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Hello Neighbours

A lost cat has found me and I am looking to find his/her (probably his) home.

He is a young (6 months to a year?), long-haired, black and white cat. Found in the Queen's Road area of Bounds Green. Do you know anyone who has lost a cat recently? Very friendly and domesticated. Will sit for ages watching the washing go round in the washing machine!…

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wood Green Preschool (which has just been awarded outstanding by Ofsted), has opened a new nursery on White Hart Lane. They are looking for staff starting immediately. See attached for more detail or email info@theplaycabin.co.uk for the application pack.…

Shrugging off the worn leather jacket, he hung it on the chair back, sat down, and comfort stroked his thin white moustache.  Pot of tea.  Tiny jug of milk.  So different to the semi-stewed 6 pence a cuppa tea of the sixties.  Blue Boar inn used to run it.  We thought we were it back then:  guitars, sideburns, drainpipe jeans.   Cold draughty vans, swapping drivers to stay awake.  Polo mints all night.  It wasn’t all bad though -  this was the place, the middle ground, this ‘no man’s…

Albert Road Recreation Ground on Durnsford Rd is a wonderfully well-used sports facility with a community cafe.

There’s now a new project to regenerate the old Bowling Green and Hut, (hidden behind a hedge at the back of the Pavilion) and give it a new lease of life. Not as an old-fashioned bowls club but instead Bare-foot Bowling, BBQ & Beer – a facility with no dress code and open to all. In the long run we plan to give the bowling green an all weather…

On Sunday 22 May 2016 (from 2pm - 4pm), our new tennis coach, Nick Frost will be running the first Quorn Family Tennis Cup competition at the Club.

Quorn have teamed up with the Lawn Tennis Association, the governing body for British Tennis, to encourage more families to play more tennis and eat right…

Delighted to announce that Nick Frost has joined BGBTC as Coach this month.

His tennis programme - for both juniors and adults - has started this week and he's got some great offers.

Take a look at the BGTC website for…

Grimaldi’s Leap Frog

Characters:

Mrs Sullivan         runs the bar and other facilities

Dolly                    young serving wench

Sam                      sailor

G Burgess             friend of William Heath

It is 13^th February 1812 and Harlequin and Padmanada or The Golden…

HERE FILM FESTIVAL is about the diversity of interests, people and places in the suburbs of London. HERE is not in the West End, Southbank or Shoreditch. HERE in the suburbs we aren't the swanky super-rich, the celebrity glitterati or bearded hipsters.  HERE is where the cinema creatives of London produce…

Dear B&BC,

Couldn't find a Lost & Found section, so please direct elsewhere if necessary - I have a neighbor who is frantic as her cat went missing yesterday from Stanley Road, N11.  I have scanned a photo I could upload, if I could figure out how.  Meanwhile, as I lost my own household deity a while back I totally sympathise with her - it's even worse as her Net is down and she can't get a teckie to fix it until 4th, so I've been posting for her on Animal Rescue…

North London Samaritans is planning to develop a brand new community centre by rebuilding Shaftesbury Hall in Herbert Road, by Bowes Park Station in North London.  

Do you ever need an affordable venue for a one-off meeting, party, training session, coffee morning, or Pilates class? Or do you book regular meetings for groups or organisations? Your answers could help us in applying for Big Lottery funding for the proposed new community…

Good day to all you spankingly wonderful people of Bowes Park and Bounds Green.  It is such a pleasure to be here with you today.  What ho!  Well, chaps and lady chaps, I am delighted to inform you that in this oncoming by-election, I am standing in this electoral district for the Gross National Interest Party – headed up by our estimable leader, Bertrand Aloiyishious Wooster.  Jolly decent chap.  Great pal of mine.  Spiffing old boy.

Let me make a few things spankingly clear.  In…

Noticing yesterday that the Naxos girl had vanished from her High Road window, I began to lament the loss of quirky things in our area. 

London's most interesting underpants are long disposed of (unless Nick preserved…

Market N13 - changes and developments

We hope everyone is enjoying the revamped, renewed Sunday Market in Palmers Green, which launched in March this year.

We want to let everyone know that from…

So, the rain is here and the temperature starts to drop.

Here at Bounds Green Bowls & Tennis we may have an outdoor bowling green and 3 all-weather outdoor tennis courts but we have the added advantage of an INDOOR bowling green.

So for anyone who needs a little exercise during the winter…

This year, 2015 marks the centenary of one the best known illustrators you have probably never heard of… Yet anyone growing up in the 50s, 60s or 70s is likely to recognise the images of Robert Norton Ayton even if you do not know his name.

Robert Ayton was born in Russell Road Bowes Park…

Bounds Green Tennis Club are delighted to announce they have a new Coach, Billy Dainty.

Billy, a Muswell Hill resident, has represented Middlesex and Haringey winning the U16 Middlesex County Championship in 2008 and playing the Aegon British Tour and the ITF Men’s Circuit.  Billy has a 2:1 in…

Recent news about the redevelopment of Palmers Green Bus garage has prompted questions about its fascinating history.



Constructed just over a century ago in…

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... and we have a merchandise partner who produces print to order t shirts with various Londony designs, among them place names and postcodes. So I asked them to put up a Bowes Park N22 one. And they did.

The t-shirts are a little pricey as they're print to order, and let it be known that Londonist gets a small commission on sales, but…