memories of palmers green

I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. Amazing to find others to share memories with from those times. I was in my late teens when it was opened. Helen. Probably some of my first photographs were taken there. 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! Even on cross country runsI wonder what dear old Mr Robertson, Physical Training Master at Southgate County would have commented. (with Pa as escort we did go to the Queens later on seein Cat an the Canary (Bob Hope, avent bin able to sleep in a bed with edboard since and Pinnochionightmares cos o the Whale swallerin (Jonah?) We bought our first TV off him, black and white of course. Did you have a brother named Terry Hicks. Before marrying my first wife I too lived in Muswell Hill then Palmerston Road before buying a flat in Woodberry Avenue. Ive only just found your comment. The garage was, or became Kennings opposite Camera Craft. Was this the Barbers that was in a room behind Glossops the sweet and tobacco shop. Richard Franklin. Did you work in the Muswell Hill shop? 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? Ta. Doms also made excellent onion omelettes. I remember Peter Townsend the sports car dealer opposite the library and the ABC and the Wimpy bar at the triangle. Around the mid 60s lovely to see we all grew up in such a cherished place. 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. I remember the Brody and Hicks name and Fotovalue. I used tio get my school uniform in Evans & Davies. Its great. But I was answering Jenny Hs comment about the site at the top of Hedge Lane which was a car dealership etc & is now a very good Turkish Deli, which she thought had been a bomb site. No seats until the Union got a concession. 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. 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 is often nicknamed 'Palmers Greek' or 'Little Cyprus' because of the many Greek, Cypriot and Turkish immigrants who have made this bustling enclave of north London their home. Sylvia Gambin. I have vague recollections of my mother taking us to what seemed quite a posh tea shop called Shepherds which was on Aldermans Hill opposite the park, does anybody remember this? Devonshire Road. One of us is going mad!! Lots of great memories. I guess that makes you and she cousins! My earliest memories of the site are from WW2 when, as a youngster in a pushchair I saw an aircraft being wheeled out of the building which stood there. Definitely around 1958 when Bezazz opened: frothy coffee in tiny glass cups. 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? )(i am yet to be convinced I wos wrong). Before Victor Value there was a lovely old music hall. Was the camera shop you are thinking off Camera Craft just beyond the top of Osborne Road and some way short of Hedge Lane? If my memory is correct that represented .W.W. Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. Symms Davies tempering miss Bennett miss Edith Ashby miss Doris woods The Fox stands in a prominent position on the corner of Green Lanes and its namesake, Fox Lane. , some of my best memories of that time. Dad joined the Home Guard and I remember him cleaning his rifle regularly which used to stand in the corner of the kitchen. Do you remember one opposite Arnos Grove tube in early 80s? I also remember being taken into a shelter during this time due to the `doodle Bugs, although I was only about 3-4 years of age. Palmers Green 60s To The 70s - a nostalgic memory of Palmers Green Call +44 (0)1722 716376 Archive Shopping Gift Ideas Themes ePostcards Memories Blog Business Home Palmers Green Memories Palmers Green 60s To The 70s Palmers Green 60s To The 70s A Memory of Palmers Green. All had presentsmine was miniature guitarwere you at that party? Other fine dinin hexperiences in dear ol Palmers Greengeograffical-wise goin east. I wish I had found this page earlier as he would have loved to chatted with you about Palmers Green as that is where he had his office and owned several properties in that area. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme. Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. I could probably bore everyone to death with them! Hi Gerry, Im nearly retired and living in Australia, you may remember my father Aubrey Todd who ran Kelvin Photos. James what year were you at Ambrose Fleming , I was there from when it first opened in 1962 [ I think ] until 1965 . Up until the purchase of the motorised bike I used to cycle in every day from Muswell hill. I grew up in New River Crescent during the 1960s. My brothers and I were trying to remember where the furniture store Jays was located in Palmers Green, can someone help. I remember the shop well.think it was called Cullens. I assume there was no ammunition in the house, though! Dobbin fell over on the slope below the New river bridge in Hazelwood Lane when the road was very icy one winter and we all rushed out with buckets of cinders to spread over the road so the horse to get e grip and get back on its feet, luckily no harm was done and the milk was just a bit late being delivered that day. Koubes here are also a match for Aroma with a slightly deeper, sweeter taste from sticky caramelised onions. I can still remember how I felt when I saw it. I have fond memories of Palmers Green, as I worked at the station from aged 15 in 1963 till 1968. Nice to hear from you. In myddleton road there was a fish and chip shop Baptist "Post your memories, photos, questions and stories relevant to Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories. 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!!! 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. Again has anyone any info on Bruno? Lived in New River Crescent during 60s and 70s. Dr Stewart was a wonderful Dr who never seem to rush you, yet never seemed to run late with his apt & made you feel really at ease. When I was in the juniors my friend and I used to like nothing more than to lay down on the railway bridge near the Church at the top of Hedge Lane and let the smoke of the trains roll over us. Janes and Adams was my first job after leaving school circa 1959. I cannot recall any other bombs round that area. We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. 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. Few people in those days owned a car, most of us used public . A saxophonist my father often booked had the first name of Larry. We had lunch at the Fox pub and then went for a stroll around Grovelands Park. He must have spent a lot of time fixing kids injuries as my memory of him was from when I fell off my scooter whizzing round the garden and I damaged a tendon in my leg. Have a nice trip! Founded in 1901 by my grandfather, but was knocked down in the 60s to make way for the widened North Circular? 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. 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. however, it did changes hands to a new type of shop a few years later. Some good times at Arnos. In my form 5 of us went on to become teachers.so much for the 11+ . He was a bit of a nifty jiver down Wood Green Jazz Club. 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! Does anyone the name of the 1960s Record Shop in the parade of shops at the Cambridge Roundabout at the junction of Hedge Lane and the North Circular Road ? The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar'. When were all the doctors, dentists, solicitors along Green Lanes private residences? Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? Also remember Mrs Dark who took 4A, an excellent teacher. PS. No I cannot remember the name of the garage and can barely remember the garage let alone that it was selling Jags. 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 suppose those of us `of a certain age` have lots of war memories stored away. Wow Thanks Richard awesome now I win the bet with my brothers!! Hi Normathese Palmers Green Memories are great, eh? It catered for men and women. They were green wooden gates. What a job to have, stuck up there in this rather dark shop every day!! Very interesting. for Joe Hart at Tottenham Muni and Manor ouse Finsbury P, Dick Davis an Billy Cotton etc. It is managed by a group of volunteers. Also the sports shop was further up on the parade of shops opposite the old Woolworths. . Singing Tom used to give me all the flower heads to play with. The price stickers rather than bar codesThe staff cafeteria the bag searches as you left the building after a shift etc etc. "One night in March 1941, the Dance Hall (held in the Princes Hall above Pitman's College) in Green Lanes, Palmers Green was bombed. It would have been a V1 flying bomb Lilian. Contact . Sylvia. Other teachers were Miss Sweeny who would let you ring the bell if it was your birthday, Miss Calcott (horrible) and Mrs Dark. Loved it there in palmer s green even earlier where l myself grew up too. In 1967 I became the signalman there. Lovely shops, great parks such a pretty place. Pennie, I can tell you have great taste! Hi David Its a hazy memory but I do remember buying a basket for my school books (they were the in thing then) It was a glorious place to live as a child. Try putting dance hall into search, or I will find the link for you later! His house and grounds backed onto the new river on the opposite bank to ours which was in Lynbridge gardens. Many toys purchased there! you may ask) too fashionable and hexpensive now thanks to ebay. 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. Dr Stewart was our doctor too. Lots of happy memories of Palmers Green ice cream at John Coombs sweet shop. I then went to Miss Hughes was head of the infant school. Cam rember going to your uncles house one Xmas where everybody joined in to play Charades, I played out being a Milkman with horse and cart! Syds daughter, Jill, is my Mum, now living in Midhurst, W.Sussex and still thriving, thankfully. Palmers Green by Geoff Bowden, 20061130. I remember the entrance to Appleyards next to the post office. Sylvia & Pennie have jogged my memory of Doms cafe in Palmers Green. Can anyone help? She was there when I was there in 1940s. Mr Mardell was the Station Master, Dave Conway was a Porter and Ron Newman was the leading Porter. 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. and had a Saturday job in Grouts!!!! 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. 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?) Seifert refused to save my an my Dads life in the 40Sannyway no ard feelins e saved my life later..,as for Tottenhall Roadmore our memories istories. Cameracraft now theres a blast from the past too! My parents told me that they, as newly weds, lived in a flat over the Dolls Hospital in Palmers Green. I lived in Madeira Road. I lived in New River Crescent. Arnos and remember Mr collier miss wastel and headmaster Mr Rossi also school nurse nitty Nora! One in Tottenhall Rd, Drakes at The Cambridge roundabout & at the Triangle, another at Empire Parade and Dewhurst in Green Lanes opp Tottenhall Rd. Also there was an old style Sainsburys Bricks mens shop, No Job Centres in those days. A lift man too to take you to the upper floor who would call out Corsetry and Carpets. Laura. This was for medical reasons (wheezy chest and pneumonia). One old lady lost her life in the fire. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. Who helped me get accepted for nursing training. Im sure he was in my class at Winchmore? 2sainsbury s & 2 Macfisheries , 2 China shops Lawleys and Moors or was it Muirs. Can you imagine leaving two young children in a caf now, you would probably get a visit from Social Services. I was given an anointing spoon to commemmorate the big day. Much later in I guess the 70s? 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. I must have been about 5 or 6. My parents continued to live there until 2009 in Kelvin Avenue. July 2015. We lived in Upsdell Avenue from 1941 to 1957. Your memories may come from non-local areas, this is permitted as long as the page content is mainly about our locality." Last updated: October 2015 Thank you Suzanne. Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. A man who was the spitting image of Reginald Varney (On the Buses fame} served behind the counter. Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! Good to have found this site. Not too many Starlings in the area. My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. Dear Ken. 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. Sylvia. The Dance Hall suffered badly but most of the fatalities were caused by the wrecking of the shop premises opposite on both corners with Sidney Avenue. Memories in Palmers Green Read people's stories relating to this area: A Young Person's War in London: Hospital Care, Saved by Dad, Music from German POWs Contributed originally by Julian Barrett ( BBC WW2 People's War) As I was only 3 at the outbreak in September 1939 my strongest memories are of the latter stages of the war. Wonder what happened to him, I would love to know. Not prescribed by my doctor Seifert of Hedge Lane fame. She must have been quite young then (unless it was a different Miss Hughes), but then young children think anyone over 20 is old. No, RIchard is it was definitely Jays but I think it was further down towards Bowes Road.

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