Editing Middlesex University (section)

====Enfield====
[[File:Broadbent building, Enfield Campus, Middlesex University, 2004.jpg|thumb|Broadbent building]]
The history of Enfield Campus began with the history of [[electric light]]. In 1901, [[Joseph Wilson Swan]] bought a house in [[Ponders End]] High Street that became the Ediswan Institute.<ref>Pam, D. (1977),''The New Enfield: Stories of Enfield Edmonton and Southgate, a Jubilee History'', London Borough of Enfield Libraries, Arts & Entertainment Dept</ref> Four years later Ediswan Institute was bought by Middlesex County Council and became the Ponders End Technical Institute. By 1937 The Ponders End Technical Institute was growing so rapidly that it was decided to build a new college across the road in Queensway. Due to the [[Second World War]], it was not completed until 1953, but the unfinished buildings were in use throughout the war. By now it was called Enfield Technical College, but in 1962 it was renamed ''Enfield College of Technology'' by the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]]. In 1973 the college formed part of Middlesex Polytechnic.

There are four major buildings on campus: ''Broadbent'', ''Roberts building'' (or Tower Block), ''McCrae'' and ''Pascal''. They are named after people who helped to create it.
* '''Broadbent''', the main building of Enfield Campus, is named after Henry Winterbottom Broadbent, a mechanical engineer who was appointed first Principal of Enfield Technical College in January 1941.
* '''Roberts''' tower block was named after a local industrialist George A. Roberts, who was chair of Enfield College's governing body from 1949 to 1968.
* '''McCrae''' building was the first extension to Enfield Technical College. Built in 1955, it was later named after Roderick McCrae, who was the Principal from 1955 to 1962.
* '''Pascal''' building is named after Eric Pascal who was Education Officer of the Borough of Enfield from before 1942 until 1945 or later, and clerk to the Governors of Enfield College from 1949 to 1965. The campus was closed in July 2008, and the majority of departments moved to the extended Hendon campus and some to the Archway Campus shared with UCL.