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growing up in Southgate
We moved to Southgate from Muswell Hill when I was 3. I remember going into Lees Stores (I think that was the name of the shop) in Chase Side where we needed ration books to buy sweets. I went to St Andrews primary school which was very old and rather frightening! For Junior school I went to Eversley Junior School and then to Oakwood Secondary Modern. My sister passed the 11 plus and went to Minchenden Grammar School- I remember feeling very inferior! I also have memories of the annual flower show held in Broomfield Park - walking in Arnos Park and playng in Oakwood Park which was a few hundred yards from where I lived. There were 2 ponds in ...read more here
Contributed by Susan Hayward
London memories
growing up in Southgate
We moved to Southgate from Muswell Hill when I was 3. I remember going into Lees Stores (I think that was the name of the shop) in Chase Side where we needed ration books to buy sweets. I went to St Andrews primary school which was very old and rather frightening! For Junior school I went to Eversley Junior School and then to Oakwood Secondary Modern. My sister passed the 11 plus and went to Minchenden Grammar School- I remember feeling very inferior! I also have memories of the annual flower show held in Broomfield Park - walking in Arnos Park and playng in Oakwood Park which was a few hundred yards from where I lived. There were 2 ponds in ...read more here
A memory of Southgate contributed by Susan Hayward
Cinema
I was born in Palmers Green in Jan 1940 and lived at 18 Farndale Ave. from 1948-1960. I went to Winchmore Hill Secondary Modern from 1951-1953. I remember the Capitol Cinema and the Saturday morning film club which was a part of most kids' lives at the time. It was either the Capitol or the Palmadium depending what was on. Sometimes there would be the usual Cowboy and Indian stuff or films about German spies, which would fire up the blood so that when we all piled out at the end we would run round the corner, over the new river bridge on Fords Grove and into the small woodland at the back of the Capitol where we would split into ...read more here
A memory of Winchmore Hill contributed by Richard Watson
Moving to New Southgate
I was born in Islington in 1968. When I was 12 we moved to New Southgate and I fell in love with the whole area instantly. New friends introduced me to Southgate and I was shown the Minchenden Oak for the first time. I was overwhelmed by the size and age of this beautiful tree surrounded by a bench to sit on and think. I attended Arnos School (now Broomfield) and used to, on occasion, sit daydreaming about all the people over the centuries who have seen that tree, walked along the street in Southgate, or been pulled along in horse-drawn carriages. I have a deep-set love of Enfield, Southgate and Palmers Green now as a 40 year old. I go ...read more here
A memory of Palmers Green contributed by gaynor marsh
Extracts From Southgate & London books
Later 19th-century buildings can be seen in the photograph extending along Chase Side, and away towards Cockfosters, but it is the building on the extreme right which catches the eye. Its shop front, and indeed its whole demeanour, almost shout reliability and good solid service. Unfortunately, flashy cuckoos have taken over the High Street nest.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Taking its name from the south gate to Enfield Chase, and overlooking the Lea Valley, Southgate was a part of Edmonton until the late 19th century. Development began in around 1870 with the arrival of the Great Northern Railway, but it was the arrival of the Piccadilly Line in 1933 that produced mass housing. Although the original village green is away to the south, along the High Street it is the superbly spacious circular underground station by Charles Holden, and the grassy roundabout, that create a new focus of interest.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Close to the underground station are two major historic buildings. Behind the high brick wall to the extreme right of the photograph is Southgate House of the late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne is Grovelands, a beautiful house designed by John Nash in 1797, and still within its own park, which has connections to Repton. In the 1980s there was considerable concern for the future of this house, but as if in the nick of time it was bought, restored and converted to hospital use. The price tag for the restoration was a fairly large addition to the building, but this has weathered in well. Grovelands achieved a certain notoriety in the late 1990s by playing host to General Pinochet.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
High Street North is a
relatively undistinguished
and typical London
suburban shopping street:
the exuberance of the Town
Hall complex is forgotten.
The Midland Bank on the
corner of Caulfield Road
(right) is one of their 1920s
Classical-style single-storey
buildings that add quality to
many High Streets. On the
left the taller Victorian brick
buildings were demolished
in the 1970s and replaced
by bland flat roofed ones.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".
We pass under the River Thames via the Blackwall Tunnel - the northbound side dates from the 1890s, an early
project of the LCC, which was established in 1888. East Ham was in Essex until 1965, but since the mid 19th
century very much a part of greater London. Here we approach East Ham’s town centre along the busy North
Circular Road, which seems in places merely a casual linkage of suburban roads. These terraces of neat
Edwardian bay-windowed houses survive, and lead towards the Town Hall with its tower.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".