Doors open 18:30, talk commences 19:00

Peter Hall, Budleigh Salterton

Speaker: John Polley 

The New River, Enfield - 1938

Overview: John's talk tells the story of how in the early 17th century a project was undertaken to bring fresh drinking water to London's expanding population and where parts of it still exist.

Speaker:  John Polley was born and brought up in North London.  He has a variety of interests, including local history, transport and industrial archaeology.  John is also a keen walker and has walked the New River many times in over 30 years.  His interest in the New River stemmed from where he grew up in the family home, a very ordinary Edwardian North London suburban terraced house.  John's father seemed to think there used to be a lake where the house stood!  In the course of time John found out more about that lake and much more besides.