Monkey Hadley Common
Monkey Hadley Common or Hadley Wood as we called it, was one of the places I used to go regularly as a child with my friend Richard Plumb.
Today, I walked through it with a friend before having some lunch at Cockfosters.
Surprisingly, despite being probably fifty-five years since I’ve been there, some parts had changed little and I could remember everything well.
There was always fishing in Jack’s Lake and that was probably a lot cleaner.
Ofen we would go through the woods to the East Coast Main Line, where we would do the things that boys did in those days, like putting coins on the track, so the trains would flatten them.
Do kids still do that?
The railway incidentally is much changed with electrification and whereas in the 1950s, you saw perhaps one express to and from the North every half-an-hour or so, the trains are much more frequent now.
The Anonymous Widower 
Is this around Barnet area? My late aunt lived near Hadley Common, can’t remember her address now, and when we visited we used to go for walks there – I remember Lynne loving the baby duckling one time we were there.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | July 12, 2015 |
It’s just norh of New Barnet. Pymmes Brook runs through East Barnet, then South East to Armos Grove and Tottenham.
Comment by AnonW | July 12, 2015 |
Yes, it is the same one. Took so long to reply as am days behind with emails, busy sorting out my mum’s stuff, and putting tenants in her bungalow.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | July 16, 2015 |