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. There was a bank on one corner of Sidney Avenue which had also been hit. Peter. Hi Gerry, Im nearly retired and living in Australia, you may remember my father Aubrey Todd who ran Kelvin Photos. We had lunch at the Fox pub and then went for a stroll around Grovelands Park. It was called something like The Rubber Mac shop!!!! Do I get commission on the bet payout? 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. My parents told me that they, as newly weds, lived in a flat over the Dolls Hospital in Palmers Green. 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. "Post your memories, photos, questions and stories relevant to Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories. Palmers Green - Wikipedia I think that surgery was based in the houses that Martin mentioned (10/8/14) for a short while and then to a tiny building, like a garage, at the top of Windsor Rd with a bigger branch in Winchmore Hill, nr Green Dragon Lane. I also bought a BSA Winged Wheel from them and had it fitted to my pushbike on which I commuted from Palmers Green to Tottenham Hale every day for my Apprenticeship at Keith Blackmans Ltd. A female named Jane lived above the J&A shop. Annyway after ostilities e also gigged (very fashionable nowadays, eh?) I bought my first motorised bike from them, a cycle master, which had an engine in the back wheel. Ha ha yes and he had those bottle top glasses Dr Meldrum !!! 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. As Mr. Auger sed want to be a farmer eh-eh-young-un? It is used by the Broomfield Model Boat Club. An MD with a MBA from Palmers Green | DegreeInfo I remember the coffee shop in the 1960s as a child. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. 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. Opposite Grouts well almost. Happy days at Nans. Happy searching, Sylvia Gambin. Far nicer than some well known overated areas of London. Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. He played an accordion and the drums for many of the big orchestras and hotels in central London. Hey are you the same Anne Poole from Southgate SC. This was for medical reasons (wheezy chest and pneumonia). Well the years are rolling back! Mr and Mrs Glossop were a very jolly couple always ready to share a yarn. Once purchased the items would be carefully wrapped in brown paper and tied with string before the exciting moment (for me anyway) of paying. Just a qwik qweery (my daughter is out this evenin an Im baby sittinso privit time on the computer, eh?) Doms and the baker opposite were always good pitches! 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. Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. 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. Sylvia 0 I grew in in NRC, What was there before the maisonettes were built. Hello Brian, Im so glad you remember Dr Baxter. Green Lanes has changed so much since we were youngsters especially the current work on the cycle lane which is quite an issue locally. One in Tottenhall Rd, Drakes at The Cambridge roundabout & at the Triangle, another at Empire Parade and Dewhurst in Green Lanes opp Tottenhall Rd. It was nice to hear your memories. Spent a few happy days with him and also his parents at their house up by the new river. To Gerry Hicks- yes I remember you, you had a wife called Rose and a daughter called Carol? Just request to join and add your own memories and photos. 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. I also attended Hazelwood school and remember Mrs bellefontaine I am now 66 years old. Palmers Green - a nostalgic memory of Palmers Green - Francis Frith 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. Thanks very much Saul & Slatter it was! I especially appreciate the care and teaching some of us received as St John Ambulance cadets. 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! Magic for post-war Palmers Green teenagers. 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. It was a large detached house surrounded by a beautiful garden which took up the whole of that corner site. What a job to have, stuck up there in this rather dark shop every day!! Good lunch time food & very good value. What about the old corn merchant on the corner of Osborne Road and the tiny sweetshop nextdoor! To be one of the first Irish or Greek families to settle in the area? 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 always had nice Rose bushes ! Regards Community life - Palmers Green Jewel in the North I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. The whizzing of the overhead cash canisters as they zinged above to the cashier fantastic system. 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. 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. Before marrying my first wife I too lived in Muswell Hill then Palmerston Road before buying a flat in Woodberry Avenue. This isnt the place to get involved in that discussion so Ill just say that changes arent always for the best! Im sure Fred Rain lived in the Larches. Palmers Green LI FE www.palmersgreenlife.co.uk. Hi Gerry Like a Local: 7 Great Cafes and Restaurants in Palmers Green David.just seen your mail regardin Palmers\Geen Photo istory and sees you now lives in Australiado you know my cousin Jill Rann (as was) lived at 22 The Larches.N13? 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? Call now on: 0203 095 2916; get a quote for. A hardware emporium and a very old fashioned (even then) gift/tobacco /sweet shop toward the end of the parade. You even remember the prices! Laura. I remember the entrance to Appleyards next to the post office. (appy Famiily memories agin, eh? Our Joe Hart lived in edge Lane opposite Doc. Remember the Windsor Caf. Im sure he was in my class at Winchmore? On the corner of Aldermans Hill and Devonshire Gdns was the United Dairies shop. Also Victor Value supermarket. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. 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. Gerry. I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. 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. No, RIchard is it was definitely Jays but I think it was further down towards Bowes Road. Maybe it was rebuilt very quickly or my memorys going! Thanks Dave. It was owned later by a mate of mine Bruno. Church under rev. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. yore memories are late stuff to me for my writins as I sink into the westI remembers Janes an Adams afore the lectric shop hexpansion.in my days the winders were boarded up..just a sq.ft peepole like all shops (Ma an I urried past on our Fridy night out to Palmadium Pictures (Ma wouidnt go to the Queens, bit seedy she sed)(no one looked in them dark doorways then cos o things goin on! She ated the chairs and the oover and most else e lovingly carried ome. Where to Eat in Palmers Green - Eater London Brody & HICKS camera shop was started by me Gerry Hicks Im now retitred living in Cockfosters. In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. My first girlfriend used to go there, she was one of a pair of twins, the Bower girls. Yes, Dave, I knew Vic Madden by sight only, in the early 60s. Was it a V1 or a V2? Palmer's Green and Southgate We went to Sothgate County Grammer School in Fox Lane. I have so many memories of Palmers Green in the late 1940s [through to the present day] that I could be here all night, tomorrow and for the next month typing them up. Palmers Green by Geoff Bowden, 20061130. Once upon a time in Palmers Green, Southgate - a glimpse into the past, Fond memories of Winchmore Hill Alan Dumayne Enfield Matthew Eccleston Enfield at War 1939-1945 Geoffrey Gillam, Enfield Archaelogical Society Theatres, Music Halls and Cinemas in the London Borough of Enfield Geoffrey Gillam, Enfield Archaelogical Society These drawers had glass fronts so you could see the contents. 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 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.
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