Hornsey High Street Danbury Butchers

A Memory of Hornsey.

I used to go to Piano Lessons above a washing machine repair shop,(painted in light blue),now a newsagents,opposite the Three Compasses. The ladies name was Rose Lumley. She was unmarried,plump and lived there with her Mother. She had a friend in Norwood s.London who was also a piano teacher from their college days. They ran what she called THE ALEXANDRA AND NORWOOD SCHOOLS OF MUSIC. It was a tip and had a filthy shopback entrance stairs. My Dad was recommended by a Butcher he used to drink with in a pub either in Campsbourne or other road looking over the Palace. His name was Bill Danbury and he had, I think part of his thumb missing,or a digit,due to a butchery accident. Maybe it's a relation of Eddie Danbury Butcher mentioned here. I used to get a bus there from Turnpike Lane Wellington.I think a 41 or a 141. Anyway, this Miss Lumley put me through TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC exams where she was an Licentiate = LTCL., Great days as a child I remember fondly.