It was called something like The Rubber Mac shop!!!! When the V1 flying bomb attacks on London began in the summer of. 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. The mention of Grouts brouht back many memories. Fantastic David, thats amazing. 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. I lived in Tottenham rd during the war and remember being wrapped in a tartan rug and carried out side by my dad who was an air raid warden to see. I had some really good teachers and friends I missed a lot when we moved. Some boys from Winchmore worked for him on the window cleaning. 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! The garage was called Saul and Slatters. Wonderful. My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. I started at Hazelwood in 1963 too and l also live in Singapore. One old lady lost her life in the fire. When we were small the barber put a piece of wood across the arms of the chair for us to sit on or we could not be seen in the mirror! 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. I remember J&As when the windows were boarded, just a square foot to stare in. Janes and Adams was my first job after leaving school circa 1959. I used to go out with a boy who lived along The Larches, (number 92), in the 1960s. 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. Now retired living in Strawberry Hill. Wow Thanks Richard awesome now I win the bet with my brothers!! 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 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. History Yes, Dave, I knew Vic Madden by sight only, in the early 60s. In myddleton road there was a fish and chip shop We lived in Osborne Road (1955 ) but then moved to Old Park Road just over 10 years later where we stayed until the late 70s. , some of my best memories of that time. Nothing wrong in that!..seems the 50s 60s & 70s had a lot going for them, I look at kids today and think theyve missed the best bits! I retired at 44 and have now become an expect at doing nothing. Coronation fireworks display in the park. Was it also another name? Koubes here are also a match for Aroma with a slightly deeper, sweeter taste from sticky caramelised onions. Dobbin fell over on the slope below the New river bridge in Hazelwood Lane when the road was very icy one winter and we all rushed out with buckets of cinders to spread over the road so the horse to get e grip and get back on its feet, luckily no harm was done and the milk was just a bit late being delivered that day. I remember the flower man James! Sylvia & Pennie have jogged my memory of Doms cafe in Palmers Green. dont make us laugh its football or economics ere. If so I knew him, he was a great friend of my Father Frank Watling who found the Fives Social Club. Regards, Brian Watling. He had been a prisoner of war and always seemed incredibly nervous. Memories in Palmers Green Read people's stories relating to this area: A Young Person's War in London: Hospital Care, Saved by Dad, Music from German POWs Contributed originally by Julian Barrett ( BBC WW2 People's War) As I was only 3 at the outbreak in September 1939 my strongest memories are of the latter stages of the war. The guy that ran it looked like Carlos out of Crossroads . Doms! 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. Wishin you Happy New Year! Remember the bovril machine. 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. He pierced my ears in the early 60s very unusual then and done with a big needle! Sylvia. She was a lovely lady; then onto Junior school run by Miss Belfontaine, who was a bit of a demon but very good at her job. A hardware emporium and a very old fashioned (even then) gift/tobacco /sweet shop toward the end of the parade. Janes & Adams, Wendy. They ran the cafe on their own with no other help. Some of the musicians achieved International fame (not meI was on drums) . 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. A lift man too to take you to the upper floor who would call out Corsetry and Carpets. Lovely shops, great parks such a pretty place. So my story really jumps forward to 1944. He has also now retired and the surgery has now moved nearer to the roundabout at W.Hill next to the petrol station. A few doors away was a grocers shop called Crows. We met at Bowes Road School Tuesday evenings and learnt first aid, home nursing, drill, lots of things. This was a more calm shop selling much the same things as the other one. Annyway, do you ave a clue as to whether the proprietor ,Mr. Pogson was related to THE Mr. E. O. Pogson. Hello Dave, I didnt know Victor Madden when he was young as I live in Ely, nr Cambridge, but luckily, I met Victor on a Rock and Roll weekender in 2009 and we spent the next 7 years together. Julia. Happy times at Arnos school and some not so nice if you got the cane. I remember the coffee shop in the 1960s as a child. memories those were the best days. It was a super meeting place for a great crowd, all feeling very sophisticated drinking coffee from glass cups. I owe so much to your father who be came friends with my father and would meet for a drink in the COCK TAVERN. I farms in Cornwall now an apologise for the grammer neglected at Southgate County Grammar (an spellins). (Miss Watts?) The farmhouse was built in 1720 by a Mrs Childs. Can u help??!! I used to get home absolutely filthy but so happy. It is open on Sunday afternoons from 2.00 to 4.30pm Model Boating Pond The Model Boating Pond was dug in 1903, shortly after the opening of the Park. An elderly man worked there and a younger surely man. We would love to hear about your memories of the area, andhow ithas changed, over a cup of tea. We lived in Sidney Avenue from 1952 until 1961. Palmers Green, Enfield A poor man's Muswell Hill, as architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called it, consisting of an Edwardian core surrounded by interwar estates on the borders of Southgate, Winchmore Hill and Bowes Park. It is managed by a group of volunteers. I know Pete and Bill Starling locally, not related though. Biking from The Larches to Holborn Kingsway, clock in at 8 am, carry bike up 4 flights of stairs, no smoking allowed, no sitting down cept lunch time at the frame. Happy memories of Greenwood Gate Tennis Club in the Rec too, circa 1959 1963. Devonshire Road. I still as the familly piano bungin up my front room, opin the latist sprog will unravvell its potential. Image supplied by Enfield Local Studies and Archive. it was victor value supermarket first then tescos. Sadly the open air pool no longer exists, I believe it has been replaced by our Council recycling centre on that site. I could probably bore everyone to death with them! 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! Where do you live now? Much later in I guess the 70s? Founded in 1901 by my grandfather, but was knocked down in the 60s to make way for the widened North Circular? Ill call you a Fcab etc. 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. Trusted memories of the museum By Suzanne Beard October 23, 2012 2 Comments If you were a child (or even an adult) in Palmers Green between 1925 and the early 1980s, chances are that a highlight of a visit to Broomfield Park would have been a nose around Broomfield House Museum. I assume there was no ammunition in the house, though! Mum rode her bike to Tottenhall Road to care for patients in the old fever hospital. Does anyone happen to know? Most of the sites stayed flattened for many years afterwards some right up to the 60s. Winchmore School was my school from 1955-1960. A unique way to experience Palmers Green's places, Walkfo allows you to explore Palmers Green as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides. I have found on the website for Enfield Sports that the swimming pool was closed in 1979 it was probably too old to justify renovation and the annual maintenance costs pity, we had most enjoyable swimming afternoons there. Just read (13.10.17) email of your history contribution. Still beautiful. Remember the Windsor Caf. Holborn). watts north Miss? Sit down Raymond! In the last few years Windsor Rd closed and we had to go to W Hill. There was a car dealership at the top end of Hedge Lane on the site currently occupied by Yaser Halim. Getting my school blazer and cap at Isaac Waltons. Went to St Monica School from 1970-71 before we were transferred to the new Our Lady of Lourdes School in Arnos Grove. We called them Labour Exchanges and people were made to queue outside. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Remember Dr Meldrums surgery opposite Janes and Adams, and his receptionist? Hello again, I posted a question about your possible father Fred Rann, but I now realise I meant Sid Rann, was he your father? Saturday morning pictures at the Palladium was always good fun watching Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon etc. Obviously at that time, there werent many shops selling fresh coffee let alone grinding it on the premises. I will try & search the attic for the pic & copy & send it. My main memory of the Queens Cinema was the film The King and I which I watched there with one of my friends Malcom Oldhill. Not prescribed by my doctor Seifert of Hedge Lane fame. Again has anyone any info on Bruno? I remember the tremendous explosion and my father tying the washing up bowl over his head with a towel and running down Sidney Avenue to help. Celia Rutterford, Thanks so much for your reply I havent lived in Palmers Green since the late 60.s and loved living there.so many memories and so much fun again thanks. Here in Cornwall too warm and damp this week for me as a farmer. National Service. It was quite good really if you wanted a weatherproof coat and were prepared to go in! I lived next to the Bird In Hand Pub in the early 79s, but my grandparents used to own a toy and Oran shop on the corner of Tottenham road and wolves lane. A bus going north, was just slowing down to the bus stop opposite when three bombs fell in close proximity. David. Palmers green life feb14 final. Until it closed. Our Joe Hart lived in edge Lane opposite Doc. Yes, remember it as Roberts. Good times. Dave then joined him at Kelvin and we became great mates and we would go to Arsenal matches together. It was a large detached house surrounded by a beautiful garden which took up the whole of that corner site. I still have a tennis racquet in the loft that I bought from P Green branch when I was about 13/14! That would have been where visitors could wave to their loved ones in the hospital. We had to make our own fun in those days, there were no iPads, computers,,,,,,,,,,, etc. Thanks. Like me, she does remember the car dealer being there though. It would have been a V1 flying bomb Lilian. yore memories are late stuff to me for my writins as I sink into the westI remembers Janes an Adams afore the lectric shop hexpansion.in my days the winders were boarded up..just a sq.ft peepole like all shops (Ma an I urried past on our Fridy night out to Palmadium Pictures (Ma wouidnt go to the Queens, bit seedy she sed)(no one looked in them dark doorways then cos o things goin on! I remember the Brody and Hicks name and Fotovalue. Mum was Pool Attendant at Barrowell Green but we still had to join those long queues to get in..so long a waitso full had to wait as Mrs. Barry only allowed the extras in as people left. Sylvia, I. weve already ad enough laughs for the day over your conviction that The Sahara Desert is in the middle of Australia. I remember one of my friends falling into the river off the bridge and clambering out the other side after swimming under the bridge in the river current. Happy searching, Sylvia Gambin. 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? Haveyou and your family lived or worked inthe Palmers Green area for donkeys years? AnnywayI bought my first camera from Mr Kalms (Dixons) Edgeware (Agfa Silette) on the knock (so much a week) and cycled to Edgeware to pay the monthlya Canon copy of the Leica followed f1.8 lens but paid its way at weddins and I think I was one of the first to get back with ome developed colour (Ferrania) to the celebrations in them days. 1940, I have enjoyed reading all of your comments, because my Mother was so proud to have lived there, and reminisced so often. My brother and I also used to park our guy on the days leading up to Guy Fawkes night outside Doms (with his permission) as it was always busy and situated between two bus stops. Gerry, my email is g.hicks@msn.com would like to know more as cant use laura@yahoo.com my mail is returned. We bought our first TV off him, black and white of course. Ta. What a lovely road it was then. Nostalgic memories of Palmers Green's local history Share your own memories of Palmers Green and read what others have said For well over 10 years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. Also remember Mrs Dark who took 4A, an excellent teacher. My earliest memories of the site are from WW2 when, as a youngster in a pushchair I saw an aircraft being wheeled out of the building which stood there. Scores were listed and published on my Dads old Barlock Typewriter. and had a Saturday job in Grouts!!!! Me Southgate County School organised its annual swimming gala there whilst I was at the school from 1948-53, under the leadership of Mr. Reg Pratt, the handicrafts master. He used to fish the river during his leisure time, the only person in those days who could legally do so as the river was out of bounds to all. In 1914 he was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme. I bet you noticed big changes to the shops in PG when you went to The Fox. Few people in those days owned a car, most of us used public . Conway park and blagdens lane were my playground when the old rubbish dump was behind the stables a goldmine of wartime and Victorian memorabilia. Does anyone remember Palmers Green High School in the early to mid 60s. I used to get birthday cards and my daily paper there. 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. Dordrecht, Netherlands. Gerry. Just request to join and add your own memories and photos. He must have spent a lot of time fixing kids injuries as my memory of him was from when I fell off my scooter whizzing round the garden and I damaged a tendon in my leg. Hi. "Post your memories, photos, questions and stories relevant to Winchmore Hill And Palmers Green Memories. I was given an anointing spoon to commemmorate the big day. 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! Has any reader furniture in use purchased from Allen & Appleyards at 362 Green Lanes, replacing Kiltycakes Cafe next to the still existing post office? My first girlfriend used to go there, she was one of a pair of twins, the Bower girls. CameraCraft shop. Hospital. Will email direct Please help! What about the lovely pantos at the Intimate theatre. 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. Hi David, yes, I remember Keiths Cars being there for many years &, as Richard S says, it is now a tyre dealer and I remember Pitmans just opp. Truly some of the best times of my life in Palmers Green. The ford zepher was back in the 60s it would have been the 70s in PG. I lived in Pateur Gardens From 1950 to 1966 does any one recall the Barrowell Green swimming pool . As Mr. Auger sed want to be a farmer eh-eh-young-un? Which one is it?? 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. Doc Meldrum had a most interesting signature it resembled WWWWWWWW We used to have a grocers van come around each week, does anyone remember Mr Meadows who ran this van? 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! Er, Dave, surely The Bezazz opened nearer 1957 than 1967 frothy coffee and all that. I have lots of childhood memories about Palmers Green Railway Station. New River Crescent was bisected at the foot of Park Avenue. I assumed that the horse was some kind of pet that he took with him on his deliveries. Just found this by chance and been reading some of the comments as I grew up near this area. Can anyone remember the Bamboo coffee bar in Bowes Rd, cant find any history of the place or photos. Me and my two brothers been discussing the dept store at the triangle but didnt think it was Evans & Davies at that time . Welcome to Harrington University (also known as the University of San Moritz, University of Palmers Green and University of Devonshire, among others), where anyone can purchase a bachelor's or. Once purchased the items would be carefully wrapped in brown paper and tied with string before the exciting moment (for me anyway) of paying. I dont remember it being a bomb site though, Hi Jennie, Does anyone remember Victor Value supermarket in Wood Green it was not far from the Civic center and before myddleton road. There was also Kate Riddle, a hat shop with a tasteful window display. David Way of Winchmore Hill Broadway? Maybe it was rebuilt very quickly or my memorys going! Yes Simon there are on this site. I lived in New River Crescent 1950, 60s and 70s. I lived in New River Crescent. 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. This was for medical reasons (wheezy chest and pneumonia). In those days they called a spade a spade! 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. Sylvia Gambin. Dear Ken. James what year were you at Ambrose Fleming , I was there from when it first opened in 1962 [ I think ] until 1965 . Then along from there was a sports shop where I bought my school tennis racquet. Can anyone help? But although it stopped above us it must have drifted because the next day going to school I saw it had hit the house the other side of the field in Hazelwood Lane. Next..The Triangle Cafe shut (ABC an Lyons) also shut at 5.. It would have been maybe late 60s/ early 70s Also I remember the very high slide in Broomfield park with concrete below scary! an dreemin on ..do you remember Lou Ansell and is Dance Band founded I believe at Hazlewood Lane Skool and practicin evenins before puttin on dances for the skool and other worthy causes. Once in, the shop was very narrow and long with coats of all sorts hanging along the walls. But I was answering Jenny Hs comment about the site at the top of Hedge Lane which was a car dealership etc & is now a very good Turkish Deli, which she thought had been a bomb site. Can somebody help with this? Stephen Woodward I recall Miss Bellefontaine Im exactly ten years younger that you and started at Hazelwood in 1963. Hi Normathese Palmers Green Memories are great, eh? Hello Brian, thank goodness Im not losing the plot! He retired in about 1956 when I was 11 and the house was demolished after that and the land must have been sold to a developer who built the maisonettes. Was this the Barbers that was in a room behind Glossops the sweet and tobacco shop. After my first day in Old olborn never wore the suit agin at work or come to think o it, any suit (retired 1988). Very interesting. To be one of the first Irish or Greek families to settle in the area? 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? There were two blokes in the back workshop mending bikes and preparing new ones. I have a friend who grew up in Palmers green and he says that there was no Tesco in Palmers green?!! Lovely caf. I remember that day vividly as, just as the tv was made to work, on the screen we were just in time to see the Boat Race with Oxford sinking up to their waists in water. Dark..my teecher at Winchmore ill and Southgate County Grammer, Fox Lane, do you remember? Once upon a time in Palmers Green by Alan Dumayne 1988; Fond memories of Winchmore Hill by Alan Dumayne 1990; Semi-detached London, Suburban Development, Life and . By the way my dentist was also Dr. Finkel! Hope this helps. the smell as you walked anywhere near it .lovely. Thank you so much. Rosalie lived in Palmers Green during the war, and provided this memory of her wartime life as part of the BBC project the WW2 People's War, an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. My parents bought our furniture there. Singing Tom used to give me all the flower heads to play with. I remember Dr Baxter well, he plastered up my left hand when I broke a finger playing leapfrog at school! And the wonderful smell There was a garage forecourt at the top of Hedge Lane where in intersects with Green Lanes, Was that a WW2 bomb site does anyone know? Steak Chips and peas 2/6p and the included bread and butter, His house and grounds backed onto the new river on the opposite bank to ours which was in Lynbridge gardens. But we used to dangle fishing lines from the river bridge in Hazelwood lane in an effort to catch something. This was run by a short tubby lady. To Gerry Hicks- yes I remember you, you had a wife called Rose and a daughter called Carol? Who remembers Tom the singing flower seller at the top of the access between the buildings? Can you imagine what it would be like to be caught in an air raid? Hi John ! Open in Google Maps. Green Lanes has changed so much since we were youngsters especially the current work on the cycle lane which is quite an issue locally. you could add doms cafe where you had a great breakfast there. My mum used to take me to the clinic in Broomfield House and I can still taste the orange juice they gave us,fantastic! OM G how I hated Grouts, I was marched in there twice a year by my mother to buy the navy knickers, beige brown high woollen socks and worst of all the liberty bodices with their horrible rubber buttonsall of which had to be worn to school until the end of May..despite a heat wave .I m shuddering to think of that shop and the humiliation it brought to me at Hazelwood Primary School. I think it was called Harvey Sports (a friend of mine had a Saturday job there) & next door was a fabric shop called Metres which sold everything from net curtains to dress fabrics and upholstery materials, The couple who ran it were very kind & patient working our how much material you needed for your windows etc. He was very tall, very Scottish and prescribed bottles of Minadex (green and foul tasting) for almost all childhood ailments! Yes, definitely Tottenhall Rd, not Tottenham. I lived in Burford Gardens from 1954 until 1978,went to Hazelwood school where I had a huge crush on a girl called Hilary Taylor. Dom drove a maroon Renaualt Dauphine, which I remember being the first foreign car I saw in Palmers Green. He also made excellent onion omelettes. The money offered was flushed along and up to the cashier in the small glass fronted cash office, high up. 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.. I lived in Winchmore Hill while married and enjoyed the playing field that is now Sainsburys and Baker, butcher and tea shop with the Green by Broadwalk and have fond memories of PG and WH as a young man. I seem to recall that it was situated in Princes Avenue on the right, a short distance from Green Lanes. Apparitions were seen and there was some poltergeist activity mainly at night with loud bangs downstairs. I lived in Palmers Green from 1938 to 1964. .and ALWAYS ordered egg, sausage & chips. Mr. Music Baggarley, S.County did not think much of my voice, a judgement echoed by Regimental Sgt.Major, Rifle Brigade, on the Square, Winchester. And gloves which were cleverly (!) PS. Was sad to see it go. You will also find memories from contributors below, and across other pages on the website, where a post has maybe triggered a memory or two, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a2115316.shtml. 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. Oh and one of our members mum and aunt used to work there! 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. I dont remember you should I? Fortunately my mother never chastised me about it. Pennie, I can tell you have great taste! I remember the mac shop. The Prisoners were building the estate up to Ash Grove. Hi Dave, I do remember you and your dads photography business. And talk of the Beezazwe had the Two Bare Feet coffee bar in Winchesterif you could get past Sgt. On the corner of Aldermans Hill and Devonshire Gdns was the United Dairies shop. I think Myrtle Road was built in 1950, is that right? Did you work in the Muswell Hill shop? Thanks for the info. Cameracraft now theres a blast from the past too! The other side of the Bank was a school outfitters where I was bought school uniforms, blazers and badges etc. Remember the barbers shop. I remember the entrance to Appleyards next to the post office. 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 1913-14. . I then started my apprenticeship at Kenning Car Mart at the Triangle behind Woolworths. July 2015. He took the train each morning from Palmers Green station. No Dave,my brothers name is Derek married to Cathy. Do you mean `Tom the flower man at the Triangle next door to Woolworths? I bought my first motorised bike from them, a cycle master, which had an engine in the back wheel. 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. hang across the window pegged on string!!! Also in Aldermans Hill was a butcher called Drakes and the Gas Company with the Electricity Co round near the current McDonalds in Lodge Drive. My Grandparents ,my mother and my god mother were residents of Palmers Green in the 1910 onwards til abt. In 1967 I became the signalman there. 348 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, N13 5TJ. I worked with a tall thin man who was the manager. Does anyone have a photo of prewar broomhill park with its original railings? Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm?
