The History Of

The Old Stables (once the horse and cart stables for the bakery next door)

The Old Bakery complete with beautiful 140ft* tall London brick built chimney, sadly the chimney was so unsafe we had to take it down
*the chimney was once over 200ft tall

The Old Grain Store (General Store for the Bakery and its here we believe they made the illicit Gin)

The Old Stables, the Old Bakery and the Old Grain Store having been sensitively redeveloped keeping all original features including roof finials, in fact Enfield Council have since decided to place the buildings on the Listed ‘Heritage Buildings of historic interest’.

In late 2013, we regretfully had to remove the wonderful 140ft Bakery brick chimney as the chimney structure was unsafe, in doing so, we opened up a legal can of worms as we found the land registration had erroneously stated that the chimney belonged to a neighbouring domestic home. This issue has now all been sorted however during the legal research to identify and understand how and where the original land registry problem had occurred we discovered that 100+ years ago the old bakery had a secret (& a few more which we will share in the future) …….they made illegal Gin !!

Being a Gin lover………I set out to rediscover the secret Gin History of the OId Bakery……and see if I could make it happen again ….but this time on the right side of the law.

Incidentally, in July 2016 Barry Maysh once a local resident popped into the Mews, over a cup of tea I learnt another secret, between 1938 – 1960 The Old Stables was home to Tom Maysh Master Bike Manufacturer, Tom Maysh was Barry’s grandad ….Tom handmade bikes for the British Rally Team and also the British Olympic team.