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Historic maps of Highams Park and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Highams Park maps
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Edmonton London
I used to stay with my aunt and cousin Joy Culley in Shirley Grove. I used to go to meet my uncle Syd from work down Cuckcuhall Lane or maybe it was Nightingale Lane and have a ride home on his crossbar of his bike. I also remember the big chimney stack being taken down. Later my aunt moved to Enfield and had a grocery shop in Baker Street, it was called Culleys, and I used to go on deliveries with my uncle in his very old Ford car, then they moved to Suffolk to retire x
Lyndhurst Road
I Was born in a house down Winchester Road in 1934. Then my parents moved when I was 3 years old to Lyndhurst Road and except for the war years did not move from there until I married at the age of 21 years.
I would like to contact fellow pupils from Sydney Burnell School where I went from the age of 11 years to 15 years as I believe the school's name has now been changed so I cannot look it up on the internet.
For a few years in my teens I was a great fan of the speedway racing at Walthamstow stadium. Is there anyone out there who was also a fan?
I worked in London after I left school and can still evoke the smell of the old steam trains.
During the war I was evacuated all over when the bombing was bad so my memory of those years are very muddled.
Is there anybody out there who has similar memories? If so I would... Read more
Greater London memories
Growing up in Tottenham
I spent the first eleven years of my life in Tottenham. We lived above the PDSA dispensary in Seven Sisters Road. My father worked for the PDSA as a vet, and I remember very clearly the queues of people waiting to have their pets treated free of charge. My mother used to take my brother, sister and me to Finsbury Park often, and to the Rec. Many photos were taken of us on the Green. My great-grandmother Louisa Upward lived in St Margaret's Road, and we walked to her home to visit and for my mother to listen to her gossip. I was always fascinated when she lit the gas lights and the soft hiss from the gas mantles could be heard. I remember the fog, I was only about five years old when my father took me to school one morning, and left me at the door. He disappeared in a second into the murky pea souper and I felt very alone. I went to The Green School, the... Read more
A Long, Long Time Ago
We were a dyed in the wool London family, some time before World War 11, 1939, we moved from Earlsmead Road to Breamar Road off West Green Road and lived there at number 73 untill 1951, when we moved out into the country to Waltham Cross. I was born in 1945 and had two older brothers Bill and Brian some 7 and 9 years older than me. Even though I was only 6 when we moved away I have some vivid memories of Tottenham. We lived directly opposite Seven Sisters school and my mum used to tell us that during the war a doodle bug came over and the engine cut out, it glided down and crashed into the school playground blowing all the windows of the house out. We used to go to the public baths at Tewkesbury Road once a week whether we needed it or not. I can still remember shouting to the attendant "more hot water in number 6" we had no taps on the baths it... Read more
Sheringham Avenue
My Dad was born in Tottenham sheringham Avenue
His Father was Maurice Redman and he
worked for the local council as a bricklayer. they had three boys reg maurice and gordon.They moved down to billericay about 1929.I wondered if anyone remembers the family.vicki
Bruce Grove School - Royal Tottenham
I would love to hear from folk who like me went to Bruce Grove School. I went there from 1936 until 1944 when I left school, then danced at the Royal Tottenham. I lived in St Margaret's Road. I remember Ron West and his brother Albert West,m who lived just off West Green Road, and the rest of the gang, I would love to hear how they all got on.
Best wishes to all folk from Tottenham.
June.
1960 to 1971
I lived in Elmar Road Avondale Road and Seaford Avenue. I attended Seven Sisters Junior school, West green Junior school and Belmont Secondary Modern. Had a wonderful time living in Tottenham, great memories of the park in Lordhip Lane the 'rec' where I learnt to ride a bike. Downhills park was a wonderful place, with beautiful gardens always well looked after with the most amazing displays of flowers and shrubs.... where we sadly tormanted the 'parkie' who had a wooden leg! During my childhood there I spent hours wandering around on my roller skates getting to know the area and never fearing my safety...great days...
