By Can you help? He pierced my ears in the early 60s very unusual then and done with a big needle! Hi David, I think I remember you from Winchmore. I have also contacted the Enfield Walking Team since I found a Colin Fisher on their team, when they broke a world record in 1977. Steak Chips and peas 2/6p and the included bread and butter, Our Dad would pay the 2/6d, and pick us up 45 minutes later as he worked nearby. And another question on the same side as the H&C but further towards Winchmore Hill opposite a photographers, there was a Jaguar garage. His house and grounds backed onto the new river on the opposite bank to ours which was in Lynbridge gardens. Was the camera shop you are thinking off Camera Craft just beyond the top of Osborne Road and some way short of Hedge Lane? So back ome goin West? Going to the cinema on Saturday mornings was a treat to watch the Lone Ranger. I lived in New River Crescent. you may remember I also had a retail shop in Muswell hill, = 253 Muswell hiil broadway. Thanks for the info. Please?? Hi Gerry, Im nearly retired and living in Australia, you may remember my father Aubrey Todd who ran Kelvin Photos. I still as the familly piano bungin up my front room, opin the latist sprog will unravvell its potential. Singing Tom used to give me all the flower heads to play with. Has been used as hi fi cabinet but can be used for anything. Before Victor Value there was a lovely old music hall. I met him later as a tenant in one of his many properties and worked for him for a short while in the 90s. 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. I still have a tennis racquet in the loft that I bought from P Green branch when I was about 13/14! I just recall the horse. I used to get home absolutely filthy but so happy. Green Lanes has changed so much since we were youngsters especially the current work on the cycle lane which is quite an issue locally. 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. The first large-scale developments were on the Old Park estate between Fox Lane and Aldermans Hill, and the Hazelwood Park Estate between Hazelwood Lane and Hedge Lane. In 1967 I became the signalman there. The other side of the Bank was a school outfitters where I was bought school uniforms, blazers and badges etc. Why not add your memory today and become part of our This was back in the early 60s. Wood Green is 729 meters away, 10 min walk. Aldermans Hill had some fascinating shops too.the tiny pet shop opposite the station, the flower man then on to an electrical shop where I bought my first portable telly for my room with my first wages! 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. 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My first girlfriend used to go there, she was one of a pair of twins, the Bower girls. 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). No I cannot remember the name of the garage and can barely remember the garage let alone that it was selling Jags. Yes, very tall, Scottish doctor with elderly receptionist and very noisy gas fire. Here is how it was reported by the BBC. In 1992 the building housed a Radio Cracker studio. 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. New River Crescent was bisected at the foot of Park Avenue. In 2018 I interviewed the then manager of Forty Hall Farm for a The news about the vineyard's problems reminded me of a couple of things that Kate McGeevor told me. Annyway back to Patricia (and her Ma), they worshipped Grouts and in my stores upstairs I ave loads oGrouts stuff and the 60s lectric Singer sewing machine kept ready an oiled like for my grandaughter (6) and er new baby sister comin October. I remember we got a TV from Stanwood Radio and remember the tiny shop on alderman shill that had wood showing decay in the window. Memories community this week: and hundreds more! Send a personal message with a photo to anyone, anywhere. weve already ad enough laughs for the day over your conviction that The Sahara Desert is in the middle of Australia. Sherers Drive-In in the 1960s. Is it still haunted? us failed musicians worship for evermore.no rush puttin the latest grandaughter Reenie to bed..ope she gets on the bandstand soon shes got the lungs for it and we may need er thirty shillins a week to pay orf the mortgage.Annyway (am I keepin you up?) Thank you so much. Search for Motorcycle Repairs & Services and other automotive services near you on Yell.com. WebThere are 4 ways to get from Old Street to Palmers Green by train, bus, taxi or car Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner. In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. Hi Mike, yes I remember Bruno walking from the cafe with snooker cue in hand after a days work to the Cock pub to try & win a few bob in the billiard room, he also had the Bezazz Coffee Bar corner of Princes Ave, with juke box & pin ball machines great times all for the price of a coke or coffee with your mates. But then came THE GIRLS. For well over 10 years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences We recently had an email from Bente Dalsbaek who is trying to trace members of her family from when they lived in Palmers Green in the 1970s. Remember Dr Meldrums surgery opposite Janes and Adams, and his receptionist? When he retired (1956 ish), I was 11 and my family were transferred onto Dr Stewarts list. Can you imagine leaving two young children in a caf now, you would probably get a visit from Social Services. He was simply the best jiver (having been a professional dancer in his younger days). 1. Stephen Woodward I recall Miss Bellefontaine Im exactly ten years younger that you and started at Hazelwood in 1963. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? All rights reserved. watts north Miss? Sit down Raymond! Later, they raised us four kids in York Road. Anyway againthanks for reminding metime to order on the net, Bovril, at Sainsburys Bude, not Winchmore Hill Broadway. One day I remember hearing some youths had put a razor blade on the shoot and I was terrified. Does anyone remember Victor Value supermarket in Wood Green it was not far from the Civic center and before myddleton road. Absolutely free. Miss Gibbs. My taste dress-wise (MENS) was Bricks across the road, specially them T-shirts. In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. The large, electric coffee grinding machine visible in the shop window. Incidentally Gran used to black her ever smouldering grate with liquid something which inevitably warmed the proceedings. Sometime around 1960 (when my father was around 15) the contact stopped. Boots the Chemist had a small book lending library upstairs and usually had a good selection of Enid Blyton Mysteries. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. 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. flexible offerings for business. Gerry Hicks, Hi. People who have only had soft ice cream have no idea what theyre missing. So my boyhood dreams finally became reality! Happy times at Arnos school and some not so nice if you got the cane. The front half was a sweet shop and there was hair all over the floor, The old buzzard who cut the hair used to ask for a tip. Hello Brian, Im so glad you remember Dr Baxter. Loved it there in palmer s green even earlier where l myself grew up too. 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. 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. Celia Rutterford, Thanks so much for your reply I havent lived in Palmers Green since the late 60.s and loved living there.so many memories and so much fun again thanks. 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. Regards Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? The smell really made me sick. 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 seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. Thesite of Sir John Clements famous theatre company, the first play ever tohave been broadcast live on television was beamed from the Intimate and it is one of the last surviving local theatres in London. 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. How the location features in your personal history? We sold nuts, bolts, spares for bikes, tyres wheels, skates with steel wheels. Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! David they are wonderful memories arent they? It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! Was it The Queens? plate MAX 2 and Stephen Graces. Further down , a few doors from the Fox was a confectioner called J.Vercoe. Do you remember the Toy shop opposite too? There was no bomb site where the garage was. The Tesco replaced a cinema that used to be there, In the early 60s I saw Robin Hood,there, the Walt Disney cartoon production. Monica's Church, Palmers Green St Monicas, 1 Stonard Road, Palmers Green, London N13 4DJ Phone: (+44) 020 8886 9568 Email: palmersgreen@rcdow.org.uk Website: My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. I seem to remember it being a Vauxhall dealer then a Volvo garage (?Triangle motors), in the 80s & 90s. Hi Sylvia, in the P.Green archives somewhere there is a report that on the night of March 15th 1941 the Princes Dance Hall (corner of Princes Ave) was packed with young couples. I remember that day vividly as, just as the tv was made to work, on the screen we were just in time to see the Boat Race with Oxford sinking up to their waists in water. I used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. I was born in Southgate in October 1936 and lived with my parents at 6 Tintern Gardens until September 1956, when they moved to Willingdon, Eastbourne. Jack had a difficult childhood. 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. Then they returned to London, where they bought a house in The Larches, Palmers Green together with Colin Fishers parents as I understand it.
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