Wood Green High Road was our first choice for shopping. Walking from home on Green lanes you passed the Ritz Cinema - two different programmes every week each with the "B" film, Pearl & Dean advertising, Movietone News and the feature film (I was taken to see "The Dam Busters" several times in 1955 as my father had been in the RAF!)
Crossing the entrance to the bus station you came to Conways Furnishers and then Turnpike Lane Station. After crossing Westbury Avenue and Whymark Avenue there on the right-hand side of the High Road were the three large stores - British Home Stores, Marks and Spencer and Woolworths (actually the original F.W.Woolworth). One source of entertainment was the antics of the "spivs" who illegaly sold things (possibly of doubtful origin) out of suitcases in front of the stores. They had a look-out hovering on the kerb who signalled the arrival of the patrolling policeman. The suitcases would then snapped shut and the spivs would quickly disappear into one of the stores only to re-appear again when the coast was clear. The day of reckoning came one day when the police came through the stores from the back entrances on Bury Road and several spivs were "nicked".
Further on down past the Wood Green Empire was Halford's who were then mostly a cycle and sports shop and further still the Co-op. This was a strange building in two parts joined by a long ramp. They still had the central cashier's desk set up high with overhead wires connecting it to each sales desk. The assistants would write out your purchases on a form which would be put into a cylindrical canister with your payment. This was put into the overhead system, a lever pulled and the canister sped quickly to the stern-faced cashier. A few minutes later the canister would be back with your receipt and any change.

Jack Sleigh horse meat business was a stall and I think it would have been at the corner of Coleraine (note from Google that there is still a stall there!). Dead right about health and safety! And the meat was clearly dyed unfit for human etc. It smelt pretty bad. We had dogs so visited often. Jack bought (built) the house on the bomb site corner of Willoughby and Frobisher opposite us. His trade must have been good - in 1959 nhe bought his wife Eve a Sunbeam Rapier, white and chocolate two-tone, for her birthday! They were a smashing couple - but I think he may have breathed a sigh of relief when my dad retired from the Met police in 1956

Do you remember Weston's dress shop on the same side as the Wellington in Wood Green ? At the January sales you could get a really nice coat for under five pounds

In Wood Green there was a shop between J.Sainsbury and "The Toy Shop" called "The Tripe Shop". It sold all manner of offal, nobody ever admitted to shopping there (including my Mum!), but it was always very busy. During the summer months if you walked round the alleyway (as we played there) at the back the smell was awful!
The first shop in Turnpike Lane coming from the station on the left was a dairy run by the Owen Family, a Father and Son enterprise. A shop further along was a stationers run by the Duncan Family, I went to school with their son Gordon. The Tobacconist near the alleyway was run by an older couple who's Daughter married an American (Mexican) airman based at West Drayton. His name was Hank (uncle to me!) and they had a son called Ricky, during the 60's they all moved back to the States. Funny how the articles trigger your memory!

Does anyone remember the "posh" frock shop in Wood Green - Bon Marche? Having walked from Abbotsford Avenue on West Green with mother and grandmother, we usually only looked in the windows on the way to M & S for more affordable clothes

Wood Green High Road was our first choice for shopping. Walking from home on Green lanes you passed the Ritz Cinema - two different programmes every week each with the "B" film, Pearl & Dean advertising, Movietone News and the feature film (I was taken to see "The Dam Busters" several times in 1955 as my father had been in the RAF!)
Crossing the entrance to the bus station you came to Conways Furnishers and then Turnpike Lane Station. After crossing Westbury Avenue and Whymark Avenue there on the right-hand side of the High Road were the three large stores - British Home Stores, Marks and Spencer and Woolworths (actually the original F.W.Woolworth). One source of entertainment was the antics of the "spivs" who illegaly sold things (possibly of doubtful origin) out of suitcases in front of the stores. They had a look-out hovering on the kerb who signalled the arrival of the patrolling policeman. The suitcases would then snapped shut and the spivs would quickly disappear into one of the stores only to re-appear again when the coast was clear. The day of reckoning came one day when the police came through the stores from the back entrances on Bury Road and several spivs were "nicked".
Further on down past the Wood Green Empire was Halford's who were then mostly a cycle and sports shop and further still the Co-op. This was a strange building in two parts joined by a long ramp. They still had the central cashier's desk set up high with overhead wires connecting it to each sales desk. The assistants would write out your purchases on a form which would be put into a cylindrical canister with your payment. This was put into the overhead system, a lever pulled and the canister sped quickly to the stern-faced cashier. A few minutes later the canister would be back with your receipt and any change.
Further along still the road curved to the right past Strakers the stationers and then you passed under the railway bridge at Noel Park & Wood Green Station. Sometimes high over the road a train would come in with a screech of brakes, you would hear the brake pump on the engine going "thump-thump-thump" then, with a slamming of doors, the train would start off again. Past the station there were more shops or you could cross the road to see what films were on at the Gaumont Cinema.
On this side of the road going back towards Turnpike Lane just after Alexandra Road was a shop selling cooked meats. We usually bought some Polony sausage (special treat!) which was sliced off from one hanging in the window.There were many more shops including J.Sainsbury who had two adjacent shops. Just before arriving at the Wellington was a toy shop (best shop in the road!) where my first train set was bought - an OO gauge Rovex.
Other names and shops come to mind although, after 60+ years I can't locate them - "David Grieg, Provisions Merchant", "Home & Colonial Stores", butchers with skinned rabbits, plucked chickens and the odd animal carcase hanging outside. Greengrocers where potatoes were tipped straight into your shopping bag with things like lettuces just having a sheet of newspaper wrapped round them. The price of everything was calculated and added up in the head (in £sd of course) as you were served. For example - three pounds of potatoes at ..., one cabbage, one pound of carrots at .., three parsnips and half a pound of tomatoes at .. that will be ... thank you! - no need for pocket calculators even if they had been invented!

Would like to see 1960-80s of the Herald published

Looking to find out more on the Enfield poltergeist story !

hello yes i know what you mean how its changed i lived in Tottenham 1936 till 1950 i went back many years ago i didnt know the place
i went to BRUCE GROVE SCHOOL or as some called it Sperling road and went to the jews shop for our sweets and during the war sang songs in the shelter
would love to here from anyone that knew me or was in tottenham at that time also went to ROYAL danceing or ally pally skating my name was hugh or as it was called in the royal duchess as we all had nick names would be lovely to hear from any on

During 1950 to 1959 I lived at 97 St Anns Road N.15, above TOZERS the cobblers (Shoe repairer) next to Walters the Newsagent, near Jones the Dairy (Corner Paignton Road), and near ZIMS on the corner of Eastbourne Road.
Any one remember this time and place, including Charlie the barber and Morgans the food shop, also RICHMOND ROAD Grita the off license.
This has triggered a few thoughts many friends from Stamford

Does anyone know this road or swan terrace, we used to live at 6 laurel terrace in 1958, the year i was born, and my dad was born in swan terrace, any help on these two streets would help in my ancestry.
your

Does anybody know Winnie Kinch Who lived in dawlish road in the 1950s.
She would be about 17 or eighteen then
If you know of her whereabouts or her married nameI would be much ablidged
Her husbands name would be a great help.
If she is still around she would be about eighty now .
I can put her in touch with an old friend of hers who would be very pleased to meet her

Does anyone on this forum remember the Cummings family who lived at the slaughterhouse at the bottom of Markfield Rd, E17?

There was George Cummings.horse slaughterer, the dad
George junior
Iris
Mavis

Looking for any survivors from St.Ignatius School and St Thomas More School from 1946 to 1955. or Victoria Crescent, N15

Hi anyone out there who used to drink in the park hotel pub next to the railway station from 1978 to 1984, mick was the landlord one day he would be all smiles the next day he would blank you godd pub though and friendly, i used to live in fenman court just up the road

Hi

I went to William forsters between 1973-1979....Id love to find my old school friends..i have photos with Lois,Marcia,Hulya,femi,Patrick Mushington,Listra....Irene,maxine.....I remember Derek....adam I cant remember the surnames..but my name is ezmaralda sotirioglou I used to be....I think I was in 5T...people will remember that name....Regep Mustafa I think too....I lived in Tottenham at the time in Rutland gardens N4 and used to play out with the boys in that road and Stanhope gardens....pls get in touch with me if those names ring a bell

Does anyone know the happenings to the two Tottenham people above? Christine Stump who lived in the flats at Broad Lane, went to Markfield School about 1963. Also STEVEN WEST, my old mate from the sixties, who I last saw in the Royal Chace Hotel Ridgeway Enfield.
Last believing living in Wood Green (25 years ago).

I lived in Etherley Road Tottenham for many of my younger years. I also went to Belmont School and was a friend of Dave Clark. I used to love going to the Royal Tottenham and have vague memories of being in a Skiffle group at South Grove youth club

Hi everyone, I'm researching my family history and wanted to know does anyone know of the MIZON'S, they lived in Tottenham and I believe there was a few of them. Would love to hear from anyone that may know or know of them. Regards

Susan Crowson attended Tottenham High school for Girls
Later Married to become Susan Norris...
Any information on Susan's whereabouts would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.