Born in 1926, Betty Wright nee Walton lived in Southgate town hall. Her father was station officer at the fire station ajacent and also the mace bearer for the Council.
“One night in March 1941, the Dance Hall (held in the Princes Hall above Pitman’s College) in Green Lanes, Palmers Green was bombed. A German bomber ‘plane was overhead…and tragically his bomb carriage was blown off, so all the bombs came down together in Palmers Green.