in
1992
from Middlesex Polytechnic
under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992). The
former Polytechnic (formed in
1973)
evolved out of the former
Enfield
and
Hendon
Colleges of Technology and the
Hornsey
College of Art, the
Trent
Park
College of Education, the
New College of Speech and Drama, and
All Saints College of Education. In
1994, the
London College of Dance merged
with the University, and at the time of the audit there was a proposal that
the
North London College of Health Studies should also merge with
the
University. This came to fruition in
April 1995, shortly after the audit
visit (see below, paragraph 13).
(4) The University is located on six main campuses within a 100 square mile
area of North London in the 1993-94 session, the University employed some
654.8 full-time equivalent (fte) academic and associate staff, and 818
administrative and other support staff. It provided programmes of study for
some 15,528 students (full- and part-time) of whom 11,838 were
undergraduate students, 1,724 students were pursuing programmes below
degree-level and some 1,966 students were studying at postgraduate level.
In 1993-94, more than 3,200 of the University's students (18 per cent of
the total) were following a programme of study with a sandwich element.
Some four per cent of students came from overseas.
(5) The University's academic programmes are delivered on six main
campuses, and there is a strong relationship between a faculty programme
and a campus location, although one of the main campuses, Trent Park, has
no faculty attachment. At the time of the audit the University had five
faculties and 26 schools of study, with programmes of study organised
within a modularised and semesterised structure, the 'Common Academic
Framework', and operating across the whole institution at levels from
foundation and introductory to postgraduate. The five faculties of the
University are: Art, Design and Performing Arts; Humanities; the Middlesex
University Business School; Social Science and Education; and Technology.
The University has devolved a substantial degree of management
responsibility to faculties and schools, while retaining a set of central
support services. The University operates corporate and campus
administration systems which co-ordinate academic and service provision.
In addition to the six main campuses, the University controls a number of
'satellite' campuses and students' halls of residence.
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1996
March 1996 First issue of the Learning Development Project
Newsletter. Based on the second floor of the Mansion at Trent Park with
Anne Shelley as coordinator and Pauline Foley as administrator. Its
"Mission Statement" was
"To assist the university, where appropriate, to move from
didactic forms of teaching towards more student-centred, independent
learning, thus facilitating innovation in learning, helping to make the
best possible use of staff time, improving the efficiency and effectiveness
of academic programme delivery and contributing towards the professional
development of students and of academic and support staff in the
university"
All faculties were required to have Teaching and Learning Strategies.
Geoffrey Alderman and Chris Osborne had compiled a 'checklist' as a guide.
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22.4.1996 Middlesex University's first officially approved
World
Wide Web site.
Pages at higher level of the structure were provided centrally on the
academic DEC Alpha.
Marketing Services was responsible for the
"University's corporate image and, therefore, for the style and
content of these pages.
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Information and Learning Resource Services were
responsible for linking to other web pages (individual schools and units).
Andy Wilson, Computer Support Manager at
Cat Hill was the first point of
contact for all staff who wanted to put pages up. (Information and
Learning Resource Services. Computing Services News Sheet. May 1996).
September 1996 to
March 2000
David Kirby Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of the
Business School. Middlesex University: "I was responsible for managing the
Business School and the Hendon campus, and was a member of the university
Senior Management team."
November? 1996 Queen's Anniversary Prize for "off-campus learning,
training and research for commerce, industry and public services."
"Middlesex University's
National Centre for Work Based Learning
Partnerships has firmly established itself as Britain's foremost
developer
of systems and techniques to support learning in the workplace. It takes
its techniques to people in their workplace and draws their working
experience into an academic context where it can be rigorously tested so
that credits, leading to formal qualifications can be awarded. The
applicability of the training leads to degrees or diplomas in many
different disciplines, and the strength of this centre is that it is able
to tailor courses to fit employers' and employees' needs."
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A "Centre for Research in Industrial and Commercial Law" existed from 1996
or before until an unknown date. At some time "David Lewis" [born 1947]
"Professor of Employment Law and Dr
Malcolm Sargeant ... Senior Lecturer in Employment Law at
Middlesex University Business School" were "both active members of the
Centre for Research in Industrial and Commercial Law at Middlesex
University Business School". In May 1999, Kate Schroder was "doing her PhD
on whistleblowing at Middlesex University", but by December she had
discontinued her research having been warned that public discussion of her
work would make the Vice Chancellor "nervous". (THE 3.5.1999 and
17.12.1999)
1997
John Pratt The Polytechnic Experiment: 1965-1992.
Society for Research into Higher Education, Ltd., London
(England). Committee of Directors of Polytechnics (England); Leverhulme
Trust, London (England). Available at
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED415724.pdf -
(offline)
17.2.1997
Middlesex faces up to Pounds 3m deficit
"The former Middlesex Polytechnic has begun a thorough review
of its academic and administrative structure after projections revealed
that it would slide from a Pounds 3.6 million surplus this year to Pounds 3
million in the red by 1999/2000. The university has calculated that to
avoid deficit it must make savings in excess of 6 per cent over the next
two to three years."
April 1997 Malcolm Sargeant
"A study of the implementation of the
Acquired Rights Directive in the United Kingdom and other member states of
the European Community". A thesis submitted to Middlesex
University in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy
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""I started off my academic career as a mature
student at Middlesex University, where I was the
first person ever to obtain a Law PhD."
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1.5.1997 United Kingdom General Election won by "new" Labour.
Prime
Minister Tony Blair. New Labour, replacing
true
Conservatism had a
philosophy of freemarkets balanced, or humanised, by the
state. Possibly a development of
citizenship?
Wednesday 18.6.1997 New Dean of Social Science addresses staff 10am P8. It
is to be Dennis Parker or Tony Vass. [Dennis Parker]
Tuesday 22.7.1997 Farewell to
Bobby de Joia
(founder editor of
North Circular in the Staff Common Room at Trent Park. When she
left, Bobby de Joia was head of "External Relations Services", which
included "Marketing Services". "External Relations Services" became
"Marketing Services" under Joe Ormerod. In the same
period of reform, Marketing became a curriculum group in the
Business School. See
dictionary.
Friday 1.8.1997 New School of Social Science Commences. Deans and Old
School Heads run in parallel until 31.8.1997. Existing Set and Programme
Leaders continue in parallel with Curriculum Leaders until 17.10.1997
Sunday 31.8.1997 Deans and Old School Heads cease.
Monday 1.9.1997 NEW STRUCTURE FULLY OPERATIONAL. All staff and students
will receive details of how the University is organised.
Geoff Pilling 3.3.1940-20.8.1997
Wednesday 19.11.1997 Geoff Pilling memorial at 6pm in P8: An event to
celebrate Geoff's work. Speakers include: Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor of
Economics, London School of Economics - Professor Ben Fine, Professor of
Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies - Keith Gibbard,
Manchester Metropolitan University. Following the formal meeting, the staff
lounge will be renamed the Geoff Pilling room, and there will be a light
buffet and drinks. John Lea and Rosemary Sales organised this. It was also
planned to launch a fund to give prizes for dissertations in Geoff's name.
A few weeks before Christmas 1997,
Eddie Bassett died. He was ninety years
old and had a long association - nearly eighty years - with technical
education in the Enfield area both as student and lecturer. (Fred W. Clark,
North Circular 29.1.1998)
1998
1998 The Royal Free and University College Medical School created.
Its units were the Bloomsbury Campus (UCL) - the
Royal Free Campus - and
the Whittington Campus (the Whittington Hospital, The
Archway Campus and the Camden and Islington Mental Health and
Social Care Trust)
February 1998 Telephone Directory issued with new structure. This
included:
Martin Pitts as Dean of
Art, Design and Performing Arts overseeing
the following Academic
Groups:
David Kirby
as Dean of
Middlesex University Business School
overseeing the following Academic Groups: Accounting and Finance,
Economics, Law, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Policy, Human
Resource Management, Management Strategy,
Marketing, Mathematics and
Statistics
[Mostly at Hendon]
Norman Revel as Dean of Computing Science overseeing the following
Academic
Groups:
[To enter]
[Mostly at Bounds
Green]
Anthony White
as (Acting) Dean of School of Engineering Systems overseeing the
following Academic Groups:
Design and Manufacturing
Electronics and Information Engineering
[That is it!]
[All at Bounds
Green]
Ron Hamilton as Dean of Health, Biological and Environmental
Sciences overseeing the following Academic
Groups:
Complimentary and Allied Therapies
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Midwifery and Family Health
Society, Science and Health
Health Promotion
Healthcare Management
Mental health and Human Relations
Critical and Emergency Care
Rehabilitation Care
Continuing Palliative Care
Dean based at Highgate Hill. Many staff at Enfield and Bounds Green.
Also Chase Farm, North Middlesex,
Royal Free and Whittingham.
Gabrielle Parker as Dean of Humanities and Cultural Studies
overseeing the following Academic
Groups:
Richard Tufnell as Dean of Lifelong Learning and Education
overseeing the
following Academic
Groups:
Dennis Parker as Dean of Social Science overseeing the following
Academic
Groups: Social and Applied Psychology - Social Policy and gender Studies -
Social Work - Space, Society and Development - Society and Environment -
Criminology - Cognition and Brain Science. [Note arrival of Criminology and
departure of Sociology]
CAMPUSES NOT LISTED IN 1995
Bedford. 10 Linden Road, Bedford, MK402DA
Chase Farm Education Centre, Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway, Enfield,
Middlesex, EN2 8JL
Highgate Hill, Faculty of Health Studies, 10 Highgate Hill, London, N19 5ND
North Middlesex Education Centre, Faculty of Health Studies, North
Middlesex Hospital, Sterling Way, London, N18 1QX
Royal Free Education Centre, Faculty of Health Studies, Royal
Free
Hospital, Pond Street, London, NW3 2XA
Whittington Education Centre, Faculty of Health Studies, Whittington
Hospital, Highgate Hill, London, N195NF [And Archway 7 and Archway 15 at
the same address]
23.2.1998 Letter from Andrew Roberts to Suzi Clarke, editor of
North Circular. "... I am generally happy about people
editing what I say. You would not say anything that got me fired, would
you?... The SHE Notice Board is turning into a "What North
Circular says about us" display, and I strut up and down beside it
waylaying anybody I can persuade to read it."
18.3.1998 Dear Suzi. What happens about editorial comment? Last year
you often signed editor's comments on letters. Now comments appear to be
made by
Joe Ormerod, Head of Marketing Services. Is the real dialogue
between staff, students and North Circular now one with the Head of
Marketing Services? If so, does that mean you will publish my letter on
your New Editorial Policy with a reply from Joe Ormerod? Best Wishes
Andrew Roberts
June 1998 Email correspondence of Tony Crilly and Andrew Roberts
about
the history.
Friday 19.6.1998 Farewell party for
Vicki Scarlett
1pm
1.7.2023 In the School of Computing Science at Bounds Green, Paul
Curzon had a
vision of the future
September 1998 "Alphas: The alphas are large computers at Middlesex
University that take instructions in a language called VMS. Because of this
they are best avoided whenever possible. You will need to use them to get a
password for getting to your email. (Glossary of Study Terms by Andrew
Roberts)"
September 1998 660 students take up 720 available places in the
School of
Engineering Systems
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1998 Socrates Economou began a BA
Marketing
and Human Resource Management course
at Middlesex. He graduated in 2001 and went to Brunel University to take
Master of Science in Management Studies. He worked in the retail trade for
a
year, buying and merchandising.
Socrates returned to Middlesex as a lecturer in
September 2004
2014 Award for the
most innovative teacher.
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November? 1998 Queen's Anniversary Prize for
"creation of materials for technology teaching in schools".
"Middlesex University's Technology Education Centre designs, manufactures
and supplies innovative resources for more than half the secondary schools
in the UK and exports to countries around the world. The centre has
pioneered the introduction of 'smart' materials and has made new products
and processes available in the classroom at low cost. Its extensive product
range gives pupils 'hands-on' access to the latest modern technologies,
while university students and staff gain the opportunity to enter the 'real
world' of design and production."
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Freedom, Community and North Circular
A community is a group that you belong to, that you feel you belong to, and
that you share important things with. It is infinitely easier to describe
our University as an academic community than it was to make it one.
Creative effort over thirty years made one University out of the separate
colleges we started as, and maintaining it requires continued struggle.
The North Circular newspaper is the most important medium for bringing us
together as a community. It is the only forum where we all can meet. In
this newspaper we expect to find our community affairs reported and
discussed. It is the market place where we gather to gossip about what is
going on, to hear the town crier announce official events, and to exchange
our ideas.
Freedom of ideas is what a University is about. Some other groups place
great value on dogma, on fixed ideas which give security to their members.
Even dogmatic societies need some intellectual freedom and some gain this
by granting privileges of debate to academics that they deny to others. In
Medieval Europe, for example, people with academic privileges could escape
penalties for crimes.
In modern Europe, freedom of speech is valued for everyone. Our liberal
society protects open forums of debate where its faults can be examined and
rectified. Without this clash of ideas, including repulsive and dangerous
ones, the health of the community declines as the strength and value of its
ideas are not tested.
Academic freedom is no longer the privilege of academics, but the
responsibility of all. The health and strength of a University is the
special duty it has to preserve intellectual debate. Reading North Circular
over the past twelve months has convinced me that Middlesex University has
failed to do this. Recovery will depend on our recognising the importance
of North Circular and protecting its staff when they report events and
ideas that are uncomfortable for the University.
Earlier this year, important events happened at Middlesex University that
were not reported or discussed in North Circular. News of them spread by
rumour. By word of mouth people heard that the Editor of North Circular had
been told she must not publish a particular article by a University tutor.
Then we heard, by rumour, that the Editor had been suspended. Nothing was
written about this in North Circular.
It undermines us all if the national and local press is discussing the
University's affairs but we cannot discuss them in our college newspaper.
The Editor has restated (North Circular 8.10.1998) the limits to freedom
that have always been accepted by North Circular's staff. Freedom of speech
is not freedom to defame or to invade personal privacy. But if these
precautions are used as an excuse to prevent open and free debate about the
University's actions and policies, the community that we belong to will
cease to share the values that are most essential to its success.
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1999
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Aged just 26, second year literature student
Sam Shakes had her colon
removed surgically in November 1998. From now on her shit would drain
through a hole in her stomach wall into a plastic bag. Sam took a year out
to recuperate and during this time, realised that "without knowledge of
health one does not know anything!" She changed her subject
to Health Studies, starting afresh in October 1999.
In February 1999, Sam compared herself to a rotten apple: "I feel fake as I
sit with a ... plastic bag stuck on my side... I might look good, but
really I'm portraying a rosy apple (my appearance) with a rotten core (the
stoma)".
(Shakes, S,
2010 page 82)
In
May 2008, Sam painted her 1999 perception as two halves of
herself:
one clothed and smiling, the other naked "revealing the damage". In a note
to the picture she said "In all this suffering there is something
refreshing... As time passed - the spiritual was being awakened (the core
essence of us)... "
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March 1999
"Millions of computers around the world are linked in different networks
through fibre optic cables, phone lines and satellites. With a
modem any computer can
link into large parts of these networks. Middlesex
University has Local Area Networks (LANs) on each
campus, which are linked together in a Wide Area
Network (WAN). This Middlesex University WAN is
linked by the
internet
to networks
throughout the world." ABC
of Computers
March 1999 "The web site of the MUSU
Women's Engineering Society is
a good starting point for exploring broad issues in science and engineering
as it is well linked to sites inside and outside Middlesex University. It
is also a good source of information about the achievements of Middlesex
University, its staff and students." (Unfortunately, the website is now
lost)
Friday 11.6.1999 Pat Woolston's farewell party
September 1999 590 students take up 744 available places in the
School of
Engineering Systems. This decrease followed
"a high-profile advertising campaign on London's tube network" aimed at
reversing the downward trend. The University decided to close its
engineering.
2000
Sometime in 2000
Clive Boddy
was appointed as Professor in
Marketing. In August 2012 he was been appointed Professor of Leadership and
Organisation Behaviour. He spoke on "Bullying and Corporate Psychopaths at
Work" on 3.12.2012
and
gave an inaugoral lecture on "Corporate
Psychopaths: Who they are, What they do, Why they should be
managed" on
26.3.2014
January 2000 Professor
David A. Kirby left Middlesex University
"after a
year's "sabbatical" on full pay, which he was persuaded to take after he
had suggested external help for his investigation into a whistleblower's
allegations of mismanagement in the business school."
(Times Higher Education
Question mark over Middlesex gagging clause
27.10.2000. [His
severence was subject to a confidentiality clause.]
Dennis Hardy was appointed as Dean of the
Business School
From March 2000 to August 2007 David Kirby was Professor of
Entrepreneurship at the University of Surrey. From September 2007 he has
been Professor at The British University in Egypt
15.1.2000
The Engineer reported that "almost 600"
engineering students had been told that their "Bounds Green-based
department would close at the end of this academic year." On Tuesday,
Anthony White had issued a statement that
"Engineering departments are no longer able to recruit students to courses
in the numbers required. Engineering is perceived as being both difficult
and unattractive. The pool of potential students is diminishing and the
wide choice in higher education has resulted in fewer students choosing
engineering."
In 2000, the 2005 World Athletics Championships planned for Picketts Lock:
Announced 24.3.2000 that the Lee Valley Leisure Centre was to be the
location of the National Athletics Stadium. On 3.4.2000 announced that the
2005 World Athletics Championships would be on the site.
2000 Middlesex University Development Strategy to consolidate
campuses in North London and improve those remaining. Trent Park to be a
key site. The original application for building at Trent Park was withdrawn
in the face of public opposition and a revised proposal submitted in
2005.
Sometime in 2000: Middlesex University purchased land at Tottenham Hale for
use as the site of its proposed Lee Valley Campus. See
11.5.2004
November? 2000 Queen's Anniversary Prize for
"Floor Hazard Research Centre: education, training and research".
"The
Flood Hazard Research Centre is at the forefront of efforts to
ensure more sustainable protection worldwide for communities at risk from
flooding. It seeks to educate communities and governments about their flood
risks, to mitigate the effects of these natural disasters and to help
governments and other responsible bodies to devise more sustainable
protection. The centre has undertaken cutting edge research into the causes
of flood hazards and the impacts on the community, particularly its more
vulnerable members. Its flood damage assessment techniques are now used to
evaluate flood alleviation plans worldwide, from the Thames to the Yangtse
River in China."
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2001
2001
Alan Muller retired from the Able Centre. He was
succeded by Bryan Jones.
Wednesday 28.2.2001
Bernard Burgoyne's inaugural lecture as a
Professor
Hendon and Tottenham 2000 to 2003 Account by an
LLB student
available online. "With 7 campuses (Hendon,
Tottenham, Trent Park, Enfield, Bounds Green, Cat Hill and Chase Farm) it
is one of the largest Universities in the UK ... Law is taught on the
Hendon and Tottenham campuses; I was based at Hendon, and most of the
lecturers offices are based at Hendon... if you miss a core subject
lecture then chances are you'll be able to catch the repeat of it at the
other campus... Hendon at
the moment pretty much resembles a building site as it is being extended
and rebuilt, and it is much less lively than Tottenham. Being the 'Business
School' it is much more serious and has less in the way of a student union
presence... and the library is considerably smaller... Tottenham on the
other hand has a huge five floor library resource building full of computer
rooms with both PC's and Macs, language resource rooms, and a student union
building with a pub and a canteen and the student shop. The book shop at
Hendon is much bigger and has a better selection of books... The good thing
about Hendon is that the surrounding area is very good, there are loads of
café's nearby and places to go... The
centre of town isn't so far away (just one bus which stops near the Uni)
but with Tottenham you're pretty much tied to the Uni...
The Student Union at Hendon comprises of only one small office where you
can get your NUS cards and your student travel ID cards... But Hendon does
have the advantage of having an onsite health club,
'The Burroughs' which is meant to be quite exclusive... There are ramps and
lifts all over the campus, as well as designated computer rooms for
disabled students, guaranteeing them
computer access at all times (whereas I have to queue upstairs and wait
patiently for about half an hour before a computer frees up!)...
no matter what campus you are at, you can request a book from the library
of another campus and have it sent to your campus for collection - it takes
about 3-5 days... it is all electronicly done,
you have to log in on the internet to the library catalogue to do this
(don't worry if
you're a bit scared of computers they show you how...)
- this means you can request and renew
your library books from where ever there is internet access.
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October 2001 plans to stage the 2005 World Athletics Championships
at Picketts Lock, Enfield, abandoned.
2002
2002 J.D. Hoker started Lamptech, The Museum of Electric Lamp
Technology (a web site) at
http://www.lamptech.co.uk/. This includes a
list and histories of lamp factories, including the
Ediswan Ponders
Factory
(web link)
2002
Pascal's Wager by
Amy Gdala.
February 2002 The School of Health and Social Sciences (HSSC) was
formed in February 2002 as a result of the merger between the School of
Social Science and the School of Health, Biological and Environmental
Sciences. The School is distributed across three university campuses,
Enfield,
Archway
and
Bounds Green
and four hospital campuses,
North
Middlesex Hospital,
Chase Farm Hospital, The
Whittington Hospital and the
Royal Free Hospital. HSSC is the largest School in the
University. It is
responsible for over 6000 students, offers the widest range of programmes,
is the most research active School in the University and is supported by
over 300 members of staff based across seven campuses.
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Health and Social Sciences: Professor
Margaret House - at Enfield
Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies: Professor Susanne
MacGregor - at Enfield
Director of Curriculum, Learning and Quality: Jan Williams - at
Highgate Hill
Director of Resources and Administration: Pippa McNichol - at Highgate
Hill
Director of
Nursing and Midwifery Professional Studies: Dr. John Webb - at
Highgate Hill and Winchmore Hill
Director of Business Developments: Richard Beaumont - at Archway
Wednesday 6.2.2002
Argus news item
about
Bounds Green
and
Quicksilver Place
closing.
Two of Middlesex University's campuses are closing down as part of a long-
term streamlining programme.
The university's Bounds Green campus and Quicksilver Place site in Wood
Green will be shutting down by summer 2003, with all teaching transferring
to other campuses.
Bounds Green has suffered a fall in student numbers over recent years and
has proved an unpopular choice as it does not have any accommodation.
Meanwhile, its sister campus in Quicksilver Place is to be redeveloped by
Haringey Council and the university has been given notice to vacate the
premises in 2003.
The reshuffle is part of the university's 10-year development strategy
aimed at streamlining its learning on fewer campuses.
Pro vice-chancellor of development strategy Dennis Hardy said: "Middlesex
University will work hard to ensure that there is minimal disruption during
this transfer and we guarantee continuity of provision."
Computing science and business management students and their tutors from
Bounds Green will move to the Tottenham campus while those studying
environmental and occupational health, pollution and housing will move to
Enfield.
Meanwhile, students and staff at the Quicksilver Place/Chocolate Factory
base will be relocated to Cat Hill in Barnet.
In the future the university plans to have three large campuses at Trent
Park, Hendon and a new site in the Lee Valley, as well as one specialist
health campus at Archway.
Mr Hardy said: "The Tottenham and Enfield campuses will not close until the
new facilities are ready in the Lee Valley and any students starting their
courses this year are guaranteed to remain there for at least three years."
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25.6.2002 Email to all staff in School of Social Science that
"Colin Francome,
Tom Wengraf
and Lynn Hancock will be leaving
Criminology and Sociology at the end of the year." Sandra Dias and Diana
Young (Academic Group Administrator
Criminology/Sociology) in R130 were in charge of leaving cards and
collections. [All are in the
telephone and email directory as members of
HSSC - which dates that as 2002
24.6.2002 Samantha Tracy Shakes
(Sam Shakes)
graduated with second class honours (upper division) in Health Studies with
Race and Culture.
2003
more information.
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Police stations in London
2003: Behind the Blue Lamp : Policing north and east London by
Peter Kennison and David Swinden is a book about police
stations.
2011: More behind the blue lamp : Policing South and South East
London by David Swinden, Peter Kennison and Alan Moss is a book about
more police stations.
Discovering more behind the blue lamp: Policing
Central, North and South West London by Peter Kennison, David Swinden
and Alan Moss is a book about even more police stations.
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Tales they Lose by
Amy Gdala: with contributions from
Steven Box,
Cyril Burt and Garcia Lorca.
Karen Duke
Drugs, Prisons and Policy-Making. London, Palgrave
Macmillan
2003 Jacqueline Halina Watts Women in civil engineering:
continuity and change. PhD thesis, Middlesex University.
(offline)
25.4.2003 "Middlesex University has today won the Queen's award for
enterprise, in recognition of its recruiting a high number of overseas
students. It boosted overseas student numbers by 43 per cent between the
autumns of 1999 and 2002, with the number coming from Asia rocketing 80 per
cent over the same period. Many of these students come from China and Hong
Kong." (Times Higher Education ). Other sources say the award
recognised Middlesex as the first British university to open
(1995) a network of recruitment offices around the world.
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22.4.2003
Michael Driscoll, Vice Chancellor of Middlesex University,
appointed a Director of the Bernie Grant Centre Partnership in Tottenham
(established 2002). He resigned on 27.9.2006. At this time, his address was
Principals Lodge, Trent Park, Barnet, Hertfordshire
EN4 0PS.
11.7.2003 Email from
Susanne MacGregor
to all members of the School of Health and Social Sciences, and to Ken
Goulding, thanking "everyone for their good wishes on my giving up being
Director of Research and PostGraduate Studies in the School of Health and
Social Sciences." As
Professor of Social Policy she would still be around one day in each week,
"and happily will be able to keep my friendships with all the good
people I have worked with for the past ten years."
"It wasn't just a logo, it was thinking about the words we used
to describe ourselves, our values and objectives," Driscoll explains. "The
university we want to be in 10 years' time will be very different from the
university that we are now. It would have been a waste of time if the only
change had been the logo, but it wasn't like that at all - the logo came
last."
[Guardian 13.1.2004]"
[I was told it represented flexibility and movement]
Summer 2003
Bounds Green
Campus closed. It was empty for a year, during which it became a
site for a rave.
Saturday 20.9.2003
Alan Spackman died
suddenly and unexpectedly after showing visitors around Markfield Road Beam
Engine and site as part of the London Open House programme. He was 76 years
old.
In the same edition
(February 2004) of the
Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society's Notes and News that
recorded Alan Spackman's death, Robert Carr wrote about The End of
Engineering saying:
"At the Science Museum, South Kensington, the last
chartered engineer on the staff is finishing his employment. At the Kew
Bridge Steam Museum the engineering department which has been doing so much
outside contract work was closed at the end of 2003 with the loss of three
full-time jobs and one sub-contractor. We are no longer the engineering
nation we were."
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September 2003 Students Helping Students started on Enfield Campus.
Continued to September 2006. This student initiative was a stimulus for
later University "We are here to help you" projects.
Thursday 4.12.2003 Global Email to all Middlesex staff
Subject: Closing Tottenham Campus:
CLOSING TOTTENHAM IN 2005
Executive has agreed that Tottenham will close in summer 2005;
teaching will transfer from Tottenham to other sites for the academic
year 2005-20006.
Kevin Moir of the University's Relocation Team has begun a
planning exercise. He is - or will be - in touch with key managers to
discuss issues and logistics.
Kevin Moir will report to Executive early in the new year.
In early February, Dennis Hardy, Director of the Development
Strategy, will present the latest progress and thinking to Tottenham
staff. The time and date of this presentation will be announced in the
new year.
2004
Wednesday 7.1.2004 Sudden death of
Alan Muller, aged 61, Middlesex graduate
who founded the Middlesex Polytechnic
Able Centre as a
volunteer fourteen years ago. (Global Email to all Middlesex staff from
Robert Crick 14.1.2004)
13.1.2004
"Michael Driscoll: Brand leader"
"- Anthea M Lipsett meets Michael Driscoll, the man determined to give new
universities an image overhaul"
The Guardian
"Without being too critical of the position of CMU to date, our
strategy has been somewhat defensive - trying to argue for the position and
problems that new universities face," says Driscoll. "I think there's a
feeling growing within the membership that the agenda is rather negatively
defined and in a sense that it has a negative branding."
11.5.2004
Guardian article
about Middlesex pulling out of the plan to create a new Campus at
Tottenham Hale.
"the university is not turning its back on local ethnic
minority students to pursue lucrative foreign recruitment." (Michael
Driscoll)
Global email to all staff 5pm 11.5.2004
Dear colleague
A large feature in today's Guardian begins: "The revelation that
Middlesex University is pulling out of plans for a multimillion pound
campus in Tottenham has caused fury in the north London borough".
The rest of the article is a very fair account of our current position
regarding the proposed new campus at Tottenham Hale, but this
introduction clearly implies that we have made a decision to sell the 12
acre piece of land which we purchased in
2000. We have not made
such a decision.
Our development policy is unchanged: we want to operate on three
main campuses
(Trent Park,
Hendon and the
Lee Valley) and one
specialist health campus. Since we announced this strategy in
2000 we
have made excellent progress by moving out of
Bounds Green,
Ivy House,
Bedford and
Quicksilver Place. We shall leave our
White Hart Lane site in summer 2005.
It is unfortunately true that the viability of the third campus - Lee
Valley - is now questionable for two reasons: since 2000 there has been no
growth in UK undergraduate student numbers (all growth is in
foundation degrees at further education level); and there has been no
regeneration in the Tottenham Hale area (and we made clear from the
beginning that the University could not, as the Guardian puts it "be the
sole source and catalyst for regeneration".)
Any change in the University's development strategy will be made by
the University's Board of Governors. Board members agreed in April
that the University should review the proposed Lee Valley development.
There are obviously three options open to us: disposal (we are testing
the market at the moment so we know the current value); retention of
the land so that, long term, if demand rises, we can build the campus;
and some sort of mixed use development with partners (again, this
would be a medium to long term option).
The University will review the case for and against the Lee Valley
campus very carefully. The Board of Governors has set no deadline for
a decision.
If the Tottenham Hale campus cannot be realised, the University will be
disappointed to end its
long history" [See Hornsey
and Tottenham] "of
operating from at least one
Haringey address. However, its commitment to Haringey students will
not change. These students, many of whom are non-traditional and first
generation students, will continue to be welcomed and supported at
whatever Middlesex University campus they choose.
Michael Driscoll
Vice-Chancellor
11 May 2004
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August 2004 "The Whittington Campus is an embracing term which
includes the Whittington Hospital, The
Archway Campus and the
Camden and
Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust. In due course it may also
include some of the developments that will occur as part of The Archway
Regeneration."...
offline
1.9.2004
Bounds Green [closed
Summer 2003]
was "one of twelve sites to be disposed of" as
part of Middlesex University's programme of centralisation and expansion.
"The University's strategy was to develop three sites at Trent Park; Hendon
and Tottenham Hale with a continuing presence at its specialist health
campus in Archway. This strategy is being re-evaluated following their
withdrawal from Tottenham Hale. However, the Bounds Green Road site has now
been sold to Fairview Homes"
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A 2004 photograph of a free rave in the
indoor main street of the unused
Bounds Green Campus, from Out of Order: A Photographic Celebration of
the Free Party Scene by Molly Macindoe. Tangent Books. Published
12.5.2011
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Hendon Phase One: The Sheppard Library and
Ricketts
Quadrangle
2004
Hendon: The Sheppard Library opened.
The following account by a
LLB student who graduated in
2007
describes
Hendon before and after this: "When I first attended, it felt as though I
had returned to secondary school. There were 2 buildings - main (now
college building) and graduate building, a set of portakabins, 2 small
cafeterias - one in each building, the library was a work in progress and
it was otherwise quite dull. The lecture rooms were dreadful, chairs more
often than not broken, graffiti everywhere, temperatures always too hot or
too cold, stuffy unventilated seminar rooms and a generally unpleasant
atmosphere. Much work has now been done to improve the state of the
buidings, and the main building is now much more attractive. There are a
few lifts in the buildings and ramps so I think all areas are wheelchair-
accessible. The library has been completed and is now one of the best in
the country. It has a Costa cafe downstairs. There is a computer room, and
some floors also have plenty of computers. The entire campus has a wireless
Internet network, which you can connect to with your own laptop as well."
(source)
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September 2004
Socrates Economou began lecturing in
marketing at Middlesex. He
became Programme Leader for BA Marketing and Module Leader for Marketing
Intelligence; Consumer Behaviour; and Fashion and Luxury Goods Marketing.
In
2014, Socrates won the first ever
Student Led Teaching Award for the most innovative teacher.
His innovation was "e-lectures, which are delivered online and supported
with a discussion forum where students are expected to comment and discuss
the lecture". A student said "Even the most sceptical students have grown
to love his e-lectures. They have helped to make seminars so much more
useful, as many more people attend having properly engaged with the subject
in advance."
2005
2005 Martin Loomes may have replaced
Anthony White as
Dean of Science and Technology at Middlesex University.
This is my Middlesex
publication of the year for 2005
"Dr
Amy Gdala
is the professional name used by a veteran
countersurveillance activist and commonwealth academic who disappeared
mysteriously in the summer of 2005 a few weeks after delivering the final
volume of the quartet known as The Probability Sequence" OR
"Amy Gdala is the nomme de plume of a Commonwealth philosopher (and writer
on education and epistemology). She first visited Wales as a Girl Guide in
the 1950s, always hankered to return and eventually moved into a tiny
derelict 14th/15th century cottage in the Powys hills in 1976. She has
spent the last thirty years rennovating the dwelling by hand, unaided by
electricity or vehicles."
January 2005 Foundation of Middlesex University Dubai
(website)
Tuesday, 1.11.2005 7.30 pm
Middlesex University Planning Panel . Public consideration to
revised plans for Trent Park.
Dennis Hardy made a presentation.
2005 Hendon's glazed Ricketts Quadrangle opened. "By integrating the
quadrangle as a linking space to the four wings of the main building,
the time it takes to travel between teaching spaces is greatly
reduced. This makes the university operationally more efficient."
The Williams Building: "The third building, due for improvement next year,
is the
Williams Building. This will be refurbished to provide office
facilities for academic support staff. It will complete the triangle
of buildings that sit in the centre of the campus."
2006
2006 Refusal of planning permission for the modernisation and
expansion of the
Trent Park campus. University decided to pursue
opportunities for further expansion and consolidation at
Hendon.
2007
2007 Anthony Goodman Social Work with Drug and Substance
Misusers
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Kirsty Hall
The Stuff of Dreams: Fantasy, anxiety, and psychoanalysis
Friday 18.5.2007: "I attach an invitation to my book launch for The Stuff
of Dreams -
Fantasy, Anxiety and Psychoanalysis at the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield
Gardens, London NW3 5SX on 18th May 2007 6.00 - 8.00 pm"
Written by Kirsty in my copy "To Andrew, Keep teaching THE STUFF OF DREAMS
love Kirsty Hall 18.5.07"
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31.7.2007 Online financial statements from the University
are provided from the year ending 31.7.2007
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September 2007
Gulsum Metin, an experienced Couturier Dressmaker and expert in
designing, fitting, pattern making and cutting, started at Middesex as a
Senior Technician in Fashion.
In 2014, Gulsum won the first ever
Student Led Award for
best non-teaching staff. "One of the best people" -
"dedicated to her work" "passionate" "humbly experienced" -
"even being in her presence makes you feel like you are
getting better at garment construction". Often stays late to help students,
one of whom said "I would be half the designer I am if
it weren't for her". "Always so proud
when we do well. We all love Gulsum!" Studying for a Masters degree.
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October 2007. Eight students the first to graduate from Dubai. In
attendance were "Dubai campus director Professor
Dennis Hardy and
other staff who have taught and supported the students over the last year".
Middlesex University's Learning Framework. introduced in the academic year
2007-2008
2008
I spend so much time with each of the following that they have to be
joint book of the year for 2008
Lisa Tickner's story is divided into a preface and acknowledgements (4
pages), an epigraph (2 quotes), "Back Story: NDD to DipAd 1957-64" (7
pages), "The Polytechnic Question" (11 pages), "The Gestetner Revolution"
(28 pages), an aftermath (24 pages), a retrospect (7 pages), 8 pages of
illustrations, A postscript (3 pages), a glossary (one page), eighty-one
(81) pages of notes, a bibliography and index. Now that is the way an
academic book should be written! It is also very readable.
Hendon Phase Two: Hatchcroft and Forum
2008 Hendon's Hatchcroft building opened between College Building
and the Town Hall. "A number of run down out-buildings and garages, two
semi-detached brick cottages, a twentieth-century single-storey brick
building, a prefabricated two-storey unit and the original Hatchcroft
building" were demolished to make way for it.
(source)
2008 Hendon's The Forum opened: Canteen, Student Bar and Recreation.
2008 Prospectus described
Hendon
as the University's "flagship
campus"
18.5.2008 "University's emerging ambitions for the Hendon Campus" -
"the possibility of Barnet as a long-term home for the University"
25.9.2008
"Medical school victim of rebranding - World famous since Victorian times,
Royal Free name is to be 'written out of history'"
Simon Wroe in Camden News.
Royal Free and University College Medical
School to become UCL Medical School on 1.10.2008.
17.11.2008 Barnet's
'Civic and University Quarter' Draft Masterplan
Summer 2008: End of Enfield Campus
Autumn 2008: Moved to Hendon Campus
"September 2008 will see the next dramatic improvements to the
Hendon Campus to tie in with the move of the teaching and research
previously based at the Enfield (Ponders End) Campus. The Hatchcroft
Building will deliver more than 30 laboratories and research areas and two
large lecture theatres. A new student meeting and networking area - the
Forum - will open at the rear of the Campus. A new hub for research and
business opens at the front of the Campus. Landscaping is underway to
improve the numerous green spaces on the campus - for the University and
the community."
(Source)
Saturday, 11.10.2008 Christine Matthews photographed
"Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway, Enfield -
Just to the left inside the entrance are these original buildings,now
occupied by Middlesex University,
Chase Farm Campus."
Photograph available at
geograph.org.uk
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13.12.2008 (Urgent)
London Borough of Barnet "Report
on the proposed disposal of leashold interests at the Hendon Town Hall
Site to Middlesex University, in order that the Civic and University
Quarter Development plan can progress." "The two parties do hereby agree
that in recognition of the working relationship which has developed since
2005 that they will continue to work together to further the
development of the Civic and University Quarter at Hendon as per the non
statutory guidance Masterplan, which will be adopted by the council should
the consultation period be successful."
2009
2008/2009 University statistics
Latest available free online as of Tuesday 29.4.2014
Publications archive
Click
here for all staff.
Middlesex University 2008/2009
Total all staff: 2945
Full-time academic 510
Part-time academic 210
Total academic 720
Total non-academic 835
Total 1395
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About 2009 Georgina Cox, previously Senior Lecturer life and applied
Sciences at University of West London, joined Middlesex. She became
Programme leader
nursing and initial practice.
In
2014, Georgina was a runner up in the award for most
inspiring teacher in the first ever
Student Led Teaching Awards.
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2010
Jon Mulholland and David Porteous's
"Growing Pains - Middlesex University
and the Sociological Re-Birth of Criminology" - An unpublished
paper
Meg Osborne (Previously Meg Andrew) joined Middlesex University in
2010.
She is famous for the redesign of British scouting uniforms in
2001.
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In 2011 applicants for the BA Fashion degree said:
"The lady is a
little crazy when you first meet her, but don't worry she's really nice and
down to earth when she talks to you." -
"Were you intervied by Meg Osborne the course leader? it sounds like her
from what you say (-: . I was expecting to be interviewed by her because
she said at the open day that she tries to meet everybody personally."
(source)
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A
Fashion BA @ Middlesex University group on
Facebook was created by a student for all 2011 students.
In
2014, Meg was a runner up in the award for most
empowering teacher in the first ever
Student Led Teaching Awards.
January 2010 Teaching began on the Mauritius Campus.
(website)
4.5.2010 to 15.5.2010 The
Save Middlesex Philosophy Occupation
of
Trent Park
6.5.2010 United Kingdom General Election that led to the
formation of a Coalition Government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
December 2010 Jenny Keating, History in Education Project, Institute
of Historical Research, University of London, December 2010, "Teacher
training - up to the 1960s".
offline
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2010 Then Life Took Control: A Journal: From Sickness
to Wellbeing by
Sam Shakes is a
three part journal for 1998 - 1999 - and 2000, when Sam was a student on
the Enfield Campus. Its focus is on how she coped with having her colon
removed (the ruthless remedy), the change in who she was (an unrecognisable
me), emotional consequences (managing 'madness') and life's re-assertion.
Her recovery involved her health studies, changing attitudes to
relationships, re-thinking who she was in dialogue with counsellors, eating
better foods, exercise, and confidence that there was an
"alternative and better" and seeking and chasing it. (Book and private
communication)
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2011
12.1.2011 Middlesex University answers all Freedom of Information
Act questions on its
marketing as follows:
1. How much is your annual Marketing budget? £1.5 million
2. What is the breakdown of this Marketing spend per general area?
Recruitment marketing - 60%; research - 10%; other 30%
3. How many members of staff work in your Marketing department? 40
4. What is the combined salary of all staff members in the Marketing
department? £2 million
5. The areas which fall within your remit of the Marketing department do
not include Alumni, but do included: the Website - Social media - Printed
materials (including the prospectus) - Public relations - Advertising -
Market research - Photography - UK student recruitment - Postgraduate
student recruitment - and International student recruitment
(source)
Monday 14.2.2011 In memory of the life of
Vicki Scarlett. Funeral at 1.30pm at Enfield Crematorium.
Afterwards, a celebration of her life at Forty Hall, where people shared
their memories.
25.4.2011 Middlesex University won the Queen's award for enterprise
for the
second time.
"High quality education is one of our country's most
impressive exports and we are proud to be recognised as an industry leader
in providing and promoting this quality overseas. Our aims are simple - to
provide excellent education and student experiences here in North London
and abroad."
(Michael Driscoll quoted in The Times
The award was made to "Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation,
London" for "International Trade" whose "business" was in "language
training, higher education and accommodation".
Queen's Award Magazine
"Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation, established
as a charity in
1993, provides English language training and higher education
for non-UK students in UK or abroad. It wins the Award for the second time
for its outstanding achievement in growing its overseas income by œ10m over
three years to a total of over £106m in that period. A well focused
marketing strategy is based on a combination of UK based facilities,
franchising other non-UK institutions and 19 offices in the main overseas
markets. The main source of overseas students is from Asia"
(2011 Press Pack
offline)
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6.5.2011 at 11:47pm
A Farewell To Trent Park by ephemerita
7.9.2011 Andrew McGettigan
"The truth about Middlesex"
"Middlesex is not... the stereotypical post-1992
university, struggling along in the shadow of its more
prestigious neighbours. It is an aggressively entrepreneurial
operation focused on south Asia."
Hendon Phase Three: The Grove
September 2011
Hendon's The Grove building opened. The
Art, Design and Media Building. Housing art and design
programmes from Cat Hill and
media programmes from Trent Park.
Saturday 5.11.2011: Talks and Lectures:
Spaces of Transformation: Borders
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, included
a talk by
Bernard Burgoyne. Bernard sets out his case that
topology
provides central conceptions for sociology, politics and psychoanalysis as
well as
mathematics.
2012
19.1.2012 Workers Revolutionary Party
Defend Trent Park Campus - Defend Chase Farm say
Middlesex University students {referring to the closure of the
Trent park Cams and threatened closure of nearby Chase Farm Hospital. I do
not know when the
Chase Farm "campus" closed.
March 2012 Former Enfield Technical College School, Queensway,
Ponders End (Middlesex University) PPS5 Heritage statement. Was available
online.
(Offline part copy).
27.4.2012
In principle decision taken to dispose of Archway Campus
Wednesday, 27.6.2012
"What does Middlesex as a 'global' University mean to you?"
The Learning Planet: A Guide to Global Education
Middlesex University's 12th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference
Friday 31.8.2012 3.30pm Lesley Curtis Brown's farewell party. Ruth
Houghton replaced her as librarian for criminology and sociology early in
October.
Summer 2012
Sheppard Library
basement refurbished to accommodate most of the Art and Design resources;
including books, printed journals and access to some of the special
collections. Last Summer School at Trent Park. Trent Park campus closed
Hendon Phase Four: Cutting costs and finding space
UniHelp "the first port of call for general student enquiries" consolidated
support services.
Ravensfield was redeveloped to provide a home for the Theatre Arts
programmes and contains rehearsal rooms, technical studios, costume
workshops, props stores and a Theatre.
A leased "Building 9" was refurbished to provide a home for the Education
department.
Parts of Grove building Block B were re-developed for Music, Theatre Arts
performance studios and PDE Studio space and the first floor of Block C
to provide a Dance Theatre.
A Dance studio was created in the College Building
and additional laboratories for the School of Science and Technology.
Middlesex University in September 2012
What Uni profile copied Thursday 22.5.2014
(when it was over a year out of date).
Facilities
We have two campuses located in north London and two overseas in Dubai and
Mauritius.
Our modern flagship campus is in Hendon and over the past few years we have
invested £millions constructing stunning new buildings and completely
refurbishing our existing facilities, making sure they continue to be world
class.
Our specialist healthcare campus is in
Archway, adjacent to the Whittington
Hospital with strong connections with three other London hospitals.
Hendon Campus
The Burroughs, Hendon, London, NW4 4BT
Cutting edge and innovatively designed flagship campus - over £180
million invested to date, including a state-of-the-art centre for Art,
Design and Media, fitted out to industry standards and specifications.
Subjects: Art, Design and Media, Business, Law, Computing and IT, Health
and Social Sciences.
Social/Sport: The Forum for food, student nights and fitness, multi-purpose
outdoor courts, one of the UK's finest Real Tennis centres.
Travel: 15 mins walk to Hendon Central Tube (Northern Line) and Hendon
overground (Thameslink).
Halls: Usher, Platt, Writtle and Ivy.
Archway Campus
Highgate Hill, London, N19 SLW
Archway is our specialist healthcare campus, and is adjacent to our
teaching facilities at the Whittington hospital: we also have three other
centres at London hospitals: Chase Farm, North Middlesex and the Royal
Free. Your academic study is combined with hands-on clinical practice at
each of these sites.
Specialist healthcare campus, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning in Mental Health and Social Work (CETL), state-of-the-art Human
Performance Lab.
Subjects:
Nursing, Midwifery, Complimentary Health, Sports Science and
Social Work.
Social/Sport: facilities at Hendon plus Islington and central London very
close.
Travel: minutes from Archway underground station (Northern line).
Hospital links: Whittington (adjacent to campus), The Royal Free, Chase
Farm and North Middlesex.
Halls: Ivy.
Dubai and Mauritius Campuses
We have two modern campuses situated overseas in Dubai and Mauritius
offering the same high standard and quality of teaching and internationally
recognised qualifications as you can expect from our campuses in London. It
is possible for you to combine some of our courses in London with time
spent in Dubai, giving you the opportunity to take advantage of studying at
both campuses and join our diverse mix of students.
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September 2012
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New Schools (All based at
Hendon)
School of Art and Design - Grove Building
Business School
School of Health and Education - Hatchcroft building laboratorie
School of Law
School of Media and Performing Arts
School of Science and Technology
Also the Institute for Work Based Learning
See
website
September 2012 Erin Sanders-McDonagh started at Middlesex.
October 2012 Start of the web based "My Middlesex Day" series which
are (unfortunately) on the staff intranet and not publicly available.
academic staff -
service staff
2013
all London campus teaching now consolidated at Hendon
7.10.2013 "The start of term marks an important landmark in the
history of Middlesex with all London campus teaching now consolidated at
Hendon. This does not however mark the end of our estates strategy.
Emphasis will now shift to the pressing issue of developing more and better
space at Hendon for staff and student activities. We need to strive to make
Hendon increasingly attractive... and work together to resolve frustrating
space problems" (Michael Driscoll. Email to all staff)
Hendon Phase Five: Finding more space
London Sport Institute moved to the new Saracens Stadium
Archway campus fitted into Hatchcroft, College Building and
what was the Students Union Building
New seminar rooms in the College Building, an extension to
the Williams building and the new Vine building.
Another Dance Studio provided. This one in the Forum
The newly formed School of Law (including Criminology and Sociology)
consolidated in the Williams Building
The Students Union relocate in the lower ground floor of the Forum
A post graduate research room created in the Grove for the School
of Art and Design and the School of Media and Performing Arts.
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The highlight of 2013 was the visit of
Jesse Jackson
on Wednesday
4.12.2013
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At the end, he called the young people from the front of the hall up
to join him. Gradually, students from all over the hall were
gathering to have their photograph taken with him. They had been
inspired.
I was so sloppy. I had wondered if only the 70 year olds who remember
the struggles and remember hearing
"I have a dream" when it was fresh
would be there or understand what it was about.
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It was one of the best things that has happened to Middlesex
students. He told the history of slavery and liberation, from the
Civil War to the present, he shared his memories of working with
Martin Luther King, and then he spoke specifically about Middlesex
students believing in themselves. And he kept on speaking about that
in a multitude of different ways. He spoke about the unfair
advantages that Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard students had. He
spoke about levelling playing fields and he spoke about what
Middlesex students could achieve if they believed in themselves and
worked hard. And I think they believed him. Apathy? What apathy!
Friday 13.12.2013: I endorse everything that has been said about this
event. I am almost the same age as Jesse Jackson and so the history he
recalled is one that moved me at the time. But what was most moving about
the day was the attendance and the response of Middlesex students. This
gives the lie to theories of apathy. Jessie Jackson spoke to their hearts
and brains and they responded with mind and enthusiasm. Now, however, I
have to explain to those who could not get in why they were excluded and
what they can do about it. The publication of the whole speech in video and
transcript will be of great importance to Middlesex and to our students. It
was their day and they should all be able to share in it.
2014
January 2014 Daniel Heather appointed University Records Manager and
Archivist at Middlesex University
Student led teaching awards were introduced in 2014
The shortlists of nominees and winners were decided by
Student Union student interns.
Full results
MOST EMPOWERING TEACHER
This picture shows, from left to right,
Meg Osborne (Fashion), the Chancellor: Dame Janet Ritterman,
Erin Sanders-McDonagh (the winner: Sociology) and
Steve Kett (Environmental Science and
Engineering). - Two runers-up could not be present: Jassen Lee, Senior
Lecturer, Adult
Nursing and Jenny Jacobs, Director of Programmes,
Biological and Environmental Health,
Students said of Erin Sanders-McDonagh:
"Erin motivates empowers her students to give answers, whether
they are wrong or right, and always responds in ways that are comforting
and reassuring. She is a highly motivating and inspiring teacher,
incredibly helpful and supportive and always ready to give her students the
best to help them succeed. She radiates passion for her subject - her door
is always open and I look forward to her classes every week."
BEST NON-TEACHING STAFF
Gulsum Metin, Senior Technician, Fashion
Runners up:
Manika Choudhury, Microbiology Technician
Elena Aliferi, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Education
Elaine Elson, Employability Advisor
Vu Dang, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Natural Sciences
MOST INNOVATIVE TEACHER
Socrates
Economou, Senior Lecturer,
Marketing
Runners up:
Jassen Lee, Senior Lecturer, Adult
Nursing
Maria Jimenez, Lecturer, Marketing - Spanish
Dr Simon Best, Senior Lecturer, International Management and Innovation
Dr Tunc Aybak, Programme Leader, International Politics
MOST INSPIRING TEACHER
Steve Kett, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science and
Engineering
Runners up:
Dale Wightman, Associate Lecturer, Media and Performing Arts
Georgina Cox, Senior
Lecturer, Nursing
Patricia Cartney, Programme Leader, Social Work
Dr Theresa Cronin, Lecturer, Media and Cultural Studies
BEST FEEDBACK
Ashok Srivastava Lecturer, Business
Runners up:
Andrew Roberts Lecturer, Sociology
Claire Lewis, Lecturer, Graphic Design
Dirk Wildeboer, Senior Lecturer, Bioscience and Biomedical Science
Dr Peter Hough Principal Lecturer, International Politics
Summer 2014
Alfred Simmons, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler
- See also
House of Commons 20.7.1954 on the fate of
working horses.
2015
6.1.2015 Tim Blackman:
Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Acting Vice-Chancellor of The
Open University and Vice-Chancellor designate of Middlesex University.
@TimJBlackman
Tuesday 10.2.2015
Sindre Ailo Holmen
@SindreAilo
"Sociology student wandering the streets of London"
says he has "learnt quite a lot in my (almost) two years at Middlesex
University, but today was a game changer. With some time to kill in the
Quad, and some help from the Students Union, he created the "one thing I
will pride myself in. I almost couldn't do it, it was tiring, but I stuck
it through and achieved my goal! So proud! Eye of the tiger! Thanks". "It
will be proudly displayed in my living room"
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3.4.2015 - 30.4.2015 Aviva Leeman presents "Bringing you Better
Living" at The
Hasler Gallery, Grand Arcade, North Finchley, N12 0EH.
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Inspired
by the Charles Hasler Collection at the
Museum of Domestic Design and
Architecture. Gallery Opening times:
Thursday and Friday 12-6pm -
Saturday 12-4pm
We Women All Agree is a suspended window display of women's heads
gathered together from magazine advertisements from the
1930s - 1950s,
reworked and scaled-up to life-size. The cut-out aesthetic recalls early
window displays but also comments on how the dimensionality of how the
shopper, typically the housewife, was imagined in the early days of retail
psychology, and which to some extent prevails today. To the left is a key
identifying each character by an extract from the advert in which they
featured, in many cases an attribute that could interchangeably apply to
the product being promoted or the woman presented as an embodiment of the
brand.
1.7.2015 Tim Blackman takes over from
Michael Driscoll as Vice Chancellor. Tim Blackman is the fourth
Vice Chancellor of Middlesex Polytechnic/University.
Raymond Rickett was
a chemist and served for over 17 years.
David Melville was a physicist, and served for just over five
years, Michael Driscoll is an economist, and served for almost 19 years.
Michael Driscoll is the only Vice-Chancellor to have been appointed
internally. Tim Blackman graduated in Geography.
His books include Urban Policy in Practice (1995) and Planning Belfast
(1991). His articles include studies of community care, housing and health,
and health inequalities among old people. He is married to a Labour MP.
2016
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Neighbourhood of Love: Technique and Science in
Psychoanalysis,
essays by
Bernard Burgoyne is promised for the end of 2016.
Bernard looks at spatial notions - neighbourhood and boundary, interior and
exterior as they are found to be operative in psychoanalytical work.
It contains some surprising results about the foundations of the sciences,
the main one being that the structure of sexual love gives a new
orientation to the field of mathematics.
I have waited
45 years for this - It will definitely be my
book of the year when it arrives
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19.7.2023 The Closing Speech of the last MU Vice
Chancellor Reported by
Paul Curzon in a vision on
1.7.1998 [MU, once Middlesex University now stands for Microsoft
University]
It is with mixed feelings that I (or rather my virtual persona) address you
from the Vice Chancellor's residence in Trent Park. We have finally
achieved the MU vision: the vision we have been working
towards over
the last twenty five years. We are now the first truly
automated, International, distance learning organisation. Today we finally
hand over complete control to CSS [Communications Systems Services?]
[ETC]
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Middlesex Heritage Sites
Enfield Planned
Electrical Quarter -
Ponders End
Hornsey The original Crouch End
building may now be part of
Coleridge Primary School
Ivy House
Tottenham
Demolished and replaced by
Harringey Sixth
Form Centre
Trent Park Visit
Trent Country Park from 8am
Sources
In Middlesex University: Sheppard Library
[My special thanks to
Daniel Heather
and his colleagues for their enthusiastic assistance]
Archon Code: 2925
Middlesex University: University Collections
GB 2925 HCA Hornsey College of Arts and Crafts
HCA/3/2/1-6 [HCA26]
Sheila MacEwan
HCA/3/2/2/B Photographs including 1923
Loose: Henry Holtzer photograph (family)
Loose: Sheila MacEwan photograph
HCA/3/2/2/C Fashion photographs from the 1950s
HCA/3/2/2/D Photographs including Friday Weavers 11.5.1951
HCA/3/2/2/E Frank Swinstead photographs
HCA/3/2/2/F Photographs of rafters
HCA/3/2/3 Newspaper cuttings (Offline).
"Gwendoline Smith gets weaving" [Autumn 1950]
An istructress comes to the aid of a pupil learning the art of weaving
[Could also be Gwendoline]
"Girls design for the future", by Mabel Elliot, News Chronicle
reporter
Friday 24.6.1955 Star "Students run own dress show. Men help to"
HCA/3/2/4 Corespondence and interview with and Sheila MacEwan
Sheila MacEwan's retirement speech [21.3.1956]
(Offline).
7.3.1981 letter from Sheila MacEwan to
Peter Green
(Offline).
16.3.1981 letter from Peter Green to Sheila MacEwan
4.8.1981 Notes from Peter Green's interview with Sheila MacEwan
- hand notes and typed notes. (Offline typed).
27.8.1981 letter from Peter Green to Sheila MacEwan
Obituary of Sheila MacEwan written by Peter Green -
(Offline).
HCA/3/2/5 Embroidery square
Unnumbered: books by Sheila MacEwan and Elsie Davenport - Photograph
album - Autograph album
In
Archives of Andrew and Valerie Roberts:
ECT no date Enfield College of Technology - Bibliographies -
Appendix Volume 2 - Council for National Academic Awards. [Two volumes.
One still bound. One loose leaves. Concurrently numbered. 168 pages.] - I
think this was prepared for the
1968 approval. See, for example, "The debate on the nature of
kinship has recently come to life following... [papers dated 1960 and
1961] on page 94
MP1975 Development Plan for the Middlesex Polytechnic
Middlesex Polytechnic - Joint Education Committee for the Middlesex
Polytechnic - London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. May 1975.
200 pages. Photographs of sites. Maps.
MP1978 Middlesex Polytechnic Second Resubmission to CNAA. BA
Social Science. Honours and Unclassified, Full-time with placement.
Specialisations in Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, Planning
Studies, Applied Social Science December 1978. Volumes 1 and 2.
MP1979 Middlesex Polytechnic Social Science Register of Research
Interests, Projects and Publications 1975-1978. Economics, Geography and
Planning, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology July 1979
MP1981 Middlesex PolytechnicDiploma of Higher Education -
Submission for Renewal of Approval. Volume three - Social Science
Internally dated May 1981
MP1984 Middlesex Polytechnic Faculty of Social Science Half-
Faculty Review 1984 Volume Five: Staff Supplement
Millward, Stanley: Telephone conversations in the summer of 1998
North Circular
Radcliffe, C.W. 1939 Middlesex Jubilee book
Roberts, A. Chronologies Computer files of personal and related
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Alan Bullock
Alan Hale
Alexandra Palace
Alf Holt
Alfred Simmons
Alan Spackman
Allan Muller
Allen Sheppard
All Saints Educational Trust
Ambrose Fleming
Ambrose Fleming School
Amy Gdala
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annexes to Hornsey
Algeria
AnnMarie Wolpe
Anthony White
Appa
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Archway Campus
Archway Hospital
Art
Art Teacher's Certificate
Art Teacher's
Diploma
Arthur James Crofts
Artisan
Association of Teachers in Technical
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Audrey Hardwick
Austen Albu
a very nice man
Aviva Leeman
BA Art and Design
Bailey
BA Social Science
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Education
Barnet Masterplan
BEd or B.Ed
(Bachelor of Education)
Bedford
Behavioural Geography
Benjamin Scaife Gott
Bernard Burgoyne
Berridge House
Beryl Myatt - Beryl
Platt
Alan Hale
Bill Pratt
Binary system
Biscuits
Bisham Gardens
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Bowles
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Brian Ellis
Brian Frank Gardner
British Computer Society
Broadbent
Brosan
Buckle of Hendon
Building licences
Bullock
Bullying and Corporate
Psychopaths
Burgoyne
Burt
Business
Business School
Business Studies
Campuses/Sites:
1975 -
1995
Capel House
Carole Adams
Carr
Caryatid
Cat Hill
Cecil Ernest Gurr
Census 1931
Centre for Criminology
Centre for Research in Industrial and Commercial Law
Channing
Charles Swinstead
Chemistry:
1905 -
1927 -
Gas Works 1949 -
Williams of
Hendon -
1955 -
1957 -
1961 -
Jock Young -
1964 -
design
spectrometers and
computer
(1967) - Gas engineers 1969 -
Chess
Church End
Citizenship
Class and education
Clive Ashwin
Clive Boddy
clothes rationing
clothing and textiles at Hornsey
Coldstream Report
Cohen
Commerce
Community: St
Katharine's -
Hornsey -
Hendon -
Middlesex -
Tottenham -
and academic
freedom
Computerising
Computer graphics
Computers: Landec -
Honeywell -
DEC-10 -
Micro Computers -
IBM -
VAX -
Alphas
Connections:
North Circular
-
inter-campus network 1989
-
Telephone 1995 -
Telephone 1998 -
Local Area, Wide Area and internet
1999 - Telephone and email
directory 2002
concrete blocks
Cooke
cookery school
Cotgrove
Council for National Academic Awards
Criminology
Crofts
Cyril Burt
Daniel Heather
David Eccles
David Kirby
David Levy
David Lewis
David Melville
David Page
David Porteous
De Havilland
Dench
Dennis Hardy
Derek Barsham
Derek Lovelock
Design at Hornsey
advertising design
Council of Industrial Design
Britain can make it
Design at Trent
Park
Design at Hendon
Engineering design
Enfield/Hornsey
Planning and design under
Labour
design of spectrometers
Design at Bounds
Green
Design history
1976
Art Design and Performing Arts
Fashion Design
Art, Design and Media Building
Art and Design resources and
School of Art and Design
Development Plan:
May 1975
Dialectical Methodology
Diploma in Art and Design
Diploma in Higher Education
Diploma in Technology
Domestic science
Doris E. McLauglin
Dorothea Barbara Nickal
Dr Nahapiet
Drama
Drawing the Soul
Driscoll
Dubai
Eccles
Ediswan factory
Ediswan Institute
Eddie Bassett
1907-1997
Edith Lindquist
Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Education Act
1962
Edward William Maples].
Edwin Grimshaw
Electrical Association for Women
Electricity
Elsie Davenport
Embroidery
Emergency colleges
Emrys Williams
end of Bounds
Green
end of Enfield
end of
engineering?
Enfield
Enfield Cables
Enfield College of Technology
Enfield County School for Girls and Technical
Institute
Enfield District Manufacturers Association
Enfield entertainments
association
Enfield Small
Arms
Enfield
Statistics
Enfield Technical College
Enfield Technical Institute
Enfield Trade School
Engineering
English at Hendon
English Numbering Machines
Enterprise
Entertainment
Environmental technology
Eric Pascal
Eric Robinson
Etching
Expansion 1962
Euclid
European University
External London
degrees
Faraday
Farrell
Financial statements
Flagship Campus
Fleming
Flood Hazard Research Centre
Flying bombs
food regulations
Ford
Ford and Burt
Frank Swinstead
Frank Winter
Frederick Dalby Flower
Frederick James Mitchell
Fred Richards
Gas engineers
Gas Works 1949 -
1953
Gautam Appa
Gender and class
Geoff Dench
Geoff Pilling
Geography
George Bedford
Clarke
George Brosan
George Roberts
George Shiells
Georgina Cox
Gerard Hoffnung
Gertie Beckett
Ghana
global university
Gwendoline Smith
Graham Handley
Graphic Design
Great Cambridge Road
Grimshaw
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guilds of weavers etc
Gulsum Metin
Gurr
Hamer
Hamish Watson
Handley Page factory
Hardy
Hatchcroft -
Harold Wilson
Health and Social Sciences
Health Studies
Hendon
Henry Bowles
Henry Winterbottom Broadbent
Herbert Willan Wadge
Heritage sites
Higher National Diploma
History of Social Ideas
Holt
Honeywell
Hornsey
The Hornsey
Affair
Hornsey 1968.
Hornsey century people
Hornsey
Revolution
House
Household and Social Science
I can - I do - I
will
Ilona Phombeah
Industrial applied art
Industrial design
Industrial design:
Council
Industrial interior
design
Industry:
Ediswan -
Ambrose Fleming -
Enfield Small
Arms -
Ripaults -
Enfield Cables -
1945 -
Stanley Millward's
recollections -
Building permits
Industry and Enfield 1964/1965
informal
links
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Ivy House
Jaxa Works
Jean Cooke
Jeff Evans
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Joe Ormerod
John Carr
John Charles Moody
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John Hamer
John Henry Willis
John O'Neil
John Osborne-Moss
John Vince
Jonathan Penrose
Joseph Hayim Abraham
Joseph Pierce McCrum
Joseph Wilson Swan
Jon Mulholland
Julian Robinson
Julienne Ford
Junior Technical School:
Enfield -
Hendon -
Ponders
End
Karen Duke
Kate Schroder
Ken Plummer
Kingdom of Evil
Kings College for Women
Kingston Technical College
Kirsty Hall
K. J. Cornwell
Kuper
Ladies desirous
Lamptech Museum
Lathes: Swan's -
Robinson's
Law
Lee Valley
Levy
Lion gulps Hornsey
Lisa Tickner
LLB
LSE TODAY - ECT TOMORROW
Logo 1992 -
2003 -
2012
London College of Dance
London Government
1960s
Lucy Gee
Lynne Segal
MA Deviancy and Social Policy
Macdonald of Hendon
Machines take over
Malcolm Farrell
Malcolm Sargeant
Man and Society
Management
Marine
Engineering
Margaret House
Margaret Thatcher:
March 1970 -
June 1970 -
March 1971 -
December
1971 -
May 1979
Margaret Skilton
Margery Maughan
Marketing
Markets and missions
Markets and quasi-markets
Markfield Road Beam Engine
Mathematics Diagnostic and Development
Mauritius
McCrae
McCrae Building
Meg Osborne (Andrew)
M.E. Rosner
McKenna
Melville
Michael Driscoll
Michael McKenna
Middlesex County Council
Middlesex manipulator
Middlesex Polytechnic
Middlesex University
Middlesex Student Led Teaching Awards
Miliband
Millward
Lucy Gee
Miss Gowan
Miss Nickal
Miss Ottley
Missions and markets
Mission Statement
Modularisation
Moody
Mosca
Most innovative teacher
Most inspiring teacher
Mulholland and
Porteus
Muller
Murray
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
National Council for Diplomas in Art
and Design
National Council of Women
National
Diploma in Design
National Union of Teachers
New Left Review
Newton
The New
Polytechnics
Nick Wright
North Circular
North London College of Health Studies
Nursing
Occupation
1931 -
1967 -
1968 -
1991 -
2010
Ordinary National Certificate
Page
Page Green
paper restriction
Pareto
Pascal
Pascal
Laboratories
Peggy Bullock
Penrose
Performing arts
Peter Green
Peter Hammersley
Peter Kennison
Peter Morea
Peter Williams
Phil Shaw
PICASO
Pilling
Planning
Platt, Beryl
Platt, John Gerald
Plummer
Ponders End Technical Institute
Police stations
Political Order
Porteous
Postgraduate work
Posture
Pratt, Bill (William
Thomas)
Pratt, John
Production Engineers
Programmed Learning
Public Lectures
Public Relations 1964
Queen's Anniversary award:
1996 -
1998 -
2000 -
Queen's Award for Enterprise: 2003 - 2011 -
Queensway
factories
Quicksilver Place
Ralph Beckett
Ralph Miliband
Reeves
Reginald William Walls
Religious education
Reneé Robinson
Resettlement of
offenders
Raymond Rickett
Regent Street Polytechnic
Richard Kuper
Ripaults
Roberts
Roberts Building
Robinson
Robbins Report
Roderick McCrae
Roger Murray
Rosner
Royal Free
Royal Free and University College Medical
School
Roy Bailey
Segal
Schools and Colleges separate:
Hendon
1959 -
Enfield 1962
Science
Science and Art Department
Science Block
Sheila Brook
Sheila MacEwan
Sheppard
Sheppard Library
Sindre Ailo Holmen
Skinner
Small Arms Factory Apprentices Association
1919
Smith of Hendon
Social work
Society, History, Environment (SHE)
Socrates Economou
Sources
South Africa
South Grove
Sport:
Enfield Sports Field
Stan Cohen
Stanley Millward
State bursary scheme
1941
Statistics for
Enfield
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
Statistics for the University
Stephen Cotgrove
Stephen Kett
Stephenson
St Katharine's
College
St Katharine's Practising
Schools
Students Helping Students
Student Led Teaching Awards
Subjects
Summer School
Superman
Susanne MacGregor
Suzi Clarke
Swan
Swan Annexe
Swan Annexe basement
Swinstead
Sylvan Press
Tanzania
Teacher training
Technical schools
Technical Education 1956
Technical Education Acts
Technology
Ted Coates -
Telephone directory (1995)
1998 - Telephone and email
directory 2002
Textiles
Textiles/Fashion
Thatcher:
March 1970 -
June 1970 -
March 1971 -
December
1971 -
May 1979
Theses:
1968:
Kennea on fish
and Robinson on
lathes
1975:
Vince's Picaso
Tim J. Blackman
Tom Nairn
Tom Wengraf
Topology
Tottenham
Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald 1945
Trevor David Kennea
Trent Park
Valerie Roberts
Vera Derer
vibrator and drum machine
Vicki Scarlett
Votes for women
1928
Wadge
Walls of Hendon
Waverley House
Waverley Road
Weaving
Web site
Wendy Dagworthy
White Paper of 1956 -
White Paper of 1966
Whitworth
Williams Building
Williams of
Hendon
William Thomas Pratt
Wilson
Women's Crafts
Women's Engineering Society
Women in civil
engineering
Women in Science and
Engineering
Women's studies
Work based learning
Wolpe
Wren
Year Book 1947
Your Home Crafts
series
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