Staines Road 1951, Bedfont
Staines Road 1951, Bedfont Ref: B654001
Memories of Staines Road 1951, Bedfont
Bedfont Shops.New Parade
Well, 1950s & 1960s. One or two shops changed use after that date but not much changed! Just before this section, moving from Bedfont Lane they installed the Barclays Bank alongside the Songi's (sic?) betting shop. These shops though... does anyone else remember them? I think I have them all correct and wonder what they are now?Are they there in fact? They were there in the mid 1980s when I visited, although the far end area had already been a car sales lot for some time. Nearest 1st: Unwin's Bottle Shop, newsagent - Dickinson's/Bluebird, later the Sewing Shop? (I still have some patterns from there...real 'dolly bird' numbers but classics, just the same. The 'other' Chemist; then 'P...' used to be a general grocery with displays of dog foods and soem chicken feed bins, the sort of place with wooden floors, counters, biscuit boxes beneath the counters and display shelves with special bins in the centre of the shop....a laneway with Grants Fish & Chip Shop, a Florist and the... Read more
MEMORIES OF BEDFONT, MIDDLESEX
These are Bedfont memories of my father Peter Brunt, born in Bedfont in 1932. Does anything ring a bell with anyone? Lawrence's orchard and chicken farm was opposite Bedfont School. The field next door to the school was the Bedfont recreation ground until 1940 when it was converted to an ack-ack, anti aircraft battery (army). In 1946 they got it back as their football field and still had some concrete blocks (gun foundations) in it so was very hard to fall on. A new recreation ground was built further along about 1960ish on what were vegetable garden allotments during the war. Bedfont school was then built on the old recreation ground. STAINES ROAD, BEDFONT (ROYAL OAK PUB AREA) Left hand side gowing towards Staines: Clockhouse Lane with a Mrs Hughes on corner house. Next door Mrs Annie Osbourne and daughters Lilly, Ivy and Iris. Across alley was Bill Nicholson and wife with son Derek, then Freddy Dyatt and wife Barbara (nee Allen). Next door was my dad's Uncle Charlie Clarke and wife Minnie,... Read more
Shops.
My sister Christine lived in North Road from babes till 18-19 years old. I can remember the parade of shops, the chemist, Clair's hairdressers, Combes the bakers, Pickerings hardware store. There was a shop where we bought our shoes and I'm sure our school uniform. I remember Grants fish and chip shop, the bank, first supermarket, Budgens, Pollard the greengrocer, the launderette where Ruth Collis and my foster mother Margaret Ellis used to work and last Gerrards the greengrocer where I worked, this was the late 1950s well into the 1960s. We both went to Bedfont infants and junior and then on to Longford school. I can remember having to wear a blazer in the infants. What great times were had, we went to the 'rec every day in the summer hols, lunch sixpence and drink, had to be home at five, the paddling pools were great.
The Bus.
Can anyone remember the blue bus that used to come up New Road on to the main parade of the shops, down Bedfont Lane and into Feltham over the railway a few times a day? The driver was Keith, he wore glasses, I would like to know what his surname was.
Bedfont & local memories
Read and share memories of Bedfont and Middlesex inspired by Frith photos.
Just as I Remember
As a young boy I recall having some great times on Bedfont Green, picking up acorns and every year going to the fair with dad. I would love to see how it looks today, maybe someone could contact me and send me a photo for me to see? You can't post photos onto this website.
BEDFONT.
There so much I remember of Bedfont, but the best is how safe the area was and how we used to play out late at night playing torch at the corner of Southville Road using the post box and the bushes. We couldn't play ball games on the lane ground then as our neighbour Mr Drake use to get the ball and puncture it. I loved the Christmas carol singing and Linda and I used to share the money out in the optician which was next to the car lot, I would then go into the off licence and but 1/2oz of tobacco for dad, cigs for mum, chocolate for brother, and then get R Whites Lemonade/Cherryade, we use to raid the off licence garden to get the empties and then take them back in to get the 2p back on the bottle. The once a year fair on the green by the church. I used to attend Southville School, Mrs Cornock was the best teacher along with Mrs Linaker.... Read more
Memories Of Bedfont
These memories relate to about 1963-1966/7. My dad was a car salesman for more years than I care to remember, and worked at the car sales place in Bedfont.
We knew a lot of people in the area (none, alas, on this site so far), but I can remember the glass/pottery shop next door, the toyshop that I spent hours looking round, the sweetshop on the corner next to that.
Gerry who had the furniture shop across the road who used to let me watch Dr. Who on his tv (Thanks for that, I have never forgotten it), and Jack, who had the cafe, where I ate so many different meals!!
All the lovely almshouses on the green down the road (at least, I think they were almshouses), the road right next door to the garage, where one dark night an invalid car with one headlight came up the road and scared the life out of me!.
It wasn't until many years later when I came... Read more
Bedfont 1950s
My family, Perry, moved to Bedfont from Hayes in 1953. Mum and dad had been saving up for a place of our own for years and on that momentous day we moved in to Orchard Avenue, Bedfont into a brand new house where I had my own bedroom for the first time. I spent months digging and laying out our front and back gardens with my father and all the neighbours soon became firm friends. As I was 12 I was soon enrolled into Longford Girls School in Feltham where I made friends whom I go on holiday with 50 years later. We have all had our children and are now on the return circle of life and meeting up once more after all those years have gone by. If there are any old girls from Miss Hornby's class who remembers me, Doreen Perry, please email me at doreen.w@tiscali.co.uk. Love to hear from you. The airport has expanded just a bit from the days when we would walk across from... Read more
