It was a super meeting place for a great crowd, all feeling very sophisticated drinking coffee from glass cups. After the war he ran various bands Bert Harts band any combination. Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? Gerry, my email is g.hicks@msn.com would like to know more as cant use laura@yahoo.com my mail is returned. "One night in March 1941, the Dance Hall (held in the Princes Hall above Pitman's College) in Green Lanes, Palmers Green was bombed. All will be revealed on Google Street View. . I retired at 44 and have now become an expect at doing nothing. Also Victor Value supermarket. It was quite good really if you wanted a weatherproof coat and were prepared to go in! very posh! He played an accordion and the drums for many of the big orchestras and hotels in central London. Miss Wrigley used to rattle you back and forward in your desk if you didnt behave. Remember Roberts toy shop near the corner of Hazelwood Lane? Making own fun! We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. An abundance of dress shops and Evans and DaviesAn unforgetable shop that sold everything. Little did we know when we saw Shirley Bassey at her first performance, that she would go on to become such a great star. 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. I attended Bowes Road School and Southgate County Grammar School. Try putting dance hall into search, or I will find the link for you later! Happy times at Arnos school and some not so nice if you got the cane. Best wishes I had some really good teachers and friends I missed a lot when we moved. For the coronation, we all went to the Ritz not on the day itself to see it on the big screen. Good Morning America is still very much interested in doing further fake degree segments. 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. I dont remember you should I? Then came the day of the first postwar consignment of new Dinky ToysI was late in the queue, all vehicles sold but I did secure a Gun Emplacement Canon. Carol shares her memories of Grouts on the London RIP website, Memories of Palmers Green from the Francis Frith website, http://www.francisfrith.com/palmers-green/memories/. Thank you Suzanne. The Prisoners were building the estate up to Ash Grove. Dr Stewart was our doctor too. In the late 60s, early 70s a small ladies shop appeared near Burtons. Peter. . Hi David In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. I used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. Dom drove a maroon Renaualt Dauphine, which I remember being the first foreign car I saw in Palmers Green. I knew of Joe performing at the Municipal Hall, Tottenham but he is not in our family tree. I hated the dumplings at school dinners. The Beezaz was like a second home !! I wasnt as lucky as you & never actually ate at Doms though, but if I was very good my treat was the ice cream and I still have a sweet tooth to this day. We went to Sothgate County Grammer School in Fox Lane. Dark..my teecher at Winchmore ill and Southgate County Grammer, Fox Lane, do you remember? 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. A few doors away was a grocers shop called Crows. Grouts the haberdashers on the corner of Green Lanes and a small side road the name of which I cant recall and then a little further down, near Fox Lane and on the other side a huge white post office. So my boyhood dreams finally became reality! I just recall the horse. Does any one remember the fever hospital in this rd? Palmers Green is often nicknamed 'Palmers Greek' or 'Little Cyprus' because of the many Greek, Cypriot and Turkish immigrants who have made this bustling enclave of north London their home. Visiting Palmers Green Walkfo Preview Palmers Green is located 8 miles (13 km) north of Charing Cross. I lived in Conway Road all of my early life from 1944 to 1968 when I emigrated to Canada. The Roberts toyshop changed its name in the mid 70s to Zodiac if I remember correctly. 1955-1957. 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. Ken Elvery, Teachers were Mrs Bear?, Miss Lettice, Mr Pearce and his friend Sammy Slipper if the boys were naughty. Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. The coffee shop WAS on the right going towards Winchmore Hill, surely? Now retired living in Strawberry Hill. I also remember Burtons at the triangle and having a girl friend who lived in Tottenham road and the estate agents around Doms cafe including Dennis, Maxwell Miel who had a reg. A hardware emporium and a very old fashioned (even then) gift/tobacco /sweet shop toward the end of the parade. 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? 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 . Have a nice trip! Definitely around 1958 when Bezazz opened: frothy coffee in tiny glass cups. I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. Other fine dinin hexperiences in dear ol Palmers Greengeograffical-wise goin east. In those days they called a spade a spade! I ad no spare cash for new comics in them daysdid you ever deliver the EagleIm payin 8.00 a copy for the good ones now.. My grandparents moved to Palmers Green in 1910. Hello Raymond, Your memories of Palmers Green are a real Gold Mine. My family name was Church but we have moved away now. I remember the entrance to Appleyards next to the post office. Not too many Starlings in the area. I lived in Windsor Road from 1965 to 1970 and I remember a sweet shop called The Windsor we always called it the red shop as the front was painted red. Anyone remember The Quick Service Cafe on the corner of Bowes Rd and N Circular run by Remember the old peoples home burning down in 1966.Buses were diverted down Windsor Road. plate MAX 2 and Stephen Graces. (When I was a boy is banned in daylight hours this family). I bought my first motorised bike from them, a cycle master, which had an engine in the back wheel. Dad did buy furniture at A an Asand all else for Elsie (my Mum) without consulting er. She was there when I was there in 1940s. Call now on: 0203 095 2916; get a quote for. Dont start me on the shops the wonderful Evans and Davies and the evocatic smell of Grouts! 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. Did you have a brother named Terry Hicks. I remember headmaster Mr Bennett at t ottenhall rd junior school It wasnt the Home & Colonial that was a few shops further up, I will ask around about the name but ohhh!! Also Jack the window cleaner who lost a leg at the Somme. 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. Some of the musicians achieved International fame (not meI was on drums) . I remember the Coffee place & it wasnt Home & Colonial.. that was a few doors up!! Yes Simon there are on this site. Koubes here are also a match for Aroma with a slightly deeper, sweeter taste from sticky caramelised onions. Lived in New River Crescent during 60s and 70s. I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. OK sorry Lorna, but just thought the name being similar and all that. Remember the barbers shop. Worked at Burtons in palmers green for most of the. Visible Anyone can find this group. 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? Thats where I bought my comics tooBeano, Whizzer & Chips and Sparkey. Also the lady who sold us orange flavoured ice cubes for 1 penny . 1940, I have enjoyed reading all of your comments, because my Mother was so proud to have lived there, and reminisced so often. Richard Franklin. Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. The wood walls remained! Julia. But you are right about the window where you got served. I went back to PG last year for a look around and was amazed at all the cars parked in my old road, Lynbridge Grdns as when I lived there there were none. Dads brother, Uncle Sid Rann lived at no 22. She must have been quite young then (unless it was a different Miss Hughes), but then young children think anyone over 20 is old. I remember having lunch with you on quite a number of occasions when I came down after moving to Bedfordshire, then Milton Keynes. Barrowell Green pool was always on the cards in the summer! Gerry. Anyone remember The North London Decorating Company at the junction of The North Circular and Green Lanes? Dear Ray, If your Dad was Eric Rann, then he was my Great Uncle brother to my Granddad Syd, who also lived at The Larches. Hi Victoria, I remember the milkman well, his horse was called Dobbin and Mum used to get me running out in the road with a bucket and shovel if he dropped his business near us so it would be good for the roses in her garden. Think the shop with the coffe grinder and gorgeous smell was called Rawlins.went to school with the daughter of the owners. 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. Hello again, I posted a question about your possible father Fred Rann, but I now realise I meant Sid Rann, was he your father? The archive can be found at bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar'. I still hanker for an ice cream like Doms scraped onto a cornet with a spatula not scooped! & knickers etc. you may ask) too fashionable and hexpensive now thanks to ebay. Who remembers Tom the singing flower seller at the top of the access between the buildings?
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