th Pam Harman who lived in Lady Margaret Rd I now live in Kent Have`nt been to Southall for years but would love to hear from any who remebers me.

five girls-the eldest was the fearsome Winnie,~15years old.

in the other side....... Dr. Olive.She kept bees...
Last house in the row had an irish lady and her teenage girl Maureen who used to babysit for me.
Front house next door had a couple and their teenage boys who played the Everly brothers record at full blaast on REPEAT on the record player they had until i would scream at them to say let my kids go to sleep.........
Greengrocers was kept by Mrs Denton, she was good to me and helped keep my kids fed, we were very broke.
My son who was born there went to look at the house and it was gone, there is some kind of factory there now and he said he thought the lovely georgian house was gone too.

member Marie Exley Iris Grubb Yvonne Turner Pat Mason Bernice Lewis Brian Henderson Roger Fellows from North Rd school

with me, until his dad collected him after work. I knew Raymond Kitt, because his dad was a friend of my dad, because they both worked on the buses pre-war. Mr K went into the RAF in the war, but stayed on as a regular post war.
Wonder where they all ended up?

Collin.

No: 2 MRS Pat Reid.

No: 3 NELHAM'S FAMILY - Leslie, George, Charlie, Pauline & Jimmy.

No. 4 SMITH'S son Billie.

No. 5 MR J THOMPSON (b:1881 d:1962) his daughter Renee & family lived there too. Renee is now almost 94 - fit & healthy. Children: George, Pat, Ronnie & Christine.

No. 6 SPENCERS - Sylvia, Marjorie & Johnny.

No. 7 FRANCIS - Kenny, Donald & Eddie.

No. 8 HARPERS - Burt, Lillie & Jimmy.

No. 9 BARNETS - daughter Maureen.

SHOPS: Mrs Denton - greengrocer at 49 North Rd. Jaynes haberdashery 47.......RMT shoe repairs 45. Mr Butler's Grocers 43 & Ernie's Mirror & Glass shop 41.

May Sweeting Grocer across the road with her big dog Peter.

Max Smart's Gents Barber Shop.

Mr Sellers Sweets & Newspapers.

There was a blacksmith who worked at the back of MR BROWNS house just before Andsom & Popes SweetShop which layed back a bit before the row of houses on the way to Shrubbery Road. The blacksmith was alwys busy on Wednesday - cattle & horse market day.

I could go on but will leave it at that for now.

ers Wells,
Ron went to Southall Tech College, and I went to Ealing Tech College.

Teachers at North Road School, Mrs Hanvey, Mr. Smith, Miss Gregson, Mrs Felts and the
headmaster Mr. Blanchard. Ouch still remember being canned for something or the other.

Do you remember the little sweet shop on the corner of School Passage.

I remember Adrian Brooks, we used to play Tin Can Copper Man and hide behind the little
wall in front of his house, only to be chased off by his Mum.

I remember the big street party in 1945 held in Shrubrey Road, got a photo of it with
lots of children all round the tables.

Does any one remember the Dodle Bug that fell on the Bandstand in Southall Park about
summer of 1944. It blew the bedroom window out in our house, and as I was laying on top
of the bed the glass cut my bottom, still have the scars to prove it.

Members of the 10 houses in Grove Terrace have been listed by sister Chris in previous
message. But I remember Mrs Fellows being in No 2, she used to send me to the Plough,
the pub on the Green, with a jug and I would get her a jug of beer once a week.
She had a bad fall, went into hospital and died. That was about 1949.

Hello, Robert Hurdwell, I remember you and Ann, do you remember me, Grandad and Dad
owned the Shoe Repairs, RMT ( everyone used to say this meant Ready Made Twisters,
but it was really mothers maiden name, Renee Mary Thompson).
I remember going into your grocers shop and your dad cutting the bacon on a big slicer,
and weighing the sugar into bags, and cutting the butter into little pats.

As Chris said in her message, I could go on for pages.
But enough is enough.

Southall,
once a year with the big parade down the high street?

I Recall all the lights being turned on after the war and the Big Scissors on the corner shop Butlers, near the town hall lighting up.

shops with the Sweet shop on the corner facing North Road.

customer. Your dad Charlie redecorated my bedroom - green distemper and sponge stippling. he also killed dad's pigeons when war broke out! Dad always said that RMT was "ready money Thompson. With your family next door to our shop and over the bottom wall I have many memories of the area. Tommy was a help to Mum during the war when Dad was away. Your cat Minnie supposedly killed all the plants Mum tried to grow in the yard and always seemed to be having kittens. Too many memories of my childhood there to list! Bob

old wool, and baby things, cottons, and silks.

Best Regards Pat.

other kids down in the alleyway. I remember georgeie getting a Norton motorbike after the war and dad trying to fix it for him.Biully Smith and I worked at Amsden&Popes on the paers and on saturdays I sold the evening editions outside the White hart. Remember the 3wheel Etherington milk cart and the underground shelters on the green. We broke into the ARP hut on the green once and made teaa! My sister lives in the USA and i have directed her to this site. I went back to Southall earlier this month to take some pics for her.

own our backs.
Did you play 'Tin Can coppy man 'with us must say it brings back many memories. Do you remember the bigh bonfire on the green to welcom some of the local lads back from the front.

I remember you calling us over the roof tops.

Byee Pat.

ember Brockhouse the sweet/tobacconist shop, Wadhams Stores the grocers, Marsh (later Peel) the chemist.

Teachers at North Road infants were Miss Wright with Head Teacher Miss Ackrill. The juniors had 'Old Ma' Hanvey (very strict and quite harsh, handy with the ruler across the palms or the backs of legs), Miss Phillipson, Mr Russell, Mr Rogers, Miss Rogers and, of course, handy with the cane at all times Mr Blanchard and the Caretaker was Mr Doggett/Dockett.

The first sweets that I remember coming off ration were Black Jacks and Fruit Salads (four for 1d) and Spanish Wood and some kind of dried bean (Locust?). Pope's used to sell Barley Sugar Twist for 3d and penny ice lollies, mainly coloured water.

Colin Dutton now lives on the Isle of Wight.

When the doodle bug fell in the playground of Southall Park all the doors of our house stuck fast and my father couldn't get out to do his ARP duties straightaway. We had an Anderson shelter in the back garden but I don't remember ever going down there as it was very damp, and we had brick shelters built in the roadway but my mother wouldn't go out there during a raid. We eventually had a Morrison shelter which took up most of the front room.

Sunday afternoons in the summertime were usually spent walking over the golf course towards Hanwell Fields where there was a tiny zoo with a frenzied monkey, a parrot or two, lots of rabbits and hamsters. If we were lucky, we'd catch a few sticklebacks that would be dead by the following morning.

I remember Southall as quite a rural area, especially during our time living on the Golf Links Estate (Faraday Road) near what remained of Snells Farm.

Enough for now or I'll never stop!

ty inb 1953 and thought we were very grand.

I am now 72 years old, and left Southall in 1955 when I got married, I might remember you, as I think I am a few years yhounger than Robert.

Pat(pudney) now Bruce.

mention at North Road School are in my memory, did you then go to Dormers Wells, or did you pass the 11 plus.

I left North Road School in 1947 went to D.W.,
and then at 13 went to Ealing Tech College.

B est Regards Pattie Pudney ( Now Bruce)

Faraday Road. Later moved to Northcote Avenue from where I married in 1960 and my parents later moved to Marlow Road.

I don't remember the Perrin family at all. I lived at the Burns Avenue end of Palgrave so perhaps they lived at the Kingsley Avenue end where my piano teacher, Miss Wright, lived.

I called in at Southall about 6/7 years ago on my way back from London and was allowed a very quick tour of North Road school. I was surprised to find the high fences around the playground and a coded security lock on the doors - how times have changed! I signed the Visitors Book while I was there and found an entry from a Rodney Pudney who now lives in Australia - some relative of yours?

nd was at the renunion.
When you went to D.W. did you go on the trip to Yorkshire in 1948/ or maybee `1949. If so I can exchange many memories with you.

Best Regards Pattie.

had the car showroom. I still have my schhool report book...teachers are GJames... HGRoberts..PGregson. 45 of us in one class. The girls I reemmber there are Marie Exley, Pat Mason(lived in the School Passage, Yvonne Turner, Iris Grubb, Bernice Lewis, Boys were Roger Fellows, Brian Henderson Raymond Kitt-once you start remembering its amazing how much starts to come to mind. Remember those sulphur tablets we got fronmm petrie the chemists when sweets were on ration. they were ok to suck but had a bad effect on your body gasses-I remeber Mr Blanchard asking boys at Assembly not to suck them during schooltime because of the bad atmosphere. Schoolboys!!!!

person.

As Chris, our sister says, Smile, open your eyes, LOVE and go on, this is what Ron would have wanted.

Best regards to everyone Pat (Pudney) Bruce.

n the corner of North Road and Kingsley Avenue. We used to go and watch the blacksmith who had his forge down the alley at the side of Amsden and Pope, especially on a Wednesday, which was (and still is) Market Day, when he had a lot of horses to shoe. We also used to go and get our sweet ration from Baxters - the penny lollies were a particular favourite! Does anyone remember Mr Blanchard, the headmaster at North Road School? He was very handy with the cane, as a lot of the boys found out. And Mr Rogers, ex-Sgt.Major, who was adept at throwing the blackboard rubber at catching trouble makers on the back of the head. So many memories of those days, when the winters always seemed colder and the summers hotter than now.

Ave.they were upholster's my brother wworked for them I had a few dates with Deirde some gal.

ck to the Boyles their fifteen minutes of fame was they made the bed for the Queen when she got married in 1947 their shop was in Acton.

kster families. I used to live next door to the Jones' and kept in touch with Bryan Jones (nicknamed Chick) until he died a few years ago in Norfolk. Does anyone remember Alan Selvidge? I have never been able to trace what happened to him. I remember Audrey King, Pat Rose, Derek Simpson, Beryl Clifford and many others, some from North Road. I also remember the O'Sullivans from School Passage, and recently heard from Rita O'Sullivan via Friends Reunited, and was happy to hear that her Mum is still doing well into her 80's. Sheila Hayden and myself used to take out the younger O'Sullivans in their prams when we were about 10 - over to Southall Park. I also remember being in the park one day, when I swallowed a boiled sweet and it got stuck in my throat, and all the other kids rushed me home to my Mum, choking, who gave me a wallop on the back and a piece of dry bread to swallow - that did the trick! Sorry, I've now been going on a bit here, but once you start the memories flood back! So good to read all the messages posted. None of us had much but they were happy days.

in Hayes we never moved far.

est of the family had gone. finally he moved to Cowley.

Did Audrey King (Shrubbery Road) have a sister Sally??

e bowling green previously it was a swimming pool can still picture him in his cream jacket and cap pushing his roller he would turn in his grave if he saw it now.

n Somerset Rd.
The town was a beautiful place in the 40's and 50's the Carnival in August dancing over the Dominion

e was a widow with three sons. The two youngest were twins, George and Wally, but they were grown up when we were kids. She had a long-term lodger called James James, which I always thought was a strange name.

r Freddie Lovelock and Derrek Simpson ?

an tell you a bit about his adult life. Please contact me via this board in the first instance.
Hope you can help. Many thanks.
Gaye Rackliff

touch if you have any more ideas on the badge front. I'm sure between all our old brains we can come up with something. Regards, Dilys

has me hooked, well and truly.
Stephen@hill963.fsnet.co.uk

been educated at dormers wells,i have good neighbours and friends here,i think a badge is a great idea Steve.

mitive Methodist chapel and the ex-Southall FC ground.
Does that ring any bells?
Rob

keeley tongs and for builder RT Warren.in laws gas works and heston airport and tube factory

ink was at corner near estate so on the greenford rd..mattingly.. christine hardman on estate 1950s

ts have emigrated to Australia, USA or Canada ... we live now in New Zealand!

er the impression you moved to a sweet shop, Mrs Durbins was my idea of heaven at the time, yes Davo, dead flies in the window!It seems everyone left Southall in the sixties, us included. We are in Shrewsbury, Shropshire now, a very beautiful part of England. Yeah, why have so many ended up in Austrailia/ New Zealand?

and, according to my folks, a cycle/motorcyle shop run by Jill and Les Gould. My fondest memory was of a chocolate machine attached to the wall which took sixpences. There was a passageway to the back of the houses and we had Sikh neighbours - Marat Singh Sagoo, worked at the airport and had three kids. I used to play with the youngest (nicknamed Baboo) and enjoyed many Indian treats next door. I remember a parade at school and my father filmed it. He is not sure whether he still has it. The memories are coming back ... the park, route to school, houses we visited. I don't know if I visited your house but I remember one on a corner ... would that be your's Pauline?