Palmers Green Today
Today a large parade of shops known as Palmers Green Shopping Centre exists along Green Lanes, with many restaurants, pubs, clothing shops, independently owned cafes and beauty salons. Superdrug, Wetherspoons (The Alfred Herring), Waitrose, Morrisons, WHSmith, The Carphone Warehouse and Starbucks are present.
Palmers Green High Street (the parade of shops along Green Lanes) was used to film part of the Knight Bus sequence in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The Fox Pub was featured which is also the site of the Electric Mouse comedy venue.
Broomfield House, sited in Broomfield Park, remains a burnt-out shell despite numerous redevelopment proposals and an appearance on the BBC2 programme Restoration. The Conservatory in the park has recently reopened after a refurbishment.
Palmers Green railway station car park is the location for a Sunday farmer's market and also the Waiting Rooms cafe which hosts live blues music on a Friday evening with performances from and including 'Mad Dog' Dave Barnes and Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts guitarist Graham Hine. There is also a small platform coffee counter and occasional art exhibitions in a second waiting room.
Widening of the North Circular Road single-lane section at Bowes Road/New Southgate is almost complete after over 20 years of discussion.
Public access to the New River canal has been improved with waterside paths and access gates.
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Famous quotes containing the words green and/or today:
“As the shade went up
And the ambulance came crashing through the dust
Of the new day, the moon and the sun and the stars,
And the iceberg slowly sank
In the volcano and the sea ran far away
Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)