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        <title><![CDATA[9 Derwent as it was then]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Were there toilets in the park?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:16:50 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Well, it's been a time! But a recent exchange on the FB page called Winchmore Hill and Palmers Green Memories has suggested me to write this post about toilets at 9DR...Not that I hadn't mentioned the subject before... See here and here . There's even... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[When Jo walked to school!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:27:47 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here's a recent post by Jo on Facebook where she remembers the days when she would go to school on foot. I thought I'd post it here! Idly reminiscing, as one does when one is alone, I was looking back on the winters of my childhood. It was frequently... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Palmers green videos]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:05:21 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here are the few videos which have been made about the past of Palmers green. Please help me to add more! ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Money at 9DR]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:24:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Happy new year to all readers! Here's a post on Money! In fact I have a few items on this topic and some memories to share, so here goes! At 9DR and perhaps even more at 7DR, money was not very plentiful. I recall mummy saying that scrimp and save was... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[some old postcards]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:53:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hi, I have already posted some old postcards, I'm sure (haven't checked where but I'm pretty sure). But here are some new ones I've collected recently: my information says: "before the bandstand"... This one shows Derwent Road corner, with the pillarbox...but... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Broomfield House in pictures]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:06:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Right well, I've already posted pictures of the House, but here you'll find them all put together! (most pictures come from the net, don't hesitate to ask me if some have been posted in spite of authorization) The order is chronological... hopefully!... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Weddings at 9DR]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:14:10 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hi, here are the photos I have of weddings connected to the people of 9DR; of course they're only a few, but I'm hoping that if some of you have other ones, you might send them to me and we can enrich the collection! Remember: no material later than 1988.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[New family tree]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 15:56:27 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. The previous family tree which I had started on a French website has been suppressed, presumably because of costs on that site, making many people rather angry, but I suppose it was to be expected... Anyway, I have started a new one which... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Fox pub on Green Lanes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2016 18:05:26 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today the Fox pub in Green Lanes is an unescapable item of PG. But it wasn't always as glorious-looking. Here are a few pics gathered during my idling moments of searching: My information says this view of the interior dates back to 1889...and here's... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Enid Blyton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:19:40 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There must already be a number of references to Mrs Blyton elsewhere on this blog, but well, here's a focused appreciation of why she was so important at 9DR and to me. First if you're interested, here's the wiki link . You might as well learn some stuff... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Green Lanes long ago]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:47:45 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The above photo (1906) should be compared to the one below, where the Church has appeared! ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wartime in Palmers Green]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here's the collection of PG wartime pics I have! Of course it would be fun for some of the aunties to tell us about about their memories of the war... Aunty Mary?? This last one is apparently a picture of Hazelwood Lane houses hit by a bomb. And below... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Church]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A post (the one hundredth!) dedicated to St Monica's parish church. Above, an aerial view of where the church would be built! Here and there on the blog some pictures about Church practice have been posted (check this link , and that one ): here you'll... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Triangle through the years]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Above is a London bus blind which apparently can be bought on the net. As for the photos, I tried to post the pictures chronologically, but am not sure I have succeeded! I thought the presence of a numbers of trees indicated a greater antiquity, and then... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Broomfield Park swings]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:12:13 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Over the past months, I have collected enough old photos of BP swings, slides, seesaws and witch hats for me to open this dedicated post. So here goes. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nicknames]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:02:08 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Some families disregard them, others thrive on them - let's say ours is somewhere in between? A number of our family members had, and still have a nickname. What do they correspond to? What do they mean? Where do they come from? I've tried to remember... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[9DR Smells]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2015 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Smells! I'm not sure I'm going to be able to re-evoke much of this aspect of 9 or 7 DR in this post if you haven't been there yourself - but then on the other hand, who reads this blog if they didn't use to know the two houses? Smells are like will-o'wisps,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Testimonies on Olive &amp; Cecil from outside the family]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 23:15:26 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A Hazelwood Lane school performance in 1966 A few weeks ago, I had told you that there were people on this FB page who mentioned Auntie Olive in her capacity of Headmistress of Hazelwood Lane Infants school, and I have written to them to let me know exactly... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Broomfield Park 4-the Yacht pond]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:36:14 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Some extra pictures of the Yacht or Boating pond I have collected - more of less chronologically. This first one is an aerial view: The swan necks are gone! (this makes me doubt if the photo was taken in Broomfield park) Not sure the one above is BP...... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Derwent road]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:04:35 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures and things collected in relation to the actual street as it used to be. On the old map above, drawn before Derwent road was in existence, you can see that a rather large fish pond stood practically where DR was going to be built.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Facebook treasure trove!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:50:58 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Maybe some of you already know this Facebook page: Winchmore Hill and Palmers Green memories . But if you don't, and you're interested in views of what these two boroughs used to look like, the life which was lived there, say, ever since the photograph... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Italian connection]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:08:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This summer we went to Lucca, Italy, and you probably know that our ancestor, Carlo Morganti, who was Grandpa's grandpa (his mother's father) came from a neighbouring village, Bagni di Lucca (above picture). Auntie Bee went there some years ago, and met... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Garden fixtures]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:55:28 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the Hughes' gardens, there weren't many additions of the kind you now often see, fancy gazebos, or ponds with a fountain, or a separation in the hedge leading to another part. It was very much a no-nonsense garden. Very small, relatively, anyway. Still,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Palmers Green Railway station]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:12:34 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I knew I'd have to do this one sooner or later... Today the train station has acquired a number of features it didn't use to have when I was a boy in PG (above, the 1970s). Compare with below: For me the story of this little train station starts as we... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Secret of the lost planet]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:13:38 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hi all, and a happy new year. During the holidays, I took up this book from a shelf ( I knew it came from Auntie Olive, or perhaps Monsieur Père), and decided to re-read it - I remembered nothing apart from the title! But I must have read it in the early... ]]></description>
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