It was quite good really if you wanted a weatherproof coat and were prepared to go in! also the restuarant above the sweet shop in Green Lanes which was opposite the Queens Cinema? I have fond memories of Palmers Green, as I worked at the station from aged 15 in 1963 till 1968. Ta. The Fox stands in a prominent position on the corner of Green Lanes and its namesake, Fox Lane. Was it a V1 or a V2? Palmer's Green and Southgate 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? Can anyone remember the Bamboo coffee bar in Bowes Rd, cant find any history of the place or photos. Memories of Grouts - Palmers Green Community Forums - Palmers Green 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. Will email direct 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 remember going there with my Mother and having lovely ice cream in a silver sundae dish. That would have been where visitors could wave to their loved ones in the hospital. There was a second Grouts shop at 470 Green Lanes just before Hedge Lane. Remember the Pet Shop across the road from there, selling all manner of exotic animals (would be prohibited today) including Marmaset monkeys! I also bought a BSA Winged Wheel from them and had it fitted to my pushbike on which I commuted from Palmers Green to Tottenham Hale every day for my Apprenticeship at Keith Blackmans Ltd. A female named Jane lived above the J&A shop. 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. And another question on the same side as the H&C but further towards Winchmore Hill opposite a photographers, there was a Jaguar garage. Mr. Music Baggarley, S.County did not think much of my voice, a judgement echoed by Regimental Sgt.Major, Rifle Brigade, on the Square, Winchester. I went there 1953 1958. yes: miss belfontaine was head of Hazelwood juniors and mis hughes head of infants. 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. Many toys purchased there! Truly some of the best times of my life in Palmers Green. Remember the Windsor Caf. .and ALWAYS ordered egg, sausage & chips. Palmers Green photos, maps, books, memories - Francis Frith Lorna, is it possible the furniture store you refer to was Ways? Sylvia & Pennie have jogged my memory of Doms cafe in Palmers Green. . Thanks for the info. My taste dress-wise (MENS) was Bricks across the road, specially them T-shirts. Ha ha yes and he had those bottle top glasses Dr Meldrum !!! Biking from The Larches to Holborn Kingsway, clock in at 8 am, carry bike up 4 flights of stairs, no smoking allowed, no sitting down cept lunch time at the frame. My first girlfriend used to go there, she was one of a pair of twins, the Bower girls. I remember juke box was playing a lot of Take these Chains From my Heart and set me Free. There was a big fat man with tattoos who ran it and used the F word all the time. Is it still haunted? When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of. 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. David Way of Winchmore Hill Broadway? Palmers Green 60s To The 70s: A memory of Palmers Green Good lunch time food & very good value. Yes, Dave, I knew Vic Madden by sight only, in the early 60s. In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. Okay Pennie. Wonderful area. Wow Thanks Richard awesome now I win the bet with my brothers!! Shame I cannot post some photos here. He suspected everyone under the age of 18 of being a shoplifter. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. I lived in Pasteur Gardens from 1960 to 1966, and went to Oakthorpe School and the Latymer. Happy searching, Sylvia Gambin. Also remember Mrs Dark who took 4A, an excellent teacher. Also Broody and Hicks who sold cameras in the 1970s. 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. In the window there was a (seemingly) huge coffee grinding machine. 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. Doms and the baker opposite were always good pitches! Areas like Palmers Green have changed a great dealover the years;the memories of others help us see where we live with new eyes. I dont remember the Rubber Mac ShopMa made me buy my Mac (Grey Gabberdine, de reguer worn over the right arm when hescortin the ladies (no rain at the wrong time in them pre global warmin days) but de reguer in Broomfield or Grovelands Park to spread for the ladies (Sir Walter Raaly like etc)) from Fifty Shillin Tailors? 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. I bought my first motorised bike from them, a cycle master, which had an engine in the back wheel. I farms in Cornwall now an apologise for the grammer neglected at Southgate County Grammar (an spellins). The corner premises were never re-built on and the empty space was then used as an open car forecourt called Kieths Cars. Helen. One day I remember hearing some youths had put a razor blade on the shoot and I was terrified. The small side road was Devonshire Avenue which continued behind the shops and ended near the railway station at the Triangle. Dad livin then in Islinton/ighbury played piano, accordian, dubblebase, all sizes of saxophones and clarinet as reserve needed in the West End otels in Lunnon includin the Savoy otel (10/6d an evenin)(after the War e was to reminisce when taken to lunch in Savoy Grill by conglommerats an councils gaspin to get old of Shells munny) as assistant investment manager (16th Floor) for Shell Oil (millions to spend) and for No.1 Balloon Barrage Dance Band (later the Squadronnaires an Skyrockitts) that is when e wasn,t tendin is personal barrage balloon in East am 1939. This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. I think it was late 50s . Dr Baxter used some of the rooms for his surgery and, I would imagine, must have lived there in the rest of the house. This was run by a short tubby lady. Again has anyone any info on Bruno? Around the mid 60s lovely to see we all grew up in such a cherished place. Remember the barbers shop. Remember the old peoples home burning down in 1966.Buses were diverted down Windsor Road. watts north Miss? Sit down Raymond! Across Hedge Lane, does anyone remember the wartime pill boxes which stood close to where the trolleybuses made their turn-round at journeys end. Miss Wrigley used to rattle you back and forward in your desk if you didnt behave. 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. 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. Janes & Adams was my favourite shop in Palmers Green. Dads brother, Uncle Sid Rann lived at no 22. I think that he worked on the railways. It would have been maybe late 60s/ early 70s Also I remember the very high slide in Broomfield park with concrete below scary! James what year were you at Ambrose Fleming , I was there from when it first opened in 1962 [ I think ] until 1965 . Anyone remember him? you could add doms cafe where you had a great breakfast there. 23 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 4TN, UK. And a bycycle from J&A (Rudge) set me free on those open roads, YHA and the romances. 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? Then, of course, the great Grouts with its artistic window displays! 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. 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. We used to have all the hire vans parked on the forecourt in front of what clearly had been a showroom. I manage to find scraped ice cream every now and then but nothing like the taste I remember. There was a bank on one corner of Sidney Avenue which had also been hit. Im doing some research on my family who lived in Tottenhall Road where teenagers and young adults hung out. Thanks very much Saul & Slatter it was! I can still remember how I felt when I saw it. thanks to Mr Sheppard, our brilliant Headmaster who never gave up on us and of course Mrs Phair who was the most fantastic teacher ever created-.such a `one off, Dear David and Pennie, must interjectno rushannyway, avin a larf in cornywall now and rememberin Palmers Green an Winchmore ill. I went to Brownies and Guides at that church too! 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. Going back toward Hedge Lane on the North sideremember a chap who used to make basket work/wicker goods/walking sticks? Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. I was Yvonne Farmer and our form teacher was Mrs Phair. Some of the musicians achieved International fame (not meI was on drums) . Poultney and his Perlice in the Guardroom. Yes, very tall, Scottish doctor with elderly receptionist and very noisy gas fire. For Palmers Green to have a department store, two cinemas and no betting shops or nail bars? Palmers Green, Greater London Old Photos, Historic Maps, Local History Books and Memories of Palmers Green Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane with our old photos, historic maps, local history books, and memories of Palmers Green. Thank you for any help you can give Best wishes Dont start me on the shops the wonderful Evans and Davies and the evocatic smell of Grouts! 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). Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. I also got a passion for steam trains watching them working the sidings at the station. 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. The headmistress, Miss Hughes must have been about 110, My class teacher was a woman aptly named Mrs Dark a horrible and spiteful woman. I had the best 7 years of my life with Victor, but sadly he died only last month, February 7 of cancer. We lived in Upsdell Avenue from 1941 to 1957. Memories Of Palmers Green & Winchmore Hill - Francis Frith Ray. & knickers etc. Probably some of my first photographs were taken there. however, it did changes hands to a new type of shop a few years later. I have spoken to a friend of mine who was born in the mid 30s & has lived near Hedge Lane most of her life but she doesnt remember a bomb dropping at the top of Hedge Lane. I dont recall the cart. I remember once using the underground public toilet at the triangle and sure there was an assistant there in the days before we considered disabled people. One old lady lost her life in the fire. We were spoilt for choice for cinemas at that time with the 2 in Palmers Green, Southgate, Regal at Edmonton, Enfield and Bowes Road and they all had a different atmosphere. I practically lived in the Bezzaz Coffee Bar!!!! memories those were the best days. 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. 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. Hey are you the same Anne Poole from Southgate SC. I remember Dr Baxter well, he plastered up my left hand when I broke a finger playing leapfrog at school! Syds daughter, Jill, is my Mum, now living in Midhurst, W.Sussex and still thriving, thankfully. Hi Gerry, Im nearly retired and living in Australia, you may remember my father Aubrey Todd who ran Kelvin Photos. My memory goes back to 1956, I would have been 8 years old and my Dad used to take myself & my younger brother to Doms most Saturdays during the summer holidays for a midday lunch treat, He would put us on one of the 5 bar stools which were positioned at the rear of the cafe on the right hand side, we would pick up the menu because it looked grown up! I lived in Tottenham rd during the war and remember being wrapped in a tartan rug and carried out side by my dad who was an air raid warden to see. 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. So many happy memories. I used to have a paper round in the paper shop top of hedge lane and green lanes in 1963 I got fifteen Bob a week Mr pogson was the proprietor does any body remember him. I started in the infants second year in 1947. Lots of happy memories of Palmers Green ice cream at John Coombs sweet shop. I suppose the range of shops in every High St has changed so much these days because almost everyone has a car, fridges and freezers and generally shop only once or twice a week, whereas when I was young, people shopped every day and had to walk to the shops for fresh produce. 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?) Dave Todd. Happy days at Nans. I remember the Bamboo I used to go there a lot. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? later..no rushsheep on the boil. Hi Raymond Lots of great memories. Before marrying my first wife I too lived in Muswell Hill then Palmerston Road before buying a flat in Woodberry Avenue. As previous I lived in the Larches from 1938 at no 64. I lived in New River Crescent. The old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. I lived in Wolves Lane. Now Mr Shepherd, Im afraid that a majority were not keen,malthough you must speak as you find. Also why did they demolish whatever was there before? Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? I used to sing in the small choir there on stage just before the pictures started, members of the choir got in for nothing via the back door instead of having to pay sixpence like all the others. very posh! Seiferts (e the owner of the Studebaker Car and Parker Pen (2/6d for cesstificats after the War) practice. Gerry. 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.
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