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Every Street in Palmers Green #8: A wedding gift

There are many houses of considerable Edwardian style in Palmers Green, but perhaps the one which is the biggest surprise on an afternoon mooch around our local streets is at the bottom end of Osborne Road where it meets New River Crescent. Splendidly perched on the corner lot, the Gables is a beautiful creation in […]

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Every Street in Palmers Green #1: Very ‘Voyseyish’, Mr Sykes

315 -397 Green Lanes, 288 Green Lanes, 286 Green Lanes If one man above all others could be said to have shaped the look of central Palmers Green it would probably have to be Arthur Sykes. Sykes was the architect of the amazing and fanciful parade on the west side of Green Lanes up to […]

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The Fairway Firs Farm was situated just north of The Fairway, on the east side of Firs Lane with lands extending north and east (hence Firs Farm School). The farmhouse was demolished in 1927.  Fairbrook Road  The Firs The Firs wends its way from Hedge Lane to Winchmore Hill and the junction with Shrubbery Gardens. […]