I know my grandmother at one point started to work in a hospital instead of housekeeping, but I am not sure if it is a local hospital. But he was ever present in our living rooms in Out of Town and in the childrens programme he devised and presented with Fred Dineage How! which ran until 1981. When I lived in London and just started my business Aubrey would do most of my black and white printing and I also did a few weddings for him. Since Since 1970 Ive lived in the Netherlands and from 1980 am the fortunate owner of a mint condition, unrestored 1963 Jaguar Mk 2, 3.4 litre. Seems a long time ago now! I remember the mac shop. 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). It will take only a few minutes of your time and we'd like to hear your feedback. I used to work weekends 1970-1972 for Kenning Car Hire which Im sure was probably on the site you recall. . Does anyone happen to know? After several meetings of our Catchreeling Society, girls were allowed to participate. Lived in New River Crescent during 60s and 70s. However, local schools do still use Arnos Grove, Southgate, Edmonton Green pools etc. Among the actors who performed there were Richard Attenborough, Vivien Leigh, Roger Moore and (in a mime production) David Bowie. 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 went to The Bezazz in 1961 and 1962 when I was nursing at the North Mid. Also Broody and Hicks who sold cameras in the 1970s. I remember the Bamboo I used to go there a lot. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. Palmers Green Congregational Church hall was built in Fox Lane in 1909, with a church designed in a late Gothic style by George Baines and Son being added alongside in 191314. Hello again, I posted a question about your possible father Fred Rann, but I now realise I meant Sid Rann, was he your father? Yes I remember Miss Hughes, she was the head of Hazelwood Primary around 1946 when I started. The Sunday People is crinkled and pages turned until the familiar tune begins: Say what you will, the countryside is still, Recorded by Max Bygraves in 1956 for the film Charley Moon, it was the original theme tune to Out of Town, a programme which, according to Television and Radio 1978 whether it shows the shoeing of horses, angling or rabbiting, presents a complete and unsentimental picture of country life in all its aspects.. Dad wasnt a countryman as such, though he grew up in the country (son of an oft time farm worker and bringer home of rabbits and pheasants that might not strictly have belonged to him) and has always loved its ways and traditions. Recorded as Palmers grene 1608, 'village green associated with a family called Palmer' (mentioned in local records from the 14th century), from the Middle English grene. Palmers Green was once a tiny hamlet in the parish of Edmonton, situated at the junction of Green Lanes and Fox Lane. If I remember correctly you used to play the piano, Michelle I started Hazelwood in January 1964. Clowes Sports Ground, Barrowell Green, London N21 1961-2016- Satellite Ground. 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? Does anyone remember Victor Value supermarket in Wood Green it was not far from the Civic center and before myddleton road. Doms and the baker opposite were always good pitches! Sun May 3rd 2015, at 7:28 pm, Palmers Green High Street Circa 1955 - 1960, Download this free history of the Collection. 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. Hello Brian, Im so glad you remember Dr Baxter. Hi Jenny ! Recommended option Train Take the train from Old Street to Palmers Green 24 min 5 - 8 3 alternative options Line 141 bus 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 !!!! Sadly the open air pool no longer exists, I believe it has been replaced by our Council recycling centre on that site. I still hanker for an ice cream like Doms scraped onto a cornet with a spatula not scooped! Hope this helps. Hi David Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. Work began on building St Georges Presbyterian Gothic style church in 1912. Boots the Chemist had a small book lending library upstairs and usually had a good selection of Enid Blyton Mysteries. They were great times at that school but I then left at 11 to go to Ambrose Fleming Technical Grammar School for boys, what an awful place, hated every minute and left at 15. Mr Mardell was the Station Master, Dave Conway was a Porter and Ron Newman was the leading Porter. Dom drove a maroon Renaualt Dauphine, which I remember being the first foreign car I saw in Palmers Green. Dr Baxter used some of the rooms for his surgery and, I would imagine, must have lived there in the rest of the house. Some of the shops that havent been mentioned from my memory, are; The mens raincoat shop at the top of Windsor Road and the little old man who stood at the door he was creepy!. since 1860. For the streets to have virtually no cars? Me and my two brothers been discussing the dept store at the triangle but didnt think it was Evans & Davies at that time . 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. People on the breadline who receive more money won't squirrel it away in 60 years ago, on 20th April 1963, Edmonton Council officially inaugurated an impressive new public utility - the building now referred to as Ridge Avenue Library. Socks, vests, liberty bodices(!) We lived in Sidney Avenue from 1952 until 1961. history. Remember the excellent Doms Cafe at Bowes Rd; Sainsburys and its snaking queues for freshly cut cheese and butter. St Monicas are holding a parish meeting about the plans on 18 September at 7.30. The lived AT 56, Lightcliffe Road and granddad worked at a city bank. 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. Didnt stay for long as my parents moved away but certainly enjoyed it whilst I was there. Sherers Drive-In in the 1960s. 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. In his biography of Jack, writer and colleague Paul Peacock notes that though many people would assume that Jack found fame in the 60s and 70s, he first achieved recognition before the second world war at the Independent Broadcasting Company where he was head of Universal Programme Productions, twinning revenue opportunities for products like Horlicks with broadcast output. We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. 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? Our Dad would pay the 2/6d, and pick us up 45 minutes later as he worked nearby. I used it fir a while to work as a mini cab driver for a bloke called Roy that was in a tacky office opposite Woodberry Avenue (where I lived) in Green Lanes. What about the lovely pantos at the Intimate theatre. I worked in that Bricks mens shop in1971. Thanks Dave. Lots of great memories. It's easy - just think of a place that brings back a memory for you and write about: Here are some of the places people are talking about in our Share Your Oh and one of our members mum and aunt used to work there! Was the camera shop you are thinking off Camera Craft just beyond the top of Osborne Road and some way short of Hedge Lane? When I read Jenny H & Martins comments about Doctors, it reminded me of the first one I had. I can still remember how I felt when I saw it. Until they pulled the cinema down and built Telsco's. 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. There was a second Grouts shop at 470 Green Lanes just before Hedge Lane. [9] The song's lyrics were written by Lewie's friend Keef Trouble, a fellow member of Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts. The memories this place inspires for you? Singing Tom used to give me all the flower heads to play with. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth By 1908, when they had their first son Ronald, later an eminent doctor, they were living in Eaton Park Road but by 1911 they had set up home at 48 Fox Lane. I especially appreciate the care and teaching some of us received as St John Ambulance cadets. Cameracraft now theres a blast from the past too! .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. Probably TottenHALL RdSchool Mr bennett was headmaster was St. Michaels School..The fever hospital was Greentrees further up Tottenhall past Bird in Hand Pub and before Norfolk Pk alleyway. Some major congestion still exists on the A406. If so I knew him, he was a great friend of my Father Frank Watling who found the Fives Social Club. James what year were you at Ambrose Fleming , I was there from when it first opened in 1962 [ I think ] until 1965 . After the dentist located at the Triangle mum would take me across to Lyons tea house, Download this free history of the Collection. I grew up in Palmers green Now hears a thing opposite the pool was a old derelict house who lived there? Good times. Anyway againthanks for reminding metime to order on the net, Bovril, at Sainsburys Bude, not Winchmore Hill Broadway. Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. 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. The Roberts toyshop changed its name in the mid 70s to Zodiac if I remember correctly. There have long been rumours that the Intimates days were numbered. 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. We often played up the Wreck at the end of Lynbridge grdns where the parky Mr Moody and his co parky Mr Savage would chase us if we caused them any trouble! It would have been maybe late 60s/ early 70s Also I remember the very high slide in Broomfield park with concrete below scary! I dont remember it being a bomb site though, Hi Jennie, Brody & HICKS camera shop was started by me Gerry Hicks Im now retitred living in Cockfosters. Further up another pet shop Hoopers? Sylvia Gambin. Did your dad run a newspaper stand by The Fox. I wonder if anyone out there can help with a memory? The area remained largely undeveloped for thirty more years, as local landowners refused to sell their large estates for building. . Annyway I was bursting with fitness with all this pedalling on the Rudge when my time came to do National Service (Rifle Brigade. According to the 2011 census, 64% of the ward's population is white (34% British, 27% other, 3% Irish). 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. (opposite Courts Furnitures?) And talk of the Beezazwe had the Two Bare Feet coffee bar in Winchesterif you could get past Sgt. One in Tottenhall Rd, Drakes at The Cambridge roundabout & at the Triangle, another at Empire Parade and Dewhurst in Green Lanes opp Tottenhall Rd. Er, Dave, surely The Bezazz opened nearer 1957 than 1967 frothy coffee and all that. Mr. Pratt was very critical of my dovetail jointing but roped me in scenery building for the annual Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as did Miss Green, Art, for paintings. Then in to tea and rock cakes and bashing out Boogie on Grans cherished piano. Best regards, Nick Hurst. 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! Lovely shops, great parks such a pretty place. Wonder what happened to him, I would love to know. It was called something like The Rubber Mac shop!!!! I also remember going to the Intimate Theatre with my mother every Tuesday evening. And it seems that so too will our old Intimate. 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! Is it still haunted? By the way my dentist was also Dr. Finkel! 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. And a bycycle from J&A (Rudge) set me free on those open roads, YHA and the romances. I could go on and on reallybut one last one for now the Box o Chicken next to Martins the newsagentand I remember that bloke in Martins, youre right he did look like Reg Varney!! I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. She showed us the brick steps built under the ground floor windows. 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. One day I remember hearing some youths had put a razor blade on the shoot and I was terrified. yes recall them well. and had a Saturday job in Grouts!!!! An extra curricular fishing trip with the cameraman led to Out of Towns predecessor Gone Fishing in the 1960s and the rest, as they say, is history. Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? Has been used as hi fi cabinet but can be used for anything. Getting up early after a windy night to get conkers in Broomfield park. 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. Served by The 70 volunteers in only one group working towards a Better Palmers Green is really, really impressive. The, Today is the 7th July. All rights reserved. The adults who gave their time for us were great people! In those days they called a spade a spade! The only place Ive ever found an equivalent to Doms, is in the home of ice cream, Italy and thats a long way to go for a cornet!!! Remember Reg Hart who has posted here- he was interested in meteorology back then. Monica's Church, Palmers Green St Monicas, 1 Stonard Road, Palmers Green, London N13 4DJ Phone: (+44) 020 8886 9568 Email: palmersgreen@rcdow.org.uk Website:
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