I used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. There was and old git who served behind the sweet counter. Have a nice trip! Sylvia. Hi John ! I can still remember how I felt when I saw it. He pierced my ears in the early 60s very unusual then and done with a big needle! I remember the shop well.think it was called Cullens. 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. We used to have all the hire vans parked on the forecourt in front of what clearly had been a showroom. The smell really made me sick. A man who was the spitting image of Reginald Varney (On the Buses fame} served behind the counter. The manager was named Mr Hemmings and his daughter Lesley was a good friend of mine in the Girl Guides at St Johns Hall, 23 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 4TN, UK. Yore Dad probably employed my Dad (as a freelance) their musical doins seems to ave run parallels. Can someone confirm the existence of a Tesco store in Palmers Green at this time? In the summer we sold ex Wimbledon tennis balls. I think it was called Harvey Sports (a friend of mine had a Saturday job there) & next door was a fabric shop called Metres which sold everything from net curtains to dress fabrics and upholstery materials, The couple who ran it were very kind & patient working our how much material you needed for your windows etc. It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! 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. I had a mini and a few cortinas in the 70s all with big bore exhausts and used to make a deliberate noise going up Green lanes. Happy times Hazelwood Primary School, Hazelwood Lane youth club, the Rec on sunny days. 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. The walls were lined with painted tongued and grooved wood. Maybe a member will remember Jays. July 2015. Hi Reg. Dad joined the Home Guard and I remember him cleaning his rifle regularly which used to stand in the corner of the kitchen. A bus going north, was just slowing down to the bus stop opposite when three bombs fell in close proximity. Thanks for your rememberins. In the 50s there was a shop towards the end of Palmers Green (on the right hand side as you went toward Winchmore Hill) that ground coffee. 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. Sorry to say my own Weddin Photos (brilliant) from Artricia, Winchmore Hill selected by my father-in-law Edward Cable Later on in Advertisin I helped to promote the 10 fare to Australia for adventurous families but had to stay behind to assist David Bailey, Don McCullin, Billy Apple et al.. No rush now but still on the familly tree search (Sixteen String Jack Rann and Sue) (Sue still rowing back to GB from Botany Bay 1779)ave you eard from yore coastgards annythin? We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. Miss Hughes was head of the infant school. Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? It was a super meeting place for a great crowd, all feeling very sophisticated drinking coffee from glass cups. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. But we used to dangle fishing lines from the river bridge in Hazelwood lane in an effort to catch something. The name Bezazz brings back happy memories of the late 50s and early 60s. 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. 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. . ps. I guess that makes you and she cousins! List of teachers at Hazelwood school 1960s, Miss Hughes, Mrs Jones, Mrs Lee, Mrs Dark. I owned a Maicoletta scooter in those days which out- paced the Vespas and Lambrettas of those days. My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. Palmers Greenery Community Caf open 10.30am - 12.00am Coronation street party at Bounds Green Bowls and Tennis Club 10.30am - 12.00pm Councillors' surgery: Palmers Green, New Southgate, Bowes and Highfield wards 2.30pm - 4.30pm People with Voices poetry and ideas workshop 8.00pm - 12.30am Live music: Jiminy Rockit Band Yes Bob good memory, striking looking car, my MK 3 Cortina was yellow with black vinyl roof, which was unfortunately mostly removed by a group of baboons at Whipsnade safari park during a warm summer in the 70s, I believe the place has now closed. I remember going there with my Mother and having lovely ice cream in a silver sundae dish. Miss Bellefontaine was the head teacher at Hazelwood Infants school during the forties, I know as I attended that school. Lovely doctor. (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?) I have fond memories of Palmers Green, as I worked at the station from aged 15 in 1963 till 1968. Koubes here are also a match for Aroma with a slightly deeper, sweeter taste from sticky caramelised onions. 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. David they are wonderful memories arent they? 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. We were entranced by the trendy clothes and selection of jazzy tights. Later, they raised us four kids in York Road. Was sad to see it go. I worked at burtons at the triangle in the 60s until at closed inthe 70s some very happy memeries of those times. Further up from Ashwells towards Devonshire Rd.was a beautiful shop selling china and glass.This was close to the shop with the heavy coffee smella quite small shop which was probably next door to the 2nd. Was Mrs Dark the wife of Mr. Play nicely please. I believe she moved up to Scotland after living in Ibiza for a while. What a great guy he was. Making own fun! Palmers Green by Geoff Bowden, 20061130. 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. N21. In my form 5 of us went on to become teachers.so much for the 11+ . They could be dropped down to serve the goods. 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. Palmers Green LI FE www.palmersgreenlife.co.uk. What a job to have, stuck up there in this rather dark shop every day!! Probably some of my first photographs were taken there. Also the first Wimpy Bar at the triangle in the mid 60s? Ah yes. It is open on Sunday afternoons from 2.00 to 4.30pm Model Boating Pond The Model Boating Pond was dug in 1903, shortly after the opening of the Park. I dont remember you should I? Janes & Adams, Wendy. For the coronation, we all went to the Ritz not on the day itself to see it on the big screen. A few doors away was a grocers shop called Crows. 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 old boy used to stand outside and entice you in with phrases like.this one would suit youetc. Does anyone remember Palmers Green High School in the early to mid 60s. My parents continued to live there until 2009 in Kelvin Avenue. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of the Hedge Lane premises,hope this is helpful. I grew up in New River Crescent during the 1960s. As I hadnt had any response to my original comment I was beginning to think I had imagined him. Spent hours with bits of wire making stemless posies! . National Service. Hallo Raymond, Wondered whether or not your father was Fred Rann who used to go to the Fives Club? If notat last space for my clockwerk trainset (O guageTrix or Bing(not Hornby? When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of. Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? I have a friend who grew up in Palmers green and he says that there was no Tesco in Palmers green?!! Most of the sites stayed flattened for many years afterwards some right up to the 60s. 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. 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. Devonshire Road. Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. Some are specific others generic. Lovely to have you posting again Raymond Randolph! He even used to ask children for a tip! the smell as you walked anywhere near it .lovely. 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. Remember the minicab office at the top of Hedge Lane in the 1970s. Julia. He was very tall, very Scottish and prescribed bottles of Minadex (green and foul tasting) for almost all childhood ailments! It is used by the Broomfield Model Boat Club. Wonderful area. Do you remember a bus that got his by a bomb during the war as no one seems to have any photos or accounts about this. Otherwise it was as you describe with the coffee grinding machine in the window and the aroma pervading Green Lanes. Dads brother, Uncle Sid Rann lived at no 22. 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 remember the Ford Zephyr. Peter. The farmhouse was built in 1720 by a Mrs Childs. Bruno would leave the bar at 9.30pm each night, snooker cue in hand and walk to the Cock Tavern for several beers & a few games of snooker. You just came up in conversation and I Googled you. Dordrecht, Netherlands All will be revealed on Google Street View. Train Station (not the new International Train Hestacion) (tho the coffee an croissants is worth a go ere (ambience etc)) Soits between Palmers Green Pilgrims (overalls, ambience) etc., Valencia, McDonalds (frys) and Sgt Craven (Army Caterin Corps) attached Rifle Brigade (Winchester)Savoury Mincenow for Lamb Chops a la Remoska at Colebrook Cornywall. Beg to differ, Miss Hughes was headmistress of the Infants, and Miss Bellfontaine was headmistress of the juniors. Annyway.back to on the North side an them basketsI remembers a cafe at this location. This was back in the early 60s. Sylvia. 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. Regards, Brian Watling. Opposite were the cottage gates where Italian Prisoners of War sold the plaitings of straw for pocket money. Palmers Green, Enfield A poor man's Muswell Hill, as architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called it, consisting of an Edwardian core surrounded by interwar estates on the borders of Southgate, Winchmore Hill and Bowes Park. Green Lanes has changed so much since we were youngsters especially the current work on the cycle lane which is quite an issue locally. Wendy (was Wendy Small ), Hello Wendy, I do recall the ladies shop you mean. Sylvia. Annyway, do you ave a clue as to whether the proprietor ,Mr. Pogson was related to THE Mr. E. O. Pogson. Then in to tea and rock cakes and bashing out Boogie on Grans cherished piano. We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. There was a big fat man with tattoos who ran it and used the F word all the time. I started at Hazelwood in 1963 too and l also live in Singapore. A unique way to experience Palmers Green's places, Walkfo allows you to explore Palmers Green as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides. Miss Gibbs. James what year were you at Ambrose Fleming , I was there from when it first opened in 1962 [ I think ] until 1965 . My mum used to take me to the clinic in Broomfield House and I can still taste the orange juice they gave us,fantastic! He played an accordion and the drums for many of the big orchestras and hotels in central London. I attended Bowes Road School and Southgate County Grammar School. Once purchased the items would be carefully wrapped in brown paper and tied with string before the exciting moment (for me anyway) of paying. I also used to enjoy swimming lessons and free practice twice per week at the schools Arnos Grove Swimming pool is that still a local schools facility? She bought all her underwear from there. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? Thanks. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. Both my cousin and I remember the shop and the smell but not the name of it. In the late 60s, early 70s a small ladies shop appeared near Burtons. Anniversary Edition. 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. 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. History Hello Stephen..thanks for your promptin memorriesjust south of your late employer street-wise in them days on the corner of edge Lane was alf a shop where I ad to take mas dry cleanins, come snow or shineannyway Dad ad to ave is dickies starched weekly ,cos he was appearin (come snow or shine) on Friday nights at the Manor ouse Turnpike Lane or Tottnam Muniplayin sax(s) clarinet, piano, accordian, dubble base etc for the fashionable dancers in them days. Just found this: The next occupant of the premises was Jays Furnishing Stores, a hire-purchase furniture store first listed in Wards 1911 directory. Im impressed. I also attended Hazelwood school and remember Mrs bellefontaine I am now 66 years old. We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. I recall Miss Gibbs as having a scary face she had pictures of the Beatles up in the corridors and wore rather wayout clothes. We lived in Osborne Road (1955 ) but then moved to Old Park Road just over 10 years later where we stayed until the late 70s. Our Dad would pay the 2/6d, and pick us up 45 minutes later as he worked nearby. There was also Kate Riddle, a hat shop with a tasteful window display. 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. And another question on the same side as the H&C but further towards Winchmore Hill opposite a photographers, there was a Jaguar garage. I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. 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. 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? Hi Jenny, I took a photo of these homes about this time (1966) before the fire for a school photo project on old buildings I believe they were called Skinners Alms Houses. I especially appreciate the care and teaching some of us received as St John Ambulance cadets. 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. I would supply Aubrey with items from the palmers green branch by which time I think you where becoming involved in running the shop KELVIN PHOTOS Miss Wrigley used to rattle you back and forward in your desk if you didnt behave. Doms also made excellent onion omelettes. Later, I remember seeing my very first E Type Jaguar outside the shop with a number plate personalised JA number forgotten. Michael do you remember Mr Forkin at St. Michaels school Tottenhall Rd.arranging a boxing ring with proper gloves in the playground afternoon break with you & Everett Houghton as contenders? Good times. Happy days at Nans. Anyone remember The North London Decorating Company at the junction of The North Circular and Green Lanes? 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. I have written up many of my memories.. Hello Roger. I would dearly like to know what Bruno did/go next, does anyone know pleasealso did anyone know a window cleaner same era, bit of a wide boy,one of two brothers, called Vic Madden, not to be confused with an actor of a similar name. Open in Google Maps. Coronation fireworks display in the park. Was that called Pritchards or am I mixing it up with somewhere else? Up until the purchase of the motorised bike I used to cycle in every day from Muswell hill. It is managed by a group of volunteers. Since opening its doors in 2014, FUFU (meaning lucky) has established itself as one of . 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. This was run by a short tubby lady. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme. The coffee shop WAS on the right going towards Winchmore Hill, surely? Yes Simon there are on this site. I havent been back for many years but believe the Doms cafe is still there. I assumed that the horse was some kind of pet that he took with him on his deliveries. watts north Miss? Sit down Raymond! 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. I remember juke box was playing a lot of Take these Chains From my Heart and set me Free. 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. Did you have a brother named Terry Hicks. 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. 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? Yes, definitely Tottenhall Rd, not Tottenham. Brody & HICKS camera shop was started by me Gerry Hicks Im now retitred living in Cockfosters. Everett was the first black lad in our school in the mid 50s. The Fox has a number of accolades. VangelisVangelis: Delectus 2016 Universal Music International BV / Polydor (UK). Hazy memory? Can you imagine what it would be like to be caught in an air raid? 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 !!!! 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. Shame I cannot post some photos here. Er, Dave, surely The Bezazz opened nearer 1957 than 1967 frothy coffee and all that. The one on the right going North was Cullens The coffee machine was dark red and black.Cullens also had another outlet nr the Cherry tree at the end of the Mall. The Sales Department was at 44-46 Aldermans Hill and Service was at 234 Green Lanes.

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