Palmers Green
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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
Contributed by gaynor marsh
The war years
We lived in Park Avenue, Palmers Green during the years 1944 to 1960. Our family consisted of three married couples with their children all occupying the one terraced house (this wasnt considered unusual at the time). I have fond memories of the cinemas, which were the Palmadium and the slightly grubby Queens. HeyHo Tempus fugit
Contributed by Allan Sanders
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 ...read more here
Contributed by Richard Watson
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.
Contributed by Richard Watson
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!
Contributed by Hilary Ballard
Extracts From Palmers Green & London books
The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond. Today the gardens are included in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest; and yet here in the heart of affluent suburbia, the condition of this major house is described by English Heritage as very bad and of the adjacent stables as poor. Enough said.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
The buildings here reflect the early 20th-century origins of Palmers Green; the triangle is all that remains of the original green. The A1004 swings right into Alderman’s Hill past the railway station, and the outstanding building facing the camera is of 1904. On the right the anthemion-dominated free Classical building, by Evans and Davies, and the roughcast upper stories to Hamells, provide a very acceptable streetscape.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent. Look at the ABC Restaurant with its oversized advertising, and Foodtown’s inappropriate lettering and enlarged fascia. Look further down Green Lanes, and see the familiar dreary three-storey legacy of the late 1950s stopping the view.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
The London Borough of Enfield will not be remembered for its sympathetic approach to the conservation of its historic buildings. Whilst in its care, the building has been a museum and a café, among other things, but owing to a series of fires in 1984, 1993 and 1994 it has been reduced to a sad remnant. Only by the grace of God were the Lanscroon paintings rescued. At the time of writing no certain use has been found for this inevitably deteriorating building, which is of considerable architectural importance.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Municipalised now, this reduced park was, in the 16th century, owned by Geoffrey Walkaden, but by 1625 it had passed to Joseph Jackson, a merchant, in whose family it remained until it was removed by marriage. In the early 1800s it passed to the Powys family, and was finally bought by Southgate Council in 1903. As well as the usual statutory facilities, such as tennis courts and a football ground, there is an attractive series of lakes and ponds, as well as Broomfield House with its stableyard, an early 18th-century summer house and a Garden of Remembrance opened in 1929.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".