Wood Green High Road 1940s Restaurants or cafe

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Permalink Reply by Don on April 11, 2022 at 16:14

Yes, lots of good Italian ice cream in Wales (as in Scotland), presumably from late 19th century immigration. I have more recent and excellent experience of Verdi’s, in The Mumbles outside Swansea — also a haunt of Catherine Zeta Jones, I gather, though not in my presence, alas. But Lyons certainly hit the spot, too, and I remember the little carboard wrappers very well.

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Permalink Reply by Alan on March 9, 2023 at 21:51

Brought back a memory of BHS cafeteria there, on the 1st floor, M&S, Co-op [give it to the blind] as many a Saturday going to 'the big shops' in Wood Green with mother in the sixties, I suppose. We always had a cup of tea ,whatever in BHS I think, but maybe it was Bartons. Just a fleeting memory reading this. Yes & the round icecream in cardboard edge. Paying the electric I think by the 233 bus stop, by the carnegie library.

I also have a fleeting memory of seeing a trolleybus around Manor House gates. It had a white circle on the back - left over from the war Mum said. But I think we got a deisel bus and the conductor gave me a spare ticket roll for his machine. So long ago, so many changes.

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