I met him later as a tenant in one of his many properties and worked for him for a short while in the 90s. It may be that your memory of PG is slightly off but, as I recall, it was the Home & Colonial grocer shop and it was on the left hand side as one went north towards Winchmore Hill; it was on that side shortly before Devonshire Road, the Fox Inn and Fox Lane, possibly about where the Red Cross shop has been in recent times. Sylvia 0 I grew in in NRC, What was there before the maisonettes were built. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? Lovely to have you posting again Raymond Randolph! The old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. In 1876 Palmers Green was described as "a little gathering of houses on the road to Enfield", despite the opening of a new railway line from Wood Green to Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill and Enfield in 1871. . Just read (13.10.17) email of your history contribution. Apparitions were seen and there was some poltergeist activity mainly at night with loud bangs downstairs. Otherwise it was as you describe with the coffee grinding machine in the window and the aroma pervading Green Lanes. Can somebody help with this? I remember juke box was playing a lot of Take these Chains From my Heart and set me Free. No, RIchard is it was definitely Jays but I think it was further down towards Bowes Road. The garage was called Saul and Slatters. The ford zepher was back in the 60s it would have been the 70s in PG. I remember the mac shop. He was very tall, very Scottish and prescribed bottles of Minadex (green and foul tasting) for almost all childhood ailments! I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. 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 lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. Used to live in Palmers Green (1976-1983). 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. There was also Kate Riddle, a hat shop with a tasteful window display. Happy days at Nans. 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. A bus going north, was just slowing down to the bus stop opposite when three bombs fell in close proximity. 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?) Do I get commission on the bet payout? The Tesco replaced a cinema that used to be there, In the early 60s I saw Robin Hood,there, the Walt Disney cartoon production. Hi David, I think I remember you from Winchmore. Hello Christine, I do remember the china and glass shop which I went in with my Mother to buy any special gifts for people. 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. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar'. She was there when I was there in 1940s. Remember the Rag and Bone man had a horse and cart and my mum would send me out with a shovel and bucket to scoop up any droppings the horse might leave. I started in the infants second year in 1947. Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. Do you John manses I use to buy my records in the 70s and 80s, Lived in Palmers Green from 1966 to 1987. I know Pete and Bill Starling locally, not related though. For Palmers Green to have a department store, two cinemas and no betting shops or nail bars? Annyway.back to on the North side an them basketsI remembers a cafe at this location. My mum had a job doing tailoring above Burtons and in school holidays I had to go in with her some days. Daughter of Uncle Sid Rann (Imperial Father of the Chapel. Symms Davies tempering miss Bennett miss Edith Ashby miss Doris woods Yes Simon there are on this site. remember the milkman coming round with his horse? However, local schools do still use Arnos Grove, Southgate, Edmonton Green pools etc. He suspected everyone under the age of 18 of being a shoplifter. Dont start me on the shops the wonderful Evans and Davies and the evocatic smell of Grouts! VangelisVangelis: Delectus 2016 Universal Music International BV / Polydor (UK). In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. Areas like Palmers Green have changed a great dealover the years;the memories of others help us see where we live with new eyes. Does anyone happen to know? There were something over 50 people killed as the dance had just ended and many had left the dance hall to get buses in Green Lanes. 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. 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. later..no rushsheep on the boil. Janes & Adams was my favourite shop in Palmers Green. 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. When I lived in London and just started my business Aubrey would do most of my black and white printing and I also did a few weddings for him. We lived in Sidney Avenue from 1952 until 1961. I have found on the website for Enfield Sports that the swimming pool was closed in 1979 it was probably too old to justify renovation and the annual maintenance costs pity, we had most enjoyable swimming afternoons there. Remember the excellent Doms Cafe at Bowes Rd; Sainsburys and its snaking queues for freshly cut cheese and butter. Was this a WW2 bomb? "One night in March 1941, the Dance Hall (held in the Princes Hall above Pitman's College) in Green Lanes, Palmers Green was bombed. The price stickers rather than bar codesThe staff cafeteria the bag searches as you left the building after a shift etc etc. An abundance of dress shops and Evans and DaviesAn unforgetable shop that sold everything. Jeremy Hoare, pictured left aged nine, grew up in Palmers Green, north London, next to an image of him now (Jeremy Hoare/PA) A community radio station presenter has recalled the "fabulous" photographs he took on his Kodak Box Brownie camera as a schoolchild at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. Next..The Triangle Cafe shut (ABC an Lyons) also shut at 5.. Most of the sites stayed flattened for many years afterwards some right up to the 60s. Local records mention a Palmers Field in 1204 and a Palmers Grove in 1340. It was called Lawleys I believe. I do remember the restaurant above the sweet shop too. Annyway Mike Ovenden was our form springboard expert at both Barrowell and Arnos Grovetho I seem to remember that Jackie Brown at the Pool was overall open diving champion. I manage to find scraped ice cream every now and then but nothing like the taste I remember. Going back toward Hedge Lane on the North sideremember a chap who used to make basket work/wicker goods/walking sticks? Not too many Starlings in the area. Palmers green life feb14 final. Yes, definitely Tottenhall Rd, not Tottenham. She ated the chairs and the oover and most else e lovingly carried ome. If so I knew him, he was a great friend of my Father Frank Watling who found the Fives Social Club. The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. After several meetings of our Catchreeling Society, girls were allowed to participate. weve already ad enough laughs for the day over your conviction that The Sahara Desert is in the middle of Australia. Carol shares her memories of Grouts on the London RIP website, Memories of Palmers Green from the Francis Frith website, http://www.francisfrith.com/palmers-green/memories/. 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!! Church under rev. The wood walls remained! Hello Brian, Im so glad you remember Dr Baxter. Im impressed. Bowling Green Opposite Grouts well almost. Koubes here are also a match for Aroma with a slightly deeper, sweeter taste from sticky caramelised onions. Laura. David they are wonderful memories arent they? Thanks for the info. Mum rode her bike to Tottenhall Road to care for patients in the old fever hospital. Lived in New River Crescent during 60s and 70s. 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. A group of Palmers Green residents, in association with Friends of Broomfield Park, are planning to open a small, not-for-profit Community Cafe in a disused building in Broomfield Park. Yes I remember Miss Hughes, she was the head of Hazelwood Primary around 1946 when I started. Miss Hughes was head of the infant school. Anyway againthanks for reminding metime to order on the net, Bovril, at Sainsburys Bude, not Winchmore Hill Broadway. 020 8881 7304. 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. Spent a few happy days with him and also his parents at their house up by the new river. Rosalie lived in Palmers Green during the war, and provided this memory of her wartime life as part of the BBC project the WW2 People's War, an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC.
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