Queen Anne's Place, Bush Hill Park

The lady with the disfigured face is somebody I remember from the early 60's. Her name was Peggy who had once been an attractive young girl and the story that I was told was that she and her boyfriend were sheltering from an air raid. He covered her from the effects of a blast that occured on the corner of 6th Avenue. Her face however was not covered and took the full blast, as did her boyfriend who sadly did not survive. This sad story may not be correct but was as told to me by my grandparents who lived in 6th Avenue.

That's such a sad story, poor Peggy. Was 6th avenue near St.Mark's Road and the cottages that were pulled down to make way for the Roman Way estate?

I grew up in Millais Road, Bush Hill Park and I too remember Peggy. My dad also told me she had received her awful injury in the war. Last I remember of her was when she was living in one of the flats in Beverly Close (I believe) near Lincoln Road. Interesting how she has been remembered until the present. How many others alive at the time would be recalled in the same way?

I also remember the Avenues very well: Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues each had their own character.
In Fourth avenue there was an off-licence half way down where we used to buy lemonade and Mr Moody's sweet shop (at the end of the road opposite the park gates). Mum made us ice-cream sodas for a treat putting a Walls' ice cream brick cut in half into a glass of lemonade.
Fifth and Sixth Avenues were full of small terraced houses. There were alleyways running behind and between these roads which we used at a cut-through to the park.
Seventh Avenue retains some of its original character because the school looks the same. When I was a child, there was a parade of shops opposite the school, with a sweet shop on the corner which also sold cigarettes singly. At Lincoln Road end of Seventh Avenue there was a parade of terraced houses on the school side and opposite them was the yard used by Price's bakery. Their delivery vehicles were all horse-drawn, so the yard was surrounded by stables. There was always a race for the additional fertiliser in Millais Road when the Price's horse left droppings outside in the road. Dad and a neighbour opposite used to wait with their fireside coal shovels to collect the steaming pile for improving their gardens!
I felt sad when the Avenues were demolished in the early 1970's. I was then newly married and living in Cecil Avenue. I remember the air in Bush Hill Park being full of brick dust. Those houses were among the oldest in the area. I can still visualise them even now.

I used to live in fourth avenue Bush hill park from 1959 I would have been 9 years old my dad had a car accessories shop Smith's we lived above the shop until 1963 when we moved to Gardenia road but my dad kept the shop I remember Moore's shoe repairs being next door I also remember the off license and Moody's sweet shop on the corner I was always in and out there buying one confectionery or another
My dad had the shop until it was compulsory purchased in the early 1970s I have been back there since it was all pulled down and didn't recognise the area the library at the end of the road is still there I have fond memories of being there

Hi I remember the Moody's sweet shop I went in there with themselves on the way to George Spicer school .we lived in st Mark's road and my parents worked in the greengocers (pearl and harry).we moved in the 70s to suffolk.