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? The garage was, or became Kennings opposite Camera Craft. Much later in I guess the 70s? 23 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 4TN, UK. Do you remember the Toy shop opposite too? The Fox has a number of accolades. Then for a short while it was a Menswear shop that sold high end suits, shoes etc. I remember having lunch with you on quite a number of occasions when I came down after moving to Bedfordshire, then Milton Keynes. Sylvia Gambin. We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. The following year came a new head Mrs Cannon in 1968 I went up into the juniors and the head there was Mrs Gibbs . Dr Stewart was our doctor too. xx, Hi Again has anyone any info on Bruno? Can u help??!! She would sit regally on the little wooden chairs by the counter. 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? Not too many Starlings in the area. Meldrum. Hazy memory? Lovely doctor. And talk of the Beezazwe had the Two Bare Feet coffee bar in Winchesterif you could get past Sgt. Think pool is still there. Memories: You can, and others, can share memories at the bottom of the page including photos and stories; Donations: . A hardware emporium and a very old fashioned (even then) gift/tobacco /sweet shop toward the end of the parade. I have spoken to a friend of mine who was born in the mid 30s & has lived near Hedge Lane most of her life but she doesnt remember a bomb dropping at the top of Hedge Lane. 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. Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! I could probably bore everyone to death with them! Thank you for any help you can give Going back toward Hedge Lane on the North sideremember a chap who used to make basket work/wicker goods/walking sticks? She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. Apparitions were seen and there was some poltergeist activity mainly at night with loud bangs downstairs. She ated the chairs and the oover and most else e lovingly carried ome. I guess that makes you and she cousins! I went to Brownies and Guides at that church too! Ha ha yes and he had those bottle top glasses Dr Meldrum !!! Went to St Monica School from 1970-71 before we were transferred to the new Our Lady of Lourdes School in Arnos Grove. 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. Hi David Mum rode her bike to Tottenhall Road to care for patients in the old fever hospital. Visible Anyone can find this group. Winchmore Hill is a suburb and electoral ward in the Borough of Enfield, North London, in the N21 postal district. It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! Miss Gibbs. We used to have all the hire vans parked on the forecourt in front of what clearly had been a showroom. Where are you now and all the others from these years? Im doing some research on my family who lived in Tottenhall Road where teenagers and young adults hung out. . Hi Christine. Singapore 45. 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. Coronation fireworks display in the park. 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. As previous I lived in the Larches from 1938 at no 64. I lived in Winchmore Hill while married and enjoyed the playing field that is now Sainsburys and Baker, butcher and tea shop with the Green by Broadwalk and have fond memories of PG and WH as a young man. We were entranced by the trendy clothes and selection of jazzy tights. I seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. New River Crescent was bisected at the foot of Park Avenue. 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. Also why did they demolish whatever was there before? There was no bomb site where the garage was. Remember the Windsor Caf. I do remember though looking at one of those planes that were bombs without pilots (forgot what they were called could it be doodle bug) with my dad and its engine stopped right over head. I have written up many of my memories.. Hello Roger. No I cannot remember the name of the garage and can barely remember the garage let alone that it was selling Jags. . 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. I went to The Bezazz in 1961 and 1962 when I was nursing at the North Mid. 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 . Few people in those days owned a car, most of us used public . There were two blokes in the back workshop mending bikes and preparing new ones. Obviously at that time, there werent many shops selling fresh coffee let alone grinding it on the premises. 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. Further down , a few doors from the Fox was a confectioner called J.Vercoe. 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). The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. !955, Concriptd to the Rifle Brigade..married Patricia (Winchmore ill 1957) where was Doms in the igh street?. I also seem to remember that the path to Dr Baxters surgery had a pergola over it which used to be covered with blossom (? Ooooh now youve switched a bright light on.The Pilgrims Rest what a gem. Dark..my teecher at Winchmore ill and Southgate County Grammer, Fox Lane, do you remember? Hello Jenny, You walked up a long gravel path under the pergola to get to the house which had dark wooden panelling etc., very posh! memories those were the best days. Sad as I am, I have just had a look on Google maps and as of August 2014, there was still a Doms offering Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner no mention of ice cream though! I must have been about 5 or 6. But we used to dangle fishing lines from the river bridge in Hazelwood lane in an effort to catch something. I grew up in New River Crescent during the 1960s. Hi Dave, I do remember you and your dads photography business. I also loved the names of the park keepers you remember they just seem very appropriate somehow! It was owned later by a mate of mine Bruno. A few doors away was a grocers shop called Crows. Didnt stay for long as my parents moved away but certainly enjoyed it whilst I was there. Thank you so much. in the 70s I delivered your free paper for a while. You just came up in conversation and I Googled you. I used tio get my school uniform in Evans & Davies. She was young and trendyin fact I saw her once in the old HMV shop in Wood Green buying a Yes album ! A saxophonist my father often booked had the first name of Larry. Pennie, I can tell you have great taste! Laura. Opposite Grouts well almost. Reg I remember you from St Michaels at Bowes, I recall you had a interest in meteorology, and went on to Arnos School ans I went to Winchmore Hill Secondary. Sylvia , there was a WW2 bombsite at the corner of Sidney Ave/Green Lanes near Bowes Rd it was used in the 50/60/70s as a car yard called Kieth Cars, no longer live in PG so not sure what stands there today. I suspect we would just love them x ! This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. 020 8881 7304. Research prior to the following two 1974 experiments suggested that people are quite inaccurate when asked to report numerical details regarding events. Yes, remember it as Roberts. The mention of Grouts brouht back many memories. , some of my best memories of that time. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. I also recall Roberts toy shop on the other side. We lived in Upsdell Avenue from 1941 to 1957. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. I met him later as a tenant in one of his many properties and worked for him for a short while in the 90s. Sadly the open air pool no longer exists, I believe it has been replaced by our Council recycling centre on that site. Could you tell me where Beezaz was situated and were there any other coffee shops in the area. ..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? Recall Mrs Potts and Mrs Langford and Miss Buchanon (whom I disliked nasty old bat). I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. Ray. Sylvia, I. Arnos and remember Mr collier miss wastel and headmaster Mr Rossi also school nurse nitty Nora! Play nicely please. The owners were brother and sister Dominic & Anna both born in Italy who arrived in England after the second world war,they were very hard working & organised, so much so they only lived 200 yards opposite in Tottenhall Rd. In my form 5 of us went on to become teachers.so much for the 11+ . He was simply the best jiver (having been a professional dancer in his younger days). Lovely to have you posting again Raymond Randolph! later..no rushsheep on the boil. I dont remember the Rubber Mac ShopMa made me buy my Mac (Grey Gabberdine, de reguer worn over the right arm when hescortin the ladies (no rain at the wrong time in them pre global warmin days) but de reguer in Broomfield or Grovelands Park to spread for the ladies (Sir Walter Raaly like etc)) from Fifty Shillin Tailors? Was it a post office too? Hi Anna, I remember the tea shop next to t he. 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. Still beautiful. The ford zepher was back in the 60s it would have been the 70s in PG. you could add doms cafe where you had a great breakfast there. 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. a great character called Brun Hill. We lived just at the top of Sidney Avenue in Palmerston Road and I remember crouching under the kitchen table as a very small girl with my mother and my brother and I can still recall the sound of the planes going overhead and the gun fire. 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). Ah yes. 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. Amazing to find others to share memories with from those times. No expense spared by Mr.Grout!! 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. Mrs Gibbs, Mr Roper, Mrs Langford(Nee Anstey) Mrs Potts, Mrs Buchannon, Mr Hollingsworth, Mr Streatham,Mrs Chapman, Mrs Rupert, Also the caretaker who was aptly named Mr Moody. Annyway after ostilities e also gigged (very fashionable nowadays, eh?) I still have a tennis racquet in the loft that I bought from P Green branch when I was about 13/14! I remember Peter Townsend the sports car dealer opposite the library and the ABC and the Wimpy bar at the triangle. Southgate County School organised its annual swimming gala there whilst I was at the school from 1948-53, under the leadership of Mr. Reg Pratt, the handicrafts master. Mum was Pool Attendant at Barrowell Green but we still had to join those long queues to get in..so long a waitso full had to wait as Mrs. Barry only allowed the extras in as people left. Palmers Greenery Community Caf open 10.30am - 12.00am Coronation street party at Bounds Green Bowls and Tennis Club 10.30am - 12.00pm Councillors' surgery: Palmers Green, New Southgate, Bowes and Highfield wards 2.30pm - 4.30pm People with Voices poetry and ideas workshop 8.00pm - 12.30am Live music: Jiminy Rockit Band Gerry Hicks, Hi. Sylvia. Thanks David, my son has just shown me some pictures of that dreadful scene at Sidney Ave but I think I must be losing the plot because I really dont remember it being a bomb site after the war. Further up another pet shop Hoopers? Was sad to see it go. two of the teachers l remember and Mr bennet was our headmaster,.true air raid shelter was at the top of the play ground. This was run by a short tubby lady. I was in my late teens when it was opened. I went there with my sister and her friends I think the Small Faces were signing autographs ? 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. He took the train each morning from Palmers Green station. I think it was called Harvey Sports (a friend of mine had a Saturday job there) & next door was a fabric shop called Metres which sold everything from net curtains to dress fabrics and upholstery materials, The couple who ran it were very kind & patient working our how much material you needed for your windows etc. 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. Our dentist was Mr Finkel and I remember a story about a wall falling down by his house and squashing someone! 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! We lived in Hamilton Crescent and the kids played in the Rec but it was short for Recreation Ground.lol. Also the lady who sold us orange flavoured ice cubes for 1 penny . The garage was called Saul and Slatters. Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. Dordrecht, Netherlands The other side of the Bank was a school outfitters where I was bought school uniforms, blazers and badges etc. Miss Wrigley used to rattle you back and forward in your desk if you didnt behave. Some boys from Winchmore worked for him on the window cleaning. 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.
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