Until it closed. 1940, I have enjoyed reading all of your comments, because my Mother was so proud to have lived there, and reminisced so often. When I read Jenny H & Martins comments about Doctors, it reminded me of the first one I had. I worked at burtons at the triangle in the 60s until at closed inthe 70s some very happy memeries of those times. I lived in New River Crescent. 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. (appy Famiily memories agin, eh? The following year came a new head Mrs Cannon in 1968 I went up into the juniors and the head there was Mrs Gibbs . 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 used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. Once upon a time in Palmers Green by Alan Dumayne 1988; Fond memories of Winchmore Hill by Alan Dumayne 1990; Semi-detached London, Suburban Development, Life and . 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. Visit Palmers Green places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Palmers Green places to visit. It is now a tyre suppliers and fitters. 1st. In answer to your question about tescos, I worked there for many years and there was a Tescos there. Ill be checking your face book page. 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. When he retired (1956 ish), I was 11 and my family were transferred onto Dr Stewarts list. He really lowered the tone of Palmers Green. For the streets to have virtually no cars? St. Clements Press. If my memory is correct that represented .W.W. Those were the days. Good Morning America is still very much interested in doing further fake degree segments. People who have only had soft ice cream have no idea what theyre missing. two of the teachers l remember and Mr bennet was our headmaster,.true air raid shelter was at the top of the play ground. 8.1K members Join group About Discussion 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 memories and photos being posted daily. Anyway againthanks for reminding metime to order on the net, Bovril, at Sainsburys Bude, not Winchmore Hill Broadway. I can say that Victor enjoyed every minute of every day. Would love to hear your memories of the 50s & 60s. I lived in Pateur Gardens From 1950 to 1966 does any one recall the Barrowell Green swimming pool . She mopped up my tears when I failed the 11+ (I did however become a teacher myself and always remembered her kindness) Then onto Winchmore County School -what a great school. Where do you live now? OM G how I hated Grouts, I was marched in there twice a year by my mother to buy the navy knickers, beige brown high woollen socks and worst of all the liberty bodices with their horrible rubber buttonsall of which had to be worn to school until the end of May..despite a heat wave .I m shuddering to think of that shop and the humiliation it brought to me at Hazelwood Primary School. 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. Do I get commission on the bet payout? Remember the excellent Doms Cafe at Bowes Rd; Sainsburys and its snaking queues for freshly cut cheese and butter. Take butchers, for instance, within 10-15 min walk of me (Chequers Way, where Metal Box Co was), there were 5/6 butchers that I remember walking to with my Mum. My family name was Church but we have moved away now. Daughter of Uncle Sid Rann (Imperial Father of the Chapel. Hospital. 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! Did I swap it or sell at a profit. I have edited this comment because what it says was of a personal nature and could cause offence. plate MAX 2 and Stephen Graces. Regards I remember the Ford Zephyr. Dad did buy furniture at A an Asand all else for Elsie (my Mum) without consulting er. I remember Peter Townsend the sports car dealer opposite the library and the ABC and the Wimpy bar at the triangle. Cullens sold loose biscuits from large tins and lots of different dried fruits and unpacked ingredients that could be bought in any quantities and were then bagged in paper bags. I had some really good teachers and friends I missed a lot when we moved. The money offered was flushed along and up to the cashier in the small glass fronted cash office, high up. My understanding is that the building was originally built as a roller-skating rink, and then became a garage of sorts with just a few pumps virtually on the pavement. Since opening its doors in 2014, FUFU (meaning lucky) has established itself as one of . Miss Hughes was head of the infant school. I now live in Bedfordshire. I dont remember it being a bomb site though, Hi Jennie, But then came THE GIRLS. She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. Yes, and the gas fire which hissed and stuttered. An abundance of dress shops and Evans and DaviesAn unforgetable shop that sold everything. I think that this garage was called Saul & Slatters a John Slatter who worked there, married my cousin Margaret Cantwell in 1962. CameraCraft shop. We lived in Sidney Avenue from 1952 until 1961. Lovely to have you posting again Raymond Randolph! Here in Cornwall too warm and damp this week for me as a farmer. Had good times in Broomfield park and fishing in Grovelands park lake. I left in 1986 as a Grocery Manager. Im impressed. Palmers Green is mentioned as a highway in 1324 (in Westminster Abbey Muniments ). Next..The Triangle Cafe shut (ABC an Lyons) also shut at 5.. Patricia loved the picturesbut for me the sing along organ player at Capitol Winchmor ill.. why did we did disagree occasion like.ladies may comment, no rush. I lived in Tottenhall Road until 1955 when we moved to Winchmore Hill but I remember the home made guys outside the shops on Green Lanes. No I cannot remember the name of the garage and can barely remember the garage let alone that it was selling Jags. Sylvia. Some of the shops that havent been mentioned from my memory, are; The mens raincoat shop at the top of Windsor Road and the little old man who stood at the door he was creepy!. We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. I lived in Pasteur Gardens from 1960 to 1966, and went to Oakthorpe School and the Latymer. (When I was a boy is banned in daylight hours this family). Spent hours with bits of wire making stemless posies! 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. Memories of a lovely green and leafy suburb, with a beautiful park Broomfield. Although we joke about the shop you could actually buy just about anything you required in the haberdashery line, ric-rac braid, elastic, cotton, american cloth by the yard etc. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. In my form 5 of us went on to become teachers.so much for the 11+ . He played an accordion and the drums for many of the big orchestras and hotels in central London. I wonder if anyone remembers Dr Baxter who had a surgery in Hazelwood Lane at the junction with New River Crescent where the maisonettes are now? Last I heard he was still alive and well in his house in The Meadway, starving comfortably! Loved it there in palmer s green even earlier where l myself grew up too. I have created this group to remember the good times and the fun times of palmers Green growing up in the 70s and the 80s I look back on for memories of palmers Green so please feel free to share. He even used to ask children for a tip! Also the lady who sold us orange flavoured ice cubes for 1 penny . however, it did changes hands to a new type of shop a few years later. Around the mid 60s lovely to see we all grew up in such a cherished place. 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. 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. Now Mr Shepherd, Im afraid that a majority were not keen,malthough you must speak as you find. Me Brody & HICKS camera shop was started by me Gerry Hicks Im now retitred living in Cockfosters. I then started my apprenticeship at Kenning Car Mart at the Triangle behind Woolworths. I remember headmaster Mr Bennett at t ottenhall rd junior school Intimate Memories: The History of the Intimate Theatre, Palmers Green Paperback - 30 Nov. 2006 by Geoff Bowden (Author) 4 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 50.00 3 Used from 49.90 1 Collectible from 22.99 Print length 213 pages Language English Publisher Badger Press Publication date 30 Nov. 2006 ISBN-10 0952607638 ISBN-13 The garage was called Saul and Slatters. The coffee shop WAS on the right going towards Winchmore Hill, surely? Happy days at Nans. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar. I grew up in New River Crescent during the 1960s. ..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? no NHS .no grudgis but years go on this tripe celebration with fireworks still upsets loads o animals for a month (even pets let alone them foxis an badgers) annually..Annyway ice cream an jellys under a glass case (repro) at the Ritz cinema 1943 in Leyton (before the doodle bugs) but nil else at the Odeon Southgate (2/9 for the best seats and icis (extra) in the interval (with my wife 1959). Both my cousin and I remember the shop and the smell but not the name of it. Then came the day of the first postwar consignment of new Dinky ToysI was late in the queue, all vehicles sold but I did secure a Gun Emplacement Canon. You just came up in conversation and I Googled you. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. Poultney and his Perlice in the Guardroom. memories those were the best days. Thanks again. 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. & knickers etc. 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. Thanks I seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. 2023 Palmers Green Jewel in the North, Palmers Green history, people and community, The twentieth century and urban life in literature, Palmers Green Baptist Church, Green Lanes, Palmers Green United Reformed Church, Fox Lane/Burford Gardens, St Georges Presbyterian Church, Fox Lane / St Georges Road (demolished), Palmers Green and Southgate Synagogue, Brownlow Road, Palmers Green Mosque and Education Centre, Oakthorpe Road, Local dignatories, bigwigs and characters, Improbably famous in Palmers Green #5: Jack Hargreaves, Intimate demolition plans: Just a minute says Nicholas Parsons. Please?? I then became a (successful) travel writer and ended up as a journalist for an american newsletter. Thanks Dave. I worked in Tesco in Palmers Green when I was 16 years old in roughly 1990. As I was only young then, I have no idea why that happened. Ooooh now youve switched a bright light on.The Pilgrims Rest what a gem. 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. As Mr. Auger sed want to be a farmer eh-eh-young-un? Sylvia. the smell as you walked anywhere near it .lovely. 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. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme. Palmers green life feb14 final. Fortunately my mother never chastised me about it. 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. The lived AT 56, Lightcliffe Road and granddad worked at a city bank. There was a bank on one corner of Sidney Avenue which had also been hit. Nostalgic memories of Palmers Green's local history Share your own memories of Palmers Green and read what others have said For well over 10 years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. Was this a WW2 bomb? She and my Father were married at Palmers Green in 1935. Many toys purchased there! In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. He pierced my ears in the early 60s very unusual then and done with a big needle! I remember having lunch with you on quite a number of occasions when I came down after moving to Bedfordshire, then Milton Keynes. We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. Palmers Green N13, is lovely, a Edwardian area with plenty of independence shops, the parade of shops has beautiful building above them a lovely 1930s style park, a railway station journey to the countryside and Moorgate and properties are still very affordable. 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. Just a qwik qweery (my daughter is out this evenin an Im baby sittinso privit time on the computer, eh?) Saturday morning pictures at the Palladium was always good fun watching Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon etc. Few people in those days owned a car, most of us used public . 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. 2 min read. Seiferts (e the owner of the Studebaker Car and Parker Pen (2/6d for cesstificats after the War) practice. 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. The farmhouse was built in 1720 by a Mrs Childs. 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. After the last chip was scoffed the owner would place in front of us a huge strawberry milkshake made with the soft ice cream they were known for, this shake was always served in a heavy fancy thick glass with a straw to slurp up the last visible clinging bubbles. 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. In myddleton road there was a fish and chip shop In the late 60s, early 70s a small ladies shop appeared near Burtons. Do you mean `Tom the flower man at the Triangle next door to Woolworths? Hi David Nice to hear from you. Again has anyone any info on Bruno? I am Geoffreys sister Carole. John. Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! When were all the doctors, dentists, solicitors along Green Lanes private residences? I bought my first motorised bike from them, a cycle master, which had an engine in the back wheel. So my boyhood dreams finally became reality! "One night in March 1941, the Dance Hall (held in the Princes Hall above Pitman's College) in Green Lanes, Palmers Green was bombed. Does any one remember the fever hospital in this rd? 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. He was a bit of a nifty jiver down Wood Green Jazz Club. The bombs which fell in Green Lanes/Princes Avenue referred to earlier were caused because one of our anti-aircraft guns which were mounted on the railway line shot off the back of a plane carrying bombs to drop on London and the whole stick fell there. I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. 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. Now retired living in Strawberry Hill. Palmers Green - a nostalgic memory of Palmers Green Palmers Green My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. But although it stopped above us it must have drifted because the next day going to school I saw it had hit the house the other side of the field in Hazelwood Lane. Hi Raymond, It was Sid Ran your uncle that I remember as a friend of my father, I believe I as at that party you mention but cannot recall the present I received but it may have been a small accordion. The old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. 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! There was and old git who served behind the sweet counter. Helen. You might remember the Saturday boy who wrote the window tickets and went on to be a successful photographer in the eighties. Thanks for your rememberins. He was very stern and terrified me! I met him later as a tenant in one of his many properties and worked for him for a short while in the 90s. and the old St Pauls hall that had the live groups there!Great times and we didnt have any booze either.good memories!! Hi David, I think I remember you from Winchmore. Bowling Green Dear Ken. Doms and the baker opposite were always good pitches! They could be dropped down to serve the goods. I still have a tennis racquet in the loft that I bought from P Green branch when I was about 13/14! It was a black moment for Palmers Green as the bodies of the dead & injured were laid out on the pavement. 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. 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? Other teachers were Miss Sweeny who would let you ring the bell if it was your birthday, Miss Calcott (horrible) and Mrs Dark. I believe she moved up to Scotland after living in Ibiza for a while. The Fox stands in a prominent position on the corner of Green Lanes and its namesake, Fox Lane. Many years later when I was adult he told me what he saw. our school on fire by insendery bombs ,also the sky appearing like a red sun set and being told it was London docks on fire.mr rodwell Mrs green are. Doms also made excellent onion omelettes.
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