I am grateful to David Smythe for providing this photograph of the 1945 Peace street party in Lopen Road, Edmonton. By then, my mother, Florence Edith Clarke (born Cole), was married and had moved away, but there were still Cole relatives on the Huxley Estate, of which Lopen Road forms a part. In particular the family home of my cousin, Anne Cole, was still there. Although she was evacuated during the war to West Wratting, she was back for the Peace street party and is seated just below the first of the second group of adults. I understand that others in the photo include Sylvia Bately, Brian Bately, Beryl Sawyer and Jimmy & Betty Bilson - but I do not know where they are sitting.
Children's Peace Celebrations in 1945: the street party in Lopen Road, Edmonton (now Enfield). Click for a larger pictures from which you may be able to recognise neighbours.
The picture is a perfect companion for the one on this website for the World War One Lopen Road Peace Party. The houses appear to have changed little from my mother's time - see 116 Lopen Road in 1911. David Smythe believes that 116 Lopen Road is probably in this 1945 photo, because he remembers the direction from which it was taken.
Apparently a bomb dropped on Lopen Road during Word War Two, not far from No 116. The explosion lifted a section of curbstone onto the bare roof rafters without breaking them. Remarkable! It left a great crater in the middle of the road. My mother, being married, had left by then although she was very much involved in another Edmonton bombing in Silver Street.
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World War Two VE Day street party, Argyle Road, Edmonton, 1945. Photo courtesy of Peter Fletcher.
Click on the photo for an enlargement in which you may be able to recognise relatives and friends.
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I am grateful to Andrew Dickson for supplying the following World War Two peace street party photograph from a part of Edmonton (now Enfield) on the opposite side of Silver Street. It was for children from Halsbury Road (which changed its name to Amersham Avenue) and the adjacent three roads of Harding Road, Tiverton Road and Giffard Road. The two adults in the centre, in the dark clothes, are Mr and Mrs Carr (with Andrew's mother behind her). Mrs Flowers of 2 Halsbury Road is on the right in the doorway. Andrew is sitting along the front with Ronald Flowers and Leslie Carr.
World War Two street peace party for Halsbury Road (which changed its name to Amersham Avenue) and the adjacent three roads of Harding Road, Tiverton Road and Giffard Road, Edmonton.
If you have an old photo which would illustrate this page, I would very much appreciate a copy. For my contact details, see the Contact page.
