Founded in 1901 by my grandfather, but was knocked down in the 60s to make way for the widened North Circular? I have a friend who is bit older than me who has lived up near Hedge Lane all her life and she might be able to enlighten us about that mystery when I can contact her. Ken Elvery, In myddleton road there was a fish and chip shop We were entranced by the trendy clothes and selection of jazzy tights. Enjoy Its great. There were two blokes in the back workshop mending bikes and preparing new ones. 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. For Palmers Green to have a department store, two cinemas and no betting shops or nail bars? My name is John Bye, I dont know if you remember me. 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. ..annyway the day come in 46 for the first consignment of Dinky Toys on sale at J&AI got there late in the queue and only the hEmplacement Coastal Gun was leftbought it but should .ave kept itin its box what price now? She was there when I was there in 1940s. I retired at 44 and have now become an expect at doing nothing. There was nearly always a queue to have your hair cut and my Mum would go shopping while I and my brothers sat and waited next to the coat stand. Anyone remember The Quick Service Cafe on the corner of Bowes Rd and N Circular run by During May 2019, the train service was disrupted due to platform works at Stevenage. This isnt the place to get involved in that discussion so Ill just say that changes arent always for the best! 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! Was this a WW2 bomb? 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! 6% was Indian and 5% of 'any other ethnic group'. I dont remember you should I? 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. I lived in New River Crescent. By then of course, Jack was long gone from Palmers Green, and truth be told, was probably little ever here, though in his day Palmers Green was still being built and there were still some fields to roam north of Bourne Hill. Stories about the community, its history and people? I used to work weekends 1970-1972 for Kenning Car Hire which Im sure was probably on the site you recall. 14 Rare Photos Of 1960s New Jersey - OnlyInYourState Opposite Grouts well almost. browsing more recent contributions Lots of great memories. PS. I farms in Cornwall now an apologise for the grammer neglected at Southgate County Grammar (an spellins). 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. now. Happy memories of Greenwood Gate Tennis Club in the Rec too, circa 1959 1963. National Service. You must be signed in to save to an album. I knew of Joe performing at the Municipal Hall, Tottenham but he is not in our family tree. I will appreciate any directions you could give. Played my first games of tennis there and before that many happy times using swings, slide and roundabouts in the play area. SPONSORED. 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. Terms & Conditions of Use More details Which Bus lines stop near Morrisons? Spent hours with bits of wire making stemless posies! Sylvia & Pennie have jogged my memory of Doms cafe in Palmers Green. Motorcycle Repairs & Services near Palmers Green Built in the late 1930s, it stands as a handsome example of civic architecture from the period. However, you might ave missed as Waitrose now sez ere in Cornywall.Hazelwood Lane an the Pilgrims Rest (maitred, a Swiss gentlemanlater to command The Cherry Tree on Southgate Green) tho never done it better than Pilgrims in my an my Patricias opinionOther Cafes in Lunnon Town.. Savoy, Carlton Towers, The White House, Tante Clair etc..an them Cafes in Bray, Berks, dont make it in my list but that MacDonalds (you know, the one just across the road from Valencia (Espagne?) I also remember going to the Intimate Theatre with my mother every Tuesday evening. 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. Does anyone know of an old folks home in Lakeside Road around that time, possibly number 59? 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. Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. 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. He has also now retired and the surgery has now moved nearer to the roundabout at W.Hill next to the petrol station. Existing expenditure on maintaining these building is costly and will continue to be in thefuture. There were no school playing fields so we had to go to Ford's Grove in Winchmore Hill for sport. Scores were listed and published on my Dads old Barlock Typewriter. David. Annyway my best buy camera wise was a Thornton Pickard plate (Camera Craft) in original tweed hold-all includin tripod. I remember the Brody and Hicks name and Fotovalue. This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. Remember Roberts toy shop near the corner of Hazelwood Lane? Is it still haunted? Where are you now and all the others from these years? Yes I remember Miss Hughes, she was the head of Hazelwood Primary around 1946 when I started. Wow Thanks Richard awesome now I win the bet with my brothers!! Yes the coal man also had a horse and cart to make deliveries. Nowadays there arent park keepers any more and some people get up to all sorts in local parks making some of them no-go areas in some cases. !955, Concriptd to the Rifle Brigade..married Patricia (Winchmore ill 1957) where was Doms in the igh street?. Just a qwik qweery (my daughter is out this evenin an Im baby sittinso privit time on the computer, eh?) In 2018 I interviewed the then manager of Forty Hall Farm for a The news about the vineyard's problems reminded me of a couple of things that Kate McGeevor told me. Across Hedge Lane, does anyone remember the wartime pill boxes which stood close to where the trolleybuses made their turn-round at journeys end. Inside, the shop was very long with a back section which you rarely ventured into, mainly sheets and towels and net curtaining, Down the middle of the shop, arranged on chairs were tatty cardboard boxes holding items like socks, childs vests etcspecial offers, I guess! She retired when I was there and replaced my Mrs Gibbs trendy and Beatles fan. xx, Hi Before you object that the government "can't afford" to pay claimants enough for them to live on, just think about this. When he retired (1956 ish), I was 11 and my family were transferred onto Dr Stewarts list. Also there was an old style Sainsburys Bricks mens shop, No Job Centres in those days. 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. dont make us laugh its football or economics ere. Miss Wrigley used to rattle you back and forward in your desk if you didnt behave. no munny for the trollybus past Evans an Davies Pritchards Restaurant (Mas favourite cept for Shell Oils Social Club at Teddington) Same waitress uniforms, black, with frilly white eddressis an apronsso the long walk ome to The Larches an cheese sanwiches. Palmers Green Where do you live now? He was spirited and rebellious and unable to get along with his father, eventually resulting in an unsatisfactory and inconclusive trip to a psychiatrist. By To Gerry Hicks- yes I remember you, you had a wife called Rose and a daughter called Carol? Mr. Pratt was very critical of my dovetail jointing but roped me in scenery building for the annual Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as did Miss Green, Art, for paintings. 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. But then came THE GIRLS. As I hadnt had any response to my original comment I was beginning to think I had imagined him. 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. I cannot believe Miss Hughes was still there in 1960s. I was at Hazelwood school in the 1960s. Was sad to see it go. 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. Singapore 45. WebPalmer Green Estates, in Palmer, MA, is an affordable community designed with families and seniors in mind. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. 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. Happy days playing in the yard out back. We sold nuts, bolts, spares for bikes, tyres wheels, skates with steel wheels. The wood walls remained! I also loved the names of the park keepers you remember they just seem very appropriate somehow! Symms Davies tempering miss Bennett miss Edith Ashby miss Doris woods I lived in Palmers Green from 1938 to 1964. Track Diagram: Palmers Green (1960) - SIGNAL BOX Later, they raised us four kids in York Road. He was ARP in WW2 and a member of Fives Clubafter the war ended 5s Club held a party for local children in the club house. as many did back then or another location. Dordrecht, Netherlands In his biography of Jack, writer and colleague Paul Peacock notes that though many people would assume that Jack found fame in the 60s and 70s, he first achieved recognition before the second world war at the Independent Broadcasting Company where he was head of Universal Programme Productions, twinning revenue opportunities for products like Horlicks with broadcast output. My parents told me that they, as newly weds, lived in a flat over the Dolls Hospital in Palmers Green. In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. Sadly the open air pool no longer exists, I believe it has been replaced by our Council recycling centre on that site. Bus routes 34, 102, 121, 141, 232, 299, 329, W4, W6, W9 and the N29 operate locally. Raymond, did you go to Ilfracombe Devon during the war. Was it a post office too? WebFind Motorcycle Repairs & Services near Palmers Green, get reviews, directions and opening hours. 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. When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of 1944 I The only place Ive ever found an equivalent to Doms, is in the home of ice cream, Italy and thats a long way to go for a cornet!!! 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. The A111 through Southgate gives access to the M25 motorway at junction 24. for Joe Hart at Tottenham Muni and Manor ouse Finsbury P, Dick Davis an Billy Cotton etc. Log in. roses) at certain times of the year and was very beautiful. 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. He was very stern and terrified me! Not prescribed by my doctor Seifert of Hedge Lane fame. I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. 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.
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