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Chiswick High Street
I can remember my father having a bump in his car in the High Street and a lady took me into the Catholic church and told me not to worry as all I did was cry and I wanted to know how my daddy was, back in the early 1960s.
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RE: RE: Chiswick High Street
/I can remember Goodbans shop in the High Road they still had the overhead cash machines that when the pulley was pulled by the assistant the cash was sent to a central area high up behind a glass window then the cashier would take the money from the cash machine and put the change in and send it back along the overhead lines to the assistant. Also Mylo's ice cream parlour, We would go for a walk on a Sunday to Chiswick House and stop and buy a lovely creamy ice cream. Delicious, Also Belmont Road School. We were evacuated from this school on Sept 3rd 1939 from outside Turnham Green Church and we went by bus to Chorley Wood, where we stayed until August 1941. When we came home we still had to run to the Anderson shelter in the back garden as the V1 and V2' s began after the lull. However we still had fun playing with all the other chilren in our road, Chiswick Road, We would play rounders over Turnham Green and when we saw the first house of the Chiswick Empire come out we knew it was time to "be in". I guess the time would be about 8.30. And then when we were older say 16/17 we went to the Socials or Dances held at the Town Hall . I enjoyed watching the cricket on a Saturday in the summer when the white marquees would be erected. I would buy some sweet black cherries from the stalls by Whitbreads and share them with whoever came over "the green" to watch. I recently paid a nostalgic visit with one of my sisters. Fromows was at the end of our road - now Sainsbury's car park.!!!!
Comment from Eileen Dobbs on Saturday, 25th July 2009.
RE: RE: Chiswick High Street
/I can remember Goodbans shop in the High Road they still had the overhead cash machines that when the pulley was pulled by the assistant the cash was sent to a central area high up behind a glass window then the cashier would take the money from the cash machine and put the change in and send it back along the overhead lines to the assistant. Also Mylo's ice cream parlour, We would go for a walk on a Sunday to Chiswick House and stop and buy a lovely creamy ice cream. Delicious, Also Belmont Road School. We were evacuated from this school on Sept 3rd 1939 from outside Turnham Green Church and we went by bus to Chorley Wood, where we stayed until August 1941. When we came home we still had to run to the Anderson shelter in the back garden as the V1 and V2' s began after the lull. However we still had fun playing with all the other chilren in our road, Chiswick Road, We would play rounders over Turnham Green and when we saw the first house of the Chiswick Empire come out we knew it was time to "be in". I guess the time would be about 8.30. And then when we were older say 16/17 we went to the Socials or Dances held at the Town Hall . I enjoyed watching the cricket on a Saturday in the summer when the white marquees would be erected. I would buy some sweet black cherries from the stalls by Whitbreads and share them with whoever came over "the green" to watch. I recently paid a nostalgic visit with one of my sisters. Fromows was at the end of our road - now Sainsbury's car park.!!!!
Comment from Eileen Dobbs on Saturday, 25th July 2009.
RE: RE: Chiswick High Street
/I can remember Goodbans shop in the High Road they still had the overhead cash machines that when the pulley was pulled by the assistant the cash was sent to a central area high up behind a glass window then the cashier would take the money from the cash machine and put the change in and send it back along the overhead lines to the assistant. Also Mylo's ice cream parlour, We would go for a walk on a Sunday to Chiswick House and stop and buy a lovely creamy ice cream. Delicious, Also Belmont Road School. We were evacuated from this school on Sept 3rd 1939 from outside Turnham Green Church and we went by bus to Chorley Wood, where we stayed until August 1941. When we came home we still had to run to the Anderson shelter in the back garden as the V1 and V2' s began after the lull. However we still had fun playing with all the other chilren in our road, Chiswick Road, We would play rounders over Turnham Green and when we saw the first house of the Chiswick Empire come out we knew it was time to "be in". I guess the time would be about 8.30. And then when we were older say 16/17 we went to the Socials or Dances held at the Town Hall . I enjoyed watching the cricket on a Saturday in the summer when the white marquees would be erected. I would buy some sweet black cherries from the stalls by Whitbreads and share them with whoever came over "the green" to watch. I recently paid a nostalgic visit with one of my sisters. Fromows was at the end of our road - now Sainsbury's car park.!!!!
Comment from Eileen Dobbs on Saturday, 25th July 2009.