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The Nightingale was situated at 349 High Road. This pub was closed and demolished in 2004.

Source: Colin Price

I lived with my parents at a flat in 327 High Road from late 1940’s to middle 1950’s. my mother had a Ladies hairdressers in the high road - Barnes. The landlady from The Nughtingale had her hair done by my mother and I was friends with her daughter. I had my first taste of banana at one of the daughters birthday party. Each Child has 1 1/4 sandwich put on their plate. Underneath our flat (corner of Commerce Road & High Road, were 2 sisters who made artificial flowers and beneath that was an aquarium shop and next to it was Ormes the greengrocers. I also remember Mrs Knight and her sweet shop- she had a white cockatoo and a piano which I was allowed to play. There was then a bomb site, which as children we lived to explore, then my mothers hairdressers with barbers next to it and next to that Stephens the butcher whose daughter Peggy I also played with. Further along was another pub where I used to go for ballet & tap lessons! In later years, after we had moved away, I would go Wood Green Jazz Club there. There was also a pub on the opposite side of the high road, the landlady there also a client of my mothers. She used to make amazing flans and bartering would happen. Happy childhood memories.

S Y Halifax (April 2021)

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