palmers green 1960's

Later, I remember seeing my very first E Type Jaguar outside the shop with a number plate personalised JA number forgotten. I remember the Bamboo I used to go there a lot. Stephen Woodward I recall Miss Bellefontaine Im exactly ten years younger that you and started at Hazelwood in 1963. We used to have all the hire vans parked on the forecourt in front of what clearly had been a showroom. In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. Winchmore School was my school from 1955-1960. Thanks Dave. I manage to find scraped ice cream every now and then but nothing like the taste I remember. Okay Pennie. I lived in Pateur Gardens From 1950 to 1966 does any one recall the Barrowell Green swimming pool . Fantastic David, thats amazing. Has any reader furniture in use purchased from Allen & Appleyards at 362 Green Lanes, replacing Kiltycakes Cafe next to the still existing post office? Local pickup. Once in, the shop was very narrow and long with coats of all sorts hanging along the walls. We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. (appy Famiily memories agin, eh? I bought my first motorised bike from them, a cycle master, which had an engine in the back wheel. Spent a lot of time in the park, on the swings etc & collecting conkers. I also went to Bowes Road School but only from 1952 to 1953 in the infants. Palmers Green is a suburban area and electoral ward in North London, England, within the London Borough of Enfield. He pierced my ears in the early 60s very unusual then and done with a big needle! Log in. on a great character called Brun Hill. According to the 2011 census, 64% of the ward's population is white (34% British, 27% other, 3% Irish). It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. Dads brother, Uncle Sid Rann lived at no 22. St. Clements Press. Going back a bit who used to run up Fox Lane, stand on the bridge and wait to be covered in steam from the trains . Had good times in Broomfield park and fishing in Grovelands park lake. 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. Annyway I was bursting with fitness with all this pedalling on the Rudge when my time came to do National Service (Rifle Brigade. Palmers Green is mentioned in Jona Lewie's song "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" (1980). Hi Sylvia, No your not dreaming, Dr Baxter was there, he had a huge almond tree near the entrance to the surgery off Hazelwood lane which we would scrumpy almonds from when they started to ripen! Also the lady who sold us orange flavoured ice cubes for 1 penny . What a job to have, stuck up there in this rather dark shop every day!! since 1860. and thank you for posting. I couldn't remember the name of the cinema, but it was on Green Lanes, near The Triangle on the east side. Dr Baxter used some of the rooms for his surgery and, I would imagine, must have lived there in the rest of the house. Palmers Green How the location features in your personal history? Not too many Starlings in the area. Pennie, I can tell you have great taste! you may ask) too fashionable and hexpensive now thanks to ebay. Wendy (was Wendy Small ), Hello Wendy, I do recall the ladies shop you mean. Hi David I dont recall the cart. There was a second Grouts shop at 470 Green Lanes just before Hedge Lane. 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. The Roberts toyshop changed its name in the mid 70s to Zodiac if I remember correctly. It is no longer a repertory theatre and the building is no longer used exclusively for theatrical performances, but it is still often referred to as the Intimate Theatre. My Godmother was a local schoolteacher in .1930 onwards ish ( Miss Una Cook). Then they returned to London, where they bought a house in The Larches, Palmers Green together with Colin Fishers parents as I understand it. Can u help??!! And another question on the same side as the H&C but further towards Winchmore Hill opposite a photographers, there was a Jaguar garage. Here in Cornwall too warm and damp this week for me as a farmer. Palmers Green, The Triangle c1965. flexible offerings for business. I was born at 7 Oakthorpe Rd, PG in 1944 and moved to East Anglia in 1971. 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. Great times, scooters, mods, good jukebox, used to go upstairs. Wow Thanks Richard awesome now I win the bet with my brothers!! I used to get birthday cards and my daily paper 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. OK sorry Lorna, but just thought the name being similar and all that. The name Bezazz brings back happy memories of the late 50s and early 60s. 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! When a change of scenery was called for, it was all off to the Amelia coffee bar in Oakwood. Stories about the community, its history and people? Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. We lived in Sidney Avenue from 1952 until 1961. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. Me and my two brothers been discussing the dept store at the triangle but didnt think it was Evans & Davies at that time . My father, Bert Hart, worked for Allen & Appleyard making furniture. After the war he ran various bands Bert Harts band any combination. They were green wooden gates. Register to find out more and create your first album! Im not sure where Jays originated in Croydon or elsewhere but in any case it appears to have ended up as a national chain, with branches in places such as Bristol, Luton, Northampton, Croydon and Sheffield, as well as areas of London including Palmers Green, Stoke Newington, and Walthamstow.. He was very tall, very Scottish and prescribed bottles of Minadex (green and foul tasting) for almost all childhood ailments! Regards I also attended Hazelwood school and remember Mrs bellefontaine I am now 66 years old. To Gerry Hicks- yes I remember you, you had a wife called Rose and a daughter called Carol? The Prisoners were building the estate up to Ash Grove. the smell as you walked anywhere near it .lovely. I must have been about 5 or 6. Hi Reg. Gerry, my email is g.hicks@msn.com would like to know more as cant use laura@yahoo.com my mail is returned. Coronation fireworks display in the park. Later, they raised us four kids in York Road. Up until the purchase of the motorised bike I used to cycle in every day from Muswell hill. 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. 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. 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. Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2023. Existing expenditure on maintaining these building is costly and will continue to be in thefuture. Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. Thanks Palmers Green Library, London 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. Wood Green is 729 meters away, 10 min walk. Getting up early after a windy night to get conkers in Broomfield park. Palmers Green although i dont remember it having a cafe, maybe it did before my time though. Hi Raymond Otherwise it was as you describe with the coffee grinding machine in the window and the aroma pervading Green Lanes. Of course, the Intimate already has a legacy, and was successfully nominated for Enfield Councils Local Heritage List two years ago. There's a version of the Local Democracy Reporter's report on the London Assembly debate with some additional information and comments, which are relevant also to commuters in Enfield. I still as the familly piano bungin up my front room, opin the latist sprog will unravvell its potential. She mopped up my tears when I failed the 11+ (I did however become a teacher myself and always remembered her kindness) Then onto Winchmore County School -what a great school. When he retired (1956 ish), I was 11 and my family were transferred onto Dr Stewarts list. Did I swap it or sell at a profit. I dont remember you should I? When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of 1944 I Annyway.back to on the North side an them basketsI remembers a cafe at this location. Everytime I see Shirley Bassey, I remember Tom; for he gave 2 tickets to my friend Chris West, who worked in Woolworths (me at Evans & Davies, at 16 years of age) for the London Palladium. Yes, Dave, I knew Vic Madden by sight only, in the early 60s. 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. Sun May 3rd 2015, at 7:28 pm, Palmers Green High Street Circa 1955 - 1960, Download this free history of the Collection. vintage Alabama diners and drive-ins Poultney and his Perlice in the Guardroom. Thanks Richard for the update on Vic, knew him from his window cleaning business in P.Green, cups of tea in Doms cafe & long discussions on where to go for the next holiday in Spain. 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. Im sure he was in my class at Winchmore? Perhaps it was awakening the same kinds of feelings as it did with Dad in homes up and down the country, people whose lives had moved away from their beginnings and now worked in offices, but who treasured the fields and pastures and the skills you needed to make a living from them. In Green Lanes itself there were 2 jewellers too. Life was never the same again. Just a qwik qweery (my daughter is out this evenin an Im baby sittinso privit time on the computer, eh?) A lift man too to take you to the upper floor who would call out Corsetry and Carpets. In the window there was a (seemingly) huge coffee grinding machine. There was no bomb site where the garage was. However, local schools do still use Arnos Grove, Southgate, Edmonton Green pools etc. Many toys purchased there! 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? Search for your favourite places and look for the 'Add Your Memory' buttons to begin. The mention of Grouts brouht back many memories. I think that he worked on the railways. Built in the late 1930s, it stands as a handsome example of civic architecture from the period.

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