Intimate Memories: The History of the Intimate Theatre, Palmers Green Hi Normathese Palmers Green Memories are great, eh? plate MAX 2 and Stephen Graces. I was in my late teens when it was opened. Remember John Menzies where I used to buy records in early 70s. also the Unigate milkman who had an electric cart and kept saying oh brother. I left in 1986 as a Grocery Manager. (with Pa as escort we did go to the Queens later on seein Cat an the Canary (Bob Hope, avent bin able to sleep in a bed with edboard since and Pinnochionightmares cos o the Whale swallerin (Jonah?) Community life - Palmers Green Jewel in the North Do you remember a bus that got his by a bomb during the war as no one seems to have any photos or accounts about this. Now Mr Shepherd, Im afraid that a majority were not keen,malthough you must speak as you find. Hi David, I think I remember you from Winchmore. Shame I cannot post some photos here. Even on cross country runsI wonder what dear old Mr Robertson, Physical Training Master at Southgate County would have commented. I used to by comics from him in the 60s. I remember the Coffee place & it wasnt Home & Colonial.. that was a few doors up!! Annyone remember that great Destroyer model opposite the counter in J&As, is it still cutttin the seas in defence of our Realm? What about the lovely pantos at the Intimate theatre. I have fond memories of Palmers Green, as I worked at the station from aged 15 in 1963 till 1968. Later, I remember seeing my very first E Type Jaguar outside the shop with a number plate personalised JA number forgotten. I wasnt as lucky as you & never actually ate at Doms though, but if I was very good my treat was the ice cream and I still have a sweet tooth to this day. 020 8881 7304. I had the best 7 years of my life with Victor, but sadly he died only last month, February 7 of cancer. Sad as I am, I have just had a look on Google maps and as of August 2014, there was still a Doms offering Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner no mention of ice cream though! Your change would come whizzing back in the rather splendid looking canisters. The ford zepher was back in the 60s it would have been the 70s in PG. Happy memories of Greenwood Gate Tennis Club in the Rec too, circa 1959 1963. Palmers Green Cremation - In Memory Of Life Funerals There was no bomb site where the garage was. Palmers Green - Wikipedia The only place Ive ever found an equivalent to Doms, is in the home of ice cream, Italy and thats a long way to go for a cornet!!! My taste dress-wise (MENS) was Bricks across the road, specially them T-shirts. Recall the police fishing bodies out of the water occasionally suicides. Great times, scooters, mods, good jukebox, used to go upstairs. We had to make our own fun in those days, there were no iPads, computers,,,,,,,,,,, etc. Poultney and his Perlice in the Guardroom. Any idea of what it was called? Lovely to have you posting again Raymond Randolph! Hello Brian, Im so glad you remember Dr Baxter. Was that called Pritchards or am I mixing it up with somewhere else? I have so many memories of Palmers Green in the late 1940s [through to the present day] that I could be here all night, tomorrow and for the next month typing them up. His house and grounds backed onto the new river on the opposite bank to ours which was in Lynbridge gardens. There were something over 50 people killed as the dance had just ended and many had left the dance hall to get buses in Green Lanes. There was and old git who served behind the sweet counter. Its great. Few people in those days owned a car, most of us used public . To Gerry Hicks- yes I remember you, you had a wife called Rose and a daughter called Carol? Hi Sylvia, No your not dreaming, Dr Baxter was there, he had a huge almond tree near the entrance to the surgery off Hazelwood lane which we would scrumpy almonds from when they started to ripen! Annyway Mike Ovenden was our form springboard expert at both Barrowell and Arnos Grovetho I seem to remember that Jackie Brown at the Pool was overall open diving champion. also the restuarant above the sweet shop in Green Lanes which was opposite the Queens Cinema? Best teacher was the top class with Mr Smith. Have a nice trip! I lived at no46 Conway road, My mother knew your parents. I think that surgery was based in the houses that Martin mentioned (10/8/14) for a short while and then to a tiny building, like a garage, at the top of Windsor Rd with a bigger branch in Winchmore Hill, nr Green Dragon Lane. I lived in New River Crescent. Visit Palmers Green Places things-to-do & travel guide Hey are you the same Anne Poole from Southgate SC. Memories - Palmers Green Jewel in the North Seifert refused to save my an my Dads life in the 40Sannyway no ard feelins e saved my life later..,as for Tottenhall Roadmore our memories istories. Palmers Green - a nostalgic memory of Palmers Green - Francis Frith Ive lived here all my life (born 45) but dont remember that or Keiths being a bomb site. My Aunty Jean used to make his partners costumes and lives in Princess Avenue. I think that he worked on the railways. (When I was a boy is banned in daylight hours this family). In those days they called a spade a spade! Annyway she sees the ambience of Palmers Greenery so later Dad as to buy a property to satisfy er haspirations Palmer Green wise N14annyway my Palmers Green is Jewell in Crown (I am salutin you er Majesty) no rushkeep crackin on, eh? I have very clear memories of it. We moved to Crawley in about 1955 or 6. Is it still haunted? Around the mid 60s lovely to see we all grew up in such a cherished place. My mum had a job doing tailoring above Burtons and in school holidays I had to go in with her some days. The garage was called Saul and Slatters. .Yes I remember the cafe well, 1964, it was on the corner of N.C Rd & Green Lanes. One was called the UK tea company.