Hello Richard,

Thanks for your welcome!

I am pleased to have discovered this Forum and now to be a member if it. I live in nearby in Muswell Hill, but my roots from many years ago were in N11.  My birth place and association was that part of New Southgate the other side of the North Circular, which nowadays is mostly a desolate and soul-less place with barely a trace of the once vibrant community that was there up until the mid 1960s.

Last year it was my privilege to edit a collection of memories of growing up in New Southgate in the 1940s and 1950s, which were incorporated in book form complete with many previously unpublished photographs. Printed copies are available through the Friern Barnet and District Historical Society, and they are good value at £5.50 each including postage. Although the Memories book is mostly to do with the area bounded by Telford Road, Station Road and Bowes Road, there are quite a few references to Tewkesbury Terrace, Cline Road and Bounds Green.

Having browsed around on this Forum I am also pleased to think that there is an interest here in local history and what makes the area like it is today. To encourage you further I would like to make an offer to members of this Forum! I would be happy to email a PDF version of the Memories (it’s about 5MB in size) to anyone who asks for it, free of charge on one condition! The condition is that recipients should read it and promise to walk through the area, particularly along what is still called High Road and try hard to visualise the place it once was - a thriving community complete with cinema, fish & chip shops, pubs, butchers, greengrocers, etc.. and school, police station and pub. Difficult to believe now, but the Memories should help.

Best wishes,

Colin