Annyway my best buy camera wise was a Thornton Pickard plate (Camera Craft) in original tweed hold-all includin tripod. The Prisoners were building the estate up to Ash Grove. Absolutely free. She was young and trendyin fact I saw her once in the old HMV shop in Wood Green buying a Yes album ! See https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-intimate-theatre-palmers-green. One day I and a group of friends went to find Cliff Richard's house to try and get his autograph. 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. I studied at Southgate County 1946-1950. Existing expenditure on maintaining these building is costly and will continue to be in thefuture. although i dont remember it having a cafe, maybe it did before my time though. But then came THE GIRLS. WebTrack Layout Diagram: PALMERS GREEN 1960 A drawing of the signal box track layout for Palmers Green (Great Northern Railway) box at 1960, from the collection of John Hinson. !.thank you for jogging my memory. National Service. Dad did buy furniture at A an Asand all else for Elsie (my Mum) without consulting er. Northbound trains run to Hertford North regularly and on to Stevenage once an hour. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs For the streets to have virtually no cars? The A111 through Southgate gives access to the M25 motorway at junction 24. Baptist She was there when I was there in 1940s. Dordrecht, Netherlands. I also loved the names of the park keepers you remember they just seem very appropriate somehow! Was this a WW2 bomb? I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. Green Lanes has changed so much since we were youngsters especially the current work on the cycle lane which is quite an issue locally. In the 50s there was a shop towards the end of Palmers Green (on the right hand side as you went toward Winchmore Hill) that ground coffee. No this barbers was near Janes and Adams Electrical shop and also bicycle shop. Julia. In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. The smell of freshly ground coffee from the Home and Colonial grocers at top of the High Street. Share this forum post
Dave then joined him at Kelvin and we became great mates and we would go to Arsenal matches together. WebPalmers Green, London Kiaat hardwood cabinet. Again has anyone any info on Bruno? Public access to the New River waterway has been improved with waterside paths and access gates. Here is how it was reported by the BBC. Helen. Do you mean `Tom the flower man at the Triangle next door to Woolworths? No I cannot remember the name of the garage and can barely remember the garage let alone that it was selling Jags. I left in 1986 as a Grocery Manager. I especially appreciate the care and teaching some of us received as St John Ambulance cadets. It is worth a lot but no longer needed. us failed musicians worship for evermore.no rush puttin the latest grandaughter Reenie to bed..ope she gets on the bandstand soon shes got the lungs for it and we may need er thirty shillins a week to pay orf the mortgage.Annyway (am I keepin you up?) I remember headmaster Mr Bennett at t ottenhall rd junior school I suppose the range of shops in every High St has changed so much these days because almost everyone has a car, fridges and freezers and generally shop only once or twice a week, whereas when I was young, people shopped every day and had to walk to the shops for fresh produce. N21. remember the milkman coming round with his horse? 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. Best teacher was the top class with Mr Smith. Have a nice trip! Can you imagine what it would be like to be caught in an air raid? My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. [10] Jona Lewie slightly amended the words, but still mentioned the "do in Palmers Green". The owners were brother and sister Dominic & Anna both born in Italy who arrived in England after the second world war,they were very hard working & organised, so much so they only lived 200 yards opposite in Tottenhall Rd. xx, Hi 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? And how kind he was to. very posh! Lovely tiered plates of sandwiches and cakes. In Denmark, where I am from, she left behind a son (my father) from a previous marriage. No expense spared by Mr.Grout!! The surgery was in a big detached house with a lovely garden round it & you walked through a long pergola covered in flowers to get to the house. According to the 2011 census, 64% of the ward's population is white (34% British, 27% other, 3% Irish). A saxophonist my father often booked had the first name of Larry. I must have been about 5 or 6. Was Mrs Dark the wife of Mr. But I was answering Jenny Hs comment about the site at the top of Hedge Lane which was a car dealership etc & is now a very good Turkish Deli, which she thought had been a bomb site. Going to the cinema on Saturday mornings was a treat to watch the Lone Ranger. I remember Tom I worked opposite him at Triangle Cars for 5 years in th 60s . Thanks And for Freya, sad as it evidently was when articulated in her marvellous single, Lost Without Lots of predictable responses. Good lunch time food & very good value. Dave Todd. We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. It was a journey to Southern Television to give them a piece of his mind about an inaccurate programme on meat marketing that gave him his next big break, headhunted by top man Roy Rich to become programme maker and controller of a new production, Farm in the South. Do you John manses I use to buy my records in the 70s and 80s, Lived in Palmers Green from 1966 to 1987. It catered for men and women. By the way, the founder of the H&C chain of grocers made a lot of money and had built for him the last castle to be built in England; Castle Drago in Devon now a National Trust Property. Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. Lovely caf. Lived in Melville Gardens and Grenoble Gardens. WebSt. And the wonderful smell I was living there from 1948 - 1956 (4 years old till 12 ). I manage to find scraped ice cream every now and then but nothing like the taste I remember. Mr. Music Baggarley, S.County did not think much of my voice, a judgement echoed by Regimental Sgt.Major, Rifle Brigade, on the Square, Winchester. Play nicely please. A clip of shire horses gently nodding along pulling a plough and that music, a little slice of country life, and then Sunday lunch. Miss Gibbs. Penny for the Guy! Mum rode her bike to Tottenhall Road to care for patients in the old fever hospital. Happy searching, Sylvia Gambin. This marked the spot where lorries slowed, changed gear to ascend New River bridge and I would grab a tailboard chain and be towed up and up Bourne Hill by a Foden on my bicycle (not the Rudge yet) to St. Georges Road and peel off easily to Southgate County School in Fox Lane. Truly some of the best times of my life in Palmers Green. Opposite were the cottage gates where Italian Prisoners of War sold the plaitings of straw for pocket money. I was at Winchmore when Mr Shepherd was there as Head. would go down there most nights and you need only buy one coffee & that had to last you all evening what great times in there !!!! At the moment I am trying to come as far as I can on the Internet, before I visit the UK and try to walk in my grandmothers footsteps, trying to imagine her life. Since those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and Ray in Cornywall. I recall watching with amazement whilst waiting as the barber lit a candle and singed older mens hair, hoping desperately he would not set light to m,e when my turn came! Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. I remember the shop well.think it was called Cullens. Thank you Suzanne. Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2023. Boots the Chemist had a small book lending library upstairs and usually had a good selection of Enid Blyton Mysteries. Yell.com Yell Business. You just came up in conversation and I Googled you. Now hears a thing opposite the pool was a old derelict house who lived there? Miss Bellefontaine was head of junior school. Was it a post office too? ten years between 1960 and until her death. How everyone stayed so skinny in those days I have no idea! Annyway she, (my Ma) also directed me to buy my first suit from them (powder blue with just a touch o pink pin stripes) for my first day to work in 1950. Dr Baxter used some of the rooms for his surgery and, I would imagine, must have lived there in the rest of the house. I was Jean cook then with a brother Brian l remember the bombing of the dance hall between princes avenue and Tottenhall rd and the trolly bus wires catching fire and my friend Louise loosing a leg l remember Doreen young and Gary spicer.also the smell of Mac fisherys shop. Its population was very small, and there were no more than a few isolated houses in the mid-17th century. Before marrying my first wife I too lived in Muswell Hill then Palmerston Road before buying a flat in Woodberry Avenue. 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. Poultney and his Perlice in the Guardroom. My father, Bert Hart, worked for Allen & Appleyard making furniture. Are you skating on thin ice already in the Netherlands? As I hadnt had any response to my original comment I was beginning to think I had imagined him. I lived in Winchmore Hill while married and enjoyed the playing field that is now Sainsburys and Baker, butcher and tea shop with the Green by Broadwalk and have fond memories of PG and WH as a young man. Then for a short while it was a Menswear shop that sold high end suits, shoes etc. An album is a way to save a selection of Frith photos, maps and memories that are of interest to you. I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. Yore Dad probably employed my Dad (as a freelance) their musical doins seems to ave run parallels. Palmers Green Police I had a mini and a few cortinas in the 70s all with big bore exhausts and used to make a deliberate noise going up Green lanes. Otherwise it was as you describe with the coffee grinding machine in the window and the aroma pervading Green Lanes. So many happy memories. Some trains also terminate at Gordon Hill. I had some really good teachers and friends I missed a lot when we moved. There's a version of the Local Democracy Reporter's report on the London Assembly debate with some additional information and comments, which are relevant also to commuters in Enfield. I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. Sad as I am, I have just had a look on Google maps and as of August 2014, there was still a Doms offering Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner no mention of ice cream though! Also remember Mrs Dark who took 4A, an excellent teacher. 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). The, I lived in a flat over Walton, Hassell & Port in Alderman's Hill. This was run by a short tubby lady. Also Miss Stenson, Miss Wrigley or Wigley, Mr Philips, Mr Johnson and Mr Hart. I used to have a paper round in the paper shop top of hedge lane and green lanes in 1963 I got fifteen Bob a week Mr pogson was the proprietor does any body remember him. Hi David The mention of Grouts brouht back many memories. Hi David, yes, I remember Keiths Cars being there for many years &, as Richard S says, it is now a tyre dealer and I remember Pitmans just opp. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth Just found this: The next occupant of the premises was Jays Furnishing Stores, a hire-purchase furniture store first listed in Wards 1911 directory. When you entered the shop there was another door immediately opposite the entrance door. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. To be one of the first Irish or Greek families to settle in the area? Can anyway tell me? Dr Stewart was a wonderful Dr who never seem to rush you, yet never seemed to run late with his apt & made you feel really at ease. I remember the big round plastic tomatoes containing tomato sauce. Sylvia 0 I grew in in NRC, What was there before the maisonettes were built. Wow! Went to St Monica School from 1970-71 before we were transferred to the new Our Lady of Lourdes School in Arnos Grove. Its a hazy memory but I do remember buying a basket for my school books (they were the in thing then) It was a glorious place to live as a child. These Bus lines stop near Morrisons: 102, 121, 329, 34, W6. I assumed that the horse was some kind of pet that he took with him on his deliveries. It is located within the N13 postcode district, around 8 miles (13km) north of Charing Cross. Back to the New River, us 4 from 3b Southgate County met on Sundays in Geoffs Grannys House, Riverway and mounting to her Summer House Roof Platform at the end of her garden invented the game of Catchreeling, making our apparatus from cotton reels and cottons supplied by Granny the object was to cast as fly fishing to snare the bundles of cut grasses that seasonally the New River Authority trimmed from the banks. WebThere are 4 ways to get from Old Street to Palmers Green by train, bus, taxi or car Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner. I was born at 7 Oakthorpe Rd, PG in 1944 and moved to East Anglia in 1971. If notat last space for my clockwerk trainset (O guageTrix or Bing(not Hornby? Steak Chips and peas 2/6p and the included bread and butter, We lived in Osborne Road (1955 ) but then moved to Old Park Road just over 10 years later where we stayed until the late 70s. Could you tell me where Beezaz was situated and were there any other coffee shops in the area. Raymond, did you go to Ilfracombe Devon during the war. (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?) Enjoy Ill call you a Fcab etc. on It had locations in Sumiton and Jasper. Memories of a lovely green and leafy suburb, with a beautiful park Broomfield. But we used to dangle fishing lines from the river bridge in Hazelwood lane in an effort to catch something. I have written up many of my memories.. Hello Roger. 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. After the war Jack edited the magazines Lilliput and Picture Post, before being recruited by the National Farmers Union to set up a new information department. Where are you now and all the others from these years? Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. Atthe Intimate Theatre. Of course, the Intimate already has a legacy, and was successfully nominated for Enfield Councils Local Heritage List two years ago. It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! WebFind Motorcycle Repairs & Services near Palmers Green, get reviews, directions and opening hours. roses) at certain times of the year and was very beautiful. Yes..most definitely, I have a memory of a house flattened at the bottom of Park Avenue near to NRC. We recently had an email from Bente Dalsbaek who is trying to trace members of her family from when they lived in Palmers Green in the 1970s. I used to work weekends 1970-1972 for Kenning Car Hire which Im sure was probably on the site you recall. Ta. Palmerston Road (O) is 723 meters away, 10 min walk. I assume there was no ammunition in the house, though! The lanes extend as far south as the A406. I know my grandmother at one point started to work in a hospital instead of housekeeping, but I am not sure if it is a local hospital. One day I remember hearing some youths had put a razor blade on the shoot and I was terrified. inbox. Dear Ken. Hi Anna, I remember the tea shop next to t he. Winchester) and was amazed when on a route march or exercise and dreading the eventas soon as we turned the corner from barracks, everyone from Sergeant to PTI had to fall out for a smoke. Mrs Gibbs, Mr Roper, Mrs Langford(Nee Anstey) Mrs Potts, Mrs Buchannon, Mr Hollingsworth, Mr Streatham,Mrs Chapman, Mrs Rupert, Also the caretaker who was aptly named Mr Moody. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. People on the breadline who receive more money won't squirrel it away in 60 years ago, on 20th April 1963, Edmonton Council officially inaugurated an impressive new public utility - the building now referred to as Ridge Avenue Library. We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs. Palmers Green, The Triangle c1965. Less than one year into their full opening, automated cycle counts at September 2018 already suggest 10-12k trips by bike per month within Palmers Green. Doms and the baker opposite were always good pitches! Bamboo cane area dividers, Italian shiny coffee machines and music.. I then became a (successful) travel writer and ended up as a journalist for an american newsletter. Happy days at Nans. Perhaps it was awakening the same kinds of feelings as it did with Dad in homes up and down the country, people whose lives had moved away from their beginnings and now worked in offices, but who treasured the fields and pastures and the skills you needed to make a living from them. In 1964 I had started working for Souhgate Council as a tractor driver, and cut the grass all over the borough including Broomfield Park. I guess that makes you and she cousins! Good times eh Dad?. I started at Hazelwood in 1963 too and l also live in Singapore. Some major congestion still exists on the A406. One of us is going mad!! I bet you noticed big changes to the shops in PG when you went to The Fox. Perhaps you know somebody who lived on that road in that period of time? But although it stopped above us it must have drifted because the next day going to school I saw it had hit the house the other side of the field in Hazelwood Lane. Remember the Pet Shop across the road from there, selling all manner of exotic animals (would be prohibited today) including Marmaset monkeys! I went to Brownies and Guides at that church too! Up until the purchase of the motorised bike I used to cycle in every day from Muswell hill. Then, of course, the great Grouts with its artistic window displays! Sorry to say my own Weddin Photos (brilliant) from Artricia, Winchmore Hill selected by my father-in-law Edward Cable Later on in Advertisin I helped to promote the 10 fare to Australia for adventurous families but had to stay behind to assist David Bailey, Don McCullin, Billy Apple et al.. No rush now but still on the familly tree search (Sixteen String Jack Rann and Sue) (Sue still rowing back to GB from Botany Bay 1779)ave you eard from yore coastgards annythin?
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