Annyway back to Patricia (and her Ma), they worshipped Grouts and in my stores upstairs I ave loads oGrouts stuff and the 60s lectric Singer sewing machine kept ready an oiled like for my grandaughter (6) and er new baby sister comin October. I bet you noticed big changes to the shops in PG when you went to The Fox. Does anyone happen to know? Remember Roberts toy shop near the corner of Hazelwood Lane? Hi Anna, I remember the tea shop next to t he. Can anyone help?my partner is looking for his father.his fathers name is trevor george burgess and the only info we have is trevors mother lived on princes ave palmers green.if anybody knows of the above person and can help my partner find his dad please contact me on 07986272734.thankyou for reading x. Truly some of the best times of my life in Palmers Green. Ive lived here all my life (born 45) but dont remember that or Keiths being a bomb site. Cameracraft now theres a blast from the past too! I went to The Bezazz in 1961 and 1962 when I was nursing at the North Mid. I think Myrtle Road was built in 1950, is that right? Contact . I remember headmaster Mr Bennett at t ottenhall rd junior school 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?). They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. I would supply Aubrey with items from the palmers green branch by which time I think you where becoming involved in running the shop KELVIN PHOTOS I also remember Burtons at the triangle and having a girl friend who lived in Tottenham road and the estate agents around Doms cafe including Dennis, Maxwell Miel who had a reg. There were a couple of shops where fresh coffee was roasted and ground. Does anyone remember Palmers Green High School in the early to mid 60s. Spent a few happy days with him and also his parents at their house up by the new river. no NHS .no grudgis but years go on this tripe celebration with fireworks still upsets loads o animals for a month (even pets let alone them foxis an badgers) annually..Annyway ice cream an jellys under a glass case (repro) at the Ritz cinema 1943 in Leyton (before the doodle bugs) but nil else at the Odeon Southgate (2/9 for the best seats and icis (extra) in the interval (with my wife 1959). Next..The Triangle Cafe shut (ABC an Lyons) also shut at 5.. We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. Please help! Joy's memories of Palmers Green My family, all three of us, moved to Palmers Green from Haringay in 1936 when I was five years old. In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. Also there was an old style Sainsburys Bricks mens shop, No Job Centres in those days. I must have been about 5 or 6. Sylvia Gambin. Wendy (was Wendy Small ), Hello Wendy, I do recall the ladies shop you mean. My parents continued to live there until 2009 in Kelvin Avenue. We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. More please! Visit Palmers Green places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Palmers Green places to visit. Maybe a member will remember Jays. Well the years are rolling back! (Miss Watts?) 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. Wishin you Happy New Year! Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. 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. 2023 Palmers Green Jewel in the North, Palmers Green history, people and community, The twentieth century and urban life in literature, Palmers Green Baptist Church, Green Lanes, Palmers Green United Reformed Church, Fox Lane/Burford Gardens, St Georges Presbyterian Church, Fox Lane / St Georges Road (demolished), Palmers Green and Southgate Synagogue, Brownlow Road, Palmers Green Mosque and Education Centre, Oakthorpe Road, Local dignatories, bigwigs and characters, Improbably famous in Palmers Green #5: Jack Hargreaves, Intimate demolition plans: Just a minute says Nicholas Parsons. Thanks for the info. It would have been maybe late 60s/ early 70s Also I remember the very high slide in Broomfield park with concrete below scary! I went back to PG last year for a look around and was amazed at all the cars parked in my old road, Lynbridge Grdns as when I lived there there were none. Any idea of what it was called? On the other side of the road there was a record shop called Opus I used to spend a lot of time in there in the 70s, you could also buy records from John Menzies a few doors down. What a great guy he was. Seiferts (e the owner of the Studebaker Car and Parker Pen (2/6d for cesstificats after the War) practice. 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. Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? Dad livin then in Islinton/ighbury played piano, accordian, dubblebase, all sizes of saxophones and clarinet as reserve needed in the West End otels in Lunnon includin the Savoy otel (10/6d an evenin)(after the War e was to reminisce when taken to lunch in Savoy Grill by conglommerats an councils gaspin to get old of Shells munny) as assistant investment manager (16th Floor) for Shell Oil (millions to spend) and for No.1 Balloon Barrage Dance Band (later the Squadronnaires an Skyrockitts) that is when e wasn,t tendin is personal barrage balloon in East am 1939. Ive only just found your comment. I will try & search the attic for the pic & copy & send it. Lovely to have you posting again Raymond Randolph! We used to have a grocers van come around each week, does anyone remember Mr Meadows who ran this van? She would sit regally on the little wooden chairs by the counter. Penny for the Guy! Doc. Remember the bovril machine. We lived in Hamilton Crescent and the kids played in the Rec but it was short for Recreation Ground.lol. .and ALWAYS ordered egg, sausage & chips. Happy days at Nans. He suspected everyone under the age of 18 of being a shoplifter. Tall and imposing, for those coming to Palmers Green from the north, it acts as a gateway into Palmers Green's main shopping area. Thanks Dave. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. 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. His house and grounds backed onto the new river on the opposite bank to ours which was in Lynbridge gardens. And a bycycle from J&A (Rudge) set me free on those open roads, YHA and the romances. The following year came a new head Mrs Cannon in 1968 I went up into the juniors and the head there was Mrs Gibbs . Sylvia. The corner premises were never re-built on and the empty space was then used as an open car forecourt called Kieths Cars. I remember the entrance to Appleyards next to the post office. Went to St Monica School from 1970-71 before we were transferred to the new Our Lady of Lourdes School in Arnos Grove. Hi David They were great times at that school but I then left at 11 to go to Ambrose Fleming Technical Grammar School for boys, what an awful place, hated every minute and left at 15. Residing in Florida but will be returning to the UK some time early next year and looking forward to checking out the old haunts. She mopped up my tears when I failed the 11+ (I did however become a teacher myself and always remembered her kindness) Then onto Winchmore County School -what a great school. would love to know.. oh that did make me laugh yes remember him. Everytime I see Shirley Bassey, I remember Tom; for he gave 2 tickets to my friend Chris West, who worked in Woolworths (me at Evans & Davies, at 16 years of age) for the London Palladium. 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). Had good times in Broomfield park and fishing in Grovelands park lake. Good lunch time food & very good value. . 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. Bamboo cane area dividers, Italian shiny coffee machines and music.. When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of. Wonder what happened to him, I would love to know. (When I was a boy is banned in daylight hours this family). They sold lovely solid, classy furniture. At the time Kennings had a garage in Edmonton which I remember was a Jaguar dealer so I imagine our old car hire site was the Jaguar dealer you recall and would most likely have also been a Kennings branch. Happy days playing in the yard out back. remember the milkman coming round with his horse? 1940, I have enjoyed reading all of your comments, because my Mother was so proud to have lived there, and reminisced so often. He was on duty the night a German bomber that had been badly damaged by ack-ack fire abandoned his bomb load on the dance hall above the shops in Green Lanes between Princes Avenue and Tottenhall Road. Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. The shop later became an extension to Gateway Film Productions (where I worked). Much later in I guess the 70s? Yes the coal man also had a horse and cart to make deliveries. Also, as memory has been shown to be reconstructive in nature, Loftus and Palmer predicted that the wording of a question could influence recall. Which barbers do you mean? I think that he worked on the railways. Fantastic David, thats amazing. Sylvia & Pennie have jogged my memory of Doms cafe in Palmers Green. Winchmore Hill is a suburb and electoral ward in the Borough of Enfield, North London, in the N21 postal district. Dads brother, Uncle Sid Rann lived at no 22. As Mr. Auger sed want to be a farmer eh-eh-young-un? Miss Gibbs. 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. I especially appreciate the care and teaching some of us received as St John Ambulance cadets. I cannot recall any other bombs round that area. Dom drove a maroon Renaualt Dauphine, which I remember being the first foreign car I saw in Palmers Green. 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. I worked in that Bricks mens shop in1971. Ha ha yes and he had those bottle top glasses Dr Meldrum !!! After several meetings of our Catchreeling Society, girls were allowed to participate. It is now a tyre suppliers and fitters. Dear Ray, If your Dad was Eric Rann, then he was my Great Uncle brother to my Granddad Syd, who also lived at The Larches. Yes, very tall, Scottish doctor with elderly receptionist and very noisy gas fire. 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! It was a large detached house surrounded by a beautiful garden which took up the whole of that corner site. Far nicer than some well known overated areas of London. Thank you Suzanne. Sylvia, I. 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. Clock out 5.30 pm and ride home. I seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. But it is the cramped interior, with drawers reaching up the the ceiling, full of mysterious items linked with the esoteric art of higher level dressmaking that wont leave my memory, and the old ladies (probably not that old, but thats how I recalled them aged less than 9, when we moved from PG). Aldermans Hill had some fascinating shops too.the tiny pet shop opposite the station, the flower man then on to an electrical shop where I bought my first portable telly for my room with my first wages! There was a car dealership at the top end of Hedge Lane on the site currently occupied by Yaser Halim. Ah yes. By the way my dentist was also Dr. Finkel! 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. She was there when I was there in 1940s. . In the window there was a (seemingly) huge coffee grinding machine. It catered for men and women. Ill call you a Fcab etc. I also went to Bowes Road School but only from 1952 to 1953 in the infants. The shop later became Tesco. Hi Jenny, slightly different location, a bomb did fall near the intersection of Green Lanes & Bowes Rd/N.C.Rd opposite Princes Ave. People were killed and the site was eventually leased by two brothers and used a a used car lot space called Keith Cars until the late 70s. These drawers had glass fronts so you could see the contents. Richard Franklin. 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. My mum used to take me to the clinic in Broomfield House and I can still taste the orange juice they gave us,fantastic! Yes, and the gas fire which hissed and stuttered. Does anyone have a photo of prewar broomhill park with its original railings? I have fond memories of Palmers Green, as I worked at the station from aged 15 in 1963 till 1968. 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 . Worked at Burtons in palmers green for most of the. List of teachers at Hazelwood school 1960s, Miss Hughes, Mrs Jones, Mrs Lee, Mrs Dark. Cafe between Gambles an J an Adams (Ma says not goin in there Raymond, too cheep ) on our way back from The Palmadium. My parents bought our very first television from them a Bush table model which was also installed by them. She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. Image supplied by Enfield Local Studies and Archive. The headmistress, Miss Hughes must have been about 110, My class teacher was a woman aptly named Mrs Dark a horrible and spiteful woman. Not prescribed by my doctor Seifert of Hedge Lane fame. 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?) Probably some of my first photographs were taken there. Hello Jenny, I remember the Coffee place & it wasnt Home & Colonial.. that was a few doors up!! The sound of a siren still turns my stomach over to this day. Also went to Hazelwood Lane school then to Winchmore school previously. Founded in 1901 by my grandfather, but was knocked down in the 60s to make way for the widened North Circular? I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? Holborn). & knickers etc. I believe some time in the 80s Doms was sold but the new owner had the good foresite to retain the classic Doms signage, but not the good foresite to retain the ice cream servery!. Did you work in the Muswell Hill shop? I started in the infants second year in 1947. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. David. Thanks I started at Hazelwood school infants in 1965 and I remember the head Mrs Hughes in my first year. To be one of the first Irish or Greek families to settle in the area? weve already ad enough laughs for the day over your conviction that The Sahara Desert is in the middle of Australia. Later, they raised us four kids in York Road. Then for a short while it was a Menswear shop that sold high end suits, shoes etc. 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. It was called something like The Rubber Mac shop!!!! We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. I remember Dr Baxter well, he plastered up my left hand when I broke a finger playing leapfrog at school! Dinky toys and we once had a red motor bike (brand new) for sale. Take butchers, for instance, within 10-15 min walk of me (Chequers Way, where Metal Box Co was), there were 5/6 butchers that I remember walking to with my Mum. In 1961 the company was acquired by Car Mart Sales Ltd, but retained its name. Was it a post office too? People who have only had soft ice cream have no idea what theyre missing. Also the lady who sold us orange flavoured ice cubes for 1 penny . 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. Maybe it was rebuilt very quickly or my memorys going! 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. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar'. Palmers Green; Palmers Green Funeral Directors. Trusted memories of the museum By Suzanne Beard October 23, 2012 2 Comments If you were a child (or even an adult) in Palmers Green between 1925 and the early 1980s, chances are that a highlight of a visit to Broomfield Park would have been a nose around Broomfield House Museum. My grandmother moved to Halifax in 1919 and remarried. When he retired (1956 ish), I was 11 and my family were transferred onto Dr Stewarts list. When I was in the juniors my friend and I used to like nothing more than to lay down on the railway bridge near the Church at the top of Hedge Lane and let the smoke of the trains roll over us.
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