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Southgate, London
Southgate is a suburban area of north London, England, in the London Borough of Enfield, north of Charing Cross. History Southgate was originally the south gate of Enfield Chase, the King's hunting grounds. This is reflected in the street names Chase Road (which leads due north from the station to Oakwood, London, Oakwood, and was formerly the avenue into the Chase) and Chase Side. There is a blue plaque on a building on the site of the south gate. A little further to the south was another small medieval settlement called South Street which had grown up around a village green; by 1829 the two settlements had merged and the village green became today's Southgate Green. Southgate was predominantly developed in the 1930s: largish semi-detached houses were built on the hilly former estates (Walker, Osidge, Monkfrith, etc.) following increased transport development. In 1933, the A406 road, North Circular Road was completed through Edmonton and Southgate, and also in 1933, the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southgate And Wood Green (UK Parliament Constituency)
Southgate and Wood Green is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. It was first contested at the 2024 general election. Boundaries The constituency is composed of the following wards: * The London Borough of Enfield wards of: Arnos Grove; Bowes; Cockfosters; New Southgate; Oakwood; Palmers Green; Southgate. * The London Borough of Haringey wards of: Bounds Green; Noel Park; White Hart Lane; Woodside. It comprises the following areas: * The majority of the abolished constituency of Enfield Southgate in the Borough of Enfield. * Minority part (Wood Green) of the abolished constituency of Hornsey and Wood Green in the Borough of Haringey. * The White Hart Lane ward from the constituency of Tottenham Tottenham (, , , ) is a district in north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Borough Of Southgate
Southgate was a local government district of Middlesex from 1881 to 1965. It was part of the London postal district and Metropolitan Police District. Incorporation and development The area was historically part of the parish of Edmonton, which adopted the Public Health Act 1848 ( 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63) and formed a local board of health to govern the area in 1850. In 1879 the ratepayers of Southgate petitioned for their area to be separated from Edmonton, and in 1881 Southgate Local Board was established, with nine members. It was created an urban district in 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894. The urban district council was increased in size to 12 councillors in 1900. In 1933 Southgate was granted a charter of incorporation and became a municipal borough. The corporation of the borough consisted of a mayor, seven aldermen and twenty-one councillors. In 1965, the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London under the London Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Holden
Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 – 1 May 1960) was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadway, for the University of London's Senate House and for Bristol Central Library. He created many war cemeteries in Belgium and northern France for the Imperial War Graves Commission. After working and training in Bolton and Manchester, Holden moved to London. His early buildings were influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, but for most of his career he championed an unadorned style based on simplified forms and massing that was free of what he considered to be unnecessary decorative detailing. Holden believed strongly that architectural designs should be dictated by buildings' intended functions. After the First World War, he increasingly simplified his style and his designs became pared-down and modernist, influenced by European arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bambos Charalambous
Charalambos "Bambos" Charalambous (born 1967) is a British Labour Party (UK), Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Southgate and Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency), Southgate and Wood Green, previously Enfield Southgate (UK Parliament constituency), Enfield Southgate, since 2017 United Kingdom general election, 2017. While in opposition he held a series of shadow ministry posts. He was suspended from the Labour Party during an investigation into a complaint against him between June 2023 and April 2024, but the complaint was not upheld. Charalambous grew up in North London and trained and worked as a solicitor. Before entering national politics, he served as a member of Enfield London Borough Council, Enfield Council for 24 years. Early life and career Charalambos "Bambos" Charalambous was born in 1967, in a Greek Cypriot family and raised in Bowes Park. His parents come from Kalo Chorio, Limassol, Kalo Cho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Burrowes
David John Barrington Burrowes (born 12 June 1969) is a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 2005 to 2017, and is the co-founder of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. He has been the Chairman of the Equity Release Council since 2017 Early life Burrowes was born in Cockfosters and was educated at Highgate School and the University of Exeter. Whilst at Exeter, in 1990, Burrowes and Tim Montgomerie founded the Conservative Christian Fellowship. Before entering parliament he worked for Enfield solicitors, Shepherd Harris and Co, specialising in criminal law and was an advocate in police stations and courts in Enfield, Haringey and Hertfordshire. He was an Enfield Borough Council councillor for 12 years. Parliamentary career Burrowes contested the safe Labour seat of Edmonton at the 2001 general election achieving a 1.0 swing away from sitting MP Andy Love who won by a majority of 9,772. He was elected MP for En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Twigg
Stephen Daniel Twigg (born 25 December 1966) is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association since August 2020. He served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 to 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005, and for Liverpool West Derby from 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 to 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019. He came to national prominence in 1997 by Portillo moment, winning the seat of Secretary of State for Defence, Defence Secretary Michael Portillo. Twigg was made the Minister of State for Department for Children, Schools and Families, School Standards in 2004, a job he held until he lost his seat in 2005. He returned to parliament in 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010, after he was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby when longtime MP Bob Wareing retired. Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Portillo
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo ( ; born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as ''Great British Railway Journeys'' and ''Great Continental Railway Journeys''. A former member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate from 1984 Enfield Southgate by-election, 1984 to 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 and Kensington and Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency), Kensington and Chelsea from 1999 Kensington and Chelsea by-election, 1999 to 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005, holding a number of ministerial and Cabinet positions. Portillo obtained a first-class degree in history from the University of Cambridge, having been a student at Peterhouse. He began his working life as a graduate trainee with the transport company Ocean Group plc, before joining the Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 United Kingdom General Election
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a Landslide victory, landslide by the opposition Labour Party (UK), Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179-seat majority and a total of 418 seats. This was the first victory for the Labour party in a general election in nearly 23 years, its previous one registering a majority of 3 seats in October 1974 United Kingdom general election, October 1974 under the leadership of Harold Wilson. It was also Labour's first comprehensive victory over the Conservatives since the 1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 election, which had produced a 100-seat majority. This election also marked Labour's highest vote share since the 1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 election and its second highest total number of votes in history (the largest being the 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Anthony Berry
Sir Anthony George Berry (12 February 1925 – 12 October 1984) was a British Conservative politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate and a whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. Berry served as an MP for twenty years and was still in office when killed in the Brighton hotel bombing of 1984 by the Provisional IRA. Early life Born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, Berry was the sixth and youngest son of the newspaper magnate Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, and his wife Mary Holmes. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating MA, and served as a Lieutenant in the Welsh Guards from 1943 to 1947."Berry, Hon. Sir Anthony George", ''Who Was Who'', online edition published 1 December 2007, accessed 12 October 2024 Career After resigning his commission in the Guards, Berry went into journalism. He was an Assistant Editor of ''The Sunday Times'' from 1952 to 1954, when he was appointed as Editor of the ''Sunday Chronicle''. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Bomb
On 12 October 1984 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government, including the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Five people were killed, including the Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry; more than thirty people were injured. Thatcher was uninjured. The bombing was a key moment in the Troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland between unionists and republicans over the constitutional position of Northern Ireland, which took place between the late 1960s and 1998. The IRA decided to assassinate Thatcher during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Her stance against the return of Special Category Status to republican prisoners—the status that meant they were treated as political prisoners, rather than as criminals—meant the strike was not quickly settled, and ten prisoners died. After two years of planning, including reconnoitering the 1982 and 1983 Conservative Party Conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom Constituencies
In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called " constituencies" as opposed to " wards": * The House of Commons (see Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom) * The Scottish Parliament (see Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions) * The Senedd (see Senedd constituencies and electoral regions) * The Northern Ireland Assembly (see Northern Ireland Assembly constituencies) * The London Assembly (see List of London Assembly constituencies) Between 1921 and 1973 the following body also included members elected by constituencies: * The Parliament of Northern Ireland (see Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies) Electoral areas called constituencies were previously used in elections to the European Parliament, prior to the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Borough Of Edmonton
Edmonton was a local government district in north-east Middlesex, England, from 1850 to 1965. History Edmonton local board of health, local board was formed in 1850 for the parish of Edmonton, London, Edmonton All Saints. In 1881 Southgate, London, Southgate was separated from the Edmonton local board's district, forming its own local board. Edmonton became an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, Local Government Act of that year. In 1937 the urban district was granted a charter of incorporation as a municipal borough. In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London to be combined with that of the Municipal Borough of Southgate and the Municipal Borough of Enfield to form the London Borough of Enfield. Edmonton's old town hall in Fore Street, designed in the Gothic architecture, Gothic style and completed in 1885, was demolished in the 1980s. Coat of arms The Municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
