The Remembrance Service
Garden of Remembrance, Broomfield Park
Friday November 10th at 10.45am
‘The Friends of Broomfield Park will be holding their annual Remembrance Service in the Garden of Remembrance on Friday, 10 November. The service is to commemorate the local people who lost their lives in the two world wars and who are listed on the war memorial.
It will start promptly at 10.45am and will be led by the vicar of Christ Church, Southgate and will include poems read by pupils from local primary and secondary schools and songs popular at the time of the two world wars. At 11.00am a bugler will play the ‘Last Post’ and there will be a two minutes’ silence followed by the laying of wreaths and speeches by the deputy mayor of Enfield and Bambos Charalambous MP.
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be refreshments (tea, coffee and cakes) available to purchase at the Greenery Community Cafe in the park after the service.’
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The Garden of Remembrance in Broomfield Park which was opened in 1929 and contains a memorial temple dedicated to those who died in the first and second world wars has been extensively restored.
The Friends of Broomfield Park would like to thank the War Memorials Trust which provided a generous grant that funded the restoration work.
The Garden of Remembrance
The work was carried out during the last 6 months of 2017 and covered the following areas:
- Repairs to the roof of the memorial temple to make it watertight.
- Relaying the paved area and steps in front of the memorial temple.
- Installation of three new stained glass windows replicating the original design
- Repairs to the cairn of stones (each stone representing a life lost in World War 1)
- Repairs to the pond and installation of a new plinth, bowl and fountain.
- A new bird bath (replicating the original design) for the empty plinth.
- Repointing and replacement of bricks in the surrounding walls of the Garden.
- Provision of hand rails for the disabled next to the steps in the Garden.
Most of the work was completed in time for the Friends’ annual Remembrance Service which was held on November 10th, led by Rev. Chrichton Limbert, vicar of Christ Church, and addressed by Bambos Chraralambous, MP for Southgate, and Cllr Doris Jiagge, the Deputy Mayor of Enfield and attended by local schools.
The Stained Glass windows
The original stained glass windows had been missing for several years and been filled in with three red metal panels. The design of the new windows was based on original photos taken from a film about Broomfield Park in the 1950s. The windows were originally designed to represent Fortitude (LHS), Sacrifice (M), and Victory (RHS). The inscription above the windows states ‘’At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them’’ ( from Laurence Binyon’s poem, ‘For the Fallen’).
