re we all settled in Somerset with Dads work.
Your message has given me and my family such a lift. I hope we can find a way of making direct contact. All the very best of wishes and kind regards Lisa

s looked out for you, now you are lucky if your neighbours speak the same language.

Yes I miss the Southall I was born in and I cherish the memories hence since my dad passed away I have no ties to Southall and do not wish to visit to see the permenant damage that has been done.

Love and cherish your memories because that is all Southall is now

rwood Top Lock and Bulls Bridge were "his turf". Thank you all for sharing your fond memories and your remniscences of a happy place. We may not have had much meterially, but I am certain we were happier than the throwaway society that has replaced us.

K.W.

rwood Top Lock and Bulls Bridge were "his turf". Thank you all for sharing your fond memories and your remniscences of a happy place. We may not have had much meterially, but I am certain we were happier than the throwaway society that has replaced us.

K.W.

the high massive arches at the back..photo of the historic thatch house on postcards site...reminds me of hastings curving top road by hastings castle.hidden roads like those hidden rds round back of viaduct arches

rothchilds has display of early 20th century items and 1800s pieces..carnivals hanwell on sites.best wishes keith and everybody

arage hanwell born 1878 had 3 hanwell shops also...fred bowles worked home colonial hanwell 1950 his relative will carter says

used to flood a lot - about every 2 years some 55 bus had to break journey and go via Uxbridge Road & Greenford Road whereas others had to turnaround in Greenford Ave by Brentside School

Also a riverside pub full of people got a direct hit by bomb or rocket Greenford - Ruislip Road Bridge just on the Hanwell side of the river. We were always told not to play there as kids. Pub may have been called "the load of Hay" Remains of pub sign were still standing by the Ruislip Road bridge into the 70's when l left.

red lion pub and bridge few shops.....rest green fields she told me the joy of greenery......oldfield lane oldest with tiny wood church tiny spire tower going back all time 100s yrs.my direct ancestor baptised there 1700s farm work before moving labouring botwell dawley heston..timerlakes

trains..never did get to york museum..swinden and southall have good museums

arly morning..all stopped at viaduct pub early open well before 6 am breakfast beer

ll underneath the bridge, probably as the towpath was too narrow for the horse. I think the horse was taken out of its harness at that time. Is that what was happening, as I can't remember all of it?

e 6am for beer breakfast on way covent gdn..

drays pub brewers barrels carriages and awards given..2 hour parade many huge number entered

events .romans,,,,fuselliers army etc.best wishes josie

monday for ordering.my aunt supervisor 1930s woolies southall sis rose ackers.

old fashioned tills no electric..pop up price top front till ..6d...museums have nice these items kept and displayed.packaging museum back in london again has omo tide.surf..old heinz labels etc..soda pack and packs blue for rinse of washing..rinso product .green soap. r whites lemonade.izal..different toothpastes

or over 6 weeks. Many of the entries that are there are from people trying to flog stuff or are trying to flog Russian women by the hour, etc.....

tter shopping centre than Eal Bdy. Uxbridge Rd shoppers spilling off the edges of the pavements on Sat afternoons as many people worked Saturday mornings, then with 5 day week, W. Ealing decline started

rse statue.now people spill over street there instead.think the lovely clock chimes gone.did have swiz type bells chiming on corner bentalls..bus stops and little bus always overflowed many yrs w ealing....yes history hanwell ancient and narrow long strip.boston manor hse.gentry........1890 huge 630 acres market gardening fruit jam factories brentford dock..market..northfields ave.ealing rd.my cranford lane ancestor moved there......

drayt green rd open top tram buses.1914 photo there bike and in middle police control crossroad traffic as is now the lido green junction...large photo of hanwell clock...1893 john sunders now m and s...bentalls went 1980 now arcadia..photo of avenue and castlebar.naval gun 3 bridges scouts had it

chickens, ducks, and a large aggresive Gander. He recuited some of us to help in the garden, for which we were paid 1/3d an hour.When a V1 fell nearby, it shattered the green houses, and I remember helping with the re-glazing. Mrs Manders gave us scrumptious teas!
Memories!

ad been shot. I spent quite some time at St. John's completing my First Aid courses/camping/cooking/mapreading and even basic firefighting at Southall Fire Station, I know Mr. Manders was there all that time.
Barry

atherstone Rd School.

nos is there.....only warwick is spinster miss warwick ealing broadway and one at west ealing..thought might be lucky to see for you but no.........cleo always read clarence st on sites...but she probably went your shop or did music singing upstairs

ine etc and items children business which she helps them.middleton.

bert warren builder 103 townsend rd southall....they built n green church hall 1920s....

....keep buttoned up....it is london slang that does the humour...wonder if we will loose lots of it now tv modern world less manual workers coloquial jargen....character study actors bring them all back such strong entertainment..drift away to british old films so good..captivated and some of the well acted american films of past times

so good.dixon dock green policeman

opped in Hanwell Broadway, as I usually took my two younger sisters to West Ealing where we ended up having a drink and probably a sticky bun in Lyons (I think). Was Hanwell Broadway a busy shopping centre?

bus route (from Hanwell depot) and that was the 655 which did go to Kew Bridge via Brentford, you would have had to walkacros the bridge to get to Kew Gardens. Alternatively you could have got a 65 bus to Kew Gardens from Ealing Broadway, (and still can!!)

ealing library had reference to the accident..

building. How did they get away with that planning monstrosity? I'm so glad l live in Sussex now.

Sports shop. All replaced by plastic retail groups staffed by plastic people. West Ealing and Hanwell were major centres in their day - Ealing Bdy only took over bcause the electric railways decided to start their journeys from there. When the Great Western Railway was first built, West Ealing was the more important station. Southall was then a very important market town (much more important than Hayes, Hillingdon or Uxbridge which have only really developed in the last 50 years)

inside and all with multi storey car pk....as other cities... as abroad modern towns...dont get wet so much as old days heavy bags and rain.bus stop

days.charity such lot spoken of polio...got measles mumps from school but ok.others got chickenpox

ing the curtains, the light seemed to be too much. Completely differnt nowadays, on several occasions our daughter has taken our grandaughter to school and there are mothers bringing their children to school with younger ones in the pushchair covered in spots, they don't seem to bother isolating them now.
Barry

nks for today's modern medicine.

ne west ealing..they brought yellow sooty hand puppet present..nursery rhyme painted tiles on walls sure would be on antigue roadshow today worth fortune..they pulled hospital down..icecream good for throat and milk puddings..my aunt I baked egg custard for her when she was invalid..and that italian pickmeup sabilione eggs sugar good

probably was the ABC. Wasn't as posh as Lyons, as that's where we used to have lunch occasionally. Anyone remember?

generation. Brian Jones, Paul Jones, Mick Jagger, Eric Burdon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart all shared the stage at the invitation of Blues Incorporated!

hose good ones who do abba well

They were confined to the 97 as it was the most rural of Southall's routes - it ran out to Ruilip and in those days, there was nothing much beyond the Civil Engineer - it was mostly rural. So l have this photo (in a book) showing a green 97 at a NORTHBOUND bus stop outside the ABC in Ealing Broadway, opposite the mainline station (the District Line station was further along towards Haven Green), as it was then a two way road

ccidentally missed her footing in the dark, just near to where we were sitting, and all the ice cream tubs went cascading down the stairs. She wasn't hurt, but we had a job to stop laughing!

de of the Palace. It was a wonderful film and we never ever forgot it.

good one to get us out

every Saturday night we would go to the EMI Social Club in Printing House Lane, where dad was the MC. I just let her get on with it, me I just sat at the table with my drink ! two left feet me.

the Bath Road near Heathrow, are they still there??

play all along the canal, my uncle worked for Horsley Smiths timber who had a wharf opposite the Woolpack, used to love watching the horses pulling the barges, and there was Wakefields (Castrol), Harrisons the printers who had their own dock and the BET where my mum and her sisters worked, I could go on and on, which I probably am doing.

nder.co.uk and I will send you his tel. no.

from mall to over northolt radio in ..so fly past over northolt airport also

who attended the incident. Any ideas when this was, if indeed the story is true. They later bought a house in Rectory Rd/Ave down the bottom of Havelock Rd.

it, even the barges were aligt.

e day!!

l now live in Arundel. l'll have a bit of work to do to research Heathrow etc, but l shall do it in time. Thanks for the help.

ds just turned up off tube italian asking my name.interpreters we had so desk they phoned me .luckily my boss let me take them around props and design dept of the artists clever work and make up costume get material sparkle from back shepherds bush market

der down to high st cranford...and northhyde across heston airport land was brickfields and ammunition barracks...spreading northhyde across to fern lane and norwwod green......now british airways pulled down old cottages to build rd called the ringway with houses for their employees when wanted heathrow on heston site..southall bit of northhyde.my family baptisms northhyde heston church parish and weddings funerals

about with sand on the stage! Can't remember their names.

nging on the hooks for wrapping or out the back boiling beetroot, for this I used to get the princely sum of 15/-
With regards to the pet shop it was run by two sisters Ruby and Sis, Ruby was a large portly lady and they lived in the White House which stood on the Lamb Bridge in front of the RSPCA.

l pages booklet... dress it with pop out tag on little dresses etc..found half crown under hawthorn bush only once on our walk windmill lane regularily for greenford shops.could buy toy bits

hop still there has had bare old window many yrs

nd it was indeed Ruby Cooper shown as proprioter it was Pet Supplies No. 45 between Fowlers Stores and Frank Barry Photograher. You knew that surely Len

m Hayes although my dad's family all came from Southall he was born in King Street. All changed now.

e park where we used to have our lunch sometimes. There was also a nice little cake shop there as well. When I just had a look at my wedding album, (which hasn't seen the light of day for ages), I'd forgotten about the telegrams in there. Did the telegraph boys come directly from the Post Office, Len?

ling Green which is still there behind which was the Rec, most of which is now being redeveloped for the new Leisure centre. at the beginning of Central Ave is the Swimming Poll, not been up many years but this used to be Botwell Green, used to have fairs on there. The pool is coming down soon, hence the new centre across the road. The library, which is still there is just a little further along in Golden Crescent.

le town, and this site has helped all of us to remember what we might have forgotten all those years ago.

screen met beginning and end....my essoldo near grapes 1964 west side story 1961 closed ...originally was corinth..classic 466 uxb rd...savoy uxbridge 1951 ..organ...1452 seats stalls 800 circle...max miller and later adam faith music

d sit somewhere else. We didn't ever go on our own - always two of us. This just wouldn't happen today, as it is very risky, but we were all street-wise, and never came to any harm. Some couples, however wouldn't take us in.

It always seemed to take a long time to walk past it, as it was so enormous and never ending. Memories!

bley stadium etc.nice birds woodland etc.think it said organ still there good for chapel.probably got it for good price...next door neighbour was prison officer think they buy them and rent to term of duty like the police.loose job loose house

ets because she was tall and looked older and I was tiny.We got in anyway and enjoyed it but had to make sure we removed all traces of make-up before we got home. Why does one memory spark off another.
Great innocent times though,

t the rest in. One time they talked a very small boy into climbing through the exit window, which was always open, and again opening the door to let the others in. However, the ushers had got wind of this when halfway through the window the boy shouted "pull me back!" A tug of war then went on with the ushers pulling him one way and the boys outside pulling him the other way. In the end, the ushers won and the boy was given a clip round the ear - never to repeat the experience again. Sometimes the ushers would shine their torch along a row to ask to see your ticket, and if you didn't have one you were in trouble. They overcame this, by picking up a ticket someone else had dropped!

ps windows london thailand veg fruit carved flowers displays...but first time seen lovely snow white like this..good today

to have singalongs with the words coming up on thescreen, usually Robin Hood or Davy Crockett. On several occasions there were visits from Coco the clown from Bertram Mills Circus, he used to give road safety instruction and had a walking stick in the shape ofa belisha beacon, he was an extremely popular visitor.

rubber aprons...petticoat lane market only men dense cannot move..all cloth caps...3yr old girl selling roast peanuts blowing into bag to inflate paper bag..cute kid....thames barges touching each other crowded..change guards 1927 palace...1920s women fashion crowds of them...freeze green color film......davo and all may like films

rgerine. No fitted carpets, just lino with slip mats, no central heating, sometimes it was so cold you could scrape the ice off the inside of the widows with your nails, coats ontop of the bed. When you got up in the morning the house was freezing until mum cleaned out the grate and lit the fire. Won't mention the chilblains.

o collect his prize - the handsome sum of 7/6d. He was over the moon as that was a small fortune in those days (1943). He invested the money in a real Waterman's pen which he cherished.

bit fire alley back of his garden.....but not really...caps gun cowboy outfit he had.he was born 1950.. blond skinny charlie ackers ran a muck down to spikes bridge everyday.lives swindon now his son the same

it, you know the type, brown leggings and jacket with tassles and racoon hat. I had somehow managed to split the seam of the pants but being determined to go thought I can mend this myself, and mum being out shopping rumaged through her needlework box for a needle and thread. Went on great guns until I picked them up and realised I had sewn them to the tablecloth ! And yes we too had the cap pistols, the caps used to come in a small round box, can still remember the smell, used to drive mum mad.

the bus ! I don't think you can even buy marbles nowadays, too dangerous.

f shops? Separate cubicals to have your hair done in private.

or nuts are thoroughly coated. Good luck!

ones because pj proby not there....

ion in dance clever..she won ballet scholarship left dormers early..lots love best wishes to you..I am taking all photos to norwood green sunny village fete in july.our site lady welcomes anybody

songs onto tape spools..and I got my aunt nattering over cup tea..cockney accent she had never heard herself..did laugh

ur year.
If you want any more details, let me know.
David

odlebug regina near them..also trolley bus refs listed hanwell and southall garages good photos...and film with cute music.trolley 1950s from shep bush past bbc theatre wich used to be musichall that gdad took the family to..trolley goes acton ealing common few cars..iron bridge with small steam engine puffing smoke going over.old greenford hotel at corner.... southall town hall opened 1897 when bit of rd there was called new rd.lady jersey laying stone

turn it back...many yrs took the greenford hotel pub away turned into macdonalds at bridge..coat of arms on wharncliffe brunel viaduct.family used to say to us thats where queen pulled up to admire it on her way to windsor..so they put coat arms high on the middle of it opposite the now ealing hospital

tes out of southall turning of 607 and think it was the wembley bus 85 or something down greenford rd.film shows southall in large concrete letters top of garage

obably gone up a bit now ! Also remember mum & dad taking me to London on the Green Line, single-decker, can't remember the number but recall it went through Sussex Gdns

venice lido.from southall our roll up towel on bus.miniature train..bluebell woods

tre for homeless families. Our family lived there for nearly a year with 10 other families: Stark and Laird were two of them. Those who have been back to Southall know what it's like now and those who haven't been back, don't go!!

oal not always plenty for brickmaking when rail came and canal.helped..but always wonder safety of so much seen standing today.my builder ancestors worried of toxic dump areas built on

old at Great Ormond Street hospital. This was successful. Soon after, he contracted pnuemonia, and once again Dr Ginsberg supplied the necessary oxygen, which my parents couldn't afford. (They did pay him later however). So with thanks to Dr Ginsberg we were blessed with a wonderful brother.

psychology as well...think austrian decent lived ladymarg rd had son..He did my measles tonsils adeniods king edw hosp.2yrs old brian passed away menigitus.dad and doll nearly passed away with append peritonitus and severe whoop cough,,but miracles survived..hilling hosp and west middlesex and doll southall hospfootball size cyst they said and came through for awhile.thankyou to penicillin new .I worked medical library beechams with their doctors all their amoxicillin etc.

of the places we passed, and by this time it was really dark. The bus finally stopped at South Harrow, and the conductor wrongly thought this was where we wanted. I started to cry as we didn't have enough money left to get home. Two lady passengers took pity on us and gave us some small change and showed us where the bus stop was to Southall. However, when the bus got to Hanwell garage it was the last bus, and there wasn't another one to the broadway, so we had to walk. When we got to the Iron Bridge a man was walking with his dog and he said "Whatever are you two children doing out at this time of night, it's midnight." We hid the money we had left at the top of Dormers Wells by an old iron pump, as we knew my father would be cross. When we got home my mother gave us some supper and told us to get up to bed fast as my father and brother were out looking for us. We later found out the next morning that my father had tripped over a towrope on the towpath, and my brother caught him otherwise he would have ended up in the canal and he couldn't swim! So, Hanwell Garage certainly has some memories for me.

r at bottom of this high bridge,,said no no cannot go further.at home all relatives had been notified dad was coming home from work to news.police found us bottom bridge and home and bed.whether her relatives lived over there whether it was some kind of run away dont know

from roll of fabric..they could not get a house so moved southall to swindon..pressed steel works for cars..house and job all offered to southall people//wiltshire fields so all and grandchildren dont come back.for conjestion clutter.clean fields out their way,,villages..I like london intersts on tube so countryside and coast for holidays..

idenhead and france sent me all photos and sheets of his memorial and everything.we went to d day beaches.pegasus bridge and bayeau tapestry.and caen with its new war museum...normandy and people are very good

the photos and CD..historic go back all time..fiercely proud extremely nice people.. hope to go again next yr..exquisite costumes and needlework...museum for frozen prehistoric skiman...expert ski my cousin born 1938.was bridsmaid at my photos dad their army wedding 1946.

e.....dormers school trip salzburg 1965.got pushed out of square for film crew of sound of music

ies to see the male teachers wearing trilby hats, and seeing them all carrying gas masks. When asked, one of the children said it would be something to pass on to their own children later on. I wonder if it stirred any memories in any of you who were also evacuated?

ings week to council for lodger rent.next yr had twins surprise,so no name for 2nd one so named her after me.we were big yvonne and little yvonne.they all went north rd and dormers.live yorkshre now.doll smoked got lung cancer. onlyjust got her bus pass but passed away young.she worked factory and munitions and loved the cinema.had a near escape at the southall bomb.so glad you 2 knew my aunt doll.dads sister.just back from venice was beautiful.hope your trapped nerve at hand bit better.fondest regards from y and tony.she must have been good at maths school always great with shopping and helping the family.added everypenny at shops and ration books.nobody ever diddled her

orked north rd school.her daughter and granddaughter with degree works whole career nestles manager travels world for them.in total 9 grandchildren dolly was proud of.just over 60 cancer of chest.went to see her ealing hosp and op in southall hosp.visited her at golflinks suffered so terrible the final bone cancer but never complained.all family from swinden yorks came to funeral.school north rd dormers must have been good she only modern education of family was clever did all their life home insurances and forms for them all and mental arithmetic shops she did all the shopping for them all.quick with money and all ration books.have photos when she was young will get any photos sorted later on.best wishes your hand love from y and tony

otal more than 12 grandchildren...then dots 4 children.bunny park with a maze plus animals and birds and rose gardens to viaduct.hanson wood and builders been there all the century and still there

, and a lunch-bag or box. Then, goodbyes from the tearful parents, waving their farewells from the roadside. The coach, however, was full of laughter and activity as many of the kids aboard knew one another, and were skylarking around. It wasn't many miles however, before we realised our parents weren't aboard, and it slowly began to sink in what was happening, and the tears began to flow. The adults aboard were prepared for this, and after a few more miles had pacified their motley crew for the journey ahead. After leaving King's Cross, we were bound for Yorkshire, and I was boarded with a family in Heckmondwike. Although I had many experiences there, the most pleasant memory of evacuation was the Smithy. It was the ringing of the hammer on the anvil that first caught my attention, as the Smithy's was only a hundred yards or so from the house. I stared in wonder at all the intriguing tools and equipment around the shop, and across the room in full flow...the forge! The Smithy was beating a length of red hot metal on the anvil. He beat the metal two or three hard blows, and then tapped the anvil lightly a couple of times before repeating the hard blows. It was then I saw the leather bellows on the far side of the forge, which he pumped several times making the coke glow almost white hot. This process was repeated several times until he finally dipped the glowing metal into a trough of water, making a loud gurgling and hissing. My first experience was of the re-shoeing of a horse. The blacksmith would first remove the old shoe and clean the hoof thoroughly, before selecting a 'shoe blank' from the many different sizes that were hanging on the wall. He didn't simply nail the new shoe on however. It was first offered to the hoof, scrutinised carefully, and then taken across to the forge to be heated and adjusted on the anvil. While it was still hot, he then placed it exactly where it would be fitted on the hoof, giving off a cloud of acrid smelling yellow smoke.. It was then submersed in water to cool it and finally nailed to the hoof in the imprint that the hot

is a memory I will never forget... I would have loved to have been a blacksmith!

never spoken of the raids before..most libraries now take taperecording or written stories of local memories in general..so good for the generations to come.this site does that..thank goodness the madman erratic brain changed his mind to go into russia.

c. turn of the century. I had them transferred onto c.d. by a friend of George Twyman, they have come out fantastic, If you would like to see any Yvonne let me know, oh yes there is one of the Smithy shoeing a horse with a couple of lads watching, never know may be someone out there's relative.

y11 2010.she is on this site.kind regards.there was large pond in the green until they filled it in in the 1900s

rge families wingroves were always n green and fern lane.farm labourers.and famous brickfields ngreen.canal took their bricks for buck palace

entually passed the Polish war memorial and the "Target". Where exactly were the Taylor Woodrow offices near?

islip rd a bridge...then that is head office taylor woodrow 4 storey office block at left side so west side...pub next door to it still open the engineers or something......woodrow closed over10yrs ago .old peoples home now..happy sunday lots love yonne tony

cures to greenford rd and lyons bakery glaxo etc...main rd buses near s harrow now so 95 or was it 83 bus would take you back down via greenford towards your southall and northote ave...good job summer hope and no rain..tony and me got lost once with canal so tranquil cut off from land no sound of roads no landmarks..only nature and butterflies prety though.....we did the famous walk 3 bridges to brentford via flights locks..boiling hot day cold drink at brentford pub....fondest regards from y tony

o du can rd cancer hospital acton..it is about the only bus goes along western ave..duel carriage turns into motorways now..think the 95 83 used to go to wembly so near s harrow way..

ded up at South Harrow. That's the answer to another mystery. Regards Pauline.

elds cows on left quite a hill here tiring.....ruislip 2 farmhouses cows at junction so this is polish and A 40 western ave.mystery which bus to s harrow..282 target bus perhaps...help len!!

jumped bus on wrong side rd...I have done that....

eople before you so you would know when it was your turn to see the doctor. His surgery was in the back room with a small lean-to conservatory off it and he'd disappear into it for a while before emerging with a bottle of something or other to cure all ills in the days before antibiotics and other wonder drugs that are available today on prescription. I last saw Dr. Nussbaum (our family always pronounced it Nozborn!) in 1962.

But it was better than those two so because of their combined power Wall's and Lyons conspired to put Eldorado out of business. Eldorado was the best ice-cream there was. Most of their retailing was via men on tricycles with big boxes of ice-cream on the front as retailers were frightened to stock it - their supply of Walls and Lyons products would have been cut off.
A sad loss, just like Pan Yan Pickle etc.

ventually got re-named but kept the original HW code.

next year. Pauline there was also the Hayes Chronicle.
While I'm on here you all seem to have good memories, can anyone put a date to the huge fire at James Davis Timber yard on the canal opposite the T.A. Centre. I think perhaps 1962/63 I remember walking there with school pals to watch, never seen anything like it, even the barges were alight.

of the bridge. In later years my dad was MC at the Social club in Printing House Lane, (he worked for EMI Ministry of Defence in Springfield Road) and my late sister and her husband worked for EMI Records on the Uxbridge Road up until it closed.

rried, was killed and was buried in her wedding dress. The EMI dances were held at Ealing Town Hall. We had some lovely times there.

could send you a couple of photos I took back in 98 or I could send them via Yvonne if you are in touch with her. There is a small tunnel leading off to the 'HA Ha' (walled garden), and there has always been talk of a tunnel leading across the park to the Red House in Cranford Lane, one time home of Moreton Berkely, which was demolished last year. Personally I don't think this to be true it is exactly 3/4 mile in distance and would have been a heck of an undertaking. Barry

oad, near the M4 flyover.

Gdns she was putting out the milk bottles looked up and saw the plane coming down in front of her the pilot was shouting for everyone to get out.

.did round world went out new york los ang figi way.liked blue mtns sisters rock formation and jehnohan caves.june retired from sony.charlie worked factory.they came back for a few visits

w months before.frank willans was freds youngest brother.he came to freds funeral yeading 1967..

nds of my older sisters and brothers.

Really does bring back memories
Regards

Did you know the Farndons or Timberlakes?

had a brother Barry and sister Kay. Knew the Farrances on the corner of Carlyle Avenue, the Mayos lived next door, the Stranges opposite in Spikes Bridge road. Thanks for the memories Steve.

the family.2 inexpensive burials as is the custom if ever used..think an aunt said he died age 40 was it typoid wonder if there was water problem there.but she may have been mistaken.he may have picked up an infecton from army career that took him young

help, landed a monster Pike weighing 25lbs 5ozs and 36" long. They had to fetch the bailiff to have it weighed and recorded officially. Cecil contacted the News of the World with details of his catch, expecting to win the prize rod and reel of the week, but someone had beaten him to it by just two ozs heavier! David died last year, and I know Cecil was quite a bit older. Do you know if he is still alive?

ot home the Pike was put into a bath of water and all his mates came round to admire it, and they all ended up having a portion of it for their dinners!

f hours after saying goodbye to them...wonderful people exquisite country.100 photos.take care all best love from y and tony