A NEW book on Enfield has been published as part of the Images of England series.

Compiled by local author and historian Stephen Sellick, it features a huge amount of pictures with an interesting narrative.

The book charts the history of the borough from its very beginnings.

After the building of Ermine Street by the Romans en route to York from London, this book offers a comprehensive pictorial look to how the civilisation of Enfield has been shaped over the last 150 years.

A former Middlesex market town, Enfield is now part of the London conurbation.

Eastern Enfield has always been, and remains, a thriving industrial area originally famous for radio valves, electric fires and cookers and the Lee Enfield rifle.

The book traces this history with 220 images ranging from the 1860s to the 1960s.

It begins with the origins of the Town which dates back at least until 1754.

An early ink drawing shows Enfield in the 19th century and at that time the now busy Southbury Road was just a small alleyway before it was widened in 1882 when the Nag's Head Inn was rebuilt, and again in 1932.

The photographic record then shows the gradual development of the Town.

It shows the first bank, Barclays, and the Vestry Office next door which was built in 1829 and was Enfield's police station from 1840 until 1870.

Another intriguing photo is that of the tram terminus in The Town in 1909.

The next image shows the Town 20 years later and the fountain with a tri-corn of lights and a cattle trough donated by the fantastically named Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association.

In the picture, the building to the left of Barclays Bank is the grand looking showroom of the Tottenham and Edmonton Gas Co which stood there from 1914 to 1937.

Enfield by Stephen Sellick is published by Tempus Publishing, priced £10.99.