Dordrecht, Netherlands. The Tesco replaced a cinema that used to be there, In the early 60s I saw Robin Hood,there, the Walt Disney cartoon production. Gerry, my email is g.hicks@msn.com would like to know more as cant use laura@yahoo.com my mail is returned. The song's lyrics were written by Lewie's friend Keef Trouble, a fellow member of Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts. julia, I remember Victor Value, we used the shop sometimes. I would dearly like to know what Bruno did/go next, does anyone know pleasealso did anyone know a window cleaner same era, bit of a wide boy,one of two brothers, called Vic Madden, not to be confused with an actor of a similar name. Great times, scooters, mods, good jukebox, used to go upstairs. The garage was Saul and Slatter Ltd. I used to go to the Devonshire Cafe for dinner, not everyday but quite a few times, we would take the dinner back to the station, then return the empty plates all washed. Lorna, I now have an ad for Jays Stores Surrey branches, a 1952 invoice from Palmers Green branch and a photo of their location, adjacent to Spencer Avenue, posted on my page. Beg to differ, Miss Hughes was headmistress of the Infants, and Miss Bellfontaine was headmistress of the juniors. I was given an anointing spoon to commemmorate the big day. Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. There was a big fat man with tattoos who ran it and used the F word all the time. dont make us laugh its football or economics ere. I have created this group to remember the good times and the fun times of palmers Green growing up in the 70s and the 80s I look back on for memories of palmers Green so please feel free to share. Hi Normathese Palmers Green Memories are great, eh? As previous I lived in the Larches from 1938 at no 64. When were all the doctors, dentists, solicitors along Green Lanes private residences? No expense spared by Mr.Grout!! Cam rember going to your uncles house one Xmas where everybody joined in to play Charades, I played out being a Milkman with horse and cart! My Grandparents ,my mother and my god mother were residents of Palmers Green in the 1910 onwards til abt. you may ask) too fashionable and hexpensive now thanks to ebay. Thanks for the info. FUFU - Chinese dining at its best in Palmers Green by Ellie Sales. The corner premises were never re-built on and the empty space was then used as an open car forecourt called Kieths Cars. Next..The Triangle Cafe shut (ABC an Lyons) also shut at 5.. The whizzing of the overhead cash canisters as they zinged above to the cashier fantastic system. It was called Briggs and there was another branch down at Wood Green. Some boys from Winchmore worked for him on the window cleaning. you could add doms cafe where you had a great breakfast there. Palmers Greenery Community Caf open 10.30am - 12.00am Coronation street party at Bounds Green Bowls and Tennis Club 10.30am - 12.00pm Councillors' surgery: Palmers Green, New Southgate, Bowes and Highfield wards 2.30pm - 4.30pm People with Voices poetry and ideas workshop 8.00pm - 12.30am Live music: Jiminy Rockit Band I practically lived in the Bezzaz Coffee Bar!!!! These chairs had the smallest seats Ive ever seen and I often thought it was a miracle that my Gran ever managed to perch on one. Wow Thanks Richard awesome now I win the bet with my brothers!! Anyway againthanks for reminding metime to order on the net, Bovril, at Sainsburys Bude, not Winchmore Hill Broadway. Teachers were Mrs Bear?, Miss Lettice, Mr Pearce and his friend Sammy Slipper if the boys were naughty. Happy days playing in the yard out back. I used tio get my school uniform in Evans & Davies. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme. One old lady lost her life in the fire. Im doing some research on my family who lived in Tottenhall Road where teenagers and young adults hung out. When I lived in London and just started my business Aubrey would do most of my black and white printing and I also did a few weddings for him. Annyway, do you ave a clue as to whether the proprietor ,Mr. Pogson was related to THE Mr. E. O. Pogson. I wonder if anyone remembers Dr Baxter who had a surgery in Hazelwood Lane at the junction with New River Crescent where the maisonettes are now? I also recall Roberts toy shop on the other side. I also used to enjoy swimming lessons and free practice twice per week at the schools Arnos Grove Swimming pool is that still a local schools facility? I went there with my sister and her friends I think the Small Faces were signing autographs ? Singapore 45. I have vague recollections of my mother taking us to what seemed quite a posh tea shop called Shepherds which was on Aldermans Hill opposite the park, does anybody remember this? With the Winchmore Hill conservation area as a focal point, the district is bounded on the east by Green Lanes (the A105 road), Barrowell Green, Firs Lane and Fords Grove, and on the north-west by Grovelands Park; in the south it extends to part of Aldermans Hill, and in the north . Ray. "One night in March 1941, the Dance Hall (held in the Princes Hall above Pitman's College) in Green Lanes, Palmers Green was bombed. I then started my apprenticeship at Kenning Car Mart at the Triangle behind Woolworths. I used to sing in the small choir there on stage just before the pictures started, members of the choir got in for nothing via the back door instead of having to pay sixpence like all the others. History I remember the bloke who served there and was a grumpy old git so I suspect this could be the same place. I retired at 44 and have now become an expect at doing nothing. I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. 348 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, N13 5TJ. OM G how I hated Grouts, I was marched in there twice a year by my mother to buy the navy knickers, beige brown high woollen socks and worst of all the liberty bodices with their horrible rubber buttonsall of which had to be worn to school until the end of May..despite a heat wave .I m shuddering to think of that shop and the humiliation it brought to me at Hazelwood Primary School. Where do you live now? The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar'. Since the fake University of Palmers Green didn't come into existence until 1998, the good doctor is not only using two fake degrees, he is lying about when he got them! The name Bezazz brings back happy memories of the late 50s and early 60s. I was born 1935 in Clapton E. Clapton Mothers Home, but my Mum was born in 1917, er Mum born in St. Pancras Workhouse (next to St. Pancras Station Lunnon) of them days.,Mum went to skool in Islington of very poor (financial m,barrased) parents (both boxmakers on the premises)annyway er memories included bein sent from er classroom in Islington with a friend as escort on the tram to Ulleswater Road, Palmers Green, becos er teacher ad left certain documents behind (or wassit sanwiches (any teacher memories ere?). Saturday morning pictures at the Palladium was always good fun watching Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon etc. Was the camera shop you are thinking off Camera Craft just beyond the top of Osborne Road and some way short of Hedge Lane? In the window there was a (seemingly) huge coffee grinding machine. There was a garage forecourt at the top of Hedge Lane where in intersects with Green Lanes, Was that a WW2 bomb site does anyone know? Well the years are rolling back! Then for a short while it was a Menswear shop that sold high end suits, shoes etc. We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. What a great guy he was. For the streets to have virtually no cars? Helen. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. David. Also in Aldermans Hill was a butcher called Drakes and the Gas Company with the Electricity Co round near the current McDonalds in Lodge Drive. Also Broody and Hicks who sold cameras in the 1970s. Dad joined the Home Guard and I remember him cleaning his rifle regularly which used to stand in the corner of the kitchen. Memories of a lovely green and leafy suburb, with a beautiful park Broomfield. Dear (if I may say so having lived in The Larches since 1937) Reg. Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. Palmers Green; Palmers Green Funeral Directors. The Fox stands in a prominent position on the corner of Green Lanes and its namesake, Fox Lane. They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. CameraCraft shop. Thanks Veluchis barber shop near the Triangle- only one and three pence for a mod style hair cut. Hi Victoria, I remember the milkman well, his horse was called Dobbin and Mum used to get me running out in the road with a bucket and shovel if he dropped his business near us so it would be good for the roses in her garden. although i dont remember it having a cafe, maybe it did before my time though. Who remembers Tom the singing flower seller at the top of the access between the buildings? Mon May 03 Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. I was born at 7 Oakthorpe Rd, PG in 1944 and moved to East Anglia in 1971. Keith Headley, did you live on N.C.R? Yes Bob good memory, striking looking car, my MK 3 Cortina was yellow with black vinyl roof, which was unfortunately mostly removed by a group of baboons at Whipsnade safari park during a warm summer in the 70s, I believe the place has now closed. A bus going north, was just slowing down to the bus stop opposite when three bombs fell in close proximity. On the corner of Aldermans Hill and Devonshire Gdns was the United Dairies shop. I guess that makes you and she cousins! Welcome to Harrington University (also known as the University of San Moritz, University of Palmers Green and University of Devonshire, among others), where anyone can purchase a bachelor's or. Hello Stephen..thanks for your promptin memorriesjust south of your late employer street-wise in them days on the corner of edge Lane was alf a shop where I ad to take mas dry cleanins, come snow or shineannyway Dad ad to ave is dickies starched weekly ,cos he was appearin (come snow or shine) on Friday nights at the Manor ouse Turnpike Lane or Tottnam Muniplayin sax(s) clarinet, piano, accordian, dubble base etc for the fashionable dancers in them days. Sylvia. Contact . Hi Sylvia, in the P.Green archives somewhere there is a report that on the night of March 15th 1941 the Princes Dance Hall (corner of Princes Ave) was packed with young couples. Think pool is still there. Other teachers were Miss Sweeny who would let you ring the bell if it was your birthday, Miss Calcott (horrible) and Mrs Dark. I used to by comics from him in the 60s. I remember headmaster Mr Bennett at t ottenhall rd junior school Yes, Dave, I knew Vic Madden by sight only, in the early 60s. I remember Peter Townsend the sports car dealer opposite the library and the ABC and the Wimpy bar at the triangle. We had to make our own fun in those days, there were no iPads, computers,,,,,,,,,,, etc. Reg I remember you from St Michaels at Bowes, I recall you had a interest in meteorology, and went on to Arnos School ans I went to Winchmore Hill Secondary. Although we joke about the shop you could actually buy just about anything you required in the haberdashery line, ric-rac braid, elastic, cotton, american cloth by the yard etc. In 1961 the company was acquired by Car Mart Sales Ltd, but retained its name. I also, an geography class at Southgate County Fox Lane Please Miss! A quaint . Ken Elvery, I remember the Coffee place & it wasnt Home & Colonial.. that was a few doors up!! I recall Evans and Davis, Jane and Adams and the owner had an e type jaguar. I also remember going to the Intimate Theatre with my mother every Tuesday evening. VangelisVangelis: Delectus 2016 Universal Music International BV / Polydor (UK). Some are specific others generic. Making own fun! There was a second Grouts shop at 470 Green Lanes just before Hedge Lane. The reference to Palmers Green was prompted by the fact that Trouble had split up with his girlfriend and was at a party thrown by his friend Charles "Charlie Farley" Hallinan near The Fox, Palmers Green. So my boyhood dreams finally became reality! Hi. The lived AT 56, Lightcliffe Road and granddad worked at a city bank. She was there when I was there in 1940s. I lived in Tottenham rd all through the war being born in ,1935. Bruno would leave the bar at 9.30pm each night, snooker cue in hand and walk to the Cock Tavern for several beers & a few games of snooker. We always had nice Rose bushes ! Once purchased the items would be carefully wrapped in brown paper and tied with string before the exciting moment (for me anyway) of paying. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. I was Yvonne Farmer and our form teacher was Mrs Phair. AnnywayI bought my first camera from Mr Kalms (Dixons) Edgeware (Agfa Silette) on the knock (so much a week) and cycled to Edgeware to pay the monthlya Canon copy of the Leica followed f1.8 lens but paid its way at weddins and I think I was one of the first to get back with ome developed colour (Ferrania) to the celebrations in them days. I grew up in Palmers green (with Pa as escort we did go to the Queens later on seein Cat an the Canary (Bob Hope, avent bin able to sleep in a bed with edboard since and Pinnochionightmares cos o the Whale swallerin (Jonah?) I remember that day vividly as, just as the tv was made to work, on the screen we were just in time to see the Boat Race with Oxford sinking up to their waists in water. Bruno was my neighbour in the flats above the shops on the N Circular Rd and round the corner to Bows road He moved from the Quick service cafe to the Bezazz and as you say it was the hub for many. February Edition Issue 12. 1940, I have enjoyed reading all of your comments, because my Mother was so proud to have lived there, and reminisced so often. I now live in Bedfordshire. We were entranced by the trendy clothes and selection of jazzy tights. Just found this: The next occupant of the premises was Jays Furnishing Stores, a hire-purchase furniture store first listed in Wards 1911 directory. We lived in Hamilton Crescent and the kids played in the Rec but it was short for Recreation Ground.lol. I have edited this comment because what it says was of a personal nature and could cause offence. These drawers had glass fronts so you could see the contents. 70s. Ta. This isnt the place to get involved in that discussion so Ill just say that changes arent always for the best! The award-winning Orchard was created by volunteers in 2009 on the site of a disused bowling green. Happy times Hazelwood Primary School, Hazelwood Lane youth club, the Rec on sunny days. I used to get home absolutely filthy but so happy. Much later in I guess the 70s? The Prisoners were building the estate up to Ash Grove. Poultney and his Perlice in the Guardroom. Our Joe Hart lived in edge Lane opposite Doc. Koubes here are also a match for Aroma with a slightly deeper, sweeter taste from sticky caramelised onions. Very interesting. Miss Bellefontaine was the head teacher at Hazelwood Infants school during the forties, I know as I attended that school. I left in 1986 as a Grocery Manager. Was sad to see it go. We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. Palmers Green, Greater London Old Photos, Historic Maps, Local History Books and Memories of Palmers Green Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane with our old photos, historic maps, local history books, and memories of Palmers Green. Later, I remember seeing my very first E Type Jaguar outside the shop with a number plate personalised JA number forgotten. The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. It was nice to hear your memories. One in Tottenhall Rd, Drakes at The Cambridge roundabout & at the Triangle, another at Empire Parade and Dewhurst in Green Lanes opp Tottenhall Rd. Was Mrs Dark the wife of Mr. Are you skating on thin ice already in the Netherlands? We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. Do you remember the Toy shop opposite too? Mum was Pool Attendant at Barrowell Green but we still had to join those long queues to get in..so long a waitso full had to wait as Mrs. Barry only allowed the extras in as people left. yore memories are late stuff to me for my writins as I sink into the westI remembers Janes an Adams afore the lectric shop hexpansion.in my days the winders were boarded up..just a sq.ft peepole like all shops (Ma an I urried past on our Fridy night out to Palmadium Pictures (Ma wouidnt go to the Queens, bit seedy she sed)(no one looked in them dark doorways then cos o things goin on! As she asked for opera top petticoats and long legged knickers the woman behind the counter would operate the very cleaver drawers lining the walls holding the goods. Up until the purchase of the motorised bike I used to cycle in every day from Muswell hill. I could go on and on reallybut one last one for now the Box o Chicken next to Martins the newsagentand I remember that bloke in Martins, youre right he did look like Reg Varney!! Can anyone help? Doms! We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. Hi Gerry Green Lanes has changed so much since we were youngsters especially the current work on the cycle lane which is quite an issue locally. I really love this website for bringing back all those memories stored in the depths of our brains. She retired when I was there and replaced my Mrs Gibbs trendy and Beatles fan. Try putting dance hall into search, or I will find the link for you later! Hope this helps. Hello Raymond, Your memories of Palmers Green are a real Gold Mine. My brother and I also used to park our guy on the days leading up to Guy Fawkes night outside Doms (with his permission) as it was always busy and situated between two bus stops. We often played up the Wreck at the end of Lynbridge grdns where the parky Mr Moody and his co parky Mr Savage would chase us if we caused them any trouble! Annyway after ostilities e also gigged (very fashionable nowadays, eh?) Hi Jenny, I took a photo of these homes about this time (1966) before the fire for a school photo project on old buildings I believe they were called Skinners Alms Houses. Dad was in the ARP with your uncle, I have been trying to find some photos of the ARP at Palmers Green but as yet not successful. Wonder what happened to him, I would love to know. Lefteris Bakery/Instagram. For the coronation, we all went to the Ritz not on the day itself to see it on the big screen. our school on fire by insendery bombs ,also the sky appearing like a red sun set and being told it was London docks on fire.mr rodwell Mrs green are. Cullens sold loose biscuits from large tins and lots of different dried fruits and unpacked ingredients that could be bought in any quantities and were then bagged in paper bags. I remember going there with my Mother and having lovely ice cream in a silver sundae dish. I suppose those of us `of a certain age` have lots of war memories stored away. Richard Franklin. Our dentist was Mr Finkel and I remember a story about a wall falling down by his house and squashing someone! Thank you Suzanne. Arnos and remember Mr collier miss wastel and headmaster Mr Rossi also school nurse nitty Nora! My family name was Church but we have moved away now. He retired in about 1956 when I was 11 and the house was demolished after that and the land must have been sold to a developer who built the maisonettes. Was this a WW2 bomb? Palmers Green 60s To The 70s - a nostalgic memory of Palmers Green Call +44 (0)1722 716376 Archive Shopping Gift Ideas Themes ePostcards Memories Blog Business Home Palmers Green Memories Palmers Green 60s To The 70s Palmers Green 60s To The 70s A Memory of Palmers Green. This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. Palmers Green LI FE www.palmersgreenlife.co.uk. If notat last space for my clockwerk trainset (O guageTrix or Bing(not Hornby? Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! Its population was very small, and there were no more than a few isolated houses in the mid-17th century. Please?? In answer to your question about tescos, I worked there for many years and there was a Tescos there. Annyway I have told already of my Mum on this lovely chat previous, being part-time life saver and attendant at THE POOL, she could not swim a stroke. it was victor value supermarket first then tescos. Lots of happy memories of Palmers Green ice cream at John Coombs sweet shop. Was this the Barbers that was in a room behind Glossops the sweet and tobacco shop. Organising A Cremation Funeral In Palmers Green. Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? New River Crescent was bisected at the foot of Park Avenue. also the Unigate milkman who had an electric cart and kept saying oh brother. Buy Intimate Memories: The History of the Intimate Theatre, Palmers Green by Geoff Bowden online at Alibris. It was called something like The Rubber Mac shop!!!! I used it fir a while to work as a mini cab driver for a bloke called Roy that was in a tacky office opposite Woodberry Avenue (where I lived) in Green Lanes. Church under rev. I remember my Nan going I to Tescos on Green Lane and used to run around Brookfield park and go into the burned down museum with the bees and the art work. Annyway I was bursting with fitness with all this pedalling on the Rudge when my time came to do National Service (Rifle Brigade. Which one is it?? Thanks very much Saul & Slatter it was! Obviously at that time, there werent many shops selling fresh coffee let alone grinding it on the premises. Hi David Annyway she sees the ambience of Palmers Greenery so later Dad as to buy a property to satisfy er haspirations Palmer Green wise N14annyway my Palmers Green is Jewell in Crown (I am salutin you er Majesty) no rushkeep crackin on, eh? Hi John Its not my memory of PG thats off, its my ability to tell right from left Im waving my left hand around saying Im sure it was on this side!!! Palmers Green N13, is lovely, a Edwardian area with plenty of independence shops, the parade of shops has beautiful building above them a lovely 1930s style park, a railway station journey to the countryside and Moorgate and properties are still very affordable. Anniversary Edition. I used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. Going back a bit who used to run up Fox Lane, stand on the bridge and wait to be covered in steam from the trains . Yore Dad probably employed my Dad (as a freelance) their musical doins seems to ave run parallels. However, you might ave missed as Waitrose now sez ere in Cornywall.Hazelwood Lane an the Pilgrims Rest (maitred, a Swiss gentlemanlater to command The Cherry Tree on Southgate Green) tho never done it better than Pilgrims in my an my Patricias opinionOther Cafes in Lunnon Town.. Savoy, Carlton Towers, The White House, Tante Clair etc..an them Cafes in Bray, Berks, dont make it in my list but that MacDonalds (you know, the one just across the road from Valencia (Espagne?) (When I was a boy is banned in daylight hours this family). A German bomber 'plane was overheadand tragically his bomb carriage was blown off, so all the bombs came down together in Palmers Green. He said there was money all over the place and as far as he could see it was all being collected up to be given back, The other corner was also hit and certainly Keith`s cars set up business there and eventually on both sides of Sidney Avenue, becoming a flourishing business. Hi Reg. I still as the familly piano bungin up my front room, opin the latist sprog will unravvell its potential. Hi Gerry, I,m not sure but you could well be right as I do not remember any other type of restaurant there, Regards Brian. Remember the old peoples home burning down in 1966.Buses were diverted down Windsor Road. Between Windsor Road and Park Avenue was a greengrocers called Burkes, there were 2 Janes and Adams shops, the toy shop already mentioned, plus 2 doors from that there was the electrical shop an old sign saying Ultra Radio was still up on the front at the first floor (last time I looked). Miss Bellefontaine was head of junior school. I remember the tremendous explosion and my father tying the washing up bowl over his head with a towel and running down Sidney Avenue to help. I do remember though looking at one of those planes that were bombs without pilots (forgot what they were called could it be doodle bug) with my dad and its engine stopped right over head. National Service. Maybe a member will remember Jays. Annyway my best buy camera wise was a Thornton Pickard plate (Camera Craft) in original tweed hold-all includin tripod. however, it did changes hands to a new type of shop a few years later. Remember the barbers shop. Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories Join group About this group This worldwide local history, nostalgia and memories group has been active since 2012, we have thousands of photos in our albums and many memori See more Private Only members can see who's in the group and what they post. In those days they called a spade a spade! She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. Further up from Ashwells towards Devonshire Rd.was a beautiful shop selling china and glass.This was close to the shop with the heavy coffee smella quite small shop which was probably next door to the 2nd. They were green wooden gates. Nice to hear from you. Can you remember the name of it? Responding to the notes on Barrowell Green Swimming pool, I was born in Southgate and lived at 6 Tintern Gardens from 1936 56, and attended Southgate County Grammar School. Dad did buy furniture at A an Asand all else for Elsie (my Mum) without consulting er. He was a brilliant dancer and he and his partner won many competitions in the old days. You just came up in conversation and I Googled you. Hi Anna, I remember the tea shop next to t he. It is the oldest remaining pub in Palmers Green to have continuously stood on the . Do you remember one opposite Arnos Grove tube in early 80s? Happy days at Nans. I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. Miss Wrigley used to rattle you back and forward in your desk if you didnt behave. Palmers Green, Enfield A poor man's Muswell Hill, as architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called it, consisting of an Edwardian core surrounded by interwar estates on the borders of Southgate, Winchmore Hill and Bowes Park. Okay Pennie. Me and my two brothers been discussing the dept store at the triangle but didnt think it was Evans & Davies at that time . Good to have found this site. Magic for post-war Palmers Green teenagers. There was no bomb site where the garage was. I then went to The other memory was of the caf Doms (Dave Todd 1/7/14) where they sold really delicious ice cream too! Yes I remember Miss Hughes, she was the head of Hazelwood Primary around 1946 when I started. Yes, very tall, Scottish doctor with elderly receptionist and very noisy gas fire. I think Myrtle Road was built in 1950, is that right? As I hadnt had any response to my original comment I was beginning to think I had imagined him. roses) at certain times of the year and was very beautiful. Dear Ken. St. Clements Press. Cameracraft now theres a blast from the past too! Coronation fireworks display in the park. Thank you for any help you can give Wishin you Happy New Year! It is open on Sunday afternoons from 2.00 to 4.30pm Model Boating Pond The Model Boating Pond was dug in 1903, shortly after the opening of the Park.
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