however, it did changes hands to a new type of shop a few years later. Park, and the slide which we used to grease with candle wax in the fifties so that it was so fast you went flying of the end! . The front half was a sweet shop and there was hair all over the floor, The old buzzard who cut the hair used to ask for a tip. 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. Did you work in the Muswell Hill shop? Gerry, my email is g.hicks@msn.com would like to know more as cant use laura@yahoo.com my mail is returned. I really love this website for bringing back all those memories stored in the depths of our brains. The area remained largely undeveloped for thirty more years, as local landowners refused to sell their large estates for building. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. Enjoy My Grandparents ,my mother and my god mother were residents of Palmers Green in the 1910 onwards til abt. Arnos and remember Mr collier miss wastel and headmaster Mr Rossi also school nurse nitty Nora! After the Quick Service Cafe Bruno in 1967 moved 100mts to the corner of Princes Ave/Green Lanes & opened a coffee bar called The Bezazz Bar.Juke box, two pin ball machines, served tea/coffee/& light snacks.Spent most of my teenage years using this coffee bar as a meeting place to ponder over a two hour cup of coffee to decide what our next move would be!! And gloves which were cleverly (!) 1. Good lunch time food & very good value. Some are specific others generic. [10] Jona Lewie slightly amended the words, but still mentioned the "do in Palmers Green". Back in London, knuckling down to school at Merchant Taylors proved a rude awakening but he was still able to gain a place at Kings College to study veterinary science before disaster struck: a collapse in James Hargreaves business and Jacks plans to marry meant that Jack had to abandon his studies and get a job writing advertising copy for Spratts Dob Biscuits at Unilever before moving into the theatre, variety and then radio and finally TV. Search for your favourite UK places and read memories of the local area WebPalmer Green Estates, in Palmer, MA, is an affordable community designed with families and seniors in mind. I bet you noticed big changes to the shops in PG when you went to The Fox. Search for Motorcycle Repairs & Services and other automotive services near you on Yell.com. The Intimate Theatre was opened in a building that had been built in 1931 as St Monica's Church Hall. And of course, it gave its name to Fox Lane. Wendy (was Wendy Small ), Hello Wendy, I do recall the ladies shop you mean. I will try & search the attic for the pic & copy & send it. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs Brody & HICKS camera shop was started by me Gerry Hicks Im now retitred living in Cockfosters. He made me move it in all directions to see what damage Id done and he really hurt me but he was so stern that I was too scared to complain and laid there with my eyes filled with tears but kept a stiff upper lip and wouldnt cry as that would have been seen as weak! My understanding is that the building was originally built as a roller-skating rink, and then became a garage of sorts with just a few pumps virtually on the pavement. Then for a short while it was a Menswear shop that sold high end suits, shoes etc. It would have been a V1 flying bomb Lilian. The Hargreaves family were originally from Huddersfield, where father James Hargreaves established his business first as a commercial traveller and ultimately as a wool manufacturer. Hello Raymond, Your memories of Palmers Green are a real Gold Mine. 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. fondly recall a Cafe/restaurant upstairs some shop it was opposite one of the cinemas, Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. And a bycycle from J&A (Rudge) set me free on those open roads, YHA and the romances. 60 Mildred E. Barry appointed to East Orange Was this a WW2 bomb? Other teachers were Miss Sweeny who would let you ring the bell if it was your birthday, Miss Calcott (horrible) and Mrs Dark. Hi Anna, I remember the tea shop next to t he. In myddleton road there was a fish and chip shop Happy days at Nans. Walked there & back four times a day! The main foreign languages are Turkish, spoken by 795 people, and Greek, spoken by 605. An electric tramway along Green Lanes as far as Winchmore Hill was developed in 1907, helping to further develop the area. WebPalmers Green. It had locations in Sumiton and Jasper. Was this the Barbers that was in a room behind Glossops the sweet and tobacco shop. To meet the present and envisaged future needs of the parish, it is proposed to build a newParish Centre, one that will be a legacy for future generations. Details of the garage are in my 1963 copy of the Jaguar Sales & Service Facilities in the United Kingdom. Lorna, is it possible the furniture store you refer to was Ways? They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. Since 1970 Ive lived in the Netherlands and from 1980 am the fortunate owner of a mint condition, unrestored 1963 Jaguar Mk 2, 3.4 litre. 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. AU $9.95 postage. Thanks Richard for the update on Vic, knew him from his window cleaning business in P.Green, cups of tea in Doms cafe & long discussions on where to go for the next holiday in Spain. 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. Dont start me on the shops the wonderful Evans and Davies and the evocatic smell of Grouts! I have fond memories of Palmers Green, as I worked at the station from aged 15 in 1963 till 1968. My father was in the home guard and attended when the bomb dropped at that site, it was a dance hall at the time. The following year came a new head Mrs Cannon in 1968 I went up into the juniors and the head there was Mrs Gibbs . To supplement income he was a musician from 1926. 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. Dear Ken. 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. We used to have a grocers van come around each week, does anyone remember Mr Meadows who ran this van? Thank you Suzanne. I remember the mac shop. We lived in Hamilton Crescent and the kids played in the Rec but it was short for Recreation Ground.lol. I worked at burtons at the triangle in the 60s until at closed inthe 70s some very happy memeries of those times. (When I was a boy is banned in daylight hours this family). As previous I lived in the Larches from 1938 at no 64. Do you John manses I use to buy my records in the 70s and 80s, Lived in Palmers Green from 1966 to 1987. I certainly went in there c1961. . Happy times at Arnos school and some not so nice if you got the cane. We would love to hear about your memories of the area, andhow ithas changed, over a cup of tea. Annyway I was bursting with fitness with all this pedalling on the Rudge when my time came to do National Service (Rifle Brigade. 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. Thank you so much. WebHazelwood Sports Ground, Madeira Road, Palmers Green, N13 1958-date - Main Ground. All will be revealed on Google Street View. An album is a way to save a selection of Frith photos, maps and memories that are of interest to you. Symms Davies tempering miss Bennett miss Edith Ashby miss Doris woods I couldn't remember the name of the cinema, but it was on Green Lanes, near The Triangle on the east side. The other memory was of the caf Doms (Dave Todd 1/7/14) where they sold really delicious ice cream too! People were lying everywhere because a bus had been crushed, and there had been a dance going on in the hall above Pitmans College which had been bombed. Palmerston Road (O) is 723 meters away, 10 min walk. Yes Bezazz coffee bar, went their most nights as well around 1964 onwards coffee, egg & chips, juke box, pinball machine, 3/6d last all night!..some faces Denis Day, Mick Stanton, Mick Smith, Dave Todd, Michael joannou, Michael De Bear,Wendy & Susan Smale, Laureen Blackwell, the cast goes on! Didnt stay for long as my parents moved away but certainly enjoyed it whilst I was there. Yes, remember it as Roberts. Good to have found this site. This extraordinary Ill be checking your face book page. 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 !!!! And it was Dads favourite programme. Website Terms of Service Contact UsRegularLabs.EmailProtector.unCloak("ep_81d610ff", true); Switch to Mobile Version, Palmers Green Town Centre Improvement Project 2012: Survey responses, Friends of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area, captured on film at the opening ceremony in this footage, When nearly 3 million emergency food parcels are needed, it's time to Guarantee our Essentials, Government rejects London Assembly call for devolution of suburban rail services, Council proposing new active travel route through Palmers Green, Come to the aid of Enfield's special vineyard. Perhaps you know somebody who lived on that road in that period of time? Dad has been pottering around outside in the cold all morning, doing odd jobs but now, while Mum cooks, he is in the living room in his chair in front of the television, still in his baggy green jumper, which is gradually becoming more hole than jumper. I remember Dr Baxter well, he plastered up my left hand when I broke a finger playing leapfrog at school! 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. The memories this place inspires for you? My main memory of the Queens Cinema was the film The King and I which I watched there with one of my friends Malcom Oldhill. WebPalmers Green, London Kiaat hardwood cabinet. There was no bomb site where the garage was. Loved it there in palmer s green even earlier where l myself grew up too. Here is how it was reported by the BBC. This isnt the place to get involved in that discussion so Ill just say that changes arent always for the best! Palmers Green is mentioned as a highway in 1324 (in Westminster Abbey Muniments). 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. One called Bourlet (nr Smokers Paradise) & Hinds which was almost opposite I think. I used to by comics from him in the 60s. But then came THE GIRLS. The sound of a siren still turns my stomach over to this day. But we used to dangle fishing lines from the river bridge in Hazelwood lane in an effort to catch something. We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. Both my cousin and I remember the shop and the smell but not the name of it. In 1961 the company was acquired by Car Mart Sales Ltd, but retained its name. I came across the stories related to Palmers Green and was immediately taken back to my early years at Franklin House school in the 50's and 60's. Other fine dinin hexperiences in dear ol Palmers Greengeograffical-wise goin east. 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. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. The first large-scale developments were on the Old Park estate between Fox Lane and Aldermans Hill, and the Hazelwood Park Estate between Hazelwood Lane and Hedge Lane. Was that called Pritchards or am I mixing it up with somewhere else? The lived AT 56, Lightcliffe Road and granddad worked at a city bank. Sue Beard, Palmers Green Jewel in the North When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of 1944 I 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 Until they pulled the cinema down and built Telsco's. 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. I was given an anointing spoon to commemmorate the big day. A few doors away was a grocers shop called Crows. The green plastic leaves on top could be unscrewed to put the tomato sauce in. 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? I remember one of my friends falling into the river off the bridge and clambering out the other side after swimming under the bridge in the river current. My first girlfriend used to go there, she was one of a pair of twins, the Bower girls. yes recall them well. Yes, and the gas fire which hissed and stuttered. Thanks for Joe Hart at Tottenham Muni and Manor ouse Finsbury P, Dick Davis an Billy Cotton etc. In answer to your question about tescos, I worked there for many years and there was a Tescos there. Probably in winter. 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. I am Geoffreys sister Carole. Grants in Bloomfield; Old Bus with Palisades Ad; Ben Franklin in Pompton Lakes; Colonial Theater in downtown Pompton Lakes; Main The small side road was Devonshire Avenue which continued behind the shops and ended near the railway station at the Triangle. She was a lovely lady; then onto Junior school run by Miss Belfontaine, who was a bit of a demon but very good at her job. Happy searching, Sylvia Gambin. Can somebody help with this? Founded in 1901 by my grandfather, but was knocked down in the 60s to make way for the widened North Circular? Now living in East Anglia. 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! There was a big fat man with tattoos who ran it and used the F word all the time. I think it was late 50s . Palmers Green, United Kingdom One of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, London is a travellers delight. I can still remember how I felt when I saw it. I do remember the restaurant above the sweet shop too. Memories community this week: and hundreds more! or Best Offer. Regards The old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. I started at Hazelwood school infants in 1965 and I remember the head Mrs Hughes in my first year. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. 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. You even remember the prices! Lived in Melville Gardens and Grenoble Gardens. 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. We lived in Upsdell Avenue from 1941 to 1957. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. I lived at 409 Green Lanes in1960. Also Jack the window cleaner who lost a leg at the Somme. How everyone stayed so skinny in those days I have no idea! Our dentist was Mr Finkel and I remember a story about a wall falling down by his house and squashing someone! By 1801 the area had grown to a village of 54 buildings, including two inns (according to the Middlesex Record Office). 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. 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. (Source: Birmingham Rewound) Sherer's in Athens in the 1960s. Remember John Menzies where I used to buy records in early 70s. I have written up many of my memories.. Hello Roger. Baptist Around the mid 60s lovely to see we all grew up in such a cherished place. In Denmark, where I am from, she left behind a son (my father) from a previous marriage. 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). However, local schools do still use Arnos Grove, Southgate, Edmonton Green pools etc. [2], 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.[3]. The Fox public house, which has been in its present guise since 1904, was once the site of the Electric Mouse comedy venue. I assumed that the horse was some kind of pet that he took with him on his deliveries. I could probably bore everyone to death with them! I lived next to the Bird In Hand Pub in the early 79s, but my grandparents used to own a toy and Oran shop on the corner of Tottenham road and wolves lane. If notat last space for my clockwerk trainset (O guageTrix or Bing(not Hornby? A bus going north, was just slowing down to the bus stop opposite when three bombs fell in close proximity. 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. Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? I had the best 7 years of my life with Victor, but sadly he died only last month, February 7 of cancer. Meldrum. During May 2019, the train service was disrupted due to platform works at Stevenage. The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. Palmers Green Congregational Church hall was built in Fox Lane in 1909, with a church designed in a late Gothic style by George Baines and Son being added alongside in 191314. A lift man too to take you to the upper floor who would call out Corsetry and Carpets. Hi Normathese Palmers Green Memories are great, eh? On June 12, 1990, Douglas H. Palmer made history, winning election as Also remember Mrs Dark who took 4A, an excellent teacher. 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). PS. I dont remember it being a bomb site though, Hi Jennie, 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. Anyone remember him? I remember juke box was playing a lot of Take these Chains From my Heart and set me Free. The manager in the 60s was Keith Small, very nice man who had a daughter Jacqueline. After the war it was on weekly visit. He really lowered the tone of Palmers Green. 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. In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. Which one is it?? Across Hedge Lane, does anyone remember the wartime pill boxes which stood close to where the trolleybuses made their turn-round at journeys end.
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