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I lived at 34 Ullerswater Road from 20th January 1963 till March 1980 when we moved to Chesterfield when I was 18. My earliest recollection was of when we went to Broomfield Park to go to the mother and baby clinic that was in Broomfield House. Afterwards, my mum and I went around the museum and then a visit to the cafe afterwards. Then there was Claire's The Bakers on Aldermans Hill, with the sweet shop a few doors further down. I went to Walkers Primery School on waterfall road before going to Minchenden School on Fox Lane and the High Street. Sad to see the school no longer existing.
War Years
I was born in at 72 Bowes Rd on 7th Jan 1940, after being bombed out we moved to 72 Bowes Rd and then to 62l Ulleswater Rd and then to 14 Eaton Park Road. My earliest memories start from when I was on the pot - not the smoking kind, that came later - and when I could not reach the door handles. My brother, who could, had great fun annoying me and then running out the door and shutting it knowing I couldn't follow. In the war years I would go with my mum into Palmers Green. We would go up Ullswater Rd into Conway Rd and then turn into Fox Lane and walk down over the railway bridge and come out opposite the Post Office. At the side of the Fox Inn there was a gents public toilet which I liked to go in, while mum waited outside, there used to be empty spirit bottles left in there and I used to like smelling the scent from... Read more
General
I was born in at 72 Bowes Rd on 7th Jan 1940, after being bombed out we moved to 72 Bowes Rd and then to 62 Ulleswater Rd and then to 14 Eaton Park Road. My earliest memories start from when I was on the pot - not the smoking kind, that came later - and when I could not reach the door handles. My brother, who could, had great fun annoying me and then running out the door and shutting it knowing I couldn't follow. In the war years I would go with my mum into Palmers Green from Ullswater Rd.... to be continued, I'm going to bed.
The ABC
The photo featuring the ABC bakery brings back memories of being met from school (St Angelas - just round the corner in Oakthorpe Road) by my mum at half terms or holidays and taken for tea as a treat to celebrate the start of the holidays! The counter, if you sat down to eat used to be at the back of the shop. If I was lucky , a friend used to join us! It was the only time I was allowed to eat in public whilst wearing my school uniform.It was very strict back then!
Palmers Green 60's to The 70's
I lived on St Georges Road, went to Walker Primary until 1970 and finally ended up at St Angela's school. The photos reminded me of times that I fear have probably changed in PG, as most other areas in London. Would you believe it once used to be a village! I now live in Norwich and though today I am known by the name I write under, Morgan, my name then was Julie. I remember Evans & Davies and how posh it used to be. I saw Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs at the cinema there and I can virtually still smell the old Sainbury's where you had to walk around the inside in a queued fashion, skipping the counters you didn't want to go to those you did. In this way you got served with groceries, coffee/tea, cheese etc by different people. I loved the parks, Grovelands and Broomfield, and spent almost all my childhood there. Great days!
Bowes Road
I lived in Bowes Road from 1980 until 1985, when circumstances meant I had to move away, but I always have good memories of the area, as some of my best times were spent there. I had reason to return recently and I could not take in what I was seeing, with mass destruction everywhere. I lived close to Bowes school, and the entire area has been decimated. I know that this part of New Southgate was under a road building blight, but was under the impression that this was cancelled in the 1990s. It just goes to show that no goverment can ever be trusted, as roads, etc, mean more to them than human life. We were told back in the early 1980s that the then unbuilt M25 was going to mean the cancellation of these plans, but obviously it was more lies (Ken Livingston addressed a meeting at Bowes school to that effect in 1982). I notice that most of the shops at the junction with Brownlow Road and Bowes... Read more
Palmers Green
My grandmother lived at 50 Old Park Road, opposite Bloomfield Park, and I went to school at Franklin House School in Palmerston Road from 1955 to 1960, then the Winchmore Hill Collegiate School from 1960 to 1962. I used to have sausage and chips in the ABC at the Trianagle and often frequented Bloomfield Park and played football there with my school. Happy memories indeed of Bloomfield House and looking around the stuffed animals and birds inside with the cafe at the rear of the House and watching the bee hive and bees entering a perspex tunnel., to the hive. Evans and Davies a main Dept store was sighted off the Triangle and the money tubes would whizz around the store much to my intrigue. The Queens Cinema was further down the high street and my mother would take take me to see the latest films for children. Wymans was another stationery store in direct competion with WH Smith and I spent time in both . Moving down the High Street circa 1959,... Read more
First Term at School - A Wartime Puzzler
We lived in Ulleswater Road, which was the first road in N14 Southgate, but was really much closer to Palmers Green N13. At age 5 and a few weeks I started at Hazlewood Lane Infants School in September 1944 and during my first term an incident occurred which I have never been able to identify for certain. One day during class our teacher suddenly told us to get under our desks as quickly as possible and take cover. As soon as we had done this there came the sound of a most enormous explosion not very far away. I'm sure it happened in that order, with the teacher's warning before the explosion and not the other way round. Now I can remember my parents telling me about a German V2 rocket which landed on the railway line near Palmers Green station. I don't actually remember that rocket but it definitely happened and I know the date and time of its landing. However I'm certain that rocket was not... Read more
