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Year: 1966
Childhood
St Marys Church was my special place. I would go there whenever I needed to think or just find inner peace. It helped me through a sometimes difficult transition to adulthood. Although I now live 56 miles away, it is still my place of hope, and I go back there every chance I get. It's so beautiful, my very own stairway to heaven. Last edited: 06/03/2008 09:07 by Pauline Coles |
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 Harrow, Station Road c1960 (ref: H429035) |
Happy Days A memory of Harrow, Middlesex Having grown up in Harrow during the 1950s and 60s, how well I remember my trips to Universal Stationers, seen here at the top of Station Road close to its junction with College Road. As a child I was always fascinated with stationery items and this shop stocked everything you needed. Upon entering you would be greeted by an assistant who would gladly climb a ladder to bring down reams of typing paper from the shelves above which reached to ceiling level. On leaving the shop we would form an orderly queue at the nearby bus stop where the 114 and 158 called to take us home to Harrow Weald. Contrast this with the unruly scrum that occurs at Harrow Bus Station in today's society. Note too the absence of parked cars and yellow lines. Happy days indeed. Posted: 12/09/2006 19:42 by Chris Kennett |
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 South Harrow, Northolt Road c1965 (ref: S642019) |
Year: 1965
Rocking In The 60s A memory of South Harrow, Middlesex On the left of the photo is Woolworths, above which were flats - including one where the rock star/ wannabe MP Screaming Lord Sutch lived for a while. Another Rocker lived in South Harrow - Johnny Kidd (and the Pirates). I used to live just off Corbins Lane. St Pauls Church built a church hall in a lane that went off Park Lane. This was a venue for local bands (called "The Void"), including a group of young men who played quite loud and called themselves "The High Numbers", people would say "The Who?" and so they changed their name. As they became more famous they moved to a more regular venue a few miles up the Road, The Station pub at Harrow and Wealdstone station. Back in South Harrow a pub nearby, the "Tithe Farm" also hosted live bands and I remember going to hear Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band there. In Harrow on the Hill the Arts school ("Harrow Art" ) had dances with bands like "The Pretty Things" - the local Mods used to have dances upstairs at Burtons Tailor shop - with bands like Geno Washington. Local Cinemas would have touring "Package Shows" - The Granada in Harrow being the main one - people like the Beatles, Roy Orbison, The Crystals, Gene Pitney etc. Often the same supporting bands would come so you got to know them well - Manfred Mann, The Kinks, The Hollies. At another cinema (The Gaumont?) I remember seeing Tom Jones on his first tour - he'd been called in to replace the American PJ Proby, who had offended people in the previous town by allowing his tight trousers to rip on stage! Last edited: 05/12/2008 10:29 by Eric Medcalf |
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Year: 1947
Earlsmead School A memory of South Harrow, Middlesex I wonder if anyone else can remember Earlsmead School, which was housed in the reception rooms of Mrs Bates's home at 13 Corfe Avenue. I lived across the road at No 14, where I was born in 1942, and I was allowed to begin my education there at the age of three. Every morning the thirty or so pupils, aged from three to fourteen, had assembly at which we said prayers and sang hymns and the school song: Scientia potestas est, 'Tis Earlsmead that calls for the best, Our best in work, our best in play, With joyful hearts we start each day. How different it must have been for me when we moved to Hayes in 1948 and I transferred to Pinkwell School, with 40 children in a class! In 1996 I went back to Corfe Avenue and met the current owner of our house, who was very welcoming. I had some photographs with me and she was as interested to see how the area had changed as I was. No sign of Earlsmead School though! Last edited: 05/11/2008 19:53 by Wendy Rhodes |
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South Harrow, Northolt Road c1965 (ref: S642019) |
Year: 1964
Stanley Road A memory of South Harrow, Middlesex I lived at number 90 Stanley Road from 1964 until 1985. My dad worked at the Gas Board at the top of the road where the gas holder always seemed to dominate the skyline. Although it was an ugly building it was part of South Harrow and I think a few people were sad to see it taken down. Not many people knew that it was a nesting site for a pair of kestrels and they nested there since I was a kid until they pulled it down. I can remember when they built Brember Road and knocked three houses down to make the new road and built industrial units round the back. The market was always an exciting place to go as kids and most of the market traders knew us and our parents. At the top of the road was an old antique shop called the Brass Monkey and I think Grahams the sweet shop was opposite. Just further down under the railway bridge was Toy Craft Seventy and we always used to sneak round the back of the shop and root around the rubbish and sometimes find old broken toys that they threw out . I remember only once ever going to the cinema in Northolt Road to see Jungle Book, then not long after it closed down as part of the building collapsed. Once, when all us kids were playing in the street a steam engine stopped on the railway bridge at the bottom of the road and we were all waving at the driver, it caused great excitement as we had never seen one before. Another shop I remember well was Macdonalds Fishing Tackle shop which was a short walk under the arches and up the road and it was on the corner. The hedges around the shop were cut into shapes of fish by an elderly man that lived around the corner and he was always tinkering with an old 1950s red Volvo. I haven't been back for years but the last time I did it was almost unrecognisable, it was a lovely old town full of wonderful memories but sadly as with everything, things change and like they say, you should never go back! Last edited: 11/09/2008 10:44 by Paul Cook |
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