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WebFind Motorcycle Repairs & Services near Palmers Green, get reviews, directions and opening hours. I used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. I have very clear memories of it. Oh and one of our members mum and aunt used to work there! There was a big fat man with tattoos who ran it and used the F word all the time. 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. Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. Miss Gibbs. Search for your favourite places and look for the 'Add Your Memory' buttons to begin. Do you John manses I use to buy my records in the 70s and 80s, Lived in Palmers Green from 1966 to 1987. It would have been maybe late 60s/ early 70s Also I remember the very high slide in Broomfield park with concrete below scary! Track Diagram: Palmers Green (1960) - SIGNAL BOX Thanks. My grandmother moved to Halifax in 1919 and remarried. See https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-intimate-theatre-palmers-green. 1. You walked up a long gravel path under the pergola to get to the house which had dark wooden panelling etc., very posh! Great memories, we lived in Winchmore Hill, in the 60s, 70s and 80s these comments bring back so many memories. Then they returned to London, where they bought a house in The Larches, Palmers Green together with Colin Fishers parents as I understand it. Was it also another name? A man who was the spitting image of Reginald Varney (On the Buses fame} served behind the counter. I am Geoffreys sister Carole. For Palmers Green to have a department store, two cinemas and no betting shops or nail bars? The shop later became an extension to Gateway Film Productions (where I worked). roses) at certain times of the year and was very beautiful. This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. And neither, strictly speaking, at least to begin with, was its presenter, the pipe puffing Jack Hargreaves, who, you have guessed it, was born in Palmers Green in 1911. The memories this place inspires for you? Within the latter development the building that now serves as Hazelwood Infant School and Hazelwood Junior School was built in Hazelwood Lane in 1908. Notable local buildings include Broomfield House and Truro House. It would have been a V1 flying bomb Lilian. Palmers Green Community When he retired (1956 ish), I was 11 and my family were transferred onto Dr Stewarts list. Atthe Intimate Theatre. I lived in Palmers Green from 1965 to 1993 and I have many memories of the shops back in the 60s and 70s, I even had a saturday job in Gambles the corn merchant, in 1977. Until they pulled the cinema down and built Telsco's. Both my cousin and I remember the shop and the smell but not the name of it. I used to work weekends 1970-1972 for Kenning Car Hire which Im sure was probably on the site you recall. [10] Jona Lewie slightly amended the words, but still mentioned the "do in Palmers Green". Ken Elvery, My first girlfriend used to go there, she was one of a pair of twins, the Bower girls. David Way of Winchmore Hill Broadway? Further up another pet shop Hoopers? But life began to improve when his mother arranged for him to have a holiday with family friends the Pargeters at Burston Hill Farm near Aylesbury. I came across the stories related to Palmers Green and was immediately taken back to my early years at Franklin House school in the 50's and 60's. There may soon be one fewer historic building in Palmers Green following news this week of plans to demolish the Intimate Theatre and replace it with a new parish centre and flats. It is home to the largest population of Greek Cypriots outside Cyprus and is often nicknamed "Little Cyprus" or "Palmers Greek". One day I and a group of friends went to find Cliff Richard's house to try and get his autograph. Does anyone remember Palmers Green High School in the early to mid 60s. our school on fire by insendery bombs ,also the sky appearing like a red sun set and being told it was London docks on fire.mr rodwell Mrs green are. I lived in Pasteur Gardens from 1960 to 1966, and went to Oakthorpe School and the Latymer. Is it still haunted? Played my first games of tennis there and before that many happy times using swings, slide and roundabouts in the play area. After the war it was on weekly visit. I remember the Bamboo I used to go there a lot. Good times eh Dad?. He really lowered the tone of Palmers Green. Remember the bovril machine. Nice to hear from you. It had locations in Sumiton and Jasper. ten years between 1960 and until her death. The reference to Palmers Green was prompted by the fact that Trouble had split up with his girlfriend and was at a party thrown by his friend Charles "Charlie Farley" Hallinan near The Fox, Palmers Green. I recall Miss Gibbs as having a scary face she had pictures of the Beatles up in the corridors and wore rather wayout clothes. An elderly man worked there and a younger surely man. of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. There were two blokes in the back workshop mending bikes and preparing new ones. Before Victor Value there was a lovely old music hall. The green plastic leaves on top could be unscrewed to put the tomato sauce in. See the Dordrecht, Netherlands. Yep, remember Doms very well too in the 50s. Then out agin on bike round to Patricias house and on to Capitol Winchmore Hill (if in money) or Queens, Palmers Green. We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses with white aprons and little frilly hats. I was Yvonne Farmer and our form teacher was Mrs Phair. Irvington Center - 1960's; W.T. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Previous Overview Next Comments and Photos However, it has been difficult to find out what happened in the aprox. Ive lived here all my life (born 45) but dont remember that or Keiths being a bomb site. Local records mention a Palmers Field in 1204 and a Palmers Grove in 1340. I remember going there with my Grandmother in the 40s/50s. He was a brilliant dancer and he and his partner won many competitions in the old days. Yes I remember Miss Hughes, she was the head of Hazelwood Primary around 1946 when I started. The buildings opposite however, which was the bombed out Princes Dance Hall, were rebuilt in a totally different style. Lorna, I now have an ad for Jays Stores Surrey branches, a 1952 invoice from Palmers Green branch and a photo of their location, adjacent to Spencer Avenue, posted on my page. I remember Tom I worked opposite him at Triangle Cars for 5 years in th 60s . I cannot recall any other bombs round that area. I believe some time in the 80s Doms was sold but the new owner had the good foresite to retain the classic Doms signage, but not the good foresite to retain the ice cream servery!. And it was Dads favourite programme. I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. And gloves which were cleverly (!) It catered for men and women. Palmers Green, The Triangle c1965. Spent a lot of time in the park, on the swings etc & collecting conkers. accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). Baptist 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. Winchester) and was amazed when on a route march or exercise and dreading the eventas soon as we turned the corner from barracks, everyone from Sergeant to PTI had to fall out for a smoke. How to get to Morrisons Sad as I am, I have just had a look on Google maps and as of August 2014, there was still a Doms offering Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner no mention of ice cream though! Palmers Green Police Remember the excellent Doms Cafe at Bowes Rd; Sainsburys and its snaking queues for freshly cut cheese and butter. This weeks parish newsletter announces plans to demolish it and to also sell the current Parish Centre on Cannon Hill which is a Grade 2 listed regency villa. since 1860. Served by waitresses in smart black dresses Inside, the shop was very long with a back section which you rarely ventured into, mainly sheets and towels and net curtaining, Down the middle of the shop, arranged on chairs were tatty cardboard boxes holding items like socks, childs vests etcspecial offers, I guess! Remember Martins the newsagents- corner of Green Lanes and Hedge Lane. The whizzing of the overhead cash canisters as they zinged above to the cashier fantastic system. Dave Todd. I have edited this comment because what it says was of a personal nature and could cause offence. Sometime around 1960 (when my father was around 15) the contact stopped. Anyway againthanks for reminding metime to order on the net, Bovril, at Sainsburys Bude, not Winchmore Hill Broadway. I remember the mac shop. I lived in New River Crescent. also the restuarant above the sweet shop in Green Lanes which was opposite the Queens Cinema? WebPalmers Green Town Centre 60 years old and still looking good! watts north Miss? Sit down Raymond! The corner premises were never re-built on and the empty space was then used as an open car forecourt called Kieths Cars. Around the mid 60s lovely to see we all grew up in such a cherished place. I remember Dr Baxter well, he plastered up my left hand when I broke a finger playing leapfrog at school! I must have been about 5 or 6. AU $39.80. julia, I remember Victor Value, we used the shop sometimes. 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. 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. Recall the police fishing bodies out of the water occasionally suicides. 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. It was a large detached house surrounded by a beautiful garden which took up the whole of that corner site. Peter. Remember Dr Meldrums surgery opposite Janes and Adams, and his receptionist? 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. 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! The Intimate Theatre was opened in a building that had been built in 1931 as St Monica's Church Hall.

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