Ordnance Survey Map showing Enfield, 1920 (1.3Mb).

This 1920 Ordnance Survey map shows Eastfield Road (off the Hertford Road, at the top of the map) where Harry lived, and Church Street, in the centre of Enfield where he worked. His most likely route to work was down the Hertford Road to its junction with Southbury Road, and then west along Southbury Road into the centre of Enfield, a journey which would have taken him about an hour on foot, or which he could have done in two stages by tram.

The map also shows the Edison Electric Company factory, where, according to his personnel record, Harry worked for six months before joining Sainsbury’s, located at the far right hand side of the map, adjacent to the river Lea.

Our account of Harry’s leisure time is fictional, but is based on local features that would have been familiar to Harry: the cinemas, the bathing pond in the town park and the tram routes between Enfield, Enfield Wash and Ponder’s End.

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