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In 1964 I had started working for Souhgate Council as a tractor driver, and cut the grass all over the borough including Broomfield Park. One old lady lost her life in the fire. Next, The Curzon just past the Post Office (not goin in there Raymond, too hexpensive). Maybe it was rebuilt very quickly or my memorys going! National Service. Devonshire Road. The sound of a siren still turns my stomach over to this day. . Mildred E. Barry appointed to East Orange Opposite Grouts well almost. Then they returned to London, where they bought a house in The Larches, Palmers Green together with Colin Fishers parents as I understand it. Ive lived here all my life (born 45) but dont remember that or Keiths being a bomb site. 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. He took the train each morning from Palmers Green station. Remember the Rag and Bone man had a horse and cart and my mum would send me out with a shovel and bucket to scoop up any droppings the horse might leave. Ha ha yes and he had those bottle top glasses Dr Meldrum !!! (Miss Watts?) The tramway is now long gone. also the restuarant above the sweet shop in Green Lanes which was opposite the Queens Cinema? Anyone remember The North London Decorating Company at the junction of The North Circular and Green Lanes? Best wishes Yes I remember Miss Hughes, she was the head of Hazelwood Primary around 1946 when I started. I think that surgery was based in the houses that Martin mentioned (10/8/14) for a short while and then to a tiny building, like a garage, at the top of Windsor Rd with a bigger branch in Winchmore Hill, nr Green Dragon Lane. Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? Thanks for the info. The area remained largely undeveloped for thirty more years, as local landowners refused to sell their large estates for building. Local records mention a Palmers Field in 1204 and a Palmers Grove in 1340. Happy searching, Sylvia Gambin. My entire lunch money would be spent on a Cola float, Coke and ice cream with a cherry and a fruit pie for dessert! Here is how it was reported by the BBC. or Best Offer. . Hi Mitchell thank you for fillinin some potoles,, It's easy - just think of a place that brings back a memory for you and write about: Here are some of the places people are talking about in our Share Your later..no rushsheep on the boil. We always had nice Rose bushes ! In 1871 the railway line from Wood Green to Enfield was opened and a station was built in Aldermans Hill to serve Palmers Green (half a mile away from the nearest houses). The area remained largely undeveloped for thirty more years, as local landowners refused to sell their large estates for building. I smiled when I read about the visits to Dom's Cafe, just a five minute walk from the school. OK sorry Lorna, but just thought the name being similar and all that. 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. (opposite Courts Furnitures?) The name Bezazz brings back happy memories of the late 50s and early 60s. , some of my best memories of that time. Everett was the first black lad in our school in the mid 50s. Just read (13.10.17) email of your history contribution. Yes..most definitely, I have a memory of a house flattened at the bottom of Park Avenue near to NRC. She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. Please help! Spent a lot of time in the park, on the swings etc & collecting conkers. When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of 1944 I 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. In 1969, the New Jersey lottery got its start and New Jersey native Buzz Aldrin (from Glen Ridge) landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs I was Yvonne Farmer and our form teacher was Mrs Phair. As I hadnt had any response to my original comment I was beginning to think I had imagined him. As I was only young then, I have no idea why that happened. WebPalmers Green, London Kiaat hardwood cabinet. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? My memory goes back to 1956, I would have been 8 years old and my Dad used to take myself & my younger brother to Doms most Saturdays during the summer holidays for a midday lunch treat, He would put us on one of the 5 bar stools which were positioned at the rear of the cafe on the right hand side, we would pick up the menu because it looked grown up! She ated the chairs and the oover and most else e lovingly carried ome. She was young and trendyin fact I saw her once in the old HMV shop in Wood Green buying a Yes album ! I farms in Cornwall now an apologise for the grammer neglected at Southgate County Grammar (an spellins). Er, Dave, surely The Bezazz opened nearer 1957 than 1967 frothy coffee and all that. Yore Dad probably employed my Dad (as a freelance) their musical doins seems to ave run parallels. All in advance of any actual details. Palmers Green was once a tiny hamlet in the parish of Edmonton, situated at the junction of Green Lanes and Fox Lane. of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. with various junction improvements. Dear (if I may say so having lived in The Larches since 1937) Reg. 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! Seekin relatives of a gentleman printer named Richard Wall who lived at No.8 The Promenade N13 opin to return some property I found, I come across this Jewel and your writinsare you related to Joe Hart for whose band my Dad used to play the saxophoneusually Friday evenins for 32/6? For well over 10 years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences It was nice to hear your memories. Hi David, I think I remember you from Winchmore. AU $9.95 postage. See the Memories of a lovely green and leafy suburb, with a beautiful park Broomfield. Cameracraft now theres a blast from the past too! There was some credible evidence that the house on the corner of New River Crescent and Hedge Lane in the Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! Wonderful. Wendy (was Wendy Small ), Hello Wendy, I do recall the ladies shop you mean. Well the years are rolling back! We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. Built in the late 1930s, it stands as a handsome example of civic architecture from the period. The garage was, or became Kennings opposite Camera Craft. Can you imagine what it would be like to be caught in an air raid? Recorded as Palmers grene 1608, 'village green associated with a family called Palmer' (mentioned in local records from the 14th century), from the Middle English grene. Palmers Green was once a tiny hamlet in the parish of Edmonton, situated at the junction of Green Lanes and Fox Lane. This was back in the early 60s. Good to have found this site. 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. Nice to hear from you. Also the lady who sold us orange flavoured ice cubes for 1 penny . I remember the bloke who served there and was a grumpy old git so I suspect this could be the same place. Oh and one of our members mum and aunt used to work there! Thanks very much Saul & Slatter it was! 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But he was ever present in our living rooms in Out of Town and in the childrens programme he devised and presented with Fred Dineage How! which ran until 1981. Happy times at Arnos school and some not so nice if you got the cane. 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. The North Circular Road and A10 are the main trunk roads. And it was Dads favourite programme. Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. Hazy memory? A few doors away was a grocers shop called Crows. Then came the day of the first postwar consignment of new Dinky ToysI was late in the queue, all vehicles sold but I did secure a Gun Emplacement Canon. You done a bit of boxing? Julia. There was a bank on one corner of Sidney Avenue which had also been hit. I now live in Bedfordshire. He was no secret in the new marriage, but remained in Copenhagen with his grandmother. Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? SPONSORED. It would have been maybe late 60s/ early 70s Also I remember the very high slide in Broomfield park with concrete below scary! Im not sure where Jays originated in Croydon or elsewhere but in any case it appears to have ended up as a national chain, with branches in places such as Bristol, Luton, Northampton, Croydon and Sheffield, as well as areas of London including Palmers Green, Stoke Newington, and Walthamstow.. The headmistress, Miss Hughes must have been about 110, My class teacher was a woman aptly named Mrs Dark a horrible and spiteful woman. I ad no spare cash for new comics in them daysdid you ever deliver the EagleIm payin 8.00 a copy for the good ones now.. My grandparents moved to Palmers Green in 1910. Went to St Monica School from 1970-71 before we were transferred to the new Our Lady of Lourdes School in Arnos Grove. I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. Lovely doctor. Doms! Footnote: Dad an is fellow freelances performed under aliasis to avoid problems with HMCRC.why else am I cultivatin a full Santa Claus beard5 months to go! Palmer's Green and Southgate Born in July 1939, when the war started I would have been about 6 weeks old. So my story really jumps forward to 1944. We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. My Grandparents ,my mother and my god mother were residents of Palmers Green in the 1910 onwards til abt. 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! The coffee shop WAS on the right going towards Winchmore Hill, surely? I remember we got a TV from Stanwood Radio and remember the tiny shop on alderman shill that had wood showing decay in the window. Hope this helps. I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. Has any reader furniture in use purchased from Allen & Appleyards at 362 Green Lanes, replacing Kiltycakes Cafe next to the still existing post office? When I read Jenny H & Martins comments about Doctors, it reminded me of the first one I had. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. I do not expect a comment, as this was many years ago. Ray. The Sunday People is crinkled and pages turned until the familiar tune begins: Say what you will, the countryside is still, Recorded by Max Bygraves in 1956 for the film Charley Moon, it was the original theme tune to Out of Town, a programme which, according to Television and Radio 1978 whether it shows the shoeing of horses, angling or rabbiting, presents a complete and unsentimental picture of country life in all its aspects.. He must have spent a lot of time fixing kids injuries as my memory of him was from when I fell off my scooter whizzing round the garden and I damaged a tendon in my leg. My father, now age 74, is following my research with great interest and I hope to be able to provide him with some answers as well. Also the first Wimpy Bar at the triangle in the mid 60s? Hi Raymond, It was Sid Ran your uncle that I remember as a friend of my father, I believe I as at that party you mention but cannot recall the present I received but it may have been a small accordion. My Godmother was a local schoolteacher in .1930 onwards ish ( Miss Una Cook). Ill call you a Fcab etc. Holborn). There have been theatre productions, celebrity drinkers, a ghost, a comedy club, and community cinema. You walked up a long gravel path under the pergola to get to the house which had dark wooden panelling etc., very posh! 2023 Palmers Green Jewel in the North, Palmers Green history, people and community, I am writing to you in search for information about a. I am currently researching for my book about my grandmother, who left for London in the 1950s to work as a housekeeper and to be with her then later husband Colin Russel Fisher, a merchant seaman, whom she met at one point in Copenhagen. 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. Play nicely please. remember the milkman coming round with his horse? I lived in Wolves Lane. 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Annyway after ostilities e also gigged (very fashionable nowadays, eh?) Our Joe Hart lived in edge Lane opposite Doc. Remember John Menzies where I used to buy records in early 70s. Now hears a thing opposite the pool was a old derelict house who lived there? [10] Jona Lewie slightly amended the words, but still mentioned the "do in Palmers Green". The mention of Grouts brouht back many memories. Hello Dave, I didnt know Victor Madden when he was young as I live in Ely, nr Cambridge, but luckily, I met Victor on a Rock and Roll weekender in 2009 and we spent the next 7 years together. Ah yes. We got into terrible trouble when we got back to school late and, for the rest of the term, we had to stay at school and write out, In the mid 50s we lived in St Georges Road Palmers Green my brothers and I went to St Georges Presbyrtarian Church for Sunday school and Hazelwood Lane Primary School. The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. Used to live in Palmers Green (1976-1983). If notat last space for my clockwerk trainset (O guageTrix or Bing(not Hornby? Not prescribed by my doctor Seifert of Hedge Lane fame. All rights reserved. Many years ago. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of the Hedge Lane premises,hope this is helpful. No Dave,my brothers name is Derek married to Cathy. Palmerston Road (O) is 723 meters away, 10 min walk. The Dance Hall suffered badly but most of the fatalities were caused by the wrecking of the shop premises opposite on both corners with Sidney Avenue. Cafe between Gambles an J an Adams (Ma says not goin in there Raymond, too cheep ) on our way back from The Palmadium. Anyone remember him? I would go and visit her with my mother when I was quite small and then, when I was a teenager, I helped her during school holidays by making sandwiches at a sandwich bar inside the shop to the right of the front door. Im sure he was in my class at Winchmore? No expense spared by Mr.Grout!! By the way my dentist was also Dr. Finkel! Palm Court Restaurant, upstairs on the opposite side of the road near Cinema. Sylvia. Collecting shrapnel since 1939 in Leytonstone gutters and still collecting turning over neolithic shards in Cornish fieldsmy motto: Its Fun Finding Out (Chapman Pincher and Bernard Wicksteed, 1947) shaped my career. It was called Lawleys I believe. Sadly the open air pool no longer exists, I believe it has been replaced by our Council recycling centre on that site. Hi Gerry, Im nearly retired and living in Australia, you may remember my father Aubrey Todd who ran Kelvin Photos. The, I lived in a flat over Walton, Hassell & Port in Alderman's Hill. It had locations in Sumiton and Jasper. Before marrying my first wife I too lived in Muswell Hill then Palmerston Road before buying a flat in Woodberry Avenue. I went there with my sister and her friends I think the Small Faces were signing autographs ? 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