wait that was, but lovely when we collected all the money. I can't remember if it was actual money, or metal discs. Perhaps someone else can remember.

te line..happy xmas zeta you and your family .lots best wishes for the new yr..co op very small supermarket.grocer store still at harefield village by Ruislip middx..not many about..

the Railway Hotel at the bottom of the station. They always treated us both with respect. Lovely memories.

a plaque in the bar with family names on but cant remember who they were or what for.

by my grandfather. There is also a roll of honour for workers at the margarine factory. The war memorial in the grounds of what used to be St John's church hall in Western Road near the top of Brent Road may be of interest. I am currently researching my grandfather's WW1 history and the mystery of where he was for the first years after he returned in 1919. I am preparing a 10 minute video for the Western Front Association.

w...enlisted king printers office .the king st....gt at ealing library...yes....

e Hart and Community Centre.

op groups.it is now Tesco supermarket...burtons southall broadway corner

s, what a joint that was.

eing all the aforementioned pop stars at the Dominion in Southall.

to Uxbridge from
Tachbrook Road. Happy days of growing up with lovely memories.

record..or get singles from woolies

s or photos seem to exist

e of them all, some others that we haven't mentioned are Stephen Barker, Gillian Edwards, Colin Younger, Shelia Saunders, Patsy Blundell, Wendy Sutherland, Alfred Cooper, Peter Black do you remember them too. Regards to you and your family - Jean

ered Barry Buckingham, Keith Moore, Vivien Hook, Gillian Bull and Jean Spring it's funny how these names come to mind when you think back, and as you say it's such a shame that we have all lost touch with our childhood. Also just remembered Kathleen Norkett. Perhaps we can find a way to exchange email addresses privately perhaps Yvonne can help.

mails.friends reunited.the site email you to give you a comment from member privately...crown cork is there... schools..clubs...roads neighbours lived door number yrs....excellent format..but so badly changed people cant use it now..undersouthall.lots were there.photos etc..

en on here the 50s tv radio childrens shows..bill ben..muffin..andy pandy etc.puppets etc there..loads there of 40s 50s etc...but out on the wobbly bridge thames.st pauls and the globe..the new skyscrapers are amazing..

1963. Can remember loads of others too. Happy days. chris xxxx

er, Helen Smith and Bob Heatlie. It really was a great place to work and I enjoyed my time there, I left in 1967 when I married and moved away from the area. Do you remember any of these people. Greta was a really nice lady she left to have a baby which if I remember rightly was a little girl.

family, Frankie Boulter, Jackie Younger, Susan Claridge, my brothers friends Roger Hall, Colin Wills, Gillian Card, Terry Hewitt, Pete Williams and Hugh Lyle. Do you remember Mrs Fletcher's garden with all those ornaments in? They used to fascinate me when I was small. Then there were Robert and Brenda Stevens who lived just on the corner of Western Road and the Common. I believe that Brenda fell in the canal and almost drowned do you remember that? Best wishes Jean

family, Frankie Boulter, Jackie Younger, Susan Claridge, my brothers friends Roger Hall, Colin Wills, Gillian Card, Terry Hewitt, Pete Williams and Hugh Lyle. Do you remember Mrs Fletcher's garden with all those ornaments in? They used to fascinate me when I was small. Then there were Robert and Brenda Stevens who lived just on the corner of Western Road and the Common. I believe that Brenda fell in the canal and almost drowned do you remember that? Best wishes Jean

family, Frankie Boulter, Jackie Younger, Susan Claridge, my brothers friends Roger Hall, Colin Wills, Gillian Card, Terry Hewitt, Pete Williams and Hugh Lyle. Do you remember Mrs Fletcher's garden with all those ornaments in? They used to fascinate me when I was small. Then there were Robert and Brenda Stevens who lived just on the corner of Western Road and the Common. I believe that Brenda fell in the canal and almost drowned do you remember that? Best wishes Jean

ten?
Pamela Morgan went on to have a second child, Tina, with her husband Vic and they moved to Sompting in Sussex to be next door to Mr and Mrs Chandler who had retired from James Walker Jewellers and more or less adopted the whole family and helped them out a lot.

p to mischief. My mother was shocked when a Salvationist turned up one evening with a Bible for me, awarded for Good Attendance - she had no idea I'd been going to the services - I was supposedly C of E!

r I think, that it was Vick Anderson that she married, she was quite worried about telling her mother when she became pregnant with Simon, I think that I must have married and moved away by the time she had her second child. Do you hear anything of her now? What about Hillary Scott how is she getting on these days? I spoke to Linda earlier this week she is keeping well also her family, I passed your good wishes on to her. Best wishes Jean

area.
Haven't seen her for a long time now.
Best wishes, Penny

home. I used to play with her before we went to school I don't think she ever went to Western Road School. I don't know what happened to her after that. It's a pity that you no longer see Hillary, I really appreciate the friendship that I still have with Linda it's always a good time when we get together and recall precious childhood memories. I hope that the little bit of information that I have given helps you remember some of the children that I have mentioned.

outhall hayes..Farringdon on tv news.bore tunnel drill to be left down there with time capsule.in concrete for new crossrail.working 2 yrs..

Can anyone remember the shops name.I have not walked round Southall for years, I only seem to return for sad events these days. I'm sure the Arcade was opposite the old original Sainsbury store.

ing everybody with a smile
We come along on Saturday morning
Knowing it's well worth while
Every Saturday morning
Where do we go?
Getting into mischief Oh dear no!
We come along on Saturday morning
Greeting everybody with a smile smile smile
Greeting everybody with a smile

ene Autry.
Each week apart from the film and cartoon, there was an episode of a serial

is still being used with a large section given over to Moslem burials etc. It is therefore not so sad looking.I was unable to find my uncle's grave but I will try contacting the managing authority to see if they have a record.

ans brother etc worked for..built up loads of areas around and far,...opposite his house .shackleton..on the north side..was southall brick works..next to that..number 2..is..mr Everett Harry...in 1914..they probably put a name on their house after the s Africa town..may have been bought or rented with boar war army pension.or after a family member killed there....boar war many fought in ..in 1900s yrs..that name not on post office list.....so that is just the east side...west side ..west of lady marg not built until later..much of further lady marg areas not built till later on...nan moved in 1928..

.famous place like that....my family lived Heston..famous hounslow.barracks 1800s india peacekeeping forces..etc....Heston row labourers cottages rented called agra cottages after military.places india..Victoria empress india..lots places got Africa india...towns.. names.locally.

t door to Petries the chemist on the Kingsley Avenue/North Road corner

ome were masons at southall lodge..if the house was named by a mason..with brother lodge at south Africa..there was uitenhage lodge was cape s Africa..says google...

the brick diggings.

.....clayton.up by north.canal.west edge.willowtree hayes side.going near taylor Woodrow..brickmaking..dug out..some pond areas still there wharfs rail..were there..London rubbish came to use as fill in..the old gravel clay pits dug out .bricks went off canal transport......top part lady marg was long time to start build loads houses in all directions..old lady lived in hse near carlyle junction refused to move her hse was In the way of road being built going north..1930s.onwards gradual slow build.and new rds build

s back.as.mr everitt harry.at number 2...female harry family also...he is born 1874 37 at 1911 so 27 if south Africa war 1901..he may call hse after it..but post office just have it as number 2..up north rd junction end...1907 age 4 1911..everitt Seymour harry living there...a son..in 1911..

y taken in the summer and my arms were dark. I used to get very tanned in the summer.

s old ..small children..war yrs.starting..8 the rough age 1939.large class..would that be ..one more another yr and class then 11 go to grammar or dormers...so this is yr before the last class form at tudor rd..thanks....got western rd sch 1929 age 5/7 kids..will put on..

ing the board though.

8..what incredible luck....do you know any names..best wishes.

again in class! I think there was a family of Stockers living in Spikes Bridge road.

e luck you have you..1939...how incredibly lucky is that...2013.and the luck..so pleased

1984...and if she went back to his welsh family.......wales death 1993 Swansea...most people always married moved on..most left southall...some stayed local....

are happier today than we were 60 years ago when we had nothing.

year, which the doctors said was brought on by stress. My Dads name was George Flynn and lived in Derwent Road. Having said that I had a few good night in the social club after playing the AEC
At rugby.

ing in there...marvellous place free,,

grateful to him..1965ish....1964 school trip Salzburg we were pushed out of piazza..while they filmed...the filming..going on...at the time....back our pages here len might have spoken of billy.....billy wrote famous fitness etc.book...........1929.a boxing fight

itage blue plaques for most people now..London middx etc..

........but photo with each long line of nostalgia.local social history.memories...and lots yrs now..facebook is huge...rare work they do on London...and southall etc...local social history..credit to them...............they do like..tick.. to each and it stays allowed.because of huge use response........people don't feel ignored.or wasted time..so advert promoter keeps it going..free...........but nothing here..if knowhere go under.lost..wonder..many times this site out for 3 days or so...struggling.......pity.credit to all those who have contributed..pity if not poss access the archive here goes back 11 yrs.....nostalgia..but no photos...is the secret.for success.jog.response

ss..and generosity ..and interesting........as here.over all our yrs...

a here...but goes off line several days..wonder why.......facebook..members free know they loose site if not enough tick likes or comments...so extra effort put in...they just tick if lack time...at least people don't think..their precious generously spent valuable time...is not wasted.....cant waste.valuable rare time..being generous.........strictly.monitored they keep their smaller selected sites..nice ..extremely good people.kind hearted.interesting folk..and pictures gt....

sible..ha......40s 50s...........fred.many good people members have developed..closed .monitored sites..generous valuable time team.leaders..quality not quantity..over the last couple yrs...instant check.monitor...and..achievements..are amazing at the ..archive collection..from good people ..like all of ourselves..comments..research..pictures maps .diagrams photos of all yrs..family etc.....each town...before computers people always loved ..local.social info...library book shelves it is the most borrowed...computers and people are doing it that way daily...with gt kindness and intelligence.....other places on line..of as you say fred..yes .not the need to go there belong there..read or spend any valuable time ..with any of that.as you were saying fred..........but chosen site quality not quantity..people..organise.restrict monitor daily......just the chosen..specific monitored sites...exsisting for several yrs now..achieving gt..enjoyment..daily.........so probably be why all the knowhere sites in recent yrs.dont.........members.are also from.schools southall .Greenford..hanwell grammar etc...dormers feathers .western rd.........because.friends reunited .also decline.........so they have moved.site..

council.uxbridge high st.civic centre built........while charter borough town of southall 1965 yrs swept up into..ealing borough council..with hanwell acton.greenford Northolt.perivale........so.on st bernards site now..of old...norwood geneology.....it is ealing main general hospital....on southall land.....ha ..shame such a carve up....my poor nan..would..have been surprised..but died 1961.......ealing broadway the civic centre.built.huge,, council for the borough now..about 7 towns.......ha...heathrow expansion.recent.resident voters were from the 3 big huge boroughs...Hounslow..Hillingdon.ealing..

mbers len goddard was and contributed.........finding.old friends.known names..neighbours etc..making new ones of similar backgrounds.....daily..contributions...several yrs now..rare photos.......chris and dylis told us of .it...a long time ago now.........

members are always welcome. In fact they organised a get together at The conservative club a couple of weeks ago although a lot of us couldn't go because we live in different parts of the country now and of course some are a bit to old to travel. Do join.Give it a try. If you don't like it you can always unjoin.

rted at Heston & built a few aircraft of there own design, I belive some Heston aircraft crashed locally 1 Cranford park, 2 Osterley park, I have read that some Americn Boston bombers where coverted to Leigh Light bostons at Heston unfotunatly after the war in my time the only residents was some gravel pits for the runwasy at London airport & Heston Aircraft co. which i belive survied into the late 1960s. All thats left now is the large hanger that is listed.

airport...names 1950s 60s estate roads after all the aviation history there.....lady late 80s now..of there said curfew ris sun pub cranford lane half way down..war not allowed to go further....danger...her hse got bombed rebuilt after war...1944 nans cousin hubby..direct hit buz bomb..no corpe but 3 names on stone Heston church he 1944........he survived somme of Kaiser but Nazi hitler got him..old man way work on bike direct hit.she lost a good gentle hubby...there..........dad loved working hest airport sad...close went to heathrow did not enjoy to retire....

age 1957 they were all born in 1870s....pulled down new ba..staff terraced houses build instead.....in front of new ringway ..ba..staff houses...there now..but airport was never built there after all....we have photo of the old labourers cottages...brickfields gravel pit working ..old north star pub...by it all at canal dock old oak.pub.

s how you remember ..was playground around back..big shelter up near back of school building there at back playground..would that be lady marg thanks...grateful..thanks...sections 4 square windows.high .each classroom..

THERE THOSE YRS.........................THANKS...NEXT WED THURS..7PM BBC2..DAN SNOW.70 YR OLD SPIT BY USA PILOT.EXCAVATE ETC...N IRELAND..ETC..

nd etc....gt fun.....many yrs.....convertions they did lots at Heston planes ..passenger to cargo..etc..take seats out etc......dad loved it at Heston...but heathrow was horrid to his retire...........boac/ba..

is crazy fit jobs in...got photo.1948 Greenford high st..105 bus..1948 going windmill lane greenf to southall 1948..says on bus from acton..would be western ave.....

er behind it...other trolley old bus uxbridge areas....etc there etc

s there. This photo is exactly as I remember it all.
Happy memories.

hse by pk entrance....google Britain from above.

old in Tesco etc..£15.by amberley...photo of v2 rocket bombed out crown parade shops flats above..uxbridge rd...eric blair taught hayes was famous George orwell1930s..phil lived there all life...does lots on heathrow expansion local villages regularily..meetings etc.....gazette this week..good move at last on develop gaswks..was halted 2009..but.....agree....owners...site opposite crossrail new southall station...site..restaurant shops..hotel..cinema..health care...primary sch..52500sq ft space..landscape gdn.....30yrs to build.....bridges over yeading brook and canal....by Beaconsfield ...on the plans....southall to hayes minet park land there nature..lands.....

pulling their cargo, so they had to have their harness removed and walk along the narrow towpath beneath the bridge while the bargee would use their feet against the bridge to push the barge along. It was magical at night when I was in the front bedroom as when I heard their barges come chugging along with that chug chug chug sound, I would get out of my bed and watch them in the dark with their little lights on. It's something I have never forgotten. We knew they carried coal, but didn't know about the jam. Those dear, gentle horses worked really hard, and when I read one day that they were all shot when they were no longer needed, it really upset me. Good to hear about the development of the gasworks. It will certainly improve the place for everyone, but 30 years!!

lled it...up from you south......dock into factory from canal..shoot coal to them boil jam etc...run factory....biscuits etc....bargees still do the run in memory..............of deceased bargees now...who did it so many times....Paddington...run...uxbridge to Birmingham...lovely window you had and being there so interesting...preserved terraced cottages heritage grade listed....so special......aerial photos spike gd1937 and 2013 aug new pavilion...15board..etc..1948 bus Greenford up along side redlion pub..old bus..good photo...men inside..workers etc...board15

iforms and hats. The new Pavilion in Spikes Bridge looks very modern, but I still prefer our old white pavilion that we had as youngsters!

tal.....etc...yrs.....behind north parade shops...south bottom end of Allendale rd...east side....

was when it was suspected diphtheria, but happily it turned out not to be. This was in 1942. The windows were heavily sandbagged, and my mother, who was about to have my sister Kathleen, came with my Aunt Isobel to see me. It was very difficult to talk to them through the window. When it was time to leave, my Uncle Jim, who was a taxi driver, came to pick me up and I went home with him to my aunt in Acton. I had to stay with them for quite a while as my mother had gone into a convalescent home after the birth of my sister. Although they were very kind to me, I really missed all my family, but that was war!

g there..also......ivy house has amazing history on 1894 map it is there..abbott the famous southall firm high st he lived there......fine houses mansions..shrubbery .shepherds haw the southall park mansion...all on the old maps..gentry houses ..of the main.famous coaching road uxbridge rd..

st centre.council half way house.waiting on the council list for property..families children...40s etc yrs...

r mother asking her to be moved away from her. She was moved away, and I didn't mind as I didn't like her any way. I can still remember her name (although I won't publish it. She lived at the top of Dane road.

dor they let you in holidays..have good look round.........kates mum from Clarence st family...57.goldsmith..we had .ours at 83..87....yrs 1911..1908..clarence st..3pm..christening George tomorrow st james..

must have been tearing her hair out when the coach arrived home and I wasn't on it.

een to prefabs ..far bit that goes across to bunny pk...8th parade.....walk from dormers infants through 3 alleys ..opposite there to north rd..out to west ave northcote..rd...alleys went from there to tudor sch..etc etc ha

was head..mrs gray her secretary..parker .typing shorthand.etc etc.1970 prefabs replaced by flats..photos of faraday rd..the tall wall..dip to row of shops.co op..sweet shop etc..still similar today.old peoples home..built on the mound there..dr cohen..our doc..

days bunny park and golf links, all the way to Hanwell. Long walks to Osterley Park. Brick walls and trough at entrance to prefabs, meeting place for all the kids. Ball games, hopscotch, skipping, five stones, two balls, marbles. What a wonderful childhood I had.

so obviously everybody moved all over the place.

easter 1967...so we had.had only female teachers...some left they did not want merger...morris was head...dr cohen Greenford rd..by white hart pub..which is now flats...red lion Greenford gone as well.....bunny pk..gt use every yr...every generation since 30s...gt use ..tube bridge walk....brent river....tall spire church...

ol class and we were sorry when she left. Cant remember name of geography teacher or history. Remember assembly in morning when we tried to out-sing the boys and when us girls wore our plastic hoops in skirts and were made to take them out during assembly - bits of plastic everywhere.

there....was hut..music...gt assembly grand piano...LP classical records with her had limp...rubber mats horse to get over frames at wall hall..hockey...track field relay long jump high jump...dinner hut end of field .lunch prayer....yes morris..table outside her office..lay registers all there.....evans re..mad bad.evil hated kids..room.whole day .hated everybody..sielence lessons..she never taught anything...mute...old tweeds boot brown shoes ..retired 1966....Ofsted would have sacked her..kids complained about her...loads memories..6 yrs seniors dormers...foot library chambers maths,,lowe art...short pe....jones pe...tatersell French...sewing treddle machine...Mikado etc stage shows girls dressed as boys..teams was cavell mauve..fry nightingale 6 teams houses...badges captain and sport white librarian.head girl...

it was because I couldn't answer one of her questions. Domestic Science - learning how to make a pot of tea, pressing a pair of trousers, bit of a joke. Yes remember the treadle sewing machine, liked dressmaking but couldn't wait for next lesson to finish and did it at home instead. Got into trouble for that.

sted would have sacked her.....elderly..there 50s 60s..she was there.long yrs...her wage pkt ..for nothing...nerves of some poor kids..was after war...not .great lives problems..and kids to put up with her as well..she ..got her kicks from..bully kids.silence 4 yrs of hours...money to teach nothing.......never mixed with teachers recluse..spinster...she retired july 1966....did not want boys of 1967 merge...she was well over 60 well over..hateful person..mental disorder

o very much and love their kids..kids pass exams etc...evans did nothing at all for 20yrs or more..50s after war vunerable kids..she added more torment to ..lack of esteem kids..so young really.......to put up with her evil

g qualification at all..she just used it as a massive bully place and pay her rent for doing no work at all..

stroppy I suppose. Couldn't wait to leave school and earn money. First job at Home Electrics in South Road in the offices(I think later Rumbelows). There used to be a coffee shop upstairs. First wage was £4.50s.0d a week and had to give £2 to my mum, shock had to exist on 30 bob a week, bus fares, clothes, going out etc. etc.

e shelter not demolished till into 1970s....discus .javelin yes .on our back field..built on now indoor swim pool.sport leisure centre drama etc..and new glass building..there with main entrance security.cards swipe at..Allenby rd entrance now......

k ginger hair....1963/4 new science block built....well at top corridor 6th form room new at labs..new 6th form upstairs toilet....library top floor art block new..old huts stayed for 10 more yrs before demolish..............

to work they treated me very well and were very kind to me when my mum passed away.

to work they treated me very well and were very kind to me when my mum passed away.

to work they treated me very well and were very kind to me when my mum passed away.

to work they treated me very well and were very kind to me when my mum passed away.

steps ups..small lesson groups back of stage door......upstairs sci..fischel her botany plants..then .after 3/4 yrs she.got her new labs at last bunson burner....10 of us did human boilogy gce...skeleton she had hanging...plastic organs.take apart model.......her dad was doctor from Vienna.......bishop taught some loer classes...she went with ellis of history..on 1964 trip Salzburg .Mozart..and sound music being filmed there...got pushed out of piazza..when cameras were rolling.......

covered up for her...mad insane behaviour..

for tv..nerve racking..about 1960...1960 fashion..starting..London Liverpool scene..60s beatles mary quant carnaby st etc..

1900.to 1980s southall...of future king gran...

uthall grammar..local family...

the asylum.and Heston hundreds yrs..

l spoke to bbc news..of it in 1958..plane cargo crash...

ions..stimulates chat nostalgia info.........they have to tick ..like.......or add sentence contribute...or loose site.....enough members and enough responses..keeps site annually...if not loose site..........so nobody gets ignored..loose heart..effort.valuable time put.in.......but.with nostalgia talking point photos at .flickr...just silences..so..heartbreaking of...yrs of massive valuable time.wasted.........but..gt friend .kind words .thanks chat at facebook...schools there neighbours now..because friends reunited really ended..........so only one site daily sours ahead 5 yrs and more now...facebook closed invited sites groups with .5 admin monitor it so ill use..deleted person immediately.......

ived where..the roads schools friends etc...groups of yrs ago...loyal members there for 5 yrs and more......mike your name is there len goddard etc.for 5/7 yrs len there....many..names there..

sorted sections at leisure...all ages..there....

et names...remain..as clue to it...streets there are haydock...ascot..Newmarket...estate built there post war..opened 1929..earl harewood there...special trains layed on from Marylebone London....and Paddington...6000 parking...1st prize was£175..1 and half mile track....60 days racing..for 11 yrs..charity nights for the toast of society....1st electric time clock....1938 1st bbc outside broadcast racing..held..there.......clever starting gates for jockeys.....5 stands and royal box..restaurant renound..race to 1st yr of war last race june 1940...war dept ordinance depot.and prisoner war camp..became there....working the farms there...famous smith farm there.....camp.Italian so at xmas.gt there.barmen from Italy.used local pubs as well..several stayed England after war 2 became pub landlords..from being inmates..there....

k evans..1938 was location..1951 they had race there..before demolish hse estate built there 1955...yes gt if you had taken photos.....photo 1955 of derelict site and stands there....in last week gazette....1966.yrs 1st zcars tv..police..filmed in the area..bbc tv series.brian blessed etc..lots aerial photo s ...of racecourse in Britain from air in google......

. I clearly remember racing results from Hurst Park, but that's housing now too.

y....shows you all this in google..........we never used it...my southall cousin..Canada his daughter works for..main..best google..in san Francisco..gt ..people...

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ds..terraced houses etc..filled the road up...demolished hse but 2013 ..wall bits there...wall around the garden...big gentry house..

hey are worth noe , they lived there 29 yrs .I
Also Mavis Cripps and all the family in fact I can name most of the families that live there

.thanks..photo of the old wall etc...this week...they have never built on the space.......

1920 or yr 1913......also..or the wall...Sheila did you play there.....this week dozen photos of the space and wall still there............

of the boarded up hse...1950s it seems to have gone........north rd is the censusman..record of its occupants entrance door.....1897 8 terraced houses seem to have been built along the front of the estate ...of shrubbery gentry house.....the builder might have used some of the rubble....good you say boardedhouse 1940ish yrs...no photos in google of the hse......shrubbery rd..the 1897 terrace of houses ..the new more modern block flats...chris moses shop.ALL WEST SIDE and little row shops on the site of 1932 old grove cottages known to dilys....then grove terrace..then grove hse yr 1720...then the sweet shop..goldswain and baxter and owners..then north rd school...street view 2012 is good......grateful to you ..thanks...xx..boarded hse 1940s.ish.seems to be shrubbery hse ..8 people occupied it bedrooms....garden grounds ornate wall boundary.of 1844 mand made bricks..design elaborate.......north rd clinic...chris moses would know....xxxbig thankyou my dear.

d...it is on the main.rd..east of north road school.....then bob would play ..in this space of rubble and rubbish that was behind grove hse on the south behind of it...extending to the north..back gardens of shrubbery rd......thanks...grateful my dear..xxx..3 storey high fine grove hse still there protected on street view and in google is nursery school....

st wishes lots of love..xx

y marriage and all the descendants who could have helped have long gone!

erhaps Eileen went to dormers senior school pre 1951......
...my aunt of west ave baby 1948.died age 2 .meningitis.....
..record book has him buried in Marjorie blake died 1943 vase added 1935 Havelock grave.....my aunt baby buried in there 1948.......yes know new rd..yes know it..I worked beechams out that way.......xxxxx...dilys might know.....207 north rd up by her....

oundary wall of famous 1855 to 1900s..the shrubbery hse asylum for 2 females..8 people staff lived there...area of the old smithy...north back of north gardens of shrubbery rd......walls around the old gentry house big...bit s..of walls still there.this month 2013 20 photos taken...and.1897..terraced 8 houses....built along the front.......terrace.south ..left side of chris moses pudney rmt shoeshop with the shops..north rd.......did you hear of ruins of old hse....best wishes..to you and jan.....

O FAIRLAWN GARDENS WHICH WAS ALONG SIDE NORTH ROAD SCHOOL.

till little children in our mind's eyes.

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ll there to see as the ancient trackway headed off to East Anglia. But, alongside that video were links to others, and one that is particularly interesting is Heathrow in 1949, a fabulous documentary actually showing some of the old Heath Row village being destroyed as they built the airport. This is well worth a look and it said in that 1949 video that building was likely to continue for SIX years. If only they knew what they had created.............

...busy area...married there 1830....then back to southall green norwood green......fern lane Heston..the next ones settled.....married across west .tracks.....at harmondsworth...then back to fern lane...work walking for.......married out there...farms orchards...old labourers tracks...

it moved over the bridge by the side of Hayes station, as it reminded me of the time I went on the back of a tandem for the first time and nearly brought my husband off. We had borrowed it after a Christmas party. Also seeing Botwell Green and the little park where we girls from EMI used to have our lunch in the summer time and catch up on the gossip, and Coldharbour Lane, that very long lane that we cycled up so many times. Uxbridge road with that huge building which sometimes had been a cinema (can't remember the name) and then a Bingo Hall. We were always over that neck of the woods as we had relatives in both Balmoral Drive and Mellow Lane East. Lovely, lovely memories.

oad were garages and a builders yard. The only big house I can think of was Grove House, which is still there. Sadly all my family have passed on now, so no one I can ask about a Shrubbery House. The ginger headed girl you talked about was Ann Harrison. Her father was in the navy, and her and her mother lived with the other grandparents in Park View Road, the road by Holy Trinity Church when her father was away. She used to visit her mother's family in Shrubbery Road. I used to go and play with her often in Park View Road. I drove down Shrubbery Road recently, (a trip down memory lane) and was very pleasantly surprised at how well kept all the houses still are. Keep the memories flowing, and I add my thanks to Yvonne for all her hard work. All my family except for me are on facebook, but I prefer to stay clear of it!

think..it decline.....walls there today..have dozen photos today..probably walls around the grounds gardens....gardener and coachman dwellings..next to grand hse...doors onto north rd...by the later.smithy.1950s..new flats 50s 60s.on the left ..south of parade shops..by chris moses gdad shoes repairs......south by junction..shrubbery rd..built 1910/20ish..or.yr 1900 the oldest terrace row shrubbery rd built.......their back gardens north....onto open space yard garages....we have and it .seem s 1894map shows grounds garden of THE SHRUBBERY HSE.small asylum......now 3 rows garagesthere...through alley ways..by 1897.built plaque there 8 terraced tall hses north rd westside.....through the south end shop and through right north side of new flats block..dozen photos.of 1844 walls old bricks there ornate.design....library being asked for photo of the hse ealing mr oates.librarian..pity we are too late to ask parents etc...get tv..time team there...be gt...ha...xx

of some council houses....gradually..private buying houses..morgage..always been rope round neck..fear............but then modern times buy the council hse at discount...thanks phyl...yes....

recently taken photos of the old..parts of 1844 walls around shrubbery grand hse...still there.ornate design...no photo of the hse yet..demolished about 1920 probably....1897.built terrace tall houses along that part of north rd west side.....

the curtains were all drawn in our back room and I remember that it seemed as if we were all waiting for something to happen. My father also told us to run indoors fast if the wooden contraption with a square piece on top in our front garden changed colour. I know I did keep looking at it for a while, but nothing happened. I believe it was to detect a gas raid.

more either, - all expensive luxury flats I expect

rd Hounslow....1958 kelvin gdns sad crash...crossing the lady marg rd to school...smelt the burning etc..it was awful early morning..terribly sad for the families houses there...the mayor..Johnson haigh went..bbc.went pathe film..photos in google..gazette article there..................

said that he was always grateful for the large number of anti aircraft guns etc. installed to protect the gasworks.The recently published website with the bomb hits shows the sticks of bombs directed at the works and the landmine that I was told blew out all of our windows. I remember the anderson shelter in the garden and the pieces of shrapnel and anti radar aluminium "window" foil that I found in the garden for some years after the war. In later years I played a sound effects record of the sirens and was quite shocked to see how it upset my mother. I hate to think what the legacy of the current Syrian conflict will be for its people.

guest in the car of a worker there and went on a school trip to what is now the old control tower. It was also very easy to cycle there and go to the viewing gallery and wonder at the airport shops and restaurant. Any purchases were well beyond my pocket. My first flight as a student was from Luton in an ex WW2 transport prop aircraft flying to Berlin where I ended up sleeping that night on a park bench. The start of another very long story I am afraid.

se boards. I lost interest when the jets came. Caravelles were an attractive aircraft though.

Only a few days ago was the Shoreham Airshow. The Lancaster bomber flew directly over Arundel where I am now on its way back. FABULOUS engine sound!

at Ealing library to look at the 1915 local papers. I have gone from having just names in my grandfathers WW1 diary to seeing full obituaries and photographs. I must now get back to follow some other leads including the de Salis family who live at Dawley Park House. I remember Dawley Wall as I cycled past the old EMI building towards Hillingdon but the house has long gone. Is the wall still there?

er aircraft by adding a bubble to the top to carry passengers

t 1915 and died in a Lincolnshire hospital in October. He is buried in Harlington. The census of 1911 shows him with his family and a number of servants living at Dawley Court. In Hillingdon library many years ago there was a print showing the grand Dawley house and the formal gardens. Since his brother also died in the war, it is possible that the lack of heirs contributed to the demise of the estate.

.the mile long dawley wall ancient is still there heritage preserved...photo in google...

tenure: until this time much of Bolingbroke's decorations and furniture had apparently remained unchanged. The house was demolished soon after Paget sold it in 1772. The much smaller though still considerable house on the site in the 19th century was said to have been formerly part of the out-offices. It was not used by the de Salis family, who never lived in Harlington parish, though from about 1835 to about 1929 they occupied the house called Dawley Court (since demolished) in Corwell Lane, just outside the north boundary of the parish. They leased their Dawley property, and for some decades around 1800 Tattersall's may have been occupying it as a stud-farm. In 1816 the house which had been made from the remains of the Dawley House buildings was said to be a farm-house and it is later known to have been occupied by the tenant of the surrounding land. Another and less pretentious farm-house was later built to the south of it. In 1929 Cecil Fane de Salis sold both houses with 23 acres of land to what was then the Gramophone Co. of Hayes. The farm-house was demolished and Dawley House was allowed to fall into decay. It was finally demolished several years before 1959. The only visible relic of the house and park is now the brick wall which runs, with gaps, north from the E.M.I. factory to the end of the old parish and estate boundary. This appears to be substantially of 18thcentury brickwork.

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ars there are collapsing and are out of bounds. I remember going into the tunnels in the walled HaHa but they were blocked up some way in and are now blocked at the entrances. Lucinda Lampton referred to secret tunnels from the demolished Cranford house and there were steel shutters covering an entrance of some sort in the ground. It is difficult now to see inside the church as it is generally locked but I did like the tudor monument and the connection with the crusades. I have some old colour transparencies of the inside that I took when I first had a camera. I have an early 1900s postcard showing the Splash that is now the site of a large roundabout and adjacent to Tescos.

pt norwood green church 1802 so just see the old norwood southall etc..hayes dawley botwell 1820 bapt hayes st mary so they just see as start and before canal dug..irish navvies in tents..moving on......1837 rail....fields everywhere ford splash at yeading brook river crane...before bulls bridge built...one mine horse keeper bulls tow path 1861.......my aunt dad along canal dwelling 1914 onwards she said fields everywhere...ran across to cranford lane to relatives...workhouse 1803 to 1839...in google..southall green Featherstone rd was workhse lane feathers farm behind kids sent out to work there.........dread of wkhse...1800 vicar book says only 33 dwelling hamlet of southall green..............with manor hse and romans gentry hse..and Featherstone hall..........4 farms only southall green yrs 1800s.then new canal bursts through....brit hist online in google good read............mr meads book in google ..good read.........

owboats huge painted canal design flowers items..custom..folk art...

itage protected was famous parr pub designers architect ..but war stop build so finished 1918/9..unfortunately.comes out of antigue heritage law..quirk of fate.law does not bend....
....but northcote 1907.listed protected law....but like many .fire burnt it down.....

period detail of her family - parents, sister and two brothers plus the many other relatives from far and wide. I borrowed my copies from the local library.

..wrote about3/4....this maiden trip..in daily mail..read..in google...will keep reading thanks penny...blue scarlet paint folk art barge items....some...see today...lovely art work..preserved today.....plaited hair men choker scarf..gold earings.sunburnt faces..women look elderly but still youngish women..hard work....1970 last coal run to southall..kearley jam dock..biscuits brent rd.closed...ole jam ole.....but they come back memorial trips....100 yrs more of cargo...southall hayes factories.....their photos memories in google.....

0/91....canal bk maiden trip wrote1948 for quick money 200pages...telegraph etc good articles in google

emony....ewan flies a spit..and speaks to the few vets left...photo of concorde last flight to heathrow event...goes over Hounslow barracks..300yr old barracks

huge gates ..east side of osterley hse grounds..

fice.......redlion pub Greenford becoming flats....now.....dominion went arts centre built there..victory pub king Prussia now hotel.built on site....3 tuns pub.now hotel.....southall library .now run by private concern.......manor hse being preserved 2012 /3

venue where we lived in our childhood, and then our old Tudor road school where both David and I were in the infants and junior schools. In fact, it was a bit of an emotional trip when I stood looking at the boys' school in the playground. It was exactly the same except that the benches and overhead shelter was gone where the boys sat when it was raining. Even the windows were the same. I was so overjoyed to see it again that I caught my foot in a pothole outside the school and took a full length tumble. It was a good job that I landed on my bosom, although I did badly hurt my ribs! My brother suggested he took me home but I refused as I knew I'd never visit it again. We then saw our beloved Spikes Bridge and the canal and park where we both spent countless hours in our youth.
The bridge had changed from the criss-cross one with wooden planks that we knew, and the ledge we had both walked across on the outside was now gone. All the lovely reeds and bullrushes that used to grow alongside the canal had vanished, and it looked so different without all the greenery. In fact, it looked a different place. However, Spikes bridge park still had its running track, but the bowling green opposite the Pavilion was gone. The pavilion itself had been painted in anti-graffiti paint and it looked beautiful and white. The rose beds which used to be beneath the raised bowling green were still there, and it reminded me of all the times we girls as children used to gather the rose petals to make scent. I must admit it never ever smelt of scent! The playground was still there and the tennis courts where we used to climb over during the war to collect the shrapnel that had dropped the night before. We next visited Lady Margaret road where Dr Ginsborg, our family doctor, had his surgery. We had to thank him for my brother's life - twice, when he was a baby. So sad he only lived a few weeks after his retirement. Visited Southall Grammar school where we both went, although I was only there for two years as I had to earn my keep. It looked the same except there were cars parked everywhere

d church for colour slides of travel etc at a time when any such pictures (and especially in colour) were a novel event. As an aside, opposite the new church used to be a firm producing crumpets and on a Sunday a man with a tray of crumpets and a bell would come down Brent Road selling his wares.

ys been open used by Asian church groups...on right west side next door to it........

er brent.....so st ann..was there any photo...of this plaque.there .of the well they had there.....
have emailed..but different place now...library may know

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.......friend when 1940 at st ann.girls school...she..saw plaque marker on the water covered well pump..there...in the school..........hanewelle...saxon times origin..of the village.....river brent loads floods..wells springs..tributaries.....st ann slightly different school now but still there open.....no photo of the well plaque though yet....thanks..lovely...

Spencer painting of a local farm of which I was unaware.

rman Church was part of a dissolved priory and is adjacent to the farm.

I am still trying to trace the Turner watercolours of Southall that were published in the Gazette in the 1960s. These were in addition to the well known Windmill painting.

//1960s they supply the research to gazette..still do dr oates does weekly work for gazette retro..archive etc..collections..photos paintings etc.maps...many many yrs local collections...new building ealing broadway.....open 7days week..evenings also......

t of m5 motorway...west of stroud...near bath rd....Cotswolds........farm pond..painting....

ou.....big thankyou..always..xxx

e houses....but.used the main gate often myself...ha.....

he chimney on the left hand photo, there are exactly the same TV aerials etc. with a few more added. The white building at the end of the left hand photo was never there when we were kids. Also, the notice board on the left hand photo was obviously attached at a much later date than when we used that alleyway. Also, there were a few additions on the left hand photo (the later one) eg. a satellite dish added. It's also got the same "H" fire hydrant sign on both lamp posts.

spooky walked that bit quickly....they say that became...old peoples annexe
place....thankyou gt...photos are ..all kinds..15....yes your .study is wonderful thanks

ds ended up in canal by pottery their back garden canal..Havelock southall...£40000 wally bird £2000 others...£3 bought one sold for nearly £2000...rare unique sculpture salt glaze pottery.gt to see George on tv today....his home...worked so hard for southall lifetime..wrote bk on martin bros....etc etc.

manner of goods. Don't see many these days.

ure....we saw bridge pub..surprise...spread gt deal north..hotel conference centre.....saw yrs ago they built behind.hotel.rooms..but has spread all along front north...huge hotel pub space...flyover western ave....etc etc..lots photos......saw white hart space Greenford rd southall...flats there.....now...lots of horses.back of Osterley.now..nice.....3 bridges triangle lawn..close at wet side by canal...lovely sculpture there polished wood carved..letters 3 bridges ..homage to brunel..neat tidy very nice indeed.....1948 photo 105 bus shops Greenford high st.east end..

s it 1934......southall there aec.1928..spikes bridge..bulls bridge..etc .all there..youtube films google canal along...good...etc etc.

od? We used to have them as bedside cupboards when upended and a curtain put across. When times are hard ......

weather..huge new museum poole..lift 4 floors..free ..loads there..1950s 40s kitchen etc..but loads there...poole pottery free .gt see all..£400 more gt poole vases.hand painted..lady there 2 days..wonderful fine vase work she did..one vase..........prince harry new one.....making yachts for all over world..saw go out......5 being made..huge extremely expensive...went around all the islands...2 just been bought ..villa being built.......yes bp several yrs now on one but ok..see nothing..all green...swanage NT hills..gt smugglers tours..etc..loads dorset holiday....relaxing..quiet nice..picturesque...

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netball...sport...uniform...the building 1963ish..kids..staff..etc

still not found..picture of it yet in google...church must have it..Heston......Pauline...gt find....Cameron her grandparents lived Hounslow...Cameron went to springgrove school....house of banks she knew well etc.....1860 watercolour of old pre Heston church.......Victorians restored rebuilt so many..old ones......http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/720511.born_with_history_genes_in_me/...photo 37 died war emi hayes ..grave stone names in local cemetery....board11...15..etc...

in country..many mine there....stained glass window to q vctoria.jubilee....yr 2010 new stained glass window..left of altar..to land army ladies..Heston farm etc 2nd war.....st leneord in stain glass...child and many Osterley tombs in there...of earl jersey..manor hse thee yr1500s.........doomsday bk..of it ..q Elizabeth 1st favourite bread wheat of Heston........norwood green church yr1200..rebuilt..yr1860s..nearly fell down old...death watch beetle etc....often old wood...flint stone.stronger Victorians replaced....onwards of yrs.1802 bapt..family mine norw green..1850 mine of cranford lane Heston church records...books all London archive now...1970 I was lucky still able to handle them.the velvet books......but.now online ..or film at archive office..only...

n folded cracked..she payed to have it restored and put back in its frame.......our family church.many yrs....

included southall.....

..feb to june. married her...uxb reg dist.for southall etc.....lots photos etc...on ranville in google.....photograph dept they send you free photos....grave name etc...taylor if not on st john parish church board..but they may have put him on Featherstone rd school carved names monument..by brent rd junction western rd....

h I was hoping maybe someone who knew Ivy could help us solve.

photo..of war fund collection there 1942 ish yr..alderman there with kids..collection of money...

ibrary would know about tudor rd sch...war...............observation accounts diaries written by peole during the war ae in brown boxes at kew archive.....the..go through those..been on tv some of it........15 oct tudor rd he does not repeat the yr...but implies 1940........age 9 he was 1940....in google..new ..type ..bombsight.org.....it is arp records from town halls...map...red dots of bombs..click info..and they gradually in 2 yrs add info there..regina rd southall is there...broadway red dots..up by top of northcote ave...palace cinema..there southall pk there...bomb red dots on 1940 and now modern map..there at site...put in southall...viaduct uxbridge rd red dots and asylum..regina etc.there...Greenford had western ave factories and red dot mansell mornington rd area bad bombs

ths. Can't say I remember it, but we were off school quite a lot and only went in half days at times.

ing used to have a cup of tea and a biscuit! This would have been well before 1942 as my younger sister was born in February then.

ok..grandchildren......her hubby from kingsley rd by north rd born 1931....hes ok...gt..

am..courts justice the strand.............1987 frank hiles torquay..solicitor...............mills ..curry...90 field end rd,,Eastcote by uxbridge...today..solicitor......has 1 rl....postcode..................mills chody ..solicitor..harrow middx..today.................222 gt bus route...Hounslow bus garage probably......1950s....if anybody recognises the road route from the photo..solicitors......Hounslow library send them scan..photo email,,,,,,,,,,,james marshall librarian been there well over 30 yrs.........Hounslow....mr mendy .lifetime written for.retro history.for.Hounslow chronicle is 90 lifetimelived..hounslow Feltham...on facebook..with photos attached site...heritage history local..group..been going several yrs ..members......

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te a few yrs...in google..................lovely uxbridge sipson route of the bus ..yes saw...and Hounslow....I lived Heston Hounslow 1966...walked lampton rd many times...used the tube to my work as librarian bbc tv...shepherds bush white city.....demolish now...gone to...Salford Manchester ...new media tv...centre............my husband went to lampton rd grammar springrove.......lampton pk was lovely..may day...free festivals.........went to the wedding of my .bbc work mate at holy trinity by the bell pub..area of high st....1970.......new modern church of the famous history you spoke of keith...my nans brother married there 1906.............bulstrode hse hotel...lampton..rd..of.bulstrode gentry fame..1780s......just got his bulstrode land tax rent page in front of me..with my name..wingrove..tom payed.8/6...rent..1780payed.tom wingrove of Heston....1806..my gt gt gt wingrove born..Heston norwood green..ancestry is gt for family tree......archive from kew....

billy smart....................sally beach ...mr Thompson..of our site here you had ..as aunt sally.....Nellie beach of Hounslow........the lady called wood........gtgt gt of beach family......on this site......good photo we have....1938 funeral...if we can confirm the rd and confirm southall............BUT.1929.1930 ish death of....t w beach of brenford.high st ealing rd fame..many yrs.jam factory won prizes covent garden and exhibition London.......he would have had ..a huge funeral...photo..also.............

ld have been 120 via Lampton to Southall, then 607 (was tram route 7) to Uxbridge.

inating..........I walked....or got off bus if raining there....tony went out with his mum...a few nights age 17 and passed test ..in 15 mins..took white mini to grammar lampton rd..6th form..and Kingston poly.....npl.bushy teddington.civil service he was.science division........mini car went everywhere...including to my place ealing broadway ....then.....ha ..gt days mini car..white.....

me that the population in England has increased by 50% since that photo was taken. But what is frightening is that the world population has increased MORE than FOURfold in that time from 1.75Billion to 7.2Billion. Truly the world is running out of space, and it is therefore hardly surprising that our beloved West Middlesex has been put under the concrete mixer!

ers shop..there.......as you cross the road to town .hall........what do you think..Pauline denis.....................keith they are still emigrating.....also.....Australia Canada...and so many more countries now.......but .......dense
job and houses areas our small island sinking under the weight........for so many many yrs now...........grandchildren...how will their grandchildren be.....................

after selling flowers.
Kind regards Len

Thought this would be helpful, although there was also Stones electrical shop which Denis has already mentioned.

uncil..love the new upmarket look to attract..tourists.....so it has all gone yr ago..............the curve window canopy of ideal......

rtist sketcher.....but plan diagram.......same as me...if we can all do just plan diagram..of shops..of spikes etc...........we are not clever to do paintings ..full drawing sketches but map..type plans goes with memory.....sketch...where....water was...barge etc....just sketch plan...locations......your david is the only one to do us..wonderful drawing sketches of ....whole..eyes view...that is too much to ask..photo...but ..not many do wonderful paintings for us....but.....pencil..sketch...could put on flickr...scan page plan.maap..labelled memory places.....shops etc.........diagram...memories........

on..age 20ish..........photo of him age 20s....writing his 1st book..yrs....tall slim....good looking face..Scottish............dark hair...went to southall grammar.....born 16 nov 1916..........they say

t on his flickr.........but we are so lucky to have what we have..........rare photos info.....whatever ages are.............and southall memories especially you say sounds gt........zeta heard from few times told her all and sent photos that I have...................

..clyde etc...........problems youth.....in biog.........wall brick..age 9.at november.so 1924/5.....if changes a bit to bridge...brick wall curve high...not show the iron.parts in close up photo....cover picture ..blue does not say there it is spikes expect so...brick layers curve top........swim..ready.....jump off......I enlarged it to kids faces etc...there..........lucky niall....southall..mcnially really john.........thankyou...grateful..........

d down to bulls bridge......before modern painted white......might be that one......leaning over on for swim..............on blue cover white dome ..around them.............

..................over brookside...bumpy field.path........ici..and cows...........right along way of that west side canal......right hand way going north....2 inlets....sunken barges...........maps show the 2 inlets.....filled in now....but we walked....dirt pathway council has there and dry day but still soggy.............oozing in from canal....pond over back at pillbox............along north....now..marina..residential narrowboats...wood curve bridge side....to go in from canal.......then denis..the old high curve metal bridge to durdans..lady marg rd...........................back at spikes bridge tow path.......east side going north....ron...has sports field.municiple...park.....then.north side of that...at tow path.....white bridge ...at tow path....canal goes into..the dump............contue tow path...to....far top..taylow Woodrow and Ruislip rd............back at spikes...ron..puts wimpeys.....along tow path 1950s.......1960...I ran past side brickwall..because huge smell rubber works like gas.....wall air outlet..poor workers inside expanded.....smell like gas..over my walk over bridge to yeading.........hour walk..dormers to yeading..lane..read black beauty..book once...strolling it....ha......

se came with job......no house southall for them...newly married.......................still there age 81...Swindon..........got...corner shop....lady marg 1950s1960....ideal tobacco....by ketts electrical........by..small curve window jewellers..on corner as cross to town hall....fancy low window.curved glass...low......

nd he was wearing the clothes he described in his book after he had left Galloway and was then living in his father's house. He also mentioned he never swam in the canal in Southall. Not trying to be a clever clogs, but I enjoy mysteries.

................if in Scotland ..standing.inside the book photo.........................I have him in his 20s..tall slim..goodlooking face..narrow face dark hair..photo taken when he published his 1st bk...he wrote over 40.............................worked London..for the spectator ..a writer......colin only gave one photo as southall inside the book.......the one of very old iron bridge spikes about 1925yrs...........arrive London summer 1925...southall straight away .expect..dad enginneer job.........lots of that ..well known..by many in southall..............

chocolate stockings. These were the clothes he had provided when he started living with his parents again in Scotland. There are fifteen photos in the book, one of Galloway. Would he have been swimming by Bull's Bridge though if it was canal?

ing by that bridge because it was a haunt that he knew in Scotland and possibly they would swim in that water.

n his 20s........overflow grate thanks denis..........somebody must have had a camera,,,his dad perhaps............early days to afford a camera......................

y they used to jump off the middle of canal..bridge .many brick ones..into middle area canal swim...4ft deep..even if could not swim,age 7/8/9 ,,,,,could probably be ok...............15 photos sounds nice.......blue cover photo of book...they did not put inside at cover what cover is..suppose................2001/2..85 died...chilterns after wales wife 3 kids....over flow grate.....sounds interesting..........

southall to choose oh yes........thanks..lovely.........like the photo stripped top off swim..lovely photo.....brown socks boot shoes..lad on the left.........great devilsmile..joy cheeky.. of right hand boy...ribs show..skinny..to get in water..wet looking hair...middle lad younger...ha...gt photo.......the right hand boy looks so much like ian in his 20s.............thankyou..grateful.......

......he is slim narrow.small faced...small frame in his 20s yr old photo...got taller though....1st book.published then.........wall type canal..bridge effect ..my guess...local to us somewhere...canal................if they lived ..bankside or ..spikes bridge rds in 1925yrs.........or visit to top lock......walls .bridge etc........bulls bridge

e went Glasgow to see relative in the 70s..loch lomand etc..............

smart fun fair..circus....opening there.....carnival..40s.........huge all through the streets regina rd...south rd...broadway high st...to park............lorries floats..carnival queen..............what yr did it end..at southallapprox................hayes carnival 14 july................

me in Galloway before they moved south in the summer of 1925? The only thing that bothers me is the outfit he was wearing which was bought for him when he first went back to his father's house after living with his grandparents.

in a shop window". That's only one thought!

....the 2 of 2 bridges..wall brick....at the tow path...side of canal....parallel...to canal.....the are over...to ..inlets..out of the canal.......water under tow path bridges...as the...water..branches out...off the canal....photos show...old brick...with...exactly the same....wide row of roof ...brick...along the top....as the cover photo of 3 lads at the wall....tops off like swimming.......denis...ron...as of white bridge,...tow path....outlet inlet...of water....north east...along..edge of spikes bridge pk..but filled in now.........the white bridge 40s 50s....might be at ian...1930 time.......those yrs..might have been ordinary red old brick with white top edge.......then later..they painted it all white...........white top one still at union..canal....took photos today...............just like cover photo of ian book...................barges narrow boats gt..loads....one with amazing....gypsy like narrow boat..paintings...and inside.....elaborate...traditional..quaint........heron flew length of canal.....and cormorants....fish............reflexions...crystal clear waters.....bikes joggers tow path...gt pub......garden....canal cottages yr 1800...quaint..........tiny windows water pump..cottage gdns.......Canada geese babies......coots moorhens...pekin Aylesbury duck.....

ought of as Northolt.....white hart roundabout there is Northolt.....ici..munitions...ammo factory..brookside fields is Northolt.........yes clean flow river..yeading brook......flooded quite a lot.boggy swampy...........hayes joins the parish of Heston....at cranford pk area..northhyde southall lane is far edge parish of Heston.........2 brothers younger......cover could be 2 friends if they are with him....middle one younger in nice clothes..........or slim narrow face right one seemed him..ian....with 2 younger ones to the left of him.......

ads houses ..built over the area now....road is called splash road now............ian from southall..qick sprint ...up from.spikes gas wks tow path..to mbulls bridge and...bingo..splash...along there paddling.....bulls has got brick..wall bridge..with white along top...........now all white but.... 1925 yrs..............paddling the splash..and 3 kids sitting on the water bridge there......right hand boy looks like ian....bit the eldest......been paddling etc..he got top off...huge excitement......yes paddling in the splash which is yeading brook joining into river crane...................it was .every kid played there so famous...my aunt told me of it..she lived along there they all born there.......water huge wide splash...called the splash by all...road named after it now in google

t..yard..repair dock area of large bulls bridge area over canal..Paddington arm...........the modern newer..pub..there at splash now..called crane pub................the watersplash lane...ancient track...before any of those modern roads built.............there were only couple tracks lanes in the whole area there...way back.............clean yeading brook and river crane there for paddle yes...............and over brookside past delamere they paddled yeading brook at stepping stones there 50s 60s......saw.................over sports field...brookside .the brook meandered....

aisle...1940 painting of the splash.......so war and 18 yrs before he died.......

tle south down to..cranford pk bridge......says..ford over the road to southall.splash..says..canal overspill on the south side..going into topping up the river crane..prevents locks further along from flooding.........

rook and river pinn..families know..of flooding....generations.......I have lived both areas.........

f .river brook...have put on board 11..off along tow path..river brooks along there near..because used as feeder and overflow....without being in the cut itself....wall.looks just the same as cover photo....3 photos board3.....taken yesterday.....gt weather gt weekend.....................

......looking for the wall and tops off 3 lads..white row of bricks at top of the old brick wall.....seems bridge.............andrew his son..would know the address and house location.............engineer work.yeading areas would be hayes as well as southall................guess ians dad born 1895..approx...with ian 7 nov 1916.......so his dad..might not have just .just not gone abroad for 1 st war.......his father if not dead might have been home guard in 2nd war.or essential work..factory..enginner....war effort......if his dad still southall areas..alive then..................the 1925 built houses yeading lane...are...east side......up towards the top.....older houses there.......row of cottage terrace...by the yeading brook itself...middle of yeading lane by industry pub...west side.........the son Andrew born 1946 xmas would know.........brook dominates the whole area....rural tranquil brookside fields 1925..very nice for ian..paddle..........but the big old brick wall poss bridge 3 kids.white row brick top....looks like..so.many......they have at junctions brooks.....tow path....river junctions at tow path inlets...cover blue photo.....mystery..kids so excited tops off...water near..

.restored built there at golden bridge..of historic fame...yeading brook................by kingsmead by Warley rd........canal ditch feeder there from Ruislip lido..built yr1810 to feed grad union canal south of spikes bridge...but filled in..was not needed..........yeading brook meadows.....nature reserve all spreading areas around....managed by the wildlife trust..woodpeckers etc etc........green belt land to the western ave a40.............may well been areas .house and play of ian.........1925 yrs......with spikes bridge east of it all.....13/15 photos in his book...........nostalgia...his 1925...around yrs.....local...................

...1925 all open there then......hays farm....of hay fields for the hoses ...and farm.you spoke of..lots there.canal transport rowsesfarm areas..northwest side canal..off uxbridge rd....yes rowses have seen in geneology wk...........new house his dad had..could be in that corner.....some huses there 1925 then later added to at Berwick and ashford....clean fast flow yeading brook yes there..towards hayes bridge..uxbridge rd......waggonhorses pub....just off to one side as yeading brook.....crosses over uxbridge rd.....it was the boundary...before 1798 canal cut through there and new bridge built uxbridge rd for canal...............thanks Pauline..........getting warmer...ideas

hford built about 1935 ish..yrs....open tranquil areas of brookside yeading brook...horizon...bargees dwellings.....looking east then..horizon.behind of canal edge....ian of the.brook layed..before the canal edge..always off west side brook runs along..canal..to bulls bridge.....as feeder to canal..weirs waterfall.s....etc....inlets docks.........cold that brrok...I lived by and paddle icy cold...ha...fast flow fresh water so always icy....ha.....refreshing on hot day over brookside walked daily hour..read black beauty while walking there 3 yrs.........across to spikes...my aunt went ..but by bike..to work......across there.daily 7day week 4/5 yrs she went.....across..across bumpy field ......I loved the nature .tranquil of it all as well......huge open spaces.....cows yes..pats...ha

m..in google....yes at ..ok....horizon...bargees....1925 yrs...brook.....lovely......rowses farm........len spoke of fair up by there.......coming................yeading brook meanders on old maps goes the whole areas there..........

al edge....or ..in the areas around....row of cottages on census hayes farm..labourers dwellings going up to waggon horses pub..south side.near bridge uxbridge rd..............but....1925 yrs.onwards ian.years of.southall............

gradually developed those yrs.....bargees canal...and the yeading brook flowed..all through .that area...as zeta said..she lived there....

g there...behind hambro pub that had fire..south bit down from hayes bridge.....waggon horses terraced labourers cottages uxbridge rd in census..long gone..most old dweelings condemned..........opposite ta.centre complex of building..were new roads built new huses..that is all still there...north side west ..of hayes bridge uxbridge rd southall border.....yeading brook runs all under...................

lots of dotted areas of houses and new roads being built......because all around tudor rd school it was brickfields.....in Edwardian Victorian times...then..rows rows houses springing up gradually...bits of rented old dwellings..called terraces etc....labourers .4/6 in row rented by the owners surname used....newells etc............nice photos board11.........

....1925 very rural...tranquil..nature........areas......cover with wall and white top to it.3 lads.......seems very likely photo to send home to gdads farm..nice photo of the lads settled ..in southall border with hayes....very excited play photo.......wall bridge looks like.......around the 1925 yrs..

tree full of blossom." The two they buried are now named on the Menin gate as having unknown graves.

.ridged...and ian cover top white flush.......thanks..kind of you.....we had gt countryside day out.........board11 nice new ones there.........but this area was not southall hayes............so flush or.ridged ..different brickies do it differently......it was nowhere near ian area...............but idea of white on..waters..bridges of dark brick.....often see white as top part.....in all areas.......ian has white top........on cover photo.3 kids

ys hand on it....lad trying to balance sit on it over ..it.......hard to tell old book cover...old photo.......KEITH.....keith of waterways..know........he muight know if walls bridges brick...had flush white......top layer on the very top...white painted ...but as you say Pauline flush...not curved or ridge......the top layer.....my gdad uncle were bricklayers ..ha..don't laugh....lifetime........ha....

y on the train in school holidays with the money they had saved for doing jobs, plus things that had happened up there. Can't say any more.
Thanks to you both for taking the photos though. It's appreciated.

te top........best wishes.......workhouse 9pm..itv.lots of people are watching because of geneology etc.......repeat of midwife next week 6 episodes..channel 20 freeiew..wednesdays

o the Museum and we had a great day out.

at 1.30am on Thursday. Tomorrow we are going to watch Oliver Cromwell as she goes over Harringworth Viaduct.

rk the actual place where Mallard broke the record is a Plaque which states the date and speed of 75 years ago.

was black this is a 54 year memory but i am certain of it.

....many all local canal..white top like that..old bricks.brown......wall bridge effects...............

as a small building that was a gas treatment building from WW11 but thats gone now new houses

r white top wall..or bridge............tops off lads......ian liked paddling.............

y away longer until their saturated stockings and boots dried!

...grounds extensive.1925 to 1939 pre war...how idyllic........willowtree bankside...hayes still has its fields opposite bankside .called millet pk nature now.....suppose the war .and ian..life differs.....dad had worked....locally probably engineering off on bike.....he had southall when my dad was being born...they had the green fields..so essential..must never loose..nature...etc....my aunt new the excited of her yrs kids at the splash all kids did...huge water there mr ham 2 paintings and postcards of it....photos...opposite the orphan barracks..northhyde..to the west...

I am still trying to trace his watercolours as seen in the local paper many years ago.(these are in addition to the famous windmill painting) I must pay a visit to Ealing library sometime.

t corner of hayes bridge...around delemere slow gradual start of houses of that corner.the west south corner of hayes bridge....by sluice...by yeading brook....by the feeder coming in across brookside from Ruislip lido reservoir......his dad cycle tow path to work..hayes...could easily be bankside they lived.........amze so interesting...lovely that people have rare memories that whole areas...there....1925...to 1940s....precious countryside memories..nice area..open fields......opposite bankside preserved openfields called millet nature pk now hayes.........west side canal..by heron.sculpture statue our photo boards.......lovely to think of ian as well...ron you.zeta all speak fondly..all areas around..gt fair memories of len...up there...wow..ian..and all

l yrs.......packet boats trips passengers uxbridge etc.....areas..trips.....many many yrs...packet boat pub....leisure canal huge now for many yrs..refections gt in clean waters..nature days out many ..beauty areas of canal..areas all around.fish...ducks swans........lots narrowboats through locks...cottages lock keeper....one .we photo.s..took..painted..brasses etc..all bargee...ornamented..beauty......window box flowers on barges.....hired they trip uxbridge areas often..lots .barges narrowboats..santa at xmas..canal,,pubs.cycle joggers..cormorants herons..etc red kite......canal pretty houses gardens ducks at their water patios.......coots..moorhens..babies mallards .grey lag geese..Egyptian geese....aylsbury white duck..middx grand junction canal.......Canada geese ..procession 15 babies...gt to see .swans.babies.yes cana..gt ..locally......

around those areas there........new house must still be there...cottages gone...so 2012 nice new st view must help........gt slo
oth work Pauline..well done......

........gd luck....fair top road...yes all just around there.....bike tow path hayes to work or hayes short cuts there to factories probably engineering wk.....if welding etc etc....his dad...

in google turner does of kew and Brentford.........tate Britain has loads of turner....by millbank thames..open daily...gt.......ern ham..1880 to 1958 southall did 73 ish..watercolours oils of southall..walked the streets with aesle......got the picture of sign post northhyde king st last week..enlarged it...excellent..my crow from northyde then 1900s..............

PAY WAR FUND..WAS AT BOTWELL GREEN HAYES PHOTOGRAPHER COLLECTING MONEY.THEN LORRY TAKES IT TO NEXT TOWN...YES HE COULD BIKE EASY TO FAIREY..HUGE PLACE AT WAR...PHOTOS WE HAVE...THANKS..IAN.S SON..IS ANDREW BORN 1946.....

0ft long which seems to be about the length of the gardens in Beresford Road.

He talks about the development where his home was as being between two rows of older houses at each end of the road, which fits with the houses in Beresford Road. He also says there was a carrier's yard at the top end of the road (furthest from Uxbridge Road) again there is a yard at the end of Beresford Road that would fit this description.

Finally he says that the road was on the extremity of Southall about a mile from the shops, which sounds about right for a child's estimation of distance from the shops in Southall at the time, also Beresford Road fits his description of the Drill Hall being very close to his road.

never achieved.....boris and his grant of new areas all there at develop old gas works says...new crossing will be done.to modern minet pk etc.........picnics across green..yeading brook side....for ian s ..mum..but wet socks....yes TA top of Beresford rd...old pub.was still there hambro.....so one of those houses..ian...overlooks back gardens of old bankside terrace...about 1830 ish...built,,,,.....colin..front cover .3 kids tops off excited..old brick white top..whats your guess..location......thanks....his son born nwales 1946/7 would know

ankside, and some girls used to take me to Tudor road school, and we used to go round the corner from Bankside and walk the length of Beresford road, which seemed a very long road when I was little. That was in 1936. Strange to think that Ian had been living there for ten years, and had only left a couple of years before we moved into Bankside.

the time allowed. He did get a bike later on, but couldn't afford one at first.

sford house.....still the 3 lads on bricks at cover book.to solve..wish we could ask his son Andrew....

centre there......greenery west side canal....loads warehouses huge.high all along canal..now......but some grass goes off to minet nature park lands west ...of hayes...there......

y.....ian 120 ft long..back garden..in google.street view 2012 would give fronts along the road west side.......

anges.........vaste populations built up............canal came in ..rail...trunk roads...cars..factories....never ends..etc etc.planes..ha

e bottom right and from the angle of the picture the photographer seems to standing at ground level. Looking at the quality of the brickwork it is probably some sort of industrial building which may well be now long gone.

al and bankside.....allotments......65 Beresford around that end area...£312 a week rent 2013 .up for sale or rent out...couple properties down there seem to be small businesses.....lots photos bankside terraces on our boards.....huge warehouses now along stretch of at .on west grass was used to be the areas..hayes bank canal...

s reformed in 1947, and was then relocated to the TA Centre at Hayes Bridge in 1949. Does anyone know exactly when it first came to Southall. Several of us girls used to go dancing at the Centre when we were young, but I can't remember the exact date.

..............1947 /9...ta..centre...volunteers..............

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