Think pool is still there. I have lots of childhood memories about Palmers Green Railway Station. According to the 2011 census, 64% of the ward's population is white (34% British, 27% other, 3% Irish). Many years later when I was adult he told me what he saw. I had some really good teachers and friends I missed a lot when we moved. Sherers Drive-In in the 1960s. The, I lived in a flat over Walton, Hassell & Port in Alderman's Hill. Then out agin on bike round to Patricias house and on to Capitol Winchmore Hill (if in money) or Queens, Palmers Green. Spent a lot of time in the park, on the swings etc & collecting conkers. Mildred E. Barry appointed to East Orange In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. Register to find out more and create your first album! those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and Next..The Triangle Cafe shut (ABC an Lyons) also shut at 5.. See the I hated the dumplings at school dinners. Yes, and the gas fire which hissed and stuttered. The smell really made me sick. As you may be aware, the Large Hall and Parish Centre at Cannon House require major investment. Remember the barbers shop. Our Joe Hart lived in edge Lane opposite Doc. You must be signed in to save to an album. In 1988 Palmers Green's only hospital, Greentrees Hospital, was closed and demolished.[4]. !.thank you for jogging my memory. By the way I went to Winchmore Secondary Modern in the days when Mr. Shepherd was headmaster I liked him a lot the naughty kids called him the beak but he was a nice man. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth In 1961 the company was acquired by Car Mart Sales Ltd, but retained its name. Ray in Cornywall. The name Bezazz brings back happy memories of the late 50s and early 60s. Remember the old peoples home burning down in 1966.Buses were diverted down Windsor Road. All will be revealed on Google Street View. Ken Elvery, Dordrecht, Netherlands 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? 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? 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 wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? The area remained largely undeveloped for thirty more years, as local landowners refused to sell their large estates for building. Hi Sylvia, No your not dreaming, Dr Baxter was there, he had a huge almond tree near the entrance to the surgery off Hazelwood lane which we would scrumpy almonds from when they started to ripen! Im doing some research on my family who lived in Tottenhall Road where teenagers and young adults hung out. This was back in the early 60s. The adults who gave their time for us were great people! They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. Coronation fireworks display in the park. also the restuarant above the sweet shop in Green Lanes which was opposite the Queens Cinema? Palmers Green Restaurants Make a free reservation Lets go Available for breakfast now in Winchmore Hill View all Promoted Tuttons 3.6 765 reviews BritishCovent Garden Booked 2 times today Find next available Bantof 4.4 42 reviews EuropeanSoho Booked 14 times today Find next available Sydney Rocks 4.8 19 And a bycycle from J&A (Rudge) set me free on those open roads, YHA and the romances. 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. The North Circular Road and A10 are the main trunk roads. I bought my red Mk III Ford Cortina from Keiths in the mid-late 1970s and my maye, Dave Todd bought a bright yellow one from the same dealer as I recall. for our site. 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. Mrs Palmers Shorts Mens Size 32 Black Pinstripe. Details of the garage are in my 1963 copy of the Jaguar Sales & Service Facilities in the United Kingdom. My parents continued to live there until 2009 in Kelvin Avenue. Happy memories of Greenwood Gate Tennis Club in the Rec too, circa 1959 1963. For Palmers Green to have a department store, two cinemas and no betting shops or nail bars? Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. 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? The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar. I lived in Tottenhall Road until 1955 when we moved to Winchmore Hill but I remember the home made guys outside the shops on Green Lanes. I learned from research that my grandmother had died in 1970, aged 45 in Essex. He said the new housing development that is now Myrtle Road just off The Fairway (where I was born),was built on the site of a Nursery. People who were particularly kind or influenced your time in the community. My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. Bit of paint on the ground for cyclists, which drivers will ignore, That graphic shows an upwards trend FYI.. As often a pedestrian (not a car owner and over 65)I feel prompted to say that I really appreciate the introduction of Cycle lanes. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview Next Comments and Photos Remember the Pet Shop across the road from there, selling all manner of exotic animals (would be prohibited today) including Marmaset monkeys! My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. Im sure Fred Rain lived in the Larches. I think that he worked on the railways. There may soon be one fewer historic building in Palmers Green following news this week of plans to demolish the Intimate Theatre and replace it with a new parish centre and flats. More details Which Bus lines stop near Morrisons? 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. In Green Lanes itself there were 2 jewellers too. Michael do you remember Mr Forkin at St. Michaels school Tottenhall Rd.arranging a boxing ring with proper gloves in the playground afternoon break with you & Everett Houghton as contenders? WebPalmers Mens Size Large Purple Checkered Button Up Short Sleeve Shirt. Monica's Church, Palmers Green St Monicas, 1 Stonard Road, Palmers Green, London N13 4DJ Phone: (+44) 020 8886 9568 Email: palmersgreen@rcdow.org.uk Website: The other memory was of the caf Doms (Dave Todd 1/7/14) where they sold really delicious ice cream too! a great character called Brun Hill. Do you mean `Tom the flower man at the Triangle next door to Woolworths? Palmers Green was once a tiny hamlet in the parish of Edmonton, situated at the junction of Green Lanes and Fox Lane. 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. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. For the streets to have virtually no cars? dont make us laugh its football or economics ere. 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? Yes, definitely Tottenhall Rd, not Tottenham. Life isnt all about the big My grandmother, Phyllis Dearden, ran the ABC restaurant for many years. Palmers Green is 235 meters away, 4 min walk. The old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. . Served by waitresses in smart black dresses I used to by comics from him in the 60s. Much later in I guess the 70s? Remember the minicab office at the top of Hedge Lane in the 1970s. National Service. See the Ill be checking your face book page. Hello Brian, Im so glad you remember Dr Baxter. 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. Lots of great memories. The ford zepher was back in the 60s it would have been the 70s in PG. I bet you noticed big changes to the shops in PG when you went to The Fox. Thank you Suzanne. And gloves which were cleverly (!) The mention of Grouts brouht back many memories. the smell as you walked anywhere near it .lovely. Hi John ! Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. Saturday morning pictures at the Palladium was always good fun watching Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon etc. I then became a (successful) travel writer and ended up as a journalist for an american newsletter. Thanks very much Saul & Slatter it was! I recall Evans and Davis, Jane and Adams and the owner had an e type jaguar. I studied at Southgate County 1946-1950. I also attended Hazelwood school and remember Mrs bellefontaine I am now 66 years old. Celia Rutterford, Thanks so much for your reply I havent lived in Palmers Green since the late 60.s and loved living there.so many memories and so much fun again thanks. He took the train each morning from Palmers Green station. )(i am yet to be convinced I wos wrong). One day I remember hearing some youths had put a razor blade on the shoot and I was terrified. That, I attended Palmers Green High School in the late fifties and early sixties. The memories this place inspires for you? An elderly man worked there and a younger surely man. Now Mr Shepherd, Im afraid that a majority were not keen,malthough you must speak as you find. The Sales Department was at 44-46 Aldermans Hill and Service was at 234 Green Lanes. Socks, vests, liberty bodices(!) I also was in the cubs and then the scouts,153 North London which met at the Congregational church at the end of Burford Gardens where my sister also got married around 1967 I think. Lived in Melville Gardens and Grenoble Gardens. Catering to a wide range of tastes, theres something for everyone in the English capital. Wonderful. The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. This was run by a short tubby lady. Hospital. Ma used to send me there up Hedge Lane in the school olidays with a shillin for my lunch (includin tip)I remembers the custard. Once purchased the items would be carefully wrapped in brown paper and tied with string before the exciting moment (for me anyway) of paying. Yes the coal man also had a horse and cart to make deliveries. I think it was late 50s . Yes, very tall, Scottish doctor with elderly receptionist and very noisy gas fire. It is now a tyre suppliers and fitters. She must have been quite young then (unless it was a different Miss Hughes), but then young children think anyone over 20 is old. I can say that Victor enjoyed every minute of every day. Irvington Center - 1960's; W.T. I seem to remember it being a Vauxhall dealer then a Volvo garage (?Triangle motors), in the 80s & 90s. I smiled when I read about the visits to Dom's Cafe, just a five minute walk from the school. That would have been where visitors could wave to their loved ones in the hospital. Hallo Raymond, Wondered whether or not your father was Fred Rann who used to go to the Fives Club? No this barbers was near Janes and Adams Electrical shop and also bicycle shop. Log in. Time to create page: 0.262 seconds Powered byKunena Latest forum posts 60 years old and still looking good! I farms in Cornwall now an apologise for the grammer neglected at Southgate County Grammar (an spellins). Also the first Wimpy Bar at the triangle in the mid 60s? Do you remember a bus that got his by a bomb during the war as no one seems to have any photos or accounts about this. Lovely tiered plates of sandwiches and cakes. Many of those have of course passed now. A burning question in my mind : is that red public fire alarm still on the verge at the end of Madeira Road near opposite Bruton Enamels. Fortunately my mother never chastised me about it. She was young and trendyin fact I saw her once in the old HMV shop in Wood Green buying a Yes album ! Ray. So many happy memories. And the wonderful smell I lived in Windsor Road from 1965 to 1970 and I remember a sweet shop called The Windsor we always called it the red shop as the front was painted red. Have a nice trip! Enjoy There was a big fat man with tattoos who ran it and used the F word all the time. So a fuss over nothing. Definitely around 1958 when Bezazz opened: frothy coffee in tiny glass cups. 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. He was spirited and rebellious and unable to get along with his father, eventually resulting in an unsatisfactory and inconclusive trip to a psychiatrist. of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. Those were the days. Syds daughter, Jill, is my Mum, now living in Midhurst, W.Sussex and still thriving, thankfully. Gerry. Remember the bovril machine. The one on the right going North was Cullens The coffee machine was dark red and black.Cullens also had another outlet nr the Cherry tree at the end of the Mall. The Roberts toyshop changed its name in the mid 70s to Zodiac if I remember correctly. 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. I seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. You will also find memories from contributors below, and across other pages on the website, where a post has maybe triggered a memory or two, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a2115316.shtml. I also, an geography class at Southgate County Fox Lane Please Miss! Which one is it?? 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. Seifert refused to save my an my Dads life in the 40Sannyway no ard feelins e saved my life later..,as for Tottenhall Roadmore our memories istories. Do you remember one opposite Arnos Grove tube in early 80s? Both my cousin and I remember the shop and the smell but not the name of it. I retired at 44 and have now become an expect at doing nothing. Perhaps you know somebody who lived on that road in that period of time? Keith Headley, did you live on N.C.R? Ah yes. I remember once using the underground public toilet at the triangle and sure there was an assistant there in the days before we considered disabled people. 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. Also remember Mrs Dark who took 4A, an excellent teacher. Remembering the first Wimpy Bar which opened just near Woolworth's and of course, the wonderful Broomfield Park which offered space, beauty, fun, and sport. He had been a prisoner of war and always seemed incredibly nervous. The Beezaz was like a second home !! I worked at burtons at the triangle in the 60s until at closed inthe 70s some very happy memeries of those times. Rosalie lived in Palmers Green during the war, and provided this memory of her wartime life as part of the BBC project the WW2 Peoples War, an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. Laura. I lived in Tottenham rd all through the war being born in ,1935. Just a qwik qweery (my daughter is out this evenin an Im baby sittinso privit time on the computer, eh?) I lived in Pasteur Gardens from 1960 to 1966, and went to Oakthorpe School and the Latymer. I recall Miss Gibbs as having a scary face she had pictures of the Beatles up in the corridors and wore rather wayout clothes. 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. Grouts the haberdashers on the corner of Green Lanes and a small side road the name of which I cant recall and then a little further down, near Fox Lane and on the other side a huge white post office. Can u help??!! flexible offerings for business. I remember J&As when the windows were boarded, just a square foot to stare in. I was given an anointing spoon to commemmorate the big day. Dont start me on the shops the wonderful Evans and Davies and the evocatic smell of Grouts! I used to buy my records from Ashwells which was next door to Lloyds Bank. Can anyway tell me? We were spoilt for choice for cinemas at that time with the 2 in Palmers Green, Southgate, Regal at Edmonton, Enfield and Bowes Road and they all had a different atmosphere. Lorna, is it possible the furniture store you refer to was Ways? Hi Normathese Palmers Green Memories are great, eh? For well over 10 years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences 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. Apparitions were seen and there was some poltergeist activity mainly at night with loud bangs downstairs. WebHazelwood Sports Ground, Madeira Road, Palmers Green, N13 1958-date - Main Ground. Probably TottenHALL RdSchool Mr bennett was headmaster was St. Michaels School..The fever hospital was Greentrees further up Tottenhall past Bird in Hand Pub and before Norfolk Pk alleyway. 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? After my first day in Old olborn never wore the suit agin at work or come to think o it, any suit (retired 1988). Little did we know when we saw Shirley Bassey at her first performance, that she would go on to become such a great star. To Gerry Hicks- yes I remember you, you had a wife called Rose and a daughter called Carol? Also why did they demolish whatever was there before? 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. Annyway after ostilities e also gigged (very fashionable nowadays, eh?) Loved it there in palmer s green even earlier where l myself grew up too. Dave then joined him at Kelvin and we became great mates and we would go to Arsenal matches together. He played an accordion and the drums for many of the big orchestras and hotels in central London. Firs Farm Recreation Ground, Firs Lane, N13 1960-1961: Ground: Hazelwood Sports Ground, Madeira Road, Palmers Green, N13: Ground 2: Tottenhall Sports Ground, Palmers Green: Carol shares her memories of Grouts on the London RIP website, Memories of Palmers Green from the Francis Frith website, http://www.francisfrith.com/palmers-green/memories/. Dave Todd. Palmerston Road (O) is 723 meters away, 10 min walk. I also got a passion for steam trains watching them working the sidings at the station. I lived in Palmers Green from 1965 to 1993 and I have many memories of the shops back in the 60s and 70s, I even had a saturday job in Gambles the corn merchant, in 1977. I assumed that the horse was some kind of pet that he took with him on his deliveries. I cannot recall any other bombs round that area. Just request to join and add your own memories and photos. also the Unigate milkman who had an electric cart and kept saying oh brother.
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