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My parents bought our furniture there. Annyway she sees the ambience of Palmers Greenery so later Dad as to buy a property to satisfy er haspirations Palmer Green wise N14annyway my Palmers Green is Jewell in Crown (I am salutin you er Majesty) no rushkeep crackin on, eh? I worked at burtons at the triangle in the 60s until at closed inthe 70s some very happy memeries of those times. Remembering the first Wimpy Bar which opened just near Woolworth's and of course, the wonderful Broomfield Park which offered space, beauty, fun, and sport. 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. Can anyone help?my partner is looking for his father.his fathers name is trevor george burgess and the only info we have is trevors mother lived on princes ave palmers green.if anybody knows of the above person and can help my partner find his dad please contact me on 07986272734.thankyou for reading x. 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 ? I believe some time in the 80s Doms was sold but the new owner had the good foresite to retain the classic Doms signage, but not the good foresite to retain the ice cream servery!. Memories of a lovely green and leafy suburb, with a beautiful park Broomfield. Could you tell me where Beezaz was situated and were there any other coffee shops in the area. (Source: Birmingham Rewound) Sherer's in Athens in the 1960s. Can you help? Ive lived here all my life (born 45) but dont remember that or Keiths being a bomb site. 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?) The garage was called Saul and Slatters. In the late 60s, early 70s a small ladies shop appeared near Burtons. We lived in Hamilton Crescent and the kids played in the Rec but it was short for Recreation Ground.lol. Does anyone remember Palmers Green High School in the early to mid 60s. Mr and Mrs Glossop were a very jolly couple always ready to share a yarn. You must be signed-in to your Frith account to post a comment. Annyway after ostilities e also gigged (very fashionable nowadays, eh?) We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. In his biography of Jack, writer and colleague Paul Peacock notes that though many people would assume that Jack found fame in the 60s and 70s, he first achieved recognition before the second world war at the Independent Broadcasting Company where he was head of Universal Programme Productions, twinning revenue opportunities for products like Horlicks with broadcast output. 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. I started at Hazelwood in 1963 too and l also live in Singapore. Holborn). 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WebPalmers Green Station (D) is 158 meters away, 3 min walk. The adults who gave their time for us were great people! on Improbably famous in Palmers Green #5: Jack Hargreaves, on Intimate demolition plans: Just a minute says Nicholas Parsons, 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, http://www.palmersgreenn13.com/2015/11/03/every-street-in-palmers-green-5-ladies-and-gentlemen-live-from-palmers-green/, For more about the Intimates heady days of stage and screen, see. Collecting shrapnel since 1939 in Leytonstone gutters and still collecting turning over neolithic shards in Cornish fieldsmy motto: Its Fun Finding Out (Chapman Pincher and Bernard Wicksteed, 1947) shaped my career. Clowes Sports Ground, Barrowell Green, London N21 1961-2016- Satellite Ground. Register to find out more and create your first album! We used to have all the hire vans parked on the forecourt in front of what clearly had been a showroom. Ma used to send me there up Hedge Lane in the school olidays with a shillin for my lunch (includin tip)I remembers the custard. St. Clements Press. Who remembers Tom the singing flower seller at the top of the access between the buildings? He was very tall, very Scottish and prescribed bottles of Minadex (green and foul tasting) for almost all childhood ailments! Which one is it?? I went to The Bezazz in 1961 and 1962 when I was nursing at the North Mid. The, I lived in a flat over Walton, Hassell & Port in Alderman's Hill. Remember Dr Meldrums surgery opposite Janes and Adams, and his receptionist? Situated on the corner of Groveland's Road opposite Broomfield Park. It was a black moment for Palmers Green as the bodies of the dead & injured were laid out on the pavement. Thanks I worked in Tesco in Palmers Green when I was 16 years old in roughly 1990. These Bus lines stop near Morrisons: 102, 121, 329, 34, W6. Can somebody help with this? of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. 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. Then out agin on bike round to Patricias house and on to Capitol Winchmore Hill (if in money) or Queens, Palmers Green. Dad was in the ARP with your uncle, I have been trying to find some photos of the ARP at Palmers Green but as yet not successful. No this barbers was near Janes and Adams Electrical shop and also bicycle shop. I also recall Roberts toy shop on the other side. I practically lived in the Bezzaz Coffee Bar!!!! My entire lunch money would be spent on a Cola float, Coke and ice cream with a cherry and a fruit pie for dessert! I assumed that the horse was some kind of pet that he took with him on his deliveries. We always had nice Rose bushes ! There is a parade of shops known as Palmers Green Shopping Centre along Green Lanes, with many restaurants, clothing shops, independently owned cafes, beauty salons, and branches of Superdrug, Wetherspoons (The Alfred Herring), Boots UK, and Morrisons. The Sales Department was at 44-46 Aldermans Hill and Service was at 234 Green Lanes. If notat last space for my clockwerk trainset (O guageTrix or Bing(not Hornby? No Dave,my brothers name is Derek married to Cathy. I lived in New River Crescent. There was a car dealership at the top end of Hedge Lane on the site currently occupied by Yaser Halim. 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. Palm Court Restaurant, upstairs on the opposite side of the road near Cinema. Good times. She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? I remember having lunch with you on quite a number of occasions when I came down after moving to Bedfordshire, then Milton Keynes. The corner premises were never re-built on and the empty space was then used as an open car forecourt called Kieths Cars. Later, they raised us four kids in York Road. Gerry. Much later in I guess the 70s? Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. It was called Briggs and there was another branch down at Wood Green. . 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. Mrs Palmers Shorts Mens Size 32 Black Pinstripe. There was a bank on one corner of Sidney Avenue which had also been hit. I seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. Doms and the baker opposite were always good pitches! We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. Remember John Menzies where I used to buy records in early 70s. Geno Washington once played there. Long, snaking queues, which criss-crossed one another, as our parents stood in line for individually weighed out and wrapped packs of sliced bacon, cheese, tea, eggs etc. Palmers Green was once a tiny hamlet in the parish of Edmonton, situated at the junction of Green Lanes and Fox Lane. you could add doms cafe where you had a great breakfast there. later..no rushsheep on the boil. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. Dordrecht, Netherlands Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? Hope this helps. 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. No expense spared by Mr.Grout!! House backed on to the river. . The garage was Saul and Slatter Ltd. 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. All rights reserved. Sylvia. Like me, she does remember the car dealer being there though. Miss Bellefontaine was the head teacher at Hazelwood Infants school during the forties, I know as I attended that school. Now retired living in Strawberry Hill. I remember one of my friends falling into the river off the bridge and clambering out the other side after swimming under the bridge in the river current. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar. When were all the doctors, dentists, solicitors along Green Lanes private residences? welcome Its been a busy summer in Palmers Green culminated by the Palmers Green Festival held on the 6th September. She was young and trendyin fact I saw her once in the old HMV shop in Wood Green buying a Yes album ! Raymond, did you go to Ilfracombe Devon during the war. Residing in Florida but will be returning to the UK some time early next year and looking forward to checking out the old haunts. Hi I lived in Princes Avenue with my grandparents in 1969 and reading the comments the memories came flooding back. She ated the chairs and the oover and most else e lovingly carried ome. My mum had a job doing tailoring above Burtons and in school holidays I had to go in with her some days. Very interesting. In myddleton road there was a fish and chip shop I lived in Madeira Road. The manager in the 60s was Keith Small, very nice man who had a daughter Jacqueline. I had the best 7 years of my life with Victor, but sadly he died only last month, February 7 of cancer. She would sit regally on the little wooden chairs by the counter. I bet virtually nobody has one of these fictitious Swiss bank accounts etiher. 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. 2sainsbury s & 2 Macfisheries , 2 China shops Lawleys and Moors or was it Muirs. 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. No self-service yet. would go down there most nights and you need only buy one coffee & that had to last you all evening what great times in there !!!! Not too many Starlings in the area. I remember J&As when the windows were boarded, just a square foot to stare in. Best regards, Nick Hurst. It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! 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. I grew up in New River Crescent during the 1960s. Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. Has been used as hi fi cabinet but can be used for anything. 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? The old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. Details of the garage are in my 1963 copy of the Jaguar Sales & Service Facilities in the United Kingdom. I still hanker for an ice cream like Doms scraped onto a cornet with a spatula not scooped! dont make us laugh its football or economics ere. I remember my Nan going I to Tescos on Green Lane and used to run around Brookfield park and go into the burned down museum with the bees and the art work. you may remember I also had a retail shop in Muswell hill, = 253 Muswell hiil broadway. I was Jean cook then with a brother Brian l remember the bombing of the dance hall between princes avenue and Tottenhall rd and the trolly bus wires catching fire and my friend Louise loosing a leg l remember Doreen young and Gary spicer.also the smell of Mac fisherys shop. Magic for post-war Palmers Green teenagers. More details Which Bus lines stop near Morrisons? What a lovely road it was then. There was some credible evidence that the house on the corner of New River Crescent and Hedge Lane in the Does anyone happen to know? WebPalmers Green. Remember the old peoples home burning down in 1966.Buses were diverted down Windsor Road. I remember Tom I worked opposite him at Triangle Cars for 5 years in th 60s . He was very stern and terrified me! Lovely caf. My father, Bert Hart, worked for Allen & Appleyard making furniture. This marked the spot where lorries slowed, changed gear to ascend New River bridge and I would grab a tailboard chain and be towed up and up Bourne Hill by a Foden on my bicycle (not the Rudge yet) to St. Georges Road and peel off easily to Southgate County School in Fox Lane. I am Geoffreys sister Carole. 1940, I have enjoyed reading all of your comments, because my Mother was so proud to have lived there, and reminisced so often. If I remember correctly you used to play the piano, Michelle I started Hazelwood in January 1964. 10 X MEN'S PALMER'S UNDERWEAR SHORTS BOXERS BRIEFS SIZE S-XL. I started in the infants second year in 1947. Best wishes Mum rode her bike to Tottenhall Road to care for patients in the old fever hospital. 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. I was born at 7 Oakthorpe Rd, PG in 1944 and moved to East Anglia in 1971. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs Responding to the notes on Barrowell Green Swimming pool, I was born in Southgate and lived at 6 Tintern Gardens from 1936 56, and attended Southgate County Grammar School. A saxophonist my father often booked had the first name of Larry. When I read Jenny H & Martins comments about Doctors, it reminded me of the first one I had. The shop later became an extension to Gateway Film Productions (where I worked). But then came THE GIRLS. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. The large, electric coffee grinding machine visible in the shop window. 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. One day I remember hearing some youths had put a razor blade on the shoot and I was terrified. (Miss Watts?) You walked up a long gravel path under the pergola to get to the house which had dark wooden panelling etc., very posh! Some of the musicians achieved International fame (not meI was on drums) . James what year were you at Ambrose Fleming , I was there from when it first opened in 1962 [ I think ] until 1965 . Remember the Windsor Caf. Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. The smell of freshly ground coffee from the Home and Colonial grocers at top of the High Street. 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. Glossops was near J&A. Palmers Green High Street Circa 1955 1960 Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. My grandmother moved to Halifax in 1919 and remarried. I also remember Vic Madden the window cleaner. Was it a post office too? Hi Gerry And for Freya, sad as it evidently was when articulated in her marvellous single, Lost Without Lots of predictable responses. In my form 5 of us went on to become teachers.so much for the 11+ . Nice to hear from you. From the kitchen, smells of roasting meat and potatoes, bubbling gravy, the windows steaming up. Meldrum. But he was ever present in our living rooms in Out of Town and in the childrens programme he devised and presented with Fred Dineage How! which ran until 1981. John. The chemist at the top of Hazelwood Lane was called Cross & Herbert. I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. I used to work weekends 1970-1972 for Kenning Car Hire which Im sure was probably on the site you recall. The ice cream was served from a sliding glass hatch facing the street, so you didnt have to go inside if an ice cream was all you wanted, in the summer the servery was always open otherwise a light tap on the glass and brother or sister would serve you with beautiful soft ice cream in a cone and a smile all for threepence. Dads brother, Uncle Sid Rann lived at no 22. Hi Dave, I do remember you and your dads photography business. Dark..my teecher at Winchmore ill and Southgate County Grammer, Fox Lane, do you remember? Thanks very much Saul & Slatter it was! Palmers Green to Tottenham by bus The bus journey time between Palmers Green and Tottenham is around 8 min and covers a distance of around 2 miles. Truly some of the best times of my life in Palmers Green. He pierced my ears in the early 60s very unusual then and done with a big needle! More please! Also Broody and Hicks who sold cameras in the 1970s. I also went to Bowes Road School but only from 1952 to 1953 in the infants. In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. You might remember the Saturday boy who wrote the window tickets and went on to be a successful photographer in the eighties. Its Sunday lunchtime. 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. 1955-1957. 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. Possibly during WW2 it was requisitioned for war work. To meet the present and envisaged future needs of the parish, it is proposed to build a newParish Centre, one that will be a legacy for future generations. Operated by London Buses and Go Ahead London, the Palmers Green to Tottenham bus service departs from Melville Gardens and arrives in Victoria Road Edmonton. In 1961 the company was acquired by Car Mart Sales Ltd, but retained its name. For well over 10 years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences Work began on building St Georges Presbyterian Gothic style church in 1912. Doc. Devonshire Road. Im doing some research on my family who lived in Tottenhall Road where teenagers and young adults hung out. On June 12, 1990, Douglas H. Palmer made history, winning election as 60 Hey are you the same Anne Poole from Southgate SC. The smell really made me sick. 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?)
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