Oh Wow! I’ve gone all funny watching this !!!! A big part of my childhood in Upsdell Avenue N13

And you are?

Shameful spelling of Cedric’s surname. It’s DICKENS!

Nice to see Leslie Johnson owner of Ellis & Co a good friend .

I remember it very well, it was a treasure trove of wonderful things.

5,32 my sis me and brother outside fruit and veg shop sitting in doorway LOL.

Amazing Video. Thank you

Amazing video. Thank you. It appears that this shop is now a Turkish bakery.

Nice to see legendary City Guide Paul Taylor in the clip of St Mary le Bow's crypt.

If you haven't already noticed let me point out that these people having 'divine church services' in their honour, are dressed exactly like Dick Turpin and Jolly Rodger. Profiteering or Government Sponsored Piracy is fine if you're a fully paid up member of the Cartel. Coats of Arms and Heraldic symbolism spells out a families connection and to what degree. Think Shriners and secret orders. Why historically do baddies choose names that are known sexual innuendos or double entendre's?

Super interesting, I've lived in Muswell hill and Crouch end between 2007 and 2019 (Now back in my home country), so all these places are very familiar. Thank you for sharing.

A deep pity that the global trade from empire and colony that gave birth to and sustained the City and many of the Livery company industries is still not reflected among the Livery membership in a diverse world city like London. It reduces the relevance to a backward, exclusive and narrow pantomime. So sad. You are not doing justice to the true heritage of the City, which lies all over the world and is represented among the diverse citizens of London.

l remember very well going there with my mother, and being totally fascinated by the money transporters that whizzed through the shop. In my memory the shop was larger, but of course, I was much smaller. I know we got name tags there to put in all my school clothes for Fox Lane Grammar school when I was 11. You see the ad for them Cash I think they were called, and came in a little oblong box. Thankyou for saving this memory.

Really interesting, thank you for sharing a bit of forgotten history. AAA+++ I have now subscribed to your channel.

was great times in the Atheneum hall! When I was a 'Mod' great times then!

Beautiful people making a beautiful craft come alive again... a craft of willow and water.

Terry Askew - Resident since 1940 What a delight to see this article ?. I remember the shop so well and, particularly pre decimalisation, I recall window displays indicating prices sometimes to the nearest 'three farthings'.

Hi Anne

Nice work! I didn't know about him. Tanks.

Imagine not seeing your parents again

I remember going in there when I was a boy of about 6 or 7, that s around 1949, with my aunt. No idea what she was buying, but she and the shop assistant spoke in Whispers! She had a dog who got loose and several ladies chased it around the shop for a while.

why is it written in English? Where's the French edition?

This is the American version of the European Camino... I am praying about hiking the "Pilgrim's Trail" this is the Arizona Trail connecting to the Hayduke trail then the American Discovery Trail...once at the ADT you can go East or West...

I could watch this all day! Fascinating! Thank you for the upload 🙏 🚣‍♀️

Loved going in there. Well done on saving the memory!!

Just loved Grouts and remember it well . It was the only place my mum could buy my nan's large knickers ! I used to buy all my dressmaking stuff here and loved when they wrapped things in brown paper . If this was around today it would be doing a roaring trade.

Great tribute to Ralph Reader. I was in my first Gang Show in 1965. Wonderful experience and many treasured memories. Scouting has changed a lot since then, but I'm sure the ideals remain the same. Thanks for sharing.

Music isn't needed, but interesting to see the ritual between St. Bride's and St. Andrew's.

it's a sports shop now.

The Green Man pub has closed now - as has The Village pub. Muswell Hill Library is under threat of closure.

I remember Grouts! My mum went in there a few times

well done for making the film before it closed

I was born in May, 1941, hence I knew the Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Hornsey area pretty well. The film is interesting and very enjoyable to a once local chap. My parents met i the Green Man at the top of Muswell Hill, opposite of which was what is in the film announced as the 'Regal' cinema, although as long as I recall it was always The Ritz. I also spent a few weeks in 1946 in Coppetts Road isolation hospital with scarlet fever.

I too remember Grouts, my mother would take me there when I was quite young. I used to watch the money go to the desk via the wire, fascinating :)

It is so depressing to see the loss of so many shops especially Prospero's Book Shop, Woolworths, the snooker club, "Mamma's Off-Licence" on Crouch Hill, the flower shops disappear.

Brilliant film. I remember Grouts very well. My elderly aunts who lived in Palmers Green loved it.

Anne are most of these musical clips LGS excerpts from Tex personal collection? nice to hear them! Life performances make all the difference! I wish the Scout Association would make more of the archive shows / material available to people, would love to have a good copy of the 68 show and also the Farewell show in 74 Is the whole of these film available anywhere?

A film about elitist Freemasons - well done. The left eye of horus at the start indicates you're illuminati. Watch something else, nothing to learn here.

from Howard Cuell Ralph I met in 1961, and he became until 1982 like my second father. Tec! That 12 Court Barton also was I think called originally 'Rose Cottage' - at least it was when I was there in the early 1960s. He always called me Butch which I hated; I played his piano sometimes both at Hendon and Bourne End. He taught me some arts in entertaining, and in composition of music and lyrics. I have to say I never met one person as great as this man . . .Even although I was never in scouting, I often used with my parents Gladys & Ray to go 'backstage' and meet the Gang - as we attended often the rehearsals for both the dance-routine as well as the script-encounters. I was also present with my parents at his plays which included Happy Families, and The Hill. The Happy Families which was later, also produced then new talent in the early 1960s such as Roger Rees and I think who became Julie Christie.. I am always sad, however, that I came too late to meet those his 'old gang' from the RAF days which included Peter Sellers, Cardew Robinson, Dick Emery, Tony Hancock. The memories are many. I rode in all his cars from the Standard Vanguard (1950s) through the Wolseley 1660, Triumph 2000, and Chrysler 180 which was his last. He wrote as you know STROLLIN' - yet, I have some albums of his many songs composed for over 40 Gang Shows from the Holborn Empire 1932 through the Hippodrome, Golders Green, to The Odeon, Temple fortune, and The State Cinema Theatre, Kilburn - which saw his last Gang Show. I spent much time with him in 1981. Your film is wonderful - I also was taken to meet his cousin in Crewkerne in the early 1960s Bill Pattimore, and remember being in Bill's office with my parents talking about Ralph. IMy parents took me to meet Gracie Firelds in 1972 on the Isle Of Capri - bay of Naples - I was honored by her allowing me to record in film a speech she gave to Ralph for 'The Fortieth Gang Show' which was already in the process and this was most colourful beside her hotel restaurant and swimming pool. All these things return to me. I am now just a pianist, but, those days long gone were the greatest that I ever knew; that it is quite beyond excellence those accomplishments his ..and the RAF years where he was Intelligence Officer Squadron Leader Ralph Reader - later MBE OBE CBE . . . But, the greatest power of his to each and all of us and you, wasn't it this: that love way beyond the politics of mere socitiy's theatrical changing scenes - which when long gone and whence pass those webbed and transient passages they call TIME, shall In The Happy Land pronounce that that man was more to mee also than my father. I inherit his love for typing and playing the piano.. I thnk you as no doubt many of your 'readers' already realise: "Is that WHO we THINK it is?" Yes, it's RALPH. It is Ralph Reader, who Roll Away Clouds - produced the choreography to some Ivor Novello shows - BUT we don't want to just GIVE you that. Who is next to one god, was never more truly Al Jolson, King George The Fifth, or even: Abraham Liincoln. It is as might be more measured by 'The Scout Mascot of The Warrior On The Bonnet' in which he served via his 1920/s Frazer Nash which he owned when he worked in 1926 in New York with the great Al Jolson and whhich he took back to Ireland with him when he returned there from New York. It was there he had fallen in love . . yet her passing, she died, was perhaps one reason to explain how love can be irreplaceble. . . It is perhaps measure of this genre of theatrical skill and excellence, this genus of true brotherhood, that is still irreplaceable by so much as the computer power of communication - but, so much, for so many, to so great nations, no less can I say a big THANK you for those memories to all. 'STICK AROUND SON!'. Howard Cuell he called: 'Butch'.

I was living there then

What a fantastic clip! Where can we see the whole film? Also where can we get hold of Tec Evans?

Thank-you for your lovely comment. If you would like to know more about the film please let me know

Thanks for posting. Ralph Reader was my Mum's cousin or second cousin. I wish I could show her this. Ra[ph took my Mum out for a drink the night her Mum died in 1957.

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