The Enfield Society

The society was founded in 1936 as a direct result of a campaign organised by Ebenezer Rees, vicar of Christ Church, Chase Side, to prevent Enfield District Council building new offices on green fields at Chase Green, Chase Side.

A public meeting was held at the Oddfellows Hall in Old Park Road, Enfield, which was attended by Sir Henry Bowles Bart., Lt. Col. R.V.K.

Daisley vicar of Enfield, the reverend Rees and Mr Dudley Leggatt.

The opposition to the idea caused the council to withdraw their plans.

[1] In 1938 the society campaigned against the development of the Library Green, in Church Street, and more recently it campaigned to restore the derelict Broomfield House in Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, and helped the restoration of the New River in Enfield town.