Golders Green
A Memory of Golders Green.
I lived in Temple Fortune about a mile north of Golders Green up the Finchley Road, along which passed buses and trolleybuses going up to Finchley and Barnet, and south to Baker Street, Trafalgar Square and London.
In the 1940s and 1950s my mum used to bring my brother and myself to an outfitters, I believe it was called Lilley & Skinners. She bought grey flannel (scratchy!) short trousers and white shirts for school plus vests and pants underwear for us. In 1960, as I was about to go to university, I remember spending my money there on a brown duffle coat which no self-respecting student was without!
There were several kosher 'delis' in the road but one shop stood out for me. It was a coffee and tea place, where the unforgettable aroma of baked coffee beans came out of a fan outlet just above the shop. I wonder if it is still there?
Occasionally I used to go to 'the pictures' at the ABC in Golders Green Road and the Ionic at Golders Green crossroads near to the clock tower. But my friends and I mainly went to the Odeon in Temple Fortune to watch the latest Westerns, on wet Saturday afternoons in winter. The usherette would flash her torch at us lads and tell us to "Shut up" in exciting parts of the film. Happy days!
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Mr Stronhold's Mum would not have bought 'itchy' grey flannel short trousers from Lilley & Skinners, for they were a shoe shop.
photographricks - yes, the shoe shop was Lilley & Skinners - time has a habit of forgetting/muddling names.
But I don't remember at all the Appenrodt delicatessen.
Then, many years later, when the BBC took it over, we went to a "Friday night is Music night" radio show - with Richard Baker, if I remember.
Thank you all for your comments, stories, and memories. I cannot tell you how you have reminded me of my childhood by bringing back all these memories. It feels like forever ago. I remember the coffee place, is it possible I was taken there for ice cream too? I remember sitting at square tables, eating ice-cream out of a metal bowl.