you may ask) too fashionable and hexpensive now thanks to ebay. 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. Remember Dr Meldrums surgery opposite Janes and Adams, and his receptionist? Ill be checking your face book page. Lovely tiered plates of sandwiches and cakes. I also attended Hazelwood school and remember Mrs bellefontaine I am now 66 years old. Send a personal message with a photo to anyone, anywhere. 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. 1. Dark..my teecher at Winchmore ill and Southgate County Grammer, Fox Lane, do you remember? Me Magic for post-war Palmers Green teenagers. Our Joe Hart lived in edge Lane opposite Doc. My mum had a job doing tailoring above Burtons and in school holidays I had to go in with her some days. Scores were listed and published on my Dads old Barlock Typewriter. 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). We got into terrible trouble when we got back to school late and, for the rest of the term, we had to stay at school and write out, In the mid 50s we lived in St Georges Road Palmers Green my brothers and I went to St Georges Presbyrtarian Church for Sunday school and Hazelwood Lane Primary School. The other side of the Bank was a school outfitters where I was bought school uniforms, blazers and badges etc. I went there with my sister and her friends I think the Small Faces were signing autographs ? Palm Court Restaurant, upstairs on the opposite side of the road near Cinema. Nicholas Parsons and Steven Berkoff are among the latest stars who have trod the Intimates boards and are now calling for the theatre to be saved. 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. Register to find out more and create your first album! 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. Butter being knocked into shape, with wooden paddles, by ladies behind the counter at the original Sainsbury's, left side of High Street, midway towards General Post Office. Here in Cornwall too warm and damp this week for me as a farmer. I went to The Bezazz in 1961 and 1962 when I was nursing at the North Mid. Brody & HICKS camera shop was started by me Gerry Hicks Im now retitred living in Cockfosters. I still hanker for an ice cream like Doms scraped onto a cornet with a spatula not scooped! Footnote: Dad an is fellow freelances performed under aliasis to avoid problems with HMCRC.why else am I cultivatin a full Santa Claus beard5 months to go! 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. That, I attended Palmers Green High School in the late fifties and early sixties. The aim is to encourage more commuter, school journeys and leisure cycling than was possible under the previous road layout, which combined four lane sections subject to speeding and other dangers to cyclists. 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. This extraordinary 60 Once purchased the items would be carefully wrapped in brown paper and tied with string before the exciting moment (for me anyway) of paying. It is home to the largest population of Greek Cypriots outside Cyprus and is often nicknamed "Little Cyprus" or "Palmers Greek". I am Geoffreys sister Carole. Seiferts (e the owner of the Studebaker Car and Parker Pen (2/6d for cesstificats after the War) practice. More details But the mac an the suit attracted my beloved Patricia nee Cable (Winchmore ill) (not me, you unnerstand). Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? welcome Its been a busy summer in Palmers Green culminated by the Palmers Green Festival held on the 6th September. Was Mrs Dark the wife of Mr. Most of the sites stayed flattened for many years afterwards some right up to the 60s. Im sure Fred Rain lived in the Larches. Symms Davies tempering miss Bennett miss Edith Ashby miss Doris woods I attended Bowes Road School and Southgate County Grammar School. Hello Christine, I do remember the china and glass shop which I went in with my Mother to buy any special gifts for people. These Bus lines stop near Morrisons: 102, 121, 329, 34, W6. He really lowered the tone of Palmers Green. Has been used as hi fi cabinet but can be used for anything. Any idea of what it was called? On the corner of Aldermans Hill and Devonshire Gdns was the United Dairies shop. My parents bought our furniture there. Annyway I was bursting with fitness with all this pedalling on the Rudge when my time came to do National Service (Rifle Brigade. 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. Palmers Green is 235 meters away, 4 min walk. A hardware emporium and a very old fashioned (even then) gift/tobacco /sweet shop toward the end of the parade. I remember the Coffee place & it wasnt Home & Colonial.. that was a few doors up!! 14 Rare Photos Of 1960s New Jersey - OnlyInYourState The headmistress was Miss Belfontaine. AU $9.95 postage. The smell of freshly ground coffee from the Home and Colonial grocers at top of the High Street. If I remember correctly you used to play the piano, Michelle I started Hazelwood in January 1964. A train service runs at Palmers Green railway station, operated by Great Northern, with southbound trains running to Moorgate. Back in 2019, a time capsule was found at Chase Farm Hospital from the days when it was Chase Farm Hospital School, founded to take poor and orphaned children out of the Edmonton workhouse. 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. David they are wonderful memories arent they? Thank you. The large, electric coffee grinding machine visible in the shop window. These chairs had the smallest seats Ive ever seen and I often thought it was a miracle that my Gran ever managed to perch on one. Saturday morning pictures at the Palladium was always good fun watching Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon etc. Annyway I have told already of my Mum on this lovely chat previous, being part-time life saver and attendant at THE POOL, she could not swim a stroke. I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. Motorcycle Repairs & Services near Palmers Green As a schoolboy I attended Southgate County Grammar School in Fox Lane from 1948-53, and remember admiring new Jaguar cars in the Saul and Slatter showroom in Aldermans Hill. Then for a short while it was a Menswear shop that sold high end suits, shoes etc. Its population was very small, and there were no more than a few isolated houses in the mid-17th century. 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. My father, Bert Hart, worked for Allen & Appleyard making furniture. Some of the musicians achieved International fame (not meI was on drums) . 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. Local records mention a Palmers Field in 1204 and a Palmers Grove in 1340. It was called Lawleys I believe. Park, and the slide which we used to grease with candle wax in the fifties so that it was so fast you went flying of the end! Happy times at Arnos school and some not so nice if you got the cane. She must have been quite young then (unless it was a different Miss Hughes), but then young children think anyone over 20 is old. In 1902, however, large tracts of land were sold for building and the area began to develop rapidly. Yep, remember Doms very well too in the 50s. 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. They could be dropped down to serve the goods. 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. 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. two of the teachers l remember and Mr bennet was our headmaster,.true air raid shelter was at the top of the play ground. [10] Jona Lewie slightly amended the words, but still mentioned the "do in Palmers Green". St Monicas are holding a parish meeting about the plans on 18 September at 7.30. Before you object that the government "can't afford" to pay claimants enough for them to live on, just think about this. Sylvia , there was a WW2 bombsite at the corner of Sidney Ave/Green Lanes near Bowes Rd it was used in the 50/60/70s as a car yard called Kieth Cars, no longer live in PG so not sure what stands there today. I started at Hazelwood school infants in 1965 and I remember the head Mrs Hughes in my first year. I went to Hazelwood Lane School. I knew of Joe performing at the Municipal Hall, Tottenham but he is not in our family tree. He was very stern and terrified me! 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. (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?) On June 12, 1990, Douglas H. Palmer made history, winning election as those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and List of teachers at Hazelwood school 1960s, Miss Hughes, Mrs Jones, Mrs Lee, Mrs Dark. Search for your favourite UK places and read memories of the local area Hi Raymond My parents told me that they, as newly weds, lived in a flat over the Dolls Hospital in Palmers Green. 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. Went to St Monica School from 1970-71 before we were transferred to the new Our Lady of Lourdes School in Arnos Grove. In Denmark, where I am from, she left behind a son (my father) from a previous marriage. Yes.thats where I learnt to swim. Once in, the shop was very narrow and long with coats of all sorts hanging along the walls. There was a bank on one corner of Sidney Avenue which had also been hit. for our site. Lived in Melville Gardens and Grenoble Gardens. Palmers Green is mentioned as a highway in 1324 (in Westminster Abbey Muniments). When I read Jenny H & Martins comments about Doctors, it reminded me of the first one I had. Mrs Palmers Shorts Mens Size 32 Black Pinstripe. Register to find out more and create your first album! In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. Time to create page: 0.262 seconds Powered byKunena Latest forum posts 60 years old and still looking good! I think your Father was there too. They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. Annyway my best buy camera wise was a Thornton Pickard plate (Camera Craft) in original tweed hold-all includin tripod. 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. An album is a way to save a selection of Frith photos, maps and memories that are of interest to you. The Hargreaves family were originally from Huddersfield, where father James Hargreaves established his business first as a commercial traveller and ultimately as a wool manufacturer. It is being discussed today and frequently, on my Facebook page Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories. Palmer, then 29, won the 1960 U.S. Open with the most mesmerizing birdiefest in golf history, six in the first seven holes to start his fourth round. People who have only had soft ice cream have no idea what theyre missing. Cam rember going to your uncles house one Xmas where everybody joined in to play Charades, I played out being a Milkman with horse and cart! Loved it there in palmer s green even earlier where l myself grew up too. Further down , a few doors from the Fox was a confectioner called J.Vercoe. He even used to ask children for a tip! Then, of course, the great Grouts with its artistic window displays! Sylvia. I retired at 44 and have now become an expect at doing nothing. We used to have all the hire vans parked on the forecourt in front of what clearly had been a showroom. 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. The price stickers rather than bar codesThe staff cafeteria the bag searches as you left the building after a shift etc etc. Thats where I bought my comics tooBeano, Whizzer & Chips and Sparkey. The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar. The adults who gave their time for us were great people! The lived AT 56, Lightcliffe Road and granddad worked at a city bank. Special treat of afternoon tea at Pritchards, next door to Evans and Davies. For Palmers Green to have a department store, two cinemas and no betting shops or nail bars? Stephen Woodward I recall Miss Bellefontaine Im exactly ten years younger that you and started at Hazelwood in 1963. Any help on how to find out would be much appreciated. Again has anyone any info on Bruno? And talk of the Beezazwe had the Two Bare Feet coffee bar in Winchesterif you could get past Sgt. When it was I must have been about 5 or 6. I also was in the cubs and then the scouts,153 North London which met at the Congregational church at the end of Burford Gardens where my sister also got married around 1967 I think. And a bycycle from J&A (Rudge) set me free on those open roads, YHA and the romances. When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of 1944 I Search for your favourite places and look for the 'Add Your Memory' buttons to begin. Anne Poole (nee Searson), This memory is written about 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. The garage was Saul and Slatter Ltd. The shop later became an extension to Gateway Film Productions (where I worked). Hi Gerry, I,m not sure but you could well be right as I do not remember any other type of restaurant there, Regards Brian. In answer to your question about tescos, I worked there for many years and there was a Tescos there. Please help! I recall watching with amazement whilst waiting as the barber lit a candle and singed older mens hair, hoping desperately he would not set light to m,e when my turn came! Also Broody and Hicks who sold cameras in the 1970s. Happy times Hazelwood Primary School, Hazelwood Lane youth club, the Rec on sunny days.
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