Current refurbishment at the site of the audio visual shop has revealed the fascia underneath of Bourlet’s the jewellers, who previously occupied the site at 349 Green Lanes.
Bourlet’s is slightly iconic in Palmers Green because of it’s old jewellers clock, which is still on the building though long ago stopped and looking a little unloved.
I have often wondered who the Bourlets were – can anyone tell us more about them? There is a Bourlet’s Close in Fitzrovia, and a Bourlet’s fine art dealer, but other than that…
It is of course well known that John, Paul, George, Ringo and Eleanor Rigby all came from Palmers Green – and that Maxwell bought his silver hammer in Westlakes, having failed to find one with the appropriate hallmark in the pound shop.
In commemoration, Talkies in partnership with Second Sight Films will be marking the 50th Anniversary of the heady days of 1964 with a special showing at the Fox of The Beatles’ seminal feature film, A Hard Day’s Night, restored, remixed and now in glorious high definition.
Love them do…the Sonnets
There will be live music from Geoff Simpson’s the Sonnets, a sixties combo who at the time specialised in covers. Geoff went on to play and write songs for the West Coast Consortium, (later Consortium) who released a number of singles that dented the lower end of the top 40s.
There will also be a Beatles quiz and, of course, an opportunity to dust off that Beatles’ wig and jacket.
The date for your calendar is Wednesday 22 July and tickets are on sale now.
Our long awaited clock arrived just in time for the Palmers Green Shopping Festival and Carnival last week. The new timepiece on the Triangle is the result of collaboration between the Green Lanes Business Association, Mark Leaver of the Enfield Business and Retailers’ Association, and graphic designer Kareen Cox, and is intended to evoke some of the motifs found in frontages on Green Lanes – many of which are now over 100 years old.
The body of the tower was manufactured by Dave Plummer, of Triangle Metal Works while the clock itself was made in Peterborough. For some fantastic pictures by Colin Younger of the clock being installed, visit the Palmers Green Community site.
There are just a few more days to pop into Anthony Webb Estate agents to see the work of a local artist fast developing an international reputation.
Angela Dierks began painting eight years ago, having previously been a writer, and specialises in large abstract canvasses. Having begun with a fascination for the layers of memories and dreams, more recently her work has focused on abstract representations of landscapes.
The exhibition is open for another week at Anthony Webb estate agents, and is part of the Art on the High Street collaboration with the Creative Exchange artists and designers network.
Many of us will be planning which artists’ workshops and exhibitions we’ll be visiting this weekend as part of the annual Palmers Green and Southgate Open Studios and Art Trail. It promises to be the biggest and best yet – large numbers of shops and businesses are getting involved this year, with shop fronts up and down Green Lanes and beyond already displaying fantastic artwork.
“Identical recipes, after Warhol”
But perhaps the most astounding coup this year has been the unprecedented involvement of Morrisons, whose recent extended performance art piece has challenged Palmers Greener’s ideas about consumerism, what it means to shop, and what products naturally belong where.
Daily overnight relocation of products and reclassifications have given rise to exciting new juxtapositions which raise questions about the sourcing of food, not only in terms of food miles (eg between the bread and canned goods), but also “Where’s the bloody couscous (and is it a foreign food this week)”. I particularly enjoyed last week’s “Eggs with
“Eggs with luggage”
luggage” still life, which left many transfixed.
In another new Morrisons’ piece, the arrangement of wine by the amount that can be got for, say, under a fiver rather than by style or region provocatively challenges our love affair with alcohol and explores issues around how much of the stuff can be loaded in a trolley for minimal expenditure.
In a Banksy-like move – and nod to the current mores of the art world – no one has yet revealed the name of the artist.
Could it be William Morrison himself?
* Morrisons’ “Is it art?” continues for the forseeable future opposite the railway station. Opening time vary. Check press before setting out
Is it my imagination, or does the setting for O2’s “Be more dog” advert look strangely familiar…?
In the ad, O2’s aloof and jaded moggy decides to make life more exciting by embracing his ‘inner dog’, jumping into Broomfield Park’s boating lake after sticks and running with a pack of dogs around the park.
PG’s houses and the view of Canary Wharf from the top of Alderman’s Hill are clearly visible…In another scene, he chases a car through PG’s streets.
I have often wondered who the Bourlets were – can anyone tell us more about them? There is a Bourlet’s Close in Fitzrovia, and a Bourlet’s fine art dealer, but other than that…
